Thirty-Eight Things To Do Before I'm Thirty-Nine

Not sure why ---- but I've been spending a lot of time thinking about age this week. It might be because I just got some email regarding my 20th high school reunion... or the fact that I'll be 40 next year --- which seems crazy to even think about... or maybe it had to do with the fact that my boyfriend's best friend turned twenty-five this week. Twenty-five. Fuck.

Anyways ---- I wrote up my little list of goals for this year, but forgot to post it during the never ending madness disguised as December, so I'm doin' it now. I think it's a good one, there's a bit of carry over from last year's list... a few things that I didn't do that I really should do before my next birthday rolls around.

I'm excited to take on these to-dos --- and excited to see what these last couple years of thirty-dom have in store for me. I don't feel the least bit freaked out by 40... it seems like every decade that passes is 100 times better than the one before it -- which means nothing but galaxy-sized goodness is waiting for me when 2010 rolls around.

(fingers crossed... suuuuuuper tight)

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1. go camping and fishing
2. take a road trip through the south
3. catch the sandhill crane migration
4. start a monthly “sunday supper” potluck dinner
5. find a free piano for the house
6. buy more vinyl
7. redo the pulp website (online shopping!)
8. read three non-fiction books
9. volunteer at least six times
10. spend more time with my family
11. make a fancy french dessert
12. eat at the sudanese spot on saddlecreek
13. reach out to amanda
14. visit minneapolis
15. grow my mixed girl ‘fro back
16. plant poppies in the yard
17. ride my bike
18. read alice in wonderland
19. learn about cheese
20. find a vintage camera and start taking photos again
21. have a picnic
22. watch a parade
23. seriously look into the possibility of opening a 2nd gallery
24. stop using plastic bags -- completely
25. explore more
26. make doughnuts
27. grow a great garden
28. right a wrong
29. make a gingerbread house
30. give up sugar for 30 days
31. win at poker night
32. celebrate
33. build bookcases for “the library”
34. pick apples
35. learn to say “no” (sometimes…)
36. go ice skating
37. knit a sweater
38. write something and have it published