Waterfall Nymph in 2008

2008, so far, is 99% worth living.

In 2005, Waterfall Nymph did 123 things, went 5 places, met 0 people, and consumed 200 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Eat 6 servings of fruits & vegetables a day for 10 days in a row — completed 18 days later
  2. Print out some of my important 43things goals and make a book out of them — completed about 1 month later
  3. Have G.A.'s chair reupholstered
  4. Celebrate the 3rd birthday of the chum in an appropriately enthusiastic manner — completed 5 months later
  5. Make sleep my priority — completed 5 months later
  6. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
  7. post 43 pictures of where I live
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Share in the 2007 43Things holiday card exchange — Worth doing!
  2. Vote for Ms. Bryce to win an appearance on Lifetime's "How to Look Good Naked" — Worth doing!
  3. Get kissed under the mistletoe — Worth doing!
  4. compile a 100-things-about-me list — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Taz a happy (though slightly belated) January 10th birthday! — Worth doing!
  6. Weekly - list 3 low priority things and do them — Worth doing!
  7. Participate in Friday meetings of the 43T Finer Things Club — Worth doing!
  8. give 15,000 cheers — Worth doing!
  9. Give 10,000 cheers — Worth doing!
  10. Go away for a romantic weekend with my husband — Worth doing!
  11. Help Julie Jordan Scott Have The Best Birthday Ever On Jan.29th — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. complete 10 more goals by the end of 2006
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bouchon — Worth visiting!
  2. Sebastopol — Worth visiting!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. truly celebrate the next special day in 2008: Waterfall Nymph's birthday on February 24! — completed about 1 month later
  2. Enthusiastically celebrate the birthday of AmyBB25 on 2/25 - she may be far from home but she's close to our hearts — completed about 1 month later
  3. learn to kayak — completed 4 months later
  4. Read all the Caldecott winners and honor winners to/ with my child
  5. Always keep a LIVING flower in the vase by the sink
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish YRUSH a Happy Birthday (Feb 1) — Worth doing!
  2. Sing Happy Birthday to Romantic Rosie on February 2nd as she turns 40! — Worth doing!
  3. vote on 5 February 2008 - Super Tuesday ! — Worth doing!
  4. make a list of books starring Girls! — Worth doing!
  5. Deal with my grandmother's things — Worth doing!
  6. Eat 6 servings of fruits & vegetables a day for 10 days in a row — Worth doing!
  7. Print out some of my important 43things goals and make a book out of them — Worth doing!
  8. Keep a journal — Worth doing!
  9. Stop spending money like a madcap heiress - because I'm not one! — Worth doing!
  10. make a birthday cake that looks and tastes fabulous — Worth doing!
  11. Squirt Breath Spray in my Eyes to Celebrate LL's Birthday on February 18th — Worth doing!
  12. Get 100 cheers on a goal — Worth doing!
  13. Wish Fishboy Matty a half-fast, fun-filled, pants-free 40th birthday on February 23nd — Worth doing!
  14. organize the living room bookshelves - Now! with additional toy storage! — Worth doing!
  15. have my backyard certified as a wildlife habitat — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Declutter my bedroom
  2. streamline my life and reduce clutter
  3. go sea kayaking
Read:
  1. Sector 7 (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
  2. In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection) — Worth consuming!
  3. Caddie Woodlawn — Worth consuming!
  4. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices — Worth consuming!
  5. The Little House — Worth consuming!
  6. Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (An Owlet Book) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Little House — Worth consuming!
  8. Inch by Inch — Worth consuming!
  9. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! — Worth consuming!
  10. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale — Worth consuming!
  11. Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest — Worth consuming!
  12. King Bidgood's in the Bathtub — Worth consuming!
  13. Outside Over There (Caldecott Collection) — Worth consuming!
  14. Flotsam (Caldecott Medal Book) — Worth consuming!
  15. Where the Wild Things Are — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Follow the 12 Minutes to Get Organized routines (www.12minutestogo.com) — completed 16 days later
  2. walk across the Golden Gate bridge
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish Mahinui a fabulous, worry-free birthday on March 3rd! — Worth doing!
  2. Wish GrammaG a fun-filled 31st birthday on March 5th! — Worth doing!
  3. Give Lynner a big 43birthday hug on March 5th! — Worth doing!
  4. Mourn the loss of geek deity Gary Gygax — Worth doing!
  5. do my job well enough that I don't feel guilty: subgoal: reorganize our google words — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Doris a Blessed, Peaceful, Energetic and Fun-filled Birthday on March 13th — Worth doing!
