The Countdown Starts Today

Today is my half birthday. I am officially 28 1/2 years old.

I share this not because I'm particularly excited. And we all stopped counting half-birthdays sometime around age 8 anyway. The real reason is that today also marks another special event: in exactly 18 months, I will turn 30.

The Krazy Mommy hates me right now. That's because she's 4 months older than me, so in 2 months she'll be 29. She also hates that I just shared that with you. But the fact is she's already accomplished far more than I'm ever going to. Like having a passport, going to Jamaica, and what else? Oh yeah, baby making. Okay, I might do the first two, but hopefully not the third.

My original plan for this post was to list a bunch of things I want to do before hitting the big 3-0. Unlike this girl, I've already knocked that out of the park, and with gusto! But while compiling said list (and you know how I love the lists), I realized there isn't a lot I'm readily bursting to do. I used to have big plans, but somewhere along the way I lost my sense of adventure and my naïve belief that anything was possible.

And that makes me sad.

So in an effort to overcome the doldrums of being 28.5, here's the starter list for things to do before I turn 30:

• Get a passport
• Run a marathon, possibly 2 or 3
• Bungee jump
• Be published in another magazine, hopefully one less niche-y
• Pay off a significant portion of my non-school loan debt, like 50% (which was actually this year's resolution, but oh well)
• Be publicly referred to as "notorious" for good reason
• Enslave a Greek man
• Make him peel grapes and feed them to me while I lounge
• Make good on our promise to each other on taking a girls weekend away
• Laser off the Brazilian forest
• Laser back my vision
• Travel the "country" with nothing but my camera and American Express card (where "country" means some non-destination locale, like Spain)
• Travel Tequila and enjoy its fruits
• Make out under the pier while the sun sets over Malibu
• Trace my family lineage back to the Aztecs, and France too probably
• Learn ballet
• Find a salsa partner
• Mentor a young, aspiring photographer
• Love my life again, like I used to a year ago

It's short, and some of these things are already on the books for getting done before the end of this year, but it's a good road map for the next 18 months. I'm sure there are an assload of things I'm forgetting. But that's why the internets exist: so I can post about it tomorrow!

But today, no. Today we celebrate--with margaritas!