1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both are really expensive, so I like to use brown paper and decorate with ribbons.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial-no reason to cut down more trees in the world.
3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving, and never a day before
4. When do you take the tree down? The day after Christmas
5. Do you like eggnog? Meh...no opinion either way
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A dollhouse
7. Hardest person to buy for? I am pretty good at finding presents for people, though I have been told MANY times that I am impossible to buy for...
8. Easiest person to buy for? Jason, there are always a million things he wants.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? No, though I would like one.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I don't send them now. I figure I will when I have a child, since nobody wants to look at Jason and I year after year
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Too many to count...see question 7 for the reason
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Love Actually is a good one, Elf is funny (though slightly overplayed) and of course, Die Hard (if you don't believe me, watch it!)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I am always shopping for Christmas presents. I try to buy everything by Thanksgiving, so I won't have to go near a store in December.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? My grandma's sugar cookies and my mom's pumpkin pie
16. Lights on the tree? Otherwise, isn't it just a pine tree in your front room?
17. Favorite Christmas song? The Messiah by Handel
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I have never traveled at Christmas, but if I did, I would like to be in Europe
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Nope, too many real facts in my head to memorize that
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? I used to open one present on Christmas Eve, and all the rest on Christmas Day. Now, with my in-laws, we open presents at their house on Christmas Eve, and go to my parent's on Christmas Day.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The damn Christmas music everywhere! If you have ever worked in retail during the holidays, you know how annoying it is to hear "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" for the eight millionth time.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I like red, cream and blue
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I don't have many memorable Christmas dinners. My dad always makes us omelets for breakfast on Christmas morning.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? No snow...and an Ipod Nano
Monday, December 1, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
OMFG James Bond!!!!!
I can't believe it, I saw the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace! It was so amazing, I almost fainted like 35 times! James Bond was so frickin' kick-A that I almost blow my L! I was concerned that I wouldn't like the model they chose for the car, but after the door fell off in the chase scene, it was simply darling! I was a little worried that the bond girls wouldn't have shiny enough clothes, but I loved them! I was also worried that the french bad guy wouldn't be scary enough, but he was delightfully terrifying (I had to squeeze Verity's hand when he appeared on screen). I read the book and it had nothing to do with the film, but I think that if you read the book, you will love the film! Just to be kind to others enjoying the luscious film, you are only allowed one girlish scream every 15 minutes….” Hahaha! The only bad part was the awful preview for some vampire movie. Who the hell would watch that...
Monday, November 10, 2008
Cribs: Honkey Kong and Bit O' Honey Edition
This is a momentous post for two reasons:
1. You now know Jason and Verity's rap names (guess which one belongs to whom)
2. You finally get to see pictures our new house.
We have held off posting photos until 75% of our stuff was unpacked. So here it is!
The master bedroom. While we were at the apartment, we had a bedroom set, but we gave it to my brother when we moved into my mom's house. We have found one that we like at Ashley Furniture, we just have to order it and have it delivered. This is the only room we have painted so far.
The master bathroom. It is only a half bath, but in our price range, it was rare to find more than one bath, so we are very happy to have it. This was the color that was originally in the bedroom. It looks ok in a small space like this, but not in a large room.
The main bathroom. Luckily, the previous owners barely updated this room, so it looks really nice, and we don't have to fix anything right away. It is a good size, though we miss having double sinks (maybe in the future).
The spare bedroom. As you can tell, this room is currently functioning as Jason's workout/rockout room. When we eventually succumb to pressure and have kids, this is where they will sleep. Until then, it will be filled with Jason's awesomeness.
The office. The picture turned out way to dark, but you can see that this is our office.
Our living room. The place where we spend the most amount of time, especially since we have gotten cable. This room also features our touch lamp, one of the best things ever invented.
The living room, part two. Here you can see the fireplace and a better view of the windows. Our house gets a lot of light, and during the day, we hardly ever turn on the lights.
