Maggie in 2006
2006 was 90% worth living.
In 2005, Maggie
did 167 things,
went 369 places,
met 32 people, and
consumed 383 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- Ride a horse — completed about 1 month later
- sell my car — completed about 1 month later
- post a poem to my blog once a week — completed about 1 year later
- devise a radical self-improvement plan
- plan a rock n' roll poetry event
- Marry several times
Completed on 43 Things:
- Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of 43 Things — Worth doing!
- learn to ride a horse — Worth doing!
- care about my finances for one year — Worth doing!
- Eat Breakfast every day — Worth doing!
- ride The Duck in Seattle — Worth doing!
- drink a mint julep — Worth doing!
- eat a twinkie — Not worth doing
- go cross country skiing — Worth doing!
- go snowshoeing — Worth doing!
- find a signature scent — Worth doing!
- take the train from Seattle to Vancouver — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Zig Zag Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Hazlewood — Worth visiting!
- Summit Public House — Worth visiting!
- Cafe Campagne — Worth visiting!
- Kuhlman — Worth visiting!
- Cafe Venus and the marsBar — Worth visiting!
- Lo_Fi Performance Gallery — Worth visiting!
- 5 Point Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Cowgirls Inc. — Not worth visiting
- Hurricane Ridge — Worth visiting!
- Vancouver — Worth visiting!
- Vancouver Aquarium — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady — Worth consuming!
- The Hours — Worth consuming!
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Worth consuming!
- Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood (Alex Awards (Awards)) — Worth consuming!
- Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return — Worth consuming!
- Embroideries — Worth consuming!
- The Da Vinci Code — Not worth consuming
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Worth consuming!
- Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line — Worth consuming!
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — Worth consuming!
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Old Man and The Sea — Not worth consuming
- Box Office Poison — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- The Meadowlands — Worth consuming!
- The Duchess of Hazard — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Some Like It Hot (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Big Fish — Worth consuming!
- Super Size Me — Worth consuming!
- It's a Wonderful Life — Worth consuming!
- The Sopranos - The Complete Fifth Season — Worth consuming!
- The Sopranos: The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
- Cool Hand Luke
- Fargo — Worth consuming!
- The Cooler — Worth consuming!
- The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Sopranos: The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
- American Graffiti (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Just Like Heaven — Not worth consuming
- The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Chicken Feet — Not worth consuming
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — completed 16 days later
- do my taxes — completed about 1 month later
- create a murder ballad mix
- Milk a cow or a goat — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Learn GoLive — Worth doing!
- learn to use chopsticks — Worth doing!
- kiss in a library — Worth doing!
- write for my college paper — Worth doing!
- Work at McDonalds — Not worth doing
- check groceries at Haggen's — Worth doing!
- perform quality control tests on peas at Twin City Foods — Worth doing!
- Ride a horse — Worth doing!
- Brush my shoulders off — Worth doing!
- Send a postcard to Postsecret — Worth doing!
- take accordion lessons — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Shorty's Coney Island — visited 12 days later
- Elysian Brewing Company — visited 2 months later
- Petosa Music
- Northwest Trek
Visited on 43 Places:
- Osteria La Spiga — Worth visiting!
- Veil — Worth visiting!
- Tacoma — Worth visiting!
- Bob's Java Jive — Worth visiting!
- Engine House No. 9 — Worth visiting!
- Katie Down's — Worth visiting!
- Museum Of Glass — Worth visiting!
- Point Defiance Park — Worth visiting!
- Tacoma Dome — Not worth visiting
- The Grand Cinema — Worth visiting!
- Tacoma Art Museum — Worth visiting!
- Camp 6 Logging Museum — Worth visiting!
- Machiavelli Ristorante — Worth visiting!
- The Hideout — Worth visiting!
- Alibi Room — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- East of Eden — Worth consuming!
- White Teeth: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Geek Love: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace — Worth consuming!
- Edie: American Girl — Worth consuming!
- I Love You More Than You Know: Essays — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Worth consuming!
- Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season — Not worth consuming
- Capote — Worth consuming!
