I’m Excited to Turn Thirty!

“Her heart wanted her to be at peace with herself. At peace with accepting herself, for better or worse. At peace with owning exactly who she was at the present moment, irrespective of what she perceived to be her flaws.” - Taj McCoy from Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell

It’s been a minute, but I’m back! Last year as I started this blog I was really excited and inspired, but then the realization of continuing this endeavor set in, and I think I overwhelmed myself. I wanted to do everything right then from growing really fast to including a newsletter, and making sure I was posting on all the social channels. It doesn’t take a lot for me to get overwhelmed, and that right there did it. But I’m back and hoping to be more consistent this time. I am trying to really live into that all the things do not have to be done at once and I can take my time. I can break these things into goals and my current goal that I am going to focus on for the next bit of time is just posting once a week. Which is what started me to create this blog in the first place and is truly what excites me. That is the only Life of An Aspiring Adult (LoaAA) goal currently. As I am getting back into sharing these posts, we are starting with my Turning 30 Series!

In just 10 days I will be 30 years old and I am so incredibly excited about it! Each year I begin planning no later than the beginning of March what I want to do for my birthday. When I was younger these celebrations would involve more people and have included things like a tea party for turning 22, or a dinner at Chili’s for turning 19. Most of the time though my original plan is not what ends up happening. There have been many times that I have planned a trip that ends up not making it out the group chat. But all of the celebrations and revised plans have led to this year’s celebration which I am spending solo! My plans include seeing the Cowboy Carter show twice (Chicago and Houston) and spending my birthday weekend in Nashville chilling by the pool and at the spa.

So let’s talk about why I’m excited to turn thirty. We all know in movies and books and maybe even overall American culture, thirty is seen as the end to youth. There is a lot of pressure to have your life figured out or to have achieved certain things by the time you hit this milemarker. I will be the first to tell you that I don’t have it figured out, but I think that is what makes turning 30 so beautiful to me. I have lived many lives in my twenties, from starting off the decade not knowing my place in college and trying really hard to sustain friendships that were never for me, to moving back home and developing a life post-college (that for me was extremely busy and had me doing all the things), to the pandemic, to now accepting that I wake up everyday and try my best. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my best looks very different each day. Just this past Sunday my best was waking up at nine but staying in bed all day while falling in and out of naps and it was an absolute dream! I call my current era, my grandma era but I love it because it fully speaks to the person I want to be and the things that I am currently valuing.

Because I have spent so much of my twenties learning who I am, what I want my life to look like, and how I prioritize living in alignment with the values that feel meaningful for me, I know that I can continue to move forward towards my goals. I am hoping and believing that my thirties will be a time of more ease, of living more in my truth and authentically to who I truly am, and of really overall living more fully. I do believe that I have a much more clear sense of who I am now as a person than I did at the beginning of this decade and having that knowledge will allow me to foster interests that bring me joy and cultivating new once in a lifetime experiences that I know I will treasure for the rest of my life. I’m looking forward to not being as broke as I have been in my twenties and working towards the financial freedom that I aspire to have. This doesn’t mean that I’m not continuing to work on myself, because that would be a lie. But I now see that growth is a lifetime process and is a part of living a whole, full, and beautiful life.

My desire for thirty is that I hold on to the hope that life can be all of these varied things that I dream for in my head (a blog post about these dreams will be coming soon). The current presidential administration and also being a depression girly does make that hope harder to hold on to but I know that I am willing to fight to ensure that I have a chance to continue learning and growing. The best way I have found to hold on to that hope right now is by going on Pinterest and saving pictures of different room inspiration for the future house that I want to buy. I am a Type A planner and I want the plans that I have for myself to be able to become my real life. Maybe I’ll talk more about these in future blogs but I’m trying to make sure my eighty year old self is proud of how I am taking care of myself. For right now, that means celebrating making it to thirty! Looking forward to talking more about turning thirty over the next few weeks!

Cheers to celebrating milestones! 🎉

4:19pm 3.18.25

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