redbandita in 2007

2007 was 94% worth living.

In 2005, redbandita did 78 things, went 9 places, met 1 person, and consumed 259 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. compare prices for energy, phone etc. and change to the best offer — completed about 1 month later
  2. go nordic walking twice a week minimum
  3. spring clean before spring
  4. See "The Police" play live when they reunite — completed about 1 year later
  5. renew my permanent residence permit
  6. plan, bake and bring delicious sweet treats to work for my colleagues on my birthday — completed about 1 year later
  7. find a cute dress for my sister's wedding — completed about 1 year later
  8. manage my anger — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. copy all relevant phone numbers from my mobile to paper when I have access again — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Detmold — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee. — Worth consuming!
  2. Life of Pi — Worth consuming!
  3. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. L' Etat Et Moi — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Pulp Fiction — Worth consuming!
  2. Sleepy Hollow — Worth consuming!
  3. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Four Feathers — Worth consuming!
  6. The Importance of Being Earnest — Worth consuming!
  7. Star Trek - First Contact — Worth consuming!
  8. Gladiator (Widescreen Edition)
  9. Stark Raving Mad — Worth consuming!
  10. Lady in the Water — Worth consuming!
  11. On A Clear Day — Worth consuming!
  12. Clerks 2
  13. 10th and Wolf
  14. R.V. (Runaway Vacation)
  15. Adrift — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Häagen Dazs Cookies & Cream ice cream — Worth consuming!
  2. Häagen Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake ice-cream

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. see Arctic Monkeys live — completed 24 days later
  2. See Ireland win the Six Nations 2007
  3. find out if I really have psoriasis — completed about 1 month later
  4. see my tax lady and do our taxes for 2006 — completed about 1 month later
  5. let people know about Shane's quest — completed 2 months later
  6. Quit Smoking — completed 9 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Use my christmas tree as my avatar — Worth doing!
  2. type the word "because" correctly on the first attempt — Worth doing!
Watched:
  1. Star Trek - Nemesis (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Wild Things (Unrated Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. You, Me and Dupree — Worth consuming!
  4. The Order
  5. World Trade Center (Full Screen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  6. The Black Dahlia (Full Screen Edition)
  7. Jackass - Number Two (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  2. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  3. Paella — Worth consuming!
  4. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  5. Steak — Worth consuming!
  6. Lobster — Worth consuming!
  7. Thai Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  8. Chicago Style Pizza
  9. Crab
  10. Curry — Worth consuming!
  11. Barbecues — Worth consuming!
  12. Mussels — Worth consuming!
  13. Lamb — Not worth consuming
  14. Sandwiches — Worth consuming!
  15. Burgers

