30 Things to do before I am 30

It was my birthday last week and I am now in my last year of my twenties! Eek! How did that happen?

To celebrate/commiserate the passing of my twenties, I thought it was time I started putting into action some of those life long ambitions. You never know what life has in store for you and without some goals, there are many dreams or ambitions that must go unfulfilled. So. I have decided to put together a list of 30 things to do before I am 30.

The list goes something like this (in no particular order)

1. Do a parachute jump
2. Go zorbing
3. Go rock climbing outdoors
4. Get a promotion at work
5. learn to sail
6. watch an asteroid shower (need to check if one is due!)
7. go to a festival
8. volunteer
9. climb the three peaks (not necessarily all on the same day!)
10. enter a 10k race
11. lose 1.5 stone
12. join a netball team
13. learn yoga
14. audition for the x-factor/talent based TV show (not because I think I would have ANY hope of winning but because it would be funny)
15. improve my French
16. go to a concert in the park
17. Visit the natural history museum (I don't think I have ever been!)
18. Have tea at the Ritz
19. Milk a cow
20. See Stonehenge
21. Take a photo that is good enough to be enlarged on canvas and hung in the front room
22. Read (and finish) "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" (I started it once but only got to habit 4 - I hate to think what that says about me!)
23. Do more walking (the hill type - not just down to the shops)
24. Read the entire works of [author] TBC
25. Watch the Tigers for a full season
26. Spend a full day at the spa
27. see a Shakespeare play by the RSC

and some more personal ones not for public consumption!

Wish me luck - I'll be sure to post photos of me doing all of this crazy stuff - item 1 is already sorted for 9th August! Aargh!

Hmm, it's a while since I have posted anything! whoops.

So what's new in the Taylor household? Firstly, Chris and I just came home from a week's trip to the Red Sea in Egypt. We booked to go on the trip over a year ago originally but had to pull out when Chris's work said he was needed in the UK for a key project date and then subsequently pulled him off the project after we had sold our spaces. Then two weeks before the trip managed to get back on it. It was a dive holiday on a live-aboard boat, Whirlwind. Chris loved being able to dive the wrecks and reefs of the Northern Red Sea, but meanwhile I was bored to tears!

I didn't dive (having suffered a huge nosebleed when I first jumped in the water to then have my mask starting to fill with blood). I took the hint from the big man upstairs to quit diving. I know that sounds slightly melodramatic, but every time I go diving something happens, so I was quitting whilst I was ahead.

The thing I missed most about this holiday was spending quality time with Chris. We are so busy week to week that holidays for us provide a real chance for us to reconnect and catch up. That's tricky to do when you have another 20 people with you in a confined space and all of Chris's time was taken up diving or dive planning.

As for what else is new, Chris and I are under a fertility consultant at the hospital at the moment. I had a laparoscopy at the end of April to see what was going on but the findings were normal. The consultant has asked me to re-do some blood tests which had some unusual results (why they didnt think that should be done before they start cutting me open is beyond me). I have also had to pay £76 to get a blood test done privately to see what my egg reserve is like (which will show if premature menopause is likely to be an issue for me - it runs in my family). Chris doesn't escape however and is also going to have to repeat his tests. The consultant has a few suggestions on where we go next, but I think we will wait to see what the next lot of tests reveal before we make any decisions.

I recently went to see Wicked in the West End with some friends. It was a good day out and a fabulous show. I had goose bumps during "Defying Gravity". Rachel Tucker as Elphaba was brilliant. Lee Mead as Fiyero was also really good. It goes to show that reality TV can showcase British talent.

Chris and I are now season ticket holders for the Leicester Tigers. I think it will be good for us to do something different and get out of the house and spend some time together.