all our feelings are in our heads in 2005
2005 was 90% worth living.
In 2005, all our feelings are in our heads
did 84 things,
went 47 places,
met 3 people, and
consumed 79 products.
May
Added to 43 Things:
- Continue using the calendar to plan fun activities in advance — completed 2 months later
- see the world — completed 4 months later
- turn on music instead of the tv — completed over 2 years later
- Take vitamins daily — completed about 1 month later
- save for retirement — completed about 1 month later
- join a book club — completed over 2 years later
- have a computer! — completed 4 months later
- practice reading tarot — completed over 2 years later
- See Crete — completed 9 months later
- find a few friends that i have lost — completed over 2 years later
- take my dogs to the vet — completed 8 days later
- sell paintings i have made
- backpack across europe
- stop eating in restaurants — completed about 1 month later
- get a haircut — completed about 1 month later
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
- paint more often — completed 3 months later
- clean the kitty litter every day — completed over 2 years later
- learn my new job — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- take my dogs to the vet — Worth doing!
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- dance more — completed 2 months later
- tell the retarded girl that lives next door to me that I can't talk to her everyday before work because it makes me late — completed over 2 years later
- Drive across the USA — completed 2 months later
- have a cooking day — completed 21 days later
- Start a cooking club — completed about 1 year later
- write or paint in my journal everyday — completed about 1 year later
- learn embrodiery or knitting or quilting
- Use the digital camera I have — completed 12 days later
- get wedding presents and make travel arrangements for 3 different weddings — completed 2 months later
- remind crystiesc what book will be discussed in Sept! — completed 8 days later
- Be healthy, stay healthy, eat healthy — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Take vitamins daily — Not worth doing
- save for retirement — Worth doing!
- stop eating in restaurants — Not worth doing
- get a haircut — Worth doing!
- have a good cd collection — Worth doing!
- plan my weekends in advance — Worth doing!
- Call my friends more often. — Worth doing!
- Photograph 43 things with the number 43 on them — Worth doing!
- take fencing lessons — Worth doing!
- go out on the boat — Worth doing!
- spend more time talking to my parents — Worth doing!
- go to university — Not worth doing
- own a home — Worth doing!
- get a dog — Worth doing!
- de-poop my backyard — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Açores
- Casablanca
- South Of The Border — visited 6 days later
- Summerville — visited 7 days later
- Burlington — visited 23 days later
- Cumberland Gap — visited 23 days later
- Thera
- Costa Rica
- Inner Harbor — visited about 1 month later
- Las Vegas
- Kelly's BBQ — visited about 1 month later
- Berlin
- Bangkok
- Nepal
- Olympia
Visited on 43 Places:
- Cozumel — Worth visiting!
- Mesa Verde National Park — Worth visiting!
- Maine — Worth visiting!
- Montreal — Worth visiting!
- Niagara Falls — Worth visiting!
- Boston — Worth visiting!
- Virginia — Worth visiting!
- New Orleans — Worth visiting!
- Florida — Not worth visiting
- Tennessee — Worth visiting!
- Museum Of Modern Art — Worth visiting!
- Toronto — Worth visiting!
- Bahamas — Not worth visiting
- New York City — Worth visiting!
- Baltimore — Not worth visiting
→ See more from July
August
Added to 43 Things:
- Quit Smoking
- spread Discordia — completed 11 months later
- pay bills online — completed about 1 month later
- have a financial plan on which my husband and I agree — completed 2 months later
- have a disciplined lifestyle — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Continue using the calendar to plan fun activities in advance — Worth doing!
- have a cooking day — Not worth doing
- Use the digital camera I have — Worth doing!
- remind crystiesc what book will be discussed in Sept! — Worth doing!
- do the 5BX fitness program — Worth doing!
- identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money) — Worth doing!
- identify 100 things that make me pissed (besides money) — Worth doing!
- find 43 sports players with the jersey #43 — Worth doing!
- Read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- South Of The Border — Not worth visiting
- Summerville — Worth visiting!
- Burlington — Worth visiting!
- Cumberland Gap — Worth visiting!
→ See more from August
September
Added to 43 Things:
- have the perfect halloween costume — completed about 1 year later
- watch movies — completed over 2 years later
- GIVE PEOPLE FREE MONEY — completed 24 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- learn my new job — Worth doing!
- Make new local friends — Worth doing!
- pay bills online — Worth doing!
- Help test 43people.com: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
- cheer everything on the Robert Heinlein 43 Things list (and then cheer nobodysperfect for the support!!) — Worth doing!
- make my lunch more often — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Inner Harbor — Not worth visiting
- Kelly's BBQ — Worth visiting!
- Titusville — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Read:
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Worth consuming!
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — Worth consuming!
- The Crying of Lot 49 — Worth consuming!
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Worth consuming!
- White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) — Worth consuming!
- The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose
- Life of Pi — Worth consuming!
- If on a winter's night a traveler — Worth consuming!
