NinaWills in 2007

2007 was 99% worth living.

In 2005, NinaWills did 220 things, went 5 places, met 1 person, 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. Wish the fabulous Heaveemetal the most rockin' birthday ever on February 3rd!!! — completed 4 days later
  2. Throw Bella a beautful birthday party on Feb. 6th — completed 5 days later
  3. Wish Zoe a fantastic birthday on Feb. 7th! — completed 5 days later
  4. Wish bettrstill a Very Happy Birthday on Feb. 9th! — completed 8 days later
  5. Get ready for an awesome SURPRISE party on Feb 12 for Kanard with lots of chocolate and anything fun you can think of …but remember I… I mean she does not know anything about it! — completed 12 days later
  6. Throw SaraMarie a wonderful birthday party on Feb. 11th! — completed 11 days later
  7. Wish Malc a fantastic Feb. 11th birthday! — completed 11 days later
  8. Wish Kanard a Happy Feb. 12th Birthday! — completed 12 days later
  9. start saving money to afford an iPhone
  10. email my best friend weekly
  11. spend more time on my KM project and overcome my anxieties involving this endeavour — completed 4 months later
  12. Declare 1/5-1/12 favorite movie avatar week — completed 7 months later
  13. not eat rice for a whole week — completed 6 months later
  14. Wish the sweet, kind, loving, clever, ambitious, witty, book-loving, bekilted Dwlt a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on 18 Jan! — completed 6 months later
  15. watch my pennies so that the dollars will take care of themselves — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. review my life for the year 2006 — Worth doing!
  2. go to Samsons concert on 6th January 2007! — Worth doing!
  3. survive yet another system outage — Worth doing!
  4. Have 750 mp3s by the end of 2006 — Worth doing!
  5. finish my MBA — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Honey Pumpkin A Super Wonderful Birthday on January 9 !!!! — Worth doing!
  7. Wish Nocturnelle a very happy birthday (Jan 10th) — Worth doing!
  8. wish AnnieDee a Happy Birthday 1-12! — Worth doing!
  9. change my car's brake pads etc. — Worth doing!
  10. upload photos from the recent Muse gig — Worth doing!
  11. Wish GypsyGirl74 the bestest, most scrumptious, most fantastic, most bounteous birthday ever on 18th January!!!!!!!! — Worth doing!
  12. Wish TheGreatBeyond An International Birthday (Jan. 18) — Worth doing!
  13. Wish Tiddilywinks a magnificent navigational birthday on January 18th — Worth doing!
  14. have a steam bath — Worth doing!
  15. have a massage — Worth doing!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. bring back my notebook from the dead
  2. get ready for the Fall Out Boy gig on 3rd March — completed 9 days later
  3. setup my new Thinkpad — completed about 1 month later
  4. help my son revise for his exam — completed about 1 month later
  5. write that piece on "Top Ten Apps" — completed 2 months later
  6. make the most of my 5-day weekend — completed 4 months later
  7. let people know about Shane's quest — completed 5 months later
  8. buy a year's supply of books — completed 5 months later
  9. ask myself, "What am I afraid of?" and do it anyway — completed about 1 year later
  10. list down stuff that makes me happy and actually go and do them! — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish the fabulous Heaveemetal the most rockin' birthday ever on February 3rd!!! — Worth doing!
  2. Throw Bella a beautful birthday party on Feb. 6th — Worth doing!
  3. Wish Zoe a fantastic birthday on Feb. 7th! — Worth doing!
  4. Wish Douglas a belated Happy Birthday, for Feb. 6th! — Worth doing!
  5. Wish bettrstill a Very Happy Birthday on Feb. 9th! — Worth doing!
  6. Fight global warming from my desktop - www.localcooling.com Group name = 43 Things — Worth doing!
  7. Get ready for an awesome SURPRISE party on Feb 12 for Kanard with lots of chocolate and anything fun you can think of …but remember I… I mean she does not know anything about it! — Worth doing!
  8. Throw SaraMarie a wonderful birthday party on Feb. 11th! — Worth doing!
  9. Wish Malc a fantastic Feb. 11th birthday! — Worth doing!
  10. Wish Kanard a Happy Feb. 12th Birthday! — Worth doing!
  11. write more poems — Worth doing!
  12. Wish LOB a very happy birthday on Feb. 16th — Worth doing!
  13. Watch 'An Inconvenient Truth' — Worth doing!
  14. actually listen to The Shins' latest album — Worth doing!
  15. Pray for Yrush's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and upcoming surgery — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. go swimming more often
  2. bring back my notebook from the dead

