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.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- Eat 6 servings of fruits & vegetables a day for 10 days in a row — completed 18 days later
- Print out some of my important 43things goals and make a book out of them — completed about 1 month later
- Have G.A.'s chair reupholstered
- Celebrate the 3rd birthday of the chum in an appropriately enthusiastic manner — completed 5 months later
- Make sleep my priority — completed 5 months later
- Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
- post 43 pictures of where I live
Completed on 43 Things:
- Share in the 2007 43Things holiday card exchange — Worth doing!
- Vote for Ms. Bryce to win an appearance on Lifetime's "How to Look Good Naked" — Worth doing!
- Get kissed under the mistletoe — Worth doing!
- compile a 100-things-about-me list — Worth doing!
- Wish Taz a happy (though slightly belated) January 10th birthday! — Worth doing!
- Weekly - list 3 low priority things and do them — Worth doing!
- Participate in Friday meetings of the 43T Finer Things Club — Worth doing!
- give 15,000 cheers — Worth doing!
- Give 10,000 cheers — Worth doing!
- Go away for a romantic weekend with my husband — Worth doing!
- Help Julie Jordan Scott Have The Best Birthday Ever On Jan.29th — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Bouchon — Worth visiting!
- Sebastopol — Worth visiting!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- truly celebrate the next special day in 2008: Waterfall Nymph's birthday on February 24! — completed about 1 month later
- 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
- learn to kayak — completed 4 months later
- Read all the Caldecott winners and honor winners to/ with my child
- Always keep a LIVING flower in the vase by the sink
Completed on 43 Things:
- Wish YRUSH a Happy Birthday (Feb 1) — Worth doing!
- Sing Happy Birthday to Romantic Rosie on February 2nd as she turns 40! — Worth doing!
- vote on 5 February 2008 - Super Tuesday ! — Worth doing!
- make a list of books starring Girls! — Worth doing!
- Deal with my grandmother's things — Worth doing!
- Eat 6 servings of fruits & vegetables a day for 10 days in a row — Worth doing!
- Print out some of my important 43things goals and make a book out of them — Worth doing!
- Keep a journal — Worth doing!
- Stop spending money like a madcap heiress - because I'm not one! — Worth doing!
- make a birthday cake that looks and tastes fabulous — Worth doing!
- Squirt Breath Spray in my Eyes to Celebrate LL's Birthday on February 18th — Worth doing!
- Get 100 cheers on a goal — Worth doing!
- Wish Fishboy Matty a half-fast, fun-filled, pants-free 40th birthday on February 23nd — Worth doing!
- organize the living room bookshelves - Now! with additional toy storage! — Worth doing!
- have my backyard certified as a wildlife habitat — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Sector 7 (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
- In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection) — Worth consuming!
- Caddie Woodlawn — Worth consuming!
- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices — Worth consuming!
- The Little House — Worth consuming!
- Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (An Owlet Book) — Worth consuming!
- The Little House — Worth consuming!
- Inch by Inch — Worth consuming!
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! — Worth consuming!
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale — Worth consuming!
- Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest — Worth consuming!
- King Bidgood's in the Bathtub — Worth consuming!
- Outside Over There (Caldecott Collection) — Worth consuming!
- Flotsam (Caldecott Medal Book) — Worth consuming!
- Where the Wild Things Are — Worth consuming!
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- Follow the 12 Minutes to Get Organized routines (www.12minutestogo.com) — completed 16 days later
- walk across the Golden Gate bridge
Completed on 43 Things:
- Wish Mahinui a fabulous, worry-free birthday on March 3rd! — Worth doing!
- Wish GrammaG a fun-filled 31st birthday on March 5th! — Worth doing!
- Give Lynner a big 43birthday hug on March 5th! — Worth doing!
- Mourn the loss of geek deity Gary Gygax — Worth doing!
- do my job well enough that I don't feel guilty: subgoal: reorganize our google words — Worth doing!
