Mayol in 2008

2008, so far, is 86% worth living.

In 2005, Mayol did 745 things, went 140 places, met 259 people, and consumed 1831 products.

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

July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. travel by plane
  2. see atleast one thing that is "the world's largest"
  3. take a risk
  4. travel to a foreign country
  5. Eat something that looks weird
  6. Register to vote & actually vote
  7. Learn to be independent
  8. Sneak into a club
  9. graduate from college with honors
  10. make new friends and be a better friend to those who put up with me
  11. Backpack in Europe
  12. understand what religion means to me
  13. go to church more
  14. Pay off all my debts and be able to say 'I am debt free!'
  15. overcome my fear of heights
  16. be more honest (with myself and others)
  17. act on ambition
  18. call my friends just to tell them hi
  19. stop biting my nails
  20. be grateful
  21. speak my mind more
  22. skip a day of school
  23. make conversation with strangers
  24. learn how to do the laundry
  25. spend a summer on the beach
  26. go to prom
  27. pull a prank
  28. contemplate a tattoo
  29. read the classics
  30. join a team sport
  31. clean your room and keep it clean for a week
  32. see something that is the world's largest
  33. ride my bike to school
  34. Make a painting using your hand and feet
  35. Have your face painted
  36. pick strawberries
  37. Recognise five different bird species
  38. Find some worms
  39. Ride a bike through a muddy puddle
  40. Make and fly a kite
  41. Make breakfast in bed for your parents
  42. see a big sport
  43. go back to school
  44. Read "Anna Karenina" and Explore Tolstoy's Moscow
  45. drop your cellphone in a toilet
  46. be there for someone when others let them down
  47. go down a slip n' slide when you are over the age of 12 AND still have regular clothes on
  48. visit 50 museums
  49. go to an observatory or a planetarium
  50. go to a waterpark and slide down the highest slide
  51. take a long train ride
  52. go to the top of a lighthouse
  53. learn to do the bridge while shuffling cards
  54. tour a castle
  55. have a meaningful conversation with a total stranger
  56. Take vitamins daily
  57. Live abroad at least for 3 months
  58. learn to ski
  59. Enter a short story competition
  60. beat my friends at bowling
  61. Do something that terrifies me
  62. beat Brooke at badminton
  63. find a perfume I love
  64. spend a month without television
  65. spend some time in London
  66. live by myself
  67. Picasso's Museum in Barcelona
  68. Visit Holland in the Spring
  69. see Anne Frank's annex
  70. visit the red light district in amsterdam
  71. spend a whole night watching black and white movies
  72. Eat fondue in Switzerland
  73. Go to a Turkish Bath
  74. Go to Madame Tussauds Wax museum
  75. finish reading a novel in a day
  76. photograph the rive Thames
  77. Hike up the geometric staircase at a St. Paul's Cathedral tour.
  78. Visit St. Paul's Cathedral
  79. Go to a soccer game in Europe along side some soccer hooligans
  80. eat fresh sushi
  81. eat more hummus
  82. learn how to make sweet tea
  83. eat a really good sandwhich
  84. eat Kebab
  85. Have a picnic with an actual picnic blanket and hamper
  86. Recover from something
  87. take a foreign langauge class
  88. Learn to play poker and have a groovy poker night
  89. stroll in the rain
  90. drink a martini
  91. pay off debt and live debt free!
  92. Stop saying "Yes" when I really want to say "No"
  93. travel overnight on a sleeper train
  94. Ride a train
  95. eat really good ribs
  96. be in someone's wedding other than my own
  97. collect sea shells on the beach
  98. eat fried chicken
  99. Win a chess game
  100. spend a Saturday morning watching cartoons
  101. take the IQ test
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Duccio Di Buoninsegna - Rucellai Madonna
  2. Giotto - Presentation Of The Virgin At The Temple
  3. Giotto - The Meeting At The Golden Gate
  4. Giotto - Noli Me Tangere (The Resurrection Of Jesus)
  5. Giotto - The Betrayal Of Christ
  6. Ambrogio Lorenzetti - Miracles Of St. Nicholas
  7. Pietro Lorenzetti - Beata Umiltà Altarpiece
  8. Giusto De'Menabuoi - Annunciation
  9. Het Lam Gods
  10. Bernardo Martorell - The Decapitation Of St. George
  11. Paolo Uccello - The Battle Of San Romano: Bernadino Della Ciarda Unhorsed
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Hunter Stockton Thompson
  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. Rainer Maria Rilke
  4. Sylvia Plath
  5. Elias Canetti
  6. henry miller
  7. Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  8. George Orwell
  9. Aleksandr Pushkin
  10. Juan Ramón Jiménez
  11. François Mauriac
  12. John le Carré
  13. Donald Barthelme
  14. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  15. graham Greene
  16. Andre Breton
  17. Oliver Goldsmith
  18. Astrid Lindgren
  19. Fernando De Rojas
  20. Heinrich von Kleist
  21. E.T.A. Hoffmann
  22. Joseph von Eichendorff
  23. George Sand
  24. Charlotte Brontë
  25. Emily Brontë
  26. Gottfried Keller
  27. Juan Valera
  28. José Hernandez
  29. Clarin Leopoldo Alas
  30. Mariano Azuela
  31. Carmen Laforet
  32. Juan Rulfo
  33. Juan Carlos Onetti
  34. Alfredo Bryce Echenique
  35. Carmen Martin Gaite
Read:
  1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit)
  2. Quo Vadis
  3. Effi Briest (Penguin Classics)
  4. The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
  5. At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition (Modern Library Classics)
  6. The Fall of the House of Usher
  7. A Doll's House and Other Plays
  8. Père Goriot (Oxford World's Classics Series)
