marthasoft in 2006

2006 was 96% worth living.

In 2005, marthasoft did 3 things, went 238 places, met 3 people, and consumed 343 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. bang 43 dudes — completed about 1 year later
  2. Go on a high tea weekend road trip — completed over 2 years later
  3. Find the best Irish Breakfast spot in Seattle — completed over 2 years later
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Gateway Arch — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Albany — Worth visiting!
  2. Kansas City — Worth visiting!
  3. Stehekin — Worth visiting!
  4. Northwest Trek — Worth visiting!
  5. Hilton Head Island — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Maggie
  2. Wesley Willis
  3. itsallbehm
Read:
  1. The Millionaire Next Door — Worth consuming!
  2. Around the World in 80 Dates
  3. You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar : The Sandler Sales Institute's 7-Step System for Successful Selling — Worth consuming!
  4. The One Thing You Need To Know : ...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Elevator — Worth consuming!
  2. Z — Worth consuming!
  3. Apologies to the Queen Mary — Worth consuming!
  4. Oral Fixation vol. 2 — Worth consuming!
  5. DJ-Kicks — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Unrated Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Yellow Curry Chicken — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Go to Vancouver to watch the Canucks play
  2. Make a list of my favorite 100 Seattle restaurants
  3. Not kill a Gardenia
Consumed:
  1. Jolt Cola

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March

Read:
  1. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity — Worth consuming!
  2. Lonely Planet Namibia — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Quelqu'un M'a Dit — Worth consuming!
  2. Takk... — Worth consuming!
  3. Dimanche a Bamako — Worth consuming!
  4. Thunder, Lightning, Strike — Worth consuming!
  5. Since I Left You — Worth consuming!
  6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Worth consuming!
  7. en Directo — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Before Sunrise — Worth consuming!
  2. Crash (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Even Dwarfs Started Small — Worth consuming!
  4. Waiting — Worth consuming!
  5. Marci X — Worth consuming!
  6. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Paella — Worth consuming!
  2. Tom Yum — Worth consuming!
  3. cafe latte — Worth consuming!

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April

Watched:
  1. Mostly Martha — Worth consuming!
  2. Syriana — Worth consuming!
  3. As Tears Go By — Worth consuming!
  4. Thank You for Smoking — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Keep track of everything I consume for two months
  2. start using del.icio.us — completed 2 months later
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Go to Vancouver to watch the Canucks play
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Cinque Terre — visited 4 months later
  2. Sevilla — visited 4 months later
  3. China
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Gateway Arch — Worth visiting!
  2. Udupi Palace — Worth visiting!
  3. Shiro's — Worth visiting!
  4. Thai Tom — Worth visiting!
  5. Malay Satay Hut — Worth visiting!
  6. Phoenicia at Alki — Worth visiting!
  7. La Carta De Oaxaca — Worth visiting!
  8. Paris — Worth visiting!
  9. London — Worth visiting!
  10. Roma — Worth visiting!
  11. Vatican City — Worth visiting!
  12. Praha — Worth visiting!
  13. Copenhagen — Worth visiting!
  14. Berlin — Worth visiting!
  15. Dublin — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Listened to:
  1. Achtung Baby
  2. Dummy
  3. The Joshua Tree
  4. Ten
  5. Tidal
  6. Little Earthquakes
  7. Jagged Little Pill
  8. Ágætis Byrjun
  9. Play
  10. Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs — Worth consuming!
  11. Rid of Me
  12. First Band on the Moon
  13. Like a Prayer
  14. Tracy Chapman
  15. Debut
Watched:
  1. A River Runs Through It
  2. Dark City (New Line Platinum Series)
  3. Contact
  4. Pulp Fiction
  5. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  6. Rushmore
  7. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  8. Titanic — Not worth consuming
  9. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  10. The Matrix
  11. 10 Things I Hate About You
  12. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  13. American Beauty — Worth consuming!
  14. Boys Don't Cry
  15. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Sushi
  2. Pumpkin Pie
  3. Bubble Tea
  4. Chocolate
  5. apple pie
  6. BBQ'd Salmon
  7. Kebab
  8. Cheesecake
  9. Venison
  10. Pasta
  11. Steak
  12. Barrys Tea — Worth consuming!
  13. Cornish Pasty
  14. Lobster
  15. Thai Cuisine

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. paint my bathroom — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Cape Town — visited 7 months later
  2. Victoria Falls — visited 8 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kirirom Restaurant & Bakery — Worth visiting!
  2. Pan-Africa Cafe — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Running with Scissors: A Memoir
  2. The Alchemist — Worth consuming!
  3. The Undomestic Goddess — Worth consuming!
  4. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Disintegration — Worth consuming!
  2. The Sensual World — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Downfall — Worth consuming!
  3. Blue Collar Comedy Tour - The Movie
  4. Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!
  5. Shopgirl
  6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Blue Collar Comedy Tour - One for the Road (Full Screen Edition)
  8. An Inconvenient Truth — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Fresh fish
  2. Greek Cuisine

