So I'm 30 now.

Everything's changed.

I hate it.

Nah. Actually, I was telling everyone for months before that I was "almost 30". It's a lot more honest than "my mid-twenties". Although I have considered shaving a couple years off my age. I think I could pass for 25.

on the tube: the Simpsons: the complete second season on DVD. One of my birthday gifts. And K5 has started running the show again on Wednesdays and Thursdays, but you know what? They cut bits out.

I said I'd live in Hawaii and have two kids before I was thirty. I accomplished both of those, but there are many, many things I haven't done yet, and other people have done nifty lists of things they want to do before they turn 40, so I thought I'd put one together.

1. Earn a biology degree
2. visit Europe
3. go to cooking school
4. live in London for one year
5. take an Alaska cruise
6. write a novel
7. see a hockey game
8. take voice lessons
9. lose the balance of all my Katie-related weight gain
10. get a tattoo (a small yin-yang on my back)
11. donate blood (last time I tried, I fainted. Can you believe that?)
12. make a gingerbread house, complete with gummy trees and icing on the roof, for Christmas
13. dye my hair a nice shade of red, permanently
14. at least begin on my Master’s degree
15. make a leg of lamb and accompanying side dishes for Easter
16. learn to drive
17. work in retail again just long enough to wait on someone famous
18. adopt a child
19. meet Emeril Lagasse
20. bring my kids to visit my grandmother in Boston
21. visit Japan
22. take hula lessons
23. read all of Shakespeare’s works
24. eat an entire lobster by myself (they gave us really small pathetic ones in the hospital the day after Kate was born, but it was so teeny it doesn’t count)
25. be a lector in church
26. live in New Zealand for one year
27. visit Napa Valley and decide if I like wine, once and for all
28. learn another language (not French. My French is a little rusty and I’d love to re-learn, but I mean, start out not knowing anything and become fairly fluent)
29. watch a Japanese tea ceremony
30. buy a kitchen aid mixer and use it on a weekly basis
31. take piano lessons
32. try surfing once
33. see a production of an opera (pick an opera, any opera) at the Met
34. live in New York for one year
35. win an Oscar (yeah right)
36. drive cross-country
37. see every movie on the IMDB top 250
38. go to a latin mass
39. own a cat
40. renew my wedding vows with Ryan

So I have all that to do in ten years.

In the meantime, though, it's hot. It's Africa hot. I have to take Katie to the neighborhood pool more often. She's taking swimming lessons now. I even took Zac the one day last week (Tuesday?) when we went.

reading: How to be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson. Yet another birthday gift

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