Rachael in 2008

2008, so far, is 91% worth living.

In 2005, Rachael did 141 things, went 32 places, met 0 people, and consumed 620 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Work on my Secret Goal — completed 6 months later
  2. read before bed every night — completed 6 months later
  3. spend less time on the internet — completed 5 months later
  4. Use my credit card responsibly — completed 6 months later
  5. get two kittens
  6. Eat smaller meals — completed 14 days later
  7. write an advice letter to my 13-year-old self — completed 2 days later
  8. write poetry — completed 1 day later
  9. Enjoy my work — completed 1 day later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. live passionately — Worth doing!
  2. Give 5000 cheers — Worth doing!
  3. get my Amazon wish lists more organized — Worth doing!
  4. live in europe — Worth doing!
  5. be loved — Worth doing!
  6. meet someone off the internet — Worth doing!
  7. buy a camera — Worth doing!
  8. Get hit on — Not worth doing
  9. walk in the rain — Worth doing!
  10. meet an online friend in person — Worth doing!
  11. redesign my blog
  12. buy less — Worth doing!
  13. own a flemish giant rabbit! — Worth doing!
  14. be a hippie — Worth doing!
  15. cook more — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Wookey Hole — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Long Ships — Worth consuming!
  2. 1001 Symbols : An Illustrated Guide to Symbols and Their Meanings — Worth consuming!
  3. Sharon Osbourne Survivor — Worth consuming!
  4. It Is Just You - Everything's Not Shit — Worth consuming!
  5. Long Way Down — Worth consuming!
  6. My Christmas Craft Book — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. About a Boy
  2. Kasabian — Worth consuming!
  3. Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House — Worth consuming!
  4. Queen - Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 &2 — Worth consuming!
  5. Let Go — Worth consuming!
  6. Anastacia — Worth consuming!
  7. Come on Over — Worth consuming!
  8. Kokopelli — Worth consuming!
  9. Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell — Worth consuming!
  10. Keep the Faith — Worth consuming!
  11. I'm Not Dead — Worth consuming!
  12. Lighthouse Family - Greatest Hits (+2 Bonus Tracks) — Worth consuming!
  13. Hormonally Yours — Worth consuming!
  14. Falling into You — Not worth consuming
  15. Dreams Can Come True: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  2. Coming to America — Worth consuming!
  3. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
  4. Scrubs - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  5. The NeverEnding Story — Worth consuming!
  6. Almost Famous - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. St. Elmo's Fire — Worth consuming!
  8. Top Secret! — Worth consuming!
  9. Bowling for Columbine — Worth consuming!
  10. Miller's Crossing — Not worth consuming
  11. The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. The Matrix Revolutions (2-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Jersey Girl — Worth consuming!
  15. Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming

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February

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. finish reading all the books I've bought — Worth doing!
  2. Eat smaller meals — Worth doing!
  3. write an advice letter to my 13-year-old self — Worth doing!
  4. write poetry — Worth doing!
  5. Enjoy my work — Worth doing!
  6. find a job i love — Worth doing!
  7. exercise daily — Worth doing!
  8. Travel somewhere, anywhere — Worth doing!
  9. Make up a goal timeline for the year - and follow it
  10. get g-mail address — Not worth doing
  11. get at least one cheer for every goal — Worth doing!
  12. take a class
  13. create a board game
  14. create a basic family tree — Worth doing!
  15. start using Flickr — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Umeå — Worth visiting!
  2. Östra Ersboda — Worth visiting!
  3. Nydalahöjd — Worth visiting!
  4. Mariehem — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11) — Worth consuming!
  7. James and the Giant Peach — Worth consuming!
  8. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition — Worth consuming!
  10. Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) — Worth consuming!
  12. Grimms Complete Fairy Tales — Worth consuming!
  13. Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12) — Worth consuming!
  15. The Story of Babar (Babar Books (Random House)) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Twins — Worth consuming!
  2. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid — Worth consuming!
  3. The Dark Crystal — Worth consuming!
  4. Look Who's Talking — Worth consuming!
  5. Cyrano de Bergerac — Worth consuming!
  6. Never Been Kissed — Worth consuming!
  7. White Men Can't Jump — Worth consuming!
  8. The Lost Boys — Worth consuming!
  9. Willow (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Muppets Take Manhattan — Worth consuming!
  11. Weird Science — Worth consuming!
  12. Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York — Worth consuming!
  13. Every Which Way but Loose — Worth consuming!
  14. Brewster's Millions — Worth consuming!
  15. Return of the Pink Panther — Worth consuming!

