We both want to thank all of you, our great and fabulous friends, for helping us have such a perfect wedding day! We hope everyone had a wonderful time.

We love the pictures we have seen so far, so thank you Eric and Jaime for posting them.

We look forward to seeing everyone when we return from Sanibel.

I need everyone to think happy sunny thoughts for Saturday. The weather report is now calling for rain and I do not want it to rain on my wedding day! So, please say a prayer, pour libations or make sacrifices to the weather gods for Mark and I.

The crazy bride-to-be

We have just arrived home from the arctic and rainy north! Yay to no more nights sleeping in a cold and wet tent. However, we did have a lot of fun playing in the waves in Hampton Beach and on Lake Willoughby in Vermont. Though I will say that the lake was colder than the ocean- but beautiful.

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading.
5) Bold and strike books you read but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ

I can't seem to figure out how to bold or underline so I'm just cutting the ones I have not read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - loved it
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - loved it
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - loved it
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - loved it
6 The Bible - read most of it - Religion minor in college
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - loved it
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - loved it
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - one of my favorites from high school
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - I have actually read everything she ever wrote
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - my favorite Victorian
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read most except for some of the more obscure ones like Cymbeline - I mean to read the rest eventually
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - I forced myself through this - not a big Tolkien fan
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - I mean to read this eventually - I had a 7th grade student who read it a few years ago!
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I mean to get to this one too someday
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - read this many times
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - loved it
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - loved it
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - my favorite Dickens novel
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - loved it - read many times as a child
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - would like to read this
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - another all time childhood favorite
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - loved the whole series
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - I love Dickens but have never been able to get myself through this one - I still mean to someday
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - loved it
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - another on my must read list
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - did not enjoy this one at all though I love his short stories like Bartleby
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - scared myself to death with this one in 7th grade
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - another must read
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt - I liked Angels and Insects a lot more.
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - loved it
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - I love this book.
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

I have a total of 56. This list definitely shows a great deal of preference to the lover of Victorian lit - spending much of my high school career in a Victorian time warp helped out a lot!

So after talking to people about white water tubing today, I looked up the water release dates. According to the website, they will be doing water releases on the 12th and 13th of July as well as August 30th and 31st and September 1st. Anyone interested in making plans to go?

We are also looking to see if anyone is interested in going to an amusement park like Six Flags New England (or other) over the summer.

Does anyone have access to MS Word 2007? We have a few files that need to be converted to the MS Word 2003 format so that we can read them.

Thank you in advance.

1 - Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB (only 10!).
2 - Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
3 - Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.

1- Cite des enfants perdus (City of Lost Children): Ron Perlman doesn't speak French and was the only American on set. But he learned all of his lines, and delivered them without error

2- The Great Escape: the motorcycle scenes were not based on real life but were added at Steve McQueen's suggestion.

3- Shakespeare in Love: Judi Dench was so taken with the full sized replica set of the Rose Theatre that Miramax gave it to her to take home when filming ended. Variety reported in early 1999 that she was looking for a site and a financial backer so it could be used as a working theater

4- State and Main: in the movie, the fictional internet company that wants to advertise in the movie-within-a-movie is Bazoomer.com. To this day, if you go to www.bazoomer.com, you will see a white page with the phrase "Go You Huskies". This is a reference to a line said by several townspeople throughout the movie.

5- The Usual Suspects: the line-up scene was scripted as a serious scene, but after a full day of filming takes where the actors couldn't keep a straight face, director Bryan Singer decided to use the funniest takes. A making-of documentary shows Singer becoming furious at the actors for the constant cracking-up.

6- Sense and Sensiblity: During filming, the Jane Austen Society telephoned co-producer James Schamusto complain about the casting of Hugh Grant claiming that he was too good-looking to play Edward Ferrars.

7- Raise the Red Lantern: Banned in China for a short time in the early 1990s.

8- Strictly Ballroom: here are only a few professional dancers among the principal cast, including Paul Mercurio, Antonio Vargas, Sonia Kruger, and Leonie Page.

9- Barcelona: Fred: Maybe you can clarify something for me. Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up, I've read a lot, and...
Ted: Really?
Fred: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
Ted: The text.
Fred: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.

10 – Gone with the Wind: When Gary Cooper turned down the role for Rhett Butler, he was passionately against it. He is quoted saying both, "'Gone With The Wind' is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history," and, "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."

Mark and I are interested in getting people together to go to Six Flags New England. We were thinking of this weekend or next. Let me know if you are interested and if so which day you would prefer.

Happy Birthday Sunny! Hope you have been having a womderful day!

ooooo.... pretty views....

We'll be heading out some day this weekend to go on a nice hike. Hopefully, to Overlook Point by Kaaterskill Falls. It's the NE end of the Catskills, giving you views (on the clearest of days) of the Adirondacks, Green Mountains, Berkshires, Taconics, and possibly the southern tip of the White Mountains, off in the distance. It's beautiful.
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We are going to take advantage of all of this snow and go sledding today,  If anyone is interested in joining us, give us a call.  We probably won't go until sometime after noon.