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Blue the sky, and green the forest

To start, two minor mysteries:

isntme, you've suceeded in rousing my curiosity. Would love to know how you found this journal. Welcome, anyway, you and the other people who found me through McTabby's intro post.

Also, I appear to have a subscription to YM magazine. ??? If you'd asked me yesterday, I'd have guessed YM was a men's magazine anyway, but apparently it's not. I have *no* idea why I'm getting it, but I do have the February and March issues. Any suggestions?

Spring Break Count:
Loads of laundry done: 5
Home-cooked meals eaten: 1
Home-cooked meals I had to cook myself: 1 (I hate peeling potatoes.)
Trips to church: 7
Trips to my old high school: 5
Attempts to drive myself somewhere during which I got lost and honked at: 5/5
Long car trips during which I fell asleep: 3
Quilt strips sewn: 1.5
Quilt squares cut: 73
Quilts tied: 7
Quilt raffle tickets sold: 15
Finished quilts delivered to Lutheran World Relief: 75
Bars of extra-dark chocolate bought at the SERRV store: 5
Dollars of my own money spent: ~15 (one McDonald's value meal, one pair black Old Navy overalls at Goodwill, one honey stick at Baugher's, Dolle's caramel corn and saltwater taffy at Ocean City)
Dollars of income tax calculated: 72 (all state, due to capital loss carryover from two years ago. Three cheers for Republican tax cuts for the rich!)
Ingrid Bergman movies watched: 2
X-files episodes watched: 2
Net lj friends added: 5
Lj entries made: 3
Roger Zelazny paperbacks read: 9
Homework done: None to speak of

So overall I'd say a success.

Friday night I used an ancient Blockbuster gift card and asked

speakerender over to watch Casablanca with me (and Mom) since none of us had seen it before. He insisted *I* be the one to write it up this time. Just because he got me to strip for him. q: Anyway, it was very nice to see him again and get a chance to talk afterward when Mom discreetly went downstairs to play solitaire. Exactly one year ago today I got him to go see CoS with me and got up the nerve to ask him for an lj code.

Very, very good movie, can't recommend enough if somehow you haven't seen it yet. Really enjoyed it the first time through even if I did know how it ended. Incredibly rich in character and story, and practically every line is famous, and then there's the special effects! So, yes, then go re-read the MSR retelling. Then go start writing an HP OT3 version, just because I can. Then watch it a second time, this time with my subtext goggles on. And omg, why is there not more rick/louis slash on the net? I mean, it's not just that last line, which I've seen so often quoted ironically there's no way I could read it straight (pardon the pun), it's every single line they say to each other, from "when it comes to women, you're a true democrat" right down to "that is my least vulnerable spot." Where the heck is all the slash?? I could only find one story, and it's AU. I've lost my faith.

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Just because he got me to strip for him

You never strip for me...

I went on a brief classic movie last spring - Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, North by Northwest.. and then for some reason stopped. I think it had to do with the movie rental place being a HOUSE OF HORRIBLE LIES.

Blockbuster did not impress me greatly either. I doubt I'll be back except to return the video, once I've kept it late enough to use up the rest of the gift card.

The DVD *skipped*. Plus, bleah to having to get a membership card in order to rent.

When I rented the first 4 xf episodes, the DVD skipped. I could watch *nearly* all of pilot, the last scene only of deep throat, and all of the other two. I complained when I took it back and I got credited the price of one rental back to my account. So if they're as nice in Odenton (or wherever) as they are in GF, you might get a free rental out of it. (;

Well, I wiped it hard on my corduroys and it mostly stopped except a bit of pixellation, and I really just want to get rid of the card, so I'm probably not going to bother telling them, but yeah--

speakerender said it had happened to him too. If I ever go again I'll get videos.

Huh. My FOTR DVD (theatrical, the one I sold to

night_daughter) started getting pixellated after I'd watched it maybe twice. Probably not worth complaining about. On the underhand, being physically unable to watch the CLIMACTIC MOMENT of the xf pilot was much more galling.

Eh. Silly DVDs.

Well, this was Hollywood Video, but the same principles apply. There's the skipping thing, which is annoying but remediable (at least for me, since I have my Optical Disc Resurfacing gizmo, mainly for my oodles of music CDs and old CD-R's I used to keep in a box of gravel or its equivalent,) and then there's the main issue - whenever I asked if they had a particular movie, they'd always swear it was there but it would never be in the right place and I'd spend half an hour looking for it and neither I nor the staff could ever find what I wanted. And I don't really like going without a particular movie in mind because then I usually end up getting three and don't watch any of them.

