Maggie in 2005

2005 was 92% worth living.

In 2005, Maggie did 57 things, went 44 places, met 31 people, and consumed 52 products.

Years: 2004 | 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. Attend Silent Movie Mondays in February at the Paramount — completed about 1 month later
  2. Buy an acoustic guitar — completed 2 months later
  3. fix my car — completed 7 months later
  4. Write a poem every day at work
  5. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
  6. Ride on the back of a motorcycle
  7. Visit Brazil — completed over 3 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. experience an earthquake — Worth doing!
  2. Visit Boston — Worth doing!
  3. not be too cheap to buy a decent bra — Worth doing!
  4. find a writer's group in Seattle — Worth doing!
  5. Take down my Christmas tree — Worth doing!
  6. stop drinking coke — Worth doing!
  7. Watch the Alias premiere — Worth doing!
  8. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
  9. Get (or renew) a passport — Worth doing!
  10. Own a cat — Worth doing!
  11. Go to a Radiohead concert — Worth doing!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to the eye doctor — completed 28 days later
  2. make sweet lovin' to one of the robots — completed 12 days later
  3. find my ONE karaoke song — completed 3 months later
  4. Attend the 2005 Bay Area Pitch and Bitch — completed 5 months later
  5. Get my cat's teeth cleaned
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read a classic and actually like it — Worth doing!
  2. learn greek — Not worth doing
  3. Post a goal to LiveJournal — Worth doing!
  4. Learn to knit — Worth doing!
  5. Learn to can fruits and vegetables — Worth doing!
  6. Apply for Visa to Brazil — Worth doing!
  7. Get a gmail account — Worth doing!
  8. Kiss in the rain — Worth doing!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get my feet sandal-ready before my vacation — completed about 1 month later
  2. Get rid of all my broken electronics — completed 3 months later
  3. live without a television for a year — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Attend Silent Movie Mondays in February at the Paramount — Worth doing!
  2. go to the eye doctor — Worth doing!
  3. Buy an acoustic guitar — Worth doing!
  4. Try out 43 Things — Worth doing!
  5. have more sex — Worth doing!
  6. make sweet lovin' to one of the robots — Worth doing!
  7. Buy a pair of gold sandals — Worth doing!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Try out ideas.43things.com — completed 2 months later
  2. get rid of stuff i don't need — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Get my feet sandal-ready before my vacation — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Chicago — visited about 1 month later
  2. Twilight Exit — visited 3 months later
  3. Greece
  4. Gateway Arch
  5. Italy
  6. The Vermont Country Store — visited over 2 years later
  7. Stehekin
  8. Mexico
  9. Tokyo
  10. Shanghai
  11. Mount Saint Helens
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Brazil — Worth visiting!
  2. Matt's in the Market — Worth visiting!
  3. Recife — Worth visiting!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make marshmallows — completed 10 days later
  2. Brush my shoulders off — completed 9 months later
  3. Buy a Polaroid Spectra — completed about 1 year later
  4. learn to develop B&W film
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Get my poetry published — Worth doing!
  2. find cheaper car insurance — Worth doing!
  3. Visit Chicago — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Las Vegas — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Caffè Vita - Pike Street — Worth visiting!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Finish knitting my damn sweater already — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make marshmallows — Worth doing!
  2. Try out ideas.43things.com — Worth doing!
  3. type with 10 fingers — Worth doing!
  4. find my ONE karaoke song — Worth doing!
  5. get rid of stuff i don't need — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Oakland — visited 12 days later
  2. Los Angeles — visited 5 months later
  3. Canarias
  4. France
  5. The Moon
  6. Cuba
  7. Costa Rica
  8. Hawai'i
  9. Bahia
  10. Morocco
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Chicago — Worth visiting!
