No More Regretsy?!; 101 in 1001

I was tipped off by Michele over at artologica that Regretsy is closing down! While I'm bummed that there will no longer be fresh snarky commentary on awful Etsy garbage, I'm glad April Winchell is closing it because she's moving on to bigger and better things (and not because she had a health scare or got sued). Not every blog can last forever, after all. Also, I think I am in love with her:

The biggest threat to humour however, is relentless positivity; this knee-jerk response to lavish praise on anything made by hand. I guarantee that if I featured a wedding gown made out of tampons, someone would rave about how absorbent it was. 

On Etsy, everyone is as good at everything as everyone else. Nothing is special because everything is. Etsy users must say only nice things to each other, or risk being muted. You can't learn or improve if no one acknowledges that some things are less than perfect. More importantly, you can't laugh at yourself. And if you can't do that, you're screwed.

I'm sad to see her go, but I wish Ms. Winchell all the best in her life and career!

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It's Sunday, so you know what that means. Time to check up on my 101 in 1001 list!

Completed:

Since I last updated (a month ago?!), I have acquired two more nice, non-t-shirt tops. Pictures forthcoming?! (2 - 9)

I listed a whole week's worth of pieces on Etsy! I'll be sharing those periodically. (10 - 10)

I did calisthenics every morning for two weeks! (6 - 13)


In Progress:

I earned a few more grains in FreeRice. (12 - 7)


Failed:

None!

Rest of the list after the jump.





1. Self Reliance and Actualization
1. Finish 101 list (13 / 25)
2. Revise every 6 months (1 / 5) (Next one due: 1 July, 2013)
3. Post weekly updates (23 / 143)
4. Learn 500 Korean words (285 / 500)
5. Finish Talk to Me in Korean up to at least level 4 (30 / 40)
6. Read one chapter of "Doktor Glas" in Swedish.

0 / 6


2. Earthly Delights and the Root of All Evil
1. Finish Project Rae
2. Finish Project Rae-inspired bracelet
3. Make at least one new piece of jewelry every month (10 / 33)
4. Finish 3 books I've owned for over a year but haven't read yet (1 / 3)
5. Close account at Shinhan bank
6. Collect pension
7. Wire money home
8. Get jeans hemmed
9. Acquire three new "nice" tops. (3 / 3)
10. Find a replacement for my brown palazzo pants.

7 / 10

3. Local Places and Ideas
1. Go to Penn's Cave
2. Go to Secret Caverns
3. Read everything off the TIME Top 100 Novels list (64 / 100)
4. Go on a Uijeongbu photo safari
5. Go to Jeju
6. Go to Gwangju
7. Go to Atlantic City
8. Go to Suwon Fortress

4 / 8

4. Family
1. Find out Tess's maiden name
2. Email Mom-mom (4 / 12)

0 / 2


5. Entertainment and Creativity
1. Clean out music library
2. Organize music library
3. Watch the IMDB Top 100 Movies (fetched in October of 2009) (59 / 100)
4. Catch up on Community (18 / 18)
5. Finish IT Crowd (8 / 8)
6. Watch every MST3K episode (107 / 198)
7. Finish outlining screenplay
8. Write at least 45 pages of the screenplay (6 / 45)
9. Finish outlining novel
10. Write at least 25,000 words of the novel (20,000 / 25,000)
11. Participate in all available NaNoWriMos (1 / 3)
12. Watch every Star Trek TOS episode (41 / 80)
13. Watch every extant episode of the first two Doctors (26 / ?)

3 / 13

6. Health
1. Finish C25K
2. Weight train 2x a week (1 week)
3. Weight train 2x a week (2 weeks)
4. Weight train 2x a week (4 weeks)
5. Brush teeth every day (1 week)
6. Brush teeth every day (2 weeks)
7. Brush teeth every day (4 weeks)
8. Go to the dentist
9. Eat fresh produce every day (1 week)
10. Eat fresh produce every day (2 weeks)
11. Eat fresh produce every day (4 weeks)
12. Do morning calisthenics every day (1 week)
13. Do morning calisthenics every day (2 weeks)
14. Do morning calisthenics every day (4 weeks)

5 / 14

7. Relationships
1. Email Rudolfo
2. Give feedback on "Pug in a Slingshot"
3. Give feedback on "Camilla of Uijeongbu"
4. Comment on one other Mission 101 blog per week (27 / 143)
5. Give feedback on "A Picture of France Nyuen."
6. Give feedback to Kat

1 / 6

8. (Cleaning Out) Heavy Stuff
1. Private! (1 / 3)
2. FB purges (1 / 2)
3. Write my will

0 / 3

9. Broadening Horizons
1. Go to Cambodia/Philippines/Thailand (just one)
2. One non-fiction book a month (8 / 33)
3. Outline thesis argument
4. Find one good thesis source
5. One foreign movie a month (10 / 33)
6. One documentary a month (6 / 33)

0 / 6

10. Professionalism
1. Make Etsy about page
2. Get a FB page photo
3. Update FB daily 1 week
4. Update FB daily 2 weeks
5. Update FB daily 4 weeks
6. Blog 3x a week 1 week
7. Blog 3x a week 2 weeks
8. Blog 3x a week 4 weeks
9. Register a proper domain name
10. List a new item on Etsy daily 1 week
11. List a new item on Etsy daily 2 weeks
12. List a new item on Etsy daily 4 weeks
13. Get a blog header

2 / 13

11. Politicking
1. Vote in one local election (if possible)
2. Vote in one presidential election

0 / 2

12. A Helping Hand
1. Donate cast-off Korea clothing to Isaac's House.
2. Finish volunteer stint at the Great Vision school with only five or fewer absences.
3. Donate $100 in microloans
4. Donate $2 to a literacy charity for every unread book on the TIME Top 100 List
5. Donate $2 to the OLL for every unwatched movie on the IMDB Top 100 List
6. 30,000 more grains on FreeRice (30,000/30,000)
7. 70,000 grains on FreeRice (32,300 / 70,000)

3 / 7


90 / 101 written, 11 undecided.

24 / 101 finished!

3 / 101 failed!