Melissa B. in 2008

2008, so far, is 93% worth living.

In 2005, Melissa B. did 35 things, went 0 places, met 6 people, and consumed 355 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Give 4000 cheers
  2. be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. delete my myspace — Worth doing!
  2. go to the movies alone — Worth doing!
  3. Donate 10,000 grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
  4. swim in the ocean — Worth doing!
  5. walk along a beach and hunt for sea shells — Worth doing!
  6. Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
  7. read harry potter 7 — Worth doing!
  8. cheerbomb — Worth doing!
  9. Wear My Red Dress in Public — Worth doing!
  10. watch or read the news everyday — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Luchino Visconti
  2. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  3. Allan Dwan
  4. Alexander Mackendrick
  5. Paul Greengrass
  6. Mauro Bolognini
Read:
  1. You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe
  2. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
  4. A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
  5. The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library) (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
  6. The Hunt for Red October
  7. Beloved
  8. Farenheit 451
  9. 20000 Leagues Under the Seas
  10. The Illiad
  11. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover Thrift Editions)
  12. Pat Hobby Stories
  13. Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
  14. The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
  15. The Complete Stories
Listened to:
  1. LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF/ SHALL WE DANCE
Watched:
  1. The Fly /The Fly 2
  2. The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
  3. Star Wars - Clone Wars, Vol. 1 (Animated)
  4. Frenzy — Worth consuming!
  5. Pennies From Heaven
  6. Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  7. Shall We Dance
  8. Sweet Smell of Success
  9. Play It Again, Sam — Worth consuming!
  10. Enter the Dragon
  11. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
  12. Waterloo Bridge
  13. The Front Page
  14. The Court Jester — Not worth consuming
  15. Le Samourai - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Holiday
  2. LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY/ COVERGIRL
  3. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl

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February

Watched:
  1. Barry Lyndon
  2. Killer of Sheep
  3. Stardust Memories
  4. Sanjuro - Criterion Collection
  5. Barry Lyndon
  6. Jolson Sings Again
  7. Thief of Bagdad (1940)
  8. The Curse of the Cat People
  9. Pocketful of Miracles
  10. The Thomas Crown Affair - New Transfer
  11. The Thomas Crown Affair
  12. The Spiral Staircase
  13. The Spiral Staircase
  14. The Champ — Worth consuming!
  15. Track of the Cat (Special Collector's Editon)

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Watch all of Woody Allen's films
  2. Find a dress for the black tie event — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. dress up for Halloween — Worth doing!
  2. get a massage — Worth doing!
Watched:
  1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
  2. Melinda and Melinda
  3. The Man Who Knew Too Much
  4. The Man Who Knew Too Much
  5. The 39 Steps - Criterion Collection
  6. 3:10 to Yuma

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. run 5 miles without stopping — Worth doing!
  2. Cheer the People Who Cheered Me Before I Got How This Whole Cheer Thing Works — Worth doing!
  3. Give 2000 cheers — Worth doing!
  4. Give 3000 cheers — Worth doing!
  5. finish a 5000 piece puzzle — Worth doing!
  6. run 6 miles without stopping — Worth doing!
  7. Win Nanowrimo 2007 — Worth doing!

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. wake up earlier — Worth doing!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination — Worth doing!
  2. read The Stand — Worth doing!
  3. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies — Worth doing!
  4. read 25 books in 2007 — Worth doing!
  5. Watch 365 Movies in 2007 — Worth doing!
  6. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get an agent

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. read A Clockwork Orange
  2. Catch up on reading my newspapers
  3. Clean Up My 43 Things List and Start 2008 Over as if Today is January 1st
  4. read Catch-22
  5. Become an eccentric old lady
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. finish the books I've started — Worth doing!
  2. Find a dress for the black tie event — Worth doing!
  3. dye my hair red. — Worth doing!
  4. see Spamalot — Worth doing!
  5. learn to dance — Worth doing!
  6. write an entry about each of my goals on 43 Things — Worth doing!
  7. find someone who appreciates me for who I am, weirdness and all! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Watch NYT Top 1000 Movies
Watched:
  1. Boys Don't Cry
  2. Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
  3. True Romance - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  4. You Can Count on Me
  5. Secrets and Lies
  6. In the Bedroom
  7. Solaris - Criterion Collection
  8. Irma La Douce
  9. Don't Look Now
  10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Single Disc Edition)
  11. An Affair to Remember
  12. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
  13. Tokyo Drifter - Criterion Collection
  14. Days of Heaven
  15. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (B&W)
Consumed:
  1. The Exterminating Angel
  2. Tender Trap (1955)
  3. Back to the Future Part III

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August

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. decrease my body fat % — Worth doing!
  2. Outline My NaNoWriMo Novel — Worth doing!

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