Wedding Pictures

Some people have seen them, some haven’t, but I never shared our wedding pictures. If anyone wants to take a look, they’re on my flickr to the right. There are two batches, one, actual wedding day pictures under “pro pics”, and one our “day after session” or “trash the dress” session. We wanted some more shots of just the two of us, so we had some fun and took pictures in water, and dirt and such.

Back to regularly scheduled posting tomorrow.

Books.

Stolen from Angela.

The deal is you take this list of books and bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you intend to read, underline the ones you really liked and strike out the ones you hated.

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 (I’ve read a lot of it anyway.
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
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’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 Graham
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. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
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 (I tried anyway, it was so danged boring!)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (ugh)
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
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 (also read in 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. Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
101. Mudville - Kurtis Scaletta (ETA:I’ve read the pre-published version Kurtis sent me a couple years ago, I have every intention of reading it again once it’s published next spring)

The Baby Borrowers

Premise: five teenage couples who have never lived together agree to participate in “the greatest social experiment ever”. They move into their own home, and are given 1 day alone together, 1 day with a pregnancy belly, 3 days with an infant, 3 days with a toddler, 3 days with a pre-teen, 3 days with a teenager and 3 days with the elderly.

I caught the first episode of this on re-run on WE yesterday and it was quite interesting. The real parents are watching everything and have the right to go over at anytime if the safety of their child is in danger. Only a few went over though, one to bitch, one to help (though she was called a bitch) and one to just see his daughter.

All in all, it was interesting. Now, obviously, a teen parent is not going to really have the nice house these kids are living in, they aren’t going to be doing it alone (presumably) it’s pretty likely mom/dad would be there to answer questions, teach them how to change a diaper, things like that.

But I’ll be watching it again.

The Truth is Out There.

Dude. No one told me there’s a new xfiles movie coming out.  I admit my nerdiness and affection for the

Xfiles. How come no one told me?

Wednesdays are mean.

All stinking day today I thought it was Thursday and having felt slightly off all week, I was really looking forward to doing nothing tomorrow night, just watching me some Doctor Who and hanging out with my favorite boy. Turns out it’s only Wednesday and there’s a whole other day to get through before Friday.

::sad::

Missed it by *this* much

My review of Get Smart:

Cheesy? check. Campy? Check. Funny? Check. Worth the $5 I paid to see it? Absolutely.

Gonna win an oscar? Probably not.

What has two banks…

…but no money?

When Theresa was my esteemed roommate, we fell in love with diet soda popsicles. I picked some up yesterday at the grocery store, and I still love them. Now I love them even more, because they have jokes on the stick!

a river

For Erika, mostly.

Nick and I went to the game tonight with my aunt, uncle, mom, and step-dad. It was a good game, though the woman behind us was clearly unaware of the numerous noise violations she was committing. At a baseball game. Hard to be too loud at a baseball game. Some manage it though.

anyway:

Stay away from Sarah, I think she’s contagious.

Sarah is contagious. She has a newfound (I think) love of expensive purses. Maybe it’s just new that she’s willing to buy them herself. Anyway, I’m glad she got to pick up the giraffe purse for herself, I don’t really spend a ton of money on purses. I like them, but I’m really more of a Target, 10-20 buck kind of girl.

For several years, however, I have wanted a Kate Spade “Sam” bag, in basic black, but I could never justify spending 200 bucks on a purse. I tried, I really really wanted, but I couldn’t.

Earlier today a friend forwarded me an email invitation to a “Private Sale” at www.katespade.com. I oohed, and aahed, and saw that my bag was only $109.00. I teased myself by tossing it in my virtual cart. woosh. Turns out, the private sale is an additional 20% off the sale price. My bag is going for a cool $87.

mine.

I managed, barely, to resist the matching wallet and messenger bag. Oh, I nearly talked myself into it, especially the messenger bag, “I’m going to be teaching in the fall, I’ll need a cute teacher bag” but I managed to withstand the pressure. I picked up a nice, cheap, basic black wallet at Target to match my new tote, as my current wallet is a Kate Spade knockoff made of varying shades of orange.

I can’t wait. Should be here by Tuesday.

Saving the world, and loving it.

There’s a new Get Smart movie coming out. I admit, I’m kind of wanting to see it. I love Anne Hathaway, and while I don’t love Steve Carrell, I’ve enjoyed a few of his movies (no I do not watch the Office and I’m not planning on starting).

I’ve never seen Get Smart the TV show, it’s a little before my time. Which made me start wondering. Movie remakes, and movies based on older TV shows, and remakes of old TV shows (90210 is the only example I can think of off the top of my head. Not exactly classic.) My question is this, are these types of movies and Tv shows a blight on “classic tv and movie culture” or are they a great way to get younger generations interested in and hooked on the classics? I kind of like a lot of remakes (The Parent Trap, Yours, Mine and Ours, though thosse both have Dennis Quaid, which might be why I love them) and I know my friend Reid thinks remakes are a blight on humanity, basically.

Discuss.