wooleyduck in 2006

2006 was 91% worth living.

In 2005, wooleyduck did 110 things, went 30 places, met 2 people, and consumed 301 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. clean my bedroom — completed about 1 year later
  2. drink at least 1 liter of water a day
  3. practice discardia — completed over 2 years later
  4. sort out my wardrobe
  5. set deadlines for all the various projects I want to complete and haven't yet
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give hand-made holiday gifts — Worth doing!
  2. Give 200 cheers — Worth doing!
  3. subscribe to Vogue — Worth doing!
  4. get my driver's license — Worth doing!
  5. read "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" by Tom Robbins — Worth doing!
  6. see a play — Worth doing!
  7. Give 250 cheers — Worth doing!
  8. Give 300 cheers. — Worth doing!
  9. keep in better touch with friends — Worth doing!
  10. drink more water — Worth doing!
  11. ride an elephant — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Finland
  2. India
  3. Italy
  4. Egypt
  5. Hawai'i
  6. Tennessee Renaissance Festival — visited 2 months later
  7. Islas Galápagos
  8. New Zealand
  9. Australia
  10. Alaska
  11. Iceland
  12. Stonehenge
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Columbia — Not worth visiting
  2. Tennessee — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Muriel — met 8 months later
Listened to:
  1. Hot Fuss — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Water — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Gmail — Worth consuming!
  2. Firefox — Worth consuming!
  3. pandora.com — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. actually use my bread machine — completed 26 days later
  2. Release 10 bookcrossing books — completed about 1 month later
  3. read 4 books in one week — completed 8 months later
  4. get my eyes checked — completed about 1 year later
  5. Fit all my books back on the shelves — completed about 1 year later
  6. make freshly squeezed lemonade when spring arrives — completed about 1 year later
  7. participate in self portrait tuesday every week this month — completed about 1 year later
  8. Finish dishes every night before going to bed.
  9. Create a personal recipe book
  10. Read 52+ Books in 2007
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to raise just one eyebrow — Worth doing!
  2. laugh so hard i cry — Worth doing!
  3. organize my bookmarks — Worth doing!
  4. lucid dream — Worth doing!
  5. accomplish at least three of my "things" in the next two weeks — Worth doing!
  6. Make a cool real life friend via the internet — Worth doing!
  7. do well at my job interview — Worth doing!
  8. Join BookCrossing — Worth doing!
  9. find a bookcrossing book — Worth doing!
  10. Go a whole month only buying food and other necessities — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. watch all the movies on my Netflix queue
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Nevada
  2. Greece
  3. Venezia
  4. Barcelona
  5. Venice Beach — visited about 1 month later
  6. Jerome
  7. Pompeii
Read:
  1. The Archer's Tale — Worth consuming!
  2. Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul — Worth consuming!
  3. Pride and prejudice [and] Sense and sensibility (Modern Library college editions, T1) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Last Kingdom CD — Worth consuming!
  5. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Walk the Line — Worth consuming!
  3. Kon-Tiki — Worth consuming!
  4. Henry Rollins: Live at Luna Park — Worth consuming!
  5. Cadfael - One Corpse Too Many — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Irish Breakfast Tea — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. age of empires II — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Roll on your side down a grassy bank — completed 2 months later
  2. blow bubbles outside — completed 3 months later
  3. register 200 books on bookcrossing.com — completed 7 months later
  4. discover unique, fun, interesting, cute, or kitsch things for sale — completed about 1 year later
  5. Eat more fruits and vegetables — completed about 1 year later
  6. feed the birds
  7. Reduce Paper Clutter in My Home — completed about 1 year later
  8. Take vitamins daily
  9. keep a gratitude journal
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working — Worth doing!
  2. fill up my digital camera with pictures during my weekend trip — Worth doing!
  3. backup my computer — Worth doing!
  4. Donate to St. Jude — Worth doing!
  5. find out what my blood type is — Worth doing!
  6. actually use my bread machine — Worth doing!
  7. Make your own modelling dough mixture — Worth doing!
  8. Make a painting using your hand and feet — Worth doing!
  9. Have your face painted — Worth doing!
  10. make snow angels — Worth doing!
  11. bake a cake — Worth doing!
  12. Feed a farm animal — Worth doing!
  13. build a sandcastle — Worth doing!
  14. Recognise five different bird species — Worth doing!
  15. dye my hair — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. The Lake District
  2. Fairy Stone State Park
  3. Mount Kilimanjaro
  4. Angel Falls
  5. Edinburgh
  6. Tennessee Aquarium — visited 10 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Arkansas
  2. California — Worth visiting!
  3. Georgia
  4. Illinois
  5. Iowa
  6. Louisiana
  7. Kentucky
  8. Mississippi
  9. Nebraska
  10. South Carolina
  11. Utah
  12. Wyoming
  13. Getty Museum — Worth visiting!
  14. Hollywood — Worth visiting!
  15. St. Louis
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. EmilyInk
Read:
  1. Reaper Man — Worth consuming!
  2. Moving Pictures — Worth consuming!
  3. Guards! Guards! — Worth consuming!
  4. Pyramids — Worth consuming!
  5. Wyrd Sisters — Worth consuming!
  6. Sourcery — Worth consuming!
  7. Mort — Worth consuming!
  8. Equal Rites — Worth consuming!
  9. The Light Fantastic — Worth consuming!
  10. The Color of Magic — Worth consuming!
  11. Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Secret Garden — Worth consuming!
  13. The Outsiders — Worth consuming!
  14. The Little Prince
  15. The Catcher in the Rye
Listened to:
  1. Nevermind — Worth consuming!
  2. Glass Houses — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  3. Contact — Worth consuming!
  4. North by Northwest — Worth consuming!
  5. The Cable Guy — Not worth consuming
  6. Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
  7. A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
  8. Rushmore
  9. Office Space (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
  11. James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Hudsucker Proxy — Worth consuming!
  13. The Wizard of Oz
  14. The Matrix
  15. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  3. English Breakfast Tea — Worth consuming!
  4. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  5. Lemonade — Worth consuming!
  6. Steak — Worth consuming!
  7. Asian Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  8. Ice cream — Worth consuming!
  9. Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!
  10. Crab — Worth consuming!
  11. Barbecues — Worth consuming!
  12. A Pancake — Worth consuming!
  13. Sandwiches — Worth consuming!
  14. Burgers — Worth consuming!
  15. Ribs — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. bookcrossing — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. complete at least 50% of my "things I want to do this spring/summer" list — completed about 1 year later
  2. Get a job I like
  3. lose 5 pounds — completed over 2 years later
  4. get my registered books at bookcrossing.com up to 300 — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. upgrade my flickr account — Worth doing!
  2. Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
  3. Donate to charity — Worth doing!
  4. go to the zoo — Worth doing!
  5. Release 10 bookcrossing books — Worth doing!
  6. make lemonade from scratch — Worth doing!
  7. give up tv — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. be more articulate
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Sri Lanka
  2. Anywhere
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Venice Beach — Worth visiting!
  2. San Bernardino
Read:
  1. Jane Eyre — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Lion in Winter — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go without buying groceries for a month — completed about 1 month later
  2. Make money off the Internet — completed about 1 month later
  3. have a picnic — completed 4 months later
  4. plant a garden — completed 9 months later
  5. Save The Internet — completed about 1 year later
  6. either jointly work out our problems or break up with him — completed about 1 year later
  7. Write all those letters
  8. make $100 profit on ebay
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to at least one museum — Worth doing!
  2. Have my first kiss
  3. eat sushi
  4. get a job
  5. Make my own bread
  6. visit a zoo
  7. have a candlelight dinner
  8. have a hot bath by candlelight
  9. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
  10. Donate blood
  11. tell someone I love them
  12. read a book in a day
  13. use bookcrossing
  14. sit on the porch and watch the rain or a thunderstorm — Worth doing!
  15. Laugh until my stomach hurts. — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Douglas Adams
  2. Ladyhawke_wings
Watched:
  1. The Wedding Date (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Just Friends — Worth consuming!
  3. Buying the Cow (Ws Sub) — Not worth consuming

