Stephanie in 2006

2006 was 92% worth living.

In 2005, Stephanie did 107 things, went 5 places, met 0 people, and consumed 71 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. find out why everyone has suddenly gone David Hasselhoff crazy. — completed 3 days later
  2. give 500 cheers — completed 8 months later
  3. Go a whole month only buying food and other necessities — completed about 1 year later
  4. post randomly — completed about 1 year later
  5. stop defining myself by my failures — completed about 1 year later
  6. Watch all my VHS tapes and get rid of them. — completed about 1 year later
  7. Kick more ass — completed about 1 year later
  8. figure out what i really want to do with my life, and revise my 43things list accordingly — completed about 1 year later
  9. Have a totally different life by this time next year — completed over 2 years later
  10. make people understand that declawing a cat is a painful unnecessary surgery and there are better ways to deal with cat's scratching — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Give 300 cheers. — Worth doing!
  2. get 42 people to display this goal in their list — Worth doing!
  3. learn to back gracefully out of ridiculous online arguments — Worth doing!
  4. Say hi to all the people subscribed to me at 43 things. — Worth doing!
  5. start using del.icio.us — Worth doing!
  6. consider starting a LiveJournal — Worth doing!
  7. Give 453 cheers — Worth doing!
  8. Give 256 cheers — Worth doing!
  9. not get on the h-hoff bandwagon... just like that... — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Seattle — visited 10 months later
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Charlie
  2. The Robots — met about 1 year later
Read:
  1. Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! — Not worth consuming
  2. The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl — Worth consuming!
  4. Remember Me — Worth consuming!
  5. I'll Be Seeing You — Worth consuming!
  6. Loves Music, Loves to Dance — Worth consuming!
  7. The Lottery Winner: Alvirah And Willy Stories — Worth consuming!
  8. James Earl Jones Reads the Bible — Worth consuming!
  9. Praying for the Impossible: What to Do When You Must Have a Miracle (Charismatic Classics)
  10. Stowaway and Milk Run: Two Unabridged Stories From Mary Higgins Clark — Worth consuming!
  11. All Around the Town — Worth consuming!
  12. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon — Worth consuming!
  13. While My Pretty One Sleeps — Worth consuming!
  14. The Anastasia Syndrome: And Other Stories (G.K. Hall Large Print General Series) — Worth consuming!
  15. Let Me Call You Sweetheart — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Shawshank Redemption — Worth consuming!
  2. The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. A Bronx Tale — Worth consuming!
  5. Pride and Prejudice — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. del.icio.us
  2. Generic Value Products Moisturizing Conditioner — Worth consuming!
  3. Generic Value Products Moisturizing Shampoo — Worth consuming!
  4. USA Today — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. renew my driver's license — completed 7 days later
  2. get as many people to say happy birthday... — completed 9 days later
  3. compile a 100-things-about-me list — completed 25 days later
  4. Get rid of stuff — completed 2 months later
  5. upload my photos to Flickr — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. start a blog — Worth doing!
  2. find out why everyone has suddenly gone David Hasselhoff crazy. — Worth doing!
  3. buy a digital camera — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Nighttime Is My Time: A Novel
  2. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Standard Deviants - Learn Nutrition
  2. The Standard Deviants - Learn Biology

