Mary Hawkins in 2008

2008, so far, is 98% worth living.

In 2005, Mary Hawkins did 184 things, went 8 places, met 1 person, and consumed 323 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Give kiva.org loans — completed 29 days later
  2. Knit something for my friend's baby — completed about 1 month later
  3. write about my vacation — completed 2 months later
  4. Shamelessly ask my 43 friends to help support and sponsor Segsy in the 2008 Take Steps for Crohn's and Colitis Walk. — completed 4 months later
  5. knit through my stash
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. start college — Worth doing!
  2. vacation in Alaska — Worth doing!
  3. Vacation in Hawaii — Worth doing!
  4. learn how to shuffle cards — Worth doing!
  5. give 14,000 cheers — Worth doing!
  6. go to wawa — Worth doing!
  7. Recycle food scraps. — Worth doing!
  8. make a second audition tape for my friend who got a callback for Project Runway!!! — Worth doing!
  9. Vote for Ms. Bryce to win an appearance on Lifetime's "How to Look Good Naked" — Worth doing!
  10. Get a client who hasn't paid me to hurry up already — Worth doing!
  11. See Sweeney Todd — Worth doing!
  12. PLAY "Two Truths & a Lie" — Worth doing!
  13. knit and assemble a warm up america blanket — Worth doing!
  14. finish the afghan — Worth doing!
  15. be on stage — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Antietam National Battlefield — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. Strictly Ballroom — Worth consuming!
  3. Party Monster — Worth consuming!
  4. His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
  5. The Circus (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Usual Suspects — Worth consuming!
  7. How To Marry A Millionaire — Worth consuming!
  8. Paper Moon — Worth consuming!
  9. The Day of the Jackal — Worth consuming!
  10. Dirty Harry — Worth consuming!
  11. The Floorwalker — Worth consuming!
  12. The Vagabond — Worth consuming!
  13. The Fireman — Worth consuming!
  14. One A.M. — Worth consuming!
  15. Kameradschaft (1931) — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — completed 5 days later
  2. upload videos to YouTube — completed about 1 month later
  3. watch the star wars movies — completed about 1 month later
  4. Switch to reusable shopping bags for groceries — completed about 1 month later
  5. play tennis — completed 26 days later
  6. Use the whitening strips in my bathroom cabinet — completed 26 days later
  7. fall asleep — completed 26 days later
  8. play oregon trail — completed 25 days later
  9. do my 2007 taxes — completed about 1 month later
  10. move in with my boyfriend — completed about 1 month later
  11. Get a loan — completed 2 months later
  12. Buy an apartment in New York — completed 3 months later
  13. de-clutter in preparation for my move — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish YRUSH a Happy Birthday (Feb 1) — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Celtic Christian a verry Happpy Birthday on Feb. 1 !! — Worth doing!
  3. Wish Blue Park a happy birthday on Feb 3rd! — Worth doing!
  4. Own a Mac — Worth doing!
  5. travel to Mexico — Worth doing!
  6. Buy a Moleskine notebook — Worth doing!
  7. Help the tsunami victims in some way — Worth doing!
  8. own some land — Worth doing!
  9. Make a purse organizer — Worth doing!
  10. celebrate my two year anniversary on 43 things! — Worth doing!
  11. Finish 3:40 worth of animation this month! — Worth doing!
  12. organise a team to fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — Worth doing!
  13. update my demo reel — Worth doing!
  14. Host a 43people meet up in New York City on March 24, 2007 — Worth doing!
  15. Create a budget — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn final cut pro
Read:
  1. The Friday Night Knitting Club
Watched:
  1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Worth consuming!
  2. Billy Elliot — Worth consuming!
  3. Some Like It Hot — Worth consuming!
  4. Rashomon - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — Worth consuming!
  6. Slaughterhouse Five — Worth consuming!
  7. Monster — Not worth consuming
  8. Shanghai Knights — Worth consuming!
  9. Cinema Paradiso — Worth consuming!
  10. A Hard Day's Night — Worth consuming!
  11. The Time Machine — Worth consuming!
  12. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Reefer Madness (B&W) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Great Dictator — Worth consuming!
  15. Care Bears Movie II: New Generation — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. rewire a lamp — completed 2 months later
  2. Renovate my bathroom — completed 3 months later
  3. read some of the books I own.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — Worth doing!
  2. Join Tiger's 100 Days Smoke-Free Party on March 1st — Worth doing!
  3. go barefoot (not even socks) for a whole day — Worth doing!
  4. upload videos to YouTube — Worth doing!
  5. watch the star wars movies — Worth doing!
  6. write about my vacation — Worth doing!
  7. Switch to reusable shopping bags for groceries — Worth doing!
  8. play tennis — Worth doing!
