Well, I wasn't sure if I'd ever get back to this list. But something was calling me to come on here and bring some closure to it... so here I am.
I had originally planned to do this blog post as a six months to go check in. But since that came and went back months ago when I wasn't actively blogging, we're just going to wrap this up and move forward. So now as a newly 40 year old, I'm officially saying goodbye to my 30's and my 30 Things to Do During My 30's List.
For those of you who are new here, ten years ago I decided to make a list of thirty things that I wanted to do during my 30's. I decided to make this list after discovering that a lot of people make 30 things to do before turning 30 lists. I didn't do it before I turned 30, so I decided to make one for while I was in my thirties. Then, I kicked off my 30th year with a Rapunzel and Tangled themed birthday party. Instead of turning 30 with dread like most people do, I chose to look at it as the next big adventure.
Over the past ten years, I've had to make some tweaks to the original list. There was my first revised list when my priorities changed. Then, I checked in again at the halfway point. My last revision and update was two years ago when I reached the 3/4 mark. After the coronavirus pandemic, there were a few things that didn't make sense to keep on the list. But I wasn't too worried about it... a lot can happen in 10 years!
Here's the list for those of you who haven't seen it:
30 Things To Do During My 30's (Updated List):
- Visit Disneyland During the 60th Anniversary
- Buy Our First House
- Go On Our First Disney Cruise
- Get a Puppy
- Have Kids
- Attend a D23 Expo Convention
- Take My Parents to Disneyland for the 1st Time
- Go to Disney for Dapper Day
- Ride a Horse
- Get My Photo Taken with Every Disney Princess
- Go to 10 Different NHL Hockey Arenas to Watch the Sharks
- Go on a Christmas Disney Cruise
- Visit Walt Disney World During the 50th Anniversary
- Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
- Go to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
- Get Our House Organized and Decorated
- Read a Book in French
- Finish 5 Disney Races of Any Distance
- Go to Aulani
- Visit the Walt Disney Family Museum
- Swim with a Dolphin
- Go on All of the Opening Day Attractions at Disneyland in One Day
- Reach Gold Level in Disney Cruise Line Castaway Club
- Study French for 365 Days Straight
- Travel Somewhere New
- Sew Myself a Dress
- Learn 10 New Crafting Techniques or Mediums
- Go to Magic Kingdom on 10/1/2023 for the 100 Years of Disney Celebration
- Launch Other Business Ideas
- Take Nice Photographs at Walt Disney World for Our 10th Anniversary

I was originally planning to do three blog posts with a recap of 10 goals on each one. My idea was that I could go into more detail about accomplishing each of the goals I was able to. But right now, I simply don't have that in me. A lot of these you've already heard about on here anyways... and I'm not going to get into the things that I didn't accomplish. There are various reasons we didn't check some of these off... and I've become a lot more of a private person than I used to be a decade ago.
So without further ado, here are the simplified results of my list.
30 Things To Do During My 30's (Updated List):
- Visit Disneyland During the 60th Anniversary ✅
- Buy Our First House ✅
- Go On Our First Disney Cruise ✅
Get a Puppy ❌Have Kids ❌- Attend a D23 Expo Convention ✅
- Take My Parents to Disneyland for the 1st Time ✅
- Go to Disney for Dapper Day ✅
Ride a Horse ❌- Get My Photo Taken with Every Disney Princess ⚠️ (Work in Progress)
- Go to 10 Different NHL Hockey Arenas to Watch the Sharks ⚠️ (WIP)
- Go on a Christmas Disney Cruise ✅
- Visit Walt Disney World During the 50th Anniversary ✅
Ride in a Hot Air Balloon ❌- Go to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party ✅
Get Our House Organized and Decorated ❌Read a Book in French ❌- Finish 5 Disney Races of Any Distance ✅
Go to Aulani ❌- Visit the Walt Disney Family Museum ✅
Swim with a Dolphin ❌- Go on All of the Opening Day Attractions at Disneyland in One Day ⚠️ (WIP)
- Reach Gold Level in Disney Cruise Line Castaway Club ✅
- Study French for 365 Days Straight ✅
- Travel Somewhere New ✅
Sew Myself a Dress ❌- Learn 10 New Crafting Techniques or Mediums⚠️ (WIP)
Go to Magic Kingdom on 10/1/2023 for the 100 Years of Disney Celebration ❌Launch Other Business Ideas ❌Take Nice Photographs at Walt Disney World for Our 10th Anniversary ❌
I think I did pretty good. Some of the things I didn't accomplish were out of my control, and some of them just weren't high priorities anymore. A few of them were works in progress, with me completing most- but not getting the entire list completed. I'm happy with what I did accomplish! Plus I had a ton of cool experiences that I wasn't expecting to do that definitely made up for the things I didn't do in my 30's. Here's that fun list! 🙂
Other Cool Things That I Did In My 30's
- I Saw the San Jose Sharks Live in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals in 2016 ✅
- I Saw Alan Menken in Concert (twice) at the 2017 D23 Expo ✅
- I Saw the Disney Princess Panel with the voices of Moana (Auli'i Cravalho), Tiana (Anika Noni Rose), Ariel (Jodi Benson) and Belle (Paige O'Hara) at the D23 Expo ✅
- Eliot and I Took a Photo with the Descendants Cast at the 2017 D23 Expo ✅
- I Was in Disneyland For It's Actual 62nd Birthday Celebration (in 2017) ✅
- I Celebrated My 33rd Birthday in Walt Disney World (in 2017) ✅
- Happily Ever Hatter's Explosion of 3D Printed Mouse Ears Created An Entirely New Genre & It Allowed Me to Quit My Job, Be My Own Boss & Work at Home Full Time ✅
- I Attended the 2019 NHL All-Star Game in San Jose ✅
- Eliot and I Touched the Stanley Cup During All-Star Game in San Jose ✅
- I Saw a Few of the Disney on Broadway Concerts at the Festival of the Arts ✅
- I Went to Tons of Regular Season Games at the Shark Tank and on Road Trips ✅
- I Went to the Sharks Western Conference Final in 2019 ✅
- I Saw the Disney Princess Concert of Broadway stars... twice! ✅
- I Saw Two of My Favorite Childhood Bands That I'd Never Seen Live (Backstreet Boys in Bangor, ME in July 2022 and Hanson at the 2023 Food and Wine Festival) ✅
- Eliot and I Met a Bunch of San Jose Sharks and Sharks Legends ✅
- I Met Disney Imagineer Joe Rhodes at the 2022 D23 Expo ✅
- Daddy and I Saw the Entire Cast of Frozen Get Inducted as Disney Legends ✅
- I Celebrated the End of my 30's Aboard the Disney Wish! ✅

All in all, my 30's were pretty good. They weren't really what I was expecting when I first set out to make this list. But even with those jaded visions of things not coming to pass, they were still good overall. (And losing my Dad in my 30's was definitely not on my Bingo card...) Now I'm ready to put my 30's behind me, and look ahead to the future and what exciting new experiences and things my 40's will bring!
And that's a wrap on my 30 Things to Do During My 30's List! °o°
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