TheFairestLady in 2008

2008, so far, is 88% worth living.

In 2005, TheFairestLady did 50 things, went 101 places, met 0 people, and consumed 44 products.

Years: 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Mar | Apr | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. prove that cat + (buttered) toast = anti-gravity
  2. become an existential detective
  3. make a pilgrimage to the Stampede Trail
  4. be Alice in Wonderland
  5. test every scent produced by BPAL
  6. live my life like it's a Wes Anderson movie
  7. read each and every one of van Gogh's letters
  8. get a tattoo on my wrist
  9. send a postcard to Post Secret
  10. Memorize a piece of poetry everyday
  11. see el chupacabra
  12. acquire a british accent — completed about 1 month later
  13. get my African violets to bloom — completed about 1 month later
  14. letterbox in Dartmoor
  15. see Death Cab for Cutie live — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. write a dissertation — Worth doing!
  2. go to a NIN concert
  3. see Sufjan Stevens live
  4. own a macbook pro
  5. own a bike
  6. grow my hair really long, then cut it really short
  7. Get more sleep
  8. wear a toe ring
  9. break a leg
  10. visit the national gallery on a regular basis
  11. be the best babysitter ever
  12. Be a Rock Star
  13. make chai tea from scratch
  14. stay up all night
  15. dream about sharks
  16. see all of audrey hepburn's films
  17. volunteer with unicef
  18. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people
  19. go ghost hunting
  20. see a ghost
  21. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
  22. get flowers from a guy
  23. Have a happy birthday
  24. have a library
  25. rescue dogs
  26. wear flip flops in winter
  27. learn to cook indian food
  28. get up early in the morning to walk or ride my bike
  29. let my hair grow long again
  30. leave messages on spare bits of paper in library books for future readers to discover
  31. Not care what other people think — Worth doing!
  32. go to see the Surreal Things in V&A
  33. see the Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum
  34. spend half a summer camped out in front of Michelangelo's 'Epifania'
  35. read flannery o'connor while listening to iron & wine
  36. convert as many people as I can from PC to Mac
  37. read 200 books in 2007
  38. live inside my head
  39. Kiss a stranger
  40. ride a Venetian vaporetto to the end of the line and back
  41. cultivate a strange obsession with wax seals
  42. watch the sun rise on a beach
  43. go on a spontaneous road trip
  44. find sand dollars on the beach
  45. scream infidelities
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Edinburgh
  2. Inverness
  3. St Andrews
  4. Aberdeen
  5. Thessaloniki
  6. Crete
  7. Morocco
  8. Cyprus
  9. Dublin
  10. Tokyo
  11. Kyoto
  12. Hong Kong
  13. Beijing
  14. Shanghai
  15. Tibet
  16. Xi'an
  17. Cape Town
  18. Johannesburg
  19. Mexico City
  20. Swansea
  21. Cardiff
  22. Hamburg
  23. Barcelona
  24. Madrid
  25. Sevilla
  26. München
  27. Ghent
  28. Mumbai
  29. Istanbul
  30. Ephesus
  31. New Delhi
  32. Antwerp
  33. Bruges
  34. Moskva
  35. Sankt-Peterburg
  36. Glasgow — visited 6 months later
  37. Athens — visited 6 months later
  38. Brussels
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. College Park
  2. Columbus
  3. Chattanooga
  4. Memphis
  5. Birmingham
  6. Charlotte
  7. Charleston
  8. Myrtle Beach
  9. Hilton Head Island
  10. Orlando
  11. Destin
  12. Panama City Beach
  13. Huntsville
  14. Little Five Points
  15. Helen
  16. Buckhead
  17. Hapeville
  18. East Point
  19. Vinings
  20. Fayetteville
  21. Pigeon Forge
  22. Gatlinburg
  23. Augusta
  24. Sarasota
  25. Jacksonville
  26. New Smyrna Beach
  27. Fort Myers
  28. Jekyll Island
  29. Tallahassee
  30. Cherokee
  31. Asheville
  32. Dothan
  33. Columbus
  34. Tampa
  35. Ormond Beach
  36. Marco Island
  37. City of Westminster
  38. Vatican City
  39. Camden Town
  40. Brentwood
  41. Edmonton
  42. Brixton
  43. Lilburn
  44. Decatur
  45. Roswell
  46. Douglasville
  47. Riverdale
  48. Seaside
  49. Greenwich
  50. Fairburn
  51. Chandlersville
  52. Morrow
  53. Conyers
  54. Forest Park
  55. Jonesboro
  56. Kennesaw
  57. Locust Grove
  58. Marietta
  59. McDonough
  60. Newnan
  61. Norcross
  62. Palmetto
  63. Powder Springs
  64. Sandy Springs
  65. Snellville
  66. Smyrna
  67. Stockbridge
  68. Stone Mountain
  69. Griffin
  70. Lake City
  71. Newark
  72. Venice
  73. Cyberspace
  74. Marne-la-Vallée
  75. Montpellier
  76. Tybee Island
  77. Statesboro
  78. Garden District
  79. Witham
Read:
  1. The Abolition of Man
  2. Wyrd Sisters
  3. The Brothers Karamazov
  4. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster — Worth consuming!
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
  6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
  7. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
  8. The Silmarillion
  9. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
  10. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
  11. The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3)
  12. The Magician's Nephew (adult) (Narnia)
  13. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia)
  14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
  15. A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/calvinist, ... anabaptist/anglican, metho (Emergentys)
  16. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
  18. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
  19. The Secret Garden
  20. The Hobbit
  21. A Little Princess (Penguin Classics)
  22. On Writing
  23. sense and sensibility
  24. Wuthering Heights (Folio Society)
  25. The Silver Chair (adult) (Narnia)
  26. The Last Battle (HarperCollins 1994)
  27. Prince Caspian (Narnia)
  28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
  29. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith — Worth consuming!
  30. Pride and Prejudice
  31. What's Wrong With The World (Dodo Press)
  32. The Great Divorce
  33. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
  34. Eiger Dreams — Worth consuming!
  35. The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia)
  36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
  37. Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novel S.)
  38. A Grief Observed
  39. Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body: And the Reinvention of the Human Body
  40. Michelangelo: The Last Judgement - A Glorious Restoration
  41. The Mist
  42. It
  43. Into The Wild — Worth consuming!
  44. Miracles

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