So my birthday is coming up in a couple of months (December 14th, if you wanted to get me something a little special), and I was discussing with a girlfriend of mine, whose birthday is this month, how we were drawing inexorably closer to the big 3-0. We agreed that while we were happy to be "in our 30s", that that actual milestone wasn't going to be fun until it was behind us.

There is something about leaving your 20s that seems as though it would be different from any other decade (feel free to correct me on that, old-timers)--so much is marketed to this age, that it seems like once you leave it, how you're seen in the world is going to change, too.

However, I don't really care about whether ads are directed towards me. More importantly than that, I remember to moisturize twice a day, I avoid the sun, and I prepare my "Do Before You Die" list. Help me out here, peeps...what is on YOUR list?