30 before 30

[Rachel]

this thread is for you to post a list of things that you want to do in your life before you're thirty. it doesn't necessarily have to have thirty things on it, but if it does, hey that's great. anyways. here is my list in no particular order with asterisks (sp?) next to the ones that i've already done.

*1- tell certain people how i really feel about them
2- get married
3- go to new york
4- go to scotland
5- go to ireland
6- see the ocean
7- get a tattoo
*8-learn how to play guitar
*9- start a rock band
10-get my masters
11- become president ( i didn't know you had to be 35 when i made this list)
12- help as many people as i can
*13- meet someone famous ( i met george bush when he was running for governor of this wonderful state)
14- learn how to swim ( yeah...it's sad...i'm almost 19 years old and i can't swim)
* 15- learn how to give first aid
16- play soccer for high school again
17- start a community service organization
18- be on the today show ( i've always wanted to meet katie couric)
19- write a column for the newspaper
*20- have an impact on someone's day for the better
*21- be the first me and not the next whoever
22- help coach a kids soccer team
23- be on the oprah show
24- beat someone up
25- shoot a gun
26- sky dive
27- see a beach
28- write a book and get it published
29- be in a movie
30- learn how to snowboard

[shooraijin]

Rats, it's only three years away. *sighs*

[Debitt]

1. Take a visit to Japan
2. GET PUBLISHED
3. see my best friend in person again
4. Graduate from college
5. Get a ferret
6. visit scotland and ireland
7. Learn to make my own cosplay costumes
8. Finish FFVII ^^;
9. Make a serious difference in someone's life. *
10. Learn to fence.

[Ashley]

I'm not sure if I could come up with 30, but sure I'll try

1. Graduate from college
2. Fall in love/Get married
3. Learn Italian
4. Meet Harrison Ford
5. Go on a missions trip
6. Have a bedroom that isn't white
7. Write a novel/have it published
8. Write a screenplay
9. Direct an indy film
10. Visit Rome
11. Visit Scotland
12. Learn to fence
13. Learn to waltz
14. Get a backstage pass to a concert
15. Ride a motorcycle again (last time I was on one I broke my arm)
16. Watch my brother and sister in their big life events: graduation, marriage, etc.
17. Teach Sunday School

Hmm, that's nearly everything I can think of. Guess that's a good enough start. ^^

[PotBelliedCow]

All right, here goes:

*thinks really really hard*

1. Go to college
2. Find romance
3. Write a book that'll kick Harry Potter's butt
4. Walk around San Francisco
5. Get ranked the top in my class
6. Get interviewed on television
7. Buy french fries at the cafeteria
8. Get a perfect 100 on a math test
9. Read all of Shakespeare's works
10. Watch all of LOTR's extended editions back to back
11. Watch the entire Matrix trilogy back to back
12. Draw a comic
13. Play soccer for my high school
14. Go to France
15. Learn how to cook Filipino food
16. Volunteer regularly at my local homeless shelter
17. Find the perfect partner for my best friend
18. Survive A.P. Biology in my sophomore year
19. Perform in my school's play
20. Live in Britian
21. Pretend to be a British tourist in San Francisco
22. Pretend to be a French tourist in San Francisco
23. Pretend to be a Filipino tourist in San Francisco
24. Buy the British editions of the Harry Potter books
25. Watch my best friends get married
26. Find happiness
27. Spend an entire day referring to myself in the third person
28. Adovocate for equality for all people
29. Learn how to speak Japanese, Latin, Spanish, and Tagalog
30. Hug 50 different people in one day

[Shinja]

hmm,

1. get married
2. go to japan
3. learn to fly a stunt plane
4. sail to another contenent
5. graduate from collage
6. write a song

[Solid Ronin]

my list:

Collect all TMNT Vol.1 issues
Live
Die

[JediSonic]

Fencing isnt all its cracked up to be.. so hot in those uniforms

[Link Antilles]

No real order.... these are things I'm going to try and do...

1. Finish College
2. Move out of South Carolina
3. Find the Love of my life and ask for her hand marriage
4. Write a Star Wars Novel
5. Write a Novel based on my own creation
6. Became a Video game reviewer
7. Compose Video game music
8. Learn to draw
9. Test Video games
10. Raise a group of Husky/Wolf mixes.
11. Continue my personal study of history
12. Bench Press at least 300lb
13. Learn some form of Martial Arts
14. Learn German
15. Continue to Grow in Christ
16. Become a Mod. at a forum after college
17. Continue to make people laugh
18. Take time to improve my writing
19. Visit the land down under
20. Visit Deutschland
21. Visit Mother Russia
22. Enter a career with in Law Enforment/CIA/FBI/NSA/DIA/DHS/ or Military research
23. Study to become a Pastor at a Church
24. Open a Gaming Café
25. Fire a bow form horse back
26. Learn to cook very well
27. Continuing my new study in the Bible
28. Continue to learn and help people with technology
29. Be a host on a Technology channel like Techtv
30. Type faster...

