the mission: to complete these 101 things in 1001 days, counting from october 6th 2016. the list is scheduled to finish on july 4th, 2019. the complete items will have a different background and the progress will be tracked on the blog as i go along.

EXPLORATIONS

1. Visit Azores: june 2018
2. Visit Morocco: april-may 2017
3. Visit India
4. Sleep on a mountain hut: tschafonhütte (22/10/2018)
5. Do a 1-month-long house swap: august 2017 (berlin+london)
6. Go on a bike ride or hike that lasts more than 1 day: 2-day high atlas hike (4-5/10/17)
7. Explore 5 new places in Portugal: castelo de vide + marvão (3/12/16), terceira island (june 2018)
8. Visit 3 new towns in Spain: el rocio (march 2017), ronda + alora + antequera + granada (june 2017), córdoba (october 2017), mérida + badajoz (june 2019)
9. Visit the greenhouse peninsula near Almeria
10. Visit the solar towers of Seville: 06/03/17
11. Plan 5 weekend getaways: aljezur (november 2016), córdoba (october 2017), porto covo (february 2018), lisbon (may 2018), sagres (may 2019)
12. Have a autocaravan holiday
13. Go to a big amusement park
14. Visit a planetarium: toronto, 11/08/2018!
15. Explore 5 new museums: 1. finnish postal museum (24/5/2017), 2. maat (24/7/2017), 3. the postal museum (23/8/2017), 4. royal philatelic society of london’s museum (24/8/17), 5. bletchley park (28/8/17)
16. Visit a lighthouse: vila real de santo antónio on 23/11/16
17. Sleep in a boat
18. Total 100km in hikes: 10km (ponta da atalaia, 27/11/16) + 9km (querença, 22/1/17) + 11.5km (caminho das amendoeiras, 28/1/17) + 5.5km (barranco das lajes, 19/2/17) + 9km caminito del rey (15/6/2017) + 20km 2-day high atlas hike (4-5/10/17) + 3.6km almarginho (21/1/18) + 7km azinhal (28/1/18) + 8km laranjeiras (4/2/18) + 5.8km mistérios negros (6/6/18) + 5.5km baías da agualva (6/6/18) + 10km senhora da graça (22/7/18)
19. Try kayaking in the lagoon a lake: lake ontario (10/08/2018)
20. Learn scuba diving
21. Go camping: wildcamping in südtirol (21/10/2018)

DO GOOD

22. Translate 2 TED talks
23. Do the first-aid course: CEPS on 10-11/1/17
24. Volunteer: planted a bunch of trees for Quercus (16/02/19)
25. Write the terminal dues page on Wikipedia
26. Transfer the bone marrow registry: confirmed on 24/10/16
27. Give blood 5 times: 19/10/16, 14/06/17, 24/11/17, 18/05/18, 20/09/18

HEALTH

28. Do 10 push-ups in a row
29. Do a whole100
30. Go to the gym 100 times in one year: #100 on december 28th!
31. Reach my goal weight
32. Re-learn how to do the flip turns in swimming
33. Deadlift my own weight
34. Improve some results from last blood tests: all around better in 2017!
35. Run 3 races (including one half-marathon): 10km H20 race in faro (4/3/17)
36. Give a sleep/nap pattern a try, see if it works for me
37. Take steps to correct the posture: external monitor (2017) + using standing desk regularly (2018)

SELF

38. Finish 2 weeks of Headspace
39. Wake up early consistently for 1 month: focusmate makes this super easy.
40. Read 10 books in German: 1. Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, 2. Rosalies schönstes Geschenk
41. Get fitted for a bra: 22/12/16 @ Dama de Copas
42. Paint my hair: black! (18/5/2017)
43. Take a new online class: mandarin chinese level 2
44. Restart the early morning study sessions: focusmate was the answer to my prayers! :D
45. Have a perfect month streak on Productive Habitica

