saxophonesweetie7 in 2008

2008, so far, is 81% worth living.

In 2005, saxophonesweetie7 did 639 things, went 113 places, met 0 people, and consumed 484 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make beaded earrings
  2. Read 50 books in one year
  3. plant a tree on arbor day
  4. join the YMCA
  5. hear Taiko Drummers perform live
  6. roast marshmallows over an open fire with friends
  7. Take an Economics Course
  8. make your own bread
  9. take a walk in summer rain
  10. See an NBA game
  11. interview your grandparents about their life
  12. have friends from all over the world
  13. find your favourite poem
  14. eat five different varieties of pie
  15. squidge your toes in the sand
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Australia
  2. California
  3. Texas
  4. Greece
  5. Alaska
  6. Japan
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Historic Downtown Mackinac Island
  2. Fox Theatre Marquee
  3. Colonial Michilimackinac
  4. Historic Mill Creek
  5. South University Area
  6. Downtown
  7. The Diag
  8. State Street Area
  9. Detroit Tiger Spring Training
  10. Joker Marchant Stadium
  11. Butterfly House
  12. Henry Ford IMAX Theatre
  13. David Broderick Tower
  14. Shapiro Library
  15. Cottage Inn
Read:
  1. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595 (The Royal Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  3. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan--The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 (Dear America)
  4. Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 (The Royal Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  5. Kristina: The Girl King, Sweden, 1638 (Royal Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  6. Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 (The Royal Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  7. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
  8. Shattering Glass
  9. Holes — Not worth consuming
  10. The Wind in the Willows (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
  11. Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 (The Royal Diaries) (Royal Diaries) — Worth consuming!
  12. Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 (The Royal Diaries) — Not worth consuming
  13. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
  14. Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, #16)
  15. Deep
Watched:
  1. Robots (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Madagascar (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. How to Deal (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Count of Monte Cristo — Worth consuming!
  5. 50 First Dates — Worth consuming!
  6. Madagascar
  7. VeggieTales - Rack, Shack & Benny
  8. RV — Worth consuming!
  9. The Queen — Worth consuming!
  10. Alex Rider - Operation Stormbreaker — Not worth consuming
  11. The Queen — Worth consuming!
  12. Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Le Choriste — Worth consuming!
  14. Miracle Run (The Unexpected Journey) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
  15. Transformers — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Georgia
  2. Maine
  3. Kansas
  4. North Dakota
  5. Utah
  6. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock — Worth consuming!
  7. 2.10 There Goes the Neighborhood — Worth consuming!
  8. 2.11 Jumping the Gun — Worth consuming!
  9. 2.12 Who Do You Think You Are? — Worth consuming!
  10. 2.13 Humble Pie — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Donate 10,000 grains of rice through freerice.com
  2. expand my vocabulary — completed 2 months later
  3. be a model
  4. get into NHS — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy more makeup
  2. Start running
  3. read all day
  4. go an entire day without looking in the mirror
  5. try new sports
  6. drive the car
  7. master ping pong
  8. watch a horror movie
  9. remember everyone's birthday
  10. wear black nail polish
  11. believe god
  12. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  13. take a plane somewhere
  14. water balloon fight
  15. go to a random concert
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. District of Columbia — Worth visiting!
  2. Winged Victory Of Samothrace
  3. Petit Trianon
  4. Grand Trianon
  5. Yvelines
  6. Grand Valley State University
  7. Downtown
  8. Calder's La Grand Vitesse Sculpture
  9. Van Andel Arena
  10. Heartside District
  11. Allendale
  12. Vandenburg Plaza
Read:
  1. The Runaway Bunny
  2. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 25th Anniversary Edition: Collected from American Folklore (Scary Stories)
  3. Frog and Toad Are Friends (I Can Read Book 2)
  4. Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl
  5. One Eye Laughing, the Other Eye Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss — Worth consuming!
  6. Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth (Junie B. Jones 3, paper)
  7. I Am the Messenger — Worth consuming!
  8. Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping (I Can Read Book 2)
  9. The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, No 2)
  10. The Wizard of Oz
  11. Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day
  12. If You Give a Pig a Pancake (If You Give...)
  13. Curious George (Curious George)
  14. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East — Worth consuming!
  15. Sandpiper
Listened to:
  1. Jimmy Eat World
Watched:
  1. Anne of Green Gables
  2. Rear Window (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. City of Angels — Worth consuming!
  4. Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew — Not worth consuming
  5. Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
  6. The Santa Clause 2 - The Mrs. Clause (Full Screen Edition)
  7. Everything Is Illuminated — Worth consuming!
  8. The Karate Kid Collection (Four Film Set)
  9. Over the Hedge — Worth consuming!
  10. Stranger Than Fiction
  11. Over the Hedge (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Mrs. Doubtfire
  13. The Ant Bully (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  14. fantasia 2000 (imax)
  15. Pleasantville
Consumed:
  1. Wyoming
  2. 2.14 Leave No One Behind — Worth consuming!
  3. 2.15 May the Best Man Win — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. watch all the Friday Night Lights episodes — completed about 1 month later
  2. write a novel
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. walk on the glass floor at the CN Tower
  2. stop looking for a guy
  3. keep a notebook
  4. see Niagara Falls
  5. spend an entire day with my best friend
  6. spend an afternoon in the cathedral
  7. spend christmas morning together
  8. spend an entire afternoon catching up with an old friend
  9. write the first 100,000 words of my memoirs
  10. wear a bindi
  11. wear traditional sari
  12. Sit in a cafe in Paris and enjoy
  13. Take a walk in a French Garden
  14. have my picture taken in front of the Arc de Triomphe
  15. Watch the movie "The Kite Runner"
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Clarkston — visited 6 days later
  2. Milford — visited 6 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. South Bend
  2. Notre Dame
  3. Notre Dame Stadium
  4. Ohio's Amish Country
  5. Auburn Hills
  6. Beverly Hills
  7. Lake Orion
  8. Oxford
  9. Southfield
  10. Waterford
  11. Allen Park
  12. Dearborn
  13. Garden City
  14. Inkster
  15. Livonia
Read:
  1. Into the Wild — Worth consuming!
  2. A Long Way From Chicago
  3. Max The Mighty
  4. Durable Goods: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) — Worth consuming!
  5. 26 Fairmount Avenue (Newbery Honor Book, 2000)
  6. The Window
  7. Manatee Blues (Wild at Heart)
  8. Trickster (Wild at Heart, No 3)
  9. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Yearling Newbery)
  10. If I Should Die Before I Wake
  11. The Journal of Ben Uchida (A Dear America Book) — Worth consuming!
  12. Frindle
  13. The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz (Penguin Classics)
  14. Chasing Redbird
  15. Their Eyes Were Watching God — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
  1. Enchanted
Watched:
  1. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
  2. Zoolander
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Blu-ray]
  4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [Blu-ray]
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Blu-ray]
  6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Blu-ray]
  7. National Treasure - Book of Secrets (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) [Region 2]
Consumed:
  1. Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's (song)

