🌼👯♀️💃🏻🥂🍾🍰 Since I did this list last year of things to do while 24, I’m doing it again this year. 🙂 Am I starting a tradition? I’m not sure. I only know that I choose fun and easy things for these lists because it’s no fun making a list of goals that feel like a chore. Like I’ve said before, I’m definitely that person who writes “eat breakfast” or “wake up” on my to do list just so I can check another thing off haha. 😛
Last year’s was so delightful it was actually a bit challenging for me to think of different things to do for this year. In the end, I think the list came out a bit tame because I wanted it to be achievable, which is why I didn’t include sky-diving. (Paragliding might be fun though. I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe I’ll add it.)
Really though, I’m just happy to be alive and in good health, surrounded by so many wonderful friends and family. 🙂 I’m pretty stoked about my bday weekend plans (it’s going to be a great time in the mountains with me and my girrrls), and I really can’t think of any other way I’d rather celebrate. I feel so thankful for everyone who’s in my life and for those who get to celebrate with me! (Excuse me for getting a bit sappy, but I like bdays!) Yay to turning a quarter of a century! 🎇🎆
- stay in a Hütte in the Alps
- take a week long trip through Italy 🙂 (See Rome! Eat gelato! Live Liz Gilbert’s life!)
- go through the Artist’s Way a second time, with friends
- learn how to cook my mom’s famous beef barley soup this winter 🙂
- take more photos with a disposable camera
- read more by feminists authors and women in general: (Audrey Lorde, Maya Angelou, Nora Ephron, Brene Brown, bell hooks, to name a few!)
- make a zine/booklet of things i’ve written because it’s fun
- get another plant for my room and name it (and for the love of god try to keep it alive)
- attend a reading
- read something i wrote at a reading
- go skiing on a new mountain (never made it to Brand)
- work towards headstand in yoga
- take a German language course & take the C1 test
- play around with printmaking for fun
- go surfing in Californiaaaaa 🏄🏻♀️
- give / donate money/time on a monthly basis
- hike up the Hoher Kasten
- continue cultivating my personal practices (swim, dance, yoga, morning pages)
- watch the sunrise somewhere memorable
- actually go skinny dippy lol
- get a massage
- watch the sunset somewhere memorable
- buy myself flowers
- buy a friend flowers
- have a great belly laugh (and many more!)

xo,
Sarah
3 replies on “25 things to do while 25”
Dear Sarah,
I wanted you to know that my personal birthday card for you will be a little late because I was just going to let my note in Mom’s card suffice. I am home now and thought you would like a letter in your mailbox so I will send it soon.
Love,
Grandma Reedy
Love it, Sarah! Amen to not making your goals feel like a chore. Also, I don’t do a lot of yoga, but last year I decided I was going to learn headstand. It didn’t take long to build up the strength and balance – and it became really fun! It gave me a chance to turn the world upside down for a few moments every day and shake out all the things my head was full of. Anyways, have fun this year!! Congrats on a quarter-century! -Kaitlin
thanks Kaitlin! and way to go on learning to do a headstand!