Completed
In Progress


Artistic:
1. Take at least 5 photographs every day. They don't have to be masterpieces, but they need to be of something.
2. Finish my websites, both personal and professional. Ren is helping with this doing most of this for me. Once finished, maintain them.
3. Update website at least twice a month for 6 months.
4. Officially freelance for at least one publication, either physical or online.
5. Produce another photo book on a subject, this time in a publishable form.
6. Relearn to shoot both medium format and large format.
7. Maintain Korea blog while in Jindo.
8. Properly tag all my flickr photos. o_0;


Health:
1. Get back down to 115lbs for at least 6 months.
2. Eat *real* servings of vegetables at least 3 times a week, preferably 4 or more, for a month. Then two months.
3. Cook at least 4 nights a week.
4. Eat less ice cream, more popsicles.
5. Get an IUD.
6. Take my meds on-time every day for 3 weeks.
7. Become a *solid* size 6.
8. Get my cavities filled.
9. Brush my teeth every night for a month. (hopefully this will get me back into the swing of it - traveling made me begin to be lax about it)


Exercise:
1. Be able to do 15 chin-ups.
2. Be able to jog/run a quarter mile *not* on a treadmill, and without stopping. *eyes Marc and Tom*
3. Start fencing again.
4. Start up aikido again, or start taking hapkido while in Korea.
5. Take riding lessons again, for 6 months.
6. Do 50 sit-ups a day for a month.
7. Learn to ski.
8. Hike at least one mountain in Korea.


Travel:
1. Visit at least 2 of the following: Mongolia, Thailand, Morocco, Croatia, Russia, New Zealand
2. Return to Switzerland or France for at least a month.
3. Visit the DMZ.
4. Visit several major WWI/WWII sites in Europe. (This is related to the one below.)
5. Begin project to photograph Papa's photo locations from WWII in present day, to be turned into a book at a later date.
6. Travel for two weeks or more with someone. It does not have to be international.
7. Go on a road trip with Abby.
8. Go on a road trip with Marc. Reenactments don't count.
9. Go to France with Marc.
10. Go to Seoul.
11. Take the Trans-Siberian Railway.
12. Visit North Korea.


Social:
1. Have my own apartment again (or shared with an SO). Korea doesn't really count.
2. Join a club/organization that requires social interaction at least twice a month.
3. Have a movie marathon with friends.
4. Go out for drinks with people at least once a week.
5. Strike up a conversation with a complete stranger once a week. Does not apply in Korea.
6. Send thank you notes to everyone I stayed with this past year.


Reenacting:
1. Round out Red Army medic impression with medical supplies, proper documents, etc.
2. Help Shaun make me a pair of leather stays.
3. Sew chemise (campfollwer).
4. Sew new, wool petticoat (campfollwer).
5. Sew jacket (campfollwer).
6. Sew cap (campfollwer).
7. Sew frock coat (Marc will have to help on this one).
8. Sew wool waistcoat.
9. Learn to use my Speedgrafix camera.
10. Get Korean War correspondent impression up to snuff: find civilian sweater and shirt.
11. Find WWII American unit to join as a correspondent or start own.
12. Get better at using my Rolleiflex camera.
13. Save up at least half the money to buy an 18th century jäger rifle. Full cost is around $1200. Alternatively, buy a kit and assemble it.
14. Finish linen petticoat (campfollower).
15. Sew wool breeches.
16. Learn some basic, basic Russian for my Soviet impression.
17. Embroider a waistcoat for Marc.
18. Sew wool apron (campfollower).


Misc:
1. Regain reasonable fluency in French.
2. Go skydiving. Preferably, learn to skydive.
3. Drive cross-country.
4. Get pilot's license.
5. Be able to hold a simple conversation in German/Swiss German.
6. Get new, accurate driver's license. This one is related to the below.
7. Re-obtain residence in a US state.
8. Be able to put an entire magazine of rounds in a 6 inch area at 25 yards with my Springfield.
9. Be able to put an entire magazine of rounds in a 6 inch area at 50 yards with my Springfield.
10. Go dogsledding.
11. Get at least one of my two tattoo ideas.
12. Read the news every day for a month.
13. Clean out closet at my family home completely. Put unneeded things in the attic.
14. Go to the beach on Jindo at least once a week for a month.
15. Be able to hold a simple conversation in Korean.
16. Write to my French penpals on a regular basis.
17. Purchase a gun of my own. Get good with it.


Financial:
1. Pay off my credit card.
2. Buy a car that won't kill me in a fender bender.
3. Save up for a used Ural Patrol (Russian copy of the German motorcycles with side cars you see in WWII movies). Should be about $5k.
4. Begin to section off money for reenacting and other hobbies so that I have a distinct budget for them.
5. Keep decent track of my money.


Professional:
1. Do research on freelancing.
2. Begin to research jobs with travel magazine companies.
3. Start selling prints.
4. Produce a publishable book.
5. Get published (in either a physical newspaper or online).
6. Get a "real" job.


Personal Growth:
1. Read 20 books. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
2. Keep clothes completely off the floor for 2 weeks. Bonus points for a month.
3. Grow some sort of vegetable. I have a very green thumb, I should use it.
4. Get rid of 101 belongings.
5. Clean my living space regularly. This includes the bathroom.
6. Do my laundry once a week for two months.
7. Do the dishes every day for a month.
8. Stay with Marc.


The four qualities:

Integrity/Honesty: Don't lie (even white ones) for two days. This is harder for me than it sounds.
Patience: Make it through an entire year in Korea.
Simplicity: Don't buy anything I don't *need* for a month. Really think about the concept of "need".
Charity: Set aside a certain amount of money per month to donate to an animal shelter OR volunteer at one once a month for a year.


Bonus (optional):
1. Sail on a tallship again.
2. Visit South Africa. Contact Afrikaner guy?
3. Visit any of the following: Turkey, Peru, Nepal/Tibet, New Zealand
4. Get down to 110lbs.
5. Put together Don Cossacks impression.