brownsugarbear01 in 2008

2008, so far, is 91% worth living.

In 2005, brownsugarbear01 did 229 things, went 25 places, met 6 people, and consumed 384 products.

brownsugarbear01 has written 1 year in review entry…

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. heal from endometriosis
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Invest in a Digital Camera — Worth doing!
  2. be happy with less. — Worth doing!
  3. give hand-made holiday gifts
  4. House-sit for someone — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Have a torrid erotic clandestine purely physical affair
Watched:
  1. The Saddest Music in the World — Worth consuming!
  2. Shall We Dance? (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Duets — Not worth consuming
  4. Saving Silverman (R Rated Version) — Not worth consuming
  5. Waydowntown — Worth consuming!
  6. Kissed — Worth consuming!
  7. Love Come Down — Worth consuming!
  8. Kitchen Party — Worth consuming!
  9. The Lookout — Worth consuming!
  10. Seven Times Lucky (2004) — Worth consuming!
  11. Niagra Motel — Worth consuming!

→ See more from January

February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. have a valentines
  2. be a massage therapist
  3. make my own sushi — completed 2 months later
  4. get a henna tattoo — completed 3 months later
  5. be happy on my own..not having to rely on someone else for happiness
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Watch Shaun of the Dead. — Worth doing!
  2. learn how to make a Website
  3. Go to China Town in Vancouver — Worth doing!
  4. move to vancouver — Worth doing!
  5. hang out with my brother — Worth doing!
  6. get a massage — Worth doing!
  7. go skinny dipping — Worth doing!
  8. Build a snowman — Worth doing!
  9. make a snow angel — Worth doing!
  10. Fall in love — Not worth doing
  11. fly a kite — Worth doing!
  12. experience a white christmas — Worth doing!
  13. Donate old clothes to charity — Worth doing!
  14. Donate blood — Worth doing!
  15. bake cookies — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. eat more raw foods
  2. take a self defense class
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Old Wives Tales
  2. Sundance Film Festival
  3. New York City
  4. Saskatchewan
  5. RCMP Depot
  6. Bob Marley Museum
  7. The Pas — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. International Women's Week Cabaret — Worth visiting!
  2. Roca Jack's — Worth visiting!
  3. The Templeton
  4. Victoria — Worth visiting!
  5. Royal British Columbia Museum — Worth visiting!
  6. Festival du Voyageur — Worth visiting!
  7. Portage and Main — Worth visiting!
  8. Zulu Records — Not worth visiting
  9. Gastown — Worth visiting!
  10. Edmonton International Airport — Worth visiting!
  11. Lake Louise — Worth visiting!
  12. Colin Jackson Studio — Worth visiting!
  13. Winnipeg International Airport — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. Back to Black — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail — Worth consuming!
  2. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  3. Office Space (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Worth consuming!
  7. Kill Bill, Volume 1 — Worth consuming!
  8. Kill Bill, Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
  9. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!
  10. Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Brazil - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
  14. Pink Flamingos — Worth consuming!
  15. This Is Spinal Tap - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. post secret
  2. never have kids — completed 2 months later
  3. taxes, taxes, taxes — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. write in my journal more often — Worth doing!
  2. Look Forward to Becoming 40 This Month. I Want to Be a BETTER Person at 40 Than I Was at 20 or 30....I Do NOT Want To Get Depressed at Being 40! — Worth doing!
  3. Spread the joy of Spinsterhood — Worth doing!
  4. NEVER have children — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Food Fight Vegan Grocery
  2. Voodoo Doughnut
  3. Hard Times Cafe
  4. French Meadow Bakery And Cafe
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Portage La Prairie
  2. Minneapolis
  3. Vancouver Aquarium — Worth visiting!
  4. Vancouver Art Gallery — Worth visiting!
  5. The Pas — Worth visiting!
  6. Good Thymes — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Colin Mochrie
  2. Santa Claus
  3. Leanna Brodie
Read:
  1. Wifey — Worth consuming!
  2. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret — Worth consuming!
  3. Forever . . . — Worth consuming!
  4. Iggie's House — Worth consuming!
  5. Blubber — Worth consuming!
  6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Piccolo Books) — Worth consuming!
  7. Then Again, Maybe I Won't — Worth consuming!
  8. Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself — Worth consuming!
  9. Deenie — Worth consuming!
  10. Forever — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
  2. Boys on the Side — Worth consuming!
  3. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  4. Midnight Cowboy — Worth consuming!
  5. Coming to America — Worth consuming!
  6. Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
  7. Caligula (Unrated Version) — Worth consuming!
  8. Boys Don't Cry — Worth consuming!
  9. O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Worth consuming!
  10. Kissing Jessica Stein — Worth consuming!
  11. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Worth consuming!
  12. Shrek 2 (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Blood Simple (Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  14. Miller's Crossing — Worth consuming!
  15. Ed Wood (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. curried lentil soup — Worth consuming!
  2. Couscous — Worth consuming!
  3. pretzel — Worth consuming!
  4. wasabi peas — Worth consuming!
  5. french fries — Worth consuming!
  6. Spring rolls — Worth consuming!
  7. seaweed — Worth consuming!
  8. Tabasco — Worth consuming!
  9. Peanut Butter — Worth consuming!
  10. sweet potato — Worth consuming!
  11. mochi — Not worth consuming
  12. Falafel — Worth consuming!
  13. Wasabi — Worth consuming!
  14. Miso soup — Worth consuming!
  15. Oatmeal — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Ocean Salt — Worth consuming!
  2. The L Word - Season 2 — Worth consuming!
  3. The L Word - Season 1 — Worth consuming!
  4. the l word: season 4 — Worth consuming!
  5. The L Word Season 3 — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to bed early
  2. Do my chores
  3. watch all the episodes of the L Word
