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"Do you have a timeline for your life? You know, a list of personal, work and romantic goals you want to complete by a certain age. Well, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always had one (being the slightly anal person that I am). And after reading Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She&amp;amp;#8217;s 30, I started to reassess how realistic my timeline really is and just how closely it matches up with J&amp;amp;#8217;s. At 24-years-old (a couple months away from 25), I know I&amp;amp;#8217;m young enough not to have to stress about the things I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t yet accomplished, but old enough to know that it&amp;amp;#8217;s time to get my butt to work. You only live once, after all, and I want to make the most of it. So here are some of the things that have always been on my timeline: -Pass out in the shower by 23. (OK, I just added this, but CHECK!) -Be on track with my career by the time I&amp;amp;#8217;m 25. Maybe not in the job of my dreams, but be on my way. -Get engaged by 25. -Get married by 27. -Get a puppy (French bulldog, please!) with J by 28. -Live in a nice (more than one bedroom, at the very least) apartment by the time I&amp;amp;#8217;m 30. -Have a kid or two by the time I&amp;amp;#8217;m 33. -Write a book by 35. And some from J&amp;amp;#8217;s timeline (after asking him about ten times&amp;amp;mdash;I feel like guys don&amp;amp;#8217;t really like putting dates on things): -I want to be married by 30. -Have an apartment in the city by 35. -Kids by 38. -Retired by 40. (Kidding, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s nice to pretend.) So, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not totally off track with my timeline. I guess I had the general gist of where I&amp;amp;#8217;d be by now (once I tossed out the idea that I&amp;amp;#8217;d stay with my high school sweetheart and be married by 25). I&amp;amp;#8217;m living with J and happy as can be. I&amp;amp;#8217;m writing for Smitten and taking on new assignments here at Glamour all the time. As for the marriage and kids thing, I think that&amp;amp;#8217;s a play-it-by-ear sort of thing. But J is 29, so I think we&amp;amp;#8217;re pretty much in sync with where we want to be (personally and as a couple). It&amp;amp;#8217;s nice to check off our lists together. What does your timeline look like? What&amp;amp;#8217;s on it&amp;amp;mdash;and how does it match up to your man&amp;amp;#8217;s? More on 30 Things... * 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She&amp;#x27;s 30 * 30 Sex Tips Every Woman Should Consider by the Time She&amp;#x27;s 30 * 3 Fashiony Things Every Woman Should Own By The Time She&amp;#x27;s 30 Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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