Mary Hawkins in 2007

2007 was 98% worth living.

In 2005, Mary Hawkins did 549 things, went 272 places, met 10 people, and consumed 388 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. wish bananapancakes a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on January 23rd! — completed 9 days later
  2. Wear Red on Go Red For Women Day Feb. 2 — completed 3 days later
  3. go on a slide — completed 27 days later
  4. use a toilet — completed 26 days later
  5. learn to write in cursive — completed 28 days later
  6. watch Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy — completed 28 days later
  7. watch the indiana jones movies — completed 28 days later
  8. Work on a political campaign — completed 28 days later
  9. Date a geek — completed 28 days later
  10. watch Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail — completed 28 days later
  11. Watch Star Wars 3 Revenge of the Sith — completed 29 days later
  12. Drink coffee black — completed 29 days later
  13. get my taxes straightened out — completed 28 days later
  14. Wish the sweet, kind, loving, clever, ambitious, witty, book-loving, bekilted Dwlt a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on 18 Jan! — completed 28 days later
  15. read all the Harry Potter books — completed 26 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish chouette a Happy Birthday! — Worth doing!
  2. watch 100 movies in 2006 — Worth doing!
  3. watch Ice Age — Worth doing!
  4. Be all by myself for days straight — Worth doing!
  5. learn to use Maya — Worth doing!
  6. go for a walk in a thunderstorm — Worth doing!
  7. Learn Maya 6.5 — Worth doing!
  8. learm Maya — Worth doing!
  9. Draw daily — Worth doing!
  10. go to art school — Worth doing!
  11. paint and draw more — Worth doing!
  12. watch 50 movies in 2006 — Worth doing!
  13. watch 100 films in 2006 — Worth doing!
  14. Eat less junk food — Worth doing!
  15. live in another city — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Blink — Worth consuming!
  2. Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling
  3. The Savage Truth On Money — Worth consuming!
  4. Knitting Under the Influence — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Bridge on the River Kwai — Worth consuming!
  2. Patton — Worth consuming!
  3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Unleashed (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Rescuers Down Under (Disney Gold Classic Collection) — Worth consuming!
  7. High Noon (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection) — Worth consuming!
  9. Tootsie — Worth consuming!
  10. A Place in the Sun — Worth consuming!
  11. Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  13. A History of Violence — Worth consuming!
  14. High Noon — Worth consuming!
  15. Walk the Line — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. celebrate Feb 12, the 43rd day of the year — completed 19 days later
  2. have a cat — completed 18 days later
  3. Get rid of more things than I buy — completed 18 days later
  4. get a microwave — completed 18 days later
  5. Feed the ducks — completed 19 days later
  6. buy a digital camera — completed 19 days later
  7. visit a frank lloyd wright house — completed 19 days later
  8. reduce, reuse, recycle — completed 18 days later
  9. Try Vietnamese food — completed 19 days later
  10. watch the movie "Girl Interrupted" — completed 19 days later
  11. write haiku — completed 19 days later
  12. Win a chess game — completed 20 days later
  13. Go back to Walt Disney World — completed 23 days later
  14. break 600 on my math SAT — completed 22 days later
  15. Celebrate a magical birthday for Des on February 25th!!! — completed 26 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. wish bananapancakes a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on January 23rd! — Worth doing!
  2. Wear Red on Go Red For Women Day Feb. 2 — Worth doing!
  3. go on a slide — Worth doing!
  4. HAVE CARPAL TUNNEL SURGERY — Worth doing!
  5. take my cat to the vet — Worth doing!
  6. use a toilet — Worth doing!
  7. learn to write in cursive — Worth doing!
  8. watch Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth doing!
  9. do my laundry today even though it's massively cold outside and I'm a big wimp... — Worth doing!
  10. watch the indiana jones movies — Worth doing!
  11. Work on a political campaign — Worth doing!
  12. Date a geek — Worth doing!
  13. watch Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail — Worth doing!