Also, I forgot the word "binge" in the last comment. But it should have made sense anyway.

Oh, consider yourself as having had "hi" said to you from

stellar_dust while she was in "AID FLORIDA PDC FL 327" on the 18th of March because "she doesn't get a card b/c she never checks her mail. Teehee, Katy."

I interpolated "spree" without even noticing the omission, but s'all good.

And I just assumed the card Mom got was also for me. Yo,

stellar_dust, Mom says thank you for the postcard.

Yes, well, I forgot when your spring break was and so inserted your greetings into

dreamsquirrel and

reclusivewaffle's card instead of Mom's, figuring you were more likely to be in contact with them.

She's very welcome. I sent one to Pop-pop too. Know if he got it?

Yep, it came while we were there, actually. He liked it too. We got to hear all about the time he and Mom-mom toured the KSC, way back when they actually built space shuttles and flew them. q; And about Aunt Vivian and Uncle Jim's (I think it was them) big trip to Florida, where they drove down all the way to the Keys without making any actual plans, looked at each other, were entirely unimpressed, and drove home without ever getting out of the car.

yeah, well, I will bet you anything he didn't get to walk UNDERNEATH THE FRIGGIN' ATLANTIS. ::fangirls Atlantis::

Meh. Wish I'd got to hear all that.

I meant to write up a long entry on the trip, but I fell asleep instead. He also told us about how they went to this island whose name I've forgot and Mom-mom collected so many shells he eventually used them as foundation while paving the driveway.

And about his friend who worked as a plane spotter during the War, and saw something unidentified flying off the coast, and you'd never hear about this in a history book, but the next day it was on a freight train West, and it was *never spoken of again*. (;

And while we were driving up Coastal Highway we stopped to take a close look at one of the abandoned concrete lookout towers they spotted from, which are still all up and down the coast but I'd never noticed before, and it was *really cool* even if it was bricked up, and if I ever write a post-apocalypse story my characters are going to hole up in one and fish off the roof.

And he told us about OC before the bridge went up, when there was a heat wave in Salisbury and he and Mom-mom and an Indian immigrant woman who lived in the same boarding house just decided to drive down and spend the night on the beach, and the Indian woman craftily stole all the blankets and he ended up with his bottom in a buried campfire and had to go for a swim to rinse the ashes off before they drove back, and it was all just dunes all over the island.

And they've torn down the old Riddle house to build an oceanfront golf community!

He's currently convinced that field mice are going to undermine the wall and bring the fishpond down on the shop, and is pouring about two gallons of poison pellets down their holes every night. However, he's stopped shooting at cats for the duration. q:

and I got to help him put the last three screws in a cabinet he was refinishing for a customer!

Anyway, nobody commented about my last Pop-pop stories post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/melannen/38027.html), so I figured y'all were uninterested.

Just 'cuz I don't comment doesn't mean I'm not interested. (:

A horribly out of whack sense of humor compells me to complain about the same thing, however a look at reality shows that I would've wore a really confused expression on my face if you had...not to mention the similar looks all around the cafeteria.

Plus, you know someone would've shouted out "You can't wear bowling shoes in a strip tease! AHHHHHH! It's A Fashion NO!!!!" And then their brain wouldve exploded.

On the grounds that that would have been hilarious, I reissue my complaint.

But what about her sexy Grinch slippers?

Sexiness overload...Brain Aneurysm Imminent!!! To quote my friend Andrew's infamous formal essay that he handed in to Forum.. "Wow....Oh Wow..."

Now, if only I could find my Grinch underwear, we'd totally. Dont ask me why I have grinch underwear. Im not even that into the grinch, but Mom gets me grinch stuff all the time...hmmm, maybe she's sending me a message?

I don't wear saddle shoes anymore, it's all black leather combat boots these days. q:

(They were 1950's sock hop style saddle shoes! Innocent yet coquettish! I didn't even go bowling for the first time until I was fifteen!)

Wow, I dinna realize it had been a year since you started livejournaling.. or a year since I saw CoS. It was nice to see you again and talk.

Time goes by, don't it?

Yes it does, play it again

But why didn't you link to the NC-17 version (http://lochness.home.texas.net/fic1/Lot1.htm)? ::innocent:: d-:

Finally watched movie. Shall probably read fic tonight. Must do more work first, however.

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Just because I was highly amused that you got the Sparrow version:

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