30 Before 30 List

1. Make a layered cake from scratch 
       - Chocolate Creme de Menthe Cake
2. Read Bible, cover to cover
3. Make pad thai from scratch

      - May have to add this to dinner circulation (1/7/11)
4. Make a dinner calendar for a month's worth of meals

       - Completed this in March
5. Go to the Biltmore Estate
       - Loved the Inn and Biltmore (8/16/11)

6. Go to the dermatologist for a skin cancer screening (aka moley doctor)



       - All clear (1/3/10)
7. *Personal goal*
8. Follow RunTex training and run in a 5k
9. Lose at least 12 pounds
10. See an allergist/nutritionist about my food issues (OAS)

11. Have people over for dinner 6 times
       - Baked potatoes and games (12/16/10)
12. Pay for the order of the car behind me in the drive through
13. Go to the Outer Banks
14. Reach 50 caches found with Geocaching  (7 to go!)
       - 11 at Durant Nature Park 
       - 1 near the airport
       - 2 in Matador, TX
       - 3 in Apex, NC
       - 11 around Raleigh
       - 1 in Asheville, NC
15. Get a pedicure
16. Make sangria (7/2/11)
17. Visit a state I have not been to
18. Master Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day
19. Bid soda a fond farewell
       - except for the occasional Izze or IBC
20. Go dairy-less (aside from yogurt) for 30 days and see how I feel
       - Unsurprisingly, I felt a lot better.  Still difficult to keep it up month in and month out, but at least I know what I could feel like if I did not eat the pizza...or ice cream...or loaded baked potato
21. Have a girls' night
22. Eat at Lilly's Pizza
23. Make homemade marshmallows
24. Roast and eat a beet
25. Get a physical
26. Make and eat a whole lobster
27. Make it through my Pilates DVD without stopping due to gasping breath or inability to bend
28. Read 3 books from my compilation "100 Best Books" list
       - A Christmas Carol (12/15/10)
       - The Maltese Falcon (3/21/11) 
       - Slaughterhouse-Five (6/15/11)
29. Buy whole nutmeg
       - Cannot wait to use it in everything I can think of!
30. Watch 4 movies from my American Film Institute Top 100 movies list
       - Duck Soup (1/23/11)
       - Shane (2/26/2011)
       - All About Eve (4/12/11)