List O' Books!

I'm stealing from Laurie again (who stole it from someone else)! :) I have several books I'll be adding to my 'books i want to read list'. :)

Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole (i don't know how to strike through, os i'm underlining) , put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you've never heard of...

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. +A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) SCARY!!! LOL!
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. +The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. +Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. +East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. +Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. +The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)
39. +The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. +The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. +The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. +The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. *The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth(Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Things I'm A Sucker For...

Laurie blogged about this topic, so I thought I would do the same! Fun!!

*hearing Ian & Cameron say 'hi aunt jen' with such joy in their voices!!
*cheez doodles
*john cusack
*libraries
*daisies
*hallmark commercials
*kraft sprials mac & cheese with hot dogs cut up in it (well, ANY mac & cheese)
*a baby sleeping on my chest
*baby animals
*ireland. all of it.
*little kids with glasses
*a love song duet
*a smile from a stranger
*an elderly couple holding hands
*praise & worship music at church
*flannel sheets
*marshmallow peeps
*marshmallow fluff
*my dad's jokes
*The Sound Of Music
*Grease
*BIG hoop earrings
*Sapphires
*Rainbows!!!
*sunrise/sunset
*kaleidoscopes
*flannel pj pants
*God's little 'opportunities' that are shown to me every day
*the muppet show
*my poppy's singing voice (i can still hear it in my head)
*a hug
*flume rides
*bisquick pancakes
*netflix
*lists of books
*NC State 1983 Basketball Team
*email
*Friends (my all time favorite tv show)
*movie marathons
*floral scented candles
*fuzzy socks

This list could go on and on...I suppose this is a glimpse into lots of things that make me smile...

Trader Joe's

Several months ago, Trader Joe's opened their first store in NC...and it's just a couple miles from my house. I had heard of it before, but I really didn't know anything about it. I thought it was going to be like Fresh Market and Whole Foods: specialty foods at a high price. I was so wrong. The prices are fantastic! It's not nearly as big as I expected, but they have great food and I love the prices.

Some of my favorite finds thus far are the whole wheat bagels (both the large and the small ones), goat cheese pizza, cinnamon raisin granola, mache (it's lamb's lettuce...little tiny dark greens), lemon dill marinade (yummy on fish), gnoche...well, I could keep going. hee hee.

People are coming from all over the state to visit this great grocery store. Therefore, at certains times, it's PACKED! People filling up their cart(s) with lots of items, including the "2 buck chuck" wine. It's $2.99 a bottle and is apparently quite tasty.

Anyhew, I love Trader Joe's. Everytime I go, I see something new that intrigues me.

Snow Day!!

SNOW!!!!!!! I'm so excited that it snowed today. It was beautiful when it was falling this morning, and now it looks so peaceful and pretty outside.

I've thoroughly enjoyed sitting on my couch in my flannel PJ pants watching DVR shows while working. I've actually gotten quite a bit of work done today!

I did take a little break though and built a tiny snowman. He's only 7 inches tall and I can't stop laughing at how cute and silly he looks! I placed him right outside my back door and I keep looking out there and cracking up!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!