  14. Eat a cookie. — Worth doing!
  15. Watch Star Wars 3 Revenge of the Sith — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Monticello — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. In Cold Blood — Worth consuming!
  2. Castle Waiting Volume 1: Lucky Road — Worth consuming!
  3. Red Eye, Black Eye — Worth consuming!
  4. The Wall Street Self-defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. True Romance - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Invader ZIM - Horrible Holiday Cheer (Vol. 3) — Worth consuming!
  3. Vanilla Sky — Worth consuming!
  4. But I'm a Cheerleader — Worth consuming!
  5. The General — Worth consuming!
  6. Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Prince of Egypt — Worth consuming!
  8. The Emperor's New Groove — Worth consuming!
  9. Philadelphia — Worth consuming!
  10. My Own Private Idaho - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. Shane — Worth consuming!
  12. Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Digipack) — Worth consuming!
  13. Open City — Worth consuming!
  14. Wavelength — Worth consuming!
  15. Kiss Me Deadly — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Start using 'whom' in my vocabumalary — completed 25 days later
  2. finish harry potter and the half blood prince — completed 23 days later
  3. Give 7000 cheers — completed 23 days later
  4. make sure other pet owners check their dog+cat food to make sure that it isn't being recalled by menu foods. — completed 22 days later
  5. knit socks — completed 24 days later
  6. knit a sweater for myself — completed 24 days later
  7. make stuffed toys for my friends — completed 24 days later
  8. read Life of Pi — completed 23 days later
  9. go to the Pixar exhibition — completed 20 days later
  10. go to Florida and see Disneyworld — completed 21 days later
  11. Give 1024 cheers — completed 20 days later
  12. give 1977 cheers — completed 20 days later
  13. give 5 cheers — completed 21 days later
  14. Give 7400 Cheers — completed 21 days later
  15. organise all of my phone numbers + address book entries! — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Make a scrapbook — Worth doing!
  2. Go shopping in New York — Worth doing!
  3. Make new friends — Worth doing!
  4. Become true friends with someone I have met on the Internet — Worth doing!
  5. hit all the buttons in a crowded elevator — Not worth doing
  6. be more social — Worth doing!
  7. Give 6666 cheers!!! — Worth doing!
  8. celebrate Feb 12, the 43rd day of the year — Worth doing!
  9. have a cat — Worth doing!
  10. Get rid of more things than I buy — Worth doing!
  11. get a microwave — Worth doing!
  12. Joyfully & Easily give away 5100 cheers — Worth doing!
  13. Feed the ducks — Worth doing!
  14. buy a digital camera — Worth doing!
  15. visit a frank lloyd wright house — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Todd Schoonover
  2. HobokenMartha
  3. JudithKD
  4. AmyBK8899
  5. bookish
  6. hollyhollyoxenfree
  7. thatphilguy
  8. Snickerdoodle MacHUGBear is California Dreamin'
Read:
  1. The Forever War — Worth consuming!
  2. Embroideries — Worth consuming!
  3. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. Madame Bovary — Worth consuming!
  6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Unforgiven — Worth consuming!
  2. Midnight Cowboy — Worth consuming!
  3. The Manchurian Candidate (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Sabrina — Worth consuming!
  5. Sabrina — Worth consuming!
  6. It Happened One Night — Worth consuming!
  7. The Best Years of Our Lives — Worth consuming!
  8. The Jazz Singer — Worth consuming!
  9. Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Gods Must Be Crazy I & II — Worth consuming!
  11. Mutiny on the Bounty — Worth consuming!
  12. An American Tail — Worth consuming!
  13. The Jazz Singer — Worth consuming!
  14. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) — Worth consuming!