→ See more from February

March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. kiss erik — completed about 1 month later
  2. Read 1,000 books
  3. make homemade ice cream
  4. experience a white christmas
  5. read a manga — completed 24 days later
  6. build a birdhouse
  7. go to a football match
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Finish my child care course — Worth doing!
  2. stop adding goals until several goals are completed — Worth doing!
  3. hold a snake — Worth doing!
  4. Make my own bread — Worth doing!
  5. Build a snowman — Worth doing!
  6. Tell the next Jehovahs witness to come to your door about a great spaghetti monster — Worth doing!
  7. start a trend — Worth doing!
  8. touch a stingray (they're furry) — Worth doing!
  9. build a house of cards — Worth doing!
  10. Meet someone face-to-face from 43things — Worth doing!
  11. finish a giant jawbreaker — Worth doing!
  12. fill your entire bed with stuffed animals — Worth doing!
  13. tell your boss what you really think about something (but don’t let it end in unemployment) — Worth doing!
  14. have a boyfriend — Worth doing!
  15. have 43things — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to drive
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Stokes Croft — visited 2 days later
  2. Triangle — visited 2 days later
  3. Cam — visited 2 days later
  4. Westbury Park — visited 2 days later
  5. Nailsea — visited 2 days later
  6. Knowle — visited 2 days later
  7. Kingswood — visited 2 days later
  8. Hanham — visited 2 days later
  9. Fishponds — visited 2 days later
  10. Filton — visited 2 days later
  11. City Centre — visited 2 days later
  12. Bristol Cathedral — visited 2 days later
  13. Brislington — visited 2 days later
  14. Bristol Airport — visited 2 days later
  15. Explore-At-Bristol — visited 2 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bristol — Worth visiting!
  2. SS Great Britain — Worth visiting!
  3. Clifton — Worth visiting!
  4. Totterdown — Worth visiting!
  5. Yate — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Stinky Cheese Man 10th Anniversary (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) — Worth consuming!
  2. We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Classic Board Books) — Worth consuming!
  3. Guess How Much I Love You — Worth consuming!
  4. The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking — Worth consuming!
  5. Love You Forever — Worth consuming!
  6. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Great Waldo Search — Worth consuming!
  8. The Tale of Tom Kitten (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Puffin Teenage Books) — Worth consuming!
  10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Worth consuming!
  11. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) — Worth consuming!
  13. The Rainbow Fish — Worth consuming!
  14. Hash — Worth consuming!
  15. Return to Groosham Grange — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Strangeways, Here We Come — Worth consuming!
  2. Either/Or — Worth consuming!
  3. Dear Catastrophe Waitress — Worth consuming!
  4. Long Gone Before Daylight — Worth consuming!
  5. Underachievers Please Try Harder — Worth consuming!
  6. Robyn Is Here — Worth consuming!
  7. The Velvet Rope — Worth consuming!
  8. Greatest Hits — Worth consuming!
  9. Silent Shout — Worth consuming!
  10. Knives Don't Have Your Back — Worth consuming!
  11. The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse — Worth consuming!
  12. Keynsham — Worth consuming!
  13. Tadpoles — Worth consuming!
  14. Gorilla — Worth consuming!
  15. Sleep Through The Static — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set — Worth consuming!
  2. Northern Exposure - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  3. Barton Fink — Not worth consuming
  4. Northern Exposure - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  5. Zulu — Worth consuming!
  6. Northern Exposure - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
  7. Taxi - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  8. That '70s Show - Season 3 — Worth consuming!
  9. M*A*S*H - Season One (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. That '70s Show - Season One — Worth consuming!
  11. Big Momma's House (Full-Screen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  12. Austin Powers: Goldmember — Not worth consuming
  13. Grounded for Life - Season One — Worth consuming!
  14. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Strawberries — Worth consuming!
  2. Chocolate Chip Cookies — Worth consuming!
  3. apple — Not worth consuming
  4. Cheese — Worth consuming!
  5. Pineapple — Worth consuming!
  6. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  7. Cadburys Hot Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  8. Cheesecake — Not worth consuming
