Celeste in 2006
2006 was 96% worth living.
In 2005, Celeste
did 121 things,
went 0 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 0 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- Finish reading "The Power of NOW" by Eckhart Tolle
- "Kitten-proof" the house & prepare for my new kittens arriving Jan. 26! — completed 24 days later
- Have Irene over for lunch and make home made bisquits! — completed about 1 month later
- Add music to the slide show I did of the Backhaus workshop
- create the greatest team on 43 things — completed 8 months later
- HELP someone without regard for they can do for me — completed about 1 year later
- Allow people to have whatever rocks they may have in their own head — completed about 1 year later
- Become "Action-Oriented"! — completed about 1 year later
- Determine where to put all my new/old furniture — completed about 1 year later
- Make a trip to the state of Washington, where I might adopt THIS cat! — completed about 1 year later
- MARCH TEAM ART PROJECT: Create a new soft pastel painting and post it at 43things — completed about 1 year later
- carpe diem — completed about 1 year later
- Accept it-Change it-or forget it. — completed over 2 years later
- Finish the "personal" newsletter I have started & mail it
Completed on 43 Things:
- Take vitamins every day for 21 days — Not worth doing
- be content — Worth doing!
- Carry a much smaller purse — Worth doing!
- Join dot mac — Worth doing!
- Find the gizmo that allows me to upload my photos from the camera to the computer — Worth doing!
- Give Margaret her "Christmas present" — Worth doing!
- Provide a 43 Things show & tell of some of the art I did last year — Worth doing!
- Have lots of fun with our two new itty bitty kitties! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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February
Added to 43 Things:
- Hand out compliments like candy (but with sincerity!) — completed 4 days later
- Make the home office livable for both Dave and me
- improve my appearance — completed 8 months later
- legal thing with ex-husband — completed 8 months later
- Get info off my older computers and sell them
- Do something specific to encourage Dave each day — completed about 1 year later
- 43things TEAM PROJECT: support fellow artists in their artistic projects — completed over 2 years later
- Inspire myself — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Wish YRUSH a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! — Worth doing!
- Sign up to take Backhaus' workshop for the 2nd time — Not worth doing
- "Kitten-proof" the house & prepare for my new kittens arriving Jan. 26! — Worth doing!
- Clean up the whole house today so that I can have A&J over on Saturday for dinner — Worth doing!
- call Irene and ask her to lunch — Worth doing!
- Place all my "business" phone calls for this week — Worth doing!
- Have Irene over for lunch and make home made bisquits! — Worth doing!
- Complete the mask making workshop — Worth doing!
- throw a virtual birthday party for the one and only DESOLATEIRONY! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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March
Added to 43 Things:
- weight train and cardio 3x per week — completed 26 days later
- do something new once a week — completed about 1 month later
- create a team of 43 crazy cat lovers — completed about 1 month later
- Get a screened in porch/room added to the back of the house
- Give Dave a compliment from time to time! — completed 7 months later
- Return personal papers that belong to ex-h — completed about 1 year later
- Recognize that there is a price to be paid for everything and pay it! — completed about 1 year later
- Challenge Ageism and encourage others to do the same — completed about 1 year later
- finish college
- Live by "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds" — completed about 1 year later
- Put up a tribute page for my friend, Debbie — completed about 1 year later
- Clean out the tool shed
- Sell the things I no longer want on ebay or craigslist
- Put art into my life on a daily basis — completed over 2 years later
- Learn how to make movies on my Mac
Completed on 43 Things:
- Hand out compliments like candy (but with sincerity!) — Worth doing!
- join a gym — Worth doing!
- go to the doctor — Worth doing!
- Invite you to check out my wee kitties! — Worth doing!
- COUNT MY BLESSINGS — Worth doing!
- Encourage Irene to go to the gym with me — Worth doing!
- Keep my appointment with the "personal trainer" — Worth doing!
- call Randy, to inquire about his health — Worth doing!
