Top 20 "Romantic Movies"

The other day I was checking Yahoo's homepage, because that's what I do when I am bored, and found a list of the top 20 (ish) romantic movies. I found the list to be odd. They had some really stupid movies on it and the order was ridiculous, so I decided to make my own list.

1. The Princess Bride

2. What Dreams May Come
3. The bodyguard

4. The fountain

5. The Notebook

6. Just Like Heaven
7. Love and Basketball

8. Romeo and Juliet

9. Tristan and Isolde

10. Sliding Doors

11. While you were sleeping

12. Fools Rush In

13. Sweet Home Alabama

14. Sabrina

15. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind

16. Hitch

17. Simply irresistible
18. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
19. The Cutting Edge

20. 50 first dates

(I know I'm missing a few) Does anyone have any that I'm missing?

Jon and Kate plus 8! + babysitting!

I love love love love love!!! Jon and Kate plus 8! Jason thinks I'm crazy for loving this show, but I just can't help it. It is such a stinking cute show! The husband and wife had trouble getting pregnant so they had fertility treatments and ended up having twins! A couple of years later they wanted to have another child. They had to get fertility treatments again and wound up with sextuplets!! Oh my goodness, I don't know what I would do if that happened to me. Anyways here are some pictures, and if you enjoy little kids I am pretty sure you will like this show!


Anyways... Today I got to hang out with a girl in my wards daughter. Yes, she is the super smart 2 1/2 year old I have posted about. Today we watched The muppet christmas carol, we actually only got about 2 minutes into it and Ruby told me she didn't want to watch it anymore and instead wanted to watch Finding Nemo and play with playdough. We started to go on a walk and then Jason called letting us know he was ready to come home from his lab. Luckily we had already put Ruby's carseat into my car, so we got to go on a mini-road trip to BYU. Jason had a basketball in the backseat and Ruby asked if she could hold it while we were going to get him. When we got closer to where Jason was, Ruby said, "I'm going to tell Jason I have his basketball." Haha. We got back to our apartment and finished our walk to the apartment office to get some cookies. My apartment complex offers free fresh baked cookies daily so we went and partook. Here are a few pictures.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Last night ANTM was on, and I remembered I had not blogged about it yet. I enjoy ANTM a lot. I think it's so fun to look at the pictures, and see their crazy makeup and hair. If I were only 4-5 inches taller (and super thin, not to mention didn't have high standards) I would love to be on the show! That was until this season started... They decided it would be a great ratings hike to put a transgender person on the show. HE is NOT a SHE. He would like to have a sex change but has not undergone the surgery yet. I find it horribly disgusting and disrespectful that they are allowing this. Although I am sure the J's would change if they could... The show is called America's next top model not America's Next Top Female Model, but it is implied when all they have on the show is females. I find it disrespectful to those female models who have tried and tried to get on the show and they get beat out by a man. Honestly I would become massively depressed to get beat out of a beauty contest by a man... I think it is disgusting. If the man wins ANTM this season I will be forced to never watch the show again.

Here are two of the ugliest, in my opinion, people on America's next top model ever... Can you tell which is the man?

Frustration with PC's...

Today I saw that my friend Laura had posted pictures on her blog. Pictures from the past. I decided I wanted to update photo library on my laptop and so I turned on my old desktop to try to retrieve those picture memories. I found them just where I left them (phew, wipe brow) I stuck in my thumb drive to try to transfer them (slowly). I clicked copy, and then paste, but the paste wouldn't work! I would click paste and it would look like the photos were going to move nicely over, but they didn't! I stuck in a burnable dvd... Same thing happened, so I tried a burnable cd... I simply could not move those pictures from my old desktop to any sort of portable device! Then I decided to try to get this old desktop onto the internet so I could, extremely slowly, get those pictures off that desktop. Nope, wasn't happening. 

 

I wish I could say I resolved the problem and show you some awesome pictures of my memories, but I can't, at least not the pictures from my desktop. I am still working on the stupid problem. It is causing me nothing but grief! 

 

The only thing I can do until I figure out what is going on with that desktop is to print the pictures. Luckily I bought photo paper the other day so I could try, but miserably failed, to print new passport photos. 

I will be teaching 5th grade, not 6th, just in case anyone was wondering. 

More Good News

Yay! Things are working out great. I feel so blessed, and know that Heavenly father is looking out for us. A few weeks ago Jason applied for a research position at BYU and has been waiting for an answer. This morning he got it.
His hours will hopefully coincide with the hours I will work. We are both very excited for this opportunity he will have. This semester he will get school credit for this research position and next semester he will be payed, and the cherry on top is that having a research position looks good on applications for med school! Yay!

Also, Tan got a new job too!!! Yay!!

ABC's & 123's.

You might be wondering what in the world I am doing posting a picture of an elementary school on my blog. 

Well, here is my answer.

I have a job. I am a teacher for the after-school program at Westridge Elementary School in Provo, Utah. The perfect hours for me, pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.

It's such a great program they have going there. The students who are signed up for the program stay after school while their parents are still at work, so they don't have to go home to an empty house. It helps the kids learn more, and hopefully by the time they go home at night, they are finished with their homework.

I am so grateful that the lord knows what's right for each and every one of us and that we need to do what we can and then he will provide the rest. 

Anyways... I am really excited and hopefully I am ready to teach 6th graders.

Tagged!

4 Things

4 Random things I adore about my husband
1. He loves movies just as much, if not more than I do.
2. He cooks for me.
3. He loves adidas!
4. He is great with his nephews!!


