degan in 2008
2008, so far, is 88% worth living.
In 2005, degan
did 57 things,
went 107 places,
met 3 people, and
consumed 152 products.
January
Completed on 43 Things:
- send a postcard to Post Secret
- Own a dog — Worth doing!
- Do more aimless wandering — Worth doing!
- Learn Spanish — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith — Worth consuming!
- Man Walks Into a Room — Worth consuming!
- Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein — Worth consuming!
- Cloud Atlas — Worth consuming!
- Mean Boy — Worth consuming!
- The Voyage — Worth consuming!
- The White Bone — Worth consuming!
- The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series — Worth consuming!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- plan an entire solo weekend — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Experiance 1,000 types of love — Worth doing!
- Attend a political convention — Worth doing!
- be the protagonist of your life — Worth doing!
- meet and speak to 3 really eccentric people — Worth doing!
- learn a new word every day for a whole summer — Worth doing!
- sketch the ocean — Worth doing!
- publish a short story before april — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Family Matters — Worth consuming!
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure — Not worth consuming
- The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less — Not worth consuming
- Bacchus and Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar
- The Time Traveler's Wife — Worth consuming!
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library) — Worth consuming!
- Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu — Worth consuming!
- A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine (Vintage) — Not worth consuming
- Hip Tastes: The Fresh Guide to Wine — Not worth consuming
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Consumed:
- Lavender — Worth consuming!
- Grenache Noir — Worth consuming!
- Tannat — Not worth consuming
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- blog — completed 27 days later
- Host a dinner party
- throw a really great party
- eat at all the restaurants on commercial drive
- stop biting my nails — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Speak German. — Worth doing!
- get my website looking perfect — Worth doing!
- do 100 things to make people happy — Worth doing!
- Clean out the closet and give away clothes and shoes to the poor — Worth doing!
- do a backflip on a trampoline — Worth doing!
- go to a Italian Opera — Worth doing!
- get an ipod — Not worth doing
- be embarrassed again. — Worth doing!
- research a disorder — Worth doing!
- eat more vegan food — Worth doing!
- make up a name for a stray cat — Worth doing!
- give a homeless person money — Worth doing!
- experience an earthquake — Worth doing!
- Get a degree/ finish my degree — Worth doing!
- protest against something — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Florida — Worth visiting!
- Northern British Columbia Region — Worth visiting!
- Greece — Worth visiting!
- Roma — Worth visiting!
- Toby's Pub and Grill — Worth visiting!
- Tandoori Palace — Worth visiting!
- Havana Restaurant — Worth visiting!
- Fets Pasta Bar and Grill — Worth visiting!
- Stellas Tap and Tappas — Worth visiting!
- Lombardo’s Pizzaria and Restaurant — Worth visiting!
- Belgian Fries — Worth visiting!
- Best Falafel — Worth visiting!
- Carthage Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Me & Julio — Worth visiting!
- Britannia Sushi — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Beach — Not worth consuming
- Winnie-the-Pooh — Worth consuming!
- The Birth House: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Worth consuming!
- The Legend of Drunken Master — Worth consuming!
- Kill Bill, Volume 1 — Worth consuming!
- Kill Bill, Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
- Hero — Worth consuming!
- House of Flying Daggers — Worth consuming!
- Juno (Single-Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Meunier (Pinot Meunier) — Worth consuming!
- Mourvedre (Mataro,Monastrell) — Worth consuming!
- Nero d'Avola — Not worth consuming
→ See more from March
April
Completed on 43 Things:
- sell something I created — Worth doing!
- Volunteer — Worth doing!
- Moonlight in a different field than my day job — Worth doing!
- Shake hands with someone famous — Worth doing!
- have a truly amazing one night stand — Worth doing!
- ski by torchlight — Worth doing!
- plan an entire solo weekend — Worth doing!
- blog — Worth doing!
- Spend a day at a nursing home — Not worth doing
- mend fences — Worth doing!
- Learn about auto mechanics — Worth doing!
- almost drown — Not worth doing
- face the unknown and be fearless — Worth doing!
- prank call people — Not worth doing
- watch a movie by an unknown director — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
- Alaska — Worth visiting!
- California — Worth visiting!
- Le Pichet — Worth visiting!
- McLeod Residence — Worth visiting!
- Under The Sea — Worth visiting!
- Kootenay Lake — Worth visiting!
- Queen Charlotte Islands — Worth visiting!
- City Lights Bookstore — Worth visiting!
- Glasgow — Worth visiting!
- Stirlingshire — Worth visiting!
- Caracol — Worth visiting!
- Stirling Castle — Worth visiting!
- Clermont Ferrand — Worth visiting!
- Tours — Worth visiting!
- Toscana — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Les Misérables (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Time Traveler's Wife — Worth consuming!
- Perfume (MTI) — Worth consuming!
- Ulysses — Worth consuming!
- The Diving-bell and the Butterfly — Worth consuming!
- Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success — Worth consuming!
- Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
- I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Watched:
- Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
- Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
- Pulp Fiction — Worth consuming!
- The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Casablanca — Worth consuming!
- The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
- The Matrix — Worth consuming!
- Life Is Beautiful — Worth consuming!
- Run Lola Run — Worth consuming!
- American Beauty — Worth consuming!
- The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
- The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition) — Not worth consuming
- Some Like It Hot (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Mai Tai — Worth consuming!
- Mojito — Worth consuming!
- Laphroaig 10 Year Old Single Malt Whiskey — Not worth consuming
- Aligote — Not worth consuming
- Cuba Libre — Worth consuming!
- Dewar's, 12y (blended) — Not worth consuming
- Hurricane — Worth consuming!
- Rum Old-fashioned — Worth consuming!
- Limon Mojito — Worth consuming!
- Pink Mojito — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl — Worth consuming!
→ See more from April
May
Added to 43 Things:
- Learn about Bourbon
- Learn to Cook 5 Outstanding Meals
- Learn to surf — completed 26 days later
- visit new york city
Completed on 43 Things:
- Play hide and seek with your partner — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Pondok Indonesian, 2781 Commercial Drive — Worth visiting!
- Falconetti's Sausage Company, 1812 Commercial Drive — Worth visiting!
- Addis Cafe — Worth visiting!
Read:
- The Search
- MYTH OF IPHIS, THE: The Myth of Iphis — Not worth consuming
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Completed on 43 Things:
- Learn to surf — Worth doing!
- do the Grouse Grind — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- The End Cafe, 2360 Commercial Drive — Not worth visiting
- Riddim and Spice, 1945 Commercial Drive — Not worth visiting
Read:
- Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide — Not worth consuming
- How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights — Worth consuming!
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism — Not worth consuming
→ See more from June
July
Completed on 43 Things:
- experience 1,000 types of love — Worth doing!
- surf — Worth doing!
- read Lady Chatterley's Lover — Not worth doing
- get lost in an imaginary world — Worth doing!
- laugh every day — Worth doing!
- Be a scotch whisky connoisseur — Worth doing!
- stop biting my nails — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Yum Yai Thai Cuisine, 1859 Commercial Drive — Worth visiting!
- Timbre Restaurant, 2068 Commercial Drive — Worth visiting!
- Jamaican Pizza Jerk, 2707 Commercial Drive — Worth visiting!
- Mongolian Teriyaki, 1900 Commercial Drive
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands — Worth consuming!
- Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea — Worth consuming!
- The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food — Worth consuming!
- 1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (1000 Series) — Worth consuming!