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. see blue man group — completed 11 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see whales
  2. go whale watching — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Make Way For Ducklings Statue — visited 25 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. 12e Arrondissement
  2. Clarkston
  3. Madison Heights
  4. Milford
  5. Downtown
  6. Freedom Trail
  7. Boston Common
  8. Boston Harbor
  9. Chinatown
  10. Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
  11. Faneuil Hall Marketplace
  12. North End
  13. Christ Church in the City of Boston
  14. Beacon Hill
  15. Massachusetts State House
Read:
  1. The Illustrated Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
  2. The Chosen
  3. Running Loose — Worth consuming!
  4. Beezus & Ramona and Ramona the Pest
  5. Flowers for Algernon (New Windmill)
  6. Very Far Away from Anywhere Else — Worth consuming!
  7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -A Classic Illustrated Edition
  8. The Body of Christopher Creed
  9. Leaving Fishers — Not worth consuming
  10. The Bell Jar (P.S.)
  11. The Polar Express
  12. Ella Enchanted (rack) — Not worth consuming
  13. Where I'd Like To Be (Aladdin Fiction) — Not worth consuming
  14. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)
  15. The Diary of a Young Girl
Watched:
  1. The Princess Bride (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. Die Another Day (Full Screen Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  3. The Chorus (Les Choristes) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Transporter — Not worth consuming
  5. Rush Hour 2 (Infinifilm Edition) — Not worth consuming
  6. Die Another Day (Widescreen Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. The Transporter (Blu-Ray) — Not worth consuming
  8. Casino Royale (2-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  9. Casino Royale [Blu-ray]
  10. Rush Hour 2 (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  11. The Princess Bride (20th Anniversary Edition) — Not worth consuming
  12. Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
  13. Juno (Two-Disc Special Edition with Digital Copy) — Worth consuming!
  14. 27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. watch all the Friday Night Lights episodes
  2. be happy
  3. see blue man group — Worth doing!
  4. To live instead of exist — Worth doing!
  5. Make my parents proud
  6. expand my vocabulary
  7. get into NHS
  8. list three things every day that made me happy — Worth doing!
  9. make 100 collages in 2007 — Worth doing!
  10. travel the world — Worth doing!
  11. make more friends
  12. be a good person
  13. Worry less.
  14. write a really good short story
  15. Memorize "Moonlight Sonata" — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
  2. Find my birthday twin
  3. write haiku on fridays
  4. Tell the guy i like that i like him
  5. see the next meteor shower
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Trinity Church Graveyard
  2. Busch Gardens
  3. Cape Cod National Seashore
  4. Make Way For Ducklings Statue — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales — Worth consuming!
  2. The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
  3. Green Grass Grace: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  4. The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing — Worth consuming!
  5. DAY DIANA DIED, THE — Worth consuming!
  6. A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 — Worth consuming!
  7. The Orange Trees of Versailles
  8. A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive
  9. this lullabuy
  10. someone like you
  11. Kissing the Bee — Worth consuming!
  12. For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them — Worth consuming!
  13. Matilda (My Roald Dahl)
  14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone By J.K. Rowling
  15. Death of a Princess: The Investigation
Watched:
  1. Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Spanglish — Not worth consuming
  4. The Princess Diaries
  5. VeggieTales - Sumo Of The Opera
  6. Frankenweenie
  7. Raise Your Voice
  8. RV (Widescreen Edition)
  9. Night at the Museum — Worth consuming!
  10. Darjeeling Limited, The (dir. Wes Anderson) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Kite Runner — Worth consuming!
  12. Bee Movie
  13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  14. Juno
  15. The Darjeeling Limited — Worth consuming!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Go back to Boston
Read:
  1. Mrs. Dalloway — Worth consuming!
  2. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
  3. Frindle
  4. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
  5. Stellaluna
  6. Pearls Before Swine : BLTs Taste So Darn Good — Worth consuming!
  7. The Secret Garden (Aladdin Classics)
  8. Chrysanthemum
  9. Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers — Worth consuming!
  10. Hannah, Divided
  11. Make Way for Ducklings (Favorites on CD)
  12. The Monster at the End of This Book (Little Golden Book)
  13. The Kissing Hand
  14. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
  15. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Watched:
  1. The Prince and Me (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Calendar Girls — Worth consuming!
  3. Singin' in the Rain — Worth consuming!
  4. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
  5. Liar Liar
  6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  7. Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel
  8. The Prince & Me 2 - The Royal Wedding — Not worth consuming
  9. Anne Of Green Gables - The Continuing Story
  10. Snow Dogs
  11. Tuck Everlasting
  12. Over the Hedge (Full Screen Edition)
  13. The Cheetah Girls 2 (Cheetah-Licious Edition)
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  15. Singin' In The Rain - 2 DVD Multi-Language Subtitled Special Edition [Pal, Region 2, Import] — Worth consuming!

