Sarah - spunky the pop monkey in 2006
2006 was 98% worth living.
In 2005, Sarah - spunky the pop monkey
did 175 things,
went 2 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 24 products.
April
Added to 43 Things:
- get blue23's email — completed 5 days later
- take more photographs — completed 17 days later
- spring clean — completed 15 days later
- make more jewelry — completed 17 days later
- learn to garden — completed 17 days later
- Write more — completed 19 days later
- get paid to do what i love — completed 23 days later
- live passionately — completed 29 days later
- be amazing — completed 28 days later
- Learn about classical music — completed 69 days later
- learn about wine — completed 69 days later
- be more zen — completed 84 days later
- sell more stuff on eBay — completed 93 days later
- love passionatly — completed 97 days later
- finish unfinished knitting projects — completed 99 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- orgasm — Worth doing!
- clean out my car — Worth doing!
- Kiss in the rain — Worth doing!
- Go to Disney World — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Burlington — Worth visiting!
- Charlotte — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Read:
- The Lovely Bones — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Lost in Translation — Worth consuming!
- Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
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May
Added to 43 Things:
- own a purse-pal — completed 10 days later
- look into getting TESOL certified — completed 27 days later
- tell my parents i am over 4 months pregnant — completed 21 days later
- see United 93 — completed 26 days later
- post my resume to at least 3 job sites — completed 14 days later
- take more black and white photographs — completed 51 days later
- apply more innovative ideas to my life — completed 84 days later
- disclose 43 random THINGS about myself — completed 65 days later
- blog — completed 93 days later
- watch Grey's Anatomy — completed 101 days later
- Give 100 cheers — completed 224 days later
- Make a quilt — completed 306 days later
- Send 20 Postcards with Postcrossing — completed 286 days later
- go on a double date with my bestfriend — completed 535 days later
- make a corkboard out of wine corks — completed 530 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- get blue23's email — Worth doing!
- take more photographs — Worth doing!
- spring clean — Worth doing!
- make more jewelry — Worth doing!
- learn to garden — Worth doing!
- blog more — Worth doing!
- Write more — Worth doing!
- read 'a million little pieces' — Worth doing!
- join bookcrossing.com — Worth doing!
- drink less coffee — Worth doing!
- get a tatoo — Worth doing!
- Quit Smoking — Worth doing!
- dye my hair — Not worth doing
- be ambidextrous — Worth doing!
- fix my sleeping schedule — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Watched:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Worth consuming!
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June
Added to 43 Things:
- Get a tattoo that has meaning — completed 3 days later
- apply for WIC — completed 10 days later
- sell things on etsy — completed 30 days later
- design something i love — completed 50 days later
- get in contact with Bethany about open adoptions — completed 460 days later
- make greg buy me a NEW toothbrush — completed 503 days later
- start applying my knowledge of food and good health to my daily life — completed 512 days later
- regularly deposit money into a savings account i don't have easy access to
Completed on 43 Things:
- own a purse-pal — Worth doing!
- look into getting TESOL certified — Worth doing!
- tell my parents i am over 4 months pregnant — Worth doing!
- see United 93 — Worth doing!
- Give 300 cheers. — Worth doing!
- tell both my siblings that i am pregnant — Worth doing!
- post my resume to at least 3 job sites — Worth doing!
- give 3 cheers for great wake up calls — Worth doing!
- join Craftster.org — Worth doing!
- do more crafts — Worth doing!
- make a to-do list for today and do them ALL — Worth doing!
- wear my hair curly for greg — Worth doing!
- watch charlie and lola — Worth doing!
- Give 400 cheers. — Worth doing!
- cut my hair — Worth doing!
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July
Added to 43 Things:
- Have a baby — completed 147 days later
- figure out what i want to do — completed 409 days later
- write letters to my future husband — completed 449 days later
- learn how to wire wrap
Completed on 43 Things:
- Get a tattoo that has meaning — Worth doing!
- Take vitamins daily — Worth doing!
- write down Q's and remember to ask them — Worth doing!
- go to my first dr's appointment — Worth doing!
- take a photography class — Worth doing!
- make a snow angel — Worth doing!
- be more zen — Worth doing!
