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Just a quick note...

Just a quick note for everyone out there. The new James Rollins book, The Last Oracle, comes out on Tuesday and I'm pretty psyched about it! It's 4th in his Sigma series which fits into the thriller/ sci-fi genre. If you're a fan of Dean Koontz then you'll like James Rollins. 

Presents from Nolan

So my sweet husband told me on Monday that I wasn't allowed to look at our online bank statements until after Wednesday because he had bought me a present. I was really excited because I was SURE it was going to be the X-Files dvds because he'd been talking about those a lot lately. Then he mentioned that he wanted it to get here quick because he wanted to watch it! I was sure it was dvds! Then I thought, "Nolan doesn't like the X-Files, why would he be excited to watch them?" I went through my mental list of the dvds I'd been wanting to buy and realized that Nolan didn't like ANY of the dvds I wanted. What the heck was he getting? Well the box came today and my first thought when I saw it was "Aw, it's too small to be the X-Files" :-( So I opened the box and got the biggest surprise ever! It was the Amazon Kindle! Hooray! I'm not sure if this will help me get over my book addiction or just help it along but I don't care. This is an awesome present that my sweet, wonderful,thoughtful husband bought for me. He took my addiction and digitized it!

I'm boring, sorry.

Apparently there is a faction out there threatening to boycott me if I go more then a month without posting. In my defense I have had a rather boring life this past month and had no desire to bore my readers with said boringness. But in order to keep my ratings up it looks like I'll have to do just that. Since my last post I have done 6 scary homework assignments, washed many sinks of dishes, been to the laundry-mat 5 times, read 5 books, been to 1 Salt Lake Bees game, ironed 4 shirts 3 times, bought a new make-up bag, a new purse, a new wallet, a new skin care set (which I love!), tracked down 1 wrongly delivered UPS package, been on 4 walks, made 2 dozen sugar cookies, got my hair dyed, bought 7 books, re-discovered my love of Churros, tried to give up Coke (the soda, not the drug, I'll never give that up!), got the brakes and oil changed on 2 cars, got the AC fixed in 1 car, went to Indiana Jones and Kung-Fu Panda with my sister and joined Weight-Watchers. Just boring old me.

I have a problem.

Hello, my name is Breelyn and I have a book addiction. I know that the first step to solving the problem is to admit it, so there, I admitted it. I tried to hide the problem by making all of my books fit on one bookshelf but it just wasn't working anymore. There was no more room. So I went and bought a second bookshelf and by the time I got everything organized I realized that my second shelf was also full. If you don't believe me, look at the picture. If you know anyone I can call for some professional help with my addiction please let me know. Thanks everyone for all of your support. 

The Alaskan Inn

As many of you know, it was mine and Nolan's 2 year anniversary on Monday. Since we are still young and relatively obligation free we decided to take off for a few days. I dropped Jinx off at my mom's on Saturday and then on Sunday we drove up Ogden Canyon to the Alaskan Inn. It's a themed hotel but it doesn't have the crazy themes like the Anniversary Inn. It's just a very rustic atmosphere with woods and cabins. They have chilled spiced cider waiting for you in your room and you order breakfast when you check in and they'll bring it to you at a time of your choosing in the morning. The rooms have jetted tubs and cable and dvd players with surround sound. I've attached the picture of our cabin. The second night we were there I thought it would be nice to add some bubbles to the jetted tub. While I was getting ready Nolan went right ahead and added about three times the amount of bubbles that you would usually use in a regular tub. Since this was a jetted tub it was probably 9 times the amount that we really needed. Needless to say we had a LOT of bubbles! Even with the bubble fiasco we had a really great time and plan on going back as often as we can. If any of you are looking for a really nice place to get away then we highly recommend the Alaskan Inn.

The Host book signing

In case you didn't notice, in my earlier post I mentioned that I was not one of the crazies waiting up until midnight to get my copy of The Host from Wal-Mart. I did not, however, mention that about two weeks ago I talked my sister into going to Stephenie Meyer's signing of The Host down in Provo. Well it turned out that to get tickets to said signing you had to buy a copy of The Host at either the Murray or Provo Borders and that tickets went on sale at 8 in the morning on the day of release. My wonderful sister Lainey got to Borders right at 8 and then waited in line for about an hour and a half. By the time she got our tickets there were only about 30 out of 500 left. Like I said, crazies. But we did get tickets and last Friday we drove down to Thanksgiving Point to get our books signed. The tickets said that the doors opened at 5 so we planned on 5 and made it at about 5:15. There was no line outside and when we got in we realized why. The Crazies had apparently been there all day and already had their seats. Needless to say Lainey and I ended up on the second row from the back. Stephenie Meyer came out at 7 and spoke for about half an hour and then she started signing books. Lainey and I finally got out of there at 11:30. That's right... 11:30! Almost every Crazy had 4 or 5 copies of The Host and they could also have two of the Twilight books. Sure, you're thinking that's only 6 or 7 books, what's the big deal? The big deal is that there were about 900 Crazies in front of us in line! At a minimum of 4 books a piece that still at least 3600 books that got signed ahead of us! I only had my single copy of the Host but I waited 6 and a half hours to get it signed. I guess in the end I'm crazy too. A book signing is probably something I'll never do again but at least I can say I did it.