Lindsey in 2006

2006 was 81% worth living.

In 2005, Lindsey did 351 things, went 492 places, met 4 people, and consumed 1593 products.

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

April

Read:
  1. Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!

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May

Read:
  1. The Great Gatsby — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Still Life — Worth consuming!
  2. The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw — Worth consuming!
  3. Sky Moves Sideways — Worth consuming!
  4. Up the Downstair — Worth consuming!
  5. The Power to Believe — Worth consuming!
  6. Redemption Process — Worth consuming!
  7. Oceanic — Worth consuming!
  8. FWX — Worth consuming!
  9. Hybris — Worth consuming!
  10. Ghosts on Magnetic Tape — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Phantom of the Opera (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Ice Age: The Meltdown — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make someone happy — completed about 1 month later
  2. get a job — completed 4 months later
  3. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people — completed 4 months later
  4. learn how to sleep at night — completed about 1 year later
  5. move away from here — completed about 1 year later
  6. get a massage — completed about 1 year later
  7. fall seriously in love — completed about 1 year later
  8. be less tired — completed about 1 year later
  9. learn italian
  10. stop saying "like"
  11. write a book
  12. be consistent
  13. be nicer to people I love
  14. be more patient
  15. Design and build my own house
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn to play the piano — Worth doing!
  2. learn to play bass — Worth doing!
  3. Get a tattoo — Worth doing!
  4. get a piercing — Worth doing!
  5. wake up when my alarm clock goes off — Not worth doing
  6. Make Firefox my default browser — Worth doing!
  7. get a laptop — Worth doing!
  8. have better posture — Worth doing!
  9. dye my hair — Worth doing!
  10. Learn to knit — Not worth doing
  11. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
  12. get my driver's license — Worth doing!
  13. find meaning in life — Worth doing!
  14. read the Chronicles of Narnia — Worth doing!
  15. Read The Lord of The Rings — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Albuquerque — visited 23 days later
  2. Santa Fe — visited 27 days later
  3. Pleasure Island — visited 18 days later
  4. Cirque Du Soleil La Nouba — visited 19 days later
  5. Frontierland — visited 22 days later
  6. Idaho Falls — visited 2 months later
  7. La Jolla Cove — visited about 1 month later
  8. Capitol Building — visited about 1 month later
  9. Crab Nebula
  10. Walt Disney World — visited 5 months later
  11. Pacific Coast Highway — visited 5 months later
  12. Joshua Tree National Park — visited 5 months later
  13. Santa Monica — visited 7 months later
  14. Firenze
  15. Epcot — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. San Antonio — Worth visiting!
  2. United Kingdom — Worth visiting!
  3. Wales — Worth visiting!
  4. Cardiff — Worth visiting!
  5. Washington State — Worth visiting!
  6. Seattle — Worth visiting!
  7. Idaho — Not worth visiting
  8. Florida — Worth visiting!
  9. Arizona — Not worth visiting
  10. California — Worth visiting!
  11. Los Angeles — Worth visiting!
  12. Hollywood — Not worth visiting
  13. Disneyland Park — Worth visiting!
  14. San Diego — Worth visiting!
  15. La Jolla — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Johnny Depp
  2. C. S. Lewis
  3. M. Night Shyamalan
  4. Vincent Van Gogh
  5. Edgar Allen Poe
  6. Victor Wooten
  7. Frank Lloyd Wright
  8. Robert Frost
  9. Brandon Boyd
  10. Ryan Phillippe
  11. Emily Dickinson
  12. Frank O. Gehry
  13. Edith Wharton
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Opeth
  2. Porcupine Tree
  3. Pelican
Read:
  1. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
  2. Where the Wild Things Are — Worth consuming!
  3. The Chronicles of Narnia — Worth consuming!
  4. The Great Divorce — Worth consuming!
  5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
  7. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) — Not worth consuming
  9. The BFG — Worth consuming!
  10. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Little Prince — Worth consuming!
  13. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
  14. The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
  15. J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Demon Days
  2. Nevermind
  3. MTV Unplugged in New York (Nirvana)
  4. The Fragile — Worth consuming!
  5. Parachutes — Worth consuming!
  6. Morning View — Worth consuming!
  7. A Rush of Blood to the Head — Worth consuming!
  8. O — Worth consuming!
  9. Live 2003 (CD & DVD) — Worth consuming!
  10. About a Burning Fire — Worth consuming!
  11. Marbles — Worth consuming!
  12. X&Y — Worth consuming!
  13. Frances the Mute — Worth consuming!
  14. With Teeth
  15. Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
  3. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  4. Batman
  5. Sense and Sensibility
  6. Mr. Holland's Opus
  7. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Titanic — Worth consuming!
  9. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  10. 10 Things I Hate About You — Worth consuming!
  11. The Little Mermaid (Limited Issue)
  12. Life Is Beautiful — Worth consuming!
  13. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  14. Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  15. X-Men
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Gingerbread Latte
  3. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  4. BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
  5. Venison
  6. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  7. Lemonade — Worth consuming!
  8. Café mocha
  9. Steak — Worth consuming!
  10. Fresh fish — Worth consuming!
  11. Lobster — Worth consuming!
  12. Asian Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  13. Ice cream — Worth consuming!
  14. Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!
  15. Crab — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. sell last semester's textbooks on ebay — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to Mexico — Not worth doing
  2. make someone happy — Worth doing!
  3. get a cat — Worth doing!
  4. redo my room — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. SeaWorld — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Albuquerque — Worth visiting!
  2. Santa Fe — Worth visiting!
  3. Loretto Chapel
  4. New Mexico State Capitol
  5. Bandelier National Monument — Worth visiting!
  6. Route 66
  7. Tinker Town
  8. Sandia Peak — Worth visiting!
  9. Rio Grande Zoo
  10. Tarrytown
  11. Beaumont — Not worth visiting
  12. Jefferson County — Not worth visiting
  13. The Earth — Worth visiting!
  14. Inn Of The Governors — Worth visiting!
  15. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Gwyneth Paltrow
  2. Sigur Rós
Read:
  1. The Outsiders
  2. Blindness (Harvest Book) — Worth consuming!
  3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Audioslave
  2. Jesus Freak — Worth consuming!
  3. Supernatural — Worth consuming!
  4. Debut — Worth consuming!
  5. Von — Worth consuming!
  6. Savage Garden
  7. Wonder What's Next
  8. V: The New Mythology Suite
  9. Into the Electric Castle — Worth consuming!
  10. Human Equation [Limited Edition] [Bonus DVD]
  11. Metanoia — Worth consuming!
  12. The Light in Guinevere's Garden
  13. Black Holes and Revelations — Worth consuming!
  14. Posthumous Silence — Worth consuming!
  15. You Go Now — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Saint
  2. Mission - Impossible (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Mission - Impossible II (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Stargate (Ultimate Edition)
  5. National Treasure (Full Screen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  6. Men in Black II (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. The Terminal (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. City of Angels — Worth consuming!
  9. My Girl 2
  10. This Is Spinal Tap - Criterion Collection
  11. French Kiss — Worth consuming!
  12. Joe Dirt — Not worth consuming
  13. Dragonheart - Collector's Edition
  14. The Sum of All Fears (Special Collector's Edition)
  15. Saw - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)

