redbandita in 2008

2008, so far, is 97% worth living.

In 2005, redbandita did 69 things, went 10 places, met 0 people, and consumed 62 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Apply for a credit card — completed 31 days later
  2. Fund micro-loans through Kiva.org — completed 34 days later
  3. sort out the financial year 2007 — completed 79 days later
  4. check out and plan travel arrangements for the family reunion in March — completed 83 days later
  5. see my tax lady — completed 79 days later
  6. get quotes from real estate agencies
  7. learn some Irish
  8. fit some meditation time into my day
  9. learn some Spanish
  10. create a place in memory of Rose Tenace
  11. get-ready-for-sale: do the bedroom
  12. get-ready-for-sale: do the living room
  13. get-ready-for-sale: do the kitchen
  14. get-ready-for-sale: do the bathroom
  15. declutter the bedroom drawers while applying time limits with the egg timer
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. enjoy christmas tree avatar week 2007 — Not worth doing
  2. complain about Copy Control technology — Not worth doing
  3. plant bags 'n bags of bulbs — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. do another secret thing
  2. go ice skating
  3. join Amnesty International's Greetings Card Campaign 2007
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Schlenkerla — visited 71 days later
  2. Bamberg — visited 71 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. 18twintig — Not worth visiting
Read:
  1. The God Delusion — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Our Earthly Pleasures — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. 40 Days & 40 Nights
  2. Shallow Hal — Worth consuming!
  3. Signs (Vista Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers — Worth consuming!
  5. Bourne Ultimatum — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
  2. be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a picture frame for that holiday memento — Worth doing!
  2. control my spending — Worth doing!
  3. declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week — Worth doing!
  4. Apply for a credit card — Worth doing!
  5. Celebrate Darwin Day on 12-02 — Worth doing!
  6. share more books via www.bookcrossing.com — Worth doing!
  7. Wish Stu a healthy, peaceful, tasteful (but not too-tasteful) birthday on February 18! (With some crazy fun and a few pygmy goats thrown in...) — Worth doing!
  8. Read all Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett — Not worth doing
  9. Celebrate Adar's Accomplishment on 43Things with Cheers and Toasts — Worth doing!
  10. declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — Worth doing!
  11. spend at least 10 minutes every day cleaning, organizing or decluttering — Not worth doing
  12. write those letters and e-mails — Worth doing!
  13. talk less, listen more — Worth doing!
  14. slow down and THINK!!! — Not worth doing
  15. wear more hats — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. see "lose weight" kicked out of the 43things all time top ten list of goals
  2. spring clean before spring
  3. Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
  4. renovate the appartment
  5. renew my permanent residence permit
Watched:
  1. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Jackie Chan - The Myth — Not worth consuming
  3. The Simpsons Movie (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Stardust (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Varekai

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March

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop throwing clothes on the floor — Worth doing!
  2. find a cute dress for my sister's wedding — Worth doing!
  3. manage my anger — Worth doing!
  4. wish the wondrous Headapollo a philosophical, caffeinated, drugged-up and cough-free birthday on March 4th — Worth doing!
  5. plant a garden — Not worth doing
  6. make use of the office gym — Worth doing!
  7. figure out the health insurance subsidy claim — Not worth doing
  8. make a belly-time quilt for my baby nephew — Not worth doing
  9. get out of the hole again — Not worth doing
  10. Give 4300 cheers — Worth doing!
  11. drink more water — Worth doing!
  12. Celebrate my first smoke free year by cheering 365 random people with "Stop smoking goals" — Worth doing!
  13. get a flickr pro account — Not worth doing
  14. Shorten my new black pants — Worth doing!
  15. sort out the financial year 2007 — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. replace the kitchen window with a door to the garden
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Schlenkerla — Worth visiting!
  2. Bamberg — Worth visiting!
  3. Würzburg Residence & Gardens — Worth visiting!
  4. Würzburg — Not worth visiting
  5. Nürnberg — Worth visiting!
  6. Kaiserburg Castle — Worth visiting!
  7. Sculpture Of Dürer's Rabbit — Not worth visiting
Watched:
  1. The Big One — Worth consuming!
  2. The Hallelujah Trail — Worth consuming!
  3. Water — Worth consuming!
  4. The Good Night — Worth consuming!
  5. Goya's Ghosts — Worth consuming!
  6. White Girl - TV drama — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. The Hallelujah Trail

