tamaribu in 2007

2007 was 98% worth living.

In 2005, tamaribu did 32 things, went 52 places, met 14 people, and consumed 106 products.

Years: 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Apr | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. drive my car less — completed 2 months later
  2. read a book a week — completed 8 months later
  3. Practice Yoga
  4. pay off my loans
  5. reduce clutter

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Design a website
  2. track how I spend time
  3. burn a cd for celia — completed 1 day later
  4. sew a shirt — completed 8 days later
  5. read two books every week — completed 25 days later
  6. find the memory stick I put all that stuff on before my computer crashed and download the data to my new computer — completed about 1 month later
  7. conserve water — completed 3 months later
  8. generate financial reports weekly - for three months
  9. regrout my tub and sink
  10. Compost — completed 4 months later
  11. be early or on time — completed 4 months later
  12. go scuba diving again
  13. Invest in Real Estate — completed 5 months later
  14. Save one month's salary — completed 5 months later
  15. Learn Spanish
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy a bass guitar — Worth doing!
  2. do a split
  3. own a hybrid car — Worth doing!
  4. sell things on etsy — Worth doing!
  5. Go to the dentist — Worth doing!
  6. learn to SCUBA dive — Worth doing!
  7. ride my bike to work — Worth doing!
  8. Catalog my books with librarything — Worth doing!
  9. make a rag rug — Worth doing!
  10. take my lunch to work — Worth doing!
  11. repair my bicycle — Worth doing!
  12. schedule doctor's appointment
  13. get a haircut — Worth doing!
  14. watch less tv — Worth doing!
  15. learn to sew — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Design a website
  2. track how I spend time
Read:
  1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood — Worth consuming!
  2. In Cold Blood — Worth consuming!
  3. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Post-Contemporary Interventions) — Worth consuming!
  6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  7. Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises — Worth consuming!
  8. The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System — Worth consuming!
  9. The Terrorists — Worth consuming!
  10. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage — Worth consuming!
  11. Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino — Worth consuming!
  13. The Closers (Harry Bosch) — Worth consuming!
  14. Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen — Worth consuming!
  15. Culture and Public Action — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Conversation — Worth consuming!
  2. Central Station — Worth consuming!
  3. Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War — Worth consuming!
  4. Darwin's Nightmare — Worth consuming!
  5. Lumumba

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. sleep 7 hours a night — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. burn a cd for celia — Worth doing!
  2. sew a shirt — Worth doing!
  3. bring the E Tufte book to work for Gloria — Worth doing!
  4. read two books every week — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
  2. Out: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  3. Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market — Worth consuming!
  4. What Is the What — Worth consuming!
  5. Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market
  6. A Conspiracy of Paper — Worth consuming!
  7. Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery — Worth consuming!
  8. Oracle Night — Worth consuming!
  9. Never Go Back — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Happy Feet — Worth consuming!
  2. Blood Diamond [HD DVD] — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. own a house — completed 2 months later
  2. record my dreams
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find the memory stick I put all that stuff on before my computer crashed and download the data to my new computer — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Worth consuming!
  2. McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers — Worth consuming!
  3. The Culture of Make Believe
  4. Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work
  5. Ben & Jerry's Double Dip : Lead With Your Values and Make Money, Too
  6. Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks Mysteries (Paperback))
  7. Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (How)
  8. Aloft — Worth consuming!
  9. The Bottle Factory Outing — Worth consuming!
  10. Snow Blind
  11. Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally — Worth consuming!
  12. Blackwater — Worth consuming!
  13. Every Man for Himself — Worth consuming!
  14. The Color of Law: A Novel
Watched:
  1. Shadow of the Vampire
  2. POV: Lost Boys of Sudan — Worth consuming!
  3. The Wire - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. carpool — completed 2 months later
  2. read my library books — completed 4 months later
  3. take public transportation
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. conserve water — Worth doing!
  2. sleep 7 hours a night — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. generate financial reports weekly - for three months
  2. regrout my tub and sink
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Wailuku — visited about 1 month later
  2. Zandvoort — visited 2 months later
  3. Little Ethiopia — visited 3 months later
  4. Bryce Canyon National Park — visited 3 months later
  5. Joshua Tree National Park — visited 3 months later
  6. Pacoima — visited 3 months later
  7. Newhall — visited 3 months later
  8. Portland — visited 3 months later
  9. Houston — visited 3 months later
  10. St. Louis — visited 3 months later
  11. Los Angeles Ecovillage — visited 9 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kigali — Worth visiting!
  2. Boyle Heights — Worth visiting!
  3. Little Tokyo — Worth visiting!
  4. Kyoto — Worth visiting!
  5. Toga — Worth visiting!
  6. Kumamoto — Worth visiting!
  7. Portland
  8. Birmingham
  9. Wellesley
  10. Walnut Creek
  11. Manhattan
  12. Washington, D.C.
  13. Sam Sato's — Worth visiting!
  14. Waimea Canyon — Worth visiting!
  15. Grand Teton National Park — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Ozomatli
  2. Kinski
  3. Ditty Bops
Read:
  1. Set in Darkness: An Inspector Rebus Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
  3. Some Lie and Some Die (An Inspector Wexford Mystery) — Worth consuming!
  4. A Drink Before the War
  5. Name of the Game Is Death — Worth consuming!
  6. Live Flesh
  7. Indian Killer — Worth consuming!
  8. Roseanna (A Martin Beck Police Mystery #1) — Worth consuming!
  9. Never Live Twice — Worth consuming!
  10. The Vengeance Man
Watched:
  1. Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  2. Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. The Wire - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
  4. The Wire - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  5. Repo Man — Worth consuming!
  6. Boomtown - Season One — Worth consuming!
  7. The Princess Bride - Dread Pirate Edition — Worth consuming!
  8. Collateral [HD DVD]