  15. The Jazz Singer (DVD) 1927 - Al Jolson — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. The Jazz Singer — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. cheer someone on — completed 23 days later
  2. join a 43things team — completed 23 days later
  3. Use all my allotted cheers at 43 Things in one session — completed 23 days later
  4. See Jarhead — completed 23 days later
  5. Fix something with duct tape — completed 23 days later
  6. learn how to use power drill — completed 22 days later
  7. decorate my house — completed 22 days later
  8. bring sexy back — completed 21 days later
  9. learn how to roll my Rs — completed 22 days later
  10. put a pic in my profile instead of this little smiley face thing, cute though it may be — completed 22 days later
  11. get my haircut — completed 24 days later
  12. try a pomegranate — completed 24 days later
  13. go to the doctor — completed 24 days later
  14. organize my yarn — completed 8 days later
  15. get my teeth cleaned — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Start using 'whom' in my vocabumalary — Worth doing!
  2. Bless The Beautiful, Lovely, Thoughtful Micheline A Wonderful 32nd Birthday on April 1st — Worth doing!
  3. Wish gypsiewriter a Happy Birthday! — Worth doing!
  4. make plans for Passover — Worth doing!
  5. prepare for Passover 5767 — Worth doing!
  6. watch futurama — Worth doing!
  7. watch football — Worth doing!
  8. watch HDTV — Worth doing!
  9. watch more movies — Worth doing!
  10. watch a movie — Worth doing!
  11. wear a watch — Worth doing!
  12. watch more DVDs — Worth doing!
  13. watch delicatessen — Worth doing!
  14. watch more documentaries — Worth doing!
  15. Watch the Sopranos — Worth doing!
Watched:
  1. Batman — Worth consuming!
  2. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
  3. Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. American History X — Worth consuming!
  5. A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Grapes of Wrath — Worth consuming!
  7. The Birth of a Nation — Worth consuming!
  8. All Quiet on the Western Front — Worth consuming!
  9. The Searchers — Worth consuming!
  10. The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut — Worth consuming!
  11. Wuthering Heights — Worth consuming!
  12. Vincent — Worth consuming!
  13. The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to south carolina — completed 7 days later
  2. be a vegetarian for six months — completed about 1 month later
  3. find a hobby I love — completed 28 days later
  4. have my sister come get her crap... — completed 23 days later
  5. host a book swap at my house — completed 5 months later
  6. conserve more energy — completed about 1 year later
  7. take better care of myself and keep track here
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. cheer someone on — Worth doing!
  2. join a 43things team — Worth doing!
  3. Use all my allotted cheers at 43 Things in one session — Worth doing!
  4. memorize a poem — Worth doing!
  5. have someone tell me, to my face, (in all solemnity), that i am beautiful [and mean it] — Worth doing!
  6. Give 8600 cheers — Worth doing!
  7. See Jarhead — Worth doing!
  8. Fix something with duct tape — Worth doing!
  9. Give 8700 cheers — Worth doing!
  10. learn how to use power drill — Worth doing!
  11. Give 8800 Cheers — Worth doing!
  12. Help someone start a business on kiva.org — Worth doing!
  13. Invest at Kiva.org — Worth doing!
  14. fund a microloan through kiva.org — Worth doing!
  15. donate money to kiva — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Austrian Alps — Worth visiting!
  2. Grand Canyon — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. I Am Legend (ties into movie) — Worth consuming!
  2. Girl Genius Volume 1: Agatha Heterodyne And The Beetleburg Clank (Girl Genius)
  3. The Ghost Brigades — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Umberto D. - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. H.G. Wells - Things to Come — Worth consuming!
  4. The Avengers — Not worth consuming
  5. Curious George (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Shrek the Third — Worth consuming!
  7. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End — Worth consuming!
  8. 28 Weeks Later — Worth consuming!
  9. Things to Come — Worth consuming!
  10. 28 Weeks Later... — Worth consuming!
  11. Santiago Calatrava's Travels

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Wish RuthG a Poem-Inspired Birthday July 4th — completed 6 days later
  2. Read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy — completed about 1 month later
  3. get 43 people to list this goal — completed about 1 month later
  4. update my website — completed 2 months later
  5. reduce my yarn stash — completed 2 months later
  6. go to Alaska — completed 2 months later
  7. learn final cut pro
  8. donate clothes and housewares to Housing Works — completed 9 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to south carolina — Worth doing!
