larisa5656 in 2008

2008, so far, is 76% worth living.

In 2005, larisa5656 did 122 things, went 38 places, met 0 people, and consumed 1437 products.

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

January

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Sing in the rain
  2. blow huge bubbles
  3. Live without television for a week
  4. Write to my congressperson/local MP
  5. Find Waldo
  6. make a collage
  7. borrow some money
  8. Push all the buttons in the elevator
  9. contribute to wikipedia
  10. Help someone learn English
  11. read macbeth
  12. cry in front of a stranger
  13. eat at a Hard Rock Cafe
  14. Look for opportunities to say dramatic lines like, "You'll live to regret this" or "Hello, my name is Indigo Montoyo. You killed my father! Prepare to die."
  15. randomly perform a duet with someone in a public place so that EVERYONE can hear
Read:
  1. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) — Worth consuming!
  2. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)
  3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  4. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit)
  5. The Storyteller's Daughter
  6. Quarterlife Crisis
  7. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
  8. The Fall of the House of Usher — Worth consuming!
  9. Beauty Sleep
  10. Down a Dark Hall
  11. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
  12. Island of the Blue Dolphins
  13. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
  14. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life At Rose Red
  15. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, My Life at Rose Red
Watched:
  1. Dead Man Walking
  2. Fight Club (Widescreen Edition)
  3. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  4. Monster's Ball
  5. Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
  6. Grumpier Old Men
  7. Sahara (Widescreen Edition)
  8. Dead Man Walking
  9. Ringu 2
  10. Fight Club
  11. Sahara (Full Screen Edition)
  12. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
  13. Rent (Fullscreen)
  14. Sahara (UMD Mini For PSP)
  15. Fight Club
Consumed:
  1. Spaghetti Carbonara
  2. scrambled eggs
  3. Soft Shell Taco
  4. roast potatoes
  5. Vodka
  6. Lasagne — Worth consuming!
  7. potato salad
  8. Hot Chocolate
  9. Chai Latte
  10. White Chocolate Reese's
  11. Ferrero Rocher — Worth consuming!
  12. poached eggs
  13. seaweed
  14. jelly beans
  15. Tiramisu
Consumed:
  1. I Feel Bad About My Neck
  2. Dead Man Walking (1995)
  3. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  4. Fight Club

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February

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Write my name in wet cement
  2. Go to Canada
  3. learn about your ancestors and your heritage
  4. Win an award
  5. forgive somone
  6. have your fortune told
  7. do your own laundry
  8. see the ocean
  9. get a job in the service industry
  10. Go on a long road trip.
  11. ride a greyhound bus
  12. travel by plane
  13. Work really hard before an exam and do brilliantly
  14. fail a test horribly
  15. Spend the whole night out partying
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Toronto
Read:
  1. Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations
  2. Shopaholic Gift Set (Shopaholic Ties the Knot / Shopaholic Takes Manhattan / Confessions of a Shopaholic)
  3. The Firebrand
  4. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
  5. City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less
  6. The Hip Girl's Handbook: For Home, Car, & Money Stuff
  7. Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived (Perigee Book)
  8. Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis 6-copy counter
  9. Back When We Were Grownups
  10. Back When We Were Grownups
  11. 30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30
  12. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
  13. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: The First of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty (Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty, 1)
  14. A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
  15. Confessions of a shopaholic ;: Shopaholic takes Manhattan ; Shopaholic ties the knot
Watched:
  1. Say Anything
  2. Gattaca (Superbit Collection)
  3. Dogville — Not worth consuming
  4. Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
  5. The Next Karate Kid
  6. Bella Mafia
  7. Hitch (Fullscreen Edition)
  8. Wimbledon (Full Screen Edition)
  9. Gattaca
  10. Shattered Glass
  11. Gia (Unrated Edition)
  12. Not Another Teen Movie
  13. Final Destination (New Line Platinum Series)
  14. Say Anything
  15. Training Day
Consumed:
  1. chocolate chip pancakes
  2. Green Tea with Lemon
  3. chicken stir fry
  4. soup in a bread bowl
  5. Chex Trail Mix
  6. Kettle Corn
  7. Fruit Snacks
  8. mocha frappuccino
  9. panda express teriyaki bowl
  10. an onion
  11. KFC Chicken Breast Strips
  12. Carls Jr. Chicken Stars
  13. chocolate pretzels
Consumed:
  1. bona fide
  2. Evelyn (Dol)

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March

Read:
  1. The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training (Princess Diaries)
  2. Where the Sidewalk Ends : Poems and Drawings
  3. The Eyre Affair — Not worth consuming
  4. Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels)
  5. The Boy Next Door
  6. Lady of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon #3)
  7. Priestess Of Avalon
  8. Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, No. 2) (Anne of Green Gables)
  9. Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables)
  10. Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, No. 3) (Anne of Green Gables)
  11. Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set, Vol. 1 (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island)
  12. The Queen's Fool : A Novel
  13. Lady Audley's Secret (Oxford World's Classics)
  14. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
  15. The Eyre Affair Bookmark
Watched:
  1. The Piano
  2. Contact
  3. Punch-Drunk Love (Two Disc Special Edition) (Superbit Collection)
  4. Bowling for Columbine
  5. The Guru
  6. Punch-Drunk Love (Single Disc Edition)
  7. The English Patient
  8. Emma
  9. Arsenic and Old Lace
  10. Contact
  11. Contact
  12. Contact
  13. Contact
  14. Punch-Drunk Love
  15. Arsenic and Old Lace
Consumed:
  1. ANNE OF AVONLEA
  2. This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do an internship
  2. graduate college on time
  3. learn to salsa dance
  4. Go apple picking and/or berry picking
  5. Get a haircut I am proud of
  6. finish reading Harry Potter series
  7. walk along a beach and hunt for sea shells
  8. take a photography class
  9. learn to knit or crochet
  10. learn to swallow a pill
  11. Watch a space shuttle launch
  12. Get rid of clothes I don't wear
  13. Make a gingerbread house
  14. own an mp3 player that holds at least 100 songs
  15. find out my blood type
Read:
  1. The Modern Girl's Guide to Life
  2. The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color) (Little House)
  3. Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition (Purple Crayon Books)
  4. The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
  5. The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
  6. The Lovely Bones: A Novel
  7. Gossip Girl #1: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl)
  8. Freak The Mighty (Scholastic Signature)
  9. Stone Soup
  10. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder)
  11. Go Ask Alice
  12. The Other Boleyn Girl
  13. The Boxcar Children
  14. Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
  15. Bridget Jones
Watched:
  1. The Fisher King
  2. Spirited Away
  3. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection
  4. Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
  5. Stage Beauty — Worth consuming!
  6. From Hell (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  7. King Arthur (PG-13 Full Screen Edition)
  8. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  9. Requiem for a Dream - Director's Cut
  10. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (Widescreen)
  11. The Hole — Worth consuming!
  12. The Polar Express (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  13. Jezebel
  14. A Time to Kill
  15. Regarding Henry

