I can apply those three things to pretty much anybody- with different requirements for each.

I want Heather to come shop for me! I think I can tell when something looks good on me but I end up trying on a million bad things because I can't judge on the rack. And that can be really discouraging. Also, I should just accept that H & M is not going to make a top that works for me. Skirts & pants, yes. Tops not so much.

I adore the O'Brian books. Stephen M. is my secret Regency boyfriend. For some reason I never saw Master and Commander. Do any O'Brian fans recommend/dislike it? I'm neutral on Russell Crowe.

I actually researched it once, because I wanted an Italian name. It turns out that Rosamund *is* Germanic, it's Hrosmund or something originally.

Anyone want to google me the perfect hairstyle.

Give David about 2 minutes.

I'm going to abandon my idea of growing my hair out. as it longer I keep wanting to tuck it behind my ears and keep wondering when I can start pulling it back with a clip. Which isn't what I want. Plus it's starting to take too long to style.

ION one of the janitorial staff caught me in the elevator and told me that one of the construction guys seemed to be interested in meand/or asked if I had a boyfriend I'm not clear on that point. Just now she caught back up with me and told me which guy. Turns out he's the shy slightly built shorter guy who on one of his first days here wore an embrodered Winnie the Pooh shirt.

Evidentally his too shy to really say anything to me besides hi, happy holidays, and what happened to the ice machine.

I'm not sure how to react to this especially since feels slightly high schoolish because I don't know if my coworker has told this guy she talked to me.

Betsy, it's Germanic? Odd. I think of it as French, meaning, Rose of the World. After all, it's the name of the world's most gorgeous cathedral window, at Notre Dame.

In re the subscribe button, anyone know another language for "D'OH!"? Next time, instead of doing it through the profile, I'll justg go straight into the new thread and hit "subscribe".

Ok, throw some names out there.

I love both Christina Dodd and Julia Quinn, but I think they use the Regency period as a pretty background set rather than dealing with the era authentically. But I don't read them for the historical aspect outside of minor setup issues that would be hard to pull off in a contemporary romance.

It turns out that Rosamund *is* Germanic, it's Hrosmund or something originally.

Yep, you're right. Hrosmund was Germanic (hros = "horse" and mund = "protection"), but came over to England with the Normans. It was later influenced by the Latin rosa munda and the two got conflated. Either way, it isn't Saxon.

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=rosamund

With all the Norman French stuff I sometimes forget that the Normans had a lot of, well, Norse in them, as did poor Harold, and the whole 1066 thing was basically tribal warfare between two sets of latter era Vikings. So having Germanic stuff coming over from Normandy wouldn't be that far off.

Calli, FWIW I loved Master & Commander. It's not so much a direct adaptation of any of the books as it's a story in the same spirit, and it's very, very well-done. I had to drag DH along to get him to see it, and he ended up declaring it the best movie he saw in 2003.

I never developed a Jack or a Stephen crush, though I'll admit the books are part of why Stephen is my current first choice name if I ever have a boy.

I need to head out now, so I'll leave it to others to talk about the most and least accurate Regency writers, and I'll see y'all when I'm back in Seattle, in the house of comfy mattresses and air free of cat dander.

FUCKING HELL. DH worked BOTH DAYS over Thanksgiving vacation. He's been busting his ass for months on a project. He worked the Sunday after Christmas, he's been on a borrowed laptop every fucking night for the last two months.

He's sick. Tomorrow's New Year's Eve. They just called him and told him he has to come in tomorrow. This bites ASS.