  2. Boston — Worth visiting!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. drink a mint julep — completed 5 months later
  2. have a photo on the flickr blog
  3. ride in a hot air balloon — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Attend the 2005 Bay Area Pitch and Bitch — Worth doing!
  2. Get rid of all my broken electronics — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Stumptown Comics Fest
  2. Seattle — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Oakland — Worth visiting!
  2. Newbury Comics — Worth visiting!
  3. Douglas Fir Lounge — Worth visiting!
  4. Flagstaff — Worth visiting!
  5. Rio de Janeiro — Worth visiting!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Ride the water taxi to West Seattle — completed 18 days later
  2. Do a residency at HedgeBrook
  3. hold a koala bear
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Quit my job — Worth doing!
  2. make fake lost posters and put them up around town — Worth doing!
  3. fix my car — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Twilight Exit — Worth visiting!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Grow my hair out — completed 9 months later
  2. Divide my time between two or more locations
  3. create a style guide for my company
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. milk a cow — Worth doing!
  2. Help victims of Hurricane Katrina — Worth doing!
  3. walk to work — Worth doing!
  4. watch streetcar named desire — Worth doing!
  5. Ride the water taxi to West Seattle — Worth doing!
  6. get an ipod — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Write a poem every day at work
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Cal Anderson Park — visited 2 days later
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Eric Hodel — met 6 months later
  2. Buster McLeod — met about 1 year later
  3. Daniel Spils — met about 1 year later
  4. Todd Gehman — met 6 months later
  5. ivan opalka — met about 1 year later
  6. Jenn — met 3 months later
  7. Tom Brosseau — met 5 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Josh Petersen
  2. Robert Cottrell
  3. Carrick
  4. angela.
  5. Lele McLeod
  6. Sara
  7. yeswad
  8. tiz9000
  9. crankyisgood
  10. Francesca Berrini
Read:
  1. You're an Animal, Viskovitz! (Vintage International) — Worth consuming!
  2. Anna Karenina — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Grizzly Man — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Eat Breakfast every day — completed 3 months later
  2. Buy original art — completed 6 months later
  3. redecorate my apartment
  4. maintain a sex-worthy home — completed about 1 year later
  5. edit my 43Things so that they are what I really want to do and not just things that seemed cool when I first signed up — completed over 2 years later
  6. Eat everything on BBC's '50 things to eat before you die' list
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. attend the 43T/Carrick party today 10/5/2005 at 4pm @ The Elysian — Worth doing!
  2. ride the waterfront streetcar to a dim sum resturaunt in the ID — Worth doing!
  3. Be a more concious consumer — Worth doing!
  4. go to a movie by myself and not feel embarrassed or silly — Worth doing!
  5. hold a ferret — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Urban Craft Uprising
  2. The Hideout — visited 4 months later
  3. Restaurant Zoe — visited 4 months later
  4. Lark — visited 5 months later
  5. Crow — visited 6 months later
  6. Barbacoa
  7. 826 Seattle
  8. Marjorie — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cal Anderson Park — Worth visiting!
  2. The Robot Co-op Office — Worth visiting!
  3. Suite 410 — Worth visiting!
  4. Toi — Worth visiting!
  5. Walt's Auto Care Center — Worth visiting!
  6. Seattle City Hall — Worth visiting!
  7. Sonya's — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Andy Baio
  2. degan
  3. Adar
  4. lsk3 — met 2 months later
  5. Megan — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Bill Nye
  2. Anton Newcombe
  3. Gloria Steinem
Read:
  1. Lolita — Worth consuming!
  2. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke — Worth consuming!
  3. The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Serenity — Worth consuming!
  2. Cinema Paradiso — Worth consuming!
  3. Thumbsucker — Worth consuming!
  4. Everything Is Illuminated — Not worth consuming
  5. Fitzcarraldo — Worth consuming!
  6. Domino — Not worth consuming