  7. go out dancing — Worth doing!
  8. wish the wonderful picasso's muse a wonderful, stunning, fabulous and HUG WORTHY b'day on March 17, cause she rocks xxx — Worth doing!
  9. Eat no bread (or breadlike substances) for 7 days — Worth doing!
  10. Wish George a fabulous, beyond fabulous and very Happy Birthday on March 20th — Worth doing!
  11. Do the Couch to 5k running plan — Worth doing!
  12. choose a signature cocktail — Worth doing!
  13. Stick with and achieve my WEEKLY fitness goals, which I KNOW make me happier and healthier — Worth doing!
  14. Cheerbomb the lovely Anne on March 25st to show her how much she's appreciated and to give her support while she's having hard times — Worth doing!
  15. Revise Crazyinagoodway's spreadsheet and see if it brings housekeeping satisfaction — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. see the northern lights
  2. Go on a safari
  3. write a children's story
Read:
  1. The Red Book (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
  2. Kitten's First Full Moon — Worth consuming!
  3. Tar Beach — Worth consuming!
  4. My Friend Rabbit — Worth consuming!
  5. The Snowy Day — Worth consuming!
  6. Truck — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Go through my classroom books and gear and deal with it all — completed about 1 month later
  2. Plan gruffgoat an appropriately wonderful 40th birthday celebration — completed about 1 month later
  3. Lose 5 pounds by race day
  4. Learn to identify the butterflies I see in the garden
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do 100 crunches a day for 100 days — Worth doing!
  2. wean my child gently — Worth doing!
  3. Celebrate the chum's 2nd birthday amazingly — Worth doing!
  4. add rewards to all my goals that aren't rewards in themselves — Worth doing!
  5. create the ultimate running playlist — Worth doing!
  6. do one nice thing for myself every day — Worth doing!
  7. interview my son on video every year — Worth doing!
  8. have myself a merry little christmas — Worth doing!
  9. truly celebrate the next special day in 2008: Waterfall Nymph's birthday on February 24! — Worth doing!
  10. Enthusiastically celebrate the birthday of AmyBB25 on 2/25 - she may be far from home but she's close to our hearts — Worth doing!
  11. Mourn the loss of SoCalLifer and find out why she's gone. — Worth doing!
  12. Follow the 12 Minutes to Get Organized routines (www.12minutestogo.com) — Worth doing!
  13. wish Ru a wonderfully special birthday which will envelope all her senses with magic (on April 8th) — Worth doing!
  14. Have sex at least once a week — Worth doing!
  15. create a family schedule because we're getting nothing done around here — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. see fireflies
  2. Try trail running
  3. try the 21-day happiness plan
Read:
  1. Ella Sarah Gets Dressed — Worth consuming!
  2. The Hello, Goodbye Window (Caldecott Medal) — Worth consuming!
  3. Hey, Al — Worth consuming!
  4. Jumanji — Worth consuming!
  5. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi — Worth consuming!
  6. Seven Blind Mice (Reading Railroad) — Worth consuming!
  7. Officer Buckle and Gloria — Worth consuming!
  8. Time Flies — Not worth consuming
  9. Noah's Ark (Picture Yearling Book) — Worth consuming!
  10. Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse: (Reissue; Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
  11. Mirette on the High Wire — Worth consuming!
  12. The Gardener — Worth consuming!
  13. No, David! — Worth consuming!
  14. Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin (Aladdin Picture Books) — Worth consuming!
  15. Frederick — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. wish Moose a magnificent birthday on May 27th! — completed about 1 month later
  2. Send a box of stuffed animals to Iraq
  3. Try to eat locally, seasonally, & organically... 75% of the time
  4. Complete a triathalon
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read 15 books in 2006 — Worth doing!
  2. take the Spring Goal Challenge — Worth doing!
  3. Celebrate with Roux as she turns 26 on May 5th! — Worth doing!
  4. Wish Agent Ish a "simply beautiful" birthday on May 5th! — Worth doing!
  5. Celebrate with Adar as she is ordained as a rabbi on May 18th! — Worth doing!
  6. Go through my classroom books and gear and deal with it all — Worth doing!
  7. Send lots of cheer and cheers to YRush and RoadwarriorXX as they await their new baby! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. join a book club
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Madrona Manor — Worth visiting!
  2. Vatican Museums — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Worth consuming!
  3. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) — Worth consuming!
  4. Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue — Worth consuming!
  5. Love in a Cold Climate — Worth consuming!
  6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  7. Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics)
  8. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs — Worth consuming!
