George just pulled his head out of the bucket of guilt! in 2008

2008, so far, is 98% worth living.

In 2005, George just pulled his head out of the bucket of guilt! did 180 things, went 1 place, met 13 people, and consumed 47 products.

George just pulled his head out of the bucket of guilt! has written 1 year in review entry…

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Go back to the gym, 4 times a week for a month
  2. Wish John Lee A Fantastic Birthday On Jan.20th — completed 55 days later
  3. Shamelessly ask my 43 friends to help support and sponsor Segsy in the 2008 Take Steps for Crohn's and Colitis Walk.
  4. wish the one and only MollieK a Memorable, Positive and Gracious Birthday on January 21 — completed 52 days later
  5. Wear Red on Go Red for Women Day, Feb 1 — completed 16 days later
  6. George's Manifesta
  7. Sport/Exercise Avatar week 27th Jan - 2nd Feb — completed 11 days later
  8. Give HippieChick a hug — completed 46 days later
  9. Declare February 18th-25th bellybutton avitar week. — completed 43 days later
  10. Wish Antti (also know as Hauki's boyfriend) a fantastic Birthday on January 26th, with a lot of beer, rock and cheers — completed 43 days later
  11. Keep Caiti in your thoughts and prayers — completed 18 days later
  12. observe National Gandhi Remembrance Day on January 30th — completed 8 days later
  13. quit eating in front of my computer
  14. Wish YRUSH a Happy Birthday (Feb 1) — completed 1 day later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish everyone a very merry unbirthday at AbbeyNormal's Week-long "Virtual" Mad Tea Party! — Worth doing!
  2. Please help my friend Christy Tucker by sending her some cheers, hugs and prayers as she is going through a very tough time right now, thank you !!1 — Worth doing!
  3. participate in International Slow Down Week, 1/14-1/20 — Worth doing!
  4. Wish yrush a Very Happy Birthday on Feb. 1!! — Worth doing!
  5. Celebrate Sherlock's Birthday, so that maybe at least in a tiny way, it will seem good to her! — Worth doing!
  6. Celebrate Christmas with 'things of Christmas' avatars from 12/13 - 12/31. Be original! — Worth doing!
  7. spread the word about the Sister Study. — Worth doing!
  8. Celebrate 43Things I Love About Katie:) — Worth doing!
  9. be able to click a song that sweeps me away. — Worth doing!
  10. Celebrate Texas Lin's birthday on December 24th — Not worth doing
  11. let Simon know how much he has been missed when he gets back...oh how i miss him :( — Worth doing!
  12. CHEERBOMB Wiggum224 on January 26, 2008!!! here's hoping that 31 is his best year yet!!! — Worth doing!
  13. learn how to swim — Worth doing!
  14. Give away money to a stranger — Worth doing!
  15. Cheerbomb Lottie and wish her a pirate-tastic birthday on January 11th! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Color my hair dark auburn brown, semi permanent dye
  2. Share in the 2007 43Things holiday card exchange
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. septembertwentyseven
Read:
  1. The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Terminal (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Fog (Full Screen) — Worth consuming!
  3. A Walk in the Clouds — Worth consuming!
  4. Sgt. Bilko — Worth consuming!
  5. Poseidon [HD DVD] — Worth consuming!
  6. Thin — Worth consuming!
  7. Lions for Lambs — Worth consuming!
  8. I Am Legend — Worth consuming!
  9. Nanny Diaries
  10. 27 Dresses — Worth consuming!
  11. License to Wed (Widescreen and Full-Screen) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Simpsons Movie (Widescreen) — Worth consuming!
  13. Mr. Bean's Holiday — Worth consuming!
  14. The Bucket List — Worth consuming!
  15. Under the Tuscun Sun — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. OPI Koala Bear-Y nail polish
  2. opi black tie optional