  9. Use the whitening strips in my bathroom cabinet — Worth doing!
  10. celebrate discardia on a regular basis — Worth doing!
  11. Wish Adar a very happy birthday on March 10!! — Worth doing!
  12. fall asleep — Worth doing!
  13. play oregon trail — Worth doing!
  14. Learn to add music to a video — Worth doing!
  15. witness "in the future ago" — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Isabella Rossellini
Read:
  1. On Bullshit — Worth consuming!
  2. Murder Mysteries — Worth consuming!
  3. Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold — Worth consuming!
  4. The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film — Worth consuming!
  5. Fashion High Graphic Novel (Breaking Up) — Worth consuming!
  6. Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time — Worth consuming!
  7. Lone Racer — Worth consuming!
  8. I Hate This Part Of Texas #5 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Hotel Rwanda — Worth consuming!
  2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Jerk — Worth consuming!
  4. The Wiz — Worth consuming!
  5. Yojimbo - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. Cinema Paradiso - The New Version — Worth consuming!
  7. The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. The Fly (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Manhattan — Worth consuming!
  10. Juliet Of The Spirits - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. Road to Perdition — Worth consuming!
  12. La Haine [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ] — Worth consuming!
  13. Juliet of the Spirits — Worth consuming!
  14. The Kid — Worth consuming!
  15. Half Nelson — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make a butterfull for my friend's toddler — completed 4 days later
  2. add to my reel — completed 17 days later
  3. get those weird refunds I've been procrastinating on — completed 19 days later
  4. have lunch at the same place and time as Todd! — completed 27 days later
  5. improve
  6. sell my house
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. move in with my boyfriend — Worth doing!
  2. see a kabuki show — Worth doing!
  3. jump in a public fountain — Worth doing!
  4. Challenge myself this summer! — Worth doing!
  5. donate clothes and housewares to Housing Works — Worth doing!
  6. get an A in DDR — Worth doing!
  7. stay off of 43 things for 24 hours — Worth doing!
  8. take the Spring Goal Challenge — Worth doing!
  9. Go see Rev. Billy + the choir perform! — Worth doing!
  10. wish Ru a wonderfully special birthday which will envelope all her senses with magic (on April 8th) — Worth doing!
  11. read "The Tipping Point" — Worth doing!
  12. become more goth — Worth doing!
  13. stop using so many disposable utensils
  14. cheer one person 50 times — Worth doing!
  15. support Reading is Fundamental! — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books — Worth consuming!
  2. Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design — Worth consuming!
  3. History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph — Worth consuming!
  4. The Rape of the Lock — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. The Punisher — Not worth consuming
  3. Leon - The Professional (Uncut International Version) — Worth consuming!
  4. In the Bedroom — Worth consuming!
  5. Leon - The Professional (Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Thing (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Rat Race (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Garfield - The Movie — Not worth consuming
  11. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Stepford Wives — Worth consuming!
  13. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City — Worth consuming!
  14. Sling Blade - Director's Cut (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  15. Sling Blade — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. finish my sister's birthday gift — completed 22 days later
  2. Do seven things a week so I settle in to my new home... — completed 20 days later
  3. buy more organic cotton rather than conventional cotton
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. watch the AFI Top 100 American movies
  2. Do my end-of-the-year accounting. Whee! — Worth doing!
  3. make a butterfull for my friend's toddler — Worth doing!
  4. recycle some of the plastic my city won't take — Worth doing!
  5. add to my reel — Worth doing!
  6. go in a lift the whole way up a very tall building — Worth doing!
  7. . — Worth doing!
  8. lose weight — Worth doing!
  9. go on a cruise — Worth doing!
  10. have a nice garden — Worth doing!
  11. be better at small talk — Worth doing!
  12. Learn to cook — Worth doing!
  13. be able to sit in full lotus — Worth doing!
  14. Photograph a bear in the wild — Worth doing!
  15. learn some programming and computer science — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. toilet train my cat
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Muhlenberg College — Worth visiting!
  2. Allentown — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. Strangeways, Here We Come — Worth consuming!
  2. Meat Is Murder — Worth consuming!
  3. The Best of the Smiths, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
  4. Vauxhall and I — Worth consuming!
  5. My Early Burglary Years — Worth consuming!
  6. The Best of the Smiths, Vol. 2 — Worth consuming!
  7. Rank — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Village (Full Screen Edition) - Vista Series — Worth consuming!
  2. Benny and Joon — Worth consuming!
  3. My Girl 2 — Worth consuming!
  4. Singles — Worth consuming!
  5. Mildred Pierce (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
  6. Serpico (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Craft (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Stealing Beauty — Worth consuming!
