PurpleHeather in 2007

2007 was 98% worth living.

In 2005, PurpleHeather did 34 things, went 51 places, met 2 people, and consumed 158 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. lose 40 pounds
  2. Lose 45 pounds
  3. lose 50 pounds
  4. lose 60 pounds
  5. feel confident in my new job — completed about 1 year later
  6. Read the books I own before buying more
  7. save 6 months of living expenses
  8. Have a better 2007 than 2006 — completed about 1 year later
  9. see a meteor shower
  10. Not visit griddlers.net or research my family tree on study days or in the 2 weeks before my exams
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find a new job — Worth doing!
  2. see a Wimbledon Championship Final — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. lose 40 pounds
  2. Lose 45 pounds
  3. lose 50 pounds
  4. lose 60 pounds
Read:
  1. Sunstorm - A Time Odyssey (Gollancz SF) — Worth consuming!
  2. A Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey) — Worth consuming!
  3. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions, More Questions and Answers from the Popular 'last Word' Column — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Hooray for Boobies
  2. Never For Ever
  3. Fossil Fuel (Singles 1977-1992) — Worth consuming!
  4. These Were the Earlies — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Hero — Worth consuming!
  2. South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Fight global warming from my desktop - www.localcooling.com Group name = 43 Things — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get all my Christmas shopping done early — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Bonn — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Colwyn Bay
  2. Valley
  3. Ynys Môn
Listened to:
  1. Boingo — Worth consuming!
  2. Myths of the Near Future — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Finding Neverland — Worth consuming!
  2. Angel-A — Worth consuming!
  3. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace — Worth consuming!
  4. Hot Fuzz — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. organise a team to fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — completed 7 days later
  2. get my purple star on Ebay — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Ride on the Orient Express — Worth doing!
  2. see a lunar eclipse — Worth doing!
  3. Offer a Microloan to someone on the Kiva site — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. redo my website
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Praha — visited 3 months later
  2. Kutná Hora — visited 4 months later
  3. Sedlec Ossuary — visited 4 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bonn
  2. Harmonie
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Hugh Cornwell
Listened to:
  1. Broken Boy Soldiers — Worth consuming!
  2. Neon Bible — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. drink my bottle of gluten-free ale — completed about 1 month later
  2. go gluten free — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. own a sexy pair of heels — Worth doing!
  2. Spend a weekend at a spa — Worth doing!
  3. organise a team to fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — Worth doing!
  4. Get tested for gluten intolerance — Worth doing!
  5. Go a whole month only buying food and other necessities — Worth doing!
  6. Stop visiting griddlers.net until after my actuarial exam on 4th April — Worth doing!
Listened to:
  1. Reich and Sexy: Best of Die Toten Hosen — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Futurama, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
  3. Waking Ned Devine — Worth consuming!
  4. Sunshine
  5. Jackass - The Movie (Unrated Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. jackass: number 2 — Worth consuming!
  7. Curse of the Golden Flower — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. spring clean my flat
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. lose 2 stone — Worth doing!
  2. drink my bottle of gluten-free ale — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Attend the Last Night of the Proms
Read:
  1. All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  2. From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Futurama, Vol. 2 — Worth consuming!
  2. Splitting Heirs — Worth consuming!
  3. The Queen
  4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End — Not worth consuming
  5. Spiderman 3
  6. Heroes Season 1 — Worth consuming!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. SEE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE LIVE — Worth doing!
  2. See Biffy Clyro in concert — Worth doing!
  3. become an actuary — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Wembley Stadium — Worth visiting!
  2. Wembley Arena — Worth visiting!
  3. Earls Court Arena & Exhibition Centre — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Andrew Bird
Read:
  1. Cruel and Unusual: A Kay Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Body Farm — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge — Worth consuming!
  2. Black Celebration
  3. Thrills — Worth consuming!
  4. Godhopping — Worth consuming!
  5. Construction for the Modern Idiot — Not worth consuming
  6. Music for the Masses (Deluxe Edition CD+DVD) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Black Parade — Worth consuming!
  8. Armchair Apocrypha — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Primer — Worth consuming!
  3. Futurama, Vol. 3 — Worth consuming!
  4. Pi — Worth consuming!
  5. Society (1989) (Ws) — Worth consuming!
  6. Being John Malkovich — Worth consuming!
  7. Eraserhead
  8. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Criterion Collection
  9. The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  10. The Prestige — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. build up a network of Celiacs to facilitate gluten-free traveling
  2. Spend more time with my nephews
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see tilly and the wall live — Worth doing!
  2. Drink Absinthe in Prague — Worth doing!
  3. Drink Slivovice in Prague — Worth doing!
  4. go gluten free — Worth doing!
  5. drive a race car — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. London Aquarium — Worth visiting!
  2. The Tower Of London
  3. Westminster Abbey
  4. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
  5. Liverpool
  6. Bath — Worth visiting!
  7. Praha
  8. Karlův Most
  9. Stavovské Divadlo
  10. Malá Strana
  11. Nové Město
  12. Václavské náměstí
  13. Pražský Orloj
  14. Staroměstské Náměstí
  15. Hradčany
Read:
  1. The Bridge — Worth consuming!
  2. Cause of Death — Worth consuming!
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) — Worth consuming!
  4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) — Worth consuming!
  5. Sunshine — Worth consuming!
  6. The Business: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  7. Complicity — Worth consuming!
  8. Walking on Glass — Worth consuming!
  9. Fairyland — Worth consuming!
  10. FROM POTTER'S FIELD — Worth consuming!
  11. Eight — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Odessey and Oracle — Worth consuming!
  2. Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture — Worth consuming!
  3. Eight — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Futurama, Vol. 4 — Worth consuming!
  2. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to the gym 3 times a week — completed 10 months later
  2. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org — completed 11 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Try West Indian Food — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Malta
  2. Montenegro
  3. Derbyshire — visited 10 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Suffolk
  2. Grimsby
  3. Lincolnshire
  4. Donnington Park — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  2. Cat's Cradle — Worth consuming!
  3. The Sirens of Titan — Worth consuming!
  4. Welcome to the Monkey House
  5. Bluebeard (Delta Fiction)
  6. Breakfast of Champions
  7. Timequake
  8. Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
  9. The State of the Art — Worth consuming!
  10. Hocus Pocus
  11. Unnatural Exposure — Worth consuming!
  12. Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
  13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Fisher King — Worth consuming!
  2. Batman — Worth consuming!
  3. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  4. Raising Arizona
  5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection
  7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  8. Ed Wood (Special Edition)
  9. Big Fish — Worth consuming!
  10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
  11. Dogma
  12. Batman Returns
  13. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  14. 12 Monkeys — Worth consuming!
  15. Mars Attacks! — Worth consuming!

