Thursday Thirteen-- Thirteen Things I bought this week

I could probably do this post every week...but I'll spare everyone the extent of my shopaholic-ness.

1. Hiking boots to start to break in on our camping trip next weekend. These are supposed to have the "stickiest" rubber bottoms to help me from falling off Half Dome when we go to Yosemite next year.
2. 8x8 scrapbook, paper and stickers to do a small scrapbook of our vacation to Jamaica!

3. A dress for my cousin's "formal dress" wedding in December.

4. A signed 1st edition of History of Meredith College by Mary Lynch Johnson (technically a Christmas gift for myself).

5. Frozen pastry to make Chicken Pastry last Sunday.





6. Thanksgiving cards and birthday cards for my Mom, Grandpa and Grandmother.

7. A baked potato from Wendy's for lunch yesterday--all of my co-workers were jealous.

8. A shelf for my pantry to stack canned goods on--my project to tackle this weekend is cleaning out the pantry. Yuck.

9. This cute hat, again for camping and Yosemite and it will match my purple Columbia jacket.

10. Christmas presents! I love online shopping and I have purchased almost all of the presents!

11. A birthday present for my mom, that will arrive late :-(

12. These alligator Sperry's--I had been searching f-o-r-e-v-e-r for brown flat shoes! They are a lot cuter in person than this pic and they were on sale.

13. ? This proved to be a little more difficult than I thought it would be. Guess I need to go shopping at lunch!

Anyone have any fun purchases this week?

Thursday Thirteen-- Favorite Movies

Here are 13 of my favorite movies--in no particular order

1. Almost Famous-- My and Joel's favorite movie

2. Forrest Gump

3. Clueless

4. Chicago

5. A Beautiful Mind

6. When Harry Met Sally

7. Moulin Rouge

8. My Fair Lady

9. Love Actually

10. The Family Man

11. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

12. Legally Blonde

13. The Breakfast Club

Thirteen Things I'm Looking Forward To

Thirteen Things I'm Looking Forward To:

(Joel will love this one because he picks on me for never being able to live in the moment--I'm always ready for the next big thing)

1. Going to Florida tomorrow

2. Being done with all of this traveling--We've been away from our house for three weekends in a row....two more to go!

3. Shopping for clothes for our vacation and being happy about how I look --thanks to my trainer

4. Going on vacation to Jamaica

5. Weekend trip to the NC mountains with friends

6. Setting up my tv/scrapbooking room in our spare bedroom

7. Finally seeing The Nanny Diaries with Sharla...they moved the release date from April to August, and then to September

8. Seeing the Lourve and Annie Leibovitz exhibits at the High Museum--hopefully with my artistic sis, Amber, and we'll drag Megan around just like we did last year :-)

9. Having time to try to make cookies again. I'm super jealous of my sis-in-law, Lauren's baking skills. She'll be in Atlanta soon though, so maybe she can give me some tips.

10. Christmastime! Decorating the house, cooking, seeing family, Advent season at church, cold(ish) weather and I already knowing what I'm asking for

11. The opening of the Bojangles that they are building near my house

12. LOST season 4....in JANUARY 2008

13. No, it's not me that's expecting...it's my best friend, Sharla! And I'm looking forward to meeting her and Josh's little one in February!!! (See their blog here )

As I said, we are off to Florida tomorrow for the last wedding of the summer...we're flying back on Saturday night. Then church on Sunday--I have nursery duty--yay! And then to Turner Field on Sunday night to rock the company suite and see the Braves vs. the Cardinals. Another action packed weekend...

Thursday Thirteen-- Places I Want to Visit

I stole this idea from one of the blogs I read (and I'm trying to pass the last 30 minutes at work before my long weekend!)

1. Jamaica--see ticker

2. Rome--going in May!

3. Venice--probably also going in May!

4. Hawaii--especially while my aunt and uncle are living there

5. Paris

6. Egypt--I really want to see the pyramids

7. The Grand Canyon

8. Alaska or Canada to see the Northern Lights

9. Greece--preferably on a Mediterranean cruise

10. Australia

11. Oklahoma--I have family there that I have never met

12. Yellowstone and/or Yosemite--that one's really for Joel

13. Sequoia National Park