Yup, I'm crazy enough...

[EireWolf]

*trying to think of how many things I can cram into less than 2 years*

1. Make a lot of cool sculptures
2. Sell a lot of cool sculptures
3. Sell enough cool sculptures than I can make a decent living being a full-time artist
4. Travel (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, New Zealand, Australia, and maybe a few other places. OP wants to go to Japan. Somehow I don't think all this will happen in the next 2 years.)
5. Buy a house with room for a studio

[Shinsei]

30 before 30, eh? Lesse if I can do it...
1. Get married
2. Go on a mission (as in proselytizing, preferably in Japan, but anywhere'd be cool too)
3. Graduate college
4. Get a job
5. Write a novel or 10
6. Write a video game
7. Beat every FF (I've beaten 1 and 2j so far... only 8 to go!)
8. Learn Kendo
9. Learn a whole boatload of other martial arts
10. Achieve fluency with nihongo (japanese for the uninitiated)
11. Ditto for Latin
12. While I'm at it, learn Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and any other languages I feel like learning.
13. Have a kid or two
14. Learn to draw pictures that don't look like crap
15. Buy a real Katana (and maybe a wakizashi as well)
16. Start a webcomic
17. Buy a house

Well, more than half. Not too bad. More, if you count #'s 9 and 12 as more than one. Not too bad. Note that the above are in no particular order.

[Technomancer]

What can I do in three years?

1. Make serious headway on my Ph.D
2. Author at least two more papers.
3. Travel, especially to western Europe (see the sights, eat the food, drink the wines).
4. Line up a good research job.
5. Improve my French.

And probably do some other stuff too.

[chibi_chan]

1. Get one of my manga's published
2. Become a ko-gal
3. Meet Orlando Bloom

[Pent]

Here...

1.Get married
2.Write a book and get it published
3.Take part in making an anime series
3.Graduate
4.Get 5000 posts on CAA
5.Learn how to play guitar
6.Visit Japan
7.Visit California
8.Learn java script, php, c++, and most all other important programming languages
9.Change someones life for the better

[true_noir_chloe]

*Walks in* I'm 12 years too late. *Walks back out of the thread* ^_^ Just kidding. I'll have to handle this thread a bit differently, since I've passed the 30 mark. I hope you don't mind, convoybutterfly.

What did I do before I turned 30?

Got to travel:
Visited Scotland (my dream come true) for 31/2 months
Visited London, England
Visited China
Visited Hong Kong
Visited Phillipines
Stayed in a resort in Baja, California with my crazy friends
Drove an RV through a hurricane in Florida, with my crazy friends
Drove through New Orleans, Lousiana in an RV during traffic and almost killed us all
Travelled through the entire United States western and southern coastline by car
Spiritual matters:
I was able to be used by God, and saw others saved for Christ
I witnessed to my brother and sisters, and only some came to Christ
Forgave my dad
Found out what it is to love, and be loved
Read the whole Bible
Lifelong Dreams:
Found the man of my dreams
Got married
Had my first beautiful child
had the greatest roomies when I was single
My best friend in the world sang at my wedding
I performed my music in front of a lot of people
I recorded some stuff (in the Phillipines on a Christian radio station)
I had groupies (maybe 5 *hehe*)
Rode a motorcyle and crashed twice
Was in a major freeway crash in Los Angeles and lived after being run over by a semi-truck
Attended a lot of colleges and never obtained a degree, never stayed long enough
Was able to study under some very wonderful teachers/mentors ^_^

EDIT:I was 4 short, let's see:
Rode horseback in the New Mexico mountains and along the Baja California coast without a guide
Climbed several mountains, and hiked everywhere in the southwest
Nearly got arrested twice (wasn't my fault)
Beat up by a crazed person, my friends pulled her off, since I don't fight, and she was mistaken and drunk

Hmm, I don't think these would have been goals before I was 30. ^_^

[Danyasaur]

lol;;

1. make a manga
2. get it published
3. excel in my dream to become a worship leader
4. learn to play guitar
5. get a better singing voice
6. make it through highschool. . . . . . alive
6. learn to draw better
7. open a pet shop with my crazy animal lovin' friends
8. learn Japaneese
9. go to Japan
10. move to Japan
11. beat my brother at Redemption (the card game)
12. learn to snowboard
13. go somewhere there's actually snow so I can learn to snowboard
14. finaly get rid of the pants half way down your but fad
15. be skinier
16. ride a 40 mile bike ride *40 miles there and 40 miles back*
17. become a writer
18. get a job at Nintendo doing graphics and character design
19. always stay in touch with the Lord
20. get friends
21. get friends that talk to me
22. stop being so shy
23. graduate college
24. fall in love/get maried
25. learn computer programing
26. make a cool little flash movie thingy
27. meet my best friend in the whole world in person
28. get over my fear of hights
29. get enough CDs that I have to buy that CD walet that holds 200 CDs
30. learn to fly *. . . WHAT?! it's a dream!*

