27 to me is the age where you're close enough to 30 where you actually have to start thinking about it, and far enough away from 30 where you still have enough time to really enjoy your 20's and maybe hit a few more goals . So my friends, I've made a list, of 30 things I want to do before I'm 30. Some things are to help set up my 30's, some are to round out my 20's, some are superficial, some are practical it (like my 20's) is a bit of mess, a little bit heartfelt, a little bit insane, and fun.
Here it is below, with some explanation and no particular order.
1) Move back to Los Angeles (though to be fair this really shouldn't count because I'm putting it out there to the world that I'd like to do this before 27.5)
2) Start my Masters (I would have put finish my masters, but since I haven't actually started them yet and I refuse to give up my job/life for 2 years to get my masters full time, I'm just hoping to start them)
3) Actually finish a writing a book (I've got many started, one that actually has more 20 pages and ideas all over notebooks, sticky notes and hard drives, it's time to get one done)
4) Go Sky-Diving
5) Actually get to my goal weight and size and be more physically fit (they say 28 is the year you are most likely to loose weight, stick to a diet and have a more standardize exercise plan, and keep it off long term... also people over a certain weight can't do number 4, and not that I'm at that weight where I can't , but I'd like to make sure I don't get there)
6) Buy a new car (actually be able to pick out the car I want, in the color I want with the features I want and have it all in my own name etc.)
7)Improve my credit (made some mistakes in my 20's, and I'm just now starting to undo them, getting better slowly but surely)
8) Be part of a team that gets nominated for/wins an Emmy (as a kid I wanted to win my "own Emmy" by 30, now I realize just like it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to make a TV show and I wouldn't have it any other way
9) Get a Dog (a grown up step that doesn't involve buying a house/getting married/having a kid a good solid step)
10) Actually have a serious relationship (but since I refuse to ever date a co-worker, and I'm a work-aholic, and I just wasn't into online dating, I'm not really sure how I plan to meet anyone, but I think I'd like to come home to someone other than my cats)
11) Read War&Peace (okay maybe not this one but it sounds good right...has anyone actually read War&Peace, does anyone actually listen to Freebird?)
12) Finish Rosetta Stone and become at lease conversational in Spanish (mi gato es grande isn't really helpful anywhere)
13) Physically be at another Olympic Games(since I turn 30 in 2014 this leaves London 2012 or Sochi 2014)
14) Work on a major international/national event (the Super Bowl, the X-Games, World Cup Soccer, The GOP, the Democratic National Convention, something big )
16) Be the lead Producer on a project/segments
17) Visit a Foreign Country (I guess this would happen if 13 happened... hmmm oh well)
18) Get a tattoo (somehow having a tattoo over 30 seems more acceptable than getting one, shrugs)
19) Meet Tina Fey, she's pretty much my TV/Professional Idol (maybe work with who knows)
20) Meet Matt Lauer, cause well he's Matt Lauer (maybe work with ya know)
21) Actually start planning for grown up life (like adding more to 401k start saving for something like a down payment for property or something?)
22) Buy a couch (this one sounds strange but in my head a couch is a very grown up purchase, and I have yet to make said purchase, my current couch is a hand me down and the ones I had before were futons or from Craigslist)
23) Buy an overpriced designer handbag
24) Put some actual art for my walls
25) Get something published (not really sure what, maybe the book I'll someday finish, maybe a poem, an article in something who knows)
26) Pitch a new TV show, maybe even shoot the pilot etc etc
27) Work a big budget Hollywood film (this is something I've yet to do, and I think it might be fun)
28) Actually go to Vegas (despite living 4 hours from Vegas for years, I've only ever driven through it)
29) Get a digital SLR and take a photography class (maybe I can put my own pictures on the wall as art)
30) Visit Nappa Valley, do a Nappa Valley wine tour. (mmm wine)
31) (because really 1 doesn't count) Actually see U2 in concert (when I did go visit LA this year (long story) I had to sell my tickets so ergo I still haven't seen U2 in concert)
So there you have it folks, my 30 things to do before I turn 30. I think it's totally realistic and possible, and maybe this will now be the focus of my blog, as it's been over a year since I tried to put myself out there, and to be honest, I don't think I did that very well, in fact I think I sort of exiled myself in new and different ways. Oh well, time to push forward and enjoy and rock the last 3 years of 20's.... let's do this!!
And now though I ask you, what is your 30 before 30, or your 31 before 31 or whatever your your list might be?