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Bless The Beautiful, Lovely, Thoughtful Micheline A Wonderful 32nd Birthday on April 1st — completed about 18 hours later
  2. beat my mum at Bejeweled!
  3. make full use of my fabulous Nokia E65 — completed about 1 month later
  4. get all the songs on my thumbs-up Pandora playlist
  5. Plan an island getaway — completed 2 months later
  6. figure out if loyalty is truly over-rated — completed 2 months later
  7. Send Trauma Junkie lots of love and support for her surgery on March 2nd — completed 3 months later
  8. give away Japanese Roses as gifts
  9. recover from my sprained neck — completed 5 months later
  10. learn how to play squash — completed 5 months later
  11. never lose hope — completed 9 months later
  12. have a superfab weekend.. every weekend!
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get ready for the Fall Out Boy gig on 3rd March — Worth doing!
  2. Throw Roux a 43Things baby shower!!! — Worth doing!
  3. Wish the thesaurus-like, helpful, and optimistic ADAR a happy birthday on March 10th!!! — Worth doing!
  4. Wish NeoQSerenity a very Happy Birthday! 3-11 — Worth doing!
  5. throw my son a fun and fabulous belated birthday party — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Doris a Blessed and Prosperous Birthday March 13th — Worth doing!
  7. backup my entire music collection — Worth doing!
  8. Wish George Happy Birthday on March 20th, so he doesn't have to! — Worth doing!
  9. Wish Velonut a bright and magical birthday on March 21st — Worth doing!
  10. Give a succulent and wild, meet Oprah, give the needy food, raise my boys to be excellent men type of birthday celebration to the inspirational Christina's friend on March 25th. — Worth doing!
  11. be in a focus group — Worth doing!
  12. eat fruits at least three times weekly — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. ~**~mmm ~**~

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Wish Hermes13 a Belated but Happy Birthday (was April 13th) — completed about 10 hours later
  2. not let others' negativity affect me — completed 26 days later
  3. Send Lady of Manx happy, healthy, healing, and delicious thoughts that everything's gonna be just fine while she awaits the arrival of her little one! — completed about 1 month later
  4. stick up for my friends — completed 21 days later
  5. fit into that skinny black shirt — completed 25 days later
  6. groom Shadow to be a well-behaved and most adorable cat ever — completed 27 days later
  7. take the Spring Goal Challenge — completed about 1 month later
  8. look forward to Season 2 of Kyle XY — completed about 1 month later
  9. be wary of solutions that involve buying stuff — completed about 1 month later
  10. say this mantra, believe it and live by it.. "I am enough" — completed 2 months later
  11. Participate in a 43T Weight Loss Sprint — completed 5 months later
  12. Keep a gratitude journal for 2007
  13. control my overeating tendencies
  14. be my own muse — completed about 1 year later
  15. go away more often
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Bless The Beautiful, Lovely, Thoughtful Micheline A Wonderful 32nd Birthday on April 1st — Worth doing!
  2. lol — Worth doing!
  3. Share Your Results On This Personality Test — Worth doing!
  4. watch "Meet the Robinsons" — Worth doing!
  5. setup my new Thinkpad — Worth doing!
  6. adopt a pet kitten — Worth doing!
  7. Stop being so self-conscious — Worth doing!
  8. find out where Persey (persephoneb) went and send her lots of love — Worth doing!
  9. Read THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED — Worth doing!
  10. not give up on 43things because of the seemingly constant application errors I encounter that won't let me easily use my cheers, which are subsequently lost when I return. — Worth doing!
  11. see muse live — Worth doing!
  12. figure out WTH is wrong with my YM connection — Not worth doing
  13. help my son revise for his exam — Worth doing!
  14. wake up not feeling like someone just beat me up — Worth doing!
  15. make full use of my fabulous Nokia E65
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. beat my mum at Bejeweled!
  2. start saving money to afford an iPhone
  3. email my best friend weekly
  4. send my son to school on time each morning
  5. become a better cook for my family's sake
  6. get new speakers for my car

