Things to Do Before I'm 30...(Part 2)

In my last post, I detailed how I came to start my Things to do before I'm 30 List. With 3 months to go before the big day, I thought I'd add to the list.

1. Quit a job.
2. Try sashimi.3. Think of other things I'd like to do before I'm thirty.

4. Finish reading "Pillars of the Earth." (It happens to be on my bedside table and I have started it many times to no avail. I have three months to finish it.)
5. Visit Alcatraz (pretty incredible I've lived in the SF Bay Area for my entire life and never been!)
6. Decide where to celebrate my 30th birthday.

For Joe's thirtieth birthday a few years back, I took him to Las Vegas. It was the first time either of us had been there. 

~Happy 30th Joe! Las Vegas,  2009~

He recently asked me where I wanted to spend my birthday. 

The short list? Las Vegas, Disneyland, New York, Austin. 

The tricky part is that my birthday is on New Year's Day which makes travel 1. expensive and 2. difficult due to Joe's retail work schedule. 

We shall see.

Things to do Before I'm 30...(Part 1)

This summer, while contemplating leaving my summer job, my friend Jen sent me this link: Things Every Woman Should Have and Know Before She's 30. Mostly, because I had never officially quit a job before. All the jobs I had in the past were jobs that ended because I graduated or summer came to an end: the job in the church office, the job at my high school's office, my summer jobs at a local tv and radio station, and my most favorite college job. I've held my teaching position now for over 6 years, but my summer job was one that I needed to leave for many reasons that don't matter for my purposes here. The fact that Jen sent me this link is what I meant to write about, so I have digressed quite a bit, whoops!

Anyway, quitting a job before I turned thirty became a mission. And I made it, with 6 months to spare. And as Joe and I consider the future with little ones our bucket list for "before kids" began to coincide with my "before 30" bucket list.

So tonight, I conquered another item on my list, that maybe I didn't realize was on my list.

I tried sashimi.

"WHAT?!" you say?

Yes, yes, I did. And I liked it. And might even eat it again. It looked yummy on Joe's plate so I said, "I think I'd like to try that before you feed it to the turtles at home." And I took my chopsticks and I did. A tiny piece of tuna and a tinier piece of salmon.

Meanwhile, this got me thinking about what else I'd like to accomplish before I'm thirty here in a few short months (seriously, where did this year even go?!)

While I don't have a solid bucket list, I'm sure I'll be adding to it....

So far:

1. Quit a job.
2. Try sashimi.
3. Think of other things I'd like to do before I'm thirty.