Texas Lin's gone country in 2006

2006 was 99% worth living.

In 2005, Texas Lin's gone country did 1093 things, went 179 places, met 0 people, and consumed 0 products.

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. play tennis — completed over 2 years later
  2. establish a spiritual retreat
  3. keep fit and healthy
  4. get a kitten
  5. get a pair of lovebirds — completed 29 days later
  6. travel — completed over 2 years later
  7. Make a list of the top 10 ways God has blessed me — completed 11 months later
  8. make a list of 100 quotes that inspire me — completed 2 months later
  9. Be a better friend — completed 7 months later
  10. dance more — completed about 1 year later
  11. spend more time with family and friends — completed over 2 years later
  12. Become a better public speaker — completed over 2 years later
  13. save the planet — completed about 1 year later
  14. live passionately
  15. purchase consciously: organic, local, fair trade... — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Switch to reusable shopping bags for groceries — Worth doing!
  2. switch to Firefox — Worth doing!
  3. Volunteer — Worth doing!
  4. grow out my hair — Worth doing!
  5. buy a digital camera — Worth doing!
  6. visit Seattle — Worth doing!
  7. watch the sunrise — Worth doing!
  8. Eat less meat — Worth doing!
  9. cuddle with someone and fall asleep in his arms — Worth doing!
  10. have children — Worth doing!
  11. start using del.icio.us — Worth doing!
  12. learn about politics — Worth doing!
  13. go to a political rally — Worth doing!
  14. raise a son who will be a wonderful husband one day — Worth doing!
  15. learn to sew a skirt — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kent — visited 24 days later
  2. Maine
  3. Trans-Siberian Railway
  4. France
  5. Ireland