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. take small reasonable steps toward becoming a steward of the planet — completed about 1 month later
  2. Write to my heart's content — completed about 1 month later
  3. become a lifehacker — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. upload pics of my recent Penang trip at Flickr — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Hermes13 a Belated but Happy Birthday (was April 13th) — Worth doing!
  3. not let others' negativity affect me — Worth doing!
  4. write that piece on "Top Ten Apps" — Worth doing!
  5. catch up and process my Yahoo inbox — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Deni H a Wonderfully Fun 30th Birthday on May 10th! — Worth doing!
  7. Wish Chuq a Smoke-Free Birthday May 15th — Worth doing!
  8. Send Lady of Manx happy, healthy, healing, and delicious thoughts that everything's gonna be just fine while she awaits the arrival of her little one!
  9. chill without guilt — Worth doing!
  10. Wish RoadWarriorX a Heroic Birthday May 18th — Worth doing!
  11. Wish Adar and Catattack a long and happy life together on their wedding day! — Worth doing!
  12. Wish Raslalique a Not Depressed Birthday May 21st — Worth doing!
  13. stand up against poverty on Oct. 15 and encourage as many others as I can to also join in the campaign — Worth doing!
  14. stick up for my friends — Worth doing!
  15. fit into that skinny black shirt — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get all the songs on my thumbs-up Pandora playlist

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. catch up with gaming on PS2
  2. Wish hIPPIECHICK1955 an Aging-Gracefully Birthday July 5th — completed 4 days later
  3. Wish RuthG a Poem-Inspired Birthday July 4th — completed 11 days later
  4. not eat rice for the next two weeks
  5. be unafraid of my (crazy busy) calendar — completed 18 days later
  6. not let my family and their antics get to me too much
  7. celebrate SoCalLifer (Stephanie) very last day at work on the 16th July with lots of music, joyful flowers, good wine and great happiness! — completed 17 days later
  8. Wish Trauma_Junkie a Year-Of-Me Birthday June 13 — completed 2 months later
  9. earn a nice, hefty raise — completed about 1 month later
  10. make the most of my time with my Mum once she's back — completed 2 months later
  11. survive the next 30 days with my sanity intact — completed about 1 month later
  12. Challenge myself this summer!
  13. live my life with courage and seize life's opportunity despite fear — completed 2 months later
  14. do a 50'000 feet review of my life and where I want to go from here — completed 6 months later
  15. form and maintain a tight circle of trusted friends — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Plan an island getaway
  2. figure out if loyalty is truly over-rated — Worth doing!
  3. join my fellow 43Ters in congratulating Taly on her wedding. — Worth doing!
  4. try out Imagini — Worth doing!
  5. get (at least) 43insomniacs together to celebrate sleeplessness and the creative urge that can strike night owls — Worth doing!
  6. start a 43t group to exchange "great books" info — Worth doing!
  7. practise delayed gratification — Worth doing!
  8. List 100 things I want in life — Worth doing!
  9. review, refresh and reorganize my 43T goals — Worth doing!
  10. Send Trauma Junkie lots of love and support for her surgery on March 2nd — Worth doing!
  11. Wish NonnaCookbooker a Recipe-Filled Birthday June 18 — Worth doing!
  12. look forward to Season 2 of Kyle XY — Worth doing!
  13. Wish LordGreg a Scene-Causing Capture-The-Moment Birthday June 19 — Worth doing!
  14. wish michelleconner, who is very new to 43T, a happy birthday on June 21 — Worth doing!
  15. Wish ALEEM 2.43 a Making-The-Most-Of-His-20s Birthday June 21 — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get a Scrybe account
  2. catch up with gaming on PS2
  3. give away Japanese Roses as gifts

