952 in 2008

2008, so far, is 96% worth living.

In 2005, 952 did 215 things, went 10 places, met 8 people, and consumed 8 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Quit drinking coffee
  2. Ride my bike 1000 miles in 1 year
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to sew — Worth doing!
  2. Quit Smoking — Worth doing!
  3. Take more photos — Worth doing!
  4. commute to work by bicycle — Worth doing!
  5. give someone their first cheer
  6. take a photo-diary of my weightloss — Worth doing!
  7. be the minority — Worth doing!
  8. Be confident
  9. face fear — Worth doing!
  10. learn how to shuffle cards
  11. party like a rockstar! — Worth doing!
  12. Make people laugh. — Worth doing!
  13. save every receipt this year — Worth doing!
  14. appreciate what I have — Worth doing!
  15. have a lucid dream — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Stone Mountain — Worth visiting!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. stop using emoticons!! — completed 5 days later
  2. volunteer more — completed 7 days later
  3. make my decisions knowing that you regret more the chances you miss than the mistakes you make — completed 8 days later
  4. do headstone rubbings — completed 11 days later
  5. stop laughing at inappropriate times — completed 8 days later
  6. watch the movie "Persepolis" — completed 17 days later
  7. Eat more like a vegetarian — completed 14 days later
  8. Have more than just the appearance of an organized office
  9. Do something...anything in the fight against RACISM — completed 17 days later
  10. Check the VIN's of all the used bicycles I have bought, and do something about it if they are stolen.
  11. Find the right church and go regulary
  12. start swimming again — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. jump off a bridge — Worth doing!
  2. lose 30 pounds and keep it off — Worth doing!
  3. get a high score — Worth doing!
  4. not be so devastated over the death of Heath Ledger
  5. Give up bear altogether — Worth doing!
  6. have a walk-in closet
  7. Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
  8. drink less bear — Not worth doing
  9. not watch the Superbowl — Worth doing!
  10. try geocaching — Worth doing!
  11. carpe diem — Worth doing!
  12. declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week
  13. help a stranger — Worth doing!
  14. see a NASCAR race live
  15. spend valentine's day in jail — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. India
  2. Japan
  3. Nepal
  4. Alaska
  5. Colorado
  6. Oregon
  7. California
  8. Utah
  9. New Mexico
  10. Washington State
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. My Mom
Read:
  1. Car PC Hacks
  2. Waterfall Walks and Drives in Georgia Alabama and Tennessee — Worth consuming!
  3. Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide — Worth consuming!
  4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey) — Worth consuming!
  5. Fuel From Water, 11th Ed. — Worth consuming!
  6. Eaters of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  7. Passport to Web Radio — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. vanilla malt — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be homeless — completed about 1 month later
  2. aa — completed about 1 month later
  3. get a manicure — completed about 1 month later
  4. Stop wasting time on Stupid Things. — completed about 1 month later
  5. not be homeless — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find high school crush — Worth doing!
  2. Meet up with my old high school crush. — Worth doing!
  3. get over my crush — Worth doing!
  4. stop using emoticons!!
  5. Sleep on a trampoline
  6. volunteer more — Worth doing!
  7. get a tattoo that has a significant meaning — Worth doing!
  8. Own a Robot — Worth doing!
  9. learn to live out of one bag when I travel — Worth doing!
  10. Get (or renew) a passport — Worth doing!
  11. make $100 profit on ebay — Worth doing!
  12. make my decisions knowing that you regret more the chances you miss than the mistakes you make — Worth doing!
  13. do headstone rubbings
  14. stop laughing at inappropriate times
  15. watch the movie "Persepolis" — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Have more than just the appearance of an organized office
  2. Check the VIN's of all the used bicycles I have bought, and do something about it if they are stolen.
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Douglas County
  2. Douglasville
  3. East Point
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Jermaine Dupri
  2. Usher Raymond
  3. John Popper
  4. ludacris
  5. Alice Cooper
  6. Vanilla Ice
  7. Ray Stevens

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to a NASCAR Race — completed 13 days later
  2. live on a boat — completed 2 months later
  3. do 90 meetings in 90 days — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. surf 43things with no pictures — Worth doing!
  2. get more subscribers & subscribe to more people
  3. give blood again
  4. Start or join a secret society
  5. Get black-balled from 43things conversationalists. — Worth doing!
  6. watch the sunrise over the beach — Worth doing!
  7. Have a more positive disposition — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Find the right church and go regulary
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Key West

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make all A's — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. work as a bike rickshaw driver
  2. be homeless — Not worth doing
  3. aa — Worth doing!
  4. get a manicure
  5. go to a NASCAR Race
  6. Stop wasting time on Stupid Things. — Worth doing!
  7. Drive a sports car worth more than my house
  8. Visit Coral Castle — Worth doing!
  9. Drive the speed limit — Worth doing!
  10. restore my bicycle — Worth doing!
  11. Have done 400 things
  12. Meet Alice Cooper — Worth doing!
  13. attend a boxing match — Worth doing!
  14. get a press pass — Worth doing!
  15. Rebuild an antique car — Worth doing!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Calculate the complete nutritional value of my groceries so I can more fully understand how much of what I really eat. — Worth doing!
  2. live on a boat
  3. celebrate pi day (Mar. 14) every year — Worth doing!
  4. Create a beautiful uplifting morning routine
  5. Volunteer — Worth doing!
  6. Watch the sunrise more than half of the days this year! — Worth doing!
  7. stop procrastinating
  8. let the people i love know it — Worth doing!
  9. Keep a daily nutritional log — Worth doing!
  10. Get rid of my TV — Worth doing!
  11. Learn to SCUBA — Worth doing!
  12. Watch the movie "Surfwise" — Worth doing!
  13. Donate blood — Worth doing!
  14. take a pottery class — Worth doing!
  15. Read Hitchhiker's GttG b4 seeing it in the Theater — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Quit drinking coffee

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. scuba dive — Worth doing!
  2. buy nothing on Independence Day
  3. really celebrate on Independence day — Worth doing!
  4. intern/volunteer and/or work at NOAA, Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy, or a similar organization — Worth doing!
  5. Become a pirate — Not worth doing
  6. Make my family safe & then do the world some good
  7. photograph lightning — Worth doing!
  8. Train for an Iron-distance Triathlon. — Worth doing!
  9. find out my blood type
  10. make a real homemade cheesecake — Worth doing!
  11. touch a cow's nose — Worth doing!
  12. work because I like to, not because I have to — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. propose to the love of my life in a unique way
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bahia Honda State Park — Worth visiting!
  2. Big Pine Key — Worth visiting!
  3. Southernmost Point — Worth visiting!
  4. Mile 0 — Worth visiting!
  5. Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park — Worth visiting!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Dive #1 monument at Yonaguni, Japan
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make all A's — Worth doing!
  2. Write my name in wet cement — Worth doing!
  3. walk through a drive through
  4. Live happy, joyous and free — Worth doing!
  5. Get a library card — Worth doing!
  6. adopt a dog — Worth doing!
  7. adopt a cat — Worth doing!
  8. experience a hurricane

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