  2. wade through a running stream — Worth doing!
  3. get completely soaked in the rain — Worth doing!
  4. teach my cat that humans are friends, not food — Worth doing!
  5. learn to swallow pills
  6. see a roller derby match — Worth doing!
  7. buy an apartment in nyc — Worth doing!
  8. Make a movie — Worth doing!
  9. work for myself — Worth doing!
  10. stay up all night — Not worth doing
  11. visit new york city, San Francisco, boston, chicago, new orleans, seattle — Worth doing!
  12. Give 9800 Cheers — Worth doing!
  13. Wish Trauma_Junkie a Year-Of-Me Birthday June 13 — Worth doing!
  14. have a Barbie collection — Not worth doing
  15. create my own website — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Juneau International Airport — visited 26 days later
  2. Inside Passage — visited 26 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Charleston — Worth visiting!
  2. South Of Broad — Worth visiting!
  3. Dock Street Theatre — Worth visiting!
  4. Waterfront Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Charleston International Airport — Worth visiting!
  6. Spoleto Festival USA — Worth visiting!
  7. The Battery — Worth visiting!
  8. Historic Charleston — Worth visiting!
  9. Cooper River Bridge — Worth visiting!
  10. South Carolina — Worth visiting!
  11. Snowbird — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life — Worth consuming!
  2. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold — Worth consuming!
  3. The Diviners (Phoenix Fiction Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) — Worth consuming!
  5. His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) — Worth consuming!
  6. Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions) — Worth consuming!
  8. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, No. 7) (Anne of Green Gables)
  9. The Fifth Sacred Thing — Worth consuming!
  10. Exquisite Corpse — Worth consuming!
  11. Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  13. Out: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  14. Farenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  15. The Magician's Nephew (adult) (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Big Heat — Worth consuming!
  3. Over the Hedge (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Surf's Up — Worth consuming!
  5. CLEAR CUT: The Story of Philomath, Oregon — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Determine one thing I can do this summer that would seriously change my life, and accomplish it before Labor Day — completed 25 days later
  2. organize my mp3s — completed 25 days later
  3. Be able to travel light — completed 29 days later
  4. Travel light — completed about 1 month later
  5. put my vacation photos on flickr — completed about 1 month later
  6. read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — completed 29 days later
  7. take a long train trip. — completed 29 days later
  8. Try out Flickr — completed 29 days later
  9. see Yellowstone/Old Faithful — completed 29 days later
  10. be a regular at a restaurant — completed 29 days later
  11. actually use the Spanish learning CDs that I bought — completed 2 months later
  12. go to Hawaii — completed 2 months later
  13. go to the Galapagos Islands — completed 10 months later
  14. knit for charity
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish RuthG a Poem-Inspired Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
  2. organise all of my phone numbers + address book entries! — Worth doing!
  3. figure out how to burn a candle — Worth doing!
  4. Attend a Passover Supper — Worth doing!
  5. Give 9700 Cheers — Worth doing!
  6. play tetris — Worth doing!
  7. fly in an airplane — Worth doing!
  8. drink only water, milk and natural juice — Worth doing!
  9. take a walk with no destination — Worth doing!
  10. Write my name in wet cement — Worth doing!
  11. teach at a university — Worth doing!
  12. Read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy — Worth doing!
  13. clean up my house tonight — Worth doing!
  14. turn 18
  15. Drink a Jones soda — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Tour Boston National Historical Parks — visited about 1 month later
  2. Islas Galápagos — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Juneau International Airport — Worth visiting!
  2. Inside Passage — Worth visiting!
  3. Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve — Worth visiting!
  4. Blue Ridge Parkway — Worth visiting!
  5. Arches National Park — Worth visiting!
  6. Boston African American National Historic Site — Worth visiting!
  7. Tower Bridge — Worth visiting!
  8. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres — Worth visiting!
