fidgiegirl in 2006

2006 was 96% worth living.

In 2005, fidgiegirl did 19 things, went 106 places, met 1 person, and consumed 31 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Learn a second language fluently. — completed 5 days later
  2. spend less time on the internet — completed 10 months later
  3. get in shape — completed about 1 year later
  4. walk daily — completed about 1 year later
  5. work out three times a week
  6. get rid of my car
  7. Eat more fruits and vegetables — completed over 2 years later
  8. visit all the State Parks in Minnesota
  9. follow the steps of Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL)
  10. learn french
  11. get out of debt
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. be a teacher — Worth doing!
  2. Travel to India — Worth doing!
  3. live abroad — Worth doing!
  4. buy a new car — Not worth doing

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Stop dating — completed 4 months later
  2. organize an alternative gift fair
  3. Remember birthdays and send cards — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn a second language fluently. — Worth doing!
  2. start a blog — Worth doing!
  3. Make a scrapbook — Worth doing!
  4. stay in touch with friends — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Pax Lodge
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — visited 5 months later
  4. Spain
  5. Ontario
  6. Québec Province
  7. Nova Scotia
  8. Sweden
  9. Our Chalet
  10. New York City — visited over 2 years later
  11. Washington, D.C. — visited over 2 years later
  12. Japan
  13. San Diego
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Sangam — Worth visiting!
  2. Mexico City — Worth visiting!
  3. Our Cabaña — Worth visiting!
  4. Minnesota State Fair — Worth visiting!
  5. Itasca State Park — Worth visiting!
  6. Monterey — Worth visiting!
  7. Mexico — Worth visiting!
  8. Mall Of America — Not worth visiting
  9. El Salvador — Worth visiting!
  10. Belize — Worth visiting!
  11. Namekagon River — Worth visiting!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. attend at least 10 St. Paul Music in the Parks events by September
  2. learn to kayak — completed 3 months later
  3. Take a moment each day to notice that I love my life — completed about 1 year later
  4. always Assume Positive Intentions — completed about 1 year later
  5. bike or walk to anywhere within two miles of my home
  6. learn to cook our family favorites — completed over 2 years later
  7. earn my masters degree — completed over 2 years later
  8. write a legislator once a week
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Guatemala — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Make Him Look Good — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make a people-watching blog — completed about 1 month later
  2. finish refinishing my canoe paddles — completed 3 months later
  3. do my homework during the week so I can relax on the weekends
  4. learn to cook wholesome foods — completed 10 months later
  5. learn to crochet
  6. become a professional interpreter
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Winnipeg
  2. Minnesota Zoo
  3. France
  4. Minnehaha Creek — visited 11 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Taj Mahal — Worth visiting!
  2. Shimla — Worth visiting!
  3. Argentina — Worth visiting!
  4. Minnesota State Capitol — Worth visiting!
  5. American Swedish Institute — Worth visiting!
  6. Calgary Stampede — Worth visiting!
  7. Pennsylvania — Worth visiting!
  8. Chicago — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. asuomala
Read:
  1. The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Into the Wild — Worth consuming!
  3. Playing with Boys — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Crash (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Break-Up — Worth consuming!
  3. Nacho Libre