- Get to the bottom of my in-basket (the "action" file) by March 24 — Worth doing!
- Help Irene find a new home for the orphaned cat — Worth doing!
- Take all the supplements the Naturopath gave me to take — Worth doing!
- have a daily list of things to do..and get MOST of the things on it done each day — Not worth doing
- Send lots of love and support to "thatgirlsab" on the loss of her dad — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- join bookcrossing.com — completed about 1 month later
- Read Body for Life by Bill Phillips — completed about 1 month later
- Write all those letters — completed 2 months later
- take responsibility for every action and circumstance in my life — completed 7 months later
- make all those phone calls — completed 9 months later
- Get a new lawyer — completed 10 months later
- Have a place for everything and keep everything in its place — completed 10 months later
- Greet every person I encounter today with a smile! — completed about 1 year later
- Sponsor Adventurina (the author formerly known as Romantic Rosie) in the Oceans of Mercy 5K in Shawnee, KS, on April 22 — completed over 2 years later
- Work on my Secret Goal — completed over 2 years later
- Plan every day the night before — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- cooperate with the inevitable — Worth doing!
- get over myself — Worth doing!
- Make the appointment I need to with the Dentist! — Worth doing!
- weight train and cardio 3x per week — Worth doing!
- celebrate Abby's birthday on April 17th, by inundating her with cheers, eye candy and appreciative comments — Worth doing!
- do something new once a week — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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May
Added to 43 Things:
- Work on my secret goal...with the help of several 43thingers!!! — completed 4 months later
- Get a new cat sitter and attempt to get my deposit back from the former cat sitter — completed 7 months later
- Write and verbalize a daily positive statement
- Finish reading the Kevin MacPherson oil painting book — completed 9 months later
- learn how to GRILL — completed about 1 year later
- take pleasure in unpleasant things — completed about 1 year later
- paint every day — completed about 1 year later
- take Dave on a date once a week! — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Look for and find the papers I need for next week — Worth doing!
- be alright with whatever the outcome is re: court hearing — Worth doing!
- Send love and hugs to Bookish — Worth doing!
- make a cheesecake for Irene's visit — Worth doing!
- Read Eating for Life by Bill Phillips — Worth doing!
- Today: buy a new printer and a George Foreman grill — Worth doing!
- join bookcrossing.com — Worth doing!
- clean the bedroom — Worth doing!
- Read Body for Life by Bill Phillips — Worth doing!
- create a team of 43 crazy cat lovers — Worth doing!
- Clean up the whole kitchen & get rid of all "bad" food — Worth doing!
- Have a good time on our road trip! — Worth doing!
- set up my new printer — Worth doing!
- clean the WHOLE house because we're going on vacation! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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June
Added to 43 Things:
- Put up a Tribute page for my brother — completed 3 days later
- Daily: share my del.icio.us bookmarks with other 43Ters
- Read (and sort through) my art technique books (giving away the ones that are not my cup of tea)
- Keep in mind what is going right instead of what is going wrong — completed 6 months later
- declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — completed 6 months later
- face things that need facing — completed 9 months later
- Ask for help from someone once a day
- Prepare for and do the Portland Bridge Pedal August 13
- Paint the stairs
- Paint the upstairs hall floor
- be a succulent wild woman — completed 11 months later
- Find any excuse to take photos — completed about 1 year later
- make it happen — completed about 1 year later
- Do a helpful/pleasant/cheerful thing for someone every day — completed about 1 year later
- implement GTD — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- celebrate Shoemaker's 43rd birthday (june 5th, 2006) on 43 things — Worth doing!
- Make an appointment with ND — Worth doing!
- Clean the Hall; git er done! — Worth doing!
- Clean the downstairs because Pat is coming over today..Crikey! — Worth doing!
- Cheer one of the COOLEST guys on 43T thru the Ironman (go Matty!) — Worth doing!
- Host a BBQ for Father's day — Worth doing!
