Pooky in 2008

2008, so far, is 64% worth living.

In 2005, Pooky did 302 things, went 206 places, met 3 people, and consumed 1402 products.

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

March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. See a movie in a drive-in — completed 2 months later
  2. move out of my parents' house — completed 2 months later
  3. Take more pictures
  4. Buy a House
  5. find out what my blood type is
  6. Get a PhD
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Lose 10 pounds
  2. Build a snowman
  3. Catch a frog
  4. eat sushi — Worth doing!
  5. Write a resume — Worth doing!
  6. get into grad school — Worth doing!
  7. dye my hair — Worth doing!
  8. help a stranger — Worth doing!
  9. get a 4.0 — Worth doing!
  10. take a vacation with my boyfriend — Worth doing!
  11. participate in a beach clean-up — Worth doing!
  12. take a bath — Worth doing!
  13. Go apple picking
  14. Get a Beta
  15. sleep all day — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Japan
  2. Tokyo
  3. Harajuku
  4. Midway Atoll
  5. Osaka
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. AdrianneTheHess — met about 1 month later

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. eat an insect — completed 19 days later
  2. Visit a beekeeper and see bees — completed 2 months later
  3. have a pet dwarf hamster — completed 2 months later
  4. Dye my hair orange — completed 2 months later
  5. get a mohawk — completed 2 months later
  6. learn to make resin jewelry
  7. adopt a dog
  8. Become a forensic entomologist
  9. keep bees
  10. get a massage
  11. get my tubes tied
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a tragus piercing
  2. visit new york city
  3. Carve a pumpkin
  4. have a pillow fight
  5. See a shooting star
  6. beat a video game
  7. gauge my ears
  8. Strech my lobes to a 0 gauge.
  9. bleach my hair platinum blonde
  10. go to the zoo
  11. get a hamster — Worth doing!
  12. live in USA
  13. buy a digital camera
  14. Get a gmail account
  15. milk a cow — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Ocean Park — visited 23 days later
  2. New Zealand
  3. Washington State
  4. Scarborough — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Maine
  2. Bangor
  3. Lewiston-Auburn
  4. Old Orchard Beach — Worth visiting!
  5. Portland
  6. Bull Moose Music
  7. Bar Harbor
  8. Acadia National Park
  9. Orono
  10. New York City
  11. Central Park
  12. Central Park Zoo
  13. New York State
  14. Ellis Island
  15. Florida
Watched:
  1. The Devil's Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. Hard Candy — Worth consuming!
  3. Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Worth consuming!
  4. Cloverfield