[Ingemar]

Let's see... treinta antes treinta

1. Get out of college
2. Make some kind of income
3. Learn Biblical Greek (*sticks tongue out at Ashley*)
4. Learn Hebrew
5. Learn Arabic
6. Master Tagalog
7. Make a 5-page manga entirely in Tagalog
8. Read the Torah in its original language
9. Ditto the New Testament
10. Ditto the Qur'an
11. Start a gun collection
12. Shoot a wild turkey
13. Shoot a deer
14. Shoot [REDACTED: use your imagination]
15. Be in a band
16. Do at least ONE voice-over in a commercial, but hopefully in some major motion picture
17. Spend a year in isolation from other human beings. Anything else in this list not involving socializing can be done during this year.
18. Write a book
19. Plant a tree
20. Get married (note: may not happen)
21. Raise a son (note: depends on 20)
22. Go back to my old high school
23. Go to Greece
24. Go to Ireland
25. Build own guitar
26. Take a 25-mile hike
27. Have sex (actually, 21 is impossible without this)
28. Write letters
29. Go to Israel
30. Die

[Zedian]

Hmmm I better start making a list and X-ing them out as soon as I can.

1.Go to Japan
2. Go to San Fransico
3. See my childhood friend Austin again
4. Get my masters degree
5. If not 4, then get a Law degree
6. Start my own firm
7. Write a novel and have it published
8. Start a band
9. Make money and good music with the band
10. Own a Corvette
11. Own a Porsche
12. Do voice acting on the side for anime
13. Buy a condominium along the beach
14. Own a house in Seattle or San Fransico
15. Have a personal studio abound in my house
16. Travel to France
17. Travel to Jerusalem
18. Own a jet ski
19. Stay in first class room at the Bellagio, in Las Vegas
20. Meet Johnny Depp
21. Meet Quentin Tarantino
22. Design a video game
23. Master Higher Mathematics
24. Learn how to play violin
25. Create my own software company that is non-proprietory
26. Learn more Japanese to point where I am fluent in it
27. Start performing martial arts
28. Go to a Superbowl game
29. Find the most perfect companion for my life, fall in love and get married
30. Attend Stanford for graduate studies or Law

31. And grow stronger in Christ

I guess boredom at work enabled me to write that with ease.

[Sephiroth]

So many people want to come to Scotland, its kinda funny

Ok Here Goes

1. - Visit Japan
2. - Learn to Swordfight (preferably Kendo)
3. - Fall in Love (Hopefully as soon as possible)
4. - Experiance my first kiss
5. - Have a flying lesson
6. - See my family saved

When i think of more i'll post em, have to go study for my University Exams

[Bobtheduck]

1. Meet Eliza Dushku
2. Evangelize Eliza Dushku
3. "Evangelize" in the other way (otaku) Eliza Dushku
4. Propose to Eliza Dushku
5. Marry Eliza Dushku
6. Have little Eliza Dushkus

no, I'm kidding, actually

1. Learn flawless conversational Japanese
１a． Learn all 1945 Joyo kanji and, perhaps, at least 100 more than that.
2. Improve my math skills
3. Get a bachelors in game development
4. Get an associates in Computer Animation
5. Work for Konami or similar Iconic company
6. Meet a Girl that's funny, intelligent, deep, comfortable (you know, the kind that can fart in front of me and be fine with it...), definately christian, charasmatic, missions minded, and doesn't have a call to celibacy and isn't planning on being a martyr before she's 40 (Just learned that addition to my story last night) and doesn't plan on staying in her home state/country all her life, isn't morally opposed to anime or video games, will learn a 2nd or 3rd language (Japanese), wears glasses (めがねが大すきです。） and doesn't wear too much makeup, there are more things, but I can't think of them right now.
7. Successfully publish my books (at least 3 fiction) and start working on my Non-fiction work (hopefully my writing skills will have improved by that point.)
8. HOPEFULLY get a christian game project out and do it WELL! (If I get a billion dollar inheritance, I already said that I would sponsor a lot of people to go to full sail... And, if I got 17 million dollars, I'd sponsor either 9 or 7, depending... Otherwise, i'll just have to have some major divine appointments.
9. "Maybe". Get my brother (Bio) out of his rut, after I get out of my own of course. Of course, maybe my getting out of my own rut could be me helping matt get out of his... Hmm... I'd get him working out, and studying, and learning some life skills, and anything else I can to get him away from his seemingly inescabable trap... I'll make this one a "Maybe" *edits beginning*
10. Adjust my body to a cicadian rythm and gain a normal energy level (though my happy days just before the "news" prove that my energy level is like this because I'm so lonely, not because of my sleep schedule...)
11. Memorize at least one book in the Bible... Probably I Corinthians.

