I'm THIRTY: 30 x 30

I guess I haven't given you an update since May...and I am 30 now, so I've been asked by a couple of friends about how it went.

Welllllll, it's still going. (-: I mentioned this in the May update, but I've given myself permission to keep working on my list until my 31st birthday. I know, I know. This doesn't make it a THIRTY BY THIRTY, but it's my THIRTY BY THE END OF THIRTY.

Judge me if you want, but let's keep it real: I'm gonna do what I want.

Without further ado:

• Health and Fitness
• get acupuncture
• lose 25 pounds-5 pounds to go! 
• run a 5K
• run a 10K
• run the Indy-mini
• complete a fast 

I have been a complete slacker. I have barely been working out anything except my brain and there are days when that's not going so well...

• Financial
• invest money into a stock
• put $3000 in savings and keep it there for 6 months or longer [just noticed the typo in the original document, awesome.]
• purchase a car, make payments rounded up to the nearest 100 for 12 months-Car purchased Aug 2011, one year into a 3 year loan. (-:

Can we talk about school loans? living on them? FOR EVERYTHING? I'm scared. Hold me. 

• Academic
• apply and get accepted and attend a master's program, so I'm not going to a master's program. I AM going back to school! 
• learn more about the bible
• take a healing touch class

Yup, going back to school. Need to read the bible more. Get on looking for a healing touch class, my friend who has taken one took from a program that teaches a weekend in Indy, so I'm going to try to get in there! 

• Creative
• get paid to take pictures
• submit something to be published
• write 3 chapters for a book
• sell 10 items on Etsy

Can we keep it real? I just can't care about these things right now. True story, that's how I'm going to roll. 

• Service
• become a big sister
• get certified with children's disaster service
• purchase a heifer from Heifer, International

In knowing I was moving, it wasn't fair to a Little that I would leave her so quickly...that has been delayed for a bit until I get my life in some kind of order. Or maybe just slightly less chaos is a more attainable timeline. 

• Challenges
• flirt
• say "yes" to dates-
• go 4-months without purchasing a clothing item
• go a month without a cell phone

DONE. DONE. DONE. Boom. 

• Travel
• travel alone
• go to Canada-Will people flip if I travel to Canada alone? It's just across the border...
• go to Mexico

Why am I poor? Why?!? Why? WHYYYYY?!?!?! 

• FUN!
• grow hair out and donate it-so close! I'm hoping for a spring chop! Here's a recent picture with it straight. It's definitely not this red either! 
• wear make-up daily for a month-
• be in a community musical-BLARG. BLECH. BOO. Can we invent a place where days have 40 hours in them so I can get everything I want to do done? While we're at it will you send me a future LOML who is independently wealthy? pleaseandthankyou?
• find a cakewreck, submit it and have it show up on their website  

You know I started taking classes in August, right? And that I'm transitioning to Indianapolis? And that I forgot how to be a student? And that it's way harder now that I'm 30 and not 19 and I actually care about what I'm doing? [Is there a correlation there? age and caring and grades?]

Anyway, I mention the school thing becuase it's basically the priority in my life right now. That's why blogging will be sporadic [unless I'm avoiding work] and picture-taking will be minimal. Not that that's how I want it to be but if I could figure out how to get money from taking pictures and being crafty and drinking coffee and rambling about non-important non-life-altering things that would be totally rad. If it provided enough money for actual travel that would be even more rad.

I don't feel like that's my calling anyway, so...yeah. Just a happy fantasy to distract me from the real goal.

I'm in-progress for a lot of items and I don't want to totally give up on some of them. Hence my extended deadline to November 14, 2013. So before I turn 31, I will accomplish most of my list!

I will leave you with a picture of me from last year:

And this year:

I'M THIRTY! 

love you people.

amy