If you’ve been following for a while you’ll know that I normally make these lists on or around my birthday. Well, this year has been a doozy for so many reasons, and it’s taken me a while to get in the zone. Creating a list of fun or new things to do felt impossible at first! How could I have adventures when I’m stuck in my house for the foreseeable future?
Eventually, though, I realized that there is always fun to be had, even in quarantine. So while some of the items on this list are wishful thinking (I have my fingers crossed that the world will be able to reopen before my 30th birthday!), others are things I can do from exactly where I sit right now. I think we need both: the agency to change our lives starting now, and the hope that things will get better soon. So without further ado, here are the 30 things I’d like to do for fun before I turn 30.
- Go to the drive-in movie theatre ✓
- Go camping ✓
- Sew myself a dress that I love
- Put together a capsule wardrobe
- Read all the novels of L.M. Montgomery
- Have an epic picnic in the park ✓
- Hike to Webster’s Falls (or any big waterfall!) ✓
- Take a solo writing & business retreat
- Replicate Grand Electric tacos at home
- Collaborate on a video with M ✓
- Start some kind of annual ritual with my friends
- Rent or go up to a cottage for a week
- Get big art for above my couch
- Read the racial justice Ideal Bookshelf list
- Visit the Ripley’s Aquarium
- Digitize my bullet journal notes
- Go to a nude beach for the day
- Stay in a treehouse or a yurt
- Go to a shooting range
- Go swimming at a new beach
- Go swimming at a new outdoor pool
- Visit the Scarborough Bluffs ✓
- Go strawberry picking ✓
- Go to La Scandinave Spa
- Finish my Romanian Duolingo course ✓
- Cure my back pain
- Have a Human Design chart reading
- Stay somewhere & order room service
- Watch all of The Wire
- Take an epic road trip
PS. Want to see my past lists? Check them out here!
29 Before 29 | 26 Before 26 | 25 Before 25 | 24 Before 24 | 22 Before 22