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. compile a list of the first album(s) of 43Ters — completed 10 days later
  2. random play all — completed about 1 month later
  3. have an awesome 50th birthday gathering for Kikigracie — completed 27 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish Stylish/In-Style a Clutter-Free Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
  2. Wish hIPPIECHICK1955 an Aging-Gracefully Birthday July 5th — Worth doing!
  3. Wish RuthG a Poem-Inspired Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
  4. make the most of my 5-day weekend — Worth doing!
  5. celebrate the elopement of Hawkmeister and his Lady Hawk by having a *small and discreet* 43T reception! — Worth doing!
  6. be unafraid of my (crazy busy) calendar
  7. celebrate SoCalLifer (Stephanie) very last day at work on the 16th July with lots of music, joyful flowers, good wine and great happiness! — Worth doing!
  8. go see more concerts or live performances — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. not eat rice for the next two weeks
  2. not let my family and their antics get to me too much

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. not burst a vein — completed 24 days later
  2. have fun during my upcoming convocation — completed 18 days later
  3. lose 2 pounds in the next 3 days
  4. help set up my Dad's O2 Atom PDA phone
  5. take up the 100 year lifestyle challenge
  6. write concisely — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. compile a list of the first album(s) of 43Ters — Worth doing!
  2. let people know about Shane's quest — Worth doing!
  3. Bless Colleen With a Super Healthy Birthday on July 28th — Worth doing!
  4. Declare 12/12 - 12/19 videogame avatar week — Worth doing!
  5. always remember that I can choose, that I am not a victim — Worth doing!
  6. Get my groove back — Worth doing!
  7. text my Mum more often — Worth doing!
  8. Declare 1/5-1/12 favorite movie avatar week — Worth doing!
  9. kickstart 2007 stupendously! — Worth doing!
  10. not eat rice for a whole week — Worth doing!
  11. Wish the sweet, kind, loving, clever, ambitious, witty, book-loving, bekilted Dwlt a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on 18 Jan! — Worth doing!
  12. watch my pennies so that the dollars will take care of themselves — Worth doing!
  13. improve my relationship with a certain someone — Worth doing!
  14. record my expenses for one month — Worth doing!
  15. give in to sleep..willingly — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. sleep before midnight for the next 7 days
  2. find out constructive ways to channel my angst

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Take studio photos of me in my graduation robe
  2. start saving again — completed about 1 month later
  3. Upload garden pics — completed about 1 month later
  4. practise Character First — completed 3 months later
  5. remain in my equilibrium — completed 4 months later
  6. find satisfaction in the stuff I got done instead of fretting over stuff still pending — completed 7 months later
  7. own fabulous shoes
  8. make time for me
  9. Respect and take better care of my body
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. live my life with courage and seize life's opportunity despite fear — Worth doing!
  2. not burst a vein — Worth doing!
  3. try out last.fm — Worth doing!
  4. Wish BlueWhale a Spiritual High Birthday Sept. 5th — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Pajodama4 a Quality Birthday September 13th — Worth doing!
  6. Celebrate Pajodama's September 13th birthday with lots of HOOPLA so she knows that we didn't forget it! — Worth doing!
  7. Wish Calypte a Happy Birthday (9/17) — Worth doing!
  8. have fun during my upcoming convocation — Worth doing!
  9. wish Todd Schoonover a happy healthy and full of love birthday on September 15th — Worth doing!
  10. watch Weeds (Season 1 & 2) — Worth doing!
  11. not go crazy over-eating and stop when I've had enough — Worth doing!
  12. read a chapter daily (of whatever I'm currently reading) — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Challenge myself this summer!
  2. lose 2 pounds in the next 3 days
  3. Take studio photos of me in my graduation robe