- Brokeback Mountain — Worth consuming!
- Love and Anger — Not worth consuming
- Ciao Manhattan (Ws Dol) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- make a list of all my good ideas — completed 17 days later
- Find 10 people in 15 cities who are passionate about their city and want to help with a new project for 43 Places — completed 4 months later
- write down as many of my earliest memories from childhood as I can remember
Completed on 43 Things:
- go hang gliding — Worth doing!
- help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — Worth doing!
- do my taxes — Worth doing!
- Roll on your side down a grassy bank — Worth doing!
- Make a mud pie — Worth doing!
- Make your own modelling dough mixture — Worth doing!
- Make a papier-mache mask — Worth doing!
- build a sandcastle — Worth doing!
- climb a tree — Worth doing!
- Make a painting using your hand and feet — Worth doing!
- Have your face painted — Worth doing!
- Make some bread — Worth doing!
- make snow angels — Worth doing!
- Create a clay sculpture — Worth doing!
- Take part in a scavenger hunt — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Kingfish Cafe — visited 3 days later
- Cascadia Restaurant — visited about 1 year later
- Salumi
Visited on 43 Places:
- Tin Hat — Worth visiting!
- Nitelite — Worth visiting!
- Beth's Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Harvard Exit Theater — Worth visiting!
- Egyptian Theatre — Worth visiting!
- Cinerama — Worth visiting!
- Guild 45th Theatre — Worth visiting!
- Neptune Theater — Worth visiting!
- Uptown Cinemas — Worth visiting!
- Crest Cinema Centre — Worth visiting!
- Big Picture — Worth visiting!
- Seven Gables Theatre — Worth visiting!
- Restaurant Zoe — Worth visiting!
- Porta — Worth visiting!
- Twist — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Final Solution: A Story Of Detection — Worth consuming!
- Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Bean Trees: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) — Worth consuming!
- Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall) — Worth consuming!
- Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
- Bridget Jones's Diary — Worth consuming!
- The BFG — Worth consuming!
- Matilda — Worth consuming!
- The Witches (Puffin Novels) — Worth consuming!
- Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories — Worth consuming!
- A Room of One's Own — Worth consuming!
- The Red Tent : A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) — Not worth consuming
Watched:
- Casablanca — Worth consuming!
- Titanic — Not worth consuming
- American Beauty — Worth consuming!
- The Apartment — Worth consuming!
- Ordinary People — Worth consuming!
- Chicago (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- All About Eve — Worth consuming!
- The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Kung Fu Hustle (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Rain Man — Worth consuming!
- Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
- The Sound of Music (Single Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Lost Weekend — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Sushi — Worth consuming!
- Chocolate — Worth consuming!
- Edamame — Not worth consuming
- Caprese Salad — Worth consuming!
- bagel with lox and cream cheese — Worth consuming!
- Chai Latte — Not worth consuming
- Ferrero Rocher — Not worth consuming
- BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
- Kebab — Worth consuming!
- Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
- Venison — Worth consuming!
- Pasta — Worth consuming!
- ahi tuna — Worth consuming!
- hummus — Worth consuming!
- Fried Chicken — Worth consuming!
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- Complete "The Artist's Way"
- have a picnic — completed about 1 year later
- track what's on my zeitgeist — completed about 1 year later
- read, understand and memorize three poems — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- make a list of all my good ideas — Worth doing!
- Eat no candy for one week. — Not worth doing
- spring clean
- Buy original art — Worth doing!
- Save money — Worth doing!
- Take an Acting Class — Worth doing!
- have dim sum for breakfast — Worth doing!
- Memorize Hamlet's, "What a piece of work is man" speech — Worth doing!
- Be a riot grrrl — Worth doing!
- flirt — Worth doing!
- Shake hands with someone famous — Worth doing!
- Suddenly decide on and leave for a trip — Worth doing!
- stay in bed all day — Worth doing!
- have a Barbie collection — Worth doing!
- Write a letter to the editor — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- Isle Of Berneray
- Frites — visited about 1 month later
- West Village — visited 22 days later
- Oysterville
- Two Bells Tavern — visited 9 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Kingfish Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Lark — Worth visiting!