- Wish Doris a Blessed, Peaceful, Energetic and Fun-filled Birthday on March 13th — Worth doing!
- go out dancing — Worth doing!
- wish the wonderful picasso's muse a wonderful, stunning, fabulous and HUG WORTHY b'day on March 17, cause she rocks xxx — Worth doing!
- Eat no bread (or breadlike substances) for 7 days — Worth doing!
- Wish George a fabulous, beyond fabulous and very Happy Birthday on March 20th — Worth doing!
- Do the Couch to 5k running plan — Worth doing!
- choose a signature cocktail — Worth doing!
- Stick with and achieve my WEEKLY fitness goals, which I KNOW make me happier and healthier — Worth doing!
- 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!
- Revise Crazyinagoodway's spreadsheet and see if it brings housekeeping satisfaction — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- The Red Book (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
- Kitten's First Full Moon — Worth consuming!
- Tar Beach — Worth consuming!
- My Friend Rabbit — Worth consuming!
- The Snowy Day — Worth consuming!
- Truck — Worth consuming!
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- Go through my classroom books and gear and deal with it all — completed about 1 month later
- Plan gruffgoat an appropriately wonderful 40th birthday celebration — completed about 1 month later
- Lose 5 pounds by race day
- Learn to identify the butterflies I see in the garden
Completed on 43 Things:
- do 100 crunches a day for 100 days — Worth doing!
- wean my child gently — Worth doing!
- Celebrate the chum's 2nd birthday amazingly — Worth doing!
- add rewards to all my goals that aren't rewards in themselves — Worth doing!
- create the ultimate running playlist — Worth doing!
- do one nice thing for myself every day — Worth doing!
- interview my son on video every year — Worth doing!
- have myself a merry little christmas — Worth doing!
- truly celebrate the next special day in 2008: Waterfall Nymph's birthday on February 24! — Worth doing!
- Enthusiastically celebrate the birthday of AmyBB25 on 2/25 - she may be far from home but she's close to our hearts — Worth doing!
- Mourn the loss of SoCalLifer and find out why she's gone. — Worth doing!
- Follow the 12 Minutes to Get Organized routines (www.12minutestogo.com) — Worth doing!
- wish Ru a wonderfully special birthday which will envelope all her senses with magic (on April 8th) — Worth doing!
- Have sex at least once a week — Worth doing!
- create a family schedule because we're getting nothing done around here — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Ella Sarah Gets Dressed — Worth consuming!
- The Hello, Goodbye Window (Caldecott Medal) — Worth consuming!
- Hey, Al — Worth consuming!
- Jumanji — Worth consuming!
- The Garden of Abdul Gasazi — Worth consuming!
- Seven Blind Mice (Reading Railroad) — Worth consuming!
- Officer Buckle and Gloria — Worth consuming!
- Time Flies — Not worth consuming
- Noah's Ark (Picture Yearling Book) — Worth consuming!
- Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse: (Reissue; Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
- Mirette on the High Wire — Worth consuming!
- The Gardener — Worth consuming!
- No, David! — Worth consuming!
- Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin (Aladdin Picture Books) — Worth consuming!
- Frederick — Worth consuming!
→ See more from April
May
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- read 15 books in 2006 — Worth doing!
- take the Spring Goal Challenge — Worth doing!
- Celebrate with Roux as she turns 26 on May 5th! — Worth doing!
- Wish Agent Ish a "simply beautiful" birthday on May 5th! — Worth doing!
- Celebrate with Adar as she is ordained as a rabbi on May 18th! — Worth doing!
- Go through my classroom books and gear and deal with it all — Worth doing!
- Send lots of cheer and cheers to YRush and RoadwarriorXX as they await their new baby! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Madrona Manor — Worth visiting!
- Vatican Museums — Worth visiting!
Read:
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Worth consuming!
- Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) — Worth consuming!
- Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue — Worth consuming!
- Love in a Cold Climate — Worth consuming!
