Benji in 2008
2008, so far, is 98% worth living.
In 2005, Benji
did 101 things,
went 4 places,
met 10 people, and
consumed 8 products.
January
Completed on 43 Things:
- have Josh round for New years Eve eve — Worth doing!
- Wish Sanev/Cookie a Salad Cream Birthday November 30th — Worth doing!
- Celebrate the elopement of lovely Loquaciouslass and her Fishboy! — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Cardiff Castle — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Book of Illusions: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian — Worth consuming!
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February
Completed on 43 Things:
- Tell the world how wonderfully, crudely, rudely funny The amateur transplants are, and get everyone to buy the CD (which is for Macmillan cancer relief) — Worth doing!
- commiserate Cookie on his team loosing with NO points to South Africa... ;) — Worth doing!
- Write a letter of recommendation for Cherade — Worth doing!
- Pout till Speedy comes home. — Worth doing!
- less think, more do
- eat worms — Worth doing!
- freeze more foods — Worth doing!
- not have chicken pox
- Help someone very very important to me to find their happy place again, if they will let me. — Worth doing!
- Laugh now if I will look back on it and laugh — Worth doing!
- what would Bill do? — Worth doing!
- give up smoking as of today, 2nd of October 2006 — Worth doing!
- Get other 43T'ers to admit their most favorite guilty pleasures — Worth doing!
- be evil appropriately — Not worth doing
- Do all the beauracracy stuff quickly. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
- meet Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- deal with bereavement.
- make it to work on time just once this week
- Enjoy every minute of this life
- Try a beer float
- Throw hippy from the train
- Watch Wales play at the Millenium Stadium
- Buy myself the Lola Rose pendant I have wanted for a year.
- Quit Smoking
- Educate the 43t world on the current affairs of Wales.
- post poetry that I love
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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March
Added to 43 Things:
- mourn the deletion of Marmotry :( — completed 3 months later
- Strive always to be truthful and encourage honesty from others in my life by helping them to understand that the truth is the only way forward, hopefully encouraging those whose paths cross with mine to believe that the truth really does set you free...
Completed on 43 Things:
- celebrate St.David's day — Worth doing!
- have nicely pedicured feet — Worth doing!
- be tolerant of annoying people — Not worth doing
- Declare Wednesday 28th June "Post in Rhyme" day — Worth doing!
- Bring my disputes, allegations and other legal matters to the pretend 43court — Worth doing!
- post stories from Wales that make me smile — Worth doing!
- Document random acts of Lust — Worth doing!
- Help a 43er in trouble...feel free to join me — Worth doing!
- wear a vapid and rather vacant ‘I’m just here paying for petrol’ face, when things bother me — Worth doing!
- Give my 4000th cheer to Manda — Worth doing!
- ask a Maryqueen — Worth doing!
- celebrate the man who goes by the name of Cyrano, one of the coolest beans on 43 things! — Worth doing!
- waste time chasing cars around my head — Worth doing!
- throw BluePlasticStraw a smashing birthday love-in — Worth doing!
- Give 4500 Cheers — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
- Ressurect Dumbledore.
- 43T Book club, feel free to join.
- Compile my list of people that need to be punched in the face, then start checking it off, completing as many as I can before I get arrested
- identify 100 things that make me happy.
- Live absolutely,passionately and make every great moment count
- keep geese
- start and then finish my dissertation within a reasonable time.
Read:
- The Poet — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Pursuit of Happyness — Worth consuming!
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- wish Girl in the Curl a rockin' birthday on April 22! — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- play strip poker — Worth doing!
- learn Poker — Worth doing!
- actually catch up with Cherade now I have a week of annual leave! Hey you? You reading this?? — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
Watched:
- 21 — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- poker — Worth consuming!
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May
Added to 43 Things:
- Wish Benji a wild and witty Welsh birthday on May 10th! — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
- be seduced — Worth doing!
- make a fresh start — Worth doing!
- Stop being so bloody mardy and remember that I really do love life even though 40% of the time I am finding it really hard to deal with. — Worth doing!
- Eat at The hardwick — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Caerleon
- Hay-on-Wye — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Wyrd Sisters — Worth consuming!
- Reaper Man (Discworld) — Worth consuming!
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June
Completed on 43 Things:
- Try not to let growing up ruin my perspective on life. — Worth doing!
- Work on my Secret Goal — Worth doing!
- Discuss and define freedom to the best of my abilities with the help of some friends — Worth doing!
- make my son proud — Worth doing!
- Stop caring what other people think of me — Worth doing!
- resist the negatives, embrace the positives — Worth doing!
- Wish Benji a wild and witty Welsh birthday on May 10th! — Worth doing!
- wish Girl in the Curl a rockin' birthday on April 22! — Worth doing!
- Wake up and everything will just be ok. — Worth doing!
- mourn the deletion of Marmotry :( — Worth doing!
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July
Completed on 43 Things:
- Finish my essays — Worth doing!
- Laugh in the face of adversity, Hey you adversity? Ha ha ha! — Worth doing!
- have minions — Worth doing!
- Go to bed — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
