Cherdan in 2008

2008, so far, is 85% worth living.

In 2005, Cherdan did 337 things, went 8 places, met 0 people, and consumed 278 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. read all the books I own
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. paint
  2. go running
  3. go to a nude beach
  4. buy a car
  5. find a better job
  6. Quit my job
Listened to:
  1. Uh Huh Her
  2. Go!
  3. Rank — Worth consuming!
  4. Beaster
  5. Couture, Couture, Couture
  6. The Hurting — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Katt Williams: Live — Worth consuming!
  2. Factory Girl (Unrated) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Kashi GOLEAN — Worth consuming!

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February

Read:
  1. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Country Life
  2. What Jail Is Like — Worth consuming!
  3. Up in It
  4. Pornography
  5. Straight Blue Line — Not worth consuming
  6. Another Mellow Spring
  7. Turning into Small — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. No Country for Old Men (2007) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Savages — Worth consuming!
  3. Juno — Not worth consuming
  4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Worth consuming!
  5. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — Worth consuming!
  6. The Great Debaters — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Beat my depression — completed 3 months later
  2. boycott Wal-Mart — completed 3 months later
  3. Break 1000 CDs in my collection
  4. go to glastonbury festival
  5. see the northern lights
  6. find a good shrink
  7. get another tattoo
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. try absinthe
  2. drink absinthe
  3. Get a tattoo before I'm 30
  4. play the piano
  5. Pull out a hair
  6. Meet up with friends after several years
  7. Plunge into cold water
  8. Fast for a while
  9. Swallow your emotion
  10. Be aware of yourself speaking
  11. Sleep on your front in the sun
  12. Shower with your eyes closed
  13. go to the hairdressers
  14. Resist tiredness
  15. Follow the movement of ants
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ala Moana Center — Worth visiting!
  2. International Marketplace
  3. Polynesian Cultural Center
  4. Waikiki — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. David Lynch
  2. John Waters
  3. Joel and Ethan Coen
  4. Tim Burton
  5. Jim Jarmusch
  6. Spike Lee
Listened to:
  1. How It Feels to Be Something On — Worth consuming!
  2. Parklife — Worth consuming!
  3. Frosting on the Beater — Worth consuming!
  4. Ask Me Tomorrow — Worth consuming!
  5. Never For Ever
  6. Erotica
  7. Razorblade Suitcase — Worth consuming!
  8. Pink Flag — Worth consuming!
  9. Imperial f.f.r.r. — Worth consuming!
  10. Perfect Teeth — Worth consuming!
  11. Anything — Worth consuming!
  12. Crawdaddy
  13. Heaven Is for Easy Girls — Worth consuming!
  14. No New York
  15. Five Ways of Disappearing — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. Adaptation (Superbit Collection) — Worth consuming!
  2. Persepolis — Worth consuming!
  3. August Rush — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Newcastle Brown Ale — Worth consuming!
  2. green tea candy — Worth consuming!
  3. Tapenade — Worth consuming!
  4. Gin — Worth consuming!
  5. fried eggplant — Worth consuming!
  6. Beer — Worth consuming!
  7. Amstel Light
  8. Corona Extra — Not worth consuming
  9. Wasabi — Not worth consuming
  10. Black bean chili — Worth consuming!
  11. clif bar
  12. Smirnoff Ice — Worth consuming!
  13. Red Stripe — Worth consuming!
  14. nutritional yeast
  15. Jack Daniel's — Not worth consuming

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April

Listened to:
  1. Static & Silence — Worth consuming!
  2. Come on Feel the Lemonheads
  3. Maxi On!
  4. For Keeps — Worth consuming!
  5. Hot Boxing
  6. Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine — Not worth consuming
  7. Schroeder's Cat
Watched:
  1. Gregory's Girl — Worth consuming!
  2. The Band's Visit — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Caprese Salad — Worth consuming!
  2. grapefruit — Not worth consuming