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get my work life in order — completed 5 months later
  2. take naps — completed 5 months later
  3. make a will
  4. challenge my students to be activists
  5. buy less
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Compost — Worth doing!
  2. be early or on time — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Winchester Mystery House
  2. Sankt-Peterburg
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Los Angeles County Museum of Art — Worth visiting!
  2. Fenway Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Museum Of Jurassic Technology — Worth visiting!
  4. Pioneertown — Worth visiting!
  5. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — Worth visiting!
  6. Wailuku — Worth visiting!
  7. Catalina Island — Worth visiting!
  8. Montreal — Worth visiting!
  9. Seattle — Worth visiting!
  10. Hilo — Worth visiting!
  11. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  2. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity — Worth consuming!
  3. The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. A Rush of Blood to the Head — Worth consuming!
  2. ( ) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Starsky & Hutch (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Catch-22 — Worth consuming!
  3. Network (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Ground Truth — Worth consuming!
  5. N Word — Worth consuming!
  6. Breach (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Into the Wild — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. delegate more
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. own a house — Worth doing!
  2. Invest in Real Estate
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. go scuba diving again
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. The Arboretum Of Los Angeles County — Worth visiting!
  2. Las Vegas — Worth visiting!
  3. Utah — Worth visiting!
  4. Magnolia Bakery — Worth visiting!
  5. Big Bear — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Cesar Milan
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Jake Gyllenhaal
  2. Ani DiFranco
  3. Adam Guettel
  4. Immaculée Ilibagiza
Read:
  1. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) — Worth consuming!
  2. Death of a Red Heroine (Soho Crime) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
  4. Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller — Worth consuming!
  5. Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
  6. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) — Worth consuming!
  7. THE NIGHT GARDENER
  8. The Latke Who Wouldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Chinatown — Worth consuming!
  2. Michael Clayton — Worth consuming!

→ See more from November

December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. knit a tea cosy — completed 5 days later
  2. be brave — completed about 1 month later
  3. find out how a college education got so expensive
  4. get my eyes checked
  5. Save four months' salary
  6. mend my clothes
  7. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. carpool — Worth doing!
  2. Save one month's salary — Worth doing!
  3. grow my own vegetables — Worth doing!
  4. live in japan for a year — Worth doing!
  5. organize my computer — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn Spanish
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Grandma Prisbee's Bottle Village
  2. Kekaha — visited 1 day later
  3. Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center — visited 7 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Zandvoort — Worth visiting!
  2. Watts Towers — Worth visiting!
  3. Kaua`i — Worth visiting!
  4. Little Ethiopia — Worth visiting!
  5. Bryce Canyon National Park — Worth visiting!
  6. Walnut Creek — Worth visiting!
  7. Joshua Tree National Park — Worth visiting!
  8. Pacoima — Worth visiting!
  9. Newhall — Worth visiting!
  10. Portland — Worth visiting!
  11. The Menil Collection — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Wangari Maathai
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Bill Nye
  2. Noam Chomsky
  3. Maggie Gyllenhaal
  4. Steven Gyllenhaal
  5. Stephin Merritt
  6. David Foster Wallace
  7. Solomon Burke
Read:
  1. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Worth consuming!
  2. The Magic Mountain — Worth consuming!
  3. Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery — Worth consuming!
  4. Brat Farrar — Worth consuming!
  5. Native Son — Worth consuming!
  6. Off Minor (A Resnick Novel) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Smell of the Night (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery) — Worth consuming!
  8. William Goldman's the Princess Bride — Worth consuming!
  9. Depths — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Psychocandy — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. American Beauty
  3. Grizzly Man — Worth consuming!
  4. Walkabout - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. The Last King of Scotland — Worth consuming!
  6. Enchanted
  7. Little Dieter Needs to Fly — Worth consuming!

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