30 weeks down…
Chanda joked this morning that maybe I should blog again and I know it has been awhile. Life took over and needless to say blogging went to the bottom of my list. But here we are. It has been 6 months since we began our journey and my 30 weeks are coming to an end. When we started it seemed like a fun idea to break everything into 30s to get me focused on making some changes but I never imagined my life would look the way it does today in such a short time.
This time last year, I was planning for my first Half Birthday Celebration. Tired of never having anyone to celebrate with because of the Christmas holiday, I decided to celebrate in June instead. See the post here This is now going to be an annual girls night tradition. This year I plan to head into Manhattan to my new favorite restaurant for some Caribbean food and then to catch the off Broadway play Platanos and Collard Greens. This years celebration is very different from last years but goes in line with what my typical monthly Celebration of Life activities have been like. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes…
As far as the first 30 weeks of being 30 lets see how I did with my list:
Things that happened pretty regularly:
- Celebrating Life on the 28th- It has pretty much become routine that I do something on the 28th every month. It may just be dinner or drinks with my roommate/sister but I celebrate it every month.
- Find a new site, restaurant etc. - Since I moved shortly after starting my list and I travel every month for work this was pretty easy to accomplish. I think it will be a little harder to maintain once I settle into my town and things stop being so new.
- Call a friend or family member that I haven’t talked to once a week - I am planning a huge family reunion so I have talked to people I have never talked to in my life recently.
Big Changes, Plans etc.
- Well as you know from a previous post I purchased a home so I have already accomplished something on my list and I am now living in a city and state that I never thought, even up to 12 months ago, that I would live in. Our lives can take us in such interesting directions! I also applied to a graduate program and will be entering graduate school in the fall. My main goal for my 30s was to achieve balance in my life. To that end, I will become a full time student and leave the organization where I have worked the last five years when I start graduate school. This means a decrease in my travel and hopefully I will be able to focus more time on my studies and personal life. Besides my friends, my job was the last tie to my life in DC and the last bit of my “pre-beginning at 30 list” past life. I am basically starting all over which is a little scary and exciting all at the same time….
So 30 weeks have flown by. The list is working even if I haven’t accomplished everything consistently I feel like they will get done eventually. I have accomplished way more than I could have even thought or planned in 30 weeks. Imagine what I can do with 30 months!
As I reflect on this year since my Half Birthday Party the amount of change is unbelievable. I am excited to start this completely new phase of my life: a new decade, a new city, a new home, a new phase of education, a new career. If I finally started that easy to follow exercise routine on my list maybe I would even have a “new body” to go with all this newness :-)