PurpleHeather in 2008

2008, so far, is 94% worth living.

In 2005, PurpleHeather did 39 things, went 54 places, met 0 people, and consumed 329 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go swimming twice a week
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. donate 25,000 grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
Watched:
  1. The Hudsucker Proxy — Worth consuming!
  2. Red Dwarf - Series 5 — Worth consuming!
  3. Red Dwarf - Series 6 — Worth consuming!
  4. Men in Black II (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Red Dwarf: Series 2 — Worth consuming!
  6. Red Dwarf - Series 3 — Worth consuming!
  7. Ice Age (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Red Dwarf - Series 4 — Worth consuming!
  9. Red Dwarf - Series 7 — Worth consuming!
  10. Red Dwarf - Series 8 — Worth consuming!
  11. Ice Age - The Meltdown (Full Screen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Sushi
  2. Chocolate
  3. Cheesecake
  4. Kebab
  5. Paella
  6. Pasta
  7. Haggis — Not worth consuming
  8. Cornish Pasty
  9. Fresh fish
  10. Thai Cuisine
  11. Ice cream
  12. Chicago Style Pizza
  13. Curry
  14. Prawns
  15. A Pancake

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Celebrate Darwin Day on 12-02 — completed about 1 month later
  2. Support my husband through his career change — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. See Cirque du Soleil — Worth doing!
  2. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — Worth doing!
  3. have purple hair — Worth doing!
  4. see a play at the Globe Theatre — Worth doing!
  5. Try Thai food. — Worth doing!
  6. read a novel in a foreign language — Worth doing!
  7. opt out of SuperCheers — Worth doing!
  8. leave my city once a month, leave my country once a year — Worth doing!
  9. get lost in Venice, Italy — Worth doing!
  10. Grow beautiful window boxes full of flowers — Worth doing!
  11. sponsor Gertie in the Edinburgh Moonwalk for breast cancer — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Royal Observatory
  2. Southwark Cathedral
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. The London Dungeon — Worth visiting!
  2. University Of London — Worth visiting!
  3. London Zoo — Worth visiting!
  4. The London Butterfly House — Worth visiting!
  5. The Monument To The Fire Of London — Worth visiting!
  6. St. Paul's Cathedral — Worth visiting!
  7. The National Gallery — Worth visiting!
  8. Hampton Court Palace — Worth visiting!
  9. National Portrait Gallery — Worth visiting!
  10. The Garage — Worth visiting!
  11. Sadlers Wells Theatre — Worth visiting!
  12. British Library — Worth visiting!
  13. Electric Ballroom — Worth visiting!
  14. Primrose Hill — Worth visiting!
  15. Abacus — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Threepenny Opera — Worth consuming!
  2. Der Hund/Der Tunnel/Die Panne — Worth consuming!
  3. Der Richter und sein Henker — Worth consuming!
  4. Das Urteil — Worth consuming!
  5. Der Besuch Der Alten Dame:Tragische Komodie Diogenes — Worth consuming!
  6. Cider with Rosie — Not worth consuming
  7. Fünf Freunde und Du erforschen die Schatzinsel. ( Ab 10 J.). — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Garden State — Worth consuming!
  2. Because of the Times
  3. The Shepherd's Dog — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid — Worth consuming!
  3. L.A. Confidential
  4. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  5. Tron
  6. A Fish Called Wanda
  7. Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
  8. Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb — Worth consuming!
  9. The Shawshank Redemption
  10. Rosemary's Baby — Worth consuming!
  11. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)
  12. Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc) — Worth consuming!
  13. Spider-Man (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
  14. Gosford Park — Worth consuming!
  15. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. The Devils

