CitrusOne in 2008

2008, so far, is 83% worth living.

In 2005, CitrusOne did 123 things, went 342 places, met 0 people, and consumed 144 products.

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

January

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. drink sake — Worth doing!
  2. learn how to tie the stem of a maraschino cherry with my tongue — Not worth doing
  3. eat sushi — Worth doing!
  4. have a webcam conversation — Worth doing!
  5. Convert my entire CD collection to MP3 — Worth doing!
  6. Learn MAC — Worth doing!
  7. smile at strangers — Worth doing!
  8. keep a dream journal — Worth doing!
  9. See Great Big Sea — Worth doing!
  10. catalog and digitize my CD collection — Worth doing!
  11. design my own tattoo — Worth doing!
  12. see an opera
  13. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
  14. visit a monastary — Worth doing!
  15. go to a comedy club — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Calgary — Worth visiting!
  2. Calgary Tower — Worth visiting!
  3. The University Of Calgary — Worth visiting!
  4. Laguna Beach — Not worth visiting
  5. Laguna Hills
  6. City Lights
  7. Aliso Viejo — Worth visiting!
  8. Lake Forest — Not worth visiting
  9. Las Vegas — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Weezer: (The Green Album)
Listened to:
  1. Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses — Not worth consuming
  2. Diary
  3. Audio — Worth consuming!
  4. Beats, Rhymes and Life — Worth consuming!
  5. Cheap Trick - Greatest Hits
  6. Hydrogen Jukebox — Not worth consuming
  7. Urban Hymns (album)
  8. Temple of the Dog
  9. Heat, Dust and Dreams — Worth consuming!
  10. Nine Inch Nails — Worth consuming!
  11. The Reminder — Worth consuming!
  12. This Is Gospel: The Best of the Five Blind Boys of Alabama
  13. Balance 10.1 — Worth consuming!
  14. Essential Ibiza — Worth consuming!
  15. Gold Collection — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Children of Men (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Les Triplettes de Belleville — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Organic Orange Pekoe Tea — Not worth consuming

