30 Before 30: The Final Tally

Tomorrow I’ll be thirty.

Which means I should probably take a look and see how this 30 before 30 list of mine turned out.

1. Starting playing my viola a whole lot more
2. Make over the dining room set
3. Start eating more vegetables
4. Finish my back tattoo  {I have one more session to go. I need some funds.}
5. Home brew beer
6. Go see Jen from Four Marrs & One Venus  {maybe in October? I find out on T’hursday}
7. Learn to play pool better than I do now  {we need more date nights so I can play}
8. Go to Las Vegas (see #26)
9. Make a gallery wall
10. Get my weight down to at least 185 pounds  {Did it, plateaued, made my new goal 165 pounds…working on it}
11. Decorate a cake with fondant
12. Sew myself an outfit and a dress – wear them
13. Put together a real live cookbook – so I can quit pulling up my blog to cook  {I’m in the middle of this. I need to print out all my eCookbooks too.}
14. Eat at a food truck  {I did it!}
15. Go to a Muse concert  {March 16th at US Airways Center – there are no words!}
16. Buy my own .com
17. Be a red head again
18. Have professional family pictures taken – so I can finally be in the picture too
19. California Vacation (see #6)
20. Pay off my credit cards  {Paid off one, mostly paid off another}
21. Have a kick ass 30th birthday party  {Tomorrow is gonna be great!}
22. Go to a wine or beer dinner
23. Become really good at making Macarons  {Work in progress}
24. Attend a blog conference  {I went to two!}
25. Start saving for our trip to Scotland/Ireland  {Not sure when this is happening, all funds are being redirection to a house down payment.  Woo!}
26. Get married (at least engaged) – yes, I’m ready to threaten Mike with this  {Why has this not happened yet?!?}  Mike and I got engaged December 24, 2013!!
27. Design a photo index for all my blog posts {When I was on Blogger I made one using inlinkz & then revamped manually > tutorial HERE}
28. Eat at a high end restaurant
29. Build a light box  {I photograph during the day only now.  This set will come back to life when I have an office.}
30. Buy a DSLR camera

21 out of 30 isn’t too bad.

Plans changed and some of these are still in the works, but a lot of my blogging biggies got done which makes me really happy.  I swear I’m getting to Cali ASAP to see you Jen.