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. See a satellite — completed 17 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. feel confident in my new job — Worth doing!
  2. join Amnesty International's Greetings Card Campaign 2007 — Worth doing!
  3. Celebrate Darwin Day on 12-02 — Worth doing!
  4. Have weekly date with my husband — Worth doing!
  5. Watch a martial arts film and enjoy it — Worth doing!
  6. Stay in Sweden's Ice Hotel — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ice Hotel — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Last Chance to See — Worth consuming!
  2. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Worth consuming!
  3. Mostly Harmless — Worth consuming!
  4. Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul — Worth consuming!
  5. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency — Worth consuming!
  6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Worth consuming!
  7. Life, the Universe and Everything — Worth consuming!
  8. Richter 10 — Worth consuming!
  9. A short history of Tractors in Ukrainian — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Thank You for Smoking — Worth consuming!
  2. Superabundance — Worth consuming!
  3. Seldom Seen Kid — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. X2 - X-Men United (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
  2. Star Wars, Episode VI- Return of the Jedi (Widescreen Edition)
  3. Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Thing (Collector's Edition)
  5. Star Wars - Episode III, Revenge of the Sith (Full Screen Edition)
  6. The Truman Show (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Howl's Moving Castle — Worth consuming!
  8. The Incredibles
  9. Back to the Future
  10. Frasier - The Complete Seventh Season — Worth consuming!
  11. The Fabulous Baker Boys
  12. Juno (Single-Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency — Worth consuming!

→ See more from March

April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Research my family tree
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Have a sauna in Sweden — Worth doing!
  2. Go husky sledging — Worth doing!
  3. Survive my notice period — Worth doing!
  4. go snowmobiling — Worth doing!
  5. See a satellite — Worth doing!
  6. Shop only from independent shops for 14 days — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. spring clean my flat
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Chemnitz
Watched:
  1. 28 Weeks Later — Not worth consuming
  2. I Am Legend — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Pass P5 (Finance) exam - Institute of Actuaries — completed about 1 month later
  2. Make 43 offers on Freecycle
  3. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
  4. Be able to name all 16 of my great great grandparents
  5. Pass SA5 (Finance) exam - Institute of Actuaries
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Have a better 2007 than 2006 — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Ooze Risotto Bar
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Bora Bora
Listened to:
  1. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Worth consuming!
  2. 1967-1970
  3. A Hard Day's Night
  4. 1962-1966
  5. Myths of the Near Future (Hk) — Worth consuming!
  6. In Silico
Watched:
  1. The Fifth Element — Worth consuming!
  2. Le Dernier Combat
  3. Subway — Worth consuming!
  4. The 39 Steps - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. Frasier - The Complete Eighth Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Run Fatboy Run — Worth consuming!
  7. Transformers
  8. The Big Blue: Le Grand Bleu (Director's Cut - Import) — Worth consuming!
  9. Angel-A — Worth consuming!
  10. The Adam and Joe Show [Region 2] — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. buy a cottage in the english countryside
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. obtain & maintain a Body Mass Index (BMI) within the range of 20-25, which experts generally consider to be healthy. — Worth doing!
  2. Go to a cricket match — Not worth doing
  3. stop thinking I have to buy stuff just because it's on sale — Worth doing!
  4. see the northern lights — Worth doing!
  5. Support my husband through his career change — Worth doing!
  6. Help my husband recover from his operation and regain full fitness — Worth doing!
  7. give one new Kiva loan per month for a year — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Skydive
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Wing — Worth visiting!
  2. Buckinghamshire — Worth visiting!
  3. Berkshire — Worth visiting!
  4. Bedfordshire — Worth visiting!
  5. Derbyshire — Worth visiting!
  6. Essex — Worth visiting!
  7. Hampshire — Worth visiting!
  8. Norfolk — Worth visiting!
  9. The Oval — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries) — Worth consuming!
  2. Book of the Dead — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Cat Returns — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Read Watchmen before the film comes out
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Pass P5 (Finance) exam - Institute of Actuaries — Worth doing!
  2. go to the gym 3 times a week — Worth doing!
  3. read one book a month for 12 months — Worth doing!
  4. eat more organic food — Worth doing!
  5. See 4 plays at the theatre in the next 12 months — Worth doing!
  6. Fight global warming from my desktop - www.localcooling.com Group name = 43 Things — Worth doing!
  7. read Calvin and Hobbes regularly — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. save 6 months of living expenses
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Venezia — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Murder One — Worth consuming!
  2. The Mighty Boosh - seasons 1 & 2 — Worth consuming!
  3. WALL·E — Worth consuming!
  4. National Treasure 2 - Book of Secrets — Worth consuming!
  5. Hancock [Theatrical Release] — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July


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