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. complete my disaster preparedness kit
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Find a doctor.
  2. Ace my interview — Not worth doing
  3. get dressed up in a formal/prom dress/suit and go to a fast food restaurant — Worth doing!
  4. have a penpal — Worth doing!
  5. go to a drive in movie — Worth doing!
  6. pay off credit cards — Worth doing!
  7. Live in Vancouver — Worth doing!
  8. Give 100 cheers — Worth doing!
  9. exercise my INTP nature — Worth doing!
  10. take ice skating lessons
  11. Go away on holiday on my own — Worth doing!
  12. Visit China — Worth doing!
  13. Wish SpreadYourWings a Totally Random 19+1 Birthday on 18+2 February
  14. Fly First Class — Not worth doing
  15. ride in a helicopter — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. North Dakota
  2. Montana
  3. Butte
  4. Toronto — Worth visiting!
  5. Royal Ontario Museum — Worth visiting!
  6. Glass Floor — Worth visiting!
  7. Los Angeles International Airport — Not worth visiting
  8. Starbucks Coffee — Not worth visiting
  9. Terminal 4 — Not worth visiting
  10. Yaletown
  11. The Cupcake Store
  12. Museum of Anthropology — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Seattle Art Museum
Read:
  1. Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now — Worth consuming!
  2. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Laid — Worth consuming!
  2. Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile — Worth consuming!
  3. Come Away with Me — Worth consuming!
  4. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine — Worth consuming!
  5. With Teeth — Worth consuming!
  6. Home — Worth consuming!
  7. Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1
  8. Dosage — Worth consuming!
  9. Parade of the Athletes — Not worth consuming
  10. Short Bus — Worth consuming!
  11. Sparkle and Fade — Worth consuming!
  12. Live at Luther College — Not worth consuming
  13. Nyana — Worth consuming!
  14. Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence — Worth consuming!
  15. The Essential Fishbone — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. American Beauty — Worth consuming!
  3. The Godfather DVD Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Rain Man — Not worth consuming
  6. The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series) — Worth consuming!
  7. Walk the Line — Worth consuming!
  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Silence of the Lambs - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. Schindler's List — Worth consuming!
  12. The Departed (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Zodiac (Two-Disc Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Paella — Not worth consuming
  2. brussel sprouts — Worth consuming!
  3. Pho — Worth consuming!
  4. Haggis — Worth consuming!
  5. Mango — Worth consuming!
  6. Octopus — Worth consuming!
  7. Tapas — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. do more with my life than I thought was possible — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. claim my travel expenses — Worth doing!
  2. renew my passport — Worth doing!
  3. call my grandmother more often — Worth doing!
  4. visit Asia — Worth doing!
  5. eat a pizza in italy — Worth doing!
  6. keep promises — Worth doing!
  7. live an adventurous life — Worth doing!
  8. go to Vancouver — Worth doing!
  9. train my dog — Worth doing!
  10. get high fructose corn syrup out of my life — Worth doing!
  11. practice intuitive eating — Worth doing!
  12. Visit Niagara Falls — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Venice Beach — visited about 1 month later
  2. Guggenheim Museum
  3. New York City — visited about 1 month later
  4. Statue Of Liberty National Monument — visited about 1 month later
  5. San Diego — visited 2 months later
  6. San Diego Zoo — visited 2 months later
  7. Newport Beach
  8. Gruyères — visited 4 months later
  9. Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Park
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mad Tea Party — Worth visiting!
  2. Irvine Spectrum — Worth visiting!
  3. Museo del Prado — Worth visiting!
  4. Francisco Goya - The Third of May 1808 — Worth visiting!
  5. Hieronymous Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights — Worth visiting!
  6. Diego Velázquez - Las Meninas — Worth visiting!
  7. Madrid — Not worth visiting
  8. Palacio Real — Worth visiting!
  9. Madrid Barajas International Airport
  10. Cleveland National Forest — Not worth visiting
  11. San Clemente St. Beach — Worth visiting!
  12. San Clemente — Worth visiting!
  13. Orange County — Not worth visiting
  14. Granville Island
  15. Public Market — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture — Worth consuming!
  2. Silver Side Up — Worth consuming!
  3. Community Service II — Worth consuming!
  4. The Rhythm of the Saints — Not worth consuming
  5. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell — Worth consuming!
  6. The Outernational Sound — Worth consuming!
  7. In Search of Sunrise, Vol. 5 Los Angeles — Worth consuming!
  8. Raising Sand — Worth consuming!
  9. All the Stuff (And More), Vol. 2 — Not worth consuming
  10. Necessary Pieces, Vol. 1 — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Last Samurai (Full Screen Edition)
  4. Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  5. Kandahar — Worth consuming!
  6. Antwone Fisher (Widescreen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Chicken Feet — Not worth consuming
  2. Poutine — Worth consuming!
  3. Cow Tongue — Not worth consuming
  4. Durian — Worth consuming!
  5. Escargot — Worth consuming!
  6. Foie Gras — Worth consuming!
  7. Pancakes — Worth consuming!
  8. Squid — Worth consuming!
  9. Caviar — Worth consuming!
  10. Rabbit
  11. Frog Legs — Worth consuming!
  12. Head Cheese
  13. Spam — Worth consuming!
  14. Tripe — Not worth consuming
  15. eel — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. x files season one — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn french — Worth doing!
  2. Eat a starfruit — Worth doing!
  3. Get (or renew) a passport
  4. Get wireless internet
  5. Talk to people about what they're interested in, not what I'm interested in — Worth doing!
  6. wear red lipstick — Worth doing!
  7. buy "Dead Like Me" DVDs — Worth doing!
  8. stay at a bed & breakfast
  9. eat organic — Worth doing!
  10. see an active volcano — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Venice Beach
  2. Los Angeles — Not worth visiting
  3. Dog Beach — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia — Worth consuming!
  2. Fodor's Shanghai's 25 Best, 2nd Edition (25 Best) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Amnesiac
  2. Freaked Out & Small — Not worth consuming
  3. Love Comin' Down — Worth consuming!
  4. Dropped — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get thirty people to list this goal
  2. run four times a week — completed 2 months later
  3. visit madagascar and see lemurs
  4. make no excuses
  5. run a half marathon
  6. learn to walk in high heels
  7. Feng Shui my apartment
  8. learn to dive and dive with sea dragons
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. run a 10K — Worth doing!
  2. read a novel in a foreign language — Worth doing!
  3. record interesting incidents in my life — Worth doing!
  4. Stand on Times Square in New York — Worth doing!
  5. have a lucid dream — Worth doing!
  6. ice skate — Worth doing!
  7. make Ice cream — Worth doing!
  8. shave my head — Worth doing!
  9. dye purple streaks in my hair — Worth doing!
  10. tear down a wall with a hammer — Not worth doing
  11. tie a tie — Worth doing!
  12. see the grand canyon — Worth doing!
  13. start a book club — Worth doing!
  14. get unstuck — Worth doing!
  15. travel by train — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. be the best at my job
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Guangzhou — visited about 1 month later
  2. Fortaleza
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mérida
  2. Yucatán (State) — Worth visiting!
  3. Cuba
  4. Cayo Coco
  5. Calgary Zoo
  6. Calgary Stampede — Worth visiting!
  7. Fort Calgary Historic Park
  8. Calgary Science Centre — Worth visiting!
  9. Prince Rupert — Worth visiting!
  10. Salt Spring Island — Worth visiting!
  11. Gabriola Island — Worth visiting!
  12. Inner Harbour — Worth visiting!
  13. Victoria International Airport — Not worth visiting
  14. 100 Mile House
  15. Kamloops — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Guggenheim Museum
Read:
  1. The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa
  2. AAA New York City Essential Guide (AAA Essential Guide) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Business of Punishment — Worth consuming!
  2. Duets: An American Classic — Worth consuming!
  3. Get Way Back: A Tribute to Percy Mayfield — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Amor En Defensa Propia(Love In Self Defence) [PAL/REGION 2 DVD. Import-Spain] — Worth consuming!
  2. Jumper (Single-Disc Edition)
Consumed:
  1. chocolate cake — Worth consuming!
  2. Hookah — Worth consuming!
  3. coffee

