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DeSoto State Park, AL
July 2007
cross country trip
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Top 100 Chick Lit Books
In addition to my yearly NY Times List I am also working in the best Chick Lit books....I know, I know...cheesy. However, they are the best books to read after a hard day at work. You know the ones, where you can turn your brain off and just read mush!
So here is the list. Again the bolded ones are the ones I've read (I'm re-reading ones that I know I've read before, but just can't remember them!)
1. Bridget Jones's Diary
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic
3. Something Borrowed
4. The Devil Wears Prada
5. Watermelon
6. P.S. I love you
7. The Nanny Diaries
8. Good in Bed
9. Jemima J
10. Rachel's Holiday
11. Where Rainbows End
12. Sex and the City
13. Twenties Girl
14. Forget about it
15. Miranda's Big Mistake
16. Bitter is the New Black
18. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
19. I don't know how she does it
20. The Friday night Knitting Club
21. Little Earthquakes
22. Anybody out there
23. Something blue
24. Never Say never
25. Queen of Babble
26. See Jane Date
27. Carrie Pilby
28. Bergdorf Blondes
29. Straight Talking
30. Frenemies
31. The Go to Girl
32. Accidental IT Girl
33. Single White Email
34. Can you Keep a Secret?
35. Getting ride of Matthew
36. THe Fidelity Files
37. The edge of Reason
38. The Starter Wife
39. Good Grief
40. Divas Las Vegas
41. The Other Woman
42. In her shoes
43. Motherland
44. The Girls Guide to hunting and fishing
45. This Charming Man
46. Woman to Woman
47. The Baby Trail
48. Tales of a Drama Queen
49. Young Wives Tales
50. Hissy Fit
51. Waiting to Exhale
52. The Ivy Chronicles
53. The Thin Pink Line
54. Angel
55. Holly's Inbox
56. Thanks For Nothing, Nick Maxwell
57. Time of my life
58. The Lover of her Life
59. THe WAG's Diary
60. Sammy's Hill
61. The Ten Best Days of my life
62. The journal of Mortifying moments
63. Daddy's Girls
64. Scott on the Rocks
65. The Yorkshire Pudding Club
66. My Best Friends Girl
67. Fishbowl
68. Three Wishes
69. The next thing on my list
70. The Cinderella Pact
71. The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy
72. Unsticky
73. Odd Mom Out
74. Dog Handling
75. Just Friends
76. The Wedding Girl
77. Goodbye Jimmy Choo
78. Heaven Can Wait
79. The Nanny
80. The Opposite of Love
81. Must Love Dogs
82. The Divorce Party
83. Conversations with the fat girl
84. Three Bedrooms in Chelsea
85. The Personal Shopper
86. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life
87. Enchanted INC
88. Younger
89. Do you remember the First Time?
90. Life Swap
91. The Second Assistant
92. The Book of Jane
93. Because she can
94. Asking for Trouble
95. The Boy next door
96. I never Fancied him anyways
97. Momzillas
98. Animal Husbandry
99. Fashionistas
100. Reinventing Mona
So here is the list. Again the bolded ones are the ones I've read (I'm re-reading ones that I know I've read before, but just can't remember them!)
