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There are a few things that I never dreamed I would be interested in or really enjoy, until I met my husband.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…

Just kidding, but really, I remember sitting in our family room about ten years ago with my uncle and cousin.  I came back to see what movie they were watching and it was Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.  I remember watching it for a few minutes and thinking that this was the most boring movie ever and that they were Star Wars nerds (sorry guys).  I never dreamed that I would sit through that movie again.

Flash forward…I start dating Eric.  Eric is a huge Star Wars fan.  Being the good girlfriend, I agreed to watch the movies with him.  Amazingly enough, I really liked them!  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched all six of the movies now, but I think Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is my favorite.  I even read the book!  Crazy.  Never in a million years would I imagine myself reading a Star Wars book.  I even have Obi-Wan and Yoda lightsabers (my favorite characters and the Yoda lightsaber lights up and has sound!).  This Christmas, I bought Eric the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game.  When we play, he has to answer all of the questions on the card in order to move forward to make the game a little more challenging for him.  I must say, I impressed myself with some of the knowledge I have about the saga. 

Then we go to the superheros.  This began for me by watching Smallville with Eric.  He got season one for Christmas one year and he made me watch it with him.  I had NO interest in watching a TV show about a young superman, but I ended up watching the whole season and loved it!  We now have through season 7 of the show and I can’t wait to see number 8!  Eric also introduced me to Fantastic 4, Spiderman, The Hulk, Iron Man and the X-Men.  My favorite movies are the X-Men movies with my favorite character being Wolverine (Hugh Jackman may have a small influence on me liking this character).  A couple days before the new Wolverine movie came out, my husband said “Before we go to see this movie, you have to read these first,” and he set down the Wolverine Origins comic books in front of me.  Ugh, really?  I have to read a comic book?  (Of course I didn’t have to read it, but I did anyways).  Good grief, what is wrong with me??  I actually liked them!  We just went to see the movie last night and it was amazing!  

Next on the list that Eric is trying to get me to watch is Star Trek.  He has all of the movies on DVD.  Ugh, just the thought of watching them makes me sleepy.  However, the new Star Trek movie looks promising.  Maybe he will get me hooked after all.