oh, but in case you care

my wrists are feeling mostly better now, unless i lean on them or twist them too far. my back and neck on the other hand, are dying, though part of that is due to going to the chiropractor yesterday and having him start fixing me. he warned me about that, though. 'you might be cursing my name tonight.' 'oh, don't worry, i won't. i like you too much. do you know how many times i've wished you were single?' (actually i didn't say that. woulda been fun, though. coulda freaked him out a bit. :) ) he's guessing it'll be about 4 sessions. so hopefully i'll be not dead soon.

figures

i now can't remember what i was going to post the other day

ooh, so i'll just post this

http://comedy.video.yahoo.com/?l=3774749&v=8711175

i was possibly going to do some posts

but i killed my wrist falling in the parking lot of my grandma's nursing home, so typing is painful, so nevermind

oh nicky, you're so fine, you're so fine you blew my mind

hey nicky! hey nicky!

i miss you already. :(

best of luck to you as a cardinal. hang out with pujols. he loves JESUS.

denzel

is it even legal for one man to be this handsome?

Movie Review: Man On Fire

Excellent, excellent movie. Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning are brilliant, and the story just breaks your heart. Denzel is a tough guy who's pretty much given up on life but is recruited to be her bodyguard. He tells her at one point to forget about being friends, he's only paid to be her bodyguard, but of course, she's Dakota Fanning, and who can resist her? He ends up adoring her. Which of course makes it that much worse when she's kidnapped. He goes on a rampage, vowing to kill every person involved. And, well, yeah.

If you like guy movies, it's definitely worth seeing. If you don't like guy movies but can handle violence, it's definitely worth seeing. If you don't like guy movies and can't handle violence, suck it up and see it anyway. It's worth it.

i love you girls

i love how none of you condemned the idea of sleeping with someone so i wouldn't have to shovel :)

where do people meet people?

i know i'm never going to meet anyone sitting at home on my computer, but i have no idea where to meet people. any (realistic) ideas out there?

pg-13 moment

2 fb stati i didn't post:

at 3:30:
•Melilot Dolly Brandybuck is thinking she'd be willing to sleep with the first guy who volunteers to shovel for her for the rest of the season.

at 7:30:
•Melilot Dolly Brandybuck feels very grown up because she just had her first gin-and-tonic.

Enchanted thought

As I've said before, “Enchanted” always depresses me. I love the movie, I do, but I always come away from it with the heart-breaking realization that fairy tales don’t come true. The Disney life we’ve been fed since we were little princesses just plain isn’t reality. Not only that, but in real life, there is no Patrick Dempsey to make up for it. At least when Giselle learned that life isn’t a fairy tale, she had something better. My real life, not so much. I don’t get a Robert. So “Enchanted” makes me sad.

But this time I figured it out.

I don’t need a Robert. I am Robert. He’s practical. He doesn’t believe in lovey-dovey love. He doesn’t believe in happiness. He has resigned himself to getting by. And then he finds Giselle, who opens his eyes to happiness, lightheartedness, and romance. That’s what I need. I need someone who will make me believe in those things again. And if there's hope for Robert, there's hope for me.
So this time I did not get sad when watching it. No, I will never have a Robert. But that’s okay. That’s not what I need anyway. I need a Giselle.

oh, and here are skandar and georgie, just in case it bothered you

bones question (and my mother's response)

on "bones," booth is a decendent of john wilkes booth. brennan figured this out when they first met: "you have the same bone structure." naturally, while i know it's just for the show, when i next got on the internet after hearing that, i had to check. (kind of like how i always check out skandar keynes and georgie henley's noses after mr. tumnus says that edmund and lucy have the same nose.) then, as my mother was standing nearby, i called her over to check it out. her response upon first seeing david borneaz: "good-looking maintenance guy!"

but anyway, here are the pictures so you girls can decide what you think.

Happy Bert Day!

Congratulations on being voted into the Hall of Fame!

Heaven knows we know you deserve it. ;)

(Sadly, however, this eliminates one part of the Dick and Bert drinking game, as we can no longer take a sip every time you or Dick mention the fact that you should get to be in the Hall of Fame. However, seeing as I can't play drinking games anyway, I guess it doesn't affect me too much, so I'm glad that you got in. :) )

Incarnation in Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien disliked allegory. However, he did acknowledge that myths had applicability that could not be ignored. He also felt, in creating his own, that he could not write anything that would contradict Scripture. While not wanting overt religious references in his works, he could not overlook the reality of a Creator, a fallen world, and a Divine plan. Tolkien said his tales of Middle Earth were of a pre-Christian era, but that could not negate the need for a Redeemer. In a scene which was published posthumously with some of his notes, the elven king Finrod Felagund (Galadriel's brother), ages before the War of the Ring, was discussing this with the wise woman Andreth. Matthew Dickerson refers to this scene in his book "Following Gandalf":

"Andreth mentions an old belief that one day Ilúvatar [God] himself will enter into his creation: 'They say that the One will himself enter into Arda [Earth], and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end' (MR, p.321)....Finrod believes that such an incarnation is actually the only hope that Men and Elves have for the healing of the hurts of Morgoth [satan]. Thus Finrod concludes:
'If Eru wished to do this, I do not doubt that he would find a way, though I cannot foresee it. For, as it seems to me, even if He in Himself were to enter it, He must still remain also as He is: the Author without. And yet, Andreth, to speak with humility, I cannot conceive how else this healing could be achieved. Since Eru will surely not suffer Melkor to turn the world to his own will and to triumph in the end. Yet there is no power conceivable greater than Melkor save Eru only. Therefore Eru, if He will not relinquish His work to Melkor, who must else proceed to mastery, then Eru must come in to conquer him...if any remedy for [Melkor's evil] is to be found, ere all is ended, any new light to oppose the shadow, or any medicine for the wounds: then it must, I deem, come from without.' (MR, p. 322)"

[MR - Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One Volume 10, by J.R.R. Tolkien]

Happy Eleventy-ninth Birthday, Mr. Tolkien!

My Alphabetical Biography List: Dawes, Sophie - floozy in the court of Louis XIII

Actually, techinically she wasn't a floozy in his court. He refused to receive her once he found out the trash that she was. She was a brash scheming wench, who was the mistress of the Prince de Condé. Eventually she completely overtook his life, and, eventually took his life. She was never charged, however, as she was under the new king's protection. She had made a deal with the new king that if he would receive her in court, she would guarantee that his son was named prince's heir in his will. And so it went.
The book was a tad long, but the judgemental, sexist, and classist attitude of the author made it enjoyable. It was hard to keep all the people straight, seeing as all members of the French royal family royalty were named Louis or Marie something, but I knew who the main people were. It was interesting to read.