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I love making lists

Anyone that knows me knows that I am very good at making lists. I may not always cross everything off that list, but it's made just the same. A few other weird interests of mine include organizing and color coding. Just kidding...but seriously.

For lack of things to write about, I am going to share a few random lists. Look out!

List of things I wanted to accomplish in the year 2007 ( I found this in a journal)

• go on a trip by myself (check!)
  
• get my ears pierced again (nope!)
  
• run a 1/2 marathon (on this year's list...)
  
• bike to class (check!)
  
• learn how to play a new sport (eh. sorta)
  
• wear my high school jeans again (depends on the day, but check)

Top 5 best concerts I have ever been to

• Buffett, Cincinnati July 08
• Buffett, Atlanta June 08
• James Taylor, Atlanta May 08
• Michael Franti, Louisville Nov 08
• tie between Tom Petty and G. Love and Special Sauce, both Bonnaroo June 06
  

Top 5 favorite books

• The Great Gatsby
• The Westing Game (read this in middle school, but I still love it)
• Gone with the Wind
• Redeeming Love
• Angels and Demons

Top 5 best running songs

• New York Groove, Ace Frehley
  
• Thunderstruck, AC/DC
• Best of You, Foo Fighters
• Brother Lee, Citizen Cope
• Beating Heart Baby, Head Automatica

Top 5 favorite places in Knoxville

• by the river Sequoyah Park, or just walking the Boulevard
• Tomato Head
• McKays
• Holston Hills CC pool, good times from 2002-2006
• my granddad's field, mainly running through it as a kid...and dodging the cows

Top 5 favorite smells

• Irish spring soap, it reminds me of granny and pop-pop's house
• Cherry almond lotion, reminds me of grandma
• just-mowed grass
• burning leaves, or just bonfires in general
• pine needles, reminds me of Hilton Head Island

Top 5 (ok 6) favorite quotes from Gilmore Girls

• Hey, why don't you go check that frying oil with your face.
• I'm not feeling so well, I think my leg is haunted.
• Oy with the poodles already!
• Yeah, as obvious as a man wearing sunglasses with a dog selling pencils...
  
• Don't wait up and remember only 2 or 3 crack heads at the most, they eat all the good cereal.
• Hello, headmaster Charleston, this is my stepdad, Kirk. Try not to make any sudden movements, he's a fear biter!

peace love and books

One of my favorite things to do is readreadread! I think I developed this after 20 years of not having more than say, 10 TV channels.

I am also a nerd in the fact that I keep up with the books I have read! So here are the books I read in the year 2008! Who can believe it's already over!?

The Broker (my favorite of all the Grisham I have read)
Bleachers
The Rainmaker
The Firm
-all by John Grisham (one of my FAVORITES!)

Vanishing Acts
Plain Truth
Salem Falls
Keeping Faith (to date-the only one I have NOT liked of hers)
The Pact
-all by Jodie Picoult (my FAVORITE!!)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (LOVE IT)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 3 (my favorite of the 4)
Forever in Blue (meh)
Valley of the Dolls (really risque for a 60s book)
Pirate Looks at 50 ( I.Love.Jimmy)
The Reading Group (cutesy)
Alphabet Weekends (okay)
Into the Wild (better than the movie, like all book-movies)
My Answer is NO! (totally a self-help book)
The Art of Keeping Secrets
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Dark side of Camelot
The Fair Tax Book

re-read...
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (my favorite Potter book)
Redeeming Love (beautiful story)
The Westing Game (my favorite book in middle school, which I found at McKays)

working on...(I read like 4 books at a time, so that when one ends, I pick right back up!)
Conservatize Me (hilarious)
The Alchemist (excited about the ending!)
In a Sunburned Country

happy reading! and HAPPY 2009!!!