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to a gay club — completed 9 days later
  2. have a tea party — completed 29 days later
  3. have a big tea collection — completed about 1 month later
  4. Donate old clothes to charity — completed about 1 month later
  5. have a picnic — completed about 1 month later
  6. hold a snake — completed about 1 month later
  7. do yoga — completed about 1 month later
  8. swim in natural hot springs — completed about 1 month later
  9. learn to sew — completed about 1 month later
  10. stop drinking soda — completed 2 months later
  11. Own a giant millipede
  12. Own a hedgehog.
  13. make jam
  14. grow an herb garden
  15. Send a postcard to Postsecret
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read an entire novel in one sitting
  2. feel an earthquake — Not worth doing
  3. see an active volcano
  4. go horseback riding on the beach
  5. Try Thai food.
  6. be a participant in a scientific study
  7. paint my toenails
  8. get a lip piercing
  9. see a meteor shower
  10. get a haircut I like
  11. Say "I Love You" and mean it
  12. get straight A's
  13. visit new york
  14. Remember to take my vitamins
  15. Get some Chucks
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum
  2. France
  3. Paris
  4. Musée Du Louvre
  5. Les Catacombes
  6. Transylvania
  7. Alaska
  8. Kodiak Island
  9. Salvador Dalí Museum
  10. Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
  11. The Mütter Museum
  12. Amazon Rain Forest
  13. Hotel Chelsea
  14. Tasmania
  15. Lower East Side
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Empire State Building
  2. Times Square
  3. World Showcase
  4. Reflections of China
  5. Norway Pavilion
  6. Maelstrom
  7. Dragon Legend Acrobats
  8. China Pavilion
  9. Journey Into Imagination with Figment
  10. Future World
  11. Test Track
  12. Animal Kingdom
  13. The Tree of Life
  14. Kali River Rapids
  15. Asia
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. DJfester
  2. AdrianneTheHess
Read:
  1. A Light in the Attic
  2. The Andromeda Strain
  3. The Chronicles of Narnia
  4. Brave New World — Worth consuming!
  5. The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
  6. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  7. Scary Stories Boxed Set
  8. Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
  9. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Odyssey
  11. The Outsiders — Worth consuming!
  12. Notre-Dame of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
  13. The BFG
  14. Blindness (Harvest Book) — Worth consuming!
  15. Life of Pi — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
  1. Little Earthquakes — Worth consuming!
  2. Jagged Little Pill — Worth consuming!
  3. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  4. Nevermind — Worth consuming!
  5. Weezer (Blue Album) — Worth consuming!
  6. White Blood Cells — Worth consuming!
  7. The Beatles 1 — Not worth consuming
  8. Play — Worth consuming!
  9. Under the Pink — Worth consuming!
  10. Boys for Pele — Worth consuming!
  11. Thriller — Worth consuming!
  12. Hunky Dory — Worth consuming!
  13. Legend — Not worth consuming
  14. Pinkerton — Worth consuming!
  15. Stripped — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. SLC Punk — Worth consuming!
  2. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
  4. Army of Darkness — Worth consuming!
  5. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Not worth consuming
  6. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  7. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  8. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  9. Mr. Holland's Opus
  10. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  11. Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
  12. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Titanic — Not worth consuming
  15. The Wizard of Oz — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Ramen Noodles — Not worth consuming
  2. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  3. scrambled eggs — Not worth consuming
  4. Coca-Cola Classic — Not worth consuming
  5. Tangerines — Worth consuming!
  6. Pineapple — Worth consuming!
  7. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  8. Oranges — Worth consuming!
  9. sugar cookies — Worth consuming!
  10. Nutella — Worth consuming!
  11. Hot Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  12. Raspberries — Worth consuming!
  13. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  14. Poutine
  15. Cherries — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Pepto Bismol — Worth consuming!
  2. Nyquil — Worth consuming!
  3. Good Vibrations (single)
  4. All Along the Watchtower (song) [1968]
  5. Blowin' in the Wind (single)
  6. Born to Be Wild (single)
  7. Bridge Over Troubled Water (single)
  8. California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas (single)
  9. Dancing in the Street (single)
  10. Do You Believe in Magic? (single)
  11. Don't Be Cruel (single)
  12. Earth Angel (single)
  13. Eleanor Rigby (single)
  14. For What It's Worth (single)
  15. Get Up, Stand Up (single)

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Give 700 cheers — completed 13 days later
  2. plant a tree — completed 20 days later
  3. stop having panic attacks — completed 17 days later
  4. Own a hearse
  5. whiten my teeth
  6. Get my wildlife rehabilitation permit
  7. try 43 types of chocolate
  8. kiss at midnight on new year's eve — completed 2 months later
  9. get married on halloween.
  10. create a collaged suitcase
  11. Go the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico
  12. learn to crochet
  13. learn to crochet amigurumi
  14. Compost
  15. Inform people about 43 invasive species
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. eat a bug
  2. Watch the Wallace And Gromit movie
  3. get 1 million neopoints on neopets
  4. get a henna tattoo
  5. try yoga
  6. Bike to work
  7. watch the sun set over the ocean
  8. touch a cow's nose
  9. move in with my boyfriend
  10. go to a gay club
  11. go to a red sox game
  12. present at a conference
  13. Compliment a stranger
  14. gauge my ears to a 4
  15. gauge my ears to 6g
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Athens
  2. Oaxaca (State)
  3. Nevada
  4. Harajuku Station
  5. Philadelphia
  6. Australia
  7. Greece
  8. Hawai'i
  9. Schoodic Point — visited about 1 month later
  10. Brazil
  11. Olympic National Park
  12. Reno
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mount Desert Island
  2. The Maine Mall
  3. College Of The Atlantic
Read:
  1. Survivor: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Choke — Worth consuming!
  3. Lullaby
  4. Invisible Monsters
  5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
  6. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
  7. Diary: A Novel
  8. Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
  9. Haunted: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  10. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
  11. A Christmas Carol
  12. Generation X
  13. 1984
  14. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey — Worth consuming!
  15. Blindness — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
  2. Abbey Road
  3. MTV Unplugged in New York (Nirvana)
  4. Pet Sounds
  5. Dark Side Of The Moon
  6. Rubber Soul
  7. Are You Experienced
  8. Exodus
  9. The Wall
  10. Californication
  11. American III: Solitary Man
  12. Revolver [UK]
  13. What's Going on
  14. The Marshall Mathers LP
  15. Electric Ladyland
Watched:
  1. Bottle Rocket
  2. The Manchurian Candidate
  3. Office Space (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Run Lola Run
  5. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  6. Amores Perros
  7. Donnie Darko
  8. Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  9. White Oleander (Widescreen)
  10. Bowling for Columbine
  11. 28 Days (Special Edition)
  12. All About My Mother
  13. The Full Monty
  14. Trainspotting - Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
  15. Rope
Consumed:
  1. ketchup
  2. Pillsbury Cookie Dough: Sugar
  3. Keebler Chips Deluxe Rainbow — Worth consuming!
  4. Applesauce
Consumed:
  1. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire — Worth consuming!
  2. Bart the Genius — Worth consuming!
  3. Homer's Odyssey
  4. There's No Disgrace Like Home
  5. Bart the General
  6. Good Night
  7. Bart Jumps
  8. Space Patrol
  9. World War III
  10. The Perfect Crime
  11. Moaning Lisa
  12. Call of the Simpsons
  13. The Telltale Head
  14. The Crepes of Wrath
  15. Krusty Gets Busted

