I am turning 30.
There's no one who is more surprised by this happening than I am. Although I've had lots of notice, starting tomorrow, there will only be 30 days until my 30th birthday. I am going to continue a trend started by two great people. Seth Jones began his 30/30/30 celebration by blogging about his experiences making a better environment and baking a pie (among other awesome things) http://303030-seth.blogspot.com. Check it out!
Famously, another great friend, Jeanice Gantus, began her 30 to 30 celebration by trying something new every day and posting her adventures on facebook. She has done fun things like go shopping as a man and send a drink to a random person at a bar. You should be friends with her on facebook if you're not already. You won't regret it.
Following in these 30 year old's footsteps, I think it's a great idea to try a new experience for each of the 30 days before I turn 30. I want to use the time to do a few things:
1. Try out new things;
2. Actually do things I've been wanting to do; and
3. Reflect on what a fortunate 29 years I have had through charity work.
It's tough to think of ideas, but count on checking them out for the next 30 days!
1. Try out new things;
2. Actually do things I've been wanting to do; and
3. Reflect on what a fortunate 29 years I have had through charity work.
It's tough to think of ideas, but count on checking them out for the next 30 days!
To prepare, I began thinking of things I had already done by the time I am 30. I came up with 200. I encourage everyone to make a personal list and share it! Here it goes:
