I have figured out a backwards way of getting around the system so I can blog at work! WOO-HOO!
Since I’m not so sure when I stopped, I will update you on my 100 book challenge!! I veered off the list and have been picking up whatever sounds good at the time; and y’all, I have fallen in love with the author Laurie Notaro! She is a hilarious non-fiction writer out of Arizona who writes about her day-to-day life dealing with marriage, pets, and her mother. I laugh at every story until there are tears rolling down my cheeks! My favorite one of hers is “The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death”. Go get it!!
As for the quantity… that’s another story. Though I have lost count, I know that I am not anywhere close to 100 sadly. I knew going into it that it was a farfetched goal — just didn’t realize how much I also love to sleep. But by pushing towards this goal, I have grown to love reading again which is something that through college, not that I feel out of love with reading, I think I just forgot about it. I’m like Carrie – I forgot how much I love the smell of a library book or how long I can get lost in a book store. This boost was the best thing I did for myself this year and I am so happy that I tried — and hey, I know I got over halfway there and there are still 2 months to go!
“The Office’s Rainn Wilson — next up in Monsters vs. Aliens (out March 27) — filled out the “25 Things” Facebook chain letter for Us Weekly.
1. I would make a beautiful woman.
2. My wife is way funnier than I am.
3. I once thought it would be a good idea to be a pipe smoker like Sherlock Holmes or The Hef. I was 19.
4. I am “just not that into” seeing that new dating movie.
5. I know why the caged bird sings. To make female birds think he’s sensitive.
6. I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky. This causes a lot of injuries for me.
7. I’ve got 99 problems and a fish ain’t one of them.
8. Fact: My mother wanted to name me Thucydides.
9. Maize: My people call it corn.
10. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? One, with my incredibly acidic saliva.
11. I believe in universal health care for every planet except Earth.
12. Unlike most, I feel John Oates is overrated.
13. I am 6-foot-1 and 5/6 inches.
14. I frigging hate negative people. They suck.
15. I once took a girl on a date and refused to pay for her movie ticket because, as a feminist, I was ideologically opposed to the idea. Never saw her again. I was 19.
16. If I see a fire extinguisher, I have to play with it.
17. When I was a child, I stepped on my pet gerbil, Frederick. My dad gave him a funeral flush.
18. I think Mary Todd Lincoln was a stone-cold fox.
19. I always thought the lyrics to “Jet Airliner” by the Steve Miller Band went “Big ol’ Chad and the lineup.”
20. I once put my left foot in while doing the hokeypokey and was unable to take it out for three days.
21. I’m an expert juggler, chess player and Call of Duty sniper.
22. I dance like a girl when Madonna’s “Into the Groove” comes on.
23. Fact: My two favorite shows are Lost and Sesame Street.
24. My stunt double on The Office is a marionette.
25. I wish there was a Home Surgery Network.”
I am so pumped for Speidi and Kim Kardashian on HIMYM tonight that I thought I would share one of my favorite NPH moments (singing about Ted’s sister, Heather):
“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” -Galatians 3:26-28
"Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts." -Isaiah 26:8
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." -Romans 5:1-2