→ See more from January

February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be part of a team that donates 10 million grains of rice through freerice.com
  2. Wish 2beSurfin a Happy Birthday, showing her that she's not alone even if she's away from home! — completed 25 days later
  3. Come to the second annual surprise party on Feb 12 for Kanard with lots of chocolate and anything fun you can think of - and this time she really doesn't know anything about it! — completed 23 days later
  4. learn to be happy with myself, by myself, for myself — completed 129 days later
  5. Wish Stu a healthy, peaceful, tasteful (but not too-tasteful) birthday on February 18! (With some crazy fun and a few pygmy goats thrown in...) — completed 21 days later
  6. Declare the week of Feb. 17 - Feb 23 "Feline Avatar Week" — completed 13 days later
  7. make people feel beautiful — completed 32 days later
  8. be more positive
  9. Wish Schweffy a flippin' awesome birthday on March 15 (complete with penguins) — completed 15 days later
  10. truly celebrate the next special day in 2008: Waterfall Nymph's birthday on February 24! — completed 21 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Become a Crew Member for the 3 Day Walk for Breast Cancer — Worth doing!
  2. use 10 words to develop a poem and invite others to do the same — Worth doing!
  3. Support Code Pink — Worth doing!
  4. Show something I love or I’m proud for this 43Show and Tell — Worth doing!
  5. elect a woman as president — Worth doing!
  6. Save Title IX,the 1972 federal law mandating that any education program receiving federal funds must provide equal opportunities to both genders. — Worth doing!
  7. give out Free Hugs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 — Worth doing!
  8. Stop being depressed — Not worth doing
  9. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful. — Worth doing!
  10. disclose 43 random THINGS about myself — Worth doing!
  11. opt out of SuperCheers — Worth doing!
  12. get 100 people to 'sign' my petition for emiliakaarina to bring the green hair back :) — Worth doing!
  13. Wish Bill, The Super Renaissance Man, a Wonderful More Worldly Birthday on Dec 5th ! — Worth doing!
  14. Wish Flirt! a Speedy Recovery — Worth doing!
  15. Wish MaryHawkins a Simplified Birthday December 18th — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. quit eating in front of my computer
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. srishti kapoor — met 75 days later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Anji
Read:
  1. Succulent Wild Woman — Worth consuming!
  2. Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  3. Middlesex: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Chicago (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not — Worth consuming!
  3. Hoosiers — Worth consuming!
  4. French Twist — Worth consuming!
  5. Happenstance
  6. Winged Migration — Worth consuming!
  7. Micki and Maude — Worth consuming!
  8. The Scorpion King
  9. Jumper — Worth consuming!
  10. For Rosanna — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Worth consuming!
  2. opi russian navy — Worth consuming!

→ See more from February

March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Note 43 things about me that boost my confidence and make me feel good about myself (but hopefully don't make me sound big headed!)
  2. make my own jewelry — completed 35 days later
  3. Find all the fans of NBC's "Lipstick Jungle"
  4. Try to cheer people's birthdays on or near the given day so we don't feel like we should of cheered them earlier, three months is too long!!!
  5. Cheerbomb Aaron J when he FINALLY gets a car! — completed 108 days later
  6. Keep Schweffy In Your Thoughts And Prayers
  7. Get a group together of Interested 43 Thingers to go down to New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday April 12, 2008 for Rape Victim Awareness — completed 24 days later
  8. Define myself A-Z — completed 110 days later
  9. find the perfect messenger bag. — completed 51 days later
  10. Love and Care for Chloegoldenheart, as her sweet life draws to an end:(
  11. Have 43 people visit www.bhookh.com and help them in the fight to end hunger in India
  12. Wish RevengeNudeFreedom a Birthday that is 100% in His Happy Place amidst oodles of Body Acceptance, Cool Photos on Flickr and Enough Ecstatic Memories to Fill... well, if not a lifetime... then close to it on March 24
  13. chuck norris avatar week april 6, 2008 - april 12, 2008. b/c chuck norris is the bomb diggity ! — completed 44 days later
  14. things that make me happy — completed 35 days later
  15. Convince GoldenGirl she is not an average girl like she tends to think, but a lovable and cute lady
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Pray for my mother who is going through chemo therapy and radiation weekly. — Worth doing!
  2. Get some people to sign the Darfur petition — Worth doing!
  3. Make a list of at least 10 naughty things I haven't done, but am interested in- then do them — Worth doing!
  4. find more people who have an affection for the absurd — Worth doing!
  5. carry a pack of post it notes in my purse, so i can leave random comments everywhere i go — Worth doing!
  6. Get a hug every day — Worth doing!
  7. figure out what i want to do with my life — Worth doing!
  8. Purchase and Apply a Cure Breast Cancer Vanity License Plate for Massachusetts on my vehicle. — Worth doing!
  9. stop procrastinating — Worth doing!
  10. stop the war — Worth doing!
  11. Joyfully & Easily Capture Love in at Least 43 Posts in Our Own Unique Way — Worth doing!
  12. make jewelry — Worth doing!
  13. Promote Body Acceptance — Worth doing!
  14. learn how to properly self-examine my breasts and do it regularly. — Worth doing!
  15. become a more active feminist — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. wear more skirts and dresses
  2. make the Supercheer thing go awaaay!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. abigail is learing to breath again
  2. Gemma
  3. emiliakaarina
  4. LeFantome
  5. Parker
  6. ¢aiτi
Read:
  1. The Vagina Monologues — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  2. Bridget Jones's Diary — Worth consuming!
  3. Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Desperately Seeking Susan — Worth consuming!
  5. The Truth About Cats & Dogs — Worth consuming!
  6. Varsity Blues — Worth consuming!
  7. Notting Hill [HD DVD] — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Vagina Monologues — Worth consuming!

