2011 - A Year In Numbers

I love year-in-review journal posts.  First of many in the new blog!  Happy New Year to you all.  Love, La

66 - Number of airplane departures
0 - Lost bags (thanks United!)
1 - Flight delays (and only because of weather!)
2 - Funerals attended (My Uncle Tim and my Grandma Alice Martin)
2 - Weddings attended (Jacob & Rhiannon Mortensen, and yes, I count the Royal Wedding)
4800 - Road Trip Miles! (Burley, Idaho 3x...Canada...Seattle, Washington...Salt Lake City, Utah...Boise, Idaho)
$2.98 - Price for a gallon of gas last night in Florence, Montana
7 - Roller Coaster rides
4 - Concerts attended (U2 in Denver with Travis - favorite concert of all time, Josh Groban in Seattle with Beth Araya, NKOTBSB in LA with Nicole, NEEDTOBREATHE in Missoula with Nic & Ben)
820 - Number of songs purchased in iTunes

TOP 10 LISTS OF 2011
Here are my top 10 favorites for the year. They are not in any order (except the first one listed is my most favorite) and it's what happened in 2011, they may not have been released this year.

Books
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (this became my favorite book of all time!)
Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Taker by Alma Katsu
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Movies
Tree of Life
Drive
Water for Elephants
Jane Eyre
Crazy Stupid Love.
King's Speech
Bridesmaids
Midnight in Paris
Larry Crowne
The Muppets

TV Shows (released in 2011)
Anderson
Shameless
Franklin & Bash
Ringer
Revenge
Once Upon A Time
Off The Map
Homeland
Sitcoms ruled this fall (New Girl, 2 Broke Girls, Up all Night, Two & a Half Men, Whitney)
Any on OWN (Oprah's Life Class, Master Class, Rollin' with Zack, Season 25: Behind the Scenes, Our America with Lisa Ling, Gayle King Show, Super Soul Sunday, Enough Already with Peter Walsh, Ask Oprah's All Stars)

Songs
Good Life by OneRepublic
Up Up Up by Givers
Shine by Sharif
Own It by The Black Eyed Peas
The Ballad of You and I by Mêlée
Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
I Will Praise You by Rebecca St. James
Don't Turn Out the Lights by NKOTBSB
Telling the World by Taio Cruz
A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth) by College

Albums (this was the year of awesome albums, where every song is great!)
Angels & Airwaves, Love, Pt. 1 and Love, Pt. 2
New Year's Eve Soundtrack
Drive Soundtrack
Steven Curtis Chapman, Re:creation
Ben Folds, The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective
Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto
Nickelback, Here and Now
David Cook, This Loud Morning
ELEW, ELEW Rockjazz Vol. 1
Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Guilty Pleasures
Butterscotch Pudding from The Pearl Cafe
Crocheting
My iPad (thanks honey!  Best birthday ever!)
Jimmy Fallon Thank You Notes
Naps
Homemade Jam (borders on obsession)
Blogging
Holiday Cards
Cooking with my sister
Listing...like this one!

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."
~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce