Road Trip down the west coast (it is acceptable to do this in a number of smaller road trips)
Be on the price is right (being in the audience is acceptable)
Procreate
Procreate (again)
A real vegetable garden that i plant myself in the back yard
Chickens...that eat my compost
Learn how to live so the house is not a complete wreck
Off-the-Continent travel
Unicycling...and knitting...at the same time
Get a knitting pattern published (in print)
Get a knitting pattern published (online)
Go on an out-of-country midwifery adventure
Pay off store loan
Build a midwifery practice of at least 20 births per year
Learn to spin, or at least try
Gainful self-employment (Gainful being the key word)
Make the fabulous flower quilt
Start a retirement plan
Belly Dancing- do it
Make a sweater
Make an afghan
Adopt a lasting exercise regimen at least 30 min 3 x a week.
Reduce my resting pulse rate to 80 or less
Replace my lawn with one of those kinds of lawns that you don't have to mow. (No, not astroturf, like a groundcover plant.)
Remember to take the cloth bags to the grocery.
Make a family tree
Finish the hallway walls of photos
Get rid of the motorhome
Lower my footprint so that it only takes one Earth to sustain a planet of people like me.
Knit one of those starts as a circle sweaters
Become a CNM
Neither own nor wear a powersuit. (So far, so good)
Dance in Thriller (bonus goal- as a pregnant or baby-wearing zombie!!)
Buy a house
Maintain a healthy weight.
Make/participate in a Home Birth float for the 4th of July Parade.
Have a Christmas tree with ornaments and stockings in my house.
Begin an Altzheimer's prevention regimen.
Make priorities and set limits so that I am not overworking. (It's ok if I'm doing it now, and for about another year or so, but it's a temporary thing and I don't want to be doing it when I'm 40!)
Knit enough socks so that I can wear handknit socks all the time!
Friday, February 13, 2009
40 Before 40
So I turned 30 the other day and one of my goals was to finish making my 40 before 40 list. I tried to keep it realistic. I will put the ones I have done in green.
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#32... I was thinking "but it would be kind of cool, you could go into outer space or fight giant robots" and then I realized you meant something else.
i want to know more about your home birth float. we have a trailor we could build something on top of it.
Belly Dancing is the greatest. There's a beginner class Tues at 6:30 or Saturday at 12:30. It's so worth it.
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