1. Bridget Jones's Diary
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic
3. Something Borrowed
4. The Devil Wears Prada
5. Watermelon
6. P.S. I love you
7. The Nanny Diaries
8. Good in Bed
9. Jemima J
10. Rachel's Holiday
11. Where Rainbows End
12. Sex and the City
13. Twenties Girl
14. Forget about it
15. Miranda's Big Mistake
16. Bitter is the New Black
18. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
19. I don't know how she does it
20. The Friday night Knitting Club
21. Little Earthquakes
22. Anybody out there
23. Something blue
24. Never Say never
25. Queen of Babble
26. See Jane Date
27. Carrie Pilby
28. Bergdorf Blondes
29. Straight Talking
30. Frenemies
31. The Go to Girl
32. Accidental IT Girl
33. Single White Email
34. Can you Keep a Secret?
35. Getting ride of Matthew
36. THe Fidelity Files
37. The edge of Reason
38. The Starter Wife
39. Good Grief
40. Divas Las Vegas
41. The Other Woman
42. In her shoes
43. Motherland
44. The Girls Guide to hunting and fishing
45. This Charming Man
46. Woman to Woman
47. The Baby Trail
48. Tales of a Drama Queen
49. Young Wives Tales
50. Hissy Fit
51. Waiting to Exhale
52. The Ivy Chronicles
53. The Thin Pink Line
54. Angel
55. Holly's Inbox
56. Thanks For Nothing, Nick Maxwell
57. Time of my life
58. The Lover of her Life
59. THe WAG's Diary
60. Sammy's Hill
61. The Ten Best Days of my life
62. The journal of Mortifying moments
63. Daddy's Girls
64. Scott on the Rocks
65. The Yorkshire Pudding Club
66. My Best Friends Girl
67. Fishbowl
68. Three Wishes
69. The next thing on my list
70. The Cinderella Pact
71. The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy
72. Unsticky
73. Odd Mom Out
74. Dog Handling
75. Just Friends
76. The Wedding Girl
77. Goodbye Jimmy Choo
78. Heaven Can Wait
79. The Nanny
80. The Opposite of Love
81. Must Love Dogs
82. The Divorce Party
83. Conversations with the fat girl
84. Three Bedrooms in Chelsea
85. The Personal Shopper
86. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life
87. Enchanted INC
88. Younger
89. Do you remember the First Time?
90. Life Swap
91. The Second Assistant
92. The Book of Jane
93. Because she can
94. Asking for Trouble
95. The Boy next door
96. I never Fancied him anyways
97. Momzillas
98. Animal Husbandry
99. Fashionistas
100. Reinventing Mona
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
2009 NY Best Seller List
Here's my progress on last years NY Best Seller (Fiction) List
I'm actually quite proud of my progress so far (and I should have time in the summer to read tons; it will give me a reason to procrastinate from my Summer Class I'm taking!)
The bolded ones are the ones I've read so far! Have y'all read any of these?
Jan 4: The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
Jan 11: Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
Jan 18: Black Ops by WEB Griffin
Jan 25: Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Feb 15: The Associate by John Grisham
Mar 15: Promises in Death by JD Robb
Mar 22: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Apr 12: True Detectives by Jonathan Kellerman
Apr 19: Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Apr 26: Turncoat by Jim Butcher
May 3: Just Take my Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
May 10: First Family by David Baldacci
May 17: 8th Confession by James Patterson
May 24: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
May 31: Wicked Prey by John Sandford
June 7: Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
June 14: The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
June 21: Skin Trade by Laurell K Hamilton
June 28: Relentelss by Dean Koontz
July 5: Knockout by Chaterine Coulter
July 12: Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
July 19: Swimsuit by James Patterson
July 26: Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Aug 2: Best Friend Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Aug 9: The Defector by Daniel Silva
Aug 16: The Girl who played with fire by Steig Larsson
Aug 23: Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Aug 30: South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Sept 13: Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson
Sept 20: Dark Slayer by Christine Freehan
Sept 27: The Last Song by Robert Jordan
Oct 4: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Nov 15: The Gathering Storm by Nicholas Sparks
Nov 22: Ford Country by John Grishom
Nov 29: Under the Dome by Stephen King
Dec 6: I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Dec 20: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
I'm actually quite proud of my progress so far (and I should have time in the summer to read tons; it will give me a reason to procrastinate from my Summer Class I'm taking!)
The bolded ones are the ones I've read so far! Have y'all read any of these?