- Blue Star Cafe & Pub — Worth visiting!
- Redwood — Worth visiting!
- Northwest Film Forum — Worth visiting!
- Beecher's Handmade Cheese — Worth visiting!
- Green Lake Park — Worth visiting!
- Volunteer Park — Worth visiting!
- Woodland Park — Worth visiting!
- Espresso Vivace — Worth visiting!
- Zeitgeist Coffee — Worth visiting!
- Victrola Coffee & Art — Worth visiting!
- Bleu Bistro — Worth visiting!
- Neumos — Worth visiting!
- Comet Tavern — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Mother Tongue — Worth consuming!
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Year of Magical Thinking — Worth consuming!
- The Love Wife — Worth consuming!
- The Year of Yes — Not worth consuming
- The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
- Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse — Worth consuming!
- The Final Problem
- The Falling Boy: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
- L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
- The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
- Rushmore — Worth consuming!
- Like Water for Chocolate — Worth consuming!
- Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
- Dead Man Walking — Worth consuming!
- Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back — Worth consuming!
- Boys Don't Cry — Worth consuming!
- The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Say Anything — Worth consuming!
- The Philadelphia Story — Worth consuming!
- Mulholland Drive — Not worth consuming
- The Hours — Worth consuming!
→ See more from April
May
Completed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- Fork — visited about 1 month later
- Maximilien Bistro
- Cafe Metropolitain — visited 4 months later
- Theo Chocolate — visited 5 months later
- Kimchi Bistro — visited 8 months later
- Olympic Sculpture Park — visited 8 months later
- Seward Park — visited 9 months later
- XO Bistro
Visited on 43 Places:
- Seattle Art Museum — Worth visiting!
- The Triple Door — Worth visiting!
- Gas Works Park — Worth visiting!
- Seattle Center — Worth visiting!
- Safeco Field — Worth visiting!
- Alki Beach — Worth visiting!
- Babeland — Worth visiting!
- The Vera Project — Worth visiting!
- Western Washington University — Worth visiting!
- Ray's Boathouse — Worth visiting!
- University Of Washington — Worth visiting!
- Pacific Science Center — Worth visiting!
- 611 Supreme — Worth visiting!
- Bimbo's Bitchin' Burrito Kitchen — Not worth visiting
- The Broadway Grill
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Surfacing — Worth consuming!
- Are Men Necessary? — Worth consuming!
- Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
Watched:
- Sweet Bird of Youth — Worth consuming!
- Masculin Feminin - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- drawing restraint 9
- Brick — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- create a personal poetry anthology — Worth doing!
- Buy a non-vintage, carry-on sized wheely suitcase — Not worth doing
- Grow my hair out — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Lake Stevens — visited 11 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Observation Deck — Worth visiting!
- Umi Sake House — Worth visiting!
- Anacortes — Worth visiting!
- Arlington — Worth visiting!
- Auburn — Not worth visiting
- Bainbridge Island — Worth visiting!
- Battle Ground — Not worth visiting
- Bellevue — Worth visiting!
- Bellingham — Worth visiting!
- Bothell — Not worth visiting
- Bremerton — Worth visiting!
- Burien — Worth visiting!
- Burlington — Not worth visiting
- Centralia — Worth visiting!
- Clarkston — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- haikugirl — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Man Walks Into a Room — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Thank You for Smoking — Worth consuming!
- The Break-Up — Not worth consuming
- An Inconvenient Truth — Worth consuming!
- Mistrz (The Master)
Consumed:
- Coca-Cola Blāk — Worth consuming!
- Coke Blak
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- explore using flexcar.com — completed 9 months later
- go whale watching
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Golden Gardens Park — Worth visiting!
- Snoqualmie Pass — Worth visiting!
- Snow Lake — Worth visiting!
- Fun Forest — Worth visiting!
- Tractor Tavern
- Quincy — Worth visiting!
- Duke's Chowder House
- Galleria's
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- Play It As It Lays: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- In Cold Blood — Worth consuming!
