New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Third time's a charm...we finally saw the last Lord of the Rings after two failed attempts.

Movie theater experience...stadium seating, a huge screen and amazing sound...holy cow...when the screeching dragon types were howling it sounded like the roof of the theater was being ripped off.

Other comments:

So I buy us popcorn. Rare for us but given the length of the film nesc. So I am standing at the little counter salting it and gathering straws, napkins, etc...so the counter is pretty high. Almost chest height for me. There's a little girl trying to salt her popcorn. She needs to stand on her toes to reach the salt. I say, "Would you like me to hold your popcorn while you do that?" She replies (with a stuborn little grimace)..."No thanks." She's still struggling but I offered to help her. Plus her little brother is circling. Where were the parents? Any who...the salt shakers happen to be empty but they had the tub of salt. So I shake some into my hand (to control the amount) and I sprinkle it on. I see her watching and I say, "Would you like some?" She responds with a scrunched up nose, "No thanks." She was one tough cookie. Then she reaches for the salt herself. Mind you she's on her tiptoes with her arms above her head. And she starts shaking it into her hand. Now I know she's totally taking my lead. But she can't get any out because she has the container upside down. I knew she wouldn't take my advice so I went back to my seat. She reminded me of me when I was that age. Okay, to be honest, I'd probably react the same way right now.

Then there was one guy wandering with a popcorn bag...okay...when he finished his popcorn he folded it up carefully and placed it in his pocket. Which means he recycles the bag and brings in his own popcorn!!! He should just carry a purse like the rest of us if he wants to smuggle anything in.

Don't get me started on the ending and how they extend the whole disposal of the ring thing beyond nesc. as in the actually event happened much faster in the book. The way they got rid of Saruman was absurd...oh don't worry about him...he can't get down from the tower! He's a freakin' wizard for God's sake not Rapunzel. Frodo Baggins AKA Elijah Wood...all he did was stare a lot in all these movies...not exactly a dream role if you ask me. Orlando Bloom, okay, could they have given him fewer lines? A generous guess would be that he had maybe 20 line in this film. There were a lot of shots of him staring into the distance. He became the stereotype of the Indian in all the cowboy films of days of yore. I was just waiting for him to put his ear to the ground and say, "Much anger heads our way. Mother Earth will cry many tears of red before the sun is put to rest today." Or something like that. The ending. As I said the ending irritated me. I was irriitated when I saw the first movie because Galadriel didn't give them all their "gifts" one of which (the one given to Sam) would have played a crucial part in the ending. You know the real ending when there's a big showdown in the shire and the whole place is burnt down??? That ending??? And how the little box of elf dirt (for lack of the technical term)...well how that little box makes the whole place grow back?

Lest you be confused, I really loved the movies. They are gorgeous epics.

And speaking of love, do you know who I really loved? Mostly 'cause he's hot and unhappy? Okay, let me preface this by saying, ever since Jason Lee was in Almost Famous with a beard, well beards don't repulse me so much. So a man with long hair and a beard works for me once in a while and for some reason I thought that Faramir (David Wenham) was very very very cute. Yum. Such is life a girl needs variety.

This girl needs sleep and to bake cupcakes in the morning. Nighty night.




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