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Thank Todd for the supercheer! — completed 5 days later
  2. Wish Bookish "happy birthday" on Oct 31, 2007 and wish,wish,wish her birthday hex away (meanwhile) — completed 5 days later
  3. have a memorable 33rd birthday — completed 11 days later
  4. eat as much Haagen Dazs ice-cream possible — completed 2 months later
  5. catch My Chemical Romance live — completed about 1 month later
  6. never let my job define who I am
  7. stop swearing
  8. get me a... — completed 8 months later
  9. get into In Rainbows by Radiohead — completed 9 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop worrying so much about finding love — Not worth doing
  2. start saving again — Worth doing!
  3. Participate in a 43T Weight Loss Sprint — Worth doing!
  4. Upload garden pics — Worth doing!
  5. get my cat out of the tree — Worth doing!
  6. make peace with my weekend insomnia — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. help set up my Dad's O2 Atom PDA phone
  2. take up the 100 year lifestyle challenge
  3. Keep a gratitude journal for 2007
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Barcelona — Worth visiting!
  2. Kuala Lumpur — Worth visiting!
  3. Casablanca — Worth visiting!
  4. Edinburgh Castle — Worth visiting!
  5. Edinburgh — Worth visiting!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. call the Bookstore guy just to wind up E! — completed 18 days later
  2. not spend lavishly until my next paycheck — completed 29 days later
  3. rearrange my son's bedroom — completed about 1 month later
  4. Spend a whole day at a spa to get pampered sometime before 2007 ends as a gift to myself. — completed about 1 month later
  5. end 2007 on a high note! — completed about 1 month later
  6. Capture my thoughts at the end of the day — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Thank Todd for the supercheer! — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Bookish "happy birthday" on Oct 31, 2007 and wish,wish,wish her birthday hex away (meanwhile) — Worth doing!
  3. help ROUX! by raising incremental donations from everyone so she has a safe, comforted feeling throughout her pregnancy! — Worth doing!
  4. have a memorable 33rd birthday
  5. do the KL Terry Fox Run 2007
  6. mark my 2nd anniversary on 43Things on Nov 10
  7. Wish Flirt! an Eye-Winking Birthday on Eleven-Eleven!
  8. watch the movie Stardust
  9. Wish Maggie the Cat a *where it's at" birthday on November 19th! — Worth doing!
  10. read The Stranger by Albert Camus — Worth doing!
  11. shake off this jinxy feeling — Worth doing!
  12. go to the dentist for my long overdue dental checkup — Worth doing!
  13. wish the loveliest, most brilliant online and real world friend one could hope to have, JudithKD a Happy Birthday Nov. 25th, 2007 — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. refrain from using my credit card for a whole month
  2. bake the best choc chip cookie ever!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. wake up and work out first thing in the morning for a week
  2. try out ice-skating with my son
  3. help a certain someone get through a major transition at work — completed 24 days later
  4. Get a cheaper car — completed 25 days later
  5. catch The Police live in concert
  6. write a blog entry to wrap up 2007 — completed 2 months later
  7. set up the scanner and connect it to my home PC — completed 2 months later
  8. learn speed reading
  9. collect shirts of my favourite bands & artists
  10. hold my tongue, bit my lip and have patience — completed 6 months later
  11. save more so that I can invest more — completed 6 months later
  12. develop and maintain clarity
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. call the Bookstore guy just to wind up E! — Worth doing!
  2. eat as much Haagen Dazs ice-cream possible — Worth doing!
  3. become a lifehacker
  4. catch My Chemical Romance live — Worth doing!
  5. take my parents to IKEA — Worth doing!
  6. not spend lavishly until my next paycheck
  7. simplify and declutter my wardrobe — Worth doing!
  8. do a 50'000 feet review of my life and where I want to go from here — Worth doing!
  9. write concisely — Worth doing!
  10. move back into my own bedroom — Worth doing!
  11. rearrange my son's bedroom — Worth doing!
  12. practise Character First — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. never let my job define who I am

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