before I'm thirty

Just popped on due to unlikely morning off from teaching and was reminded by a friend of my before I'm thirty list that I posted in November. Just looked over it to see how I'm doin.. I've got till April 29th...

finish final draft of my novel and get it sold - Um...oops...um...well...I opened the file on my computer and scrolled through it once or twice.

go to Iceland (not the shop) or New York, or both - um...er...

make homemade icecream - DONE. Brandy. Nice. Not as nice as from the shop. Let's be honest here.

make a christmas pudding - DONE. I put nuts in it. My sister is allergic to nuts.

dance on the bar in a pub - DONE - Three times. How could I have not done this sooner? If you haven't done it, do it. It is great.

ask at least one person I like on a date, rather than wait to be asked - DONE but irrelevent now as I now have lovely boyfriend (who asked me out by putting his phone number on many cigarette papers and leaving them in all the pockets of my handbag, which was much more fun than me asking him out)

wear hotpants on a night out - DONE, several times. Exhilirating.

learn how to play the penny whistle - um, started, sort of. Well, I bought one for 3 quid.

make sloe gin - nope, not yet. I don't even know how. Is it as simple as cramming a load of sloes into a bottle of gin? How can that qualify the use of the word 'make'... that's not making is it?

always have a bottle of vodka in the freezer, no matter what - well I would have done, but it runs out so quickly. I can't keep that level of alcoholism up, I really can't.

read some Proust - does a page of someone else's Guremantes Way on the train count?

learn to do the dance routine to a Justine Timberlake song - I can do that 'pretend to do your tie up' thing, but I don't know if that qualifies as a 'routine' exactly. And several people have told me to never do it again.

have a pedicure - nope, but it's hardly an unatainable goal is it? It's just, who wants to step into a beauty salon? do they even call them beauty salons? What actually goes on in there? Also what is eyebrow waxing? Should I do it? Will it change me if I do?

give out christmas messages printed on business cards to strangers - oops, I didn't do this and I'll be 30 before next Christmas. Will have to do it at easter.

form a singing group in time to carol in harmony for Christmas - does singing Good King Wenceslas whilst staggering home on New Year's eve after 2 bottles of champagne count? No? Darn.

So, all in all, I'm getting there.. but I have to say, looking over them, many of them were ridiculously shallow.