heaveemetal in 2008
2008, so far, is 83% worth living.
In 2005, heaveemetal
did 353 things,
went 9 places,
met 1 person, and
consumed 0 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- watch uncut cartoons on YouTube — completed 36 days later
- Show Garfield the sights in my town to help carpe_diem_for_me's Class! — completed 56 days later
- PLAY "Two Truths & a Lie" — completed 67 days later
- Dr. Seuss Avatar Week - Jan.20 to Jan. 26 — completed 52 days later
- Celebrate Abbeynormal's Birthday (and everyone else's UNbirthday) at a very special Mad Tea Party the week of February 10th — completed 31 days later
- Sport/Exercise Avatar week 27th Jan - 2nd Feb — completed 160 days later
- Tap the Brilliant Mind of HeaveeMetal for Sage Advice on his ??th Birthday February 3rd — completed 11 days later
- Wish the vibrant and beautiful Meliflower a smile filled Birthday February 2nd — completed 157 days later
- Wish YRUSH a Happy Birthday (Feb 1) — completed about 20 hours later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Try a lot of drugs — Not worth doing
- Get so drunk I black out. — Not worth doing
- shave my head — Worth doing!
- vent some emotions — Worth doing!
- take myself more seriously — Not worth doing
- Pornolize the entire internet — Worth doing!
- Engage in cheer wars with worthy opponents — Worth doing!
- Take some sort of test of which the results are dubious at best — Not worth doing
- On August 8th celebrate "Happiness Happens" day — Worth doing!
- Swap Pennies...:) — Worth doing!
- Get a Firewire card for my computer — Worth doing!
- get 100 people to 'sign' my petition for emiliakaarina to bring the green hair back :) — Worth doing!
- Defend Hard Rock — Worth doing!
- Send Mindy lots of HUGS! — Worth doing!
- Wish Flirt! a Speedy Recovery — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
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February
Added to 43 Things:
- Wish Myself the happiest birthday ever on February 3rd! — completed 154 days later
- Wish Handsome Heaveemetal a very Happy Birthday on Feb 3rd!! — completed 153 days later
- Get laid 3 Birthdays in a row — completed 152 days later
- Party with Jessica (miamismartgirl) as she celebrates her 21st birthday on February 21st! — completed 33 days later
- celebrate my 3rd year here by finding out why people who have been on 43T a long time continue to use it. — completed 136 days later
- Wish Des a care-free, Disney-like Birthday on February 25th — completed 5 days later
- Join Tiger's 100 Days Smoke-Free Party on March 1st — completed 3 days later
- Like it or lump it — completed 81 days later
- Find a $20 bill — completed about 15 hours later
- Pay $8.00 for a beer — completed about 15 hours later
Completed on 43 Things:
- divorce my bitch of a wife — Worth doing!
- nurture my inner child — Worth doing!
- have the wisdom to determine the difference between what is **REAL** and **ILLUSION** — Not worth doing
- articulate a personal code of ethics — Worth doing!
- try absinthe — Worth doing!
- List 43 things that bother me, that I will never understand or that just cause me to throw my arms up in the air and let out a piercing scream — Not worth doing
- collect phone numbers for a little black book — Not worth doing
- play with fire — Worth doing!
- Have a Superduper Surprise for heaveemetal on July 6th — Worth doing!
- Let everyone know.....how much I appreciate them — Worth doing!
- Touch the Life of a Stranger in Need — Worth doing!
- plan a 43T Vegas weekend for April 14-15, 2007! — Worth doing!
- have 100 subscribers — Worth doing!
- "Host" a 43things greeting exchange for the Holidays — Worth doing!
- Ask the Robots to *please* restore all of the pages on a person's aggregated feed — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
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March
Added to 43 Things:
- Wish Shelly an "in-style" birthday on March 14th! — completed 28 days later
- Volunteer at the Colorado Cactus and Succulent show the weekend of March 27 to 29th — completed 13 days later
- investigate — completed 54 days later
- Buy 7 1 inch diameter stainless steel ball bearings — completed 9 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Make Firefox my default browser — Worth doing!
- Put the winter tires on my soon to be ex's car — Worth doing!
- List Impossible Goals I've Spotted on 43 Things — Worth doing!
- Post a variety of meaningful items — Not worth doing
- Wish for the Happiest Birthday ever to the wonderful Surly on March 26th — Worth doing!
- Post links to my sometimes foolish videos on YouTube — Worth doing!
- Show Garfield the sights in my town to help carpe_diem_for_me's Class! — Worth doing!
- PLAY "Two Truths & a Lie" — Not worth doing
- Dr. Seuss Avatar Week - Jan.20 to Jan. 26 — Worth doing!
- Party with Jessica (miamismartgirl) as she celebrates her 21st birthday on February 21st! — Worth doing!