- apply for WIC — Worth doing!
- Give 700 cheers — Worth doing!
- ask my ex a few important questions about his family that have to do with the baby — Worth doing!
- watch fraggle rock again — Worth doing!
- make banana bread — Worth doing!
- sell things on etsy — Worth doing!
- sell more stuff on eBay — Worth doing!
- "Cheer" up Charlie — Worth doing!
Read:
- Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Crimson Petal and the White — Worth consuming!
- Neverwhere — Worth consuming!
- The Secret Life of Bees — Worth consuming!
- Speed of Dark, The — Worth consuming!
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August
Added to 43 Things:
- move the other shelf into my room — completed 40 days later
- Crochet a baby blanket. — completed 206 days later
- be the most beautiful and amazing Sarah that I am — completed 588 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- design something i love — Worth doing!
- Revamp my blog — Worth doing!
- Start the Wikipedia Birthday Search — Worth doing!
- Take out the trash — Worth doing!
- do my laundry — Worth doing!
- clean the bathroom — Worth doing!
- organize my fabrics — Worth doing!
- organize my CDs — Worth doing!
- Build a blog — Worth doing!
- blog — Worth doing!
- add my 43things to my weblog — Worth doing!
- Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
- get a facial — Worth doing!
- drink more water — Worth doing!
- To live instead of exist — Worth doing!
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September
Added to 43 Things:
- go through last box in garage — completed 8 days later
- set up the basinet — completed 10 days later
- Fill out and mail my Hospital Registration forms — completed 51 days later
- go through my old file box, weed out, shred, integrate new — completed 51 days later
- finish packing my "hospital" bag — completed 228 days later
- learn that nothing is impossible and nothing is definate — completed 457 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Get baskets to fit in the second shelf — Worth doing!
- mail back blockbuster online movies — Worth doing!
- move the other shelf into my room — Worth doing!
- do one last double check of all the stuff in the "to hospital" bag — Worth doing!
- finish packing up the earrings for the swap and mail them — Worth doing!
- wash sheets and last of the laundry — Worth doing!
- get out the camera and take all film rolls(from God knows when) to be developed — Worth doing!
- clear the floors & vaccum — Worth doing!
Read:
- Lucky: A Memoir
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
- Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans — Worth consuming!
- Mr. Maybe: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- To Have and To Hold: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Shopaholic & Sister — Worth consuming!
- A Million Little Pieces — Worth consuming!
- Shopaholic Ties the Knot — Worth consuming!
- Confessions of a Shopaholic — Worth consuming!
- Night — Worth consuming!
- The Undomestic Goddess — Worth consuming!
- Shopaholic Takes Manhattan — Worth consuming!
- Wild Child: Life with Jim Morrison — Worth consuming!
- Dawn: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Caramel Macchiato — Worth consuming!
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October
Added to 43 Things:
- work through breastfeeding woes — completed 19 days later
- sort the scarf stash and get them posted to etsy — completed 81 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- go through last box in garage — Worth doing!
- set up the basinet — Worth doing!
- learn texas hold'em — Worth doing!
- make an informed decision about diapers — Worth doing!
- Fill out and mail my Hospital Registration forms — Worth doing!
- go through my old file box, weed out, shred, integrate new — Worth doing!
- Participate in NANOWRIMO — Worth doing!
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November
Added to 43 Things:
- spread the word about Threadless T's — completed 36 days later
- visit the farmers market more often — completed 536 days later
- raise my daughter to be a music junkie too
Completed on 43 Things:
- go to a bad movie and make out in the back row — Worth doing!
- work through breastfeeding woes — Not worth doing
- Write more thank you notes — Worth doing!
- give him the benefit of the doubt — Worth doing!
- give him a second chance — Worth doing!
- Have a baby — Worth doing!
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December
Added to 43 Things:
- Stay motivated and follow through on my commitments — completed 26 days later
- reduce, reuse, recycle — completed 303 days later
- learn double-knitting
Completed on 43 Things:
- spread the word about Threadless T's — Worth doing!
- Give 100 cheers — Worth doing!
- sort the scarf stash and get them posted to etsy — Worth doing!
- design an adorable baby hat — Worth doing!