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. pack a gift box in time to send it when my sister's baby is born — completed 27 days later
  2. Buy a new bicycle — completed about 1 month later
  3. Get new glasses — completed 11 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. check out tonight's total eclipse of the moon
  2. wish the smart, sweet, caring, supportive, brave, funny, lushly bearded, handsome and downright ace Headapollo a happy flappy birthday on Sunday March 4th — Worth doing!
  3. compare prices for energy, phone etc. and change to the best offer
  4. wish alcachofa a wonderful, fun-filled, adventurous and HAPPY birthday! — Worth doing!
  5. see Arctic Monkeys live — Worth doing!
  6. get everyone to report this person for abuse, because it really isn't me and the are harrassing me as well as stealing my pictures... please help! — Worth doing!
  7. learn and understand the basic rules of Rugby Union and feel like I know what's going on when I'm watching a match — Worth doing!
  8. declare March 7-14 Muppet Avatar Week on 43T — Worth doing!
  9. Have people share and or acknowledge the first person who cheered them! — Worth doing!
  10. find out if I really have psoriasis — Worth doing!
  11. find out what's wrong with my right hip joint and cure it permanently. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. See Ireland win the Six Nations 2007
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Eden Project
Read:
  1. God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 4) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Automatic for the People — Worth consuming!
  2. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb — Worth consuming!
  3. Electric Ladyland
  4. Never Mind The Bollocks
  5. Inside In/Inside Out — Worth consuming!
  6. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — Worth consuming!
  7. Appetite For Destruction — Worth consuming!
  8. All That You Can’t Leave Behind
  9. Kill (Bury Me) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Casablanca
  2. Titanic
  3. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  4. American Beauty
  5. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  6. An American in Paris
  7. A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition)
  8. The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Matrix Revolutions (2-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  10. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
  11. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
  12. Rain Man
  13. The Sting
  14. Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
  15. The Sound of Music (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Pickwick - Green tea - original lemon — Worth consuming!
  2. Teha kokosbrood — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Grow herbs from seeds — completed 3 months later
  2. learn how to sew — completed 6 months later
  3. grow my own veg — completed 10 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see my tax lady and do our taxes for 2006 — Worth doing!
  2. pack a gift box in time to send it when my sister's baby is born — Worth doing!
  3. Buy a new bicycle — Worth doing!
  4. clean and sell the lawn push mower — Worth doing!
  5. go to Ireland or Germany for crimbo — Worth doing!
  6. write an e-mail to the Robots — Worth doing!
  7. see Bj — Worth doing!
  8. miss my second anniversary on 43 Things — Not worth doing
  9. buy a pair of Crocs
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Gifhorn — Worth visiting!
  2. Hannover — Worth visiting!
  3. Hilversum — Not worth visiting
Read:
  1. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
  3. Animal Farm — Worth consuming!
  4. The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
  5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  6. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor — Worth consuming!
  2. The Singles — Worth consuming!
  3. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Worth consuming!
  4. Without You I'm Nothing — Worth consuming!
  5. You Don't Care About Us — Worth consuming!
  6. Meds — Worth consuming!
  7. Special K #1 — Worth consuming!
  8. Taste in Men — Worth consuming!
  9. Pure Morning Pt.1 — Worth consuming!
  10. Slave to the Wage — Worth consuming!
  11. The Crane Wife — Worth consuming!
  12. Those the Brokes — Not worth consuming
  13. Brianstorm — Worth consuming!
  14. The View From The Afternoon (song) — Worth consuming!
  15. Teenage Angst — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. Mission - Impossible II (Widescreen Edition)
  3. Memento
  4. Spider-Man (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Hero
  6. The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  7. Sin City
  8. Catch Me If You Can (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
  9. The Beach
  10. The Man in the Iron Mask
  11. My Girl
  12. The Wedding Singer — Worth consuming!
  13. Indecent Proposal
  14. Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  15. Dumb and Dumber
Consumed:
  1. Witte Muisjes — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go camping — completed about 1 month later
  2. go to Paris with bf for Bastille Day weekend and rock the city with S, J and R!
  3. see the Decemberists again — completed 4 months later
  4. wish Moose a wonderful, creative, self-caring, many-antlered revel of a birthday on May 27th! — completed 9 months later
  5. nurture and unleash my inner hot chick and feel beautiful — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. let people know about Shane's quest — Worth doing!
  2. Get my hair dyed — Worth doing!
  3. celebrate the wonder of Eurovision 2007
  4. Wish Rouenpucelle a Slightly Off Hasselhoffian Birthday May 16th — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Cubalibre a Carpe Diem Birthday May 17th
Read:
  1. Memoirs of a Geisha — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Inside In/Inside Out — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Sweet Home Alabama — Worth consuming!
  2. The Terminal (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. As Good As It Gets — Worth consuming!
  4. Troy (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Glastonbury - 2 DVD — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Castaway 2007

