{"id":4586,"date":"2010-12-22T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2010-12-22T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:46:43","slug":"30-before-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/i-refuse-to-get-old\/30-before-30\/","title":{"rendered":"30 before 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While dinking around online a while back, I saw a 30-before-30 list at <a href=\"http:\/\/makingitlovely.com\/2010\/03\/01\/30-before-thirty\/\">Making It Lovely<\/a>. It got me to thinkin&#8217; about how I&#8217;ve got a smidge more than a year before I hit the dirty thirty myself, and I set about making this list. Over-achieving? Under-?<\/p>\n<p>1. Begin composting kitchen and outdoor waste.<br \/>\n2. Lose 25 pounds. Again.<br \/>\n3. Stop drinking soda. Again. (I&#8217;ve gotten a head start: No soda in two weeks!)<br \/>\n4. Grow something edible in the garden.<br \/>\n5. Do round three of Project 365.<br \/>\n6. Buy my beloved 24-70mm f\/2.8 L lens.<br \/>\n7. Pay off both credit cards.<br \/>\n8. Start saving for retirement.<br \/>\n9. Volunteer some time with an organization whose mission I feel good about.<br \/>\n10. Go on a road trip across either rural Arkansas or rural Mississippi.<br \/>\n11. Start selling stationery I&#8217;ve designed in the Etsy shop.<br \/>\n12. Be a better, less frazzled, more organized and proactive manager.<br \/>\n13. Go to art trolley tour on a non-zombie night.<br \/>\n14. Have a date that ends with a night spent at the Peabody.<br \/>\n15. Acquire and integrate some salvaged historic Memphis artifact into my home or yard.<br \/>\n16. Attend Sunset Symphony. (I&#8217;ve never been because I always have to work.)<br \/>\n17. Get handsy at the drive-in theater since I never got the chance as a teenager.<br \/>\n18. Start planning meals and taking my dinner to work with me at least three times a week.<br \/>\n19. Paint the hallway so that the weird peach-colored sponge treatment never has to be seen again.<br \/>\n20. Record some of my family&#8217;s stories for an oral history project.<br \/>\n21. Get off of the demon nasal spray.<br \/>\n22. Get a bicycle and learn how to get around town on it.<br \/>\n23. Read three classics I&#8217;ve never read before.<br \/>\n24. Meet all of my neighbors.<br \/>\n25. Learn how to use chopsticks.<br \/>\n26. Go honest-to-God camping.<br \/>\n27. Start saving money with coupons.<br \/>\n28. Learn how to make cheesecake. Good cheesecake.<br \/>\n29. Get my first-ever manicure and pedicure.<br \/>\n30. Finally unpack the few remaining boxes that I never really dealt with when I moved into the house in 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While dinking around online a while back, I saw a 30-before-30 list at Making It Lovely. It got me to thinkin&#8217; about how I&#8217;ve got a smidge more than a year before I hit the dirty thirty myself, and I set about making this list. Over-achieving? Under-? 1. Begin composting kitchen and outdoor waste. 2. Lose 25 pounds. Again. 3. Stop drinking soda. Again. (I&#8217;ve gotten a head start: No soda in two weeks!) 4.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[674,1639,462,1638],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-refuse-to-get-old","tag-aging","tag-goals","tag-list","tag-turning-30"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1bY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}