Pre-30 Bucket List

I have moved to blogspot!  It's been about a year and half since my last journal entry on livejournal.  It's incredible how busy you get when you're planning a wedding!! Then after the wedding things just kept going, i.e. work, travel, family, friends, etc... I did start to draft a post a few weeks after I turned 29. I'm not sure why I never got around to posting it, but here's how my draft went ...

I want to write about something I've been thinking about since I turned 29. As most of my friends pointed out on my birthday, this was going to be the last year of my 20's. The getting older part doesn't  really bother me, because, quite honestly, I've already started to feel the deeeeeeecline, lol.  What does cause me a little discomfort is thinking about the things I thought I would have already accomplished by the time I turned 30. Ya know, back when I was in my early twenties and had it "all planned out." I thought by 30 (for sure) I'd have a job I loved, be married, own a house, and be on child numero dos of 3.  I haven't quite reached all of those milestones, and while I recognize that it was silly for me to have expected to accomplish all of that by 30, I suppose I do still feel a little disappointment in myself. Don't get me wrong, I would not change where I am, who I am, or who I am with for anything in the world - even for those additional milestones!  Instead, I'm just going to modify my before-30 goals to things I've really wanted to do within the last few years. What can I say? I'm a woman who likes to set goals! Also, I feel like these are more representative of the things that are important to me right now. Ahem, so without further delay, here are the things I hope to accomplish before December 3, 2011: 


(1) Find a job that better suits my interests and educational background 
(2) Run a 1/2 marathon
(3) Improve my Spanish speaking, writing, and reading 
(4) Learn to make my mom's turkey, arroz con pollo, and sweet beans
(5) Stay within healthy weight 125 - 128lbs 
(6) Learn to drive a manual transmission
(7) Read 5 books considered "classics" that I haven't already read 
(8) Train for/complete for a sprint triathlon 


Okay, so as I stated previously, this list was drafted back at the beginning of the year. Here's the progress I've made in about 8 months:

(1) Find a job that better suits my interests and educational background 
(2) Run a 1/2 marathon [ran 2!] 
(3) Improve my Spanish speaking, writing, and reading 
(4) Learn to make my mom's turkey, arroz con pollo, and sweet beans 
(5) Stay within healthy weight range 125 - 128lbs 
(6) Learn to drive a manual transmission 
(7) Read 5 books considered "classics" that I haven't already read [3/5 so far] 
(8) Train for/complete a sprint triathlon 


Looks like I've still got a lot of work to do and about two months to do it in! I'm not sure I will be successful in crossing them all off, and I'm okay with that. I know actively working on achieving these goals is part of the fun! Plus, there's always a Pre-40 bucket list. ;O)