Nikki’s Web Journal

101 Things to Do in 1001 Days
Start Date: April 4, 2008
End Date: December 31, 2010
Items in bold are completed

**Nurture**
Find an apartment and move
Formulate a retirement plan
Sort household goods, purge
Exercise daily for 30 days in a row
Learn full yang style tai chi
Be able to do 25 pushups
Add 50 new ingredients to my cooking repertoire
Identify and replace all processed foods in my diet with whole ingredients
Make all food at home
Fix glasses
Go to doctor
Go to dentist
Organize iPod
Get iPod dock
Update bankbook (make sure employer paid)
Get a new phone
Start a herb garden
Bring bank balance up to 50 million
Learn to make kimchi
Floss every day for 1 month
Raise income to at least 3 million/mo
Learn how to use exercise ball
Get a cat or pet?
Get up to 9 fruits/veg a day
Keep house clean
Make financiers, egg tarts and portuguese tarts
Refrain from smoking for three weeks
Cut out coffee for three weeks
Spend 15 minutes minimum on daily tasks for one month
Get rid of white dressers

Create
Learn watercolour/painting
Take calligraphy course
Fill two scrapbooks
Finish all current knitting/crochet projects
Remake clothes that I have
Get sewing machine
Make quote wallhangings—out of old magazines?
Find use for yarn tubes
Study a Korean craft: quilting, papercraft?
Arrange books in rainbow order

Connect
Look into permanent residency/relative sponsorship
Research editing/publishing/translation in Korea, including craft publishers
Join/read cafes, Naver/Daum—make five new contacts? go to 3 meetings? Join 2 editing/translation groups?
Contact all friends and family
Blog daily
Brainstorm networking list, organise business cards
Distribute Mom’s cards
Get/give all lent books back
Find knitsib
Go to knitters group meeting
Apply to at least 10 jobs
Find sponsor for craft book translations
Meet Brother Anthony

Contribute
Reduce recyclables
Save reuseable materials—reduce challenge, find alternatives for shopping
Research used/remake places in Seoul—make webpage
Start remake/knit/etc biz on Etsy
Make course outlines (own communication skills-based curriculum)
Research volunteer opportunities in Seoul
Start translation portfolio: hanbok book, recipes, knitting, literature, etc
Make notes for possible books
Look into working for Neungyule, Hallym
Post all recipes
Organize del.icio.us, post resources
Find a happy job
Take neighbourhood pix
Update Flickr
Input all books to Shelfari
Tag Ravelry faves
Copyright-proof blogs/flickr etc
Get into training
Start issues discussion group based on video lectures and podcasts
Translate one Korean short story
Translate both hanbok books

Grow
Learn basics of 12 new languages
Get fortune told
Finish Intermediate Korean
Take class with Hyewon?
Take an online course
Read 100 books
Learn to knit continental
Enter translation contest
Take a web design course?
Take an adult training course
Take an editing course
Take the KLTI translation course
Go to Jeju island
Learn guitar
Edit for Gutenberg
Volunteer/become active on Ravelry
Keep diary of daily activities, a la Grandma Kaye
Catch up on podcasts
Audit a university course?
Read a book in Korean
Go to Pusan
Go to Japan
Learn five Gaelic songs

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