I am a sucker for lists…
I enjoy making goals.
I love New Years and making plans for the following year.
Love to feel like I am achieving things.
I have been known to time myself to do the weekly grocery
shop just so I have a time to beat the following week. Over-achiever? Yep.
So here’s my newest list. Instead of thirty things to achieve before turning 30 (oops, missed that one), I am doing thirty things I want to do while I’m 30.
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| Our joint 30th Birthday |
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| The awesome cake made by my gorgeous & extremely talented Sister |
This year from October 2012-2013, I am writing down 30 things I would love to
do. The timing of turning 30 also
coincides with my (our) desire to start living a more simple and sustainable
life, so you will notice a definite theme to my list!
I won’t bore you with all thirty but here are a few (in no
particular order).
* Learn to use the sewing machine that my parents gave me
for my 30th. For this to be a ‘smart’ goal I guess I should add ‘and
make something useable.’
* Bake a loaf of bread from scratch
* Make sushi
* Go completely natural with all cleaning products. Since
having H-bomb we have stopped using chemicals such as spray and wipe and bleach
and instead have made concoctions using vinegar, bicarb and lemon juice. I
would like to try making my own washing powder and carpet cleaner, to name a
few.
* Make a ‘15min’ and ’30 min’ Jamie Oliver meal and actually
make it within that time!
* Run a half marathon.
The plan is the Gold Coast Half Marathon in July 2013.
* Learn to crochet & make something (hmmm, who out there knows how to do this and could teach me? If only I had paid attention when my Grandma tried to teach me!)
* Make a will (oops, been on my list for so long now)
* Finally crack open the pasta maker that my sister gave me
and make a batch of fresh pasta
* Bake a pie of some sort from scratch…I’m thinking lemon
meringue or good old apple. The thought of making pastry scares me somewhat!
* Compete in the Australia Day Aquathon and the Husky
Enticer Triathlon (and try and beat my times from last year)
* Stop striving to change my character flaws an relax in
God’s grace that I am already ‘enough’ (listen to this awesome message by my
good friend Katie if I can’t remember what I meant by this point.)
* Learn how to make macaroons
* Get back to pre-baby shape (may not be achievable if I am
successful in my attempts with the previous goals to bake pies and macaroons!)
* Sell something I have made (eBay/etsy/markets etc.)
So there it is, hold me to it. Some may be re-visited and
changed slightly but as of today, this is the list. I better get to it, only
325 days left!
Ps. Couldn't resist adding the photos of H-bomb devouring said awesome cake! Best afternoon of his life!