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make my own holiday cards
  2. get a flu shot
  3. create a personal poetry anthology — completed 6 months later
  4. develop a daily morning routine
  5. Drive down the West Coast
  6. Take vitamins daily — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. replace all tupperware with pyrex dishes (better for environment/health) — Worth doing!
  2. eat a banana — Worth doing!
  3. finish a crossword puzzle — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Tulio Ristorante
  2. Andy's Diner — visited 4 months later
  3. Confounded Books — visited 4 months later
  4. San Francisco — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Yale Street Deli — Worth visiting!
  2. Jimmy Woo's Jade Pagoda — Worth visiting!
  3. Black Bottle — Worth visiting!
  4. Tamarind Tree — Worth visiting!
  5. Henry Art Gallery — Worth visiting!
  6. Piecora's — Worth visiting!
  7. Galerias — Worth visiting!
  8. Liem's Aquarium and Bird Shop — Worth visiting!
  9. Coastal Kitchen — Worth visiting!
  10. College Inn Pub — Worth visiting!
  11. Frye Art Museum — Worth visiting!
  12. Camano Island — Not worth visiting
  13. Stanwood — Not worth visiting
  14. Long Beach — Worth visiting!
  15. Wall Of Sound — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Urban Craft Uprising
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. moomily — met about 1 month later
  2. k — met about 1 month later
  3. bjorn00 — met about 1 month later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. The Robots
  2. Tony Santolla
  3. Alice Semingson
  4. Jennifer Fortin
  5. Ron Semingson
Read:
  1. Life Is Elsewhere — Worth consuming!
  2. Ice Haven — Not worth consuming
  3. On Beauty — Worth consuming!
  4. Let Evening Come — Worth consuming!
  5. The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Live It Out — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Happy Together — Worth consuming!
  2. Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!
  3. Me Without You — Worth consuming!
  4. Walk the Line — Worth consuming!
  5. Teknolust — Worth consuming!
  6. The Squid and the Whale — Worth consuming!
  7. Loves of a Blonde - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Eggnog Latte — Worth consuming!
  2. Drunken Chicken Sandwich — Worth consuming!
  3. chicken teriyaki and gyoza — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of 43 Things — completed 9 days later
  2. ride The Duck in Seattle — completed 25 days later
  3. Read 50 books in 2006
  4. trade polaroids — completed about 1 year later
  5. learn how to play chess
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn how to make pottery — Worth doing!
  2. Watch more French films — Worth doing!
  3. Finish knitting my damn sweater already — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. make my own holiday cards
Added to 43 Places:
  1. The O Lounge
  2. Veil — visited about 1 month later
  3. The Tonga Room And Hurricane Bar — visited 8 months later
  4. Panama Hotel Tea and Coffee House — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Los Angeles
  2. Sloop Tavern — Worth visiting!
  3. Aria Salon — Worth visiting!
  4. Aberdeen — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. moomily
  2. Jenn
  3. Chadwick Dahlquist
  4. k
  5. lsk3
  6. Josh Santangelo
  7. Megan
  8. rickspencer
  9. peanutbutter
  10. baddins
  11. bjorn00
  12. Kevin Whelan
  13. Steve
Read:
  1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
  2. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America — Worth consuming!
  3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Worth consuming!
  4. The Kite Runner — Not worth consuming
  5. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Gosford Park — Worth consuming!
  2. Garden State — Worth consuming!
  3. Waiting for Guffman — Worth consuming!
  4. Ghost World — Worth consuming!
  5. Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Miller's Crossing — Worth consuming!
  7. DiG! — Worth consuming!
  8. Secretary — Worth consuming!
  9. Stolen Kisses — Worth consuming!
  10. An Affair to Remember — Worth consuming!
  11. The 400 Blows — Worth consuming!
  12. The Hustler — Worth consuming!
  13. Syriana — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Ballet teriyaki — Worth consuming!
  2. Giant Smarties — Worth consuming!
  3. Bubble Tea — Not worth consuming
  4. Apple Tea — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. alka-seltzer — Worth consuming!
  2. Googlewhack Adventure — Worth consuming!

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