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30 before 30

1. Get scuba certified (done)

2. Take another solocation

3. Run a half marathon (done)

4. Take a photography class

5. Make my blog into books

6. Hit a specific financial goal (done)

7. Go to the Caribbean (done)

8. Visit Asia

9. Read the Book of Mormon again

10. Take a fantastic road trip

11. See New Orleans

12. Read The Yankee Years and give it back to Dad

13. Hike the Y

14. Have a great first kiss

15. Go to the Museum of Natural History

16. Lose ten pounds (done)

17. Hike the Hollywood sign

18. See my ancestor's name at Ellis Island (done)

19. Volunteer at a soup kitchen

20. Tour Yankee stadium

21. Do something that scares me (done)

22. Go to a taping of a tv show

23. Go to the Hamptons

24. Sunbathe topless (done)

25. Take a spur of the moment trip (done)

26. Put some color in my hair

27. Make a red velvet cake with from scratch (done)

28. Bungee jump

29. Go on a girls' trip (done)

30. See Kamari

New York celebrity sightings (in no particular order)

Al Roker - bike riding in Central Park
Antonio Banderas - jogging in Central Park
Mariska Hargitay - CPW and 73rd
Angie Harmon - Madison Ave and 59th
Christina Hendricks - movie theater on 68th
Greg Kinnear - movie theater on 68th
Caroline Rhea-Broadway and 69th
Jeffrey Tambor-Columbus and 72nd
Erin Kaplan - Midtown
Dylan Baker- Lincoln Center AMC movie theater
Hugh Laurie- 3 train
Jodi Foster- 1 train
Bernadette Peters-TriBeCa Film Festival
Forest Whitaker-TriBeCa Film Festival
Renee Zellweger-TriBeCa Film Festival
Kevin Nealon-FAO Schwartz
Betsy Johnson-in the audience of A View from the Bridge
Scarlett Johansson-outside a theater on 48th Street (after her show)
Liev Shreiber-outside a theater on 48th Street (after his show)
Pierce Brosnan-outside a theater on 48th Street
Harvey Keitel-outside a theater on 48th Street
Tommy Hilfiger-Central Park
Luann de Lesseps-Battery Park, Lincoln Square
Lauren Conrad-Barnes and Noble
Rupert Everett-at Tea and Sympathy
Lauren Graham-outside Koi
Regis Philbin-outside Live studio, Columbus and 72nd, and at the movie theater on 68th
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard-East Village
Blake Lively and Penn Badgley-Bryant Park
Clive Owen-filming Duplicity in front of my office building
Toby McGuire-carrying his adorable daughter up Madison Ave
Billy Crudup-in a pub (Phoebe's Tavern)
Miley Cyrus-going into the Bryant Park Hotel
Stephen Baldwin-in the Chicago theater
Frank Warren-book signing in Brooklyn
Jordan Sparks-Times Square on NYE
Carson Daly-Times Square on NYE
Diane Sawyer-every Friday in the summer filming GMA in Bryant Park
Sarah Jessica Parker-filming SATC in Midtown
Cynthia Nixon-filming SATC in Midtown, jogging along the Hudson
Kim Cattrall-filming SATC in Midtown
Kristin Davis-filming SATC on the UES and in Midtown
Chris Noth-filming SATC on the UES and in Midtown
Mandy Moore-outside a pub (Phoebe's Tavern)
Julia Roberts-outside the Three Days of Rain theater
Kevin Spacey-outside the Moon River theater
Ashley Parker Angel-outside the Hairspray theater
Trishelle Cannatella-on a street corner in the Village
Jessica Simpson-Macy's
Amanda Bynes-Columbus Circle
Harrison Ford-PJ Carey's
Tony Shalub-on a flight from JFK to LAX
Rev Run-on a flight from LAX to Newark, at a Knicks game, and Times Square
Kevin Bacon-Central Park
Carmen Electra-book signing in Bryant Park