Jan 4: The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
Jan 11: Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
Jan 18: Black Ops by WEB Griffin
Jan 25: Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Feb 15: The Associate by John Grisham
Mar 15: Promises in Death by JD Robb
Mar 22: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Apr 12: True Detectives by Jonathan Kellerman
Apr 19: Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Apr 26: Turncoat by Jim Butcher
May 3: Just Take my Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
May 10: First Family by David Baldacci
May 17: 8th Confession by James Patterson
May 24: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
May 31: Wicked Prey by John Sandford
June 7: Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
June 14: The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
June 21: Skin Trade by Laurell K Hamilton
June 28: Relentelss by Dean Koontz
July 5: Knockout by Chaterine Coulter
July 12: Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
July 19: Swimsuit by James Patterson
July 26: Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Aug 2: Best Friend Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Aug 9: The Defector by Daniel Silva
Aug 16: The Girl who played with fire by Steig Larsson
Aug 23: Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Aug 30: South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Sept 13: Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson
Sept 20: Dark Slayer by Christine Freehan
Sept 27: The Last Song by Robert Jordan
Oct 4: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Nov 15: The Gathering Storm by Nicholas Sparks
Nov 22: Ford Country by John Grishom
Nov 29: Under the Dome by Stephen King
Dec 6: I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Dec 20: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Mud's Escape Route
So I promised to give a recap of Mud's escape about a 1 1/2 ago....
Whenever we leave the house, we put the dogs up in our bedroom. This way they aren't barking, scratching or getting into food. (Yes, in the past, Muddy has learned how to open their food container, doors and other things! She is creative).
The weather has been fairly nice lately, so we have been leaving the windows opens and getting cross breezes in the house. Joe's mom, Ellen, is in town to help out while I went back to work. One day, Joe was at work, so Ellen and I decided to take a walk with Calais. We headed to the library and downtown St. Johns. I of course put the dogs in the bedroom and closed the door. We were gone a little over an hour (we were caught in some rain, so headed to Starbucks to take cover).
We finally headed back towards home. We rounded the corner onto our street and we both noticed this brown streak of a dog run across the street. Ellen said, that looks like Muddy! I of course said it couldn't, I put the dogs in the bedroom! We got a little closer and sure enough, it was Mud Mud! She was happy to see us, but soaking wet!
Our neighbor across the street came out of his house and asked if it was our dog. He said she had been running around for awhile and he was trying to get her! Well, we couldn't figure out how Muddy was able to escape!
All the doors were closed....but of course, I had left the windows open. Our bedroom is on the second story. A good 15 feet above the concrete driveway. Somehow Muddy had shredded our mesh windows and jumped out onto the deck, slid down onto the gutter and managed to land on the concrete. Once I realized how she had jumped out, I immediately checked all her joints and took her up to take a bath. She was extremely happy and didn't seem to have a thing wrong with her! We watched her closely for the next few days, making sure that she was eating and using the bathroom!
Our Muddy is definitely a creative gal! Not only do we need to child proof our house, we are now going to DOG PROOF IT!
Whenever we leave the house, we put the dogs up in our bedroom. This way they aren't barking, scratching or getting into food. (Yes, in the past, Muddy has learned how to open their food container, doors and other things! She is creative).
The weather has been fairly nice lately, so we have been leaving the windows opens and getting cross breezes in the house. Joe's mom, Ellen, is in town to help out while I went back to work. One day, Joe was at work, so Ellen and I decided to take a walk with Calais. We headed to the library and downtown St. Johns. I of course put the dogs in the bedroom and closed the door. We were gone a little over an hour (we were caught in some rain, so headed to Starbucks to take cover).
We finally headed back towards home. We rounded the corner onto our street and we both noticed this brown streak of a dog run across the street. Ellen said, that looks like Muddy! I of course said it couldn't, I put the dogs in the bedroom! We got a little closer and sure enough, it was Mud Mud! She was happy to see us, but soaking wet!
Our neighbor across the street came out of his house and asked if it was our dog. He said she had been running around for awhile and he was trying to get her! Well, we couldn't figure out how Muddy was able to escape!
All the doors were closed....but of course, I had left the windows open. Our bedroom is on the second story. A good 15 feet above the concrete driveway. Somehow Muddy had shredded our mesh windows and jumped out onto the deck, slid down onto the gutter and managed to land on the concrete. Once I realized how she had jumped out, I immediately checked all her joints and took her up to take a bath. She was extremely happy and didn't seem to have a thing wrong with her! We watched her closely for the next few days, making sure that she was eating and using the bathroom!
Our Muddy is definitely a creative gal! Not only do we need to child proof our house, we are now going to DOG PROOF IT!