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. finish my first hand-coded website — completed 23 days later
  2. bring up my GPA significantly
  3. make an album
  4. go on a cruise
  5. ride a roller coaster
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Eat healthier and try new foods — Worth doing!
  2. eat healthy — Worth doing!
  3. eat more healthily — Worth doing!
  4. eat healthier food — Worth doing!
  5. eat a more healthy diet. — Worth doing!
  6. Lose 30 pounds — Worth doing!
  7. conserve water — Worth doing!
  8. conserve energy — Worth doing!
  9. conserve gas and electricity — Worth doing!
  10. use public transportation — Worth doing!
  11. reduce, reuse, recycle, and restore — Worth doing!
  12. drive less and use less gas — Not worth doing
  13. eat organically — Worth doing!
  14. support sustainable agriculture — Worth doing!
  15. go to a rock concert — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Fly or Die
  2. Glow — Worth consuming!
  3. Screamadelica — Worth consuming!
  4. The Last Dog & Pony Show
  5. Population 4 — Worth consuming!
  6. Bewitched — Worth consuming!
  7. The Herethereafter — Worth consuming!
  8. Building
  9. Crystal Castles (Dig) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Blue Lagoon and Return to the Blue Lagoon (Double Feature)
  2. The Blue Lagoon — Not worth consuming
  3. The Grifters (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. An American Tail - Fievel Goes West
  5. Be Kind Rewind — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Cheddar Beer Kettle Chips — Worth consuming!
  2. Coke Zero — Worth consuming!
  3. Stella Artois — Worth consuming!
  4. chocolate cake — Worth consuming!
  5. fish — Worth consuming!
  6. Ginger Ale — Worth consuming!
  7. special k bar — Worth consuming!
  8. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  9. fish sticks — Worth consuming!
  10. Red Stripe Jamaican Lager — Worth consuming!
  11. Peaches — Not worth consuming
  12. Monster Energy Drink — Worth consuming!
  13. Silk Chocolate Soy Milk — Worth consuming!
  14. shrimp scampi — Worth consuming!
  15. Squid

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. fix my car or get a new one by the end of summer
  2. get surgery for my split ear lobes
  3. sell all my old textbooks on Half.com
  4. turn off the tv and computer, and turn to books and music instead
  5. learn to play piano again
  6. join the Complaints Choir of Chicago
  7. eat authentic fish and chips in England
  8. give up all television, with the lone exception of the Bravo Network
  9. Visit the Azores
  10. find another job that I don't hate
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. finish my first hand-coded website — Worth doing!
  2. have a movie marathon — Worth doing!
  3. eat sushi — Worth doing!
  4. visit a zoo — Worth doing!
  5. Beat my depression — Worth doing!
  6. boycott Wal-Mart — Worth doing!
  7. play a round of golf — Worth doing!
  8. learn how to cook — Worth doing!
  9. meet someone famous — Worth doing!
  10. learn how to type fast without looking at the keyboard — Worth doing!
  11. have a picnic — Worth doing!
  12. Do my chores — Worth doing!
  13. go to bed early — Worth doing!
  14. visit the doctor — Worth doing!
  15. Practice Celibacy
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Keaukaha
  2. Lower Puna
  3. Ayuthaya — Not worth visiting
Listened to:
  1. Some Cities — Not worth consuming
  2. Floating into the Night — Worth consuming!
  3. Chelsea Girl — Worth consuming!
  4. The Menace — Worth consuming!
  5. Black Sheets of Rain — Not worth consuming
  6. Out of Tune — Worth consuming!
  7. At the Club
  8. Pubic Fruit
  9. Heidi Berry — Worth consuming!
  10. Silent Shout
  11. Mirrored
  12. Proof of Youth — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Laurel Canyon — Not worth consuming
  2. Foxes — Worth consuming!
  3. You Don't Mess With the Zohan [Theatrical Release] — Not worth consuming
  4. Young@Heart — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Apple Martini — Worth consuming!
  2. Salmon — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Gmail — Worth consuming!
  2. Flock — Worth consuming!
  3. SNES: Super Nintendo Entertainment System — Worth consuming!
  4. Last.fm — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. move to Portland, Oregon within the next 2 years
  2. go to Coachella Valley Music Festival
Listened to:
  1. Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
  2. Violent Femmes — Worth consuming!
  3. Head's Up — Worth consuming!
  4. House Tornado/The Fat Skier — Worth consuming!
  5. Today's Active Lifestyles — Worth consuming!
  6. Sweet Oblivion
  7. Pretty In Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — Worth consuming!
  8. Throwing Muses — Worth consuming!
  9. Electronic — Worth consuming!
  10. Excellent Italian Greyhound
  11. Andorra — Not worth consuming
  12. Mantaray — Not worth consuming
  13. Seventh Tree
  14. Reality Check — Worth consuming!
  15. Chains Changed — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Murderball — Worth consuming!
  2. Coachella — Worth consuming!
  3. Bird of Paradise — Worth consuming!
  4. Taylor Camp — Worth consuming!

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August

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kaumana — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. University — Worth consuming!
  2. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
  3. Screaming Life/Fopp
  4. Envy
Consumed:
  1. Heineken — Not worth consuming
  2. Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) — Worth consuming!
  3. Lasagna — Worth consuming!
  4. fish & chips — Worth consuming!
  5. poached eggs — Worth consuming!
  6. Miller Lite — Not worth consuming
  7. Coors Light — Not worth consuming
  8. ahi tuna — Worth consuming!
  9. Sangria — Worth consuming!
  10. Smirnoff Twisted
  11. Michelob Ultra
  12. Salmon — Not worth consuming
  13. hot & sour soup — Worth consuming!
  14. chocolate covered caramels — Worth consuming!
  15. Calamari — Worth consuming!

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