→ See more from July

August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be held — completed about 1 month later
  2. do my homework this quarter — completed 5 months later
  3. Give 200 cheers — completed 9 months later
  4. Speak French again
  5. trust other people more
  6. be deliriously happy
  7. practice my instruments weekly
  8. stop thinking I can control my life
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Get all my mp3's properly tagged — Worth doing!
  2. give out 50 cheers
  3. play bass in a band — Worth doing!
  4. Send something to post secret — Worth doing!
  5. Give 100 cheers — Worth doing!
  6. Clean out my closet. — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Malibu — visited 6 months later
  2. Fallingwater — visited about 1 year later
  3. Hollywood sign — visited about 1 year later
  4. New York City — visited about 1 year later
  5. Sydney
  6. Tančící Dům
  7. Croatia
  8. Burj Al Arab
  9. Hawai'i
  10. Taj Mahal
  11. Portugal
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Sunset Strip
  2. Beverly Hills
  3. Rodeo Drive
  4. Venice Beach
  5. Santa Monica Pier — Worth visiting!
  6. Venice
  7. Idaho Falls — Worth visiting!
  8. The Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror — Worth visiting!
  9. Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular — Worth visiting!
  10. Soarin' Over California — Worth visiting!
  11. Haunted Mansion — Worth visiting!
  12. Splash Mountain — Worth visiting!
  13. Pirates Of The Caribbean — Worth visiting!
  14. Anaheim
  15. Orange County
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Crab Nebula
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Dream Theater — met about 1 year later
  2. Katatonia — met about 1 year later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Mikael Åkerfeldt
Read:
  1. James and the Giant Peach — Worth consuming!
  2. The Giver — Worth consuming!
  3. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
  4. Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
  5. James and the Giant Peach
  6. Of Mice and Men
  7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -A Classic Illustrated Edition — Worth consuming!
  8. 1984 — Worth consuming!
  9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — Worth consuming!
  10. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Worth consuming!
  11. Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland — Worth consuming!
  13. The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
  15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Dummy — Worth consuming!
  2. King of Fools
  3. No Angel — Worth consuming!
  4. Trouble
  5. Mezmerize — Worth consuming!
  6. The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) — Worth consuming!
  7. Selling England By The Pound — Worth consuming!
  8. Moon Safari — Worth consuming!
  9. Meteora
  10. Queen - Greatest Hits
  11. Moving Pictures
  12. The Metal Opera Pt. II
  13. Rent (2005 Movie Soundtrack)
  14. ANThology
  15. Comalies
Watched:
  1. Garden State — Worth consuming!
  2. Amelie — Worth consuming!
  3. Fight Club (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  5. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
  7. The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Next Karate Kid — Not worth consuming
  9. Angels in the Outfield
  10. The Mummy Returns (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
  11. Quiz Show — Worth consuming!
  12. Ladder 49 (Widescreen Edition)
  13. Enemy of the State
  14. Wimbledon — Worth consuming!
  15. The Upside of Anger
Consumed:
  1. Ramen Noodles — Worth consuming!
  2. Coca-Cola Classic — Not worth consuming
  3. Irish Breakfast Tea — Worth consuming!
  4. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  5. Raspberries — Worth consuming!
  6. Kebab
  7. ketchup
  8. Earl Grey tea — Worth consuming!
  9. British Blend Tea — Worth consuming!
  10. English Breakfast Tea — Worth consuming!
  11. Lindt chocolate truffles — Worth consuming!
  12. 7 Up — Not worth consuming
  13. Sweet Tea — Worth consuming!
  14. hummus
  15. Kiwi — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August