- Watch all the episodes of "Father Ted" — Worth doing!
- Wish Hawkmeister the Happiest Birthday Ever :) — Worth doing!
- stop thinking I have a brain tumor when I only have a headache — Worth doing!
- Be encouraging to my niece — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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July
Added to 43 Things:
- Do something "for" our house every week
- Resolve the situation with lawyer #2 by writing my magnum opus letter — completed about 1 month later
- Purchase the new anti blur Sony digital camera — completed 23 days later
- Cheer Succulent Wild Women — completed 7 months later
- Get new cabinets & a new sink for the kitchen
- Straighten out my basement studio — completed 7 months later
- Varnish some of my paintings — completed 7 months later
- Take my complaint against the pet-boarder-sitter to small claims court — completed 10 months later
- take more risks — completed about 1 year later
- Try not to be mildly irked when I've "already cheered this goal" — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Put up a Tribute page for my brother — Worth doing!
- Write all those letters — Worth doing!
- celebrate RuthG's -the matriarch of 43T- birthday on July 4th — Worth doing!
- select a famous American as my avatar from 2006-07-03 to 2006-07-09, in recognition of the U.S.'s Independence Day. — Worth doing!
- Vote Flirt "Miss Congeniality-43Things" — Worth doing!
- Paint in the Lavender Fields — Worth doing!
- wish cathibeth a brilliant birthday (July 10)! — Worth doing!
- GO to the personal training session at my gym TODAY — Worth doing!
- Find - Have and Keep: THAT Kiss!!! — Worth doing!
- master cleanse — Worth doing!
- Wish everyone a very merry unbirthday at AbbeyNormal's Week-long "Virtual" Mad Tea Party! — Worth doing!
- Declare Monday July 17th is officially tell Josh "you da man" day — Worth doing!
- CELEBRATE NYLONTHREAD'S BIRTHDAY!!! — Worth doing!
- Be a crazy cat lady — Worth doing!
- Get everyone to play the 3 Things Q's on 43T — 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:
- Be the first to start contacting people instead of the other way around
- Read & do the exercises in "Creative License" by Danny Gregory
- Find out why so many people want to "kiss in the rain" — completed 10 months later
- Support my best friend through her harrowing health ordeal — completed about 1 year later
- do one thing every day that takes me out of my comfort zone
Completed on 43 Things:
- Get my toyota fixed..it is leaking — Worth doing!
- Paint at "Van Gogh Days" this weekend — Worth doing!
- Send Get-Well Wishes and Hugs to Flirt! — Worth doing!
- Resolve the situation with lawyer #2 by writing my magnum opus letter — Worth doing!
- Purchase the new anti blur Sony digital camera — Worth doing!
- Throw a birthday party for Dave on Saturday — Worth doing!
- Find out why I don't get email notices from 43T's anymore :( — Worth doing!
- ask my 43T subscribers to cheer shoemaker this month and offer him hugs — Worth doing!
- Get eight frames made for paintings I plan to enter in the Plein Air competition — Worth doing!
- Participate in the 5 day plein air paint out in & about Hood River — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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September
Added to 43 Things:
- Appeal to the 43T's designer(s) to put our Flickr photos back where they were prior to the re-design, down the left side of our 43T's pages :) — completed 20 days later
- share blogs with 43 43Ters on Vox — completed about 1 month later
- Celebrate the return of "Romantic Rosie"!!! — completed about 1 month later
- Do a painting following Emile Gruppe's methods and palette — completed 8 months later
- organize a 43T meetup in Portland OR
- Set up a typepad blog
- practice the art of 'setting my intention' and record my results. — completed about 1 year later
- get my hair back to it's natural color — completed about 1 year later
- Prepare for my next art exhibit — completed about 1 year later
- be thankful everyday — completed about 1 year later
- be more feminine — completed about 1 year later
- Get my groove back — completed about 1 year later
- become a "globe friend", that means friends from around the globe working for the good of the globe — completed about 1 year later
- Get Neville to fix my Triumph's burned valve — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Help Break Patrick Weintraub's Birthday Curse By Wishing Him A Happy One September 8 — Worth doing!
