SwirlyAnge in 2006
2006 was 96% worth living.
In 2005, SwirlyAnge
did 87 things,
went 2 places,
met 1 person, and
consumed 0 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- create the greatest team on 43 things — completed 17 days later
- start listening to The Whitlams again — completed 2 months later
- own (and watch) 'What the Bleep do we Know" — completed 5 months later
- watch 25 movies or TV series in 2006 — completed 7 months later
- Give 2000 cheers — completed about 1 year later
- have the most fabulous 21st birthday party — completed about 1 year later
- revive my social life — completed about 1 year later
- compile a 100-things-about-me list — completed about 1 year later
- get smoke alarms installed — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- paint our bedroom — Worth doing!
- make a doctor appointment and stick to it — Worth doing!
- figure out what to do about my work situation — Worth doing!
- take myself to the movies — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Montville — visited about 1 month later
- Mooloolaba — visited about 1 month later
- Great Barrier Reef
- Nepal
- Daintree World Heritage Site
- Eumundi Markets — visited about 1 year later
- Melbourne — visited about 1 year later
- Tibet
- Tasmania
- France
- China
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- what would memily do? — met 4 months later
- cassagnew
- Bruno
- Roux!!!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- Figure out Neopets
- apologise to all my beautiful friends at 43things for not being around much lately — completed 2 months later
- do new and exciting things with my love — completed 2 months later
- travel somewhere on a plane this year
- see someone about this pain in my stomach if it doesn't go away in the next day or so — completed about 1 year later
- have the most fabulous underwear collection — completed about 1 year later
- make my own jewellery
Completed on 43 Things:
- create the greatest team on 43 things — Worth doing!
- paint the office — Worth doing!
- have a herb garden and remember to water it — Worth doing!
- buy myself flowers — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Montville — Worth visiting!
- Mooloolaba — Worth visiting!
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March
Added to 43 Things:
- find out where Persey (persephoneb) went and send her lots of love
- finalise the design for our new kitchen — completed 6 days later
- have 3 days per week during April that I don't spend any money
- stop fighting with my boyfriend about the same thing — completed 10 days later
- own a bike — completed 11 months later
- do the Story Bridge climb
- stop adding goals until I finish some of these :)
- list 5 things that were positive everyday — completed about 1 year later
- have my own business — completed about 1 year later
- learn how to play Sudoku — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Give the lovely NinaWills lots of cyber hugs and support! — Worth doing!
- see myself on the 43things homepage — Worth doing!
- finish my room — Worth doing!
- start listening to The Whitlams again — Worth doing!
- Give blood — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- do a chart with everything I need to complete in the next 2 hectic months — completed 6 days later
- have a fantastic birthday — completed 6 days later
- find a great pair of jeans and not have a meltdown in the process — completed 7 days later
- restructure my goals list — completed 25 days later
- finish college — completed 11 months later
- have one day per week that I don't spend any money — completed about 1 year later
- own a sexy pair of heels
Completed on 43 Things:
- finalise the design for our new kitchen — Worth doing!
- stop fighting with my boyfriend about the same thing — Worth doing!
- learn how to use photoshop — Worth doing!
- dance all day at the Blues and Roots festival this weekend and shake my booty :) — Worth doing!
- spend AT LEAST 2 hours each day studying on my holidays — Worth doing!
- Finish my assignments — Worth doing!
- apologise to all my beautiful friends at 43things for not being around much lately — Worth doing!
- do new and exciting things with my love — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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May
Added to 43 Things:
- get back into an exercise routine
- make a homeopathic birthing kit for Penny — completed 20 days later
- Give 2500 cheers — completed about 1 month later
- Get a new job
- have more music and fragrance in our home — completed 10 months later
- create a "I'm neither thin not fat, I like my face & body, and fuck Cosmo" club. — completed 9 months later
- organise my 'favourite' websites on the computer — completed 9 months later
- get all this drama with my foot sorted out — completed 10 months later
- finish renovating — completed 11 months later
- organise and resurface my CDs
- finish my correspondence subjects — completed about 1 year later
- get the entire house clean and organised
- Pay my parking fine — completed about 1 year later
- organise a filing system for important papers — completed about 1 year later
- save enough money for travelling
Completed on 43 Things:
- do a chart with everything I need to complete in the next 2 hectic months — Worth doing!