- Watch Dexter on CBS this Sunday — Worth doing!
- Wish Des a care-free, Disney-like Birthday on February 25th — Worth doing!
- Join Tiger's 100 Days Smoke-Free Party on March 1st — Worth doing!
- Find a $20 bill — Worth doing!
- Pay $8.00 for a beer — Not worth doing
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- relax
- buy an XM or Sirius radio — completed 12 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- get married — Not worth doing
- save money out of every paycheck — Worth doing!
- figure out what I really want — Not worth doing
- go to the dentist regularly — Worth doing!
- french kiss — Worth doing!
- be one of the fuckers your parents warned you about — Not worth doing
- get this chip off my shoulder — Worth doing!
- Go to a Medieval or Renaissance Faire — Worth doing!
- punch something in a fit of anger and break your hand — Not worth doing
- adjust my E mail spam filter — Worth doing!
- Have a vivid dream.............. — Worth doing!
- give plasma — Worth doing!
- curse the darkness, instead of lighting a candle — Not worth doing
- give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
- almost knock myself out cold.......... — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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May
Added to 43 Things:
- Go to a Denver Hearse Association event... — completed 52 days later
- See if one brand of nothing is better than another — completed 47 days later
- Ask the age old question...Whassamatta U?
- make friends on the internet — completed 29 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- buy a home — Worth doing!
- take good care of myself — Worth doing!
- lose my virginity — Worth doing!
- almost be killed in a stupid car accident — Not worth doing
- buy a pickup truck — Worth doing!
- get a digital camera — Worth doing!
- Volunteer — Worth doing!
- clean out my inbox — Worth doing!
- Fix my computer — Worth doing!
- get an awesome care package from someone very special........... — Worth doing!
- Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
- Pour my heart out on 43 things.............. — Worth doing!
- be accused of "STEALING" photos........out of our photo albums....... — Not worth doing
- Have a GREAT Thanksgiving! — Worth doing!
- Go to a Chinese/Lunar New Year Parade — Worth doing!
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June
Added to 43 Things:
- have hope
- Celebrate Serenity's "Magical 43" birthday on June 7th with Peace, Light & Love! — completed 26 days later
- Talk to Meliflower on the phone — completed 24 days later
- Wish Trauma_Junkie a Balanced and Less Serious Birthday June 13th — completed 21 days later
- Post on Craigslist — completed 19 days later
- Unlock and then delete the saved text messages from my cell phone — completed 16 days later
- buy new blades and heads for my Norelco shaver — completed 11 days later
- Lose 30 pounds — completed 7 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- have sex in a public place — Worth doing!
- Make it through the Christmas rush "PEAK season" at work.......... — Worth doing!
- Have phone date nights — Worth doing!
- Offer my condolences to Tabatha and her family — Worth doing!
- Cook Christmas dinner over here tommorrow......and haul it over to my Mom's place........ — Worth doing!
- find out why my 43T subscriptions page is broken — Not worth doing
- go buy a new stove.....(fancy one)....to match the other appliances in our kitchen...... — Worth doing!
- make 2006 the greatest year of my life.... — Worth doing!
- Get some nice slacks to wear on my trip.... — Worth doing!
- Wipe out on my bike — Not worth doing
- Fork over my hard earned money to the IRS — Not worth doing
- throw a virtual birthday party for the one and only DESOLATEIRONY! — Worth doing!
- Buy a quality vibrator — Worth doing!
- Name my pickup truck — Worth doing!
- come to terms with the things I cannot change, have courage and toughness to change the things I can and have the wisdom to know the difference — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Nashville — Worth visiting!
- Jack Daniel's Distillery — Worth visiting!
- Lynchburg — Worth visiting!
- Nashville's Music Scene — Not worth visiting
- Nashville International Airport — Worth visiting!
- North Carolina — Worth visiting!
- Jacksonville — Worth visiting!
- Coyote Ugly — Worth visiting!
- Camp LeJeune — Worth visiting!
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July
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- learn more about paganism — Worth doing!
- Passionately kiss someone I've met on the internet — Worth doing!
- Give more than I take — Worth doing!
- stop wearing underwear — Worth doing!
- Make the arrangements I need....to dissapear.for a weekend...........shortly.........I have things that need to be done — Worth doing!
- live life instead of simply existing — Worth doing!
- Have 43 people subscibed to me......... — Worth doing!
- talk to myself when no one else is around...you know just to break the tension — Not worth doing
- Go to the public market on Granville Island....... — Worth doing!
- Get my own Safeway card — Worth doing!
- Give 3000 cheers — Worth doing!
- List 10 tips from things I have learned the hard way for the next generation — Worth doing!
- Support all my friends here and around the world that want to quit smoking — Not worth doing
- Clean up this pig sty of a computer workstation — Not worth doing
- engage in very important communication...once again — Worth doing!
