30 by 30

The following is a list of thirty things I want to do before I turn thirty, in the spirit of the 26-by-26 list I semi-completed before my 26th birthday:

1. Throw a first-annual dinner party - and second, and third... 
2. Send 365 cards, including thank-you notes to my teachers (85)
3. Read all of Hemingway's works (6 down!)
4. Plant a garden. Plant flowers. 
5. Buy a house. With a porch. And, therefore, a porch swing. 
6. Sail on the Chesapeake in the fall 
7. Take myself on vacation 
8. Make a book stack lamp 
9. Spend the night in a bookstore 
10. Write a book (or at least a story) 
11. Go fishing
12. Celebrate every week with a toast 
13. Make apple pie from hand-picked apples
14. Run a marathon (I blame Running Like a Girl for this one)
15. Read 50 classics in five years (20)
16. Jump out of an airplane
17. Learn about wine
18. Learn to take photos
19. Knit something wearable (ok, I crocheted it, but close enough)
20. Drink Guinness in Ireland
21. Wear a different color every day for a month
22. Learn a language
23. Explore my city like a tourist
24. Write 52 pen-pal worthy letters (3)
25. Go on a picnic, complete with basket
26. See a whale
27. Join a book club. Start a book club. Be in a book club, whatever it takes.
28. Visit my grandparents' graves
29. Attend a 1920s-themed party, wearing that spectacular flapper dress I happen to own

And 30, find a meaningful answer to the question, "What are you doing to change the world?"

Bonus: Read all of the books on Huffington Post's 30 Books to Read Before You're 30 list.