redbandita in 2006
2006 was 94% worth living.
In 2005, redbandita
did 22 things,
went 68 places,
met 4 people, and
consumed 194 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- make a glas full of Soleier (pickled eggs) — completed about 1 month later
- stop spending my internet time only with 43things — completed 2 months later
- watch a real pika doing it's thing in the wild
- learn and understand the basic rules of Rugby Union and feel like I know what's going on when I'm watching a match — completed about 1 year later
- regularly check where my Dad's cruise ship is (no, he does not own it, he plays in the board band!) — completed about 1 year later
- declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week — completed over 2 years later
- see "lose weight" kicked out of the 43things all time top ten list of goals
- resist consumerism — completed over 2 years later
- identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
- keep a spending diary 2006
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February
Added to 43 Things:
- Own a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
- go see my tax lady — completed about 1 month later
- read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — completed about 1 year later
- Call Omi (that's Grandma in German) more often — completed over 2 years later
- post random things — completed over 2 years later
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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March
Added to 43 Things:
- see Ireland win the Six Nations 2006
- go to a Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert — completed about 1 month later
- type the word "because" correctly on the first attempt — completed 11 months later
- stop global warming
- list 43 songs that never fail to brighten my day — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- make a glas full of Soleier (pickled eggs) — Worth doing!
- meet a famous person — Not worth doing
- Go skinny dipping at night — Worth doing!
- Drink Green Tea — Worth doing!
- stop spending my internet time only with 43things
- go see my tax lady — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Absnasm — met 2 months later
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- Give 1000 cheers — completed about 1 month later
- jump off a bridge — completed about 1 month later
- Read the Silmarillion
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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May
Added to 43 Things:
- buy a digital camera — completed about 1 month later
- unite the world by making this team — completed about 1 month later
- take my favourite pants back to the store and ask for a refund because the are falling apart — completed 2 months later
- give 1849 (43 squared) cheers — completed about 1 year later
- list my childhood heroes (preferrably but not exclusively with red hair or fur) — completed about 1 year later
- boycott "Campina" milk products — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- go to a Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert — Worth doing!
- Cheerbomb Cuba Libre on his birthday — Worth doing!
- Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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June
Added to 43 Things:
- Attend the Lowlands festival — completed 2 months later
- Get my hair dyed — completed 10 months later
- dye my eyebrows — completed about 1 year later
- declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — completed about 1 year later
- visit the documenta XII in 2007 — completed about 1 year later
- learn the lyrics for "Moondance" and belt it out when cycling my bike in the sunshine
Completed on 43 Things:
- buy a digital camera — Worth doing!
- jump off a bridge — Not worth doing
- unite the world by making this team — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
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July
Added to 43 Things:
- See Germany win the World Cup
- find a French course
- stop throwing clothes on the floor — completed about 1 year later
- make use of the office gym — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- Gifhorn — visited 9 months later
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August
Added to 43 Things:
- write those letters and e-mails — completed about 1 year later
- wear more hats — completed about 1 year later
- Give 4300 cheers — completed about 1 year later
- Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
Completed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
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September
Added to 43 Things:
- find out how the name of a goal I adopted weeks ago has changed, and when I want to enter an entry, I get told I haven't adopted the goal
- Sort through clothes & donate — completed 13 days later
- plant bags 'n bags of bulbs — completed about 1 year later
- 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. — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- Hannover — visited 7 months later
- Glendalough
- Dubrovnik
- Newgrange
- Franz Josef Glacier
- Buenos Aires
- Bath
- Longleat
- Peru
- Nazca
- Bray — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Pont Du Gard
- Paris
- Walt Disney World — Not worth visiting
- Musée Du Louvre — Worth visiting!
- Pont-Aven — Worth visiting!
- Les Catacombes
- Les Baux-de-Provence
- Cathedrale D'Images
- Maussane Les Alpilles
- Concarneau
- Alhambra
- Barcelona — Worth visiting!
- Stonehenge
- Amsterdam — Worth visiting!
- Lewistown — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld — Worth consuming!
- Night Watch — Worth consuming!
- Monstrous Regiment (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
- Carpe Jugulum — Worth consuming!
- The Fifth Elephant — Worth consuming!
- Witches Abroad — Worth consuming!
- Reaper Man — Worth consuming!
- Moving Pictures — Not worth consuming
- Guards! Guards! — Worth consuming!
- Pyramids — Worth consuming!
- Wyrd Sisters — Worth consuming!
- Sourcery — Worth consuming!
- Mort — Worth consuming!
- Equal Rites — Worth consuming!
- The Light Fantastic — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
- A Night at the Opera — Worth consuming!
- The Great Escape
- Blur
- Achtung Baby — Worth consuming!
- Zooropa — Worth consuming!
- The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
- Grace — Worth consuming!
- Kind of Blue — Worth consuming!
- Tidal
- Little Earthquakes — Worth consuming!
- Strangeways, Here We Come
- Jagged Little Pill — Not worth consuming
- Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
- OK Computer — Worth consuming!
- Nevermind — Worth consuming!
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October
Added to 43 Things:
- defrost and clean the fridge — completed about 1 month later
- Learn to knit — completed about 1 year later
- not freak out — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Sort through clothes & donate — Worth doing!
- clean more often — Worth doing!
- wish Monotreme the *happiest* of happy birthdays on October 21!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- Glastonbury Festival — visited 8 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Fridericianum
- Luxembourg
- Dublin
- Trinity College — Worth visiting!
- O'Connell Street — Worth visiting!
- Van Gogh Museum — Worth visiting!
- Externsteine
- Marseille — Worth visiting!
- Internationales Wind- Und Wassermuehlenmuseum
- Paradiso
Read:
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November
Added to 43 Things:
- go to Ireland or Germany for crimbo — completed 5 months later
- Declare 11/8/06 to 11/15/06 favorite 80's band Avatar week. — completed 9 months later
- sometime: move to Ireland
- Celebrate my first smoke free year by cheering 365 random people with "Stop smoking goals" — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- defrost and clean the fridge — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Detmold — visited about 1 month later
Read:
- Tintenherz — Worth consuming!
- Jingo — Worth consuming!
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December
Added to 43 Things:
- copy all relevant phone numbers from my mobile to paper when I have access again — completed 7 days later
- Use my christmas tree as my avatar — completed about 1 month later
- slow down and THINK!!! — completed about 1 year later
- renovate the appartment
- replace the kitchen window with a door to the garden
Completed on 43 Things:
- wish Absnasm a happy birthday on December 19th — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Köln — Worth visiting!
Read:
- The Wee Free Men: A Discworld Novel (Unabridged) — Worth consuming!
- Thud! (Discworld) (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Hours — Worth consuming!
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Muppet Treasure Island - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition — Worth consuming!
- Bend It Like Beckham — Worth consuming!
- Match Point — Worth consuming!
- Superman Returns — Not worth consuming
- The Lost City — Worth consuming!
- Mission - Impossible III (Widescreen Edition)
