Archives for December 2013

So as 2013 comes to a close I am now 7/12ths (or a little over halfway for you non-math types) through my 29th year and New Years always makes me reflect on what I’ve accomplished this year!  I came up with this 30 before 30 list just a short bit after my 29th birthday and thought New Years would be a great time to update y’all.  I know you are waiting on pins and needles to see if I accomplish my whole list!

My 30 Before 30 list:

• Run another half marathon I’m kind of marking this off.  I trained and was mostly ready to run this, but the Dallas Marathon was cancelled because of Ice-maggedon. So I kinda half ran it, since the training is half the battle, but I really would love to run another one, so I’ll be registering for another one, but maybe not before my 30th birthday.
• Start a vegetable garden
• Build my own built-in-closet (modeled after Sandra’s AWESOME closet)  Because the timing worked out and I got a friends and family discount, we decided to do Elfa in our closet instead of building a built in one… and it was totally the right choice.  It was quick and easy and my closet is STILL organized.
• Book a trip to Europe with my husband (and maybe a few friends)
• Find a farmer’s market near my house to visit on a Saturday morning
• Finish my t-shirt quilt (2+years in the making)
• Learn to cook 5 new meals  I learned AT LEAST this many during my two weeks of my Whole 30
• Take my husband to visit my favorite city: Washington DC DONE. And Done.
• Go see Lion King (kind of cheating… I already have tickets to this… but it’s a show I’ve always wanted to see!)
• Pay off part of my company debt
• Finish another sprint triathlon (again… bonus points if I beat my previous time)
• Build a pergola in my back yard
• Help my twin brother fix up his house (as payment for letting me use his pool whenever I want!) Blog posts coming next week on this!
• Spend a Saturday without ever leaving the house… no projects, just laziness.  Thank you Ice-mageddon… but I wouldn’t mind doing this again!
• Take a weekend getaway to Beaver Creek.  (I bought a couple of free nights at a silent auction… now we just have to use them) Check out our visit here.
• Go Skiing with the church youth group… as an ‘adult’ sponsor.- I’m signed up and ready to go!
• Get new Christmas Stockings for my husband and I for our first Christmas as a married couple. See how cute they are?
• Learn how to put crown molding up in my our house
• Give 10% to charity or the church for 2013
• Get my husband certified to Scuba Dive–in progress… he is about to sign up in the spring!
• Finish changing my name to my married last name… who knew there were so many things to change!?– Just a few more to go! And seriously… American Airlines Miles Program needs more info than my credit card?!
• Organize the whole house- no seriously… every cupboard, closet, under every bed.
• Take a spa day with a friend Just did this last Saturday– Thanks Ashley!! And seriously, I think I need this about 3-4 times a year. It was A-MAZ-ING.
• Host a dinner party
• Make homemade ice cream
• Make a wedding book for each set of our parents and ourselves Done… I’ll post about this soon!
• Save enough money to install double ovens in our kitchen
• Get to my ideal weight- Working on this…
• Get better at using my SLR Camera (kinda hard to measure… but maybe I’ll know it when I get there?)
• Throw a 30th Birthday Party for my twin brother and myself

So I have 14 of the 30 left, and since I’m a little over halfway, I think I’m doing pretty well!  I’ll post a few semi-resolutions tomorrow for New Years! I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe New Years Eve… and I’ll see you in 2014! (Seriously… can you believe its 2014??)