The entry/foyer. The door opens right into the kitchen, which is a bit unusual (and means that I alway need to try and keep the kitchen clean).
The kitchen. This was also updated by the previous owners. I was so happy we could fit our table here, and even though I hate the sink (never, ever buy a white sink-worst idea ever!), everything else is very nice.
The laundry/mud room. Pretty self explanatory-this is were we do laundry. Our water heater is also here, but our furnace lives in the crawl space, which sucks for Jason, since I refuse to go down there.
The garage. This was another thing we lucked out on. Most houses we looked at only had carports, so just a one car garage is really nice. Of course, we cannot actually park in it because of all the stuff in the way, but eventually it might serve its purpose. You can't see it, but Jason built a mini climbing wall by the door.
The front of the house/yard. We haven't had a chance to do much landscaping because of the weather, but we did pull out all of the ivy that was growing in front of the house, so in spring we can put in a flower bed. By the time we moved in, the grass was hopeless, but Scott has graciously offered to help revive it in the spring.
The back yard. As you can see, nothing has really been done to the back yard. Jason has lots of plans in the spring, but for now, it doesn't have much use for us. It is a good size, and we like the patio.
So there it is-our first house. WE are very grateful to have found it, and love that we can continue to live in Holladay.
1. You now know Jason and Verity's rap names (guess which one belongs to whom)
2. You finally get to see pictures our new house.
We have held off posting photos until 75% of our stuff was unpacked. So here it is!
The master bedroom. While we were at the apartment, we had a bedroom set, but we gave it to my brother when we moved into my mom's house. We have found one that we like at Ashley Furniture, we just have to order it and have it delivered. This is the only room we have painted so far.
The master bathroom. It is only a half bath, but in our price range, it was rare to find more than one bath, so we are very happy to have it. This was the color that was originally in the bedroom. It looks ok in a small space like this, but not in a large room.
The main bathroom. Luckily, the previous owners barely updated this room, so it looks really nice, and we don't have to fix anything right away. It is a good size, though we miss having double sinks (maybe in the future).
The spare bedroom. As you can tell, this room is currently functioning as Jason's workout/rockout room. When we eventually succumb to pressure and have kids, this is where they will sleep. Until then, it will be filled with Jason's awesomeness.
The office. The picture turned out way to dark, but you can see that this is our office.
Our living room. The place where we spend the most amount of time, especially since we have gotten cable. This room also features our touch lamp, one of the best things ever invented.
The living room, part two. Here you can see the fireplace and a better view of the windows. Our house gets a lot of light, and during the day, we hardly ever turn on the lights.
The entry/foyer. The door opens right into the kitchen, which is a bit unusual (and means that I alway need to try and keep the kitchen clean).
The kitchen. This was also updated by the previous owners. I was so happy we could fit our table here, and even though I hate the sink (never, ever buy a white sink-worst idea ever!), everything else is very nice.
The laundry/mud room. Pretty self explanatory-this is were we do laundry. Our water heater is also here, but our furnace lives in the crawl space, which sucks for Jason, since I refuse to go down there.
The garage. This was another thing we lucked out on. Most houses we looked at only had carports, so just a one car garage is really nice. Of course, we cannot actually park in it because of all the stuff in the way, but eventually it might serve its purpose. You can't see it, but Jason built a mini climbing wall by the door.
The front of the house/yard. We haven't had a chance to do much landscaping because of the weather, but we did pull out all of the ivy that was growing in front of the house, so in spring we can put in a flower bed. By the time we moved in, the grass was hopeless, but Scott has graciously offered to help revive it in the spring.
The back yard. As you can see, nothing has really been done to the back yard. Jason has lots of plans in the spring, but for now, it doesn't have much use for us. It is a good size, and we like the patio.So there it is-our first house. WE are very grateful to have found it, and love that we can continue to live in Holladay.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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
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
Friday, September 12, 2008
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