30 things before I’m 30

It was recently my 28th birthday.  It has finally hit me that 30 is just around the corner.  While I have no idea where my career is going, I know it is headed in the right direction. But for once I don’t have a plan.  I just want my options to be open.  That’s not to say there aren’t things I am striving for, things I hope to accomplish and things that are so youthful that they should probably be done before I hit the big 3-0.

And that’s why I have a list.  I made the list this weekend.  I’m sure that 30 minutes of thinking of random stuff hasn’t captured the full essence of who I am and what I want, but it is a start.  I have 30 things to do before I’m 30.

(And I reserve the right to add, change, edit them, but if I want to put something on, I have to take something off…)

In alphabetical order:

(Edit: December 2009, starting to cross things off.)

Bake my mom’s cheese scones
Brew my own beer, cider or wine
Cross an ocean
Develop my own photographs
Display my photos in a public setting
Do something worth recognition at work
Fall in love
Film a short and likely pointless movie
Find the right perfume
Finish writing the book
Get a facial
Get an iPhone
Go Hang-gliding
Go canoeing or kayaking
Go for Dim Sum, again.
Host a theme party
Keep a plant alive for two years
Keep my weight under 160lbs, but enjoy eating junk food if I feel like it
Learn to play squash
Nap on a beach outside of Canada
Own a Betsey Johnson dress
Plan an awesome 30th birthday party
Read 10 books
Ride a crazy roller coaster
Save $5000
See someone compete in the Olympics
Spend a night sleeping outside
Start a new blog
Stay in bed all day
Visit my brother’s new house
Write my will

My life after broadcasting

I recently tried to make a list of all the different places I’ve been employed and despite being in the workforce for just longer than a decade, my resume contains two dozen different jobs.

And my current one, as a reporter, has outlasted them all – coming in at just under 20 months.

…And she’s back.

The Willamette River

I walked into work yesterday and was immediately approached by my boss and an older co-worker.  “So??”

Both had recommended I go to Portland.  Both thought it was my type of city, full of people who have a similar look and way that I do.   So, after my four nights in the Rose City, they were eagerly awaiting my judgment.

The Past

When I was on the bus yesterday I saw a guy that looked just like my ex-boyfriend.  I haven’t seen Danny since we moved out of that studio apartment in Edmonton and broke up.  That was before I went to Europe, before this particular blog existed. That was more than four years ago.

Things a psychic recently told me

In no particular order:

I will…
Live to be 100.
Get involved this year with a man who is over 6′1″, with brown hair and light eyes and who I possibly work with.
Stay in Vancouver, but travel a lot (and work while doing so).
Get married after 30.
Have two children in quick succession in my thirties.
Never have much money, as wealth is not a goal in my life, but the money I have I will use to see the world.
Return home several times this year for celebrations.
Quickly go from relationship to marriage when I do.
Need to be slow with any relationships, as they won’t blossom until June.
Go somewhere hot in November.

I am…
A very caring person who puts her heart on the line too often.
Coming from a strong supportive family.
Close with few people but have many friends.
Willing to push people from my life if they have not been a good friend.
Very connected to a new baby boy.
Going to be a god-mother.
Well liked by my superiors at work.
Connected to the colour aqua-marine.

(**adding more as I remember)