That's all I can think of right now...

[AngelSakura]

All right, here goes:
14. Go to France
20. Live in Britian
21. Pretend to be a British tourist in San Francisco
24. Buy the British editions of the Harry Potter books

Heh. I lived in England for three/four years. They don't really appreiciate Americans. And after a while, the odd expressions, food, store hours and other things start to get to your head. Never, never, EVER order black pudding. It's basically pig's blood. BTW, the only diff in the Harry Potter books is things like 'cricket' instead of 'baseball'. Brrr. I have a permanent phobia of David Beckham.

1) Be fluent in Japanese.
2) Be fluent enough to live in Japan.
3) Marry Japanese real life bishonen. =) Preferably the head singer of the Pillows. (oh yeah, convert him first)
4) Aquire a DVD anime/manga library that I can lend to my college friends.
5) Take the 'Anime and Manga' course at that college in California (or whatever college has it avalable).
6) Own a red Thunderbird convertible.
7) Not have children. I don't want children.
8) Beat many FFs.
9) French kiss my (Japanese) husband.
10) Get a poster of Piccolo. Just Piccolo.
11) Meet Akira Toriyama.
12) Learn JavaScript.
13) Buy a domain name.
14) Have a decent website.

Duh...can't think of anymore right now.
Hey Bobtheduck, you decribed me, execpt I'm rarely funny. I try, though.

[Ducky]

30 things... lessee

1. graduate high school (only a month to go )
2. figure out a way to pay for college
3. ummm... i suppose graduating college would be good to do as well.
4. get to five balls juggling and learn some tricks for four... and get good enough at unicycle to juggle while riding the dumb one-wheeled contraption....
5. meet new people (and maybe learn the concept of communicating over long distance so that i don't completely lose contact with everyone i know now)
6. write something worth publishing.
7. get it published.
8. vote... a few times... voting should be fun
9. watch more anime
10. do something usefull
11. see my mum and step-dad and little sister and basically my entire extended family on their side come to Christ... that would probably have to be the top thing on the list but yeah...)
12. see what kind of neat people all my really little sibbies turn out to be and watch my not so little ones grow in Christ.
13. learning a martial art would rock (my brother takes nijitsu and that seems really cool)
14. fluency in multiple languages (italian since my mum is fluent, Japanese obviously, Hebrew it totally rocks, french as i've already taken four years of it so might as well finish the job, greek and latin, any other ones possible, Czech would be cool as my grand-ma is fluent, and ummmm okay so i wanna learn 'em all )
15. I suppose being able to ride a horse again would be nice. man i miss the horses...
16. traveling not so much, been there done that. 'sides they've made security so tight it's a real nuisance. Although a missions trip wouldn't be bad.
17. it's getting harder to think of stuff now i suppose by thirty i would like to be married (obviously to a christian guy) and have a family and junk... a big family, with lotsa children... adopted children
18. learn how to play at least one instrument (preferably one of the three i already own meaning keyboard, on which i can sort of play a few songs, Guitar for which i know 3 chords, or flute which i try/pretend to play in the school band.)

[Gypsy]

Fun thread! I'm afraid my list will be rather short:

1. Figure out God's will for my life. I think all the other stuff will fall into place after that.

[Kinkosami]

Gosh, y'all act like your life is gonna end at 30. I suppose I will to, if I have to think of thirty things to do before I'm thirty...

Well, here I go... *thinks*

01. Learn Japanese
02. Learn French
03. Learn German
04. Learn Chinese
05. Go to Japan
06. Go to Germany
07. Go to France (that would be great!)
08. Go to China and witness
09. Get a Husky
10. Get married to the guy of my dreams.
11. Have kids
12. Teach all my kids the languages I learned (this would go past thirty)
14. Go rock climbing
15. Sky dive (that would be SO cool)
16. Learn how to hold a one on one conversation(I can barely even do this over the IM, I'm so pathetic)
17. Learn to ride a horse
18. See the beach
19. Get a good singing voice
20. Breed a litter of Huskies
21. Learn to write really well
22. Become an EMT
23. Maybe become a ER nurse
24. Win a wallpaper contest
25. Go on an adventure, that involves almost dieing and discovering new and wonderful things.
26. Learn to ski or snowboard (here I live in Colorado and still don't know how.)
27. Eat a pie with my face, no hands (like Legato)
28. Cut my hair (maybe, that might be kinda hard)
29. Become stronger in my walk with the lord
30. Help certain members in my family with their walk with the lord.


There you go! I'm sure I won't get all that done, some I want more than others. Like that pie thing, I just put that there to fill space. That would be cool though.