September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. find a way to make a little extra money
  2. break my addiction to liquid eyeliner — completed 2 months later
  3. apply for tech school — completed 2 months later
  4. plan my Christmas vacation — completed 3 months later
  5. upgrade my graphics card
  6. sort out my student loans — completed 5 months later
  7. grow out my bangs — completed 11 months later
  8. live in a different state — completed about 1 year later
  9. stop criticizing the bad things in others that I really see in myself
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see the whole extended version of "The Lord of the Rings" — Worth doing!
  2. be held — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Olympic National Park — Worth visiting!
  2. Paradise — Worth visiting!
  3. Paradise Inn — Worth visiting!
  4. Mississippi River — Not worth visiting
  5. Lake Washington — Worth visiting!
  6. Salish Lodge & Spa — Worth visiting!
  7. Redfish Lake — Worth visiting!
  8. Sawtooth National Forest
  9. Frank Erwin Center — Not worth visiting
  10. Cactus Cafe
  11. Texas Union
  12. La Fonda
  13. Snake River
  14. Chinook Pass — Worth visiting!
  15. Museum Of Fine Arts — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Fight Club: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. The Secret Garden — Worth consuming!
  3. The Giver
  4. Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  5. Of Mice and Men
  6. The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. 90125 — Worth consuming!
  2. Mezzanine — Worth consuming!
  3. 100th Window — Worth consuming!
  4. Embrace the Storm — Worth consuming!
  5. Tonight's Decision — Worth consuming!
  6. Way of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  7. Samsara — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Science of Sleep — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Bubble Tea — Worth consuming!
  2. Pomegranate Green Tea — Worth consuming!
  3. Sweet Leaf Iced Tea — Worth consuming!
  4. popcorn — Not worth consuming
  5. Maya Gold — Worth consuming!

→ See more from September

October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give 500 cheers — completed 11 days later
  2. Kiss in the rain — completed 26 days later
  3. be more straightforward and honest — completed about 1 year later
  4. Never stop learning
  5. always be meek
  6. have a 25-inch waist
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. swim with sharks — Worth doing!
  2. Give 300 cheers. — Worth doing!
  3. See Cirque du Soleil — Worth doing!
  4. Give 400 cheers. — Worth doing!
  5. get a job — Worth doing!
  6. learn to use chopsticks — Worth doing!
  7. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people — Worth doing!
  8. stop drinking soda — Worth doing!
  9. kiss someone worth kissing — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. find a way to make a little extra money
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lake Charles — Not worth visiting
  2. Observation Deck — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation — Worth consuming!
  2. Mere Christianity — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Jars of Clay — Worth consuming!
  2. Damnation — Worth consuming!
  3. White Pony
  4. Ogre Tones
  5. Tonight's Decision — Worth consuming!
  6. Amputechture — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Sleepy Hollow — Worth consuming!
  2. The Virgin Suicides — Worth consuming!
  3. The Lady in White — Worth consuming!
  4. Fantasia/2000 — Worth consuming!
  5. Grey's Anatomy - Season Two — Worth consuming!
  6. A Beautiful Mind
  7. The Departed — Worth consuming!
  8. Robin Hood - Men in Tights
  9. Little Miss Sunshine — Worth consuming!
  10. The Prestige — Worth consuming!
  11. The Illusionist — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Strawberries
  2. Water
  3. Coffee — Worth consuming!
  4. Mai Tai — Worth consuming!
  5. Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!
  6. Pineapple
  7. Dr Pepper — Not worth consuming
  8. Enchiladas — Worth consuming!
  9. mashed potatoes — Worth consuming!
  10. Oreos
  11. roast potatoes — Worth consuming!
  12. Oranges
  13. Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough — Worth consuming!
  14. Nutella — Worth consuming!
  15. fish & chips — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Red Wine — Worth consuming!
  2. Margarita — Worth consuming!
  3. sleep — Worth consuming!