  9. Grand Teton National Park — Worth visiting!
  10. Schloss Neuschwanstein — Worth visiting!
  11. Sitka — Worth visiting!
  12. Alaska Cruise — Worth visiting!
  13. Alaska Marine Highway Ferry System — Worth visiting!
  14. Tongass National Forest — Worth visiting!
  15. Icy Bay — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Segsy
Read:
  1. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Worth consuming!
  2. The Man Who Was Thursday — Worth consuming!
  3. Virtual Light
  4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) — Worth consuming!
  5. Honey Talks Stripburger Collection — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. High Noon — Worth consuming!
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) — Worth consuming!
  3. Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix — Worth consuming!
  4. Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Ratatouille — Worth consuming!
  6. Schindler's List — Worth consuming!
  7. The Motel — Worth consuming!
  8. Paprika — Worth consuming!
  9. Vertigo - 1958 — Worth consuming!
  10. Star Wars - 1977 — Worth consuming!
  11. Sunset Blvd - 1950 — Worth consuming!
  12. The General - 1927 — Worth consuming!
  13. On The Waterfront - 1954 — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. fix up my bathroom — completed 21 days later
  2. visit ellis island — completed 28 days later
  3. go to Ellis Island — completed 28 days later
  4. Look up my family in Ellis Island records — completed 28 days later
  5. Visit the Statue of Liberty — completed 28 days later
  6. see the statue of liberty in person — completed 29 days later
  7. See at least three independent movies in a real theatre next year — completed 29 days later
  8. figure out how to stop getting voice mail — completed 3 months later
  9. Challenge myself this fall! — completed 4 months later
  10. stop using so many disposable utensils — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. compile a list of the first album(s) of 43Ters — Worth doing!
  2. Wish HazelnutNut an Awesome yet In-Transition Birthday August 3rd — Worth doing!
  3. Determine one thing I can do this summer that would seriously change my life, and accomplish it before Labor Day — Worth doing!
  4. organize my mp3s — Worth doing!
  5. Join The Y — Worth doing!
  6. Be able to travel light — Worth doing!
  7. eat at a Hard Rock Cafe — Not worth doing
  8. See The Simpsons Movie — Worth doing!
  9. henna my hair — Worth doing!
  10. make a bag — Worth doing!
  11. Name my car — Worth doing!
  12. Travel light — Worth doing!
  13. get 43 people to list this goal — Worth doing!
  14. put my vacation photos on flickr — Worth doing!
  15. quit neopets — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Antietam National Battlefield — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Little Pie Company — Worth visiting!
  2. The Oyster Bar — Worth visiting!
  3. 86th Floor Observatory — Worth visiting!
  4. Aquarium Of The Bay — Worth visiting!
  5. New England Aquarium — Worth visiting!
  6. Museum Of Fine Arts — Worth visiting!
  7. The Phillips Collection — Worth visiting!
  8. L. L. Bean — Worth visiting!
  9. The Lighthouse Trail — Worth visiting!
  10. The Public Garden — Worth visiting!
  11. Harvard Square — Worth visiting!
  12. Lexington — Worth visiting!
  13. Concord — Worth visiting!
  14. Sturbridge — Worth visiting!
  15. Annapolis — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel
  2. Stardust — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Children's Hour — Worth consuming!
  2. The Simpsons Movie — Worth consuming!
  3. Stardust — Worth consuming!
  4. The 11th Hour — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Wish Patrick Weintraub a Comic Con Birthday Sept 8th — completed 24 days later
  2. set up my Ravelry — completed 26 days later
  3. Read "The Last of the Mohicans" — completed 28 days later
  4. try edamame — completed 28 days later
  5. give up caffeine — completed 29 days later
  6. get better at speaking in public — completed 29 days later
  7. be in a relationship — completed 29 days later
  8. Live on a lake. — completed 29 days later
  9. learn how to blow bubble gum — completed 29 days later
  10. get new contacts — completed about 1 month later
  11. Not slack off in my spanish class — completed 2 months later
  12. reduce my junk — completed 3 months later
  13. replace my credit card use with debit card use — completed 10 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to Alaska — Worth doing!