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. adopt a cat
  2. take a lover
  3. watch every Jimmy Stewart movie ever made
  4. have a mad tea party
  5. Wrap my Christmas gifts in reused paper or fabric
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see cats the musical
  2. Give 700 cheers
  3. throw a snowball at someone
  4. sleep in a hammock
  5. get a mohawk
  6. see the ocean — Worth doing!
  7. pet a chinchilla
  8. Get my first pedicure!
  9. plant a tree — Worth doing!
  10. Study insects. — Worth doing!
  11. Explore tide pools. — Worth doing!
  12. stop having panic attacks — Worth doing!
  13. learn to sew — Worth doing!
  14. give 800 cheers!
  15. see aerosmith in concert
Added to 43 Places:
  1. The Tower Of London
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Moxie Museum
  2. Kennebec's General Store
  3. Lisbon Falls
  4. Upper New York Bay
  5. Governors Island
  6. 86th Floor Observatory
  7. Midtown
  8. Museum Of Modern Art
  9. Grand Central Terminal
  10. Ellis Island Immigration Museum
  11. Sunday River
  12. Canaan
  13. Auburn
  14. Bethel
  15. Cumberland County
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Roxy Epoxy
Read:
  1. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
  2. A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
  3. Bell Jar (P.S.)
Watched:
  1. The Phantom of the Opera (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  2. Better Than Chocolate
  3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
  4. Gia (Unrated Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Blues Brothers (Widescreen 25th Anniversary Edition)
  6. West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set)
  7. The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
  8. The Celluloid Closet (Special Edition)
  9. Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street — Worth consuming!
  10. Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition)
  11. Bloodrayne — Not worth consuming
  12. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Worth consuming!
  13. V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. D'oh-in' in the Wind
  2. Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"
  3. Make Room for Lisa
  4. Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
  5. Missionary: Impossible
  6. Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
  7. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
  8. Worst Episode Ever
  9. New Kids on the Blecch
  10. Trilogy of Error
  11. The Parent Rap
  12. A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
  13. The Lastest Gun in the West
  14. Tales from the Public Domain
  15. I am Furious (Yellow)

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get a corgi
  2. clean my car
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop drinking soda
  2. get my cartilage pierced.
  3. Take pictures with someone in a photobooth
  4. buy a car
  5. learn to make onigiri — Worth doing!
  6. smile at strangers
  7. see a dolphin
  8. Give 1100 Cheers
  9. write a letter to someone famous
  10. silkscreen
  11. get pierced
  12. get 6 piercings
  13. jump in a large pile of leaves
  14. Switch to reusable shopping bags for groceries — Worth doing!
  15. sleep naked
Added to 43 Places:
  1. India
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Perry's Nut House
  2. Belfast
  3. Schoodic Point
  4. Winter Harbor
  5. York's Wild Kingdom
  6. York
  7. Scarborough
  8. South Portland
  9. Samoset Resort
  10. Rockland
  11. Isleboro
  12. China
  13. North Conway
  14. Salem
Watched:
  1. The L Word - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  2. The L Word - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Homer Defined
  2. I Married Marge
  3. Homer Alone
  4. Black Widower
  5. The Otto Show
  6. Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
  7. The Front
  8. Homer Loves Flanders

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