all our feelings are in our heads in 2006

2006 was 93% worth living.

In 2005, all our feelings are in our heads did 389 things, went 33 places, met 52 people, and consumed 957 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Dec

January

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. landscape my front yard — Worth doing!
  2. share quotes — Worth doing!
  3. get back into the habit of posting real goals — Worth doing!
  4. go to the gym again, god tara, I mean, how hard do you have to make something before you actually do it???? — Worth doing!
  5. stop coughing — Worth doing!
  6. consider closing this account — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. start a commune
Read:
  1. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Maxinquaye — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. keep track of my diet
  2. paint my living room
  3. get the hem fixed on my brown pants
  4. buy a flat panel tv
  5. go to arkansas this summer
  6. go to seattle this year
  7. start planning for L & S's wedding in October
  8. do yoga every week for a year
  9. change out the CD's I carry in my car — completed about 1 year later
  10. buy the flash card for my phone
  11. go to Bonnaroo — completed about 1 year later
  12. help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — completed 17 days later
  13. Get my house ready to put on the market.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. have 43 people subscribed to me — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. paint the shed and put a fence around it
Read:
  1. Anansi Boys: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. PEBBLE IN THE SKY — Worth consuming!
  3. American Gods: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  4. Million Little Pieces — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Knock Knock Knock — Worth consuming!
  2. Melodie Citronique
Watched:
  1. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. continue to remind all my friends about our dinner date — completed about 1 month later
  2. convince becca to come down during her spring break (april 8-16th)
  3. make it through this month — completed 21 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. See Crete — Worth doing!
  2. tell 43 jokes — Worth doing!
  3. Watch more of Ebert's "The Great Movies"
  4. get a free psp — Not worth doing
  5. Organize and find people willing to participate in a Rainbow Reading Round Robin — Worth doing!
  6. help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — Worth doing!
  7. Go to Mardi Gras — Worth doing!
  8. read all the Sandman graphic novels — Worth doing!
  9. delete all my goals and start over — Worth doing!
  10. but remember that i don't have to do it all in one night. — Worth doing!
  11. read patanjali's sutras — Worth doing!
  12. Thank Bill Turner for creating Lists of Bests — Worth doing!
  13. Actually meet face-to-face with someone from 43 Things — Worth doing!
  14. not freak out when i go to the dentist tomorrow — Worth doing!
  15. find something fun to do with my sister this week — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn embrodiery or knitting or quilting
  2. watch all the movies by my favorite directors
  3. fix the dent on my car
  4. play World of Warcraft
  5. finish my NANO novel
  6. keep track of my diet
  7. go to arkansas this summer
  8. go to seattle this year
  9. start planning for L & S's wedding in October
  10. buy the flash card for my phone
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Colorado — Worth visiting!
  2. Delaware — Not worth visiting
  3. Georgia — Worth visiting!
  4. Illinois — Worth visiting!
  5. Kentucky — Worth visiting!
  6. Louisiana — Worth visiting!
  7. Maryland — Worth visiting!
  8. Massachusetts — Worth visiting!
  9. North Carolina — Worth visiting!
  10. New York State — Worth visiting!
  11. New Jersey — Worth visiting!
  12. Ohio — Worth visiting!
  13. Oklahoma — Worth visiting!
  14. Rhode Island — Worth visiting!
  15. South Carolina — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Rachel Wellons
Read:
  1. Brave New World — Worth consuming!
  2. The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Color of Magic — Worth consuming!
  4. Sounder — Worth consuming!
  5. The Secret Garden — Worth consuming!
  6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition)
  7. On the Road — Worth consuming!
  8. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  9. Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  10. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Stone Diaries — Worth consuming!
  12. Borges: Collected Fictions — Worth consuming!
  13. Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) — Worth consuming!
  14. Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  15. The BFG — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Demon Days — Worth consuming!
  2. Lust for Life
  3. Achtung Baby — Not worth consuming
  4. Bone Machine — Worth consuming!
  5. Dummy — Worth consuming!
  6. The Joshua Tree — Not worth consuming
  7. I'm Your Man — Worth consuming!
  8. Ten — Worth consuming!
  9. Kind of Blue
  10. Little Earthquakes — Worth consuming!
  11. Strangeways, Here We Come — Worth consuming!
  12. The Immaculate Collection
  13. Automatic for the People — Worth consuming!
  14. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  15. Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
  2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Criterion Collection
  3. Army of Darkness — Worth consuming!
  4. Fletch — Worth consuming!
  5. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Worth consuming!
  6. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  7. Batman — Worth consuming!
  8. Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
  9. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  10. Raging Bull — Worth consuming!
  11. Midnight Cowboy — Worth consuming!
  12. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  13. Hackers — Worth consuming!
  14. Devil's Advocate — Worth consuming!
  15. Rushmore — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. American Idol — Worth consuming!
  2. Desert Island Discs
  3. American Film Institute's "100 Greatest American Movies of All Time"
  4. Academy Award's "Best Picture"
  5. Hugo Award Winners
  6. BBC's "The Big Read" - Top 100 Books
  7. Nebula Award Winners
  8. The Guardian's "Top 10 Sci-Fi Films"
  9. roblag's "Best Lists To Participate In"
  10. Star Wars Figures
  11. Monopoly
  12. Lego
  13. Hula Hoop
  14. Barbie
  15. LEGO

