RuTemple in 2008
2008, so far, is 95% worth living.
In 2005, RuTemple
did 32 things,
went 17 places,
met 2 people, and
consumed 0 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- Build out my entire neighborhood on 43 Places — completed 3 months later
- Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
- Grow RED sunflowers
- be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- pay my back taxes — Worth doing!
- Read all Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett — Worth doing!
- Read The New York Times — Worth doing!
- Donate 10,000 grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
- See Cirque du Soleil — Worth doing!
- See a total solar eclipse — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Woodside Road — Worth visiting!
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center — Worth visiting!
- 1500 Woodside Road
- Downey Savings & Loan
- Wells Fargo Bank
- Washington Mutual
- Michael's — Worth visiting!
- Jaye's Coffee Shop — Worth visiting!
- Yat Sing Restaurant — Worth visiting!
- Quiznos Sub — Worth visiting!
- Rite Aid — Worth visiting!
- Orchard Hardware Supply — Worth visiting!
- Safeway Food & Drug
- Lucky Supermarket — Worth visiting!
- Center City — Worth visiting!
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February
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- walk for at least one-half hour every day — Worth doing!
- beat my dad at chess
- have conversations late into the night with fascinating people — Worth doing!
- find out what my blood type is — Worth doing!
- get a passport — Worth doing!
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March
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- host a tea party — Worth doing!
- make a slide lecture about strawbale gardening — Worth doing!
- Fall in real love: ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love. — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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April
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- go out on "date nights" with my spouse on a regular basis — Worth doing!
- Build out my entire neighborhood on 43 Places — Not worth doing
- make limoncello — Worth doing!
- start a compost bin — Worth doing!
- create a butterfly & hummingbird garden — Worth doing!
- grow an herb garden — Worth doing!
- keep up with Flylady for 1 month — Worth doing!
- make love outdoors — Worth doing!
- have phone sex — Not worth doing
- Get the mystery roll of film and disposable camera developed that have been floating around my house for at least 5 years
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- King's 76 — Worth visiting!
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May
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- read Dante's Inferno — Worth doing!
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June
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- Throw away, donate, or sell EVERYTHING in my house I don't need or don't absolutely love. — Worth doing!
- read 100 books in 2007 — Worth doing!
- Re-learn the resistor color codes — Worth doing!
- Find a different job; where I can work more directly with, and around, people. — Worth doing!
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August
Completed on 43 Things:
- be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
- meditate every day — Worth doing!
- teach more workshops — Worth doing!