PHOTOGRAPHY

46. Make a logo for Roll4Roll
47. Reach 100 swapped rolls of Roll4Roll
48. Do 25 swaps myself
49. Shoot 2 new rolls with the lomokino, make some gifs!
50. Find a better digital photo storage solution: external disk, backed up by google photos (2/12/17)
51. Try 5 new brands/types of film: fomapan

FOOD

52. Make kimchi
53. Make pickled lemons: finished in late 2018, but not yet tasted…
54. Try cooking 10 new fishes: sargo (16/10/16), bica (16/10/16), safia (2/11/16), serrajão (23/11/16), robalo (17/12/16), ferreira (15/1/17), estupeta* (10/2/17), salema (26/2/17), tainha de mar (22/3/17), anchova (28/6/17)
55. Find 5 local restaurants we like: o campista, noélia, nó de gosto, botega, the indian place
56. Make a mighty bowl of pho: read about it here.
57. Find 5 good recipes for the pressure cooker: levi’s boeuf bourguignon (23/10/16)
58. Cook 3 new (to me) nose-to-tail bits
59. Document + photograph all the food we eat in a week
60. Use only local shops for groceries for 2 months
61. Master a dish from every country we’ve lived in
62. Have an afternoon tea: at bletchley park (28/8/17)
63. Cook 5 new recipes with eggs: egg drop soup (7/7/17), çilbir (30/06/18), vietnamese egg soda (13/09/18), khai jiao (19/09/18)
64. Start an egg project
65. Taste 5 egg dishes in different restaurants: 2/5/17 tagine d’oeufs au khlii (rabat, morocco), 5/8/17 çibir (berlin), 24/8/17 harissa mash with egg (london), 26/8/17 black pudding with egg yolk (london), all the breakfast restaurants in toronto (august 2018)

CRAFTS

66. Do a 100 days project: sending 100 mail pieces in 100 days! (finished 9/7/17)
67. Do a pop-up card: 13/05/18
68. Craft 5 mailart pieces: hello, my name is, your body is not a temple, addis envelope
69. Do my own stationery (from the desk of?)
70. Try etegami
71. Play with cyanotype
72. Try a water brush for watercolours: in 2017
73. Do another month of letters, document it.: april 2017
74. Give a mini-workshop to friends (scratch-paint cards?)
75. Get back to sewing and make something new: wiksten tank top (22/10/16)
76. Make a weather blanket/scarf
77. Do a graffiti that only shows up when it rains
78. Do a graphic b(l)each towel
79. Organize a themed swap (postcards? tea?)
80. Do an advent calendar

BLOG

81. Have a 30-day streak on the blog: january 2019
82. Feature 5 food + 5 non-food related things from Algarve on the blog: dom rodrigo, hiking in sw algarve, festa das chouriças, a really old tree, folhado de tavira, maios, gum rock rose, salicornia, the fruit tree collection, rota do petisco
83. Reach 200 analogue wednesdays: done!
84. Feature 10 Portuguese confectioneries on the blog
85. Write a mini-itinerary for friends going to Slovenia
86. Write 5 stationery-themed posts: field notes, finnish stamps

FRIENDS AND FAMILY

87. Host a ThanksFriendsgiving dinner: november 2018
88. Organize a New Years’ get-together for friends: 2016 in Lienzingen, Germany
89. Implement the Friday Night Meatballs, do at least 20 dinners.
90. Meet more locals: vânia, the ladies in the knitting club, tiago
91. Play a “escape room” game with friends
92. Take Dani on a trip

HOME

93. Fix the garden
94. Get a hammock: ikea finally opened in algarve and i got my hammock on 1/4/2017! :D
95. Grow 5 new herbs: mint (at long last!), dill, lemongrass, ocimum minimum (aka mangerico), sage
96. Successfully grow a passionfruit vine: july 2018

POSTCROSSING

97. Reach inbox zero: 12/09/2017, at last! :D
98. Be better in my “customer support” role
99. Find a way to delegate more
100. Do more collaborations: postcards from timbuktu, sister cities of düsseldorf
101. Frame + hang the stamps in the office: decided against it, in the end.

* technically, not a new fish as it is just salted tuna bits, but counting it anyway.