  9. The Basketball Diaries — Worth consuming!
  10. Addams Family Values — Worth consuming!
  11. Reality Bites — Worth consuming!
  12. Hate — Worth consuming!
  13. The Truman Show — Worth consuming!
  14. Wayne's World 2 — Worth consuming!
  15. All About My Mother - Todo Sobre Mi Madre - Original Spanish — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get tagged on 43people.com — completed about 23 hours later
  2. Eat a s'more — completed 1 day later
  3. make a pair of gloves for my mom
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. finish my sister's birthday gift — Worth doing!
  2. never be infuriated with myself when I realize that I am "squandering" my potential or I am no where close to where I want to be. Instead I should remain steadfast and positive so that I can keep moving forward and finally accomplish those goals. — Worth doing!
  3. visit all 50 states — Worth doing!
  4. keep track of the things I'm doing that help my business-of-one along — Worth doing!
  5. Leave the house more — Worth doing!
  6. go to South America and Central America — Worth doing!
  7. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein — Worth doing!
  8. build a fort — Worth doing!
  9. eat toast — Worth doing!
  10. Wish Flutterbyflyby3 an uplifting birthday on June 10th! — Worth doing!
  11. Help Catattack raise funds for the Faith Fancher Breast Cancer Challenge 5K — Worth doing!
  12. Please help me raise money for the Faith Fancher Breast Cancer 5K! — Worth doing!
  13. have blister-free feet — Worth doing!
  14. let my sister live in my closet while she moves to NYC without either of us going crazy — Worth doing!
  15. Start my own business — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lower East Side Tenement Museum — Worth visiting!
  2. American Craft Museum — Worth visiting!
  3. Statue of Liberty Museum — Worth visiting!
  4. Tribute in Light — Worth visiting!
  5. Rubin Museum of Art — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Borges: Collected Fictions — Worth consuming!
  2. Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)
  4. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. Beowulf (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  6. King Lear — Worth consuming!
  7. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Trial — Worth consuming!
  9. The Complete Stories — Worth consuming!
  10. Iliad — Worth consuming!
  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Worth consuming!
  12. Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library) — Worth consuming!
  13. Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition — Worth consuming!
  14. The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  15. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Hudsucker Proxy — Worth consuming!
  2. The Kid (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. What's Eating Gilbert Grape — Worth consuming!
  4. Heavenly Creatures — Worth consuming!
  5. Sex and Lucia (Unrated Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Female Trouble — Worth consuming!
  7. Girls Just Want to Have Fun — Worth consuming!
  8. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Phantom Tollbooth — Worth consuming!
  10. Bring It On - All or Nothing (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) — Worth consuming!
  12. Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition, 2 discs) - DVD — Worth consuming!
  13. Mr. Wu — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Keep Flutter in our Hearts and Prayers
  2. finish off my lingering project
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get tagged on 43people.com — Worth doing!
  2. Eat a s'more — Worth doing!
  3. receive a cheer — Worth doing!
  4. knit — Worth doing!
  5. find my library card — Worth doing!
  6. Wish RuthG an Inspirational Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
  7. eat a banana — Worth doing!
  8. Reduce my Goals to 30 — Worth doing!
  9. Stop getting sucked into "important" internet time-suckers — Worth doing!
  10. brew my own tea — Worth doing!
  11. get my charity afghan to the charity... — Worth doing!
  12. Graduate high school with someone famous — Worth doing!
  13. watch scarface — Worth doing!
  14. watch all 3 God father movies — Worth doing!
  15. watch shawshank redemption — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. All Tomorrow's Parties — Worth consuming!
  2. The Running Man — Worth consuming!
  3. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) — Worth consuming!
  4. Virtual Light — Worth consuming!
  5. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  6. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text — Worth consuming!
  7. Idoru — Worth consuming!
  8. Paint It Black: A Guide To Gothic Homemaking — Worth consuming!
  9. V for Vendetta — Worth consuming!
  10. The Machine Stops — Worth consuming!
  11. Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery — Worth consuming!
  12. Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
  13. Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life — Worth consuming!
  14. New Thing #1: Identity — Worth consuming!
  15. Tonoharu: Part One — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Salton Sea — Worth consuming!
  2. Amarcord - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. Raising Victor Vargas — Worth consuming!
  4. La Strada - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!
  7. I Shot Andy Warhol — Worth consuming!
  8. Ice Age: The Meltdown — Worth consuming!
  9. The Awful Truth — Worth consuming!
  10. Great Expectations - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. The Wild One — Worth consuming!
  12. Sophie's Choice — Worth consuming!
  13. Ice Age — Worth consuming!
  14. Blackboard Jungle — Worth consuming!
  15. Breakfast on Pluto — Worth consuming!

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