25 Goals

I turn 25 today. Since graduating college, I've found birthdays to be quite emotional--in both good and bad ways. In honor of this year's birthday, here are 25 goals I hope to achieve before I'm--gulp--thirty.

1. Go to Paris. (Commentary: bought the plane tickets--leave this June.)
2. See the Eiffel Tower. (Comm: it's a cliche, I know, but seriously!!)
3. Stop renting!! (Comm: Getting really sick of flushing rent money down the drain every month.)
4. Investigate new jobs. (Comm: Love my job but it's in the fuck middle of nowhere and I get depressed about it at least five times a week.)
5. Go to NYC. (Comm: Family vacation--we have the tickets and leave this June.)
6. See Wicked. (Comm: looking into going with Kim the next time I'm visiting her in Chicago. How can I know every line and song of this musical by heart and have never seen it? Thank God for bootleg copies and sisters who buy & copy them for me.)
7. See Spamalot. ('Nuff said.)
8. Get my reading endorsement. (Comm: I'm not really feeling any motivation to do this, I just know I need to do it and to have that adult interaction before I forget how to communicate with people who aren't 15.)
9. Be someone's maid-of-honor. (Comm: something I've always wanted to do. Nicole's asked me to be hers; the wedding's in October. Both looking forward to it and dreading it--well, the work--at the same time.)
10. Finish a novel. (Even if it's crap. Just finish it.)
11. Investigate publishing some short stories/essays I've written in the past. (I'm mostly too lazy for this type of endeavor.)
12. Get Tivo. (Recently discovered the glory of Tivo thanks to my mom's. This is more of an indulgence sort of goal, rather than a spiritual/emotional growth type of goal.)
13. Pay off my car. (I'm about six months away from doing this--so I'm a bit ahead of schedule.)
14. Figure out where I want to live. (I can't continue where I am. I know I've already said this once, but I get depressed all the time over where I live. This is not the life I want--which is unfortunate because it *is* the job I want.)
15. Go on a cruise. (Ever since I read The Baby-Sitters Club Goes on a Cruise ... or whatever the hell it's called ... back in fourth grade, I've wanted to do this.)
16. Go to Ireland.
17. Go to England.
18. Be more forgiving.
19. This one is private. For me only.
20. And this one's slightly shameful, so I won't be sharing it either.
21. Fly on a transatlantic flight. (I've only ever been on small planes that last two hours max, so I'd like to experience the real thing.)
22. Go to a Meg Cabot book signing.
23. Ditto a Jennifer Crusie signing.
24. Eventually get my masters degree. Although I feel no rush on this one. And have no idea what I would want to get it in. English education, I guess, since I was sort of turned off by the English degree.
25. And as always, read more books. I heart books.