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Worth consuming!
- River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt — Worth consuming!
- Friday — Worth consuming!
- The Eight — Not worth consuming
- Foucault's Pendulum — Worth consuming!
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- The Bends — Worth consuming!
- The Moon & Antarctica — Worth consuming!
- Good News For People Who Love Bad News — Worth consuming!
- Toward the Within — Worth consuming!
- Lonesome Crowded West — Worth consuming!
- Surfer Rosa — Worth consuming!
- Mezzanine — Worth consuming!
- Hallowed Ground — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
- Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
- Garden State — Worth consuming!
- Amelie — Worth consuming!
- Brazil - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead — Worth consuming!
- Bring It On — Worth consuming!
- Breakfast at Tiffany's — Worth consuming!
- The Usual Suspects — Worth consuming!
- The City of Lost Children — Worth consuming!
- I, Robot (Full Screen Edition) — Not worth consuming
- Shakes the Clown — Worth consuming!
- Night on Earth — Worth consuming!
- Down by Law - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Blogger — Worth consuming!
→ See more from September
October
Added to 43 Things:
- Να είστε ο λεπτότερος εκκινητής του shit που 43things ξέρει πάντα! — completed over 2 years later
- read everything by my favorite authors
- share MP3s over gmail — completed about 1 year later
- watch all the movies by my favorite directors
- Do NaNoWriMo — completed about 1 year later
- use 43 things like a journal of the media I digest — completed about 1 year later
- Make a list of 100 songs that apply to me — completed about 1 year later
- start a commune
- share quotes — completed 3 months later
- subscribe to 43 people — completed about 1 year later
- Thank the Robots for adding a server — completed over 2 years later
- remember my dreams — completed about 1 year later
- mail the rebates for the computer — completed 3 days later
- tell 43 jokes — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- see the world — Worth doing!
- have a computer! — Worth doing!
- redo my kitchen — Not worth doing
- paint more often — Worth doing!
- dance more — Worth doing!
- Drive across the USA — Worth doing!
- get wedding presents and make travel arrangements for 3 different weddings — Worth doing!
- have a financial plan on which my husband and I agree — Worth doing!
- have a disciplined lifestyle — Not worth doing
- GIVE PEOPLE FREE MONEY — Worth doing!
- join a team — Worth doing!
- gmail — Worth doing!
- Give 300 cheers. — Worth doing!
- have a friend list on netflix — Worth doing!
- speak at a conference — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- North Charleston Coliseum — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Bill Turner
- FortunateFool — met 2 months later
- SallyKitt
- MissOtter is Rampantly Running on Rainbows
- elliekay
- Leo Petr
Read:
- Midnight's Children — Worth consuming!
- EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH — Worth consuming!
- Foundation's Edge (Foundation Novels) — Worth consuming!
- Fireworks : nine profane pieces — Worth consuming!
- Citizen of the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Added to 43 Things:
- fix the dent on my car
- get back into the habit of posting real goals — completed 2 months later
- call people back
- go to the Rock Against Bush concert on 11/19 at New Brooklyn Tavern in Cola
- Watch more of Ebert's "The Great Movies" — completed 3 months later
- locate the holy grail and hold it for ransom from the Catholic Church — completed about 1 year later
- convince everyone to give Malc their cheers — completed 17 days later
- go to the gym again, god tara, I mean, how hard do you have to make something before you actually do it???? — completed about 1 month later
- participate in a 43Things book club
- learn how to burn a dvd
- play World of Warcraft
Completed on 43 Things:
- mail the rebates for the computer — Worth doing!
- Admit who I'm subscribing to — Worth doing!
- switch to Firefox — Worth doing!
- Make Firefox my default browser — Worth doing!
- Get a gmail account — Worth doing!
- find out how 43people.com could be useful besides being a tribute site to my subscribers and celebs — Worth doing!
- help my neighbor's daughter get into college — Worth doing!
- buy bricks — Not worth doing
- wash the dogs tonight — Worth doing!
- go see the Bouncing Souls on 11/18 at Cumberlands — Worth doing!
- call my cousin — Worth doing!
- convince everyone to give their cheers to Malc — Worth doing!
- Give 100 cheers — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Crystie — met about 1 month later
→ See more from November
December
Added to 43 Things:
- finish my NANO novel
- get a free psp — completed 3 months later
- Organize and find people willing to participate in a Rainbow Reading Round Robin — completed 3 months later
- Make a list of 43 things I know very little about, & then learn at least 3 things about each of them
- get my sewing machine fixed — completed about 1 year later
- learn Tantra — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- collect recipes — Worth doing!
- convince everyone to give Malc their cheers — Worth doing!
- figure out who all cheered me in the last month and pay all the cheers back — Worth doing!
- understand the subscriptions page better — Worth doing!
- get people to send healing thoughts and prayers to Jessy's husband — Worth doing!
- thank the person who introduced me to blonde redhead. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