- Declare 9/5 to 9/12 Steve Irwin Avatar Week, in memory of Steve Irwin TEAM CROC! — Worth doing!
- 2006-09-11: join at least 43 other 43Ters in posting reflections on the anniversary this coming Monday — Worth doing!
- Honour Steve Irwin's memory by donating to the Crikey Fund — Worth doing!
- celebrate Todd Schoonover's birthday Sept. 15, by participating in a 43Things conference call, or just by posting good wishes! — Worth doing!
- Send hugs and support to Trauma_Junkie on the loss of her grandpa — Worth doing!
- Help Dave recupperate from back surgery — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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October
Added to 43 Things:
- Send virtual birthday gifts to Bookish — completed 2 days later
- celebrate Ruth's New Job, which starts Monday, by sending her run-on sentence Good Wishes that will make her smile and laugh and celebrate her very Ruthness... — completed 2 months later
- Straighten out my studio — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Appeal to the 43T's designer(s) to put our Flickr photos back where they were prior to the re-design, down the left side of our 43T's pages :) — Worth doing!
- create the greatest team on 43 things — Not worth doing
- Work on my secret goal...with the help of several 43thingers!!! — Worth doing!
- Give Dave a compliment from time to time! — Worth doing!
- Celebrate Jamie's 21st birthday on October 15th with all her 43things friends — Worth doing!
- improve my appearance — Worth doing!
- legal thing with ex-husband — Worth doing!
- share blogs with 43 43Ters on Vox — Worth doing!
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November
Added to 43 Things:
- Get new glasses — completed about 1 month later
- Clean the house, for Thanksgiving — completed 3 months later
- Research upcoming art venues and decide which ones to aim for — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- not give up on 43things because of the seemingly constant application errors I encounter that won't let me easily use my cheers, which are subsequently lost when I return. — Worth doing!
- Send virtual birthday gifts to Bookish — Worth doing!
- Celebrate the return of "Romantic Rosie"!!! — Worth doing!
- Send L's dressing table to the furniture doctor
- Get through Thanksgiving with a smile on my face — Worth doing!
- Offer support to my neighbor; difficult time for him — Worth doing!
- CHEER Trauma Junkie as she runs the Turkey Trot in Carlisle PA on US Thanksgiving Day!!! — Worth doing!
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December
Added to 43 Things:
- Use my christmas tree as my avatar
- Read the insulin-resistant diet book — completed about 1 month later
- Clean up the entire house
- get into the christmas spirit — completed 3 months later
- Daily: Have a good laugh at least 1x (Happiness Manifesto Declaration #8) — completed 7 months later
- Do something art-related every day — completed about 1 year later
- Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful. — completed about 1 year later
- Set aside time for reading — completed about 1 year later
- Experiment with new recipes — completed about 1 year later
- start going to the gym — completed about 1 year later
- go to church this Sunday — completed about 1 year later
- paint — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- take responsibility for every action and circumstance in my life — Worth doing!
- celebrate Ruth's New Job, which starts Monday, by sending her run-on sentence Good Wishes that will make her smile and laugh and celebrate her very Ruthness... — Worth doing!
- Wish Bill the Traveling Salesman a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! — Worth doing!
- Blame Josh
- volunteer at the animal shelter — Worth doing!
- Do something playful every day — Worth doing!
- Decorate the Christmas Tree — Worth doing!
- GET OVER this wicked cold/flu thing so I can do things again
- do my christmas shopping — Worth doing!
- Keep in mind what is going right instead of what is going wrong — Worth doing!
- send my christmas cards — Worth doing!
- Get a new cat sitter and attempt to get my deposit back from the former cat sitter — Worth doing!
- declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
