30 Things I’ve Done
posted March 30th, 2006 by Shannon
Picked wildflowers on soccer fields (instead of playing) … Used a first modem at the age of 2 … Won the Most Original Decoration prize at Sunray Funday’s turtle race … Held a season pass to Sesame Place … Won grand prize in the 7th grade science fair for studying the effects of cotyledons on embryonic plants (in other words, if you pick off the pieces of a budding seed, it doesn’t grow so well) … Won 2nd prize in the 8th grade science fair for studying the environmental effects of plastics (if you bury a plastic Sprite bottle in the garden, it will still be there a few months later) … Viewed the Southern Cross constellation from Brazil … Reprimanded by the nice police officer during my driver’s license test for stopping TOO long at an intersection … 
Sang America the Beautiful on top of Pike’s Peak (as part of a group, not a solo) … Tried oysters (once!) … Won the air car race in high school physics class, easily beating Carl N.’s fancy dual-propeller car with my cute and simple single-propeller car … Had a pet gerbil named Sneakers … Rode 50 miles with my dad on a bike trip to the lake and back … Consumed a 54 oz. steak in one sitting all by myself … Worked in a computer shop putting computers together … Promised myself I would never date a fellow computer science major because they were all too weird … Ate yummy, juicy steaks at the Lowake Steak House – including one occassion when I was kidnapped from work by friends and driven there for a birthday dinner … 
Passed Dr. Motl’s Assembler II class the first time through … Worked as a lab assistant in the computer labs for over 4 years … Tutored a fellow computer science major in Dr. Motl’s Assembler II class (he was cute) … Won free plane tickets to anywhere in the world … Dated and eventually married that fellow computer science major (breaking previously mentioned promise) … Employed at a Fortune 500 company for 16 months before deciding that was enough time for me! … Had 2 unmedicated hospital births to 2 wonderful kiddos … Allowed 3 hens to live in my backyard until they became a neighborhood critter’s midnight snack … Showed my daughter how to do a somersault while very pregnant with child #2 (NOT a wise idea) … Witnessed a caterpillar forming a chrysallis … Grieved the loss of a child I never knew … Witnessed the beauty of Niagara Falls on our 7 year wedding anniversary … Discovered that being 30 years old isn’t that old after all!
Filed under: Adventures, Family, Thoughts on March 30th, 2006
Hehe, very fun post… I laughed several times ~ Some great accompliments!
(At some point in life, when I make my own collection like this, I might elect to leave out that I broke the back of, thus killed, a gerbil named Sneakers. I’m still sorry.)
Your 30 Things post was great! Challenges me to start a list of 52 things I have done… You didn’t mention that when you sang on top of Pike’s Peak that a few seconds of that was broadcast on Good Morning America. Wonderful memories. Such a joy to this mother’s heart.
May your father and mother be glad;
may she who gave you birth rejoice. Prov. 23:25
I do rejoice! Thank you for the 30 wonderful years you have given us as your parents. You have brought much joy into our lives.
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Strange how time flys by faster as we get older. 30 really isnt that bad…..my wife is convinced it it the “New 20”. I won’t burst her bubble.
Enjoyed reading the last several portions of your blog. Didn’t manage to get the pictures up. Guess I’m missing something in the way of instructions or info.
I think maybe I didn’t know about ALL of those 30 things. Did know some of them. When you mentioned about vowing to NOT marry a computer science guy, I thought, “I guess she didn’t keep to that vow.” Sure enough, you admit it later on.
I answered a message from Jacki the other day needing to know some about my life. Imagine I got in at least 78 things of some sort or other. So, will just let that be “it” for me. Love, Granny BJ
The new 20, huh? I’ll have to remember that! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a note!