I have the bad habit of focusing on all the things that I haven’t done. It goes along with the overachiever in me. When I was younger I had all these lofty things I wanted to accomplish by the time I was 30. I had no real plan regarding how I was going to get it all done, but I felt it all needed to be done and I was really negative as my thirtieth birthday approached. It was not something that I was looking forward too.
Today I turn 31 and instead of thinking about all the things I haven’t done, I am focusing on all that I have accomplished in the past year. Here are 30 things I accomplished while I was 30 (in no particular order).
- Woke up to snow on my 30th birthday :(
- Went to the Cherry Blossom festival for the first time
- Moved to Richmond
- Ran my third Half Marathon
- Ran my first Full Marathon
- Started this blog
- Found a job I enjoy
- Watched my little sister get married
- Completed the course work for my PhD
- Celebrated my third wedding anniversary (Yay!)
- Opened a Roth IRA (I didn’t say they were all super fun)
- Visited Virginia Beach for the first time
- Visited Colonial Williamsburg
- Saw 3 of my good friends become moms
- Explored the Newseum
- Went Ice skating in Orlando
- Visited SeaWorld with my husband, nieces and nephew, and sister-in-law and brother-in-law
- Tasted the delicious watermelon at the Carytown Watermelon Festival
- Had an amazing time with my sister, mom and others at my sister's bachelorette party in Orlando
- Tried a variety of new recipes (some that were delicious)
- Finally got sucked into Mad Men
- Enjoyed a Beer-Historic tour of Richmond
- Celebrated several friends joining me in decade three
- Read the Huger Games Trilogy (and loved it)
- Fell in love with my Kindle
- Realized that I am a cupcake snob
- Survived hurricane Irene (the hurricane that wasn't)
- Bought a new couch
- Got better about planning dinners
- Changed my perspective on being in my 30s
