jamid in 2005

2005 was 87% worth living.

In 2005, jamid did 48 things, went 136 places, met 2 people, and consumed 75 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Take vitamins daily — completed about 1 month later
  2. Sell stuff on ebay
  3. collect refund
  4. drink more water
  5. have children
  6. Buy a House
  7. Swim more
  8. Be a better friend
  9. do 100 sit ups a day
  10. organize my bills
  11. pick the right stocks
  12. visit my grandma more often
  13. do 20 push-ups a day
  14. Beat my depression
  15. write 10 pages a day
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Take more pictures — Worth doing!
  2. Fall in love — Worth doing!
  3. Sing at least one karaoke song (in front of people) — Not worth doing
  4. see the northern lights — Worth doing!
  5. Become a vegetarian — Worth doing!
  6. paint my toenails — Worth doing!
  7. get a haircut that looks good, for once in my life — Worth doing!
  8. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
  9. move to Portland — Worth doing!
  10. Drive across the USA — Worth doing!
  11. milk a cow — Worth doing!
  12. find an apartment — Worth doing!
  13. write 2 blog posts a day — Worth doing!
  14. update my resume — Worth doing!
  15. get a job — Worth doing!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. tell the institution of marriage to fuck off
  2. set up email filters
  3. call auntie lynn
  4. become a better chess player
  5. go grocery shopping
  6. do science
  7. Learn to surf
  8. Volunteer
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. laundry — Worth doing!
  2. get my driver's license — Worth doing!
  3. get my drivers license renewed — Not worth doing
  4. buy a trowel — Worth doing!
  5. vote — Worth doing!
  6. Learn to tango — Worth doing!
  7. pick blackberries — Worth doing!
  8. Run a 5k race — Worth doing!
  9. get paid to do research — Worth doing!
  10. cut my fingernails — Worth doing!
  11. find a good book about italian history — Worth doing!
  12. Drink better beer — Worth doing!
  13. clean out my email inbox — Worth doing!
  14. drink less soda — Worth doing!
  15. Grow my hair out — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Botswana
  2. Nigeria
  3. Zimbabwe
  4. Cuba
  5. La Sagrada Família
  6. North Korea
  7. Trans-Siberian Railway
  8. Tiananmen Square
  9. Isla de Pascua
  10. El Arbolito — visited 3 days later
  11. Savannah
  12. Amazon River
  13. Red Square
  14. The Nile River
  15. Iceland
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bosnia and Herzegovina — Worth visiting!
  2. Yakima — Not worth visiting
  3. British Columbia — Worth visiting!
  4. Hungary — Worth visiting!
  5. Los Angeles — Not worth visiting
  6. Minnesota — Worth visiting!
  7. Mount Saint Helens — Worth visiting!
  8. Oaxaca (State) — Worth visiting!
  9. Sea Of Cortés — Worth visiting!
  10. Croatia — Worth visiting!
  11. Graceland — Worth visiting!
  12. California — Worth visiting!
  13. Wien — Worth visiting!
  14. Louisiana — Worth visiting!
  15. Whistler — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
  2. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel — Not worth consuming
  3. The Secret Life of Bees
  4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Worth consuming!
  5. Watership Down — Worth consuming!
  6. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America — Worth consuming!
  7. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation — Worth consuming!
  8. Cien Años de Soledad — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Her Majesty — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
  2. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  4. Kung Fu Hustle (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle 3 — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. bad coffee
  2. mojito — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get both a medical and dental check-up relatively soon.
  2. learn Microsoft Access
  3. go on a crime spree in Gretna, Louisiana
  4. study the transition from stem cells to neurons
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. start a blog — Worth doing!
  2. run 2 miles without stopping — Worth doing!
  3. learn to play tennis — Worth doing!
  4. Make a scrapbook — Not worth doing
  5. Take vitamins daily — Worth doing!
  6. cook a peach cobbler — Worth doing!
  7. learn to crochet — Worth doing!
  8. Take tennis lessons — Worth doing!
  9. learn to cook ethiopian food — Worth doing!
  10. get over him — Worth doing!
  11. get contacts — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Beauty And The Books — visited about 1 month later
  2. Sistine Chapel
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Malay Satay Hut — Worth visiting!
  2. Harvard Exit Theater — Worth visiting!
  3. Snoqualmie Pass — Worth visiting!
  4. Henry Art Gallery — Worth visiting!
  5. El Arbolito — Worth visiting!
  6. Vietnam Veterans Memorial — Worth visiting!
  7. Arlington National Cemetery — Worth visiting!
  8. Boulder — Worth visiting!
  9. Roanoke — Not worth visiting
  10. Enchanted Tiki Room — Worth visiting!
  11. Central Park — Worth visiting!
  12. Times Square — Worth visiting!
  13. Pearl Street Mall — Worth visiting!
  14. Museum Of Modern Art — Worth visiting!
  15. Voodoo Doughnut — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Buster McLeod
  2. whetstone
  3. heyelitists
  4. Eyraca
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Salman Rushdie
  2. Colin Meloy

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Destroy the capitalist beast that resides within me
  2. play scrabble
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give away all my clothes i dont wear anymore to goodwill! — Worth doing!
  2. Help test 43people.com: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
  3. climb a mountain — Worth doing!
  4. shop at ikea — Worth doing!
  5. make a living will — Worth doing!
  6. Brush my teeth at night! — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kraków
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mount Constitution — Worth visiting!
  2. Beauty And The Books — Worth visiting!
  3. Seaside — Not worth visiting
  4. Yachats — Worth visiting!
  5. Waldport — Worth visiting!
  6. Deane's Oceanside Lodge — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. PenelopeTreat
Read:
  1. Vernon God Little — Worth consuming!
  2. A Passage to India — Worth consuming!
  3. Being Dead: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  4. Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  5. Geek Love: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  6. The Butcher Boy — Worth consuming!
  7. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction — Worth consuming!
  8. 1984 (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  9. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Satanic Verses — Worth consuming!
  11. The Golden Gate — Worth consuming!
  12. Vox — Worth consuming!
  13. A River Sutra — Worth consuming!
  14. Assassination Vacation — Worth consuming!
  15. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  3. In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Twin Peaks - The First Season (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Mulholland Drive — Worth consuming!
  6. Kill Bill, Volume 1 — Worth consuming!
  7. Kill Bill, Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
  8. 2046 — Not worth consuming
  9. Kung Fu Hustle — Worth consuming!
  10. Amelie — Worth consuming!
  11. American Splendor — Worth consuming!
  12. Coffee and Cigarettes — Worth consuming!
  13. Shaun of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  14. Primer — Not worth consuming
  15. Bride and Prejudice — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link — Worth consuming!
  2. pabst blue ribbon — Worth consuming!

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November

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Redwood National Park — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Surfacing — Not worth consuming
  2. The Edible Woman — Not worth consuming
  3. Oryx and Crake — Worth consuming!
  4. A Canticle for Leibowitz — Worth consuming!

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December

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. have a boyfriend
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Post Falls — Not worth visiting
  2. Treaty Rock — Not worth visiting
  3. Coeur D'Alene — Worth visiting!
  4. Falls Park — Not worth visiting
  5. White House Grill — Worth visiting!

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