cafegroundzero in 2008
2008, so far, is 97% worth living.
In 2005, cafegroundzero
did 106 things,
went 14 places,
met 1 person, and
consumed 0 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- do www.100pushups.info — completed about 1 month later
- make healthy choices in ALL areas of my life — completed about 1 month later
- Learn Urdu
- 2 mn situps 3 times a week
- pay off my credit card debt
- Keep our relationship alive and well, with my significant lover — completed 3 months later
- find a way to fund my studies
- Memorize "Howl" by Ginsberg
Completed on 43 Things:
- Help stop the development of I-3 the proposed Interstate from Savannah to the Mountains. — Worth doing!
- teach something — Worth doing!
- I want my son to come home SAFE from Iraq. — Worth doing!
- read A Confederacy of Dunces — Worth doing!
- apologise more — Worth doing!
- complete my essay — Worth doing!
- do something completely outrageous
- be comfortable with arabic — Worth doing!
- fully develop a coherent political ideology — Worth doing!
- walk more — Worth doing!
- Write 10 songs — Worth doing!
- start postcrossing...or rather, get caught back up with all the people i owe postcards to, & my whole postcrossing account --!! — Worth doing!
- Have fun with unsolicited calls. — Worth doing!
- Advocate in defense of those who might be classed as underdogs. — Worth doing!
- Joi-de-vivre: get some! — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Iran — Worth visiting!
- New York City — Worth visiting!
- Crystal Lake — Worth visiting!
- Wauconda — Worth visiting!
- Mywoman — Worth visiting!
- Party — Worth visiting!
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February
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- Try to make amends, even if I fail at first. — Worth doing!
- Continue to develop my indigenous garden — Worth doing!
- Practice Gratitude — Worth doing!
- reinvent myself — Worth doing!
- create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find — Worth doing!
- Call churches & sing the lumberjack song on their answering machine. — Worth doing!
- Do at least one hundred abdominals every day for a week. — Worth doing!
- Create the life I want to live — Worth doing!
- I rule! — Worth doing!
- learn basque — Worth doing!
- confess my sins — Worth doing!
- fight spam — Worth doing!
- learn music theory — Worth doing!
- do www.100pushups.info — Worth doing!
- Train my son to use the potty. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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March
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- be able to communicate with people (without feeling stupid) — Worth doing!
- Learn to cook — Worth doing!
- Practice the Four Agreements: Be impeccable with my word/ Don't take anything personally/ Don't make assumptions/ Always do my best — Worth doing!
- Make Invencible Armor for our troops — Worth doing!
- live in new york — Worth doing!
- Make a complete and utter fool of myself — Worth doing!
- be a missionary teacher — Worth doing!
- have fun with spam — Worth doing!
- change my life — Worth doing!
- Read the Upanishads — Worth doing!
- improve my singing and learn to play guitar for flamenco, blues, country, rock — Worth doing!
- Start or join a secret society — Worth doing!
- Learn Adult First Aid and CPR — Worth doing!
- become more organized — Worth doing!
- do at least one thing a month that scares me — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Cary — Worth visiting!
- My Bed — Worth visiting!
- C.R. Road — Worth visiting!
- West Virginia — Worth visiting!
- Home — Worth visiting!
- Union Station — Worth visiting!
- Inside My Body — Worth visiting!
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- piece together a quilt.
- finish my masters
- give tzedakah often and well — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- do a backflip
- grow spiritually — Worth doing!
- Further peace — Worth doing!
- do more for my family — Worth doing!
- feed the poor — Worth doing!
- Feed the homeless — Worth doing!
- learn archery — Worth doing!
- be a better storyteller — Worth doing!
- post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :) — Worth doing!
- Publish a poem — Worth doing!
- Kiss a stranger — Worth doing!
- write poems and leave them in library books — Worth doing!
- take a walk everyday — Worth doing!
- get out of the closet — Not worth doing
- reveal a random number of random facts about myself, in a random order — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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May
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- get out of galesburg il — Worth doing!
- Keep our relationship alive and well, with my significant lover — Worth doing!
- Have breakfast everyday to become a daily healthy habit — Worth doing!
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June
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- move to Ireland — Worth doing!
- smile at least once a day — Worth doing!
- have my own library in my house — Worth doing!
- learn more Japanese — Worth doing!
- Learn some Punjab. — Worth doing!
- give tzedakah often and well — Worth doing!
- be loved — Worth doing!
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July
Completed on 43 Things:
- Learn Japanese — Worth doing!
- look at numbers
- read more Wittgenstein — Worth doing!
- write a book — Worth doing!
- write a memoir about mysick life beihnd me and my honest life ahead of me.. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- World Trade Center Site — Worth visiting!