- The History of Love: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Strangers with Candy — Worth consuming!
- Wordplay — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Added to 43 Things:
- Drink a New York Egg Cream — completed 14 days later
- track everything I eat for a week
- change my name for a year
- clean my carpet and armchairs
- detox — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Lombard Street — Worth visiting!
- Russian Hill — Worth visiting!
- Pesce
- The Tonga Room And Hurricane Bar — Worth visiting!
- Hemlock Tavern — Worth visiting!
- Swan Oyster Depot — Worth visiting!
- Grace Cathedral Episcopal Church — Worth visiting!
- Quetzal Internet Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Nob Hill — Not worth visiting
- Bambuddha Lounge — Worth visiting!
- Phoenix Hotel — Worth visiting!
- Mission District — Worth visiting!
- 826 Valencia — Worth visiting!
- The Fish Theater — Worth visiting!
- Pirate Supply Store — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Joe — met about 1 month later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- My Year of Meats — Worth consuming!
- Life of Pi — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Cobra Verde — Worth consuming!
- Baby Doll — Worth consuming!
- Little Miss Sunshine — Worth consuming!
- The Oh in Ohio
→ See more from August
September
Added to 43 Things:
- track everything I spend for a week — completed about 1 month later
- Eat a burrito for all three meals one day — completed 3 months later
- learn to cook delicious soup — completed 3 months later
- make limoncello
Completed on 43 Things:
- Drink a New York Egg Cream — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Cafe Metropolitain
- Snohomish — Worth visiting!
- Airial Balloon Company — Worth visiting!
- Rivertown Ale House — Worth visiting!
- Bob's Corn
- Viceroy
- Flowers Bar & Restaurant — Worth visiting!
- Feierabend — Worth visiting!
- Elliott Bay Book Company
- Benaroya Hall
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Howl's Moving Castle — Worth consuming!
- Chuck & Buck
- Band of Outsiders - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Match Point — Worth consuming!
- The Science of Sleep
→ See more from September
October
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- erg
- be healthy for 30 days
- do the landmark forum — Worth doing!
- track everything I spend for a week — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- McLeod Residence — visited 29 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Seattle — Worth visiting!
- Boka Kitchen And Bar — Worth visiting!
- Brooklyn Seafood, Steak & Oyster House — Worth visiting!
- Theo Chocolate
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays — Worth consuming!
- French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure — Worth consuming!
- The French Diet: Why French Women Don't Get Fat — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Seven Year Itch — Worth consuming!
- Bus Stop — Worth consuming!
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby — Worth consuming!
- Marie Antoinette — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Completed on 43 Things:
- hold a human brain — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- King Street Station
- Pitcairn Scott — Worth visiting!
- Rendezvous
- Cyclops
- McLeod Residence — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions) — Worth consuming!
- Roustabout: A Fiction — Worth consuming!
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics — Not worth consuming
Watched:
- Storytelling
- Shortbus — Worth consuming!
- For Your Consideration
- Casino Royale — Worth consuming!
→ See more from November
December
Added to 43 Things:
- learn about wine — completed about 1 month later
- do something that surprises, inspires, and terrifies me
- run a half marathon
Completed on 43 Things:
- save $1,000 in an emergency fund — Worth doing!
- pay off my credit cards — Worth doing!
- get a passport — Worth doing!
- sell something I created — Worth doing!
- make a list of up to 43 places I want to visit — Worth doing!
- stop eating fast food — Worth doing!
- try a vegetarian diet for six months — Worth doing!
- Drink more than enough water — Worth doing!
- take the stairs — Worth doing!
- get regular checkups — Worth doing!
- know my blood pressure and cholesterol levels — Worth doing!
- walk or bike to work — Worth doing!
- Eat a burrito for all three meals one day
- learn to cook delicious soup — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Serious Pie — Worth visiting!
- Georgetown — Worth visiting!
- Jules Mae's — Worth visiting!
Read:
- A Short History of Nearly Everything — Worth consuming!
- Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- You, Me and Dupree — Not worth consuming