  2. Shoot a (small) gun — Worth doing!
  3. Wish PattieA a Hockey-Themed Birthday September 5th — Worth doing!
  4. put my projects and stash on Ravelry — Worth doing!
  5. get a debit card — Worth doing!
  6. fix up my bathroom — Worth doing!
  7. REMEMBER 9/11 — Not worth doing
  8. completely ignore Todd's 40th birthday because that's what he wanted me to do *wink* — Not worth doing
  9. wish Todd Schoonover a happy healthy and full of love birthday on September 15th — Worth doing!
  10. Wish Calypte a Happy Birthday (9/17) — Worth doing!
  11. visit ellis island — Worth doing!
  12. go to Ellis Island — Worth doing!
  13. Look up my family in Ellis Island records — Worth doing!
  14. Visit the Statue of Liberty — Worth doing!
  15. see the statue of liberty in person — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Waikiki Beach — Worth visiting!
  2. Hawai'i — Worth visiting!
  3. Waikiki — Worth visiting!
  4. Ala Wai Canal — Worth visiting!
  5. Honolulu International Airport — Worth visiting!
  6. Chinatown — Worth visiting!
  7. Hawaii State Capitol — Worth visiting!
  8. Honolulu — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things — Worth consuming!
  2. The Picture of Dorian Grey — Worth consuming!
  3. The Voyage Out
  4. Grrl Scouts Volume 1
Watched:
  1. The Next Karate Kid — Worth consuming!
  2. The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns — Worth consuming!
  3. One Crazy Summer — Worth consuming!
  4. Orlando — Worth consuming!
  5. Caddyshack 2 — Worth consuming!
  6. Prospero's Books — Worth consuming!
  7. Hana-bi — Worth consuming!
  8. My Own Private Idaho — Worth consuming!
  9. Stand By Me (Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Schindler's List — Worth consuming!
  11. Lolita — Worth consuming!
  12. Three Colors: White — Worth consuming!
  13. Trois couleurs: Rouge — Worth consuming!
  14. 42nd Street (Snap Case) — Worth consuming!
  15. Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. do zombie yoga! — completed about 1 month later
  2. Go to a Castle — completed 28 days later
  3. hook up my TIVO — completed 29 days later
  4. Spend more time working on my goals and less time on cheering — completed about 1 month later
  5. Make a purse organizer — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to Hawaii — Worth doing!
  2. Sign a petition for Burma — Worth doing!
  3. Make yogurt — Worth doing!
  4. improve my skin — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Patrick Weintraub a Comic Con Birthday Sept 8th — Worth doing!
  6. Have a party to celebrate Tiger being smoke-free for 90 days on October 5th! — Worth doing!
  7. Wish Rusty's protégée (laurance) a Painfree Birthday October 5th — Worth doing!
  8. Travel to all 50 States — Worth doing!
  9. visit every state in the U.S. — Worth doing!
  10. go to all 50 states — Worth doing!
  11. set up my Ravelry — Worth doing!
  12. knit with ballpoint pens — Worth doing!
  13. Read "The Last of the Mohicans" — Worth doing!
  14. Be a woman — Worth doing!
  15. Happy Bless Monotreme A Passionately Ecological Birthday On Oct 21st (?) — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Nebraska — Worth visiting!
  2. South Dakota — Worth visiting!
  3. Corn Palace — Worth visiting!
  4. Omaha — Worth visiting!
  5. Eppley Airfield — Worth visiting!
  6. Norfolk — Worth visiting!
  7. Elkhorn — Worth visiting!
  8. Stanton — Worth visiting!
  9. Yankton — Worth visiting!
  10. Sioux Falls — Worth visiting!
  11. Sioux City — Worth visiting!
  12. Missouri Valley — Worth visiting!
  13. Loess Hills — Worth visiting!
  14. Cedar Rapids — Worth visiting!
  15. Mitchell — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. Siddhartha — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) — Worth consuming!
