Kim

Here's a list of the 100 Top Grossing movies - bold the ones you've seen.

Titanic (1997)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Shrek 2 (2004)
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Spider-Man (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Lion King (1994)
Shrek the Third (2007)
Transformers (2007)
Iron Man (2008)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Independence Day (1996)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Home Alone (1990)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Shrek (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
The Incredibles (2004)
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Jaws (1975)
I Am Legend (2007)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Batman (1989)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Men in Black (1997)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Cars (2006)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Twister (1996)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Cast Away (2000)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Signs (2002)
Hancock (2008)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
WALL•E (2008)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
King Kong (2005)
Ghost (1990)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Aladdin (1992)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Back to the Future (1985)
300 (2006)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Ratatouille (2007)
Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Batman Begins (2005)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Armageddon (1998)
Superman Returns (2006)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Happy Feet (2006)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Madagascar (2005)
Toy Story (1995)
Men in Black II (2002)
Gladiator (2000)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)


Not bad, considering I haven't watched hardly any movies since graduating high school.  Does anyone have suggestions for ones I should see?    I don't have time to watch the Lord of the Rings movies - they are just too long. 

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I just found this today:  It made me laugh.  :)

What do you get when you eat a Blackberry?


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Stolen from: Superdave

Apparently, this is the blog version of tag- and I'm it! Here are the rules:
Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

Here it is:

What were you doing ten years ago?
June 1998 - I'd just finished my sophomore year of high school, so probably just babysitting as much as possible and doing stuff at church.

What are five non-work related items on my to-do list today:
-Put away the dishes
-Somehow convince Bill to take me out riding the motorcycle
-Swiffer sweep the floor
-Design Ann Arbor Litho Club newsletter for June
-Get Powerpoint ready for church on Sunday

Five snacks I enjoy:
-Dove ice cream
-Oreos
-Lime-flavored tortilla chips and salsa
-Cereal
-Chocolate vanilla creme pop tarts

Five things I'd do if I were a billionaire:
-Find a way to go to Medical School and study Oncology.
-Pay off my loans
-Take Bill to Chile to meet my friends there.
-Give lots of money to my church  - Frontline
-Pay our friend Luke (or a car shop if he's too busy) to fix up Bill's Mustang

Places I've lived:
Ontonagon, MI; Jackson, MI; Kalamazoo, MI; Santiago, Chile; Jackson, MI; Baltimore, MD; Jackson, MI;  Ann Arbor, MI

Jobs I've had (in order of appearance):
Baby sitter, Drive-thru at Steak n' Shake, Copy center at Staples, Hostess at Lone Star, Temp at TAC (steering wheels), Media Helper at K College, Intern at U of M, Analytical Chemist at MPI Research, Research Technician at U of M (two different labs)

Tagged Friends:
The first 5 people who read this and comment.

Just got it this weekend - brand new!!!!  I'm psyched to learn how to ride it! 

My backpack out of my car while I was in college about halfway through a semester.  It contained all my books, all my notes, and my graphing calculator, not to mention my wallet with a couple credit cards, student ID and drivers license.  It was really hard to keep up with my classes after that was stolen! - this was probably most valuable to me.  They also took my husband's laptop that belonged to his work company, so they just claimed it on insurance and replaced it for him.  Nothing could replace my class notes. 

Most valuable monetarily:  The moving company - Allied Van Lines - stole a chain saw and a 30-gallon air compressor from my husband and I while our stuff was in storage.  Then they lied to us about how to make a claim for the stuff they supposedly "lost" and spent the next year trying to weasel out of paying us for anything.  They eventually paid us some of what they owed, but not entirely.  We were really ticked off at them and the Better Business Bureau wasn't able to do anything with them either.  Stupid moving company.....

The chain saw was worth ~$150 and the air compressor about $400. 

Two Names You Go By

1. Kim
2. Mrs. Wearne  

Two Parts of Your Heritage

1. German
2. English

Two Things That Scare You

1. Drivers who are too old to be driving (aka can't see well enough or have good
2. Making my boss mad

Two of Your Everyday Essentials

1. coffee 
2. clothes

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now

1. dark brown snow boots
2. blue jeans

Two of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)

1. Skillet
2. Jaci Velasquez

Two Things You Want in a Relationship (other than Real Love)

1. commitment
2. fun

Two Truths

1. we've had a lot more snow in Ann arbor this year than last year
2. My truck is old and rusty

Two Physical Things that Appeal to You About the Opposite Sex.

1. smile
2. eyes

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies

1. reading
2. playing with new computer programs - the latest is Adobe In-Design

Two Things You Want Really Badly

1. to impress my new boss and succeed in my new job
2. to make my husband happy

Two Places You Want to go on Vacation

1. Hawaii
2. Australia

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die

1. return to Chile and introduce Bill to my friends, host family, and church family there.
2. make a positive impact on those around me

Two Ways That You are Stereotyped

1. dumb blond
2. christian as atheists and agnostics may see them - eg. hypocritical, judgemental, etc. 

Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. I really shouldn't be on lunch anymore
2. all the stuff I have to organize.

