redbandita in 2008

2008, so far, is 96% worth living.

In 2005, redbandita did 76 things, went 10 places, met 0 people, and consumed 68 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Apply for a credit card — completed about 1 month later
  2. Fund micro-loans through Kiva.org — completed about 1 month later
  3. sort out the financial year 2007 — completed 2 months later
  4. check out and plan travel arrangements for the family reunion in March — completed 2 months later
  5. see my tax lady — completed 2 months later
  6. buy a handheld sander — completed 5 months later
  7. plan the week's tasks ahead and stick to the plan
  8. get-ready-for-sale: do the bedroom
  9. get-ready-for-sale: do the living room
  10. get-ready-for-sale: do the kitchen
  11. get-ready-for-sale: do the bathroom
  12. declutter the bedroom drawers while applying time limits with the egg timer
  13. create a place in memory of Rose Tenace
  14. compare offers from international moving companies
  15. learn some Spanish
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. enjoy christmas tree avatar week 2007
  2. complain about Copy Control technology
  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 2 months later
  2. Bamberg — visited 2 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. 18twintig
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
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. 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!
  7. Read all Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett — Not worth doing
  8. Celebrate Adar's Accomplishment on 43Things with Cheers and Toasts — Worth doing!
  9. declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — Worth doing!
  10. spend at least 10 minutes every day cleaning, organizing or decluttering
  11. write those letters and e-mails — Worth doing!
  12. talk less, listen more — Worth doing!
  13. slow down and THINK!!!
  14. wear more hats
  15. visit the documenta XII in 2007 — 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. renovate the appartment
  4. 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. make use of the office gym — Worth doing!
  6. figure out the health insurance subsidy claim
  7. make a belly-time quilt for my baby nephew
  8. get out of the hole again
  9. Give 4300 cheers — Worth doing!
  10. get a flickr pro account
  11. Shorten my new black pants — Worth doing!
  12. sort out the financial year 2007 — Worth doing!
  13. check out and plan travel arrangements for the family reunion in March — Worth doing!
  14. see my tax lady — 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
  5. Nürnberg — Worth visiting!
  6. Kaiserburg Castle — Worth visiting!
  7. Sculpture Of Dürer's Rabbit
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. learn how to optimise my Live Cam Notebook Pro VF0400 capture — completed about 1 month later
  3. disclose 43 random THINGS about myself
  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!
  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
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: eliminate alcohol from my diet for 4 weeks — completed 28 days later
  2. try the Best Life Challenge
  3. BL: reach Activity Level 2
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to the Efteling — Worth doing!
  2. not freak out — Worth doing!
  3. 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 28 days later
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 :)
  3. Call Omi (that's Grandma in German) more often
  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
  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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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. book a holiday and get away from it all, and if it's only for one week... — Worth doing!
  2. drink more water — Worth doing!
  3. share more books via www.bookcrossing.com — Worth doing!
  4. Have a Hofftastic Avatar (Birth)Day July 17th
  5. update my CV — Not worth doing
  6. learn origami
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
  2. 2008: send 1 handwritten letter per month
Read:
  1. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Collateral (2004) — Not worth consuming

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. my hero avatar week from 3 august 2008 until 9 august 2008...b/c i miss avatar weeks !
  2. post my favourite picture of my mom
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. nurture and unleash my inner hot chick and feel beautiful — Worth doing!
  2. be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
  3. boycott "Campina" milk products — Worth doing!
  4. plant a garden
  5. Go to the dentist — Worth doing!
  6. Celebrate my first smoke free year by cheering 365 random people with "Stop smoking goals" — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. fit some meditation time into my day
  2. try the Best Life Challenge
  3. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
  4. keep a spending diary 2006
Listened to:
  1. Hot Fuss — Worth consuming!
  2. A Certain Trigger — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Bucket List — Worth consuming!
  2. Rendition — Worth consuming!

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