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be more politically active
  2. Share food with the homeless, foodbanks, or food kitchens — completed about 1 year later
  3. help end homelessness — completed about 1 year later
  4. Spend more time with like-minded/hearted people
  5. take pictures everyday
  6. learn to crochet — completed about 1 year later
  7. create a world where women can walk ANYWHERE, EVERYWHERE — completed over 2 years later
  8. Pick a theme song for myself — completed over 2 years later
  9. practice the art of 'setting my intention' and record my results.
  10. grow an herb garden
  11. buy a new car — completed over 2 years later
  12. promote hope, health and mental wellbeing
  13. Eat more fruits and vegetables — completed 8 months later
  14. practice pronoia — completed over 2 years later
  15. bake more — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a pair of lovebirds — Worth doing!
  2. volunteer in my community — Worth doing!
  3. accepting things from my past — Worth doing!
  4. ride an elephant — Worth doing!
  5. watch the AFI Top 100 American movies — Worth doing!
  6. smile more often — Worth doing!
  7. see a lunar eclipse — Worth doing!
  8. Have Kids — Worth doing!
  9. read Anna Karenina — Worth doing!
  10. own a house with a swing on the front porch — Worth doing!
  11. Give 43 cheers — Worth doing!
  12. buy a laptop — Worth doing!
  13. Give 100 cheers — Worth doing!
  14. climb a mountain — Worth doing!
  15. lay in the grass and stare at the clouds — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  2. Tibet
  3. Gettysburg — visited 3 months later
  4. Great Barrier Reef
  5. Alaska
  6. Luckenbach — visited 4 months later
  7. Sundance Film Festival
  8. Mount Kilimanjaro
  9. Machu Picchu
  10. Bainbridge Island
  11. Palace Museum
  12. Antarctica
  13. Amsterdam
  14. Sankt-Peterburg
  15. Islas Galápagos
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cafe Du Monde — Worth visiting!
  2. Shreveport — Worth visiting!
  3. San Antonio — Worth visiting!
  4. New Orleans — Worth visiting!
  5. Chichen Itza — Worth visiting!
  6. Yucatán (State) — Worth visiting!
  7. San Francisco — Worth visiting!
  8. Mexico — Worth visiting!
  9. California — Worth visiting!
  10. Grand Canyon National Park — Worth visiting!
  11. Washington, D.C. — Worth visiting!
  12. Kansas — Worth visiting!
  13. New York State — Worth visiting!
  14. British Columbia — Worth visiting!
  15. Glacier National Park — Worth visiting!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Do Something Nice For Myself Every Week — completed about 1 year later
  2. consciously create my day
  3. light more candles — completed about 1 month later
  4. Create a life plan — completed over 2 years later
  5. finish cross stitch projects — completed 7 months later
  6. Get everyone on 43things to contribute donations and spread the word about Happy Phantom's 3-day, 210 mile bike ride to help find a cure for Crohn's and Colitis. — completed about 1 year later
  7. learn to speak fluent spanish — completed over 2 years later
  8. pamper myself — completed over 2 years later
  9. take daily walks
  10. Learn to paint with watercolors
  11. Support Breast Cancer Research by sending in "Pink Lids" by Yoplait — completed 11 months later
  12. establish my production company
  13. Live by the Abundance Model! — completed over 2 years later
  14. help others buy real estate — completed 3 months later
  15. surround myself with positive successful people — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make a list of 100 quotes that inspire me — Worth doing!
  2. Click to donate at Hunger Site every day — Worth doing!
  3. knit for Project Linus and other charities — Worth doing!
  4. dance in the moonlight — Worth doing!
  5. give 800 cheers! — Worth doing!
  6. give 900 cheers — Worth doing!
  7. drop toxic people — Worth doing!
  8. wish for rain in the next week in the Texas Panhandle — Worth doing!
  9. give 1200 cheers — Worth doing!
  10. List the 10 Greatest Lessons Learned / Achievements Earned in 2005 — Worth doing!
  11. Keeping our traditon of 'special days' special — Worth doing!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. play the flute again
  2. learn Tai Chi
  3. promote vegetarianism — completed about 1 year later
  4. live somewhere beautiful — completed over 2 years later
  5. Laugh. A lot. Genuinely.
  6. create a secret society of optimists and do-gooders — completed over 2 years later
  7. unite the world by making this team — completed 3 months later
  8. eat beignets in New Orleans — completed 2 months later
  9. keep track of my eating — completed about 1 month later
  10. Learn to play the piano
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do a crossword puzzle every day — Worth doing!
  2. clean out the clutter — Worth doing!
  3. light more candles — Worth doing!
  4. ***Get as many people as possible to send Ronald Crawford an encouraging card*** — Worth doing!
  5. learn about 43 new places by finding out " What you like and find fascinating about your place?" — Worth doing!
  6. give 1500 cheers — Worth doing!
  7. Give up aspartame forever — Worth doing!
  8. invest wisely — Worth doing!
  9. Pick fruit at an orchard — Worth doing!
  10. cheer entries, not goals — Worth doing!
  11. It's a strange world — Worth doing!
  12. Be granted the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and to have the wisdom to know the difference... — Worth doing!
  13. give 1600 cheers — Worth doing!
  14. see a bear in the wild — Worth doing!
  15. See a moose (a live one...) — Worth doing!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be free from codependency — completed about 1 month later
  2. do pilates — completed 29 days later
  3. establish childrens' art cafe
  4. get a passport — completed 10 months later
  5. promote and establish eco friendly communities — completed about 1 year later
  6. cultivate Optimism — completed 13 days later
  7. live authentically — completed over 2 years later
  8. learn something new every day — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find out my Jungian personality — Worth doing!
  2. think globally act locally — Worth doing!
  3. get me a pit bull or rottweiler — Worth doing!
  4. find 43 reasons to say Yes — Worth doing!
  5. live without regret — Worth doing!
  6. Thank Stephen Colbert — Worth doing!
  7. Send love and hugs to Bookish — Worth doing!
  8. court Eros — Worth doing!