  9. Casino Royale (James Bond Novels) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Crucible (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Little Prince — Worth consuming!
  12. Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  13. Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1) — Worth consuming!
  15. The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Worth consuming!
  4. Dinner at Eight — Worth consuming!
  5. The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Meet Me in St. Louis — Worth consuming!
  9. Ninotchka — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. figure out what is wrong with me
  2. learn to meditate
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. remember to say "rabbit rabbit" on the 1st and hopefully lift the curse we've been under this month — Worth doing!
  2. kiss my husband 10 times a day — Worth doing!
  3. Go for a spa weekend alone — Worth doing!
  4. Love and trust my body — Worth doing!
  5. Celebrate Serenity's "Magical 43" birthday on June 7th with Peace, Light & Love! — Worth doing!
  6. reward my body (hopefully motivating me to use it and love it more) — Worth doing!
  7. Plan gruffgoat an appropriately wonderful 40th birthday celebration — Worth doing!
  8. Wish Trauma_Junkie a Balanced and Less Serious Birthday June 13th — Worth doing!
  9. Run another 5K — Worth doing!
  10. read at least one poem by e.e. cummings per day — Worth doing!
  11. read 25 books in 2007 — Worth doing!
  12. Fall in love — Worth doing!
  13. climb a mountain — Worth doing!
  14. overcome a fear — Worth doing!
  15. Spend a weekend at a spa — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. make art 3 times in 2006
  2. live by the ocean
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Michael Mina — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Three Pigs — Worth consuming!
  2. Goggles (Picture Puffin) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Paperboy (Orchard Paperbacks) — Worth consuming!
  4. Once a Mouse... — Worth consuming!
  5. One Fine Day (Stories to Go!) — Worth consuming!
  6. Green Eyes — Worth consuming!
  7. Madeline's Rescue — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Yojimbo - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give 20,000 cheers!!!
  2. Buy a bottle of Jones Soda with Ru's picture on it
  3. do 50 push ups
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. re-learn how to ride a bike — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Asterisk a Positive Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
  3. Celebrate Fall by systematically purging my home of the unwanted, the superfluous, the broken, the outgrown, and the unloved. — Worth doing!
  4. complete 10 goals before 2007 ends — Worth doing!
  5. Celebrate the 3rd birthday of the chum in an appropriately enthusiastic manner — Worth doing!
  6. Make sleep my priority — Worth doing!
  7. wish Moose a magnificent birthday on May 27th! — Worth doing!
  8. learn to kayak — Worth doing!
  9. Ride my bike to Forestville and back — Worth doing!
  10. Read Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince — Worth doing!
  11. reclaim the garden - it's trying to turn back into a meadow — Worth doing!
  12. pick an instrument, find a music teacher, and start playing — Worth doing!
  13. Help rescue my nephew from his abusive new step-dad — Worth doing!
  14. post randomly — Worth doing!
  15. learn to identify 25 local birds by sight and song — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. break 1 small bad habit each month in 2007
  2. Lose 5 pounds by Dec. 31 so I can start the New Year in a smug, self-satisfied fashion.
  3. Go running every rainy day this winter
  4. actually sell something on eBay
  5. Run another 5K and improve my time
  6. Lose 5 pounds by race day
  7. visit Prince Edward Island and pretend I'm Anne of Green Gables
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Pizzeria Picco
Read:
  1. When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  2. Hide and Seek Fog (Mulberry Books) — Worth consuming!
  3. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Stories to Go!) — Worth consuming!
  4. Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity — Worth consuming!
  5. Free Fall — Worth consuming!
  6. Marshmallow — Worth consuming!
  7. Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Convince Romantic Rosie to come back to 43Things!
  2. Olympics related musings
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. DDR goal: Consistantly score an A on 10 "light" level songs and have 1 "standard" level song I can complete — Worth doing!
  2. have an amazing garden — Worth doing!
  3. post poems, quotes and songs I love — Worth doing!
  4. Fall is here! This season I will let something go (let it fall away). I'll surrender a habit, a person, an excuse I keep using. I choose to surrender it and move forward in my life. This will set me free ;) — Worth doing!
  5. Keep my temper with the little chum — Worth doing!
  6. Help the chum grow and flourish — Worth doing!
  7. Learn to play the piano — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Four and Twenty Blackbirds: A Collection of Old Nursery Rhymes — Not worth consuming
  2. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
  3. April's Kittens (Caldecott Honor Books) — Worth consuming!
  4. Zen Shorts — Worth consuming!
  5. Mei Li — Worth consuming!
  6. First the Egg (Caldecott Honor Book and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) — Worth consuming!

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