My list of 101 things in 1001 days inspired by Patti Murphy and because I love lists.

Finish date: December 22, 2015

I figured that date out here.

    1. Come up with 101 things
    2. Visit a restaurant on Man vs. Food
    3. Participate in a Color Run
    4. See a shooting star and make a wish
    5. Print, frame and hang up some favorite photographs
    6. Ride in a hot air balloon
    7. Start a new tradition
    8. Send a card for the birthday of everyone in my family on time.
    9. Spend a week unplugged
    10. Get a new bed set
    11. Try 10 new restaurants
    12. Read at least three books a month for a year.
    13. Settle into new apartment (actually hang up paintings)
    14. Plan and host an alternative Thanksgiving food, Thanksgiving dinner
    15. Throw a dinner party
    16. Revisit Hatteras, NC
    17. Use only reusable bags while shopping
    18. Send out family photo Christmas cards
    19. Help someone else plan a wedding
    20. Find a new go-to coffee house
    21. Go to the Caribbean for a vacation
    22. Spend a summer only making food from ingredients purchased at a farmers market.
    23. Find my signature scent
    24. Revisit Paris
    25. Don’t eat out at the same place more than once in a month
    26. Organize personal and business addresses
    27. Organize family photos
    28. Get a new job
    29. Visit 3 new states in the US
    30. Visit 10 new cities
    31. Attend a cooking class or go on a culinary food tour
    32. Take a spontaneous weekend trip
    33. Establish a yoga routine
    34. Buy and make mine an antique piece of furniture
    35. Find a new place to volunteer
    36. Spend $10 on a meal and leave a $20 tip
    37. Watch the Oscar-winning Best Pictures of each of the past 20 years
    38. Inspire someone else to start a Tranquility Project (Email me if you do)
    39. Go to a DC United game at RFK stadium.
    40. Revisit Seattle
    41. Have a spa day
    42. Take Vienna for a walk around the Mystic River
    43. Ride the Carousel on the National Mall.
    44. Get a new library card and don’t lose it for at least a year.
    45. Fall in love with my new home
    46. Volunteer to feed the baby animals at the National Zoo.
    47. Get a book from The Book Thing
    48. Put together a birthday/anniversary calendar for friends and family
    49. Watch a movie outdoors
    50. Go to a performance by the NY Symphony Orchestra
    51. Enjoy my morning coffee outside
    52. Learn how to make scallops the way Stonington Seafood does
    53. Really learn how to surf
    54. Go to a film festival
    55. Host a party with a photo booth
    56. Start a buy a beach house fund and put aside money from each paycheck to the fund
    57. Go three months without buying anything but the absolute essentials.
    58. Attend a free performance on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center.
    59. Work outside of the office -once a month
    60. Paddle-boat around the Tidal Basin.
    61. Get ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s in Georgetown; then cross the street and go to Haagen-Dazs.
    62. Make a new friend
    63. Re-cut Hattaras painting
    64. Watch every Academy Awards Best Picture since the year I was born
    65. Spend an entire day in bed watching movies
    66. Eat dessert first at a restaurant
    67. Visit 5 new local wineries
    68. Learn how to get around my new hometown without getting lost
    69. Switch license, residency and car registration over to Maryland
    70. Learn how to make macaroons
    71. Give 20 “just because” gifts
    72. Revisit Martha’s Vineyard
    73. Go to a wine festival
    74. Go to a food festival
    75. Watch all the best picture nominees before the Academy Awards
    76. Find my signature cocktail
    77. Drink eight glasses of water every day for at least one week.
    78. Throw out twenty things and do not replace them.
    79. Spend a day with each of my siblings doing what they want, paid for by me.
    80. Buy coffee for the person behind me in line
    81. Eat at the Porthouse Grill
    82. Buy a teapot
    83. Go on regular walks in the rain
    84. Purchase or make a bar cart
    85. Have a picnic at the beach.
    86. Pay off my undergraduate student loans.
    87. Have an article published in a magazine, again.
    88. Visit 5 Washington, D.C. museums
    89. Share on my blog 20 of the 101 things accomplished
    90. Make 50 Recipes from cookbooks and magazines I own.
    91. Make 10 recipes from Pinterest
    92. Visit a new continent
    93. Go berry picking
    94. Go to the beach twice a month for three months
    95. Use paper lanterns at a party
    96. Go to the Kentucky Derby
    97. Do something special for each immediate family member
    98. Try three new foods
    99. This one is a *Secret
    100. Oh this one is *Secret too
    101. Put $10 in savings for each one accomplished