Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 26, 2012, 12:20:22 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were lovely and about Christmas Day, and now it is time for you to post until the lovely cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ABJURE!
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It's fascinating to me - 90% of our GUESTS have disappeared this Christmas. And you know what - I don't mind at all.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Deb, Anthony made just one cracker for the small guy. We got the others at Tea and Sympathy in the Village. You can get crackers at Bed Bath and Beyond also. You can order make your own crackers from the Internet.
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Wednesday morning greetings! It's snowing like mad here in SW Ohio. We're probably in for the day...
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DR Ginny--your snow is headed this way (Buffalo). We're expecting up to a foot of the stuff. I wonder how my flight tomorrow will be affected. Oh, well...
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Happy Boxing Day!
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Flight vibes for DR KevinH!
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Good morning, all, and Happy Boxing Day!
Temperatures dropped about 45 degrees yesterday from the upper 70s to just below freezing. And a nasty wind out there. I could feel the car moving in it.
I have to return to work this morning. I have a feeling it will be as empty as it was Monday, only we won't be released from work early.
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Flight vibes for DR KevinH!
Thanks, DRGinny!
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Good morning, all.
Do we really have to box today? I'd far prefer to recover from the last couple of days, get a little cleaning done, and watch a movie or two.
Oh wait. I can!! :)
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Happy Day After!
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Deb, Anthony made just one cracker for the small guy. We got the others at Tea and Sympathy in the Village. You can get crackers at Bed Bath and Beyond also. You can order make your own crackers from the Internet.
I usually get high end crackers right after Christmas and put them away for next year - Tom's usually has a nice cracker with nice quality gifts. Costco and BJ's occassionally have them as well. I was intriged when you were describing the one Ant made for the li'l one and knowing how artistic he is withthe doll houses I wondered if he actually handcrafted all the crackers-
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well I must be off to work= rats
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Have a lovely day all!!!
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good morning to all
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Hope everyone had a great holiday yesterday
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Had a very nice Christmas evening "do" at my aunt's house across the street last night. This morning, I am taking down the tree...it's half done. I have to reorganize the ornament box or everything will be crushed next year.
Today will be packing (vice boxing) day here. I need to get things organized and ready to go tomorrow morning. My flight leaves Columbia SC at 10:45 a.m. and will arrive in Atlanta by 11:45 a.m. My flight out of Atlanta departs at 2:45 p.m. Will arrive at SFO at 5:15 p.m. (remember the three-hour time difference).
Happily, I don't go back to work until January 7, 2013, so I'll have more than a week to recuperate and reestablish my old habits!!!
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I had an absolutely wonderful Christmas Day with my family. The only bad thing was that there was too much food and I ate too much of it!
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
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I had an absolutely wonderful Christmas Day with my family. The only bad thing was that there was too much food and I ate too much of it!
I stand guilty of the same. And it felt good. Bad blood sugar reading this morning. So, I must atone today.
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My parents like LES MIS the show and loved the movie.
I have a friend who loves the show. And he and his girlfriend loved the movie.
i am curious about the shaky camera work. How often is this present and for how long? I am not a fan of this!
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I plan to spend today chillaxing for the first time in weeks. Unless I decide to brave the awful weather that's supposed to come today (wintery mix and winds) and head out to the malls to pick up calendars and discounted Hallmark ornaments, that is. But it's terribly nice that, aside fom a few minor clean-ups left over from yesterday, I have nothing that I *have* to do.
Ahhhhhhhhh...
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Help we are snowed in here - and it is still snowing. I will take pictures....everyone is being encouraged to STAY HOME and not drive.
State Offices of course are OPEN, so that employees will have to use a Personal or Sick Day to keep themselves out of danger. I had many conversations with the Personnel Dept - telling them that if one drives when one's county is under Emergency Conditions - one's insurance is invalid....their reply: "We'll pay the ticket....."
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I watched three of six episodes of season one of THE HOUR last night....most enjoyable....and I shall watch the rest some time today or this evening.
I shall also watch my "snow" movie.....the movie I always watch on the day of the FIRST heavy snowfall of the year:
WHERE EAGLES DARE with Mr Richard Burton and Mr Clint Eastwood.....now on BLU RAY.
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We had a lovely dinner and a lovely meal - perfect pork and gratin, great dessert (had an extra portion) - with Bill, Maureen, also our dear friend Joe whom I hadn't seen in a couple of months was here for a several hours before he had to get back to work (he's the fellow who wrote the screen comedy FRIENDS AND FAMILY, which I think some here on HHW have seen, but he sort-of chucked show-biz to go back to medicine) et al. We had some Irish carols and I of course forced some of my current faves Michael Buble and Rod Stewart and Thalia background music and even a little Steve and Eydie "Hallelujah" into the background soundtrack.
The Steve and Eydie "Hellelujah" song has become a holiday favorite for me for some reason, almost any giving-thanks holiday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnwwO4nBiXo
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Well, one thing that I do have to do is go out and fill my bird feeder. I've gotten in the habit the past few weeks of keeping it filled with seed. It doesn't attract anything more exotic that thongs of sparrows (and an odd cardinal or two which the sparrows tolerate--they've driven off the bluejays that attempted to take over the joint). These hungry birds are going through a 40 lb bag of seed a week, but I enjoy watching them.
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My friend, Bonnie, loves getting books for Christmas, but only if somebody gets murdered in them. In other words, mysteries and mysteries only. She reads dozens of them a year. So, she was particularly incensed when a friend gave her "Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures," a book about a woman who becomes an actress in Hollywood. The gift was from someone with a doctorate in philosophy and seems to have been picked up off a new book table without the slightest thought about the recipient.
Anyway, her reaction made us want to pick up the book and see what it was really like. Well, it came under a great deal of fire as the prose was decidedly underpar. We all took turns opening to random pages and within three or four sentences, we discovered that the author had penned something laughable. The first was on page one and went something like: Cherry County, so named because of the cherries that grew in the county.
Then the title character's son, Junior, was found "scampering" up to his mother and wrapping his legs "against" her waist.
Perhaps the best was an entire paragraph of how our heroine had been forced to sleep in a closet without a door. There was a curtain to provide a little privacy, but it picked up all the smells of the awful mystery meat being cooked in the nearby kitchen. Such hardship made her long for the day when she could have a door of her own, one "made of real wood."
Of course, as I look on the Internet, the book is getting fairly decent reviews.
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And the word of the day is: ABJURE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: BETRAYED
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Good morning, all! One holiday down and one to go! I am happy to see yesterday go. It was profitable in that I worked and made some money, but holidays are no longer special events in my life, more like obstacle courses to be navigated with Machiavellian cunnng, and unfortuantely my Machiavellian cunning is not what it once was. I did get some lovely cards and gifts from dear friends outside the City, and I got some beautiful emails from friends I haven't seen since 1970. That was the good side of the day.
It was nice to hear from DRs Dan(theMan) and Jose.
I slept late; the internet at Toyland is down so I brought work home yesterday, I have no idea when my colleague Curtis will attend to it, I have no ideawhere things stand on ROBERTA, and my lfe continues at its current frustrating pace. I must make a trek today to the post office and to the bank. And then I proofread.
I do want to see LES MIZ, perhaps this weekend. Having read the complete unabridged novel, I disagree strongly with DR Druxy's comment that that story is all about the Javert-Valjean chase; LES MIZ is not THE FUGITIVE. It's a history of a generation of the French population (the wretched ones) following the fall of Napoleon and the political unrest,centered around Valjean's story. One of my biggest problems with the musical is that there is no explanation for the 10-12 years between Valjean's taking custody of Cosette as