  2. Bad Education (R-Rated Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Weather Man — Worth consuming!
  4. Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. sort out 2006 taxes — completed 2 months later
  2. recycle some of the plastic my city won't take — completed 8 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Celebrate Tiger's Independence Day on November 1st — Worth doing!
  2. get new contacts — Worth doing!
  3. do zombie yoga! — Worth doing!
  4. Go to a Castle — Worth doing!
  5. go see "What Would Jesus Buy"! — Worth doing!
  6. Get paid more
  7. hook up my TIVO — Worth doing!
  8. wish the loveliest, most brilliant online and real world friend one could hope to have, JudithKD a Happy Birthday Nov. 25th, 2007
  9. have a facebook account
  10. ravelry
  11. make all of my holiday gifts this year — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Norman Kingsley Mailer
Watched:
  1. Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Conversation — Worth consuming!
  3. May — Worth consuming!
  4. Girlfight — Worth consuming!
  5. Crash (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Gift — Worth consuming!
  7. Ikiru - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. Syriana [HD DVD] — Worth consuming!
  9. Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Withnail and I — Worth consuming!
  11. Addams Family Values — Worth consuming!
  12. The Weather Man (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Citizen Kane — Worth consuming!
  14. Bastard out of Carolina — Worth consuming!
  15. Dinosaur — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. start college — completed 18 days later
  2. Challenge myself this winter! — completed 7 months later
  3. reprend la langue française
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. figure out how to stop getting voice mail — Worth doing!
  2. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working — Worth doing!
  3. Spend more time working on my goals and less time on cheering — Worth doing!
  4. Buy a Gift for a Needy Child This Christmas — Worth doing!
  5. Not slack off in my spanish class — Worth doing!
  6. get to the post office — Worth doing!
  7. survive the next week — Worth doing!
  8. reduce my junk — Worth doing!
  9. Wish MaryHawkins a Simplified Birthday December 18th — Worth doing!
  10. wish the spectacularly fandabulous Absnasm the bestest of all burfdays ever! — Worth doing!
  11. Visit the Galapagos Islands — Worth doing!
  12. cruise Alaska — Worth doing!
  13. Celebrate the birthday of the lovely, brainy, and inappropriate emelle with an Indian food feast on 12/30 — Worth doing!
  14. see dolphins in the wild — Worth doing!
  15. Finish knitting a sweater — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ecuador — Worth visiting!
  2. Galapagos Airport — Worth visiting!
  3. Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Sucre — Worth visiting!
  4. Quito — Worth visiting!
  5. La Mariscal — Worth visiting!
  6. El Panecillo — Worth visiting!
  7. Palacio de Gobierno — Worth visiting!
  8. La Compañía — Worth visiting!
  9. La Virgen De Quito — Worth visiting!
  10. Cathedral — Worth visiting!
  11. La Basílica Del Voto Nacional — Worth visiting!
  12. Islas Galápagos — Worth visiting!
  13. Baltra Island — Worth visiting!
  14. Española Island — Worth visiting!
  15. San Cristóbal Island — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Scar — Worth consuming!
  2. Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Withnail and I - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. Kill Bill, Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
  3. The Shining — Worth consuming!
  4. 12 Angry Men — Worth consuming!
  5. The Postman Always Rings Twice — Worth consuming!
  6. Valiant — Worth consuming!
  7. Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. La Jetee — Worth consuming!
  9. Gray's Anatomy — Worth consuming!
  10. Faster, Pussycat! Kill!... Kill! — Worth consuming!
  11. The Best of Youth — Worth consuming!
  12. Purple Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Anastasia (Family Fun Edition w/Bartok the Magnificent) — Worth consuming!
  14. Gremlins (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Bowfinger — Worth consuming!

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