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September

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. skype — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. London — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Point of Origin — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Swimming Hour — Worth consuming!
  2. Kings of the Wild Frontier
  3. Speak & Spell (Deluxe Edition CD+DVD) — Worth consuming!
  4. Greatest Hits — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. opt out of SuperCheers — completed 4 months later
  2. Survive my notice period — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Sign a petition for Burma — Worth doing!
  2. get my BMI into the healthy range — Worth doing!
  3. Resign from my job with dignity — Worth doing!
  4. exercise regularly — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bletchley Park — Worth visiting!
  2. Henlow Grange Health Farm — Worth visiting!
  3. Czech Republic — Worth visiting!
  4. Ireland — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Black Notice — Worth consuming!
  2. The Last Precinct — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. It's a Bit Complicated — Worth consuming!
  2. Black And White Album — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Chicken Run — Worth consuming!
  2. Frasier - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  3. 28 Weeks Later...
  4. Ratatouille — Worth consuming!

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November

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn Tai Chi — Worth doing!
  2. Stop visiting griddlers.net until after my actuarial exams - last one on 13th September — Worth doing!
  3. find out what my blood type is — Worth doing!
  4. Drive somewhere I can see the stars — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Blow Fly — Worth consuming!
  2. The Difference Engine (Gollancz SF)
Listened to:
  1. Lullabies to Paralyze — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Frasier - The Complete Fourth Season — Worth consuming!
  2. The Bourne Identity — Worth consuming!
  3. The Bourne Supremacy — Worth consuming!
  4. The Bourne Ultimatum — Worth consuming!
  5. Dexter - Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Stardust (Widescreen Edition)

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. donate 25,000 grains of rice through freerice.com — completed 1 day later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. volunteer at a homeless shelter — Worth doing!
  2. be part of a team that donates 1 million grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. lose 55 pounds
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Monaco — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Trace (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Yews Paw — Worth consuming!
  2. Briny Hooves — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Red Dwarf: Series 1 — Worth consuming!
  2. Evolution — Worth consuming!
  3. Frasier - The Complete Fifth Season — Worth consuming!

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