One of my former roomies and I had our eye on the same guy, and I snagged him first, and once we were listening to music, and we both chanted "Strange relationships really get me down" at the same time and looked at each other gravely serious.

Hee. I see nothing wrong with spreading myself around!

The game gets better after the first quarter.

I've had oatmeal butterscotch cookies and heartily endorse them.

There was a recipe on the back of the butterscotch chips for what I think were called "Scotch Oaties." My mother used to make them.

I memorized these because of Madeleine L'Engle:

For thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain

and

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future’s sakes.

Office Christmas dinner was tonight, I am stuffed full of delicious sushi. And got my cousin-in-law to try a piece of my volcano roll, which she liked despite her apprehension about sushi in general. Also, it was one of my co-workers' birthday yesterday so she got a big slice of free fried cheesecake with a candle and a photograph of herself wearing a hachimaki.

I was introduced to The Hobbit at a very early age, and I used to have all the songs memorized.

(The movie's version of "Far over the misty mountains cold...." was very different than I expected. I quite like it.)

The only one I can recite from memory any more is "Roads go ever ever on...." Sometimes I can remember the extra verses from LotR, but usually I have to look them up.

Thanks, Dana!

Most of the poetry I can remember is because I've sung a setting of it. Including several of the poems mentioned here, like Wild Nights and that one by Hopkins. And the one by Donne that ends:

This as yet my ease and comfort is

Though I speed not, I cannot miss.

I tried to memorize Gimli's song about Moria, because I adore the line "In Moria, In Kazad-dum, where the shadows dwell." I love Dwarvish poetry.

ION, I am attempting meatloaf again, this time with real beef instead of turkey. I'm thinking I should have done two eggs, because the meat and breadcrumbs really sucked it in. Oh, well, if it's dry, that's what ketchup's for.

I'm reading The Hobbit to the kids right now, and whatever else I think about PJ's trilogy, it sure is nice to have "official" tunes to go with most of the songs!

I have ground veal and ground pork and ground beef right now, I think that might mean I need to make meatloaf. Not that I have ever made meatloaf like that, but I understand it is done.