4 movies I have watched more than once
I see almost every movie twice, if not more, because I usually fall asleep.
1. The Testaments
2. The Princess Bride
3. Meet Joe Black
4. Batman: The Dark Knight

4 TV shows I watch
1. Lost
2. The Office
3. House
4. ANTM

4 Places I have been
1. Paris, France
2. South Africa
3. London, England
4. Montana

4 People I E-mail regularly
I don't really email people regularly... I guess I could pretend it says text instead of email.
1. Jason
2. Janna
3. Kate
4. Tanner

4 Places I would like to visit
1. Jerusalem
2. New York
3. Ireland
4. Norway

4 Things I look forward to in the coming year
1. Vacations...
2. Mini-projects
3. Holiday's
4. More school I guess...

4 People that I Tag
Anyone who wants to do this.

Internet...

A couple of months ago Jason and I decided we wanted to upgrade our internet service. We have internet through our apartment, who gets the internet through a company called HotSite Networks. HotSite Network is wireless, no cables to plug into your computer. We were only able to have one computer on the internet at a time, which we didn't like, so we decided to upgrade to the premiere service. The premiere service is supposed to be a lot faster, and you are allowed to have two computers on the internet at the same time.
A few days ago Jason was logging into the internet here, and noticed a very small yellow link on the screen.
Here is what it said,
"Due to an error by HotSite Networks, the Premier Service at The Branbury was incorrectly advertised as having the ability to have a second computer logged in simultaneously by using the same username and password on two different computers. The policy at The Branbury is that users are able to only use one computer at any given time per account, including Premier Service accounts.
Beginning September 8, 2008 Premier Service accounts will be converted to allow only one computer at a time on the Internet. If you have a need to have two computers online at the same time, a second account will need to be registered. Please see the office to get a second account.

Gaming consoles and other wireless devices can still be registered for free. Usernames and passwords are not computer-specific and can be used on any computer. When logging on to another computer, the first computer will be logged off and a message will be received indicating this action.

We apologize for the error and any inconvenience this may cause."

Umm... Ya, I'm pretty upset. That's the whole reason we upgraded. I'm pretty upset, and since they put it in a place where barely anyone is going to notice, and they announced it after the beginning of the month, we have to pay for the entire month because we weren't able to cancel before the first. Now, if we want to have two computers on the internet at the same time, we will have to pay twice as much, and I am just not willing to pay 40 dollars a month for that slow of internet, especially when they pull stuff like this. So we are looking for better, faster internet.

This is the end of my rant. If anyone knows of any fast internet for not too expensive please let me know!

Brilliance in a small package.

This morning Jason and I had breakfast with two families from our ward. We had so much fun! It was great getting to know these families better. My favorite part was getting to play with the host family's two year old daughter.  

She is brilliant! Her name is Ruby. She told me how they went to see Wall-e in the "the-a-ter" and that she thought it was scary, but she did like it. She correctly identified her "bath friends," which are a "pelican, crabbie, dolphin, turtle, and octopus." She even told me what color each of them were!!! I was shocked and amazed at how smart she was! She has a mind of her own and you can certainly tell. She likes to line up her "bath friends" and have them facing all in the same direction. 

She knows when something is not right. If her mom brings her the "wrong" clothes to wear, she will tell her mom, "Those aren't right." So when her dad showed us her blanket trick we were dumbfounded.

She has a pink blanket and has a favorite corner. On one corner there is white embroidery and the corner straight through the blanket is her favorite corner. She can identify the "right" corner without having to see the white embroidery. If you turn the blanket around it is all pink, you show Ruby the corners and she can tell you which one is the "right" corner. 

Jason played this game with her for quite a while and tried to figure out how she could correctly pick her corner every single time. He would crumble the blanket up and only show her the edges, he would fold the blanket up and show her different corners at a time. He showed her two of the corners and asked her which one was the "right" corner and she said it wasn't either one of them. He had tried to trick her and didn't succeed. He looked closely at the corners and there were only tiny tiny little details that were different. The color was the same, it wasn't wet, Jason said there was tiny stitching differences and that Ruby must pay extremely close attention to detail and that's probably how she knows which corner is hers. 

Even Jason was fascinated by her and it's kind of hard to get Jason super interested in something. Anyways... I just thought it was so neat that she is so smart, and able to express herself to adults at two years old. 

Random pictures

I was looking at some of the pictures on my phone and on my computer the other day and decided I would post a few... 

This was my first attempt at making fondant and I think it turned out quite well. 

This is my father-in-law getting pick-pocketed by a squirrel. (This is not a photography trick, the squirrel was really touching his pocket)

Jason and I did not like these shoes, but my little sisters did. 

We were at a pawn shop in Montana and I saw this! $9,500.00 for a pawned Rolex! Yikes, I'm glad I don't ever want one of these!

We found these shoes at Nordstroms and thought they were hideous as well. When we showed the picture to Janna she freaked out and said she loved all of them.

A day after our one year anniversary I was waiting for Jason at the duck pond and saw this little mommy duck and her babies.

On our way to the 4th of July parade in Provo, we saw this sign and I realized I had to take a picture. 

On my way to pick Jason up from Kaplan two days before our anniversary and the sunset was so pretty I had to take a picture. It was with my phone and through the windshield.

This picture was taken up in Montana. They have such neat weird things up there. 

This was also taken in Montana at a pawn shop. We saw it and thought it was awesome, it is completely beaded. The little eagle is holding the dream catcher by its feet. We thought it was very impressive!