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to the Efteling — completed 11 days later
  2. disclose 43 random THINGS about myself
  3. learn how to optimise my Live Cam Notebook Pro VF0400 capture — completed 32 days later
  4. make a CD for Violet Sharp
  5. metaphorically drink wine and eat cheese and catch some rays, you know. (Watch them positive waves, man.)
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. resist consumerism — Worth doing!
  2. cheerbomb Uncle Enore and scare the bugs out of his foot! — Not worth doing
  3. go on holiday — Worth doing!
  4. celebrate Simon's one-year 43T anniversary on April 8th — Worth doing!
  5. sew a skirt and wear it — Worth doing!
  6. post Donald Sutherland pictures to satisfy my crush cravings — Worth doing!
  7. celebrate my 3 years on 43 — Worth doing!
  8. go jogging regularly — Worth doing!
  9. get a webcam and mic — Worth doing!
  10. Get Skype — Worth doing!
  11. Take pictures of examples of spelling and punctuation so horrible that they make me feel a bit sick, and post them on here for other language geeks to gawp at. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn the lyrics for "Moondance" and belt it out when cycling my bike in the sunshine
  2. stop global warming
  3. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
  4. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Keukenhof — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  2. Traumfaenger — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Shaun of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  2. Kelly's Heroes — Worth consuming!
  3. Elizabethtown (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Space Cowboys — Worth consuming!
  5. The Aviator — Worth consuming!
  6. Beowulf & Grendel — Worth consuming!
  7. Hot Fuzz — Worth consuming!
  8. Run Fatboy Run — Worth consuming!
  9. The Heartbreak Kid (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Beowulf — Worth consuming!
  11. Bee Movie (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. BL: reach Activity Level 2
  2. BL: eliminate alcohol from my diet for 4 weeks — completed 28 days later
  3. try the Best Life Challenge
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to the Efteling — Worth doing!
  2. not freak out — Worth doing!
  3. learn origami — Not worth doing
  4. learn how to optimise my Live Cam Notebook Pro VF0400 capture — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Follow the _Four Day Win_ plan, noting my thoughts and experiences as I go
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Efteling — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis. Sammelband. — Worth consuming!
  2. Sofies Welt — Worth consuming!
  3. Der Kleine Prinz (German) — Worth consuming!
  4. Momo — Worth consuming!
  5. Traumfänger. Die Reise einer Frau in die Welt der Aborigines. — Worth consuming!
  6. Der Alchimist
  7. Die Entdeckung des Himmels — Worth consuming!
  8. Die Unendliche Geschichte — Worth consuming!
  9. Pippi Langstrumpf — Worth consuming!
  10. Salz auf unserer Haut. — Worth consuming!
  11. A Prayer for Owen Meany — Worth consuming!
  12. Tintenherz — Worth consuming!
  13. Patrick Süskind, Das Parfüm — Worth consuming!
  14. Homo Faber (German Edition) — Not worth consuming
  15. Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank / Anne Frank Tagebuch — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. M*A*S*H (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Worth consuming!
  3. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  4. Tin Man — Worth consuming!
  5. We Own the Night
  6. Michael Clayton (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Golden Compass (Full-Screen Single-Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. I Am Legend (Full-Screen Edition)
  9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. book a holiday and get away from it all, and if it's only for one week...
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. 4DW: minimal 1 piece of fruit per day — Worth doing!
  2. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :) — Not worth doing
  3. Call Omi (that's Grandma in German) more often — Not worth doing
  4. list 43 songs that never fail to brighten my day — Worth doing!
  5. Go to glastonbury 2007 — Worth doing!
  6. buy a handheld sander — Not worth doing
  7. post random things — Worth doing!
  8. BL: eliminate alcohol from my diet for 4 weeks — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Read the Silmarillion
  2. plan the week's tasks ahead and stick to the plan
  3. cook more
  4. build a bumblebee box or a bee and bug hut
Read:
  1. Son of a Witch: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Secret Window — Worth consuming!
  2. Cloverfield

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