Your timing is kind of funny, beth, as I was going to say...

Also, that way we got live-action Legolas and Aragorn and Borimir and Farimir and Eomer and NOMNOMNOM.

And Boromir! I loved the books, but he was such an ass in them, and just all conflicted and wonderful in the movies. Peter Jackson totally turned me into a Sean Bean fangurl, and the Sharpe movies finished the job.

eta: Oops. I totally missed, every single time, that the original had Boromir in it. I guess I just really, really wanted to share about my Sean Bean fanaticism.

I brought borscht down to Mom & Dads. We drank a lot of wine and played Oh Hell then I showed them the video for Fairytale of New York. It was a good day.

My uterus is trying to ruin my apartment. After the bleeding on the grout issue I just bled on my duvet cover from sitting on it. Yes, that also means that I bled through my pajama pants as well. FUCK. At least I can just throw it in the washer. Grr.

My brother was a huge fan of Tolkein. I read The Hobbit and stopped. He gave me the trilogy for Christmas one year and I picked the first book up many times but I could never get into it. After I saw the first movie I gobbled up the books. I'm not sure if it was me being a more mature reader or having the bonus visual cues that made them so readable at last.

I remember a long time ago trying to watch the movie Catch 22 and not enjoying it at all. Then I tried to read the book and couldn't get into it. I tried the movie again and enjoyed it and then I could appreciate the book. My brain is weird.

When I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban I had a real hard time visualizing the character of Sirius. He just didn't fit in my head into the HP universe. Then I found out Gary Oldman had been cast in the part and suddenly Sirius was real to me. I had a point but I think it drowned in my Pinot Gris.

Vortex that sucks! Oh btw Mom says if baking soda doesn't work on the grout that she's had good luck with bleach and an old toothbrush.

I soaked it in oxyclean for a bit. We'll see if that takes care of the problem. ARGH. I'm going to bed. hopefully, I won't bleed out before morning.

Vortex, it would be totally wrong of me to suggest you stuff a cork in it. So I won't.

But I'm having fun thinking about it, and hoping you don't kill me too badly. Sleep well.

Turkish delight: I brought "Applets & Cutlets" from Liberty Orchards to Bali, telling people they were made in my home state. They were very popular, and someone told we they were a LOT like Turkish Delight. So now I have some idea of what Turkish Delight is like, so does anybody on this list who has ever eaten "Applets & Cutlets". (Kind of a soft candy made from sweeteners, fruit, and walnuts.The walnuts are in small enough quantities for the candy to stay a soft candy.)

Good morning all! I'm a little too chirpy this morning, but tis the season! How are we all?

For all of my childhood i thought that "turkish delight" was grapes wrapped in lettuce leaves and thinly sliced turkey. At least that's what i called the turkey/lettuce/grape rolls and enjoyed them very much back when i ate of the meat. I was sorely dissappointed when introduced to the real thing.