→ See more from October

November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. put at least $50 per paycheck into savings — completed 3 months later
  2. spend one full month in the same city as my boyfriend — completed 4 months later
  3. write a preposterously long, over-the-top, extensive Christmas list this year — completed 5 months later
  4. Give 1000 cheers — completed 6 months later
  5. be financially independent — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. hold hands in public — Worth doing!
  2. give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
  3. learn to use an espresso maker — Worth doing!
  4. break my addiction to liquid eyeliner — Worth doing!
  5. Kiss in the rain — Worth doing!
  6. apply for tech school — Worth doing!
  7. give 600 cheers — Worth doing!
  8. Fall in love — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Market Square — visited 5 months later
  2. Ohio — visited 6 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Walt Disney World — Worth visiting!
  2. Pacific Coast Highway — Worth visiting!
  3. Pittsburgh — Worth visiting!
  4. South Side — Worth visiting!
  5. Pittsburgh International Airport — Not worth visiting
  6. Primanti Brothers Restaurant & Bar — Worth visiting!
  7. The Beehive — Worth visiting!
  8. Hartville
  9. Chicago
  10. Midway Airport — Not worth visiting
  11. Downtown
  12. Oakland
  13. IKEA — Worth visiting!
  14. PPG Place — Worth visiting!
  15. Strip District
Read:
  1. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Absolution — Worth consuming!
  2. Ghost Reveries — Worth consuming!
  3. Unearthed — Worth consuming!
  4. Tight
  5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence — Worth consuming!
  6. Orchid — Worth consuming!
  7. 10,000 Days
  8. The Perfect Element I — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Chronicles of Riddick (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
  3. The Boondock Saints — Worth consuming!
  4. Forces of Nature — Not worth consuming
  5. What Women Want — Not worth consuming
  6. Look at Me — Worth consuming!
  7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Worth consuming!
  8. Bewitched (Special Edition)
  9. Bounce
  10. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown — Worth consuming!
  11. Spice World — Not worth consuming
  12. White Christmas — Worth consuming!
  13. Proof — Worth consuming!
  14. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
  15. One Fine Day
Consumed:
  1. Cheese — Worth consuming!
  2. Birthday Cake
  3. chocolate chip cookies — Worth consuming!
  4. French Toast — Worth consuming!
  5. Big Mac — Not worth consuming
  6. chipotle burrito
  7. Pumpkin Pie — Worth consuming!
  8. Vanilla Coke — Not worth consuming
  9. crab rangoon
  10. jasmine tea
  11. Lasagna
  12. A&W Root Beer — Not worth consuming
  13. Propel Fitness Water
  14. Edamame
  15. Ferrero Rocher

→ See more from November

December

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Give 700 cheers — Worth doing!
  2. plan my Christmas vacation — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Caerphilly Castle — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. IKEA — Worth visiting!
  2. Round Rock Premium Outlets
  3. Dewey — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  2. Memento — Worth consuming!
  3. The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Sin City — Worth consuming!
  5. A Goofy Movie (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
  6. The Interpreter (Widescreen Edition)
  7. March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Sky High (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  9. D3: Mighty Ducks
  10. Casper (Widescreen Special Edition)
  11. The Island
  12. Homeward Bound - The Incredible Journey
  13. Return to Never Land
  14. Disney Presents Aladdin and the King of Thieves
  15. Homeward Bound II - Lost in San Francisco
Consumed:
  1. cranberry juice
  2. jambalaya
  3. apple juice — Worth consuming!
  4. Orange Juice — Worth consuming!
  5. Shrimp Gumbo — Worth consuming!
  6. grapefruit juice — Worth consuming!
  7. Boston cream pie — Worth consuming!
  8. New England clam chowder — Worth consuming!
  9. Maryland crab cakes — Worth consuming!
  10. Chicken-Fried Steak
  11. Frito pie
  12. pralines
  13. po' boy
  14. Étouffée — Worth consuming!
  15. Chesapeake Bay steamed crabs

→ See more from December


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