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. create and populate a few playlists on youtube — completed 17 days later
  2. make YOU aware that flickr censors your images (in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea) — completed 18 days later
  3. Watch Pirates of the Caribbean "At World's End" — completed about 1 month later
  4. Work on my ever so exciting secret project — completed 8 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give 1849 (43 squared) cheers — Worth doing!
  2. use my week off before Glasto wisely — Worth doing!
  3. regularly check where my Dad's cruise ship is (no, he does not own it, he plays in the board band!) — Worth doing!
  4. Buy a House — Worth doing!
  5. go camping
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. go nordic walking twice a week minimum
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. elpollodiablo
Read:
  1. Tintenblut — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Blow (Infinifilm Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Finding Neverland — Worth consuming!
  4. From Hell (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. What's Eating Gilbert Grape — Worth consuming!
  6. Don Juan DeMarco — Worth consuming!
  7. Cry Baby (Director's Cut)
  8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Worth consuming!
  9. Donnie Brasco (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Corpse Bride — Worth consuming!
  11. The Ninth Gate
  12. Edward Scissorhands — Worth consuming!
  13. Chocolat — Worth consuming!
  14. From Hell (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. declare Jul. 27 - Aug. 2 Simpsons Avatar Week — completed 5 days later
  2. have a few 30-seconds-to-mars and jared-leto binges on youtube — completed 23 days later
  3. roll my own maki — completed 23 days later
  4. keep a list of the fascinating subject lines of the spam I receive — completed about 1 month later
  5. make the other secret thing for Elias's baptism — completed 3 months later
  6. prepare a song for my sister's wedding — completed 7 months later
  7. Follow the _Four Day Win_ plan, noting my thoughts and experiences as I go
  8. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :) — completed 10 months later
  9. Have 43people help Flirt's 43things Teddy Bear travel around the world!!!
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. create and populate a few playlists on youtube
  2. make YOU aware that flickr censors your images (in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea)
  3. Grow herbs from seeds
  4. Watch Pirates of the Caribbean "At World's End" — Worth doing!
  5. Get everyone to play the 3 Things Q's on 43T
  6. read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Worth doing!
  7. rethink my contraception
  8. get Amazon to deliver my 4-day win book and my Bjork CD — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. go to Paris with bf for Bastille Day weekend and rock the city with S, J and R!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Glastonbury Festival — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Snickerdoodle MacHUGBear is California Dreamin'
Read:
  1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time — Worth consuming!
  2. The Time Traveler's Wife — Worth consuming!
  3. Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders. — Worth consuming!
  4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Shanghai Noon — Worth consuming!
  3. Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix — Worth consuming!
  4. Stranger Than Fiction — Worth consuming!
  5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End — Worth consuming!
  6. Big Nothing — Worth consuming!
  7. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (El Perfume - Historia de un asesino) (Le Parfum - Histoire d'un meurtrier) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get new job
  2. tell the dad living upstairs that his kid's running drives me insane
  3. Get a new job
  4. teach English native speakers how to spell the word "definitely" — completed 3 months later
  5. learn origami — completed 11 months later
  6. Have a baby
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. declare Jul. 27 - Aug. 2 Simpsons Avatar Week — Worth doing!
  2. Declare 11/8/06 to 11/15/06 favorite 80's band Avatar week. — Worth doing!
  3. go to glastonbury festival — Worth doing!
  4. have a few 30-seconds-to-mars and jared-leto binges on youtube — Worth doing!
  5. roll my own maki — Worth doing!
  6. keep a list of the fascinating subject lines of the spam I receive
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get new job
  2. tell the dad living upstairs that his kid's running drives me insane
  3. Get a new job
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cancún
Watched:
  1. Shanghai Knights
  2. We Were Soldiers
  3. Tigerland — Worth consuming!
  4. Tuck Everlasting
  5. Blood Diamond [HD DVD] — Worth consuming!
  6. The Last King of Scotland (Full-Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Shooter (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. 300 (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. figure out the health insurance subsidy claim — completed 6 months later
  2. make a belly-time quilt for my baby nephew — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy a pair of (sexy) black leather boots
  2. place a rental car reservation for next week's trip to Germany — Worth doing!
  3. Wish Calypte a Happy Birthday (9/17) — Worth doing!
  4. get my BBC Celebdaq portfolio to be worth more than 10.000 pound again
  5. see the Decemberists again
  6. order the new IKEA catalogue
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Undeloh
  2. Buchholz I.d. Nordheide — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Harry Potter and the Fantastic Beasts — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Picaresque — Worth consuming!
  2. Favourite Worst Nightmare — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Van Helsing (Full Screen Edition)
  2. Ladder 49 (Widescreen Edition)
  3. BASEketball — Worth consuming!
  4. Night at the Museum — Worth consuming!
  5. Spiderman 3
  6. The Good Shepherd (Full Screen Edition)
  7. Pan's Labyrinth (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. battlestar galactica: Season 2 — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make the Supercheer thing go awaaay! — completed 16 days later
  2. find "my canvas" — completed about 1 month later
  3. Buy a new pair of running shoes — completed about 1 month later
  4. make this year's christmas cards — completed about 1 month later
  5. Make a 43things Cookbook — completed 2 months later
  6. get out of the hole again — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. dye my eyebrows — Worth doing!
  2. list my childhood heroes (preferrably but not exclusively with red hair or fur) — Worth doing!
  3. make the other secret thing for Elias's baptism
  4. Wish Evenstar42 an Action over Sloth Birthday October 6th — Worth doing!
  5. buy the latest Maximo Park album — Worth doing!
  6. Happy Bless Monotreme A Passionately Ecological Birthday On Oct 21st (?) — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Thud! A Novel of Discworld — Worth consuming!
  2. Strata — Worth consuming!
  3. Quidditch Through the Ages — Worth consuming!
  4. Wintersmith — Worth consuming!
  5. Wintersmith — Worth consuming!
  6. Where's My Cow? (Discworld)
  7. Good Omens — Worth consuming!
  8. American Gods: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  9. Nur nicht unsichtbar werden. Ein irisches Leben. — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bend It Like Beckham (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Girl, Interrupted — Worth consuming!
  3. The 6th Day — Not worth consuming
  4. The Negotiator — Worth consuming!
  5. Carry on Loving
  6. Grosse Point Blank — Worth consuming!
  7. Epic Movie (Unrated Edition) — Not worth consuming
  8. Zodiac — Worth consuming!
  9. The Darwin Awards — Worth consuming!
  10. The Invisible
  11. Thru the Moebius Strip — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Do the Couch-to-5k Running Plan at my own pace
  2. write and post my Christmas cards — completed 22 days later
  3. buy, wrap and post presents for Luan, Elias and Rianna — completed 24 days later
  4. 4DW: minimal 1 piece of fruit per day — completed 6 months later
  5. Do the Couch-to-5k running plan at half speed
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make the Supercheer thing go awaaay! — Worth doing!
  2. Wish La Tordue and the little girl in the corner a wonderful birthday on November 4th complete with Mimi, champagne, liquorish and the Gentleman Animus on her red couch. — Worth doing!
  3. 4DW: have a seated breakfast (by candle light) like Mom used to make me
  4. learn how to sew
  5. find "my canvas"
  6. Buy a new pair of running shoes — Worth doing!
  7. purge my goals — Worth doing!
  8. Quit Smoking — Worth doing!
  9. stop smoking
  10. make this year's christmas cards — Worth doing!
  11. Learn to knit — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Do the Couch-to-5k Running Plan at my own pace
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Sugar Factory
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bray — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Sting (Universal Legacy Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. Marnie — Worth consuming!
  3. Without a Paddle