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. weight no more than 130 lbs
  2. work on the book
  3. work on learning a 2nd language
  4. ride a train somewhere
  5. take 12 really great frameable photos
  6. take a college class
  7. vacation in at least 2 different states
  8. learn to speak another language -- any language!
  9. design your own tshirt
  10. do a charity walk
  11. teach somebody something
  12. learn a lesson the hard way
  13. own a personal library
  14. pierce something
  15. Visit the Vietnam Memorial in DC
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Columbus — Worth visiting!
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Piqua
  4. Bloomington
  5. Indiana University
  6. Miami University
  7. Oxford
  8. Parma
  9. Jackson County
Read:
  1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Today Show Book Club #13)
  2. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Newbery Honor Book) — Worth consuming!
  3. Chocolat : A Novel
  4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — Worth consuming!
  5. Godless (National Book Award for Young People's Literature (Awards))
  6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Worth consuming!
  7. A Long Way Down
  8. On Pointe
  9. Officer buckle & gloria (Caldecott Medal Book) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Collins Modern Classics S.)
  11. Heartsongs
  12. The Mouse and the Motorcycle
  13. Ramona and Her Father (Avon Camelot Books (Paperback))
  14. The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Worth consuming!
  15. Girl With a Pearl Earring
Watched:
  1. Disturbia (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Wall-E — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Oklahoma — Worth consuming!
  2. Arizona — Worth consuming!
  3. 1.1 Pie-lette — Worth consuming!
  4. 1.2 Dummy — Worth consuming!
  5. 1.3 The Fun in Funeral — Worth consuming!
  6. 1.5 Girth — Worth consuming!
  7. 1.6 Bitches — Worth consuming!
  8. 1.7 Smell of Success — Worth consuming!
  9. 1.8 Bitter Sweets — Worth consuming!
  10. 1.9 Corpsicle — Worth consuming!

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