30 Before 30, v.26.5

 As of today, I am 1.5 years into this journey. I'm making progress in some places but I can really see where I need to pick it up here in the next couple of years!

1. Finish my Master's degree. One more academic year! At this time next year, I will be done!
2. Knock out Baby Steps 2 & 3. Still. working. on. Baby Step 2. Oi vey.
3. Complete the C25K program. This is another changed goal. I have started this program many times but have never finished it.
4. Build my blog to 100 followers. Again, a change to the program. I've been praying about the purpose of my blog and I'm excited to see what God does with it in the next couple of years!
5. Take an international vacation... alone.
6. Coach in a state basketball tournament.
7. Buy a nice camera to document life's adventures. Done! I purchased a Sony DSC-RX100 before I moved this summer. Now I just need to get figuring out how to use it.
8. Read and notate through the Bible five different times, in four translations (NIV, NKJV, ESV, NASB). (0/5)
9. Run a marathon.
10. Hit my goal weight (160 pounds... Dream weight is 145 pounds). Still working on this. I don't have a scale with me right now but I feel better than I have in a long time so I'm feeling better than were I had been.
11. Do something really nice for somebody... something I never thought I'd be able to do... somewhere, at sometime.
12. Send out snail mail Christmas cards one year.
13. Read 100 new (never before read) books. 1Fat Angie. 2Single Infertile Female: Adventures in Life, Love, and Infertility. 3Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn. 4The Help. 5Monster. 6The Book Thief.7Eat, Pray, Love. 8Same Kind of Different as Me. 9Winning Balance.10Thirteen Reasons Why. 11Zack's Lie. 12Water for Elephants. 13The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 14The Girl Who Played With Fire. 15The Language of Flowers. 16The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. 17Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 18Jack's Run. 19Gone Girl. 20My Sister's Voice. 21The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet-- A Memoir. 22Divergent. 23The Fault in Our Stars. 24Inferno. 25The Time Keeper. 26Arranged. 27The Anti-Prom. 28The Boyfriend App. 29Going Vintage. 30Deception Point. 31The Tyrant's Daughter. 32Hollow City. 33And the Mountains Echoed. 34Unbroken. 35Calico Joe. (35/100)
14. Try at least 30 new recipes. (0/30)
15. Write 500 notes of encouragement to those around me. (3/500)
16. Go skydiving.
17. Crochet a baby afghan. I still haven't found a pattern I liked so this one is back on the shelf.
18. Have a photo shoot done of myself... Insecurities set aside.
19. Go on another missions trip.
20. Complete a semester of calculus.
21. Earn my permit to carry a concealed weapon.
22. Sleep a night under the stars.
23. Get three stamps in my passport. (1/3) I'm obviously back in Thailand, but I'm waiting to get some travel plans going so I can get a couple more stamps!
24. Make a kite and fly it.
25. Achieve complete financial independence.
26. Take a dance class.
27. Tear a phone book in half.
28. Solve a Rubik's cube.
29. Learn to swim.
30. Visit New York City... Perhaps for a 30th birthday celebration?

Start date: February 15, 2013
End date: February 15, 2018