A Birthday List.

One of my favorite bloggers, Elise Blaha, does a little list each year for her birthday of things she wants to do before her next birthday. I think this is such a great idea that I want to take a page out of her book and try my own list. While mine won't be nearly as fancy as hers, I think it gets the point across. So here it is, my list of 24 things to do before I'm 25. I have 365 days to do all the things on my list:

24 Things to Do While 24:
1. Sell at least one of my photos
2. Visit a state I've never been to
3. Go to Italy
4. Have an actual conversation in Italian, no matter how retarded I sound
5. Buy a new camera lens
6. Learn more Photoshop
7. Shoot a wedding
8. Do at least one thing that would usually scare me (give blood, for example)
9. Fix my iPod/iTunes on my Mac
10. Start and finish a large painted canvas to hang on the wall
11. Learn new recipes
12. Read at least 5 new books
13. Write at least 3 short stories
14. Find a new favorite restaurant
15. Sign up for a cooking class
16. (Re)Learn yoga
17. See Erica's Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA
18. Enter a photography contest
19. Visit my Nannie in Brevard, NC
20. Go to a casino
21. Write, photograph, and document my real-life comic strip
22. Complete the photography scavenger hunt each month
23. Make more blog friends
24. Document this list! (whether in a journal or on this blog)

Making this list was actually harder than I thought, but I'm glad I did it and now I can go back and see what I want to achieve in the next year. So here's to a wonderful "new year." Good luck to anyone else with their own lists!

Happy Birthday to all the other March 27 babies out there!!
XO,
LC.