I have a hot date with DH this afternoon……we’re going to see “The Return of the King.” I know, I know. You expected something else. I’ll leave that to Pob.
I’m delighted to be going. I’m thoroughly invested in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I read the books when I was in college, and have enjoyed the first two movies tremendously. I can remember an attempt to do the story about 20 years ago that was part live action and part animated, and this version is MUCH better.
I’m holding off on purchasing the movies because I want the complete set and all the additional material for all three movies in one package. We’ve watched the first movie repeatedly on cable, and we’ve seen “Twin Towers” two or three times in the past two weeks.
I hope this movie is not overlooked when it comes to Oscars. It surely deserves recognition.
If I don’t make it back to the computer this evening, I hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s eve, and we wish the best of new years for you!

We have the most boring, er….laid back New Year’s Eve. I’d love to be out among friends, partying. I don’t need a lot of booze, but I’d love to chat and dance and generally have a good time. I’d be totally happy with a group who wanted to sit around and play board games until it was time to usher in the new year.
We traditionally have a quiet night at home. I used to open a bottle of champagne until I realized that DH doesn’t care for it. Now I just have a glass of wine. For years we celebrated by watching every Marx Brother’s movie we have, one after the other. After about 15 years of that I protested, and now we surf to see what’s on TV.
The only time I have ever partied was two years ago at Jamie and Speedbump’s. I had a great time! On-line friends from England and Scotland flew in and DH and I flew down, and we partied for several days! I suspect that may be the only New Year’s Eve party I will ever attend, so I’m really glad I have good memories of it.
I was telling a friend that in the past I would walk out my door at midnight and beat a pot with a wooden spoon to drive away the bad spirits. She said that at the stroke of midnight her mother begins sweeping the floor in her house. She works from one end toward the front door, and sweeps the bad right out the door. The broom is disposed of, never to be used again, and never allowed back into the house.
How will you be celebrating? Maybe you should all plan to come here next year!

Do you read the “funny pages” in the newspaper? Some days that’s the only part of the newspaper I get the chance to see. I was browsing through the funnies as I ate lunch and realized that several of them perfectly described my life on New Year’s Eve.
Agnes’ friend invites her to party on New Year’s Eve. Agnes declines, saying she’ll just sit and watch. Her friend goes all out, and Agnes realizes she should have gone…..
I never read “Zits,” but today I did. The boys are laying around talking about their parent’s concept of a “party.” The upshot of the discussion is that the Amish have wilder parties than their parents.
“Shoe,” one of my favorites, ponders the idea that for every brain cell that dies, a fat cell is born. Now that’s down-right depressing!
And “Broom-Hilda” and her crowd describe exactly what will happen here tonight. We’ll start yawning about 8:00 and just give up on ushering the New Year in.
It’s terrible to get to the point where you want to sleep more than you want to celebrate!