  9. Père Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
  10. Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed) — Not worth consuming
  11. The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics)
  12. The Prophet
  13. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
  14. Othello (Oxford World's Classics)
  15. A Woman's Life
  16. Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)
  17. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (New York Review Books Classics)
  18. Sons and Lovers: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Twentieth-Century Classics)
  19. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) — Worth consuming!
  20. La Bete Humaine
  21. The Complete Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
  22. The Hobbit
  23. LA Celestina
  24. The Tin Drum (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
  25. From Russia with Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
  26. Platero y yo / Platero and I
  27. Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
  28. The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I (Unabridged)
  29. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
  30. THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka (Hardcover Definitive Edition)
  31. Martin Fierro
  32. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
  33. Things Fall Apart
  34. Don Quixote: Unabridged Edition (Signet Classics)
  35. Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Puffin Classics)
  36. The Thirty-Nine Steps
  37. Amadis De Gaula - Amadis of Gaul Three Volume Set
  38. The Devil's Pool
  39. Pepita Jimenez
  40. La Regenta
  41. The Secret Agent (Conrad Studies)
Watched:
  1. Diabolique - Criterion Collection
  2. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  3. Goldeneye (Special Edition)
  4. Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  5. Open Water (Widescreen Edition)
  6. Breaking the Waves
  7. What's New Pussycat
  8. Scaramouche
  9. Boiling Point
  10. Little Buddha
  11. Once Upon a Time in China Part 2
  12. New York, New York
  13. Airport (Full Screen Edition)
  14. Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
  15. Nightwatch
  16. The Thin Man (Keepcase)
  17. Truly Madly Deeply
  18. Missing
  19. Grand Hotel (Snap case)
  20. The Russia House
  21. Darling Lili
  22. Judgment Night
  23. Set It Off
  24. Dodes'ka-Den
  25. The Company
  26. Not Another Teen Movie (Unrated Director's Cut)
  27. Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
  28. The Hot Rock
  29. Scandal
  30. Subway
  31. Europa / Zentropa
  32. Sirens
  33. Body Snatchers
  34. Home Alone
  35. Great Race (Sub)
  36. Coup de Torchon - Criterion Collection
  37. Silverado
  38. Evil Under the Sun
  39. Brigadoon
  40. F/X
  41. The Thomas Crown Affair - New Transfer
  42. The Indian Runner
  43. Con Air (Unrated Extended Edition)
  44. The Hills Have Eyes
  45. The Land Before Time (Anniversary Edition)
  46. A Woman Under the Influence - Criterion Collection
  47. Mousehunt
  48. Internal Affairs
  49. Best Seller
  50. Big Trouble (2002)
  51. Hatari!
  52. Therese Raquin
  53. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Special Collector's Edition)
  54. Carry on Abroad
  55. The Decameron
  56. Under Fire
  57. A Boy Named Charlie Brown
  58. My Neighbours the Yamadas (Hohokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun)
  59. Sissi
  60. Black Hawk Down (Unrated Extended Cut)
  61. The Lord of the rings
  62. Switch
  63. Mogambo
  64. Cruising
  65. L.A. Story (15th Anniversary Edition)
  66. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (2-discs with Full Screen enhanced and original theatrical versions)
  67. Private Resort
  68. Unforgiven [HD DVD]
  69. Hudson Hawk (15th Anniversary Edition)
  70. Snow-White (Betty Boop Short, 1933)
  71. Lethal Weapon [HD DVD]
  72. Zabriskie Point - (Russian Import - PAL DVD)
  73. First Blood [Blu-Ray]
  74. Porky's (Widescreen Special Edition)
  75. Forbidden Planet [HD DVD]
  76. Asterix and Cleopatra
  77. Dune (1984) [HD DVD]
  78. Niagara
  79. Unforgiven (Blu-Ray)
  80. The Great Train Robbery
  81. Superman - The Movie [Blu-ray]
  82. Last Unicorn (1982) (Ws Aniv Sub Dol Chk Sen)
  83. Faces (1968)
  84. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
  85. Shanghai Blues (Shanghai zhi ye) (1984)
  86. Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
  87. Ghost (Special Collector's Edition)
  88. Bogeyman (by Aravindan)
  89. Goldeneye (Widescreen Edition)
  90. Payback - The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition)
  91. Reservoir Dogs [Blu-Ray]
  92. An Officer and a Gentleman (Special Collector's Edition)
  93. To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
  94. What? (Che?) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
  95. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
  96. Big
  97. Fight Club - Collector's Edition Steelbook
  98. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Two Disc - Special Widescreen Edition)
  99. Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful of Dynamite) (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
  100. Enter the Dragon [Blu-ray]
  101. Back to the Future Part II
Consumed:
  1. Newcastle Brown Ale
  2. Newcastle Brown Ale
  3. Löwenbräu Premium Pils
  4. Oranjeboom (Netherlands)
  5. Newcastle Brown (UK)
Consumed:
  1. eBay
  2. http://www.myspace.com
  3. http://www.listsofbests.com
  4. http://www.43things.com
  5. http://www.amazon.com
  6. http://www.youtube.com/
  7. bed
  8. http://www.thefacebook.com
  9. WarGames
  10. Breathless (1983)
  11. Vanya on 42nd Street
  12. dorm room

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