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get a dog — completed about 1 month later
  2. train my dog — completed 9 months later
  3. buy a digital camera — completed about 1 year later
  4. podcast
  5. own fewer, better things — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make a people-watching blog — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. attend at least 10 St. Paul Music in the Parks events by September
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Afton State Park — visited about 1 month later
  2. Xochicalco — visited 4 months later
  3. Grand Canyon National Park — visited 4 months later
  4. Fort Snelling State Park — visited 6 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Iguazú Falls — Worth visiting!
  2. Crosby Farm Nature Area — Worth visiting!
  3. Denver — Worth visiting!
  4. Yellowstone National Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Bristol — Worth visiting!
  6. Traverse City — Worth visiting!
  7. Vancouver — Worth visiting!
  8. Wreck Beach — Worth visiting!
  9. Capilano Suspension Bridge — Worth visiting!
  10. Cuernavaca — Worth visiting!
  11. Las Mañanitas — Worth visiting!
  12. Tepoztlan — Worth visiting!
  13. Acapulco — Worth visiting!
  14. Zihuatanejo — Worth visiting!
  15. Taxco — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Tio D. hunting for the cure to Huntington Disease
Read:
  1. Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence — Worth consuming!
  2. Getting a Life: Real Lives Transformed by Your Money or Your Life — Worth consuming!
  3. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (BK Currents) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Year of Yes
Watched:
  1. The Beach — Worth consuming!
  2. Kicking and Screaming
  3. Clerks II — Worth consuming!
  4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Worth consuming!
  5. The World's Fastest Indian — Worth consuming!
  6. A Prairie Home Companion — Worth consuming!

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August

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a dog — Worth doing!
  2. learn to kayak — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Underwater World — visited about 1 month later
  2. Canada
  3. Copper Canyon
  4. St. Paul Farmers Market — visited 10 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Braham Pie Day — Worth visiting!
  2. Afton State Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Arlington-Arkwright Dog Park — Worth visiting!
  4. Science Museum Of Minnesota — Worth visiting!
  5. Apostle Islands National Lakeshore — Worth visiting!
  6. Oak Island — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Last Holiday — Worth consuming!
  2. Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. swim at least once a week
  2. Finish mending my clothes — completed about 1 year later
  3. appreciate my family — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Stop dating — Worth doing!
  2. finish refinishing my canoe paddles — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Gammelgarden Museum
  2. Glensheen Mansion — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — Worth visiting!
  2. William O'Brien State Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Underwater World
Watched:
  1. Paper Clips — Worth consuming!
  2. Transamerica — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give 500 cheers — completed 18 days later
  2. purge and sell/give away my books — completed 4 months later
  3. clean up my 43things — completed 10 months later
  4. keep a health journal every day for three months
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Hidden Falls Regional Park — Worth visiting!
  2. Interstate State Park — Worth visiting!
  3. James J. Hill House — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make and use cloth menstrual pads — completed 4 months later
  2. Write a CV — completed 9 months later
  3. Finish my India scrapbook — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
  2. make a budget decision and implement it — Worth doing!
  3. organize my photos — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Querétaro (City) — visited 6 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Walker Church — Worth visiting!
  2. Midtown Global Market — Worth visiting!
  3. Cahoots Coffee Bar — Worth visiting!
  4. Puebla (City)
  5. Iguazú National Park — Worth visiting!
  6. Colonia del Sacramento — Worth visiting!
  7. Uxmal — Worth visiting!
  8. Chichen Itza — Worth visiting!
  9. Palenque — Worth visiting!
  10. Guanajuato (City) — Worth visiting!
  11. Zacatecas (City) — Worth visiting!
  12. Campeche (State)
  13. Oaxaca City — Worth visiting!
  14. Morelia — Worth visiting!
  15. Monte Albán — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Simple Living Guide — Worth consuming!
  2. You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls — Worth consuming!
  3. Simplify Your Christmas: 100 Ways to Reduce the Stress and Recapture the Joy of the Holidays (Elaine St. James Little Books) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Jesus Camp — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get a pedometer — completed 11 days later
  2. try shopping at the co-op — completed 4 months later
  3. spend less than I earn — completed about 1 year later
  4. successfully cook a bean dish
  5. try 20 vegetable crockpot recipes
  6. save enough for my Mexico vacation — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. pay off my credit card debt — Worth doing!
  2. save $1,000 in an emergency fund — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kinnickinnic River
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Black Forest Inn — Worth visiting!
  2. Cambridge — Worth visiting!
  3. Isanti County Historical Society Heritage Center — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  2. American Dreamz
  3. Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Little Miss Sunshine — Worth consuming!

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