The year before 30 - what's it all about

*Sigh........BIG *sigh ......this year will be the last year of my life languishing in the comfortable, warm, sun-drenched waters of my twenties. Yes, 2015 will mark my 30th year and with it no doubt will come all kinds of responsibilities and life changes that I have previously been able to dodge in the name of youth.

 

"Boooooooo" seems an entirely appropriate phrase right about now .

However, age is just a number and I've decided that in my last year as a twenty something I will not sit and mourn my freedom years, instead I will momentously celebrate them by doing as many crazy/ daft/ambitious/ outrageous/confidence boosting/ life changing/ always-wanted-to-do type things as possible in the run up to the big 3.0. (I will admit that I stole this idea from a date who had proclaimed he would do 30 things he'd always wanted to do before he was 30 - but we can all get in on some of that action).

So, where to begin? A list - lists are always good. Here is the start of mine. It will be added to over the course of the year I'm sure, but here are just a few of the random things that I intend to check off  over the course of 2014. I'll keep you posted...........

1. Push my body to its limit with an Iron Man challenge or similar
2. Learn the rap by Alicia Dixon in Misteeq's All I Want.
3. Learn the Beyoncé dance to Single Ladies
4. Send my novel off to a publisher (I have realised that my long term dream to have a novel published will only ever be achieved by actually having the balls to actually send it out into the world instead of hiding it among the files of my laptop!!)
5. Learn a foreign language
6. Watch as many films as possible off the BBC 100 greatest movies off all time list http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1676468.stm. I am 'that' only person in the world that hasn't seen any of the classics, doesn't appreciate those iconic lines that everyone quotes from movies and ....ahem......hasn't seen the Goonies (shhhh, don't tell anyone).
7. Develop old skills (namely cake decorating)
8. Develop new skills - I haven't decided what yet!
9. Take a dance class - specifically a Burlesque class - I feel that not only would it be fun, but it would be a cracking confidence booster.
10. Attempt the National Three Peaks Challenge (Okay so this one is a bit of a cheat because I'm already booked in to attempt this in September in aid of Help For Heroes and Cure leukaemia UK


So there you have it .... the first ten challenges have been set. I'm off to buy cheap movies on Amazon whilst I have a ponder on the next ten..........