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Why didn't I see this coming...

Jason loves Batman. He also loves playing the Wii. And Legos were his favorite toy as a child (and let's go ahead and admit it, even as an adult). When the three combine, what do you get?

Three hours of the continual comment: "This is so awesome!" and plenty of wife ignoring.

Reading List

I found this on Lou's blog, and since I was an English major, I thought I should see how many I have read. I must say, I did not impress myself-maybe Westminster should take that degree away...


Here’s what you are supposed to do:
*The ones in Blue are the ones I have read and LOVED
*Look at the list and bold those that you have read.
*Italicize those you intend to read.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (most not all)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (my all-time favorite book!)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In English and French)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

If Jason ever had to watch Oprah...

Finally...A House!

So we finally found our first house! Though we thought it was impossible, we found a great house in Holladay for under $22o,000. We put an offer in last Saturday, it was accepted on Monday and we had an inspection done on Friday. We will close on September 26, though we will not receive keys until September 29. Ironically enough, that is my birthday, so I guess I can say that I got a house as a birthday present. We won't move in until the first weekend in October, since both of us will be in school and have classes at night. The house is a really good deal, considering the location and the great shape it is in. It is an older home, but has been completely updated inside, has a new roof, furnace, kitchen and bath remodel, etc. Compared to what were looking at before (ie shag carpeting, wood paneling, layers of dirt and grime) this house is almost brand new!

Here are the stats:
1300 square feet
.19 lot
3 bedrooms
1 full bath, 1/2 bath off master
Brand new eat in kitchen
Nice living room with fireplace and mountain view
Laundry/mud room
1 car garage with opener
Scary crawlspace (Jason will be the only one going down there)
Full fencing and sprinkler system
Neighbors do not park their cars on the lawn and seem relatively normal
Hopefully not haunted
Property taxes: sure to skyrocket!
Better than your house (yeah, that's right)

I would put up pictures, but I am lazy and don't want to try and find the MLS listing. By the way, if you are looking for a good real estate agent or a house inspector, we stumbled upon two great ones and could give you their information.

But the best part about buying a new house? No, not the fact that we will not be financially bound to Transwest Credit Union for the next 30 years. We will finally get to sleep on a queen sized bed again! Can't wait!

All because two people fell in love.

24 Things About Stuff

24 things about the guy I married
1. What is his name? Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
2. How long have you been married? Many moons
3. How long did you date? For eternity
4. How old is he? Of legal age
5.Who eats more? Godzilla!
6. Who said "i love you" first? I think Adam...maybe Eve
7. Who is taller? Andre the Giant
8. Who sings better? David Archuleta
10.Whose temper is worse? Jason
11. Who does the laundry? My sister wife
12. Who does the dishes? Someone who loves the dishes very much
13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Is there a wrong side of the bed?
14. Who pays the bills? The one who has the skills
15. Who mows the lawn? Jason should, but he is worried about his delicate parts
16. Who cooks dinner? Cafe Rio...sometimes Wendy's
17. Who drives when you are together? I don't know the bus driver's name. We'll call him Frank. So to answer the question, Frank drives.
18. Who is more stubborn? Germans
19. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? I think this one was Eve
20. Whose parents do you see most? Bart, Lisa and Maggie's
21. Who proposed? Who proposed what? Who have you been talking to?
22. Who has more friends? The person with the most money/candy.
23. Who has more siblings? Definetly polygamists.
24.Who wears the pants in the family? The person who has to answer the door.