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. find someone to watch the dogs May 12th - 14th — completed 14 days later
  2. give my mom a great mothers day — completed about 1 year later
  3. schedule the next work weekend for the house — completed 2 months later
  4. scrape the kitchen ceiling — completed about 1 month later
  5. tile the backsplash/countertops — completed about 1 year later
  6. Paint the spare bedroom — completed 8 months later
  7. fix the kitchen walls — completed about 1 year later
  8. mud & paint the kitchen ceiling — completed about 1 year later
  9. paint the stairs with cement paint — completed 2 months later
  10. paint that white strip on the front of the house
  11. paint the new railing Mack made
  12. fix the drip edge of the shingles
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make it through this month — Worth doing!
  2. Cut the Grass — Worth doing!
  3. powerwash the house — Worth doing!
  4. paint the trim/awnings — Worth doing!
  5. paint the front door — Worth doing!
  6. fix the back door — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. convince becca to come down during her spring break (april 8-16th)
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. O'Hare International Airport
  2. LaGuardia Airport
  3. Denver International Airport
  4. Midway Airport
  5. Logan International Airport
  6. Washington Dulles International Airport
  7. Baltimore-Washington International Airport
  8. Philadelphia International Airport
  9. John F. Kennedy International Airport
  10. Walt Disney World — Not worth visiting
Read:
  1. Libra (Contemporary American Fiction) — Worth consuming!
  2. Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
  3. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
  4. The Onion Girl — Worth consuming!
  5. Rusalka — Worth consuming!
  6. The Prophet
  7. The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
  8. 1984: Centennial Edition
  9. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
  10. The Holy Bible
  11. George Orwell's 1984 (Monarch Notes)
Listened to:
  1. Oh, Inverted World
  2. Gorillaz
  3. White Blood Cells
  4. Funeral — Worth consuming!
  5. Picaresque
  6. Discovery
  7. Be — Worth consuming!
  8. Amnesiac
  9. Our Endless Numbered Days — Not worth consuming
  10. Drukqs
  11. Stephen Malkmus
  12. Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks
  13. Menos el Oso — Worth consuming!
  14. Pretty Girls Make Graves
  15. Worlds Apart — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Fisher King — Worth consuming!
  2. Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
  3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Worth consuming!
  4. Super Troopers — Worth consuming!
  5. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai — Worth consuming!
  6. Carnivale - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  7. Fargo — Worth consuming!
  8. Pleasantville (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — Worth consuming!
  10. Dead Again — Worth consuming!
  11. Dead Man — Worth consuming!
  12. The Graduate (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Joe Versus the Volcano — Worth consuming!
  14. Pi — Worth consuming!
  15. Dead Alive — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me — completed about 1 year later
  2. find a four leaf clover — completed 6 months later
  3. get time off work to meet with my girlfriends from college
  4. laundry, again. — completed 9 days later
  5. find a pair of replacement black heels (*sniff*) — completed about 1 year later
  6. get Kay to join my gym (and then hopefully encourage me to go back)
  7. redo the walkway — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. have sex — Worth doing!
  2. eat sushi
  3. continue to remind all my friends about our dinner date — Worth doing!
  4. find someone to watch the dogs May 12th - 14th — Worth doing!
  5. get married
  6. Send a message in a bottle
  7. go to a rock concert — Worth doing!
  8. Read 1,000 books
  9. ride a roller coaster — Worth doing!
  10. go to a football match — Not worth doing
  11. own a t-shirt with a bandname on it — Worth doing!
  12. Have my first kiss — Worth doing!
  13. adopt a cat or dog from an animal shelter — Worth doing!
  14. get a massage — Worth doing!
  15. Fall in love
Read:
  1. The Chronicles of Narnia
  2. Chaos: Making a New Science
  3. Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
  4. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  5. Naked
  6. The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
  7. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
  8. Mostly Harmless
  9. The Salmon of Doubt
  10. The Last Unicorn
  11. The Silmarillion
  12. Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
  13. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  14. Grendel
  15. Replay
Listened to:
  1. LCD Soundsystem
  2. Fashion Nugget — Not worth consuming
  3. Gimme Fiction
  4. Dark Side Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
  5. "Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits"
  6. The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 — Not worth consuming
  7. Dear Catastrophe Waitress — Not worth consuming
  8. Seven Swans
  9. Plans
  10. You Could Have It So Much Better
  11. Jim Croce Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits
  12. Z
  13. The Mouse and the Mask — Not worth consuming
  14. Scum
  15. Good — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. When Harry Met Sally... — Worth consuming!
  2. American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
  3. Barton Fink
  4. Cry Baby (Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  5. Risky Business
  6. Being There — Worth consuming!
  7. Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition)
  8. Murderball — Worth consuming!
  9. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
  10. Rat Race
  11. Stick It — Worth consuming!
  12. The Da Vinci Code — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. pick three things off my house project list and do them this weekend
  2. finish the touch up painting around the exterior doors/windows
  3. lose 10 more pounds — completed about 1 year later
  4. Keep Track of All Books I Read in 2006 — completed 26 days later
  5. plan a keg party for my husband's birthday — completed 19 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. scrape the kitchen ceiling — Worth doing!
  2. laundry, again. — Worth doing!
  3. road trip to mexco — Worth doing!
  4. start & finish the banner that we promised to make for this weekend — Not worth doing
  5. Go to a Radiohead concert — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. pick three things off my house project list and do them this weekend
Read:
  1. Baudolino — Worth consuming!
  2. With a Tangled Skein (Book Three of Incarnations of Immortality) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Notebook — Worth consuming!
  5. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh — Worth consuming!
  7. Still Life with Woodpecker — Worth consuming!
  8. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
  9. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — Worth consuming!
  10. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
  11. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
  12. Transmetropolitan Vol. 10: One More Time
  13. Death: The High Cost of Living
  14. Death: The Time of Your Life
  15. Transmetropolitan Vol. 2: Lust for Life — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Alligator — Worth consuming!
  2. With Teeth — Worth consuming!
  3. Hysteria
  4. Wish You Were Here
  5. Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions — Worth consuming!
  6. The Moldy Peaches — Worth consuming!
  7. The Downward Spiral — Worth consuming!
  8. 101
  9. Tragic Kingdom — Worth consuming!
  10. Murray Street — Worth consuming!
  11. Thunder, Lightning, Strike — Worth consuming!
  12. Use Your Illusion I
  13. Slippery When Wet
  14. With Love and Squalor — Worth consuming!
  15. Some Girls — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Worth consuming!
  3. Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
  4. Life Is Beautiful
  5. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. Rosemary's Baby
  7. Blow (Infinifilm Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Seven (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  9. Kill Bill, Volume 2
  10. Lost Highway [IMPORT] — Worth consuming!
  11. Swingers (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  12. All About Eve
  13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vista Series)
  14. City of God — Worth consuming!
  15. American Splendor — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. spread Discordia — Not worth doing
  2. schedule the next work weekend for the house
  3. paint the stairs with cement paint — Worth doing!
  4. Keep Track of All Books I Read in 2006
  5. plan a keg party for my husband's birthday
  6. get a Honda Element — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn how to burn a dvd
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Dorchester Waylyn — Not worth visiting
  2. North Charleston
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. samiam
  2. NOFX
  3. beck
  4. Elvis Costello
  5. The Dresden Dolls
  6. radiohead
  7. Ramones
  8. They Might Be Giants
  9. Tom Petty
  10. Devendra Banhart
  11. rancid
  12. Alkaline trio
  13. Harry Connick, Jr.
  14. Stereolab
  15. Nine Inch Nails
Read:
  1. His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass — Worth consuming!
  2. PEBBLES IN THE SKY — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
  2. Jagged Little Pill
  3. Bleach
  4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots — Worth consuming!
  5. Separation Sunday — Worth consuming!
  6. Bat out of Hell
  7. Pablo Honey — Worth consuming!
  8. 13 Songs — Worth consuming!
  9. Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
  10. Louder Than Bombs — Worth consuming!
  11. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven — Not worth consuming
  12. Broken Social Scene — Worth consuming!
  13. No Control
  14. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) — Worth consuming!
  15. Meat Is Murder — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Punch-Drunk Love (Two Disc Special Edition) (Superbit Collection) — Not worth consuming
  2. Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. Rushmore - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Napoleon Dynamite
  5. Waking Life — Worth consuming!
  6. 8 1/2 (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Mean Creek — Worth consuming!
  8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection
  10. The Virgin Suicides — Worth consuming!
  11. Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  12. Slacker - Criterion Collection
  13. There's Something About Mary
  14. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  15. South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut