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. enjoy christmas tree avatar week 2007 — completed 12 days later
  2. complain about Copy Control technology — completed 6 days later
  3. do another secret thing
  4. go ice skating
  5. join Amnesty International's Greetings Card Campaign 2007
  6. 2008: send 1 handwritten letter per month
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Successfully post a video on youtube, which I have managed once and never again, since. — Worth doing!
  2. wish Lucyann2 a folking good birthday on 1st December — Worth doing!
  3. teach English native speakers how to spell the word "definitely"
  4. revive the eyeball brigade and have another eyeball avatar week!
  5. Make a 43things Cookbook — Worth doing!
  6. write and post my Christmas cards
  7. wish the spectacularly fandabulous Absnasm the bestest of all burfdays ever! — Worth doing!
  8. buy, wrap and post presents for Luan, Elias and Rianna
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. see my girl friends more often
Read:
  1. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  2. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Worth consuming!
  3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  4. The Time Traveler's Wife — Worth consuming!
  5. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Princess Bride — Worth consuming!
  2. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!
  3. Being John Malkovich — Worth consuming!
  4. Elf (Infinifilm Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Tudors - Season 1 — Worth consuming!
  6. Heroes - Season 1 — Worth consuming!
  7. Ratatouille — Worth consuming!
  8. Transformers — Worth consuming!
  9. Long Way Down — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Heroes — Worth consuming!

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