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Send lots of love and support to "thatgirlsab" on the loss of her dad — completed 11 days later
  2. Make a timeline for my goal. — completed about 1 month later
  3. transfer my CNA license — completed 5 months later
  4. Dump toxic relationships — completed about 1 year later
  5. Make more "real" friends
  6. Complete four "things" a month
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. renew my driver's license — Worth doing!
  2. get as many people to say happy birthday... — Worth doing!
  3. get a Orkut Invitation — Not worth doing
  4. learn how to use chopsticks — Worth doing!
  5. get revenge — Not worth doing
  6. Make a few international friends — Worth doing!
  7. compile a 100-things-about-me list — Not worth doing
  8. witness a birth — Worth doing!
  9. Focus on the people you love and care about ( and who love and care about you) and forget about the rest. — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Flirt is as corny as Kansas in August!
Read:
  1. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life — Worth consuming!
  2. The Old Man and The Sea — Worth consuming!
  3. Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust — Worth consuming!
  4. Leadership Promises for Every Day — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Thumbsucker
  2. Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo - Instructional Workout, Basic, Advanced, 8-Minute Workout
  3. The Standard Deviants - English Grammar, Part 1 — Worth consuming!
  4. 24
Consumed:
  1. Brunch — Worth consuming!
  2. Grits — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Kodak Easy Share Camera — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. kiss the rain — completed 1 day later
  2. set up telephone banking — completed 3 days later
  3. meet Stephanie — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find an alternative to owning a car — Worth doing!
  2. post random confessions — Worth doing!
  3. Send lots of love and support to "thatgirlsab" on the loss of her dad — Worth doing!
  4. Get as many people as possible to wish ndelamiko lord a happy birthday on April 13th! — Worth doing!
  5. Get rid of stuff — Worth doing!
  6. cuss rarely and only when it will have high rhetorical impact — Worth doing!
  7. pick myself back up — Worth doing!
  8. focus on my goals — Worth doing!
  9. Share insights about how to use 43Things to best advantage, how it can be an aid to accomplishment, not a distraction — Worth doing!
  10. Celebrate Joyjoei's ?? birthday on April 26th!!! — Worth doing!
  11. Pop Bubble wrap — Worth doing!
  12. change banks — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Do NaNoWriMo
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Soul Vegetarian
  2. Moosewood Restaurant
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Quincy — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. K-Pax — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Monk - Season One
Consumed:
  1. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups — Worth consuming!
  2. Reese's Pieces — Worth consuming!
  3. Cadbury Creme Egg — Worth consuming!
  4. Snickers Candy Bar — Worth consuming!
  5. Tea and tea cookies — Worth consuming!
  6. Candy corn — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. stop explaining myself — completed 5 months later
  2. Create a budget, and stick with it
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. kiss Nielmalan — Worth doing!
  2. kiss the rain — Worth doing!
  3. set up telephone banking — Worth doing!
  4. hug a tree — Worth doing!
  5. Send love and hugs to Bookish — Worth doing!
  6. Make a timeline for my goal. — Worth doing!
  7. swear less — Worth doing!
  8. where shorts in the winter — Worth doing!
  9. meet an eskimo — Worth doing!
  10. Be careful about who I give my 43things link to — Worth doing!
  11. wish Chuq a Happy Birthday! — Worth doing!
  12. not care how many people are subscribed to me and not worry about who they might be — Worth doing!
  13. Stop the addiction to sugar. — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Sydney
Read:
  1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Not worth consuming
  2. Northern Exposure - The Complete Fourth Season — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Milk — Worth consuming!
  2. Vegetarian Lasagna — Worth consuming!
  3. Orange Soda
  4. salsa & chips
  5. Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!
  6. blue corn tortilla chips — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. upload all books and music — completed 23 days later
  2. ship my stuff — completed about 1 month later
  3. close my bank account — completed 8 months later
  4. update my resume — completed about 1 year later
  5. "Cheer" up Charlie — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. celebrate Shoemaker's 43rd birthday (june 5th, 2006) on 43 things — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Serenity a Happy Birthday!!! — Worth doing!
  3. Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
  4. laugh until you're stupid — Worth doing!
  5. love a cat — Worth doing!
  6. see the ocean — Worth doing!
  7. cry from happiness — Worth doing!
  8. be loved by a child — Worth doing!
  9. speak out about what you believe — Worth doing!
  10. help someone less fortunate — Worth doing!
  11. Defend the underdog — Worth doing!
  12. try a new food and be pleasantly surprised — Worth doing!
  13. put an asshole in their place — Worth doing!
  14. be the patient one in an argument — Worth doing!
  15. fly in a plane — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Alaska Zoo — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Seattle Including Bellevue, Redmond, Everett, and Tacoma — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Chocolate Covered Cherries — Worth consuming!
  2. white chocolate — Worth consuming!
  3. spinach salad — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be a tourist in my own town — completed 26 days later
  2. Start a Journal/Diary Exchange Project With People From 43 Things — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. upload all books and music — Worth doing!
  2. Wish everyone a very merry unbirthday at AbbeyNormal's Week-long "Virtual" Mad Tea Party!
  3. Vote Flirt "Miss Congeniality-43Things" — Worth doing!
  4. get everyone to switch their avatar (picture)to a butterfly — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Martha's Vineyard — visited 18 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Springfield — Not worth visiting
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. starynyte