  9. Apples — Not worth consuming
  10. fudge brownies — Worth consuming!
  11. gummy bears — Worth consuming!
  12. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  13. Iced Tea — Not worth consuming
  14. Spaghetti — Worth consuming!
  15. Blueberries — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. LEGO — Worth consuming!
  2. We Can Work it Out (single) — Worth consuming!
  3. Daydream Believer - The Monkees (single) — Worth consuming!
  4. Thriller (single) — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. read at least 20 books in 2008
  2. get a passport — completed 3 months later
  3. exercise three times a week
  4. See the Gävle Goat
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get in touch with people I have lost touch with — Not worth doing
  2. Cycle to work — Worth doing!
  3. re-evaluate my goals — Worth doing!
  4. read a manga — Worth doing!
  5. read 200 books — Worth doing!
  6. upload 100 photos to Flickr — Worth doing!
  7. keep a food diary for a week — Worth doing!
  8. drink more water — Worth doing!
  9. Have sex with a Swedish guy
  10. learn 100 words in swedish — Worth doing!
  11. make friends — Not worth doing
  12. Prepare a weekly menu plan — Worth doing!
  13. Get Photoshop — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Keep my family name
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Stokes Croft — Worth visiting!
  2. Triangle — Worth visiting!
  3. Cam — Worth visiting!
  4. Westbury Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Nailsea — Worth visiting!
  6. Knowle — Worth visiting!
  7. Kingswood — Worth visiting!
  8. Hanham — Worth visiting!
  9. Fishponds — Worth visiting!
  10. Filton — Worth visiting!
  11. City Centre — Worth visiting!
  12. Bristol Cathedral — Worth visiting!
  13. Brislington — Worth visiting!
  14. Bristol Airport — Worth visiting!
  15. Explore-At-Bristol — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. Azumanga Daioh, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
  3. Merab's Beauty — Worth consuming!
  4. Merab's Beauty and Other Stories: Including the Way of a Serpent — Worth consuming!
  5. The Way of a Serpent — Worth consuming!
  6. The Lazy Girl's Guide to Beauty — Worth consuming!
  7. Lazy Girls Guide To Good Sex
Listened to:
  1. Cornology [3CD Set] — Worth consuming!
  2. Cornology: the Intro/the Outro/Dog Ends — Worth consuming!
  3. Let's Make Up and Be Friendly — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Victor/Victoria — Worth consuming!
  2. Fracture (Ws) — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. lose 5 pounds
  2. Measure my waist, arms, thighs, hips and chest
  3. Live with Erik
  4. watch 100 movies — completed 27 days later
  5. Own 100 movies — completed 27 days later
  6. Do ten full push-ups — completed 20 days later
  7. finish a sudoku puzzle — completed 18 days later
  8. pull off an april fools prank — completed 20 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. change a diaper — Worth doing!
  2. kiss erik — Worth doing!
  3. have phone sex — Worth doing!
  4. Make Erik fall in love with me
  5. learn how to tie a tie — Worth doing!
  6. have oreos and milk together — Worth doing!
  7. Be in a food fight — Worth doing!
  8. try ten different cheeses — Worth doing!
  9. have a room with a view — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Dalarna
  2. Örebro
  3. The Stockholm Archipelago
  4. Uppsala
  5. Malmo
  6. Göteborg
  7. Visby
  8. Drottningholm
  9. Gavle
  10. Gotland
  11. Carlshem — visited 11 days later
  12. Haga — visited 11 days later
  13. Ålidhem — visited 11 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cosmonova And Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Faceless Killers — Worth consuming!
  2. Azumanga Daioh, Vol. 2 — Worth consuming!
  3. Azumanga Daioh Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
  4. Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallender Mystery) — Worth consuming!
  5. Berlitz Swedish Pocket Dictionary: Swedish - English, Engelsk - Svensk (Berlitz Pocket Dictionary) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  2. 24 Hour Party People — Not worth consuming
  3. Dead Poets Society — Worth consuming!
  4. The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1 — Worth consuming!
  5. Robot Chicken, Season 1 — Worth consuming!
  6. Roseanne - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  7. East Is East — Worth consuming!
  8. Reservoir Dogs - (Mr. Pink) 10th Anniversary Special Limited Edition — Worth consuming!
  9. Jason and the Argonauts — Not worth consuming
  10. Look Around You — Worth consuming!
  11. Pretty in Pink (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) — Worth consuming!
