bartzturkeymom in 2008

2008, so far, is 100% worth living.

In 2005, bartzturkeymom did 24 things, went 0 places, met 0 people, and consumed 308 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. "Discover" 43 songs on thesixtyone.com — completed 7 months later
  2. Outline the novel I will write for NaNoWriMo 2008
  3. Read 50 romance novels in 2008 to help ground myself in the genre
  4. Assemble my book of Calendar Girl Poems
  5. Find one non-fiction topic to research for later book inclusion
  6. Find a market to write a column or have regular submissions
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Write morning pages every day for 2007 — Worth doing!
  2. buy MYSELF flowers at least once a month — Worth doing!
  3. list 43 things that made 2007 a good year — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Zondervan NIV Study Bible
  2. Chaka (African Writers Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
  4. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
  5. The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions) — Worth consuming!
  6. Strange Bedpersons (MIRA) — Worth consuming!
  7. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
  8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition — Worth consuming!
  9. Crazy for You (Jennifer Crusie 2004) — Worth consuming!
  10. YOU: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment
  11. Girls' Night In — Worth consuming!
  12. Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
  13. Truth or Dare — Worth consuming!
  14. Sunset Song — Worth consuming!
  15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Kennebec — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. What's New Pussycat — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Give 3000 cheers
  2. Drink 43 teas
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. talk less, listen more — Worth doing!
  2. Do one daily RAK for each day of 2007. — Worth doing!
  3. Give 2000 cheers — Worth doing!
  4. ~List 43 of My Favorite Smells:
Read:
  1. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  2. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,) — Worth consuming!
  3. Matilda — Worth consuming!
  4. Persuasion (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. Wise Blood: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  6. Nine Coaches Waiting — Worth consuming!
  7. The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
  8. Saturday — Worth consuming!
  9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! — Worth consuming!
  10. Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
  11. Good Omens — Worth consuming!
  12. On Death and Dying — Worth consuming!
  13. My Name Is Asher Lev — Worth consuming!
  14. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  15. Devices and Desires — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. This Fall — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir — Worth consuming!
  4. Rebel Without a Cause (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Red River — Worth consuming!
  7. Rambo III
  8. Dumbo (Big Top Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Little Miss Sunshine — Worth consuming!
  10. For Your Consideration — Worth consuming!
  11. Pan's Labyrinth (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Stardust (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

→ See more from February

March

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. release 100 books on BookCrossing in 2007 — Worth doing!
  2. start 12 book rays at BookCrossing in 2007 — Worth doing!
  3. Send 12 RABCK in 2007 — Worth doing!
  4. Send a postcard to Postsecret — Worth doing!
  5. Do the 2007 TBR Challenge — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Lob a belated but beloved birthday (Feb. 16) — Worth doing!
  7. Wish NeoQSerenity a very Happy Birthday on March 11th — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Bridget Jones's Diary (movie tie-in) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged Thirteen and Three Quarters — Worth consuming!
  3. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales — Worth consuming!
  4. Magic in the Wind — Worth consuming!
  5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe : A Novel — Worth consuming!
  6. The Whale Rider — Worth consuming!
  7. Slightly Shady — Worth consuming!
  8. Sweetness in the Belly: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  9. The Yankee Girl: A Korean Girl's Journey to Find Herself — Worth consuming!
  10. The Jasmine Moon Murder (Tea Shop Mystery #5) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. The Twilight Before Christmas — Worth consuming!

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Write 30 love poems — Worth doing!
  2. take myself on an artist date each week in 2007 — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines — Worth consuming!
  2. Kim (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Chosen — Worth consuming!
  4. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette) — Worth consuming!
  5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe — Worth consuming!
  6. Season of Migration to the North — Worth consuming!
  7. Night Fire — Worth consuming!
  8. Howl — Worth consuming!
  9. 1984 — Worth consuming!
  10. Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. Kim (Thrift Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. As I Lay Dying — Worth consuming!
  13. Night (Hrw Books) — Worth consuming!
  14. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) — Worth consuming!
  15. As I Lay Dying — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Mistress — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read 100 books in 2007 — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The End of the Affair: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) — Worth consuming!
  2. After the Quake: Stories — Worth consuming!
  3. Cat's Eye — Worth consuming!
  4. End of the Affair, The — Worth consuming!
  5. Something Reckless — Worth consuming!
  6. Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat... — Worth consuming!
  7. Lessons From a Courtesan — Worth consuming!
  8. Texas Loving — Worth consuming!
  9. Beneath a Silent Moon — Worth consuming!
  10. Hot Nights with a Playboy — Worth consuming!
  11. The wheatcake — Worth consuming!
  12. Blackbird — Worth consuming!
  13. The prettiest bird — Worth consuming!
  14. Gabriel's Lady (Leisure Historical Romance) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Cider House Rules (Miramax Collector's Series)
  2. Michael Clayton (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Keep a gratitude journal for 2007 — Worth doing!
  2. Look up a word each day in 2007 — Worth doing!
  3. Walk Once a Week in 2007 — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Comfort of Strangers — Worth consuming!
  2. The Cement Garden — Worth consuming!
  3. Before We Were Free (Readers Circle) — Worth consuming!
  4. Under the Lilacs — Worth consuming!
  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  6. Little Men — Worth consuming!
  7. Deep, Dark & Dangerous — Worth consuming!
  8. The Secret Garden (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  9. Jo's Boys — Worth consuming!
  10. Little Women (Penguin Popular Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There: With Fifty Illustrations — Worth consuming!
  12. Peter Pan — Worth consuming!
  13. The Wheaten Loaf — Worth consuming!
  14. The Almost Moon: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  15. Key Lime Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. 3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Juno (Single-Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Mad Money

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop drinking soda — Worth doing!
  2. give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The News from Paraguay: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World — Worth consuming!
  3. Never Let Me Go — Worth consuming!
  4. Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman — Worth consuming!
  5. Oceans of Fire (Drake Sisters Novels) — Worth consuming!
  6. Dangerous Tides (Drake Sisters Novels) — Worth consuming!
  7. Stranger in a Strange Land — Worth consuming!
  8. Of Mice and Men — Worth consuming!
  9. A Where the Sidewalk Ends — Worth consuming!
  10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Worth consuming!
  11. Oh, the Places You'll Go! Deluxe Edition (Classic Seuss) — Worth consuming!
  12. Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery) — Worth consuming!
  13. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House) — Worth consuming!
  14. Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) — Worth consuming!
  15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. 27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Hidden Shadows — Worth consuming!
  2. Poisonwood Bible, The — Worth consuming!
  3. Suite Francaise — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. let the people i love know it — Worth doing!
  2. "Discover" 43 songs on thesixtyone.com — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Master and Margarita — Worth consuming!
  2. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  3. Monkey Hunting — Worth consuming!
  4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. A Dangerous Charade — Worth consuming!
  6. The Master and Margarita — Worth consuming!
  7. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Worth consuming!
  8. A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller — Worth consuming!
  9. East Toward Dawn: A Woman's Solo Journey Around the World (Adventura Books) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Master and Margarita (Oneworld Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Books of Wonder) — Worth consuming!
  12. Colonel Brands Diary — Worth consuming!
  13. Home For The Holidays — Worth consuming!
  14. Lucky Charm — Worth consuming!
  15. Riding Temptation — Worth consuming!

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