- have a fantastic birthday — Worth doing!
- find a great pair of jeans and not have a meltdown in the process — Worth doing!
- get a visa debit card — Worth doing!
- finally take back my library books......which are about 4 months overdue — Worth doing!
- restructure my goals list — Worth doing!
- make sure my Dad has a great 50th birthday
- learn Tai Chi — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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June
Added to 43 Things:
- get my business name registered without having a meltdown in the process — completed 11 days later
- keep a food journal throughout July — completed 11 days later
- declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — completed 8 months later
- cheerbomb 43 people who I think are fabulous — completed 8 months later
- buy the PostSecret book
- get my camera fixed or buy a new one
- make a mosaic
- Give 3000 cheers — completed 10 months later
- figure out how to make my blog fantastic
- accept that the first few weeks of starting exercise are going to be crappy and stick with it anyway — completed about 1 year later
- start drinking herbal teas again — completed about 1 year later
- go through a drive-through car wash — completed about 1 year later
- be sociable at least twice a week — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Wish Keldar a Happy Birthday - on June 4th!! — Worth doing!
- Wish Happy Birthday to Mrs. Egbert on June 9th — Worth doing!
- make a homeopathic birthing kit for Penny — Worth doing!
- Give 2500 cheers — Worth doing!
- learn how to play poker — Worth doing!
- plan something special for when Damian gets home — Worth doing!
- start a flikr account — Worth doing!
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- send firerainchild lots of love for her wedding day on August 1st! — completed 10 days later
- find ways to help Damian deal with stress and look after his health — completed 20 days later
- give 3500 cheers! — completed 28 days later
- organise our clothes — completed about 1 month later
- WEEKLY GOAL: Organise remedies and finish painting the house — completed 7 months later
- make a book of family recipes
- replace our carpet with wooden floors — completed about 1 year later
- decorate our home and make it even funkier — completed about 1 year later
- learn more about sustainable living — completed about 1 year later
- place positive affirmations around our home
- be a qualified Homeopath. To finally have that certificate in my hot little hands — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- get my business name registered without having a meltdown in the process — Worth doing!
- keep a food journal throughout July — Not worth doing
- wish cathibeth a brilliant birthday (July 10)! — Worth doing!
- get a new mobile for the business — Worth doing!
- dress more colourfully — Worth doing!
- do my taxes — Not worth doing
- own (and watch) 'What the Bleep do we Know" — Worth doing!
- Get everyone to play the 3 Things Q's on 43T — Worth doing!
- Get a HUGE team together, hunt down Nabil and KICK HIS CHICKENSHIT ASS!!!!!!!!! — Worth doing!
- finish painting downstairs — Worth doing!
- Wish JessyRoberts the best doggone birthday she has ever had on July 29th!!! — Worth doing!
- find out my Jungian personality — Worth doing!
- get tickets to see Michael Franti in September — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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August
Added to 43 Things:
- WEEKLY GOAL: Finish the book I'm reading
- make tomorrow a happy day — completed 2 days later
- Vote for Tara — completed 10 days later
- take better care of my car — completed 2 months later
- Give 4000 cheers — completed 6 months later
- be financially independent — completed 8 months later
- clean out all of our cupboards
- stop adding goals until several goals are completed — completed 11 months later
- participate in honey body booty camp! — completed 11 months later
- Weekly Goal: Get back into a sleep routine - lights out by 11pm — completed 11 months later
- get my website up and running — completed about 1 year later
- try 10 new recipes — completed about 1 year later
- update all my online stuff that I've been slack with — completed about 1 year later
- go camping — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- send firerainchild lots of love for her wedding day on August 1st! — Worth doing!