→ See more from July

August

Read:
  1. The Virgin's Lover — Worth consuming!
  2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood — Worth consuming!
  3. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Vintage International) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Other Boleyn Girl — Worth consuming!
  5. Silver Canyon — Worth consuming!
  6. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  7. On All Sides Nowhere (Bakeless Prize) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Blur — Worth consuming!
  2. Play — Worth consuming!
  3. Never Mind the Bollocks — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August

December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. find someone to watch the dogs during christmas — completed 20 days later
  2. wrap christmas presents — completed 20 days later
  3. rehang the paintings on my walls — completed about 1 month later
  4. Buy a Nintendo Wii — completed about 1 month later
  5. talk them into taking me skiing over christmas break
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. have the perfect halloween costume — Worth doing!
  2. Do NaNoWriMo — Worth doing!
  3. locate the holy grail and hold it for ransom from the Catholic Church — Worth doing!
  4. find out what kind of pirate i am — Worth doing!
  5. find elliekay — Worth doing!
  6. Paint the spare bedroom
  7. find a four leaf clover
  8. finish making mixed cds for christmas
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. paint my living room
  2. do yoga every week for a year
  3. get time off work to meet with my girlfriends from college
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Dropkick Murphys
  2. The Violent Femmes
  3. Broken Social Scene
  4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  5. Pavement
  6. Andrew Bird
  7. Band of Horses
  8. Do May Say Think
Read:
  1. Wideacre : A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. War Of The Flowers,The — Worth consuming!
  3. Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender, Book 6) — Worth consuming!
  4. Earthly Joys: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  5. The Boleyn Inheritance — Worth consuming!
  6. The Mammoth Hunters — Worth consuming!
  7. The Valley of Horses — Worth consuming!
  8. Beach Music — Worth consuming!
  9. The Constant Princess — Worth consuming!
  10. Boy's Life — Worth consuming!
  11. One for the Money (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
  12. A Widow for One Year — Worth consuming!
  13. Spring Fancy — Not worth consuming
  14. The Plains of Passage — Worth consuming!

→ See more from December


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