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Being a bit of a nerd and a huge comic book lover there are some great movies coming out in 2012 that have me quite excited about.

Ghostbusters 3

Rumoured for a release in 2012.

Another Ghostbusters movie would rock, if there is a movie series that needs to comeback it is Ghostbusters. Still cannot eat marshmallows without thinking about these movies.

Commando

Rumoured for a release in 2012.

The same movie as the Commando released in 1985 but once again Sam Worthington will be taking on a Arnie franchise.

Daredevil Reboot

Rumoured for a release in 2012.

Hopefully better than the original.

Riddick

Rumoured for a release in 2012.

I enjoy most Vin Diesel movies where he is not racing around in cars.

Once again this will be a movie about the hero getting chased and killing bounty hunters – sounds awesome to me.

Underworld: Awakening

January 2012

Selene is back in tight leather and ready to kill.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

February 2012

I have totally mixed feelings about this move, ok the first one sucked and at the moment Nicolas Cage is doing any load of crap to pay off his tax debt but I just can’t pass up a comic book movie.

The AVENGERS (all in caps because it is going to be awesome)

May 2012 – Save the day

This is something we have been building up to for quite some time now we have all THE AVENGERS

in one movie. We have a whole troop of Heroes, Thor, Cap America, Iron Man, Hulk, Hawkeye & Nick Fury. Maybe after Joss has finished with this he can bring back Firefly.

This is going to be my tied fav movie for 2012.

Men in Black 3

May 2012

The first two were fantastic movies but I did think it was a bit silly that they brought Tommy Lee out of retirement to help out Will but here I

At least in this one Marty Agent J going back in time and teams up with a younger Agent K. Will seems to be a bit busy with sequels for 2012 with I am Legend 2 and Independence Day 2.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

June 2012

There was always going to be a sequel to Rise of the Cobra after it grossing almost 300 million. But anyway Ray Park will be back as Snake Eyes and that’s all that counts.

The Amazing Spider-Man

July 2012

Ok so this is my tied for favourite movie for 2012 along with The Avengers but on seconds thoughts this is the movie I have been looking forward to ever since I first heard about it.

Ok so there are some quick and easy points to make about this as movie, firstly no Tobey Maguire. So some things I have gathered from the trailers as so far is that this is going to a lot darker than the previous series and Spidey will now have web shooters.

Spider-Man is one of my fav comic book heroes, here is a adolescent teen who needs to manage school, job and being Spider-man. Sometimes he runs out of money to buy solution for his web shooters and with four girls all in love with him makes it a fun comic to read.

The Dark Knight Rises

July 2012 – July is going to be a good month

The Dark Knight is back and this time he will be battling Bane. Cat-Woman is back but have no fear it is not Halle Berry.

The Expendables 2

August 2012

The boys are back, this time we have Sly, Arnie, Bruce Willis, Dolph & Mickey Rourke.

now the first movie was not a great movie but it was a fun movie – same should be expected of the sequel.

Resident Evil: Retribution

September 2012

This has always been one of my favourite series but the last movie left me quite disappointed. What is the point of having Alice as a mere mortal – here hoping the next one is better.

Dredd

September 2012

Does anyone remember the original with Sly?

Well here he is back to clean up the streets of Mega City One (Dredd not Sly).

Taken 2

October 2012

Liam Neeson tore up Paris in the original and I can’t wait to see what he does in the sequel.

The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer 2012

So in Tasmania we have a new detention centre located in Pontville, which has been met with mixed responses. For me though it has given me a great opportunity to go and met some of the detainees.

So far I have meet with four different fellows who are all Hazara and are from central Afghanistan originally. Where they were living they were surround by fighting and corruption, as one explained to me if you needed to go to the hospital firstly it was dangerous to get there and you needed to pay bribes to be able to travel to the hospital but once you got there you also needed to pay bribes to be able to see a doctor – sounds expensive to me.

So in short all of the guys we have here in Pontville have fled Afghanistan to either Iran or Pakistan, and from there have sought to get asylum here in Australia.

The process takes a very long time usually 2 – 3 years sometimes longer, one fellow I meet has a little daughter of 18 months back in Pakistan that he has not yet met. We only have single males in detention in Pontville but most still have families waiting in either Pakistan or Iran waiting for their husband to get given asylum or be returned back to them. Long time to go without seeing your family.

I spoke to the guys to see what they thought of the Pontville detention centre as they have already been held in either the Western Australian or the Christmas Island centres and one then they told me that they liked about Pontville was the guards. In all of the other centres they are only referred to by their number that they are given when they are entered into the system but down here they are given the decency of being called their own names by the guards. So far on my two visits all of the guards I have met have been very supportive of all of the Asylum Seekers.

Each time I have gone into visit the guys they have treated us like their guests bring in snacks and making us hot drinks (had to explain that you cannot microwave foam cups as some of them have never used a microwave before) and some have even made us presents in their spare time.

Going again on Tuesday evening to visit a couple of guys who follow Christ and are escorted on Sundays to attend church, a very dangerous thing to follow Christ in a Muslim country so looking forward to hearing their stories about this.

So we found a house we really liked, and then started all of the haggling.

Now up to this point everything I and my wife have ever purchased we paid for with cash so they have all been relatively simple transactions. When I bought both my motorcycle and car I bought them new from a shop, I walked in new what they wanted for it and made my offer and left owning a vehicle.

Now buying a house is a whole different kettle of fish, we found a house we liked and saw what they wanted and then we said great we will pay you this much.

They come back and say no how about this amount? Now my wife was worried about some concrete that was going to have to be pulled up as they did not have council approval for it and she also liked a couple of pieces of furniture they had so she started getting a little created with her next counter offer. So how about this much and you remove the concrete or this other amount and you leave behind your couch and the old wood cupboard.

They came back and said ok this much with the cupboard but we have sold the couch already, I informed the wife and she said yes let’s do it.

By this time we had been going back and forth for over a week and I was really getting into the swing of this offer and counter offering, so with instructions from the wife to go ahead and make the deal I called the realtor and said yes we accept…. as long as you through in the painting in the house I really liked.

After a week we finally got a yes from the owner. Woohoo we are buying a house. This is fun.

Then the meetings with a lawyer and paper work started and the back and forth trying to get an agreement on the clauses in the contract. This took another two weeks and by this stage my interests in the whole adventure have seriously started to fade.

But now we have a contract and are one step closer to have our first family home, now we just need to have the place checked out to make sure it’s all ok.

the house was advertised as being recently rewired but we still needed to have it checked, sure it might have been rewired but the add did not stat the guy doing it was a hillbilly with a roll of electrical tape and using his remaining teeth to strip the wires.

Quote to fix electrical wiring: +10k

At this point we were a little worried but decided to press ahead and have the septic system checked. System was installed in the 1930s, and i guess back then people only did small poos and the council did not mind if you let the run off flow into the local creek… Sorry to say but things have changed since then.

Quote to fix septic issues: +10k – 13K

So after wasting a month going back and forth making offers we are back to looking for a house.

Still think they should let me keep the painting.