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The way you pluck the silver strings gently as you feel my gaze on you. You’ll always look up with a smirk and mumble “how does that go again...” before losing yourself in a melody that finds it’s way so effortlessly through your veins. And when you close your eyes. And you know I’m watching. I hang on your every twitch and pluck and sway. Hoping I can be sucked into your mind and dance to the notes with you.
Welcome!
A few weeks ago, I turned 29. That means, in one short year, I will hit the big 3-0.
Me. Thirty.
It doesn't really feel real to be honest...I remember as a kid trying to work out how old I would be in prominent years: "In the year 2000, I'll be 15!" etc. It felt strange back then but it feels even stranger now to say "In 2015, I'll be 30".
However, I'm not the kind of person to find hitting an age milestone a bad thing. It's just a number after all, and just because I'll no longer be in my twenties, does that mean I have to mope around, feel that the fun part of my life is over and complain about the millions of wrinkles that have appeared on my face overnight (dear God, is that an age spot on my hand?!). No. It's ridiculous to think like that.
I think that this time of my life should be a celebration. I've done some wonderful and awesome things over the last 29 years and I intend to keep doing wonderful and awesome things.
Which brings me to the point of this blog / challenge / bit of fun.
I have created a list of "30 Things To Do Before I'm 30". As the list says, I'm trying to focus on things to DO rather than things to STOP DOING. There are a few minor exceptions but it should read as a positive list that will mean that my friends, my family and I can all do some fun, weird and potentially challenging stuff over the next 11 months or so.
(N.B. I know that loads of people in the online sphere do stuff like this so it's not a new phenomenon, but I do hope you'll still find it interesting!)
So, here we go....
Write and sustain a blog!
Save more money
Give up smoking
Take a professional cooking course
Pay off student loan / various debts
Achieve something awesome at work – not sure what this could be yet?
Achieve some kind of sporting or fitness goal? Perhaps a charity run? Or create and stick to a fitness regime?
Visit a new European country
Visit a new city in the UK
Spend some time volunteering for a cause I believe in - at least a couple of day
Get the geisha tattoo I have planned
Watch all of the Star Wars films
Start a new family tradition (Jon and me)
Rave up in Ibiza!
Spend a whole weekend with my best girlfriends and their children – Bry, Stacey & Kristen…that’s you!
Go a whole week without looking at social media – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…zip (does not count if on holiday)
Learn how to surf
Go to a fortune teller / psychic / tarot card reader
Do something adrenaline fuelled – i.e. sky-dive/ drive over 150mph (track day?)
Learn to ride a motorcycle
Pass the PADI (Scuba)
Buy and drink a really expensive/vintage bottle of wine / Champagne
Treat my parents to something
Treat my parents-in-law to something
Do something awesome with my brother – travel, visit something touristy in London, anything more than getting pissed in the pub
Get a landline telephone
Stay in a posh hotel in London with Jon and have a date weekend, go to the in-house spa, order room service, etc.
Watch 100 of IMDB’s top 250 films that I haven’t seen
Learn how to use my digital camera properly, practice, and enter a photo into a competition
Win a pub quiz
So there we have it. I'm going to print off a list and pin it to the notice board at home, and carry a list with me, probably on my phone, otherwise I think I might turn into that dude from the TV show that carries a scrappy list with him all the time (seriously, what was that called??)
Anyway, please feel free to help me along my progress, join in, have fun...or tell me I'm strange. I don't mind either way.
Here we go...at least I've started on point number 1!
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