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get rid of 20 pounds of clutter — completed 11 months later
  2. be more active on flickr
  3. refine, redefine, reorganize, and revise my goals
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. adopt a cat — Worth doing!
  2. play in the dirt — Worth doing!
  3. have a cookout — Worth doing!
  4. go without buying groceries for a month — Not worth doing
  5. drink more lemonade — Worth doing!
  6. eat watermelon — Worth doing!
  7. make homemade ice cream
  8. make handmade paper — Worth doing!
  9. catch a firefly — Worth doing!
  10. Catch lightning bugs — Worth doing!
  11. catch fireflies on a summer night — Worth doing!
  12. Roll on your side down a grassy bank — Worth doing!
  13. have a tea party — Worth doing!
  14. take lots of good photographs — Worth doing!
  15. Make money off the Internet — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. jambalie — met 2 months later
Read:
  1. Still Life with Woodpecker — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. wade through a running stream — completed about 1 month later
  2. complete at least 60% of my "things I want to do this spring/summer" list — completed about 1 month later
  3. grieve the loss of my cat with grace — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. blow bubbles outside — Worth doing!
  2. play in the rain — Worth doing!
  3. play with playdoh — Worth doing!
  4. make my mom a birthday card — Worth doing!
  5. go stargazing — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Big Bend National Park
Read:
  1. The Ordinary Princess — Worth consuming!
  2. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues — Worth consuming!
  3. Stargirl (Readers Circle) — Worth consuming!
  4. Back From the Dead & 350 Other Stories of Amazing Luck — Worth consuming!
  5. The Private Life of the Cat Who: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journals of James MacKintosh Qwilleran — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. The Office - The Complete First Series — Worth consuming!
  2. Black Adder V - Back and Forth — Worth consuming!
  3. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. knit a scarf — completed 4 months later
  2. Improve my posture
  3. rediscover myself — completed about 1 year later
  4. post randomly — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn to knit — Worth doing!
  2. read outside — Worth doing!
  3. wade through a running stream — Worth doing!
  4. have a picnic — Worth doing!
  5. complete at least 60% of my "things I want to do this spring/summer" list — Worth doing!
  6. take pictures with my box camera — Worth doing!
  7. go to the fair — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Muriel
  2. jambalie
Read:
  1. Witches Abroad — Worth consuming!
  2. Lords and Ladies (Discworld, Book 14) — Worth consuming!
  3. Small Gods — Worth consuming!
  4. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Saving Grace — Worth consuming!

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October

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. visit a craft fair
  2. go to at least one festival or event
  3. eat fudge and popcorn

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November

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read 4 books in one week — Worth doing!
  2. register 200 books on bookcrossing.com — Worth doing!
  3. visit the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Frist Center — Worth doing!
  4. eat a caramel apple — Worth doing!
  5. spend more quality time with my family — Worth doing!
  6. make spiced bread — Worth doing!
  7. cook a Thanksgiving meal
  8. bake a pie
Read:
  1. The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Waking Ned Devine — Worth consuming!
  2. The Office Special — Worth consuming!
  3. Nanny McPhee (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Robin Hood - Men in Tights — Worth consuming!

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December

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. try a new tea — Worth doing!
  2. watch the sunrise
  3. watch the sunset

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