13 before 30.

The best part of being in Aruba was not the drunk party bus or the incredible fishies I saw during snorkeling. It wasn't even the gorgeous beaches or the amazing sunsets, it was taking a vacation...from my brain. In fact, I don't know that I have ever had a vacation like this before. Sure, hiking and eating lobster in Maine was pretty great, being with my college friends and going just about anywhere is usually pretty awesome too, but none of it compares to just not thinking about anything for a whole week...not work, not boys, not the pups... what I did spend some time thinking about was my list of 13. I got an awful lot of feedback on it and some of the suggestions were pretty interesting: swimming with dolphins, shooting an AK-47, renting a car, but the one I heard the most people say was skydiving. Although I am not completely disinterested in skydiving, it is also not something that I am dying to do either, so I'm not adding it to my official list, which is comprised of the following items:
1. Do a keg stand DONE
2. Play spin the bottle
3. Sell my wedding dress WORK IN PROGRESS
4. Do 10 pushups WORK IN PROGRESS
5. Learn how to salsa
6. Go surfing
7. Get in touch with my half sisters WORK IN PROGRESS
8. Sit at a bar, by myself for at least an hour. Meet some peeps. DONE
9. Learn how to better invest my money
10. Come up with a list of 10 questions to ask someone new that I've met
11. Read the manual for my digital camera and learn to take better pics
12. Walk the Freedom Trail
13. Throw myself an awesome 30th birthday party!
Wish me luck! 52 more days to go!!