Let it begin....

Thirty Before Thirty

The countdown to my 30th birthday has begun -- exactly 52 days until I am officially no longer a 20-something.  I realize I've had almost an entire year to deal with the fact that 30 comes after 29.....but I had the full epiphany/precursor to a midlife crisis meltdown over the weekend.  I got really introspective, as you do, questioning my life and thinking "I never thought I'd be almost 30 and  _______  (fill in the blank with society's imposed expectations of what you're supposed to have done by that age).  I gave myself a small grace period to wallow in self-deprecation and list everything I hadn't accomplished yet.  I elected to ignore the fact that my 20's were actually awesome so I could enhance that gloom and doom shadow I was hoping to cast on 30.  

While drinking a bottle of wine by myself (no judgement please, you know you've done it), I thought -- I really need to capitalize on the last days of my 20's so they can rest in peace when the 30's take over.  So I made a list of 30 things that I have to do before I turn 30 (thus, "thirty before thirty" -- redundant, I know).  Some of them are stolen from my bucket list, some I borrowed from other great minds, and some are audibles I called  because they sounded fun.  Should be a great segue to 30, and at the very least, a distraction from the fact that December 2 is getting closer by the day.......