30 Things

Today is my 30th birthday. I'm copying friends (the best form of flattery right) by writing a blog of 30 things I have done in my 30 years...in no particular order:


1. Became an auntie twice.


2. Learned how to ride a bike and drive a car, a bus and a boat.


3. Traveled to 11 foreign countries.


4. Published poetry.


5. Bought a house.


6. Saved a girl from drownding.


7. Hiked Pikes Peak.


8. Ran a 5K (without stopping to walk).


9. Hiked on the Great Wall of China.


10. Graduated high school and college.


11. Passed my PHR certification test (Professional in Human Resources).


12. Participated in 11 weddings as flower girl, bridesmaid, personal attendant, wedding planner or usher.


13. Worked as a house cleaner.


14. Worked as a camp cook, camp counselor, program director, life gaurd, ropes course, bus driver, beach front, trash runs, hospital run, capture the flag, taps talk, Ewolk, R2D2, midnight gate patrol with no flash light, ski boat driver, rescue boat driver, kayak trip leader, camp out, cook out, tie up shoes and no bug spray, dark colors and lots of bug spray, Sonrise, Omaha bus run, burn camp, Apache girls, poop sheet, camp fire maker, post season, pre season, Walmart on my N.O., singing my campers to sleep, chuck wagon, teaching David to make kool-aid, kinder-camp, golf cart stealing, approved pranks and FOB. That was a fun 4 years of my life!


15. Held out to get a cell phone till I was 25.


16. Lived in the same house till graduating college (my parents still live there).


17. Walked beans and rode beans (paid by my grandpa).


18. Worked as a sandwich artist.


19. Never been the driver of a car that's gotten into an accident.


20. Learned to play the piano, drums and guitar...can barely play any of them anymore.


21. Nannied in Michigan for a summer in high school.


22. Tried surfing.


23. Marched (in wooden shoes) in the Fiesta Bowl parade.


24. Played softball in the Metrodome...also played a half-time show of a Vikings game in the Metrodome.


25. Paid off all my debt.


26. Baptized as a baby and re-baptized by my own choice at 24 in a friend's man-made backyard water feature.


27. Traveled to a BBQ in a van with the live goat next to me that would become our dinner (didn't know it till we arrived and they slit it's throat).


28. Got mullet like perms in elementary school.


29. Got a massage in Singapore, head shampoo in China, made bricks in Honduras, washed clothes in a river in Mongolia, survived traffic in India in a rickshaw, walked flooded streets of the Philippines and an India slum, felt an earthquake in El Salvador, and went on a safari in Tanzania.


30. Celebrated 30 birthdays.