Grocery Shipment

Guess what came in on the ships and hit the grocery shelves this time!




I am one Happy Irish Lass :-)




Remember to enjoy the little things in life because there really isn't any other way to live.

The Changing of the Year

There were two bottles of Champagne chilling in the fridge and Cramer and I went out for Lobster last night so that we could celebrate a good year spent and bring in the next on a good note.  My resolution for last year was to keep track of the books I read (something I plan to keep up).  Despite all the reading that vet school requires I managed to get through:

The Whitechapel Horrors - Edward Hanna
Flying Changes - Sara Gruen
Pride and Prescience - Carrie Bebris
The Blackbirder - James Nelson
Nights in Rodanthe - Nicholas Sparks
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Darkfall - Dean Koontz
A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
Exodus - Leon Uris
A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson
Cruel Justice - William Bernhardt
Burning Bright - Tracy Chevalier
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
*The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
March - Geraldine Brooks
*The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
Line of Vision - David Ellis
You Belong to Me - Mary Higgins Clark
HeyDay - Kurt Anderson
*A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
*Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati
*The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
A Company of Swans - Eva Ibbotson
A Song for the Summer - Eva Ibbotson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Dawn on a Distant Shore - Sara Donati
*Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (first book I read on my new Kindle, Darcy)
The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
*Cat of the Century - Rita Mae Brown
*Lake in the Clouds - Sara Donati
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
*Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
*The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
*These Is My Words - Nancy Turner
Beautiful Joe, An Autobiography of a Dog - Marshall Saunders
Fire Along the Sky - Sara Donati

* indicates the best reads of the year (40 total)

Next year, my resolution is to get to the beach more.  I live in the Caribbean and still only manage to get to the beach about once a month.  I let myself get too bogged down with studies and life and forget to take some time out.  With a little planning and effort, my studies can go to the beach with me, so I plan to go once a week, every week I'm on the island.

Happy New Years and the best of luck in all your endeavors for 2011!