  4. see my brother again — completed 21 days later
  5. go to a wedding — completed 11 days later
  6. be comfortable with my body
  7. make seitan — completed 21 days later
  8. read every book I own — completed 19 days later
  9. Build a barbeque — completed 19 days later
  10. youtube.com — completed about 1 month later
  11. go to a TOFU FESTIVAL
  12. learn how to type fast without looking at the keyboard — completed 2 months later
  13. have a picnic
  14. Read All the Books I Own and Haven't Finished.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn how to play songs backwards to find subliminal messages — Worth doing!
  2. watch all the Sex and the City episodes — Worth doing!
  3. watch sex and the city — Worth doing!
  4. Practice Yoga
  5. contribute to wikipedia
  6. not give a damn
  7. be positive — Worth doing!
  8. Keep a journal — Worth doing!
  9. Make Firefox my default browser
  10. reach 120 lbs — Worth doing!
  11. weigh under 120 lbs for the first time in as long as I can remember :) — Worth doing!
  12. feel ready to wake up when its time to wake up — Worth doing!
  13. make raw sushi. — Worth doing!
  14. Eat Sushi from a Sushi Bar — Worth doing!
  15. make people understand that declawing a cat is a painful unnecessary surgery and there are better ways to deal with cat's scratching — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. have a valentines
  2. be a massage therapist
  3. love my self
  4. believe in myself more
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Manitoba — Worth visiting!
  2. Winnipeg Folk Festival — Worth visiting!
  3. Jefferson — Not worth visiting
  4. Assiniboine Park Zoo — Worth visiting!
  5. St Bonifice — Not worth visiting
  6. Manitoba Legislative Building — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Daniel Roebuck
  2. k d lang
Read:
  1. Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Worth consuming!
  3. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  4. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
  5. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. Sylvia — Worth consuming!
  7. The Princess and the Warrior — Worth consuming!
  8. 40 Days & 40 Nights — Worth consuming!
  9. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Unrated Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  11. Down with Love (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Reservoir Dogs — Worth consuming!
  13. Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Pretty in Pink — Worth consuming!
  15. Groundhog Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Ramen Noodles — Worth consuming!
  2. Soy Milk — Worth consuming!
  3. Edamame — Worth consuming!
  4. Raspberries — Worth consuming!
  5. veggie burger — Worth consuming!
  6. Baklava — Worth consuming!
  7. hummus — Worth consuming!
  8. Kiwi — Worth consuming!
  9. pomegranate — Worth consuming!
  10. black olives — Worth consuming!
  11. Papaya — Not worth consuming
  12. pure maple syrup — Worth consuming!
  13. flax seeds — Worth consuming!
  14. Banana Nut Bread — Worth consuming!
  15. Mango — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. buy printer ink for the printer
  2. Pay it Forward
  3. weigh 110 pounds
  4. Visit a friend in hospital — completed about 1 month later
  5. Use and Understand "Ript". — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see my brother again — Worth doing!
  2. go to a wedding — Worth doing!
  3. make seitan — Worth doing!
  4. clean my bedroom — Worth doing!
  5. Have my annual Mother's Day brunch — Worth doing!
  6. read every book I own — Worth doing!
  7. have a YouTube account — Worth doing!
  8. Build a barbeque — Worth doing!
  9. get a henna tattoo — Worth doing!
  10. youtube.com — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. be comfortable with my body
Watched:
  1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit — Worth consuming!
  2. The Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete DVD Movie Collection (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Third World Cop — Worth consuming!
  4. Dancehall Queen — Worth consuming!
  5. The Harder They Come - 30th Anniversary Edition — Worth consuming!
  6. Treed Murray
  7. 30 Days of Night — Worth consuming!
  8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
  9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) — Not worth consuming
  10. Countryman (1982) — Worth consuming!
  11. "Wild On..." (1997) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Vegan stuff! — Worth consuming!
  2. vegan samosas — Worth consuming!
  3. President's Choice Mediterranian Meatless Chicken Strips — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. see a movie at a drive-in theater
  2. Visit all of the provinces and territories in Canada
  3. stand up against discrimation/oppression of all types- ageism, misogyny, homophobia and strive to stamp it out
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Switch to reusable shopping bags for groceries — Worth doing!
  2. twitter — Worth doing!
  3. never have kids — Worth doing!
  4. surprise mom — Worth doing!
  5. Memorize 5 more monologues — Worth doing!
  6. stay in a hostel
  7. jump in puddles
  8. learn how to type fast without looking at the keyboard — Worth doing!
  9. taxes, taxes, taxes — Worth doing!
  10. express myself
  11. Visit a friend in hospital — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. enter a writing contest
  2. Make a movie
  3. have a picnic
  4. pay off my credit card
  5. write a book
  6. Meet Others With the Same Name as I
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Ryan Stiles
Watched:
  1. Kung Fu Hustle (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. improve my web design skills
  2. read Agile Web Development with Rails
  3. Be part of a flash mob
  4. Make my parents proud
  5. Let go of the past
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to the cinema on my own
  2. not be scared going places, doing things, or just being alone — Worth doing!
  3. Use and Understand "Ript". — Worth doing!
  4. Celebrate Canada Day — Worth doing!
  5. find my inner child
  6. learn how to tie a tie
  7. never, EVER grow up — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  2. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
  3. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Worth consuming!
  4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Worth consuming!
  5. Best Lesbian Erotica 20/02
Consumed:
  1. Vegan Worshestershire Sauce — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July


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