  9. procrastinate less — Worth doing!
  10. practice FLYing with a like-minded group of 43thingers — Worth doing!
  11. start a container garden — Worth doing!
  12. have a convertable. — Worth doing!
  13. go skinny dipping in the ocean...at night — Worth doing!
  14. listen to more music. — Worth doing!
  15. Give 2000 cheers — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Gettysburg — Worth visiting!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Enjoy this Summer by having at least one "new and fulfilling" experience in June, July, and August — completed about 1 year later
  2. dance everyday
  3. paint abstract art — completed 2 months later
  4. establish my real estate services business
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. study the bible — Worth doing!
  2. keep track of my eating — Worth doing!
  3. be free from codependency — Worth doing!
  4. do pilates — Worth doing!
  5. cultivate Optimism — Worth doing!
  6. see a meteor shower — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Luckenbach — Worth visiting!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. provide/advocate affordable housing
  2. relax more — completed 8 months later
  3. eat a PB & J sandwich with crunchy PB — completed about 1 month later
  4. win a game of ping pong — completed about 1 month later
  5. have a ridiculous ringtone — completed about 1 month later
  6. see an endangered species in it's natural habitat — completed 2 months later
  7. Take the Myer-Briggs personality test and discover your personality type. — completed about 1 year later
  8. Get a perm — completed about 1 month later
  9. be brave — completed 3 months later
  10. make a platonic friend of the opposite sex — completed about 1 month later
  11. drink champagne — completed about 1 month later
  12. dance like no one is watching — completed 9 months later
  13. live life to the fullest — completed 2 months later
  14. forgive someone who hurt you — completed about 1 year later
  15. Be romantically surprised — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. inspire someone — Worth doing!
  2. carpe diem — Worth doing!
  3. Make new friends — Worth doing!
  4. help others buy real estate — Worth doing!
  5. eat beignets in New Orleans — Worth doing!
  6. Vote Flirt "Miss Congeniality-43Things" — Worth doing!
  7. finish a sudoku puzzle — Worth doing!
  8. go scubadiving and/or snorkeling — Worth doing!
  9. go to a pro football game — Worth doing!
  10. go to a pro basketball game — Worth doing!
  11. take a yoga class — Worth doing!
  12. take culinary classes or go to culinary school — Worth doing!
  13. Kiss in the rain — Worth doing!
  14. make homemade ice cream — Worth doing!
  15. solve a rubix cube — Worth doing!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be financially independent
  2. List 100 things I want in life
  3. become a holistic nutritionist
  4. be a writer
  5. Have an awesomely different life by this time next year — completed about 1 year later
  6. update my wardrobe — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Be a better friend — Worth doing!
  2. unite the world by making this team — Worth doing!
  3. paint abstract art — Worth doing!
  4. Get organized — Worth doing!
  5. Have a virtual, international, 43things birthday party, kikigracie will be 49 on Sat August 12!!! Hooray!! — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Dixie Doll Muneca a very happy birthday on August 12th!!! — Worth doing!
  7. help save 1-800-SUICIDE, a national suicide prevention hotline — Worth doing!
  8. read Shantaram — Worth doing!
  9. Declare 8/19 to 8/25 Disney Cartoon Character Avatar Week — Worth doing!
  10. declare 8/27-9/2 Share Your Wallpaper for Stacey's Birthday Week — Worth doing!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be an inspirational speaker
  2. Make my own gifts for a year
  3. stay healthy — completed 8 months later
  4. Make a list of all the films I've watched recently and keep it growing — completed about 1 year later
  5. Campaign for real beauty — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wear red lipstick more often — Worth doing!
  2. Keep Fresh Flowers in my Home — Worth doing!
  3. eat a PB & J sandwich with crunchy PB — Worth doing!
  4. win a game of ping pong — Worth doing!
  5. have a ridiculous ringtone — Worth doing!
  6. see an endangered species in it's natural habitat — Worth doing!
  7. Get a perm — Not worth doing
  8. make a platonic friend of the opposite sex — Worth doing!
  9. drink champagne — Worth doing!
  10. live life to the fullest — Worth doing!
  11. fall in love with someone of a different race — Worth doing!
  12. Take a roadtrip across the US — Worth doing!
  13. say hello to someone with a kiss — Worth doing!
  14. Celebrate the Robot Coop's 2nd birthday!!! — Worth doing!
  15. learn to speak fluent Italian — Worth doing!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. age gracefully — completed about 1 year later
  2. be the change i want to see in the world — completed about 1 year later
  3. Live life with joie de vivre — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop shopping at wal-mart — Worth doing!
  2. Eat more fruits and vegetables — Worth doing!
  3. Shop only from independent shops for 14 days — Worth doing!
  4. finish cross stitch projects — Worth doing!
  5. Be romantically surprised — Worth doing!
  6. have a deep conversation with someone important to me — Worth doing!
  7. Celebrate National "Carry a Tune" Week
  8. Ask my 43T Friends to cheer bomb B who is Zenboy2006 for his Birthday 10/19/06 — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Make my own gifts for a year

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. lose 13 pounds by january 13th
  2. Do NaNoWriMo
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Stop comparing myself to other people — Worth doing!
  2. be brave — Worth doing!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. build a team of leaders on 43 things: 100 or more strong to inspire others to be leaders also — completed 29 days later
  2. Write my morning pages everyday — completed 2 months later
  3. make 2007 my best year yet — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Make a list of the top 10 ways God has blessed me — Worth doing!
  2. Campaign for real beauty — Worth doing!
  3. adopt a dog from a shelter. — Worth doing!
  4. wish Texas Lin a Happy Birthday on December 24th! — Worth doing!

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