I am also still chortling about hearing Tom Baker using crude language.

And there was something else I wanted to mention but can no longer recall.

Just saw King Kong. Weep, weep, weep. Aiden Brody is a hottie, Naomi Watts is a hottie. I just wish she and Jack Black would close their mouths more often.

Andy Serkis is a god.

And there was something else I wanted to mention but can no longer recall.

Maybe that we have a photo of you in the tiara I gave you for Christmas? [link]

Oooh, Andi, you look gawjus! What a pretty tiara!

I want to see Chronicles. King Kong, NSM. I may go to it if someone else talks me into it, but I'm getting kind of tired of remakes.

On that note, I'ma go bed. I've been fighting to keep my eyes open for the last half hour. You would think I'd get a clue!

Sail, ND and I loved Kong.

It was really fun and worth seeing.

I'll reserve judgement until my daughter sees it. While our tastes differ, she's actually a harsher critic than me. So, if she likes it, I'll go check it out.

I have no desire to see Narnia. The books never thrilled me, and I'm not so desperate for fantasy movies that I'm willing to put up with the story. I have weird Aslan issues.

I skiiiiiimed. But I think Almare's myths need to be compiled. Hot hot mythological hoYAY.

Timelies!

-t, congrats on your own new place! How exciting! I’ll need that address so I can send a little something that I’ve been holding on to, because I’m lazy or busy or something.

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FAY! Yay for you!

KARL! It’s been too long!

Hec, go you with the Christmas helping! That was very sweet of you.

{{{MG}}} I’m so sorry about the DH not liking the presents. That is totally sucky!

It was wonderful to catch up and hear about all the terrific days yesterday.

What Beverly said.

Here's the silly part. We use GoogleTalk to tell each other stuff. While we are sitting next to each other on the couch. Just because we can, really.

Emily and I occasionally do that in the living room with Trillian. It’s quite fun.

Hope you’re feeling better, Nora!

Gonna write up some updates for the next post.

I have had a perfectly lovely couple of days. Mom and dad dropped off mom’s car for me on Christmas Adam (the day before Christmas Eve…it’s a joke my brothers and I made up when we were little). So, Christmas Eve I got up, ran some errands, wrapped presents and got ready to go to mom and dad’s for a few days. Dropped Emily at the airport in Providence, so she could head to Michigan to be with her mom, then headed to mom and dad’s to start the festivities.

We went to a lovely (but LONG) Christmas Eve service at my parents’ church, where my brother and my dad sang an absolutely gorgeous a cappella version of Silent Night, partly in German. It was just beautiful. After the service we headed back home for corn chowder and fixings. Yummmmm. By the time dinner was done, we were all pooped and headed to bed so Santa could come.

Sunday morning we got up, showered and whatnot, then did stockings. Stockings with the dogs are always fun! They’re so cute. I don’t know about other houses, but Santa does a bang-up job with stockings at our place.

Then we had a lovely breakfast of home-made cinnamon rolls (where we all STUFFED our faces!) and headed off to church. The service was quite lovely and SHORT! Yay! We were home by the time mom and dad are usually leaving church, which was kind of nice, since greed had set in. We were going to eat some lunch before presents, but it was taking a long time to defrost the stuff for lunch, so we started on presents. Everyone loved what I got them, so that was wonderfully fun.

I had asked for a bunch of stuff, then sent out an amendment e-mail to my family asking them to donate money to a couple favorite charities that are helping get gifts/books to kids in the Hurricane Katrina-zone. Like the sweeties that my family members are, they each gave a little to the charities, but still gave something to me. It was quite touching. I got a couple of iTunes gift certificates, gift certificates to my two favorite craft stores, new dishes (to replace our cracked ones at the apartment), Serenity, all of the South Beach Diet books (which my mom was cutely worried were going to offend me), and the beautiful bread basket linens that my mom embroidered. I think that about covers it. I’m sure there were a few more little things, but that was mostly it. It was lovely.

We had prime rib with all the normal fixings for dinner. It was SO YUMMY! After cleanup, we all crashed and watched football. I was in bed by 9 p.m. Mom and dad went to bed shortly thereafter. Jon stayed up to watch his beloved Vikings lose, and was in a crabby mood all yesterday because of it. Poor kid.

Yesterday we did the very important day-after-Christmas shopping. I got a bunch of clothes at GREAT prices and another birthday present for Emily…oh, and a new, lovely winter coat, which I desperately needed. Today I head back home. It’s been a wonderful few days with my family, though.