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May

Read:
  1. Fever 1793
  2. The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and a Fabulous Body
  3. The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls (American Girl Library)
  4. The Diary of Anne Frank
  5. Fever 1793
  6. Fever 1793
  7. The Expert Expat, Revised Edition: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad
  8. Fever 1793

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. take a vacation that requires a passport
Read:
  1. A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing
  2. Sloppy Firsts: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  3. The Great Gatsby
  4. Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
  5. The Great Gatsby: Complete and Unabridged (Audio Editions)
  6. The Great Gatsby -- Penguin Critical Studies Guide
  7. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
  8. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
  9. The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated
  10. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
  11. How to Decorate and Furnish Your Apartment on a Budget: From Budgeting to Shopping, Your Idea Source for Transforming Your Apartment into a Beautiful Home
  12. Enslaved
  13. A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing
  14. The Borgia Bride: A Novel
  15. The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics)
Watched:
  1. Rosemary's Baby
  2. The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  3. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
  4. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
  5. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
  6. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
  7. Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
  8. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  9. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  10. the Golden Compass
  11. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (dir. Chris Weitz)
  12. Iron Man
  13. rendition
  14. Rendition
  15. In the land of woman
Consumed:
  1. GREAT GATSBY, THE - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go on a seven day (or longer) roadtrip
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Boston
  2. Miami
  3. Mississippi River
  4. Paris
  5. London Underground
  6. Thames
  7. Tower Bridge
  8. The Tower Of London
  9. Crown Jewels
  10. Big Ben & The Houses Of Parliament
  11. Westminster Abbey
  12. Buckingham Palace
  13. Victoria and Albert Museum
  14. Harrods
  15. Oxford University
Read:
  1. Mirror Mirror: A Novel
  2. Confessions Of A Slacker Wife
  3. Daughters of Eve (Laurel Leaf Books)
  4. The Boleyn Inheritance
  5. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
  6. Wasted
  7. Suzanne Somers' 365 Ways to Change Your Life
  8. WASTED : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia [ 1st ]
  9. The Blood Confession — Worth consuming!
  10. Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of King Edward II
  11. travel journal
  12. the boleyn inheritance
  13. The Boleyn Inheritance [Audio Cd] [Unabridged] [Cd]
  14. Wasted
  15. Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Watched:
  1. Saw II (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Home Alone
  3. Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
  4. Hostel (UMD Mini for PSP)
  5. Vantage Point
  6. Mrs. Doubtfire
  7. Ice Age - The Meltdown [Blu-ray]
  8. 21
  9. 28 Weeks Later (Full-Screen Version)
  10. Hostel [Blu-ray]
  11. Get Smart
  12. Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition) [HD DVD]
  13. Prom Night (Widescreen)
  14. Hostel (Director's Cut)
  15. Hostel (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Consumed:
  1. Advil
  2. passport
  3. glasses
  4. toothbrush
  5. Mona Lisa
  6. The Kiss
  7. The Birth of Venus
  8. Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo)
  9. 2-3 pairs jeans
  10. sneakers
  11. 10 pairs underwear
  12. 10 pairs socks
  13. money belt
  14. 6-7 tshirts
  15. Visa

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August

Read:
  1. Second Helpings: A Novel
  2. The Gates of Sleep
  3. The Black Swan (Daw Book Collectors)
  4. The Truth About Stacey (THE BABYSITTERS CLUB, #3)
  5. Mary Anne Saves The Day (Baby-Sitters Club #4)
  6. "Why Won't the Landlord Take Visa?" : The Princeton Review's Crash Course to Life After Graduation
  7. 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: Because We're All in It Together
  8. Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
  9. 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: How Three Ordinary Women Battle the Bulge--and How You Can Too!
  10. Fortune's Fool (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, Book 3)
  11. I Was Told There'd Be Cake
  12. The Black Swan (Gollancz)
  13. Black Swan
  14. Three Fat Chicks on a Diet : Because We're All in It Together
  15. The Black Swan
Watched:
  1. Wives and Daughters — Worth consuming!
  2. Wit — Worth consuming!
  3. Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Boy Meets World - The Complete First Season
  5. 3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1
  6. Elizabeth R
  7. Bleak House — Worth consuming!
  8. The Work and the Glory
  9. Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman - The Complete Season One
  10. Anne Frank - The Whole Story
  11. If These Walls Could Talk
  12. Gangs of New York
  13. Into the West
  14. Homeless to Harvard - The Liz Murray Story
  15. The Wool Cap

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