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics)
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs — Worth consuming!
- Casino Royale (James Bond Novels) — Worth consuming!
- The Crucible (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Little Prince — Worth consuming!
- Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1) — Worth consuming!
- The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Worth consuming!
- Dinner at Eight — Worth consuming!
- The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Meet Me in St. Louis — Worth consuming!
- Ninotchka — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- remember to say "rabbit rabbit" on the 1st and hopefully lift the curse we've been under this month — Worth doing!
- kiss my husband 10 times a day — Worth doing!
- Go for a spa weekend alone — Worth doing!
- Love and trust my body — Worth doing!
- Celebrate Serenity's "Magical 43" birthday on June 7th with Peace, Light & Love! — Worth doing!
- reward my body (hopefully motivating me to use it and love it more) — Worth doing!
- Plan gruffgoat an appropriately wonderful 40th birthday celebration — Worth doing!
- Wish Trauma_Junkie a Balanced and Less Serious Birthday June 13th — Worth doing!
- Run another 5K — Worth doing!
- read at least one poem by e.e. cummings per day — Worth doing!
- read 25 books in 2007 — Worth doing!
- Fall in love — Worth doing!
- climb a mountain — Worth doing!
- overcome a fear — Worth doing!
- Spend a weekend at a spa — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Michael Mina — Worth visiting!
Read:
- The Three Pigs — Worth consuming!
- Goggles (Picture Puffin) — Worth consuming!
- The Paperboy (Orchard Paperbacks) — Worth consuming!
- Once a Mouse... — Worth consuming!
- One Fine Day (Stories to Go!) — Worth consuming!
- Green Eyes — Worth consuming!
- Madeline's Rescue — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Yojimbo - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- re-learn how to ride a bike — Worth doing!
- Wish Asterisk a Positive Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
- Celebrate Fall by systematically purging my home of the unwanted, the superfluous, the broken, the outgrown, and the unloved. — Worth doing!
- complete 10 goals before 2007 ends — Worth doing!
- Celebrate the 3rd birthday of the chum in an appropriately enthusiastic manner — Worth doing!
- Make sleep my priority — Worth doing!
- wish Moose a magnificent birthday on May 27th! — Worth doing!
- learn to kayak — Worth doing!
- Ride my bike to Forestville and back — Worth doing!
- Read Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince — Worth doing!
- reclaim the garden - it's trying to turn back into a meadow — Worth doing!
- pick an instrument, find a music teacher, and start playing — Worth doing!
- Help rescue my nephew from his abusive new step-dad — Worth doing!
- post randomly — Worth doing!
- learn to identify 25 local birds by sight and song — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
- break 1 small bad habit each month in 2007
- Lose 5 pounds by Dec. 31 so I can start the New Year in a smug, self-satisfied fashion.
- Go running every rainy day this winter
- actually sell something on eBay
- Run another 5K and improve my time
- Lose 5 pounds by race day
- visit Prince Edward Island and pretend I'm Anne of Green Gables
Added to 43 Places:
Read:
- When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
- Hide and Seek Fog (Mulberry Books) — Worth consuming!
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Stories to Go!) — Worth consuming!
- Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity — Worth consuming!
- Free Fall — Worth consuming!
- Marshmallow — Worth consuming!
- Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- DDR goal: Consistantly score an A on 10 "light" level songs and have 1 "standard" level song I can complete — Worth doing!
- have an amazing garden — Worth doing!
- post poems, quotes and songs I love — Worth doing!
- 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!
- Keep my temper with the little chum — Worth doing!
- Help the chum grow and flourish — Worth doing!
- Learn to play the piano — Worth doing!
Read:
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds: A Collection of Old Nursery Rhymes — Not worth consuming
- What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
- April's Kittens (Caldecott Honor Books) — Worth consuming!
- Zen Shorts — Worth consuming!
- Mei Li — Worth consuming!
- First the Egg (Caldecott Honor Book and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) — Worth consuming!