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. find a job — completed 16 days later
  2. stop dressing like a homeless person..because I have a home. — completed 8 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Send Get-Well Wishes and Hugs to Flirt!
  2. transfer my CNA license — Worth doing!
  3. mail a postcard to The Robots from one of my 43 Places — Worth doing!
  4. figure out flickr — Worth doing!
  5. upload my photos to Flickr — Worth doing!
  6. Declare 8/13 to 8/19 Hanna Barbera Cartoon Character avatar week — Worth doing!
  7. get cable internet — Worth doing!
  8. Get a library card — Worth doing!
  9. make and eat a tuna fish sandwich. — Worth doing!
  10. be a tourist in my own town — Worth doing!
  11. ship my stuff — Not worth doing
  12. Get People on 43 Things to wish Sister Golden Hair Surprise a speedy recovery. — Worth doing!
  13. get out of massachusetts — Worth doing!
  14. Send a SMILE to Malc!!! — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Martha's Vineyard — Worth visiting!
Consumed:
  1. Cranberry Satin - Cranberry Grape Wine — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. learn to take the bus — completed about 1 month later
  2. stop interrupting people — completed 5 months later
  3. Get over my crippling shyness — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find a job
  2. get the first season of 4400 — Worth doing!
  3. Get a postcard from Flirt — Worth doing!
  4. be happy alone — Worth doing!
  5. Help Niel Malan have a "wild and crazy" virtual birthday party!!! — Worth doing!
Watched:
  1. The 4400 - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get over my cold — completed 16 days later
  2. use 43things.com for 1 year — completed about 1 month later
  3. run for a bus — completed about 1 month later
  4. start a book club
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
  2. learn to take the bus — Worth doing!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. pimp my blog — completed 11 months later
  2. stop wasting time — completed 11 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get over my cold — Worth doing!
  2. Fix my laptop
  3. stop explaining myself — Worth doing!
  4. Wish YouDontKnowMe a frikken AWESOME birthday on Nov. 4th! — Worth doing!
  5. live in a big city — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Maggie the Cat a stupendously-brilliant birthday on November 19th!!! — Worth doing!
  7. use 43things.com for 1 year — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Seattle — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life — Worth consuming!
  2. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere — Worth consuming!
  3. Someone I Loved — Worth consuming!
  4. For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
Watched:
  1. Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Sixth Season — Worth consuming!
  2. The Graduate (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  3. K-Pax

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Win a Public Defender Blog Award! — completed 10 days later
  2. Blame Josh — completed 10 months later
  3. prove that I love Flirt more — completed 10 months later
  4. Get Chuq to share the secrets of the giraffe!!! — completed 10 months later
  5. meet someone from 43 things — completed 10 months later
  6. go back to school
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. cheer on Benji and Speedy as they complete their secret goal! — Worth doing!
  2. recognise Failure as a Sign for Change and Action — Worth doing!
  3. Have Flirt dedicate a song to me!!! — Worth doing!
  4. Click on the sponsors' advertisements to help pay for the 43things service — Worth doing!
  5. spend less time discussing life on the 'Net and more time actually doing all the things I envision. — Worth doing!
  6. Throw Ms. Oh-So-Fine-and-Sexy, Wanna-Be Dr. B, Soon-to-Be Mrs. > Wonderful a simply *DIVINE* birthday party on December 17th!!! — Worth doing!
  7. run for a bus — Not worth doing
Read:
  1. Mars and Venus in the Workplace [Unabridged] [Audiobook] Recorded Books Gray, John, Ph.D. — Worth consuming!

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