Two Stores You Shop At

1. Meijer
2. Lowes

Two people you haven't talked to in a while

1. Katie Easton
2. Elizabeth Marquart

Two favorite web sites

1. LJ
2. fanfiction.net

Two pets you had (have)

1. Pogo
2. Coda

Two Favorite Sports

1. Hockey (to watch only)
2. bowling

Two things you did last night

1. washed dishes
2. did laundry

Two shows you like to watch

1. House MD.
2. House is the only show I've watched consistently in the past 5 years.

Two places you like to go "out" to

1. Frontline Church
2. Briarwood Mall

I'm bored, so here's some useless info about me, if anyone really cares.

Stolen From: pokeitlikejello

A - Accent: I'm told Michigan is the only state which has no accent, so none.

B - Breast size: C

C - Chore you hate: Ironing

D - Dad's name: Douglas

E - Essential make-up item: Concealer

F - Favorite perfume: Vanilla

G - Gold or silver: Silver

H - Hometown: Jackson, MI

I - Insomnia: No

J - Job title: Laboratory Technician Associate

K - Kids: None, yet.

L - Living arrangements: Mobile Home shared with husband and cat.

M - Mum's birthplace: Lansing, Michigan

N- Number of apples you've eaten: No idea - probably tons in my lifetime since they are so abundant here.

O - Overnight hospital stays: None

P - Phobia: Spiders

Q - Quest: ... I dunno.... To figure out what I'm supposed to be doing with my life?

R - Religious affiliation: Christ-follower

S - Siblings: Rob and Mark

T - Time you wake up:  The alarm goes off at 7.  I'm usually up by 7:45, sometimes later depending on how many times I hit snooze.  On the weekends I get up whenever I feel like it which is directly correlated to the time I went to bed the night before.

U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn: None

V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Eggplant - there just does not seem to be a way to prepare it that tastes good (and my parents tried about 15 different ways!)

W - Worst habit: procrastination

X - X-rays you've had: Only of my teeth at the dentist once a year since I was about 4.

Y - Yummy foods you make: Cookies, cake, mac & cheese, meatloaf, banana bread... we could be here all night, so lets just say I like to cook and do it a lot!

Z - Zodiac sign: Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on which newspaper or magazine you look in - my birthday, Nov. 22, is right on the cut off, so sometimes it is one, sometimes it is the other.

I know this is probably a really stupid reason to post, but my husband mentioned something a few days ago when we were watching the Back to the Future trilogy together.  We were watching the third part and ... (don't continue reading this if you haven't seen the movies) ... the following conversation took place:

Bill (my husband): "You know this movie didn't really have to happen."

Me: What?

Bill:  Well, after Marty went back, there were two Deloreans in 1885, so they could have just mixed the parts from each to produce one functioning time machine and driven it back to 1985 - before Doc even met Clara. 

At this point we continued to watch the movie, but I was a little disappointed.  Why didn't Doc think of that?  He was supposed to be smart, right?  Grrr.  How depressing.

Some reasoning in case you haven't seen the movie in a while and want to understand:

Marty is stuck in 1955 at the end of part 2, gets a letter from Doc who was struck by lightning in the Delorean saying when he was sent - 1885 - and where he hid the non-functional Delorean, as well as how Marty could fix it and get back to 1985.  The 1955 Doc and Marty find 1985 Doc's grave near where 1985 Doc hid the Delorean - showing his death only a few months after he arrived in 1885, so Marty goes back to 1885 to rescue Doc.  When he gets there, he accidentally rips the fuel line in the Delorean and loses all the gas.  When he finds Doc and tells him this, Doc says there won't be any gas stations for 20-30 more years, so they have to find another way.  In reality, they just had to go dig up Doc's delorean and fix one of them up using parts from the other.

Here's the car, since they're so cool looking:

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I thought these were funny, so here they are. ;-)

Here's a little bit about me:

I am married (no kids yet) and working in a chemistry lab. I probably won't be here much longer because the grant runs out in January, so then I will be stuck. Until then, though, I'm trying to extract lectins out of bananas. (Note: TRYING is the operative word. I have followed 4 different published procedures and spent close to 2 months trying and have only in the past week managed to get anything out of it. I HATE bananas!)

The past 2 years I've spent treating frozen human ES cells with lectins trying to see which ones stick - showing the presence of various carbohydrates. I never thought I'd end up a carbohydrate chemist, but here I am.

If you want to read my papers, type Wearne into pubmed. It will come up with 2, I believe. If you want to read more than the abstract (which is free), email me at shotaurus@hotmail.com and I will eventually send you a pdf.

I like to play around with photoshop. I have CS2 here on my computer at work, so I play around with stuff a lot. I even made a logo for the church youth group, FYI (getting an idea of how bored I am most of the time?). I think it is cool, so here it is:



My husband and I help out with the media aspect of our church. The pastor, Kirk, has become one of our very good friends.

I have just started selling Beauticontrol products. Many of them are very nice. Check out the website to see! www.beauticontrol.com

I thought you might like to know, my icon is my favorite car. I used to own a green taurus SHO and we had to get rid of it when the transmission died, but boy was that car fun! Think taurus with a mustang engine! It had a lot of power and was really fun to drive.  I loved that car.  And they aren't making them anymore, so it is doubtful that I will ever own another one. :-(

Does anyone out there watch House MD? I love that show. It is the only thing I ever watch anymore. I also like to read the fanfiction about House and I have thought about writing some, but we will see about that later.

I am not currently listening to any music, but the song I am putting here is one I've been hearing a lot lately. ;-)