- Send Get-Well Wishes and Hugs to Flirt! — Worth doing!
- have a great time with my family this week — Worth doing!
- find ways to help Damian deal with stress and look after his health — Not worth doing
- wish Aphie a safe trip and an amazing time overseas — Worth doing!
- give 3500 cheers! — Worth doing!
- enrol to vote — Worth doing!
- TEAM BANANA — Worth doing!
- organise our clothes — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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September
Added to 43 Things:
- see 'amazing human body' exhibition — completed about 1 month later
- Use a menstrual cup — completed about 1 month later
- post randomly — completed 5 months later
- watch another 25 movies or TV series in 2006 — completed 5 months later
- weed and replant our garden — completed 9 months later
- thank my wonderful subscribers — completed 10 months later
- Give 5000 cheers — completed about 1 year later
- have more dinner parties — completed about 1 year later
- Share 43 things I love about my boy — completed about 1 year later
- create — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- make tomorrow a happy day — Worth doing!
- Vote for Tara — Worth doing!
- Mourn the loss of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin — Worth doing!
- remember to vote today! — Worth doing!
- Declare 9/5 to 9/12 Steve Irwin Avatar Week, in memory of Steve Irwin — Worth doing!
- watch 25 movies or TV series in 2006 — Worth doing!
- get tickets to see Elton John — Worth doing!
- A typical Day (Take One Photo an Hour for a Day) — Worth doing!
- Send hugs and support to Trauma_Junkie on the loss of her grandpa — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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October
Added to 43 Things:
- try last.fm — completed 7 days later
- make sure Damian has a kick-ass birthday — completed 7 months later
- cut down on tea and coffee — completed 9 months later
- put more songs on my MP3 player to listen to at the gym — completed 10 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- see 'amazing human body' exhibition — Worth doing!
- run for half an hour without stopping — Worth doing!
- Take the Colorgenics profile test — Worth doing!
- figure out what's going on with my eyesight — Worth doing!
- take better care of my car — Worth doing!
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November
Added to 43 Things:
- finally get Damian's shirt which I ordered from EBAY a month ago, even if I have to forcibly snatch it out of the seller's nasty little incompetent hands
- be brave at the doctor on Thursday — completed 4 days later
- try another ten new recipes
- have heaps of fun with my brother when he comes to stay — completed 3 months later
- get our appliances working again — completed 4 months later
- start our own traditions this Christmas
- do a 10 day detox — completed 11 months later
- become someone who I am fiercely proud of — completed about 1 year later
- turn off the tv and computer, and turn to books and music instead — completed about 1 year later
- figure out exactly what I want and GO FOR IT — completed about 1 year later
- get my self out of this slump before it gets worse — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Wish NinaWills a HAPPY 32nd BIRTHDAY on October 29th (even if I am embarrassingly late) — Worth doing!
- try last.fm — Worth doing!
- get out of my cranky pants — Worth doing!
- Use a menstrual cup — Worth doing!
- start playing The Sims 2 again — Worth doing!
- buy some spunky new outfits — Worth doing!
- CELEBRATE the BIRTHDAY of JudithKD (Nov. 25) with FROLIC and GLEE!!! — Worth doing!
- see Elton John live again — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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December
Added to 43 Things:
- send my christmas cards
- spend new years eve at the woodford folk festival — completed 7 months later
- settle in to my new job — completed 9 months later
- see my family more often — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- be brave at the doctor on Thursday — Worth doing!
- Wish Paolo a very Happy Birthday on December 9th! — Worth doing!
- have photos taken with Kate — Worth doing!
- watch more movies — Worth doing!
- wish IamElectrogirl a very Happy Birthday on December 12th by throwing a Virtual Birthday Party — Worth doing!
- wish Absnasm a happy birthday on December 19th — Worth doing!
- wish everyone at 43things a very merry christmas — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