  13. Children of Men — Worth consuming!
  14. The Pursuit of Happyness — Worth consuming!
  15. Spider-Man 3 — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. chocolate chip cookies
  2. Daim — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get rid of clothes I don't wear — completed 8 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. spend less time on the internet — Worth doing!
  2. watch 100 movies — Worth doing!
  3. Own 100 movies — Worth doing!
  4. Do ten full push-ups — Worth doing!
  5. finish a sudoku puzzle — Worth doing!
  6. pull off an april fools prank — Worth doing!
  7. Photograph 43 flowers — Worth doing!
  8. Back up my photos onto a CD — Worth doing!
  9. Update my "recent consumption" — Worth doing!
  10. make bead jewellery — Worth doing!
  11. say hi to a stranger — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Carlshem — Worth visiting!
  2. Liden — Worth visiting!
  3. Haga — Worth visiting!
  4. Ålidhem — Worth visiting!
  5. Keynsham — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season — Not worth consuming
  3. Moonlighting - Seasons 1 & 2 — Worth consuming!
  4. Baby Boom — Worth consuming!
  5. Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Run, Lola, Run — Worth consuming!
  7. My Neighbor Totoro
  8. Stephen Lynch - Live at The El Rey — Worth consuming!
  9. That '70s Show - Season 4 — Worth consuming!
  10. Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set — Worth consuming!
  11. Doctor Who - The Complete First Series — Worth consuming!
  12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season (Slim Set) — Not worth consuming
  13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Third Season (Slim Set) — Not worth consuming
  14. Darkwing Duck, Volume 1 — Worth consuming!
  15. Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. All Consuming — Worth consuming!
  2. 43 Things — Worth consuming!
  3. 43 Places — Worth consuming!
  4. Blogger — Worth consuming!
  5. Flickr — Worth consuming!
  6. last.fm — Worth consuming!
  7. Amazon — Worth consuming!
  8. google — Worth consuming!
  9. Gamecube — Worth consuming!
  10. Lists of Bests — Worth consuming!
  11. LibraryThing — Worth consuming!
  12. Animal Crossing — Worth consuming!
  13. Game Boy — Worth consuming!
  14. Gameboy Advance SP — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. ship my stuff
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Read more books — Worth doing!
  2. stop over-analysing — Worth doing!
  3. Do things because they are right, not because they are easy — Worth doing!
  4. Be sensible with money — Worth doing!
  5. Get out more — Not worth doing
  6. get a job — Worth doing!
  7. help others achieve their goals — Worth doing!
  8. lift weights more often — Worth doing!
  9. kiss my boyfriend more — Worth doing!
  10. kiss in the rain again — Worth doing!
  11. Work on my Secret Goal — Worth doing!
  12. read before bed every night — Worth doing!
  13. get a passport — Worth doing!
  14. Get rid of clothes I don't wear — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy a Nintendo Wii
  2. take a picture every day for an entire year
  3. take a picture of myself every day for an entire year
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Prior Park — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Worth consuming!
  2. Face/Off — Worth consuming!
  3. That '70s Show - Season 5 — Worth consuming!
  4. Goldfinger (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Jungle Book (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Graduate (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs — Not worth consuming

→ See more from July

August

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. fall in love again — Worth doing!
  2. give away books I no longer want — Worth doing!
  3. Use my credit card responsibly — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn British Sign Language
Read:
  1. A Dream Play — Worth consuming!
  2. Favourite Sweets and Toffee Recipes: Traditional Home-made Confectionary (Favourite Recipies Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. English Teatime Recipes: Traditional Cakes from Around the Shires (Favourite Recipes Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. Favourite Home Made Cake Recipes — Worth consuming!
  5. Markings — Not worth consuming
  6. Favourite Chocolate Recipes (Favourite Recipes Series) — Worth consuming!
  7. Favourite Biscuit Recipes (Favourite Recipes Series) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Ed Wood (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Schindler's List — Worth consuming!
  3. The Dark Knight — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August


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