After spending some time with my mother this weekend, I decided to take some of her advice. Mom suggested I find a hobby to keep me busy since I’ve been getting bored lately. That would have been easy, if I could think of one activity that could keep me interested and entertained for a long period of time. Cooking can’t keep me busy all the time. That’s when I realized, it’s time to get cracking on my “Before I’m 30 List.” Yes. Such a list does exist. It started when I was 15 on a piece of college-ruled paper. When I got my first laptop, I digitized my list and have been crossing things off ever since. Some have heard about this list … not many have actually seen it, or know what’s on it. That’s probably because, I’ll admit, there are some things on there that I should have accomplished by now.

Sunday night, I clicked open my list and found (gasp) that I’m running out of time. I only have a few years, and a little less than half the list has been completed. Time to get cracking. Projects this week include: signing up for a course I’ve been meaning to take for 7 years, donating blood, and working on a puzzle (that I decided to buy at 9pm when I realized Target was open until 10pm on Sundays. Score.) It wasn’t until I dumped all 550 pieces out, that I began having doubts. I’m hoping that moving to a new location – another room – may get my puzzle-solving brain cells to start working. Stay tuned for updates on the puzzle.

Before I got all creative, and courageous, I was able to get in some cooking in. An easy Sunday night dinner; Cilantro-Lime Rice.

Adapted from US-Masala

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