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Complete an Olympic Distance Triathlon in 2006 — Worth doing!
  2. start using del.icio.us — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Rock This! — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Graduate — Worth consuming!
  2. Touching the Void — Worth consuming!
  3. What Have I Done to Deserve This? — Worth consuming!
  4. White — Worth consuming!
  5. Atragon — Worth consuming!
  6. The Greatest Places (Large Format) — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. consider starting a street fashion blog
Listened to:
  1. 3121 — Worth consuming!
  2. Guapa — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Goonies — Worth consuming!
  2. Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Funny Face — Worth consuming!
  4. True Romance (Unrated Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  5. White Christmas
  6. Happenstance — Worth consuming!
  7. The Prince of Tides — Worth consuming!
  8. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby — Worth consuming!
  9. White Nights

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September

Added to 43 Places:
  1. München — visited 2 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Redmond — Not worth visiting
  2. Kirkland — Not worth visiting
  3. Queen Anne — Worth visiting!
  4. Capitol Hill — Worth visiting!
  5. Pennsylvania — Worth visiting!
  6. Pittsburgh — Worth visiting!
  7. Toledo — Worth visiting!
  8. Granada — Worth visiting!
  9. Cinque Terre — Worth visiting!
  10. Sevilla — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl — Worth consuming!
  2. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously — Worth consuming!
  3. Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement — Worth consuming!
  4. The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out
Listened to:
  1. A Camp — Worth consuming!
  2. Lunatico — Worth consuming!
  3. Sapphire — Worth consuming!
  4. Briefly Shaking — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Amelie — Worth consuming!
  2. Citizen Kane — Worth consuming!
  3. Rebel Without a Cause (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Julia Child - The French Chef — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Senseo Coffee

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October

Added to 43 Places:
  1. Victoria — visited 2 months later
  2. Olympic Game Farm — visited 6 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Portland — Worth visiting!
  2. Portland — Worth visiting!
  3. Winter Park — Worth visiting!
  4. Orcas Island — Worth visiting!
  5. Vancouver — Worth visiting!
  6. Ireland — Worth visiting!
  7. Geraldine’s Counter — Worth visiting!
  8. Orlando — Not worth visiting
  9. Chicago — Worth visiting!
  10. Las Vegas — Worth visiting!
  11. New Orleans — Worth visiting!
  12. Lopez Island — Worth visiting!
  13. Corpus Christi — Worth visiting!
  14. San Francisco — Worth visiting!
  15. Los Angeles — Not worth visiting
Listened to:
  1. Details — Worth consuming!
  2. Love in the Time of Science — Worth consuming!
  3. Free to Stay — Worth consuming!
  4. The Gulag Orkestar — Worth consuming!
  5. Strangely Beautiful — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Wonder Boys — Worth consuming!
  2. Bad Education (Original Uncut NC-17 Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Worth consuming!
  4. Run Ronnie Run! — Worth consuming!
  5. Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers — Worth consuming!
  6. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — Worth consuming!
  7. The Queen — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Japanese Cuisine
  2. Indian Cuisine
  3. Italian Cuisine
  4. Ethiopian Food
  5. Tibetan Food
  6. Vietnamese Cuisine
  7. Spanish Cuisine
  8. Russian Cuisine
  9. German Cuisine
  10. Lebanese food
  11. French Cuisine
  12. Creole Cuisine
  13. Moroccan Cuisine
  14. Brazillian food
  15. English food

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November

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. München — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work — Worth consuming!
  3. Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Family Stone (Full Screen Edition)
  2. Globe Trekker: South Africa
  3. Volver — Worth consuming!
  4. For Your Consideration — Worth consuming!

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December

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Metropolitan Museum Of Art
  2. Times Square
  3. 42nd Street
  4. World Financial Center Plaza
  5. Lower Manhattan
  6. Grand Central Terminal
  7. Rockefeller Center at Christmas
  8. Willamette Valley
  9. Las Vegas Strip
  10. Victoria — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
  2. Lonely Planet Africa on a Shoestring — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Worth consuming!
  2. Supernature — Worth consuming!
  3. Show Your Bones — Worth consuming!
  4. Dying to Say This to You — Worth consuming!
  5. Cansei de Ser Sexy — Worth consuming!
  6. Alright, Still — Worth consuming!
  7. Ta-Dah — Worth consuming!
  8. Knives Don't Have Your Back — Worth consuming!
  9. The Orphans — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) — Worth consuming!
  2. Fawlty Towers, Vol. 1 - A Touch of Class/Builders/Wedding — Worth consuming!
  3. Dark Habits — Worth consuming!
  4. Rick Steves Best of Travels in Europe - Germany, Austria & Switzerland
  5. Cache (Hidden) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Good German — Worth consuming!
  7. Festen — Worth consuming!
  8. Cruise: Northern Europe
  9. Negadon - The Monster From Mars — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Cuban Cuisine
  2. Salmon

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