1. Get a BS in Engineering, a JD and an MBA
3. Make sushi
4. Shoot a gun (and hit a clay pigeon).... and hold a bigger gun
6. Camp in the woods
7. Learn to box
9. Learn to play the guitar and ukulele
11. Publish a scholarly article
12. Publish an op-ed in a newspaper
13. See the Colbert Report live
15. Go to the top of the Eiffel tower
17. Go to the top of the Empire State Building
18. See the London Bridge
19. See the Arch du triomphe
20. See musicals on Broadway
21. Take a walk in Central Park – and go for a boat ride in the lake
22. See a Yankees – Mets game
23. See the Pyramids
25. Get a Turkish bath…. in Turkey
26. Visit Jerusalem
27. Swim in the dead sea
30. Kayak to the Mokulua Islands
31. Windsurf
32. Get a henna tattoo
33. Have all you can eat sushi until I cry
35. Place my handprints in Cher’s outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in LA
37. Blog
38. Keep a Journal
39. Make a scrapbook
40. Learn to knit
41. Take a cruise
42. Study Abroad
43. Get drunk in Ireland
44. Watch a sex show in Amsterdam
45. Eat tapas in Spain
46. Bake an apple pie
48. Stroll the Santa Monica Pier
49. Visit Delphi – the home of the Oracle
50. Eat pizza in Naples
51. Bathe in hot springs in Ischia
52. See the Coliseum
53. Receive something in the mail that’s not wrapped
54. Live in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, and New York
55. Wine taste in the finger lakes
56. Wine taste in Napa
59. Buy Stocks
60. Buy a home (2 condos in 2005-2006… oops)
61. Drive a convertible
62. Hike Diamond Head
63. Surf in Waikiki
64. Party in South Beach
65. Make 6 figures
66. Pledge a sorority
67. Eat raw horsemeat
69. Ride the Maglev train in China
70. Do a high ropes course
71. Glass blowing
72. Have dinner at Per Se
73. Gamble in Las Vegas
74. See a Cirque show in Vegas
75. See the Grand Canyon
77. Ski
78. Get suspended from school (in 8th grade)!
79. Try a Murder case
80. Water Ski
81. Volunteer at an orphanage in Croatia
82. Feed worms to my pet Jackson Chamelion
83. Feed chocolate covered raisins to my pet peacock
84. Swim in the Makapu’u tide pools
85. Whale watch
86. Swim with Jellyfish
87. Swim with Manatees
88. Be a knife salesman
89. Be a part of a class action lawsuit
90. See Cher in concert
91. See Michael Jackson in concert
92. Bill over 2000 hours as a first year associate at a New York law firm
93. See a ballet in Russia
94. See Lenin’s tomb
95. Visit the Hermitage
96. Visit the Met, Moma, Museum of Natural History, and Guggenheim
97. Visit the National Air and Space museum
98. Watch Obama’s inauguration
100. Stay in the Hamptons
101. Visit a hutong
102. Tour the Kremlin
103. Visit Auschwitz
104. Eat Kielbasa and pierogi in Poland
105. See Mao’s tomb
106. Fly to Guam
107. Get my hair braided in Jamaica
108. Go to space camp
109. Go to Opry Land
110. Visit Memphis (but not see Graceland)
111. Tour the museum of Rock and Roll
112. See the San Diego Zoo
113. Drink Tequila in Tijuana underage
114. Have a best friend
116. Eat a lutherburger (burger between krispy kreme)
117. Eat a hamdog (hotdog wrapped in hamburger deep fried w/ bacon and cheese)
118. Eat bugs
119. White water raft in Norway
120. Eat a waffle, mussels, and fries in Belgium
121. Tour the EU
122. Tour the UN
123. Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge
124. Eat a Krispy Kreme in one bite
125. Win an essay contest
126. Win a mother daughter look alike contest
128. Feel an earthquake
129. Be in a hurricane (7) – Iwa, Iniki, Charley, Francis, Jeanne, Fay, Irene
130. See a tornado
131. Study Japanese for six years
132. Learn to make homemade tomato sauce from Italians
133. Dye my hair pink
134. Learn to swing dance
135. Learn to tap dance
136. Go in a hot tub in the snow
137. Drive a snow mobile
138. Drive a jet ski
139. Drive an ATV
140. Sit in first class
141. Made an emergency landing
142. Get my eyebrows threaded
143. Do Bikram Yoga
144. Eat lunch with a homeless person
145. Fly in a 4 person airplane (cessna) and hold the controls
147. Visit the statue of liberty
148. Eat honey from a honeycomb
149. Ride in a stunt car
151. Drive a boat
152. Go tubing
153. Took a lie detector test (and almost tricked the FBI!)
154. Watch a live taping of a Nickelodeon show
155. Got a speeding ticket for going 96…. in a 75 L
156. Take a boatride on a Fjord
157. Drive a stick
158. Visit Niagara Falls
159. Go paintballing
160. Dance at a foam party
161. Walk on the Great wall of China
163. Smoke a Cuban cigar
164. Watch the sun rise
166. Get a Chiropractic adjustment
167. Get an MRI
168. Dance in a mosh pit
169. Conduct the Honolulu symphony
170. Crowd surf
171. Get thrown off a school bus (for throwing peanut butter)
172. Be an Imagineer
174. Pass the Patent bar, NY bar, and FL bar.
175. Listen to the Dalai Lama speak
176. Meet Hillary Clinton
177. Watch the senate floor
178. Walk to an active volcano
180. Off-road in a Jeep
181. Walk on a black sand beach
182. Walk through a lava tube
185. Go on an airboat ride through the everglades
187. Take a mud bath
190. Be a model at the mall
191. Paddle in an outrigger canoe
192. Get quoted in the newspaper
193. Get a Thai massage
195. Get a kiss on the cheek from Jerry Springer
196. Hold a baby owl
197. Train at a Japanese Dojo
198. Catch a fish to keep as a pet
199. Crash a wedding
200. Fall in love
Disney and I knew you were an amazing, awesome person already...and that was years ago, right?
ReplyDeleteHey. I was looking around the internet in search of ideas for a 30 for 30 celebration of my own in a couple months. I stumbled upon your blog. I read through each of your 30 days and will undoubtedly steal some of your ideas. I was especially grateful to have found this blog because I, too, want my 30 for 30 to have purpose. Thanks for the inspiration. ~ Mike
ReplyDeleteWas looking up ideas for 30 days before I turn 30, and this blog popped up on my google search. Shaina, you and I are both CMU DG's :) I graduated not too long after you in 2007!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration!!!