→ See more from March

April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Promote Autism Awareness Day
  2. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
  3. wish Alaythia an unbelievable, inconceivable, rhyming-for-no-reason birthday on April 17th
  4. Celebrate Chalupa's birthday on April 16th with lots of COOKIES and other fun things
  5. "Compliments Journal"
  6. cheerbomb Miss Kitty..cuz she needs our support right now
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. convince the populace that men can actually be feminists — Worth doing!
  2. Teach people what feminism really means — Worth doing!
  3. Celebrate International Peace Day Thursday September 21, 2006 with many activities including a moment of silence at 12:00 Noon — Worth doing!
  4. paint my toenails a different colour every week until I've tried all my bottles of nailvarnish — Worth doing!
  5. practice 'Happiness Manifesto' daily — Worth doing!
  6. 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!
  7. Eliminate On-lIne Predators who stalk innocent women here... — Worth doing!
  8. Be kissed in the rain — Worth doing!
  9. make my own jewelry — Worth doing!
  10. Get a group together of Interested 43 Thingers to go down to New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday April 12, 2008 for Rape Victim Awareness — Worth doing!
  11. things that make me happy — Worth doing!
  12. wish Kasey. a marvellous birthday filled with lots of awesome-ness and what not on 10 april(: — Worth doing!
  13. read the Diary of Anne Frank — Worth doing!
  14. hold a door open for someone — Worth doing!
  15. Learn How to Fix my Bike — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. become a personal trainer.
  2. be part of a team that donates 1 million grains of rice through freerice.com
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. New York City — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. alexisbevc — met 63 days later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. firebomber
  2. Ida Matilda Wright
  3. srishti kapoor
Read:
  1. The Shining — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. BEAT THIS CANCER
  2. Send lots of cheer and cheers to YRush and RoadwarriorXX as they await their new baby!
  3. Encourage people to cheer this post because we miss Chloe and we love Gemm
  4. Cheerbomb TheMermaid and wish her a speedy recovery
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn how to remember peoples' names — Worth doing!
  2. become a feminist superhero — Worth doing!
  3. find the perfect messenger bag. — Worth doing!
  4. chuck norris avatar week april 6, 2008 - april 12, 2008. b/c chuck norris is the bomb diggity ! — Worth doing!
  5. Encourage people to get out and move more (walk,run,jog,whatever) — Worth doing!
  6. see fireflies — Worth doing!
  7. Keep Chloe Goldenheart and Kody The Cat in my thoughts and prayers — Worth doing!
  8. Act in an ameteur theatre play! — Worth doing!
  9. Become a Crew Member for the 2008 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Tha Gensta of 2008 NEW & IMPROVED...
Read:
  1. Girl, Interrupted — Worth consuming!
  2. Highbrow/Lowbrow:The emergene of cultural hierachy in America
  3. Highbrow/Lowbrow:The Emergence of Cultural Hierachy in America by Lawrence Levine — Worth consuming!
  4. Popular Culture and High Culture by Herbert Gans — Worth consuming!

→ See more from May

June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. CHEERBOMB intothebreach on july 5, 2008 and send him our best birthday wishes !
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. become a florist — Worth doing!
  2. Persuade as many people as possible to read at least one historical romance to support Romantic Rose — Worth doing!
  3. create a world where women can walk ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, EVERYWHERE — Worth doing!
  4. stop domestic violence — Worth doing!
  5. list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness — Worth doing!
  6. help every girl to realise that they are beautiful and not think they are fat or ugly — Worth doing!
  7. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :) — Worth doing!
  8. List 100 things I learned from Star Trek — Not worth doing
  9. stand up for what I beleive in even if nobody stands with me. — Worth doing!
  10. Figure out how to help people with the goal "commit suicide" — Worth doing!
  11. Lose 25 lbs. (11.36 Kilograms) so I do not have to take Blood Pressure Medication and Increase my Aerobic Exercise Routine Program — Worth doing!
  12. Support NARAL Pro-Choice by hosting a "House Party" or similar event and get more involved with them! — Worth doing!
  13. Pray for my Mom,(again) because they found something in her body from yesterday's PET/Scan! — Worth doing!
  14. Teach other Black women and girls that they are beautiful. — Worth doing!
  15. have synchronized walks with other 43thingers and post pictures here — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Write More Erotic Stories.
  2. never be depressed or anxious again
  3. drop 43 pennies in random places so that people can find them and feel lucky
  4. Exchange Tarot Readings With Other 43thingers
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. alexisbevc

→ See more from June

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Photograph answers to 20 questions about me
  2. be proud of myself
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Define myself A-Z — Worth doing!
  2. ride a bicycle built for two — Worth doing!

→ See more from July


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