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. play an instrument — Worth doing!
  2. Step out of my comfort zone — Worth doing!
  3. have penpals from around the world — Worth doing!
  4. wear more hats — Worth doing!
  5. ride in a limo — Worth doing!
  6. see a Broadway show in New York — Worth doing!
  7. see a whale in the wild — Worth doing!
  8. See a real Panda — Worth doing!
  9. Speak French fluently — Worth doing!
  10. go to the Museum of Anthropology in BC — Worth doing!
  11. Drink water when I have a craving to eat unnecessarily — Worth doing!
  12. be a waitress — Not worth doing
  13. find a long lost friend — Worth doing!
  14. get my full drivers licence — Worth doing!
  15. Learn to drive a stick shift — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. See every film by Ingmar Bergman
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Grouse Mountain — visited 2 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Buckingham Palace — Not worth visiting
  2. Nevada — Worth visiting!
  3. Bellagio Hotel and Casino
  4. Fountains Of Bellagio — Not worth visiting
  5. Luxor Hotel and Casino — Worth visiting!
  6. New York New York Hotel and Casino — Worth visiting!
  7. Cirque Du Soleil Zumanity — Worth visiting!
  8. Nine Fine Irishmen — Worth visiting!
  9. Paris Las Vegas — Worth visiting!
  10. The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino — Worth visiting!
  11. Fremont Street — Worth visiting!
  12. McCarran International Airport — Not worth visiting
  13. Wynn Las Vegas — Worth visiting!
  14. Whistler — Not worth visiting
  15. Tofino — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Newport Beach
Listened to:
  1. The Mirror Conspiracy

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Limit internet time to 7 hours a week
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do more with my life than I thought was possible — Worth doing!
  2. improve my handwriting — Worth doing!
  3. Read a Novel — Worth doing!
  4. hike the Grouse Grind — Worth doing!
  5. Do morning pages every day — Worth doing!
  6. Go see a movie alone — Worth doing!
  7. travel to california — Worth doing!
  8. go to a hookah bar — Worth doing!
  9. ask out a guy — Worth doing!
  10. take the foreign service exam — Not worth doing
  11. spend a winter in a warm climate — Worth doing!
  12. receive a singing telegram — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lake Louise
  2. Columbia Icefield — Worth visiting!
  3. Edmonton — Not worth visiting
  4. West Edmonton Mall — Not worth visiting
  5. Whyte Ave. — Worth visiting!
  6. Alberta Legislature — Worth visiting!
  7. University Of Alberta — Worth visiting!
  8. Edmonton International Airport — Not worth visiting
  9. Temppeliaukio Kirkko — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Kitschy Crafts: A Celebration of Overlooked 20th-Century Crafts
  2. Travel Planning Online for Dummies — Not worth consuming
  3. Post Secret — Worth consuming!
  4. The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections — Worth consuming!
  5. BASIC JEWELLERY MAKING TECHNIQUES.
Listened to:
  1. Breathing Under Water — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. road trip
  2. be able to run 16 km
  3. make my own jewelry
  4. see more live music
  5. drive across canada
  6. take a class
  7. do speed work outs/ hills/tempo runs
  8. date more men
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. be happy with turning 30 — Worth doing!
  2. Get a library card — Worth doing!
  3. stop watching pointless TV
  4. see the mona lisa — Worth doing!
  5. run four times a week — Worth doing!
  6. actually finish one of the things on my 43things list — Worth doing!
  7. Run 12K — Worth doing!
  8. not own a car — Worth doing!
  9. meet an old friend — Worth doing!
  10. Backpack around Asia — Worth doing!
  11. try foie gras
  12. touch my toes — Worth doing!
  13. Never Eat at McDonald's again — Worth doing!
  14. Run 14 kms — Worth doing!
  15. Wear my running shoes out by running — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get thirty people to list this goal
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Lake Superior
  2. Kenora
  3. Sault Ste. Marie
  4. Red Burrito
  5. North Bay
  6. Georgian Bay
  7. Wreck Beach
  8. Big Nickel
  9. Sudbury
  10. Thunder Bay
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Gruyères — Worth visiting!
  2. Grouse Mountain — Worth visiting!
  3. Third Beach — Worth visiting!
  4. Niagara-On-The-Lake — Worth visiting!
  5. Manitoba — Worth visiting!
  6. Brandon — Worth visiting!
  7. Flin Flon — Worth visiting!
  8. Seawall — Worth visiting!
  9. Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus — Worth visiting!
  10. BC Place Stadium — Not worth visiting
  11. Babylon Cafe — Worth visiting!
  12. Bin 942 — Worth visiting!
  13. Malaysia — Worth visiting!
  14. Penang — Worth visiting!
  15. Georgetown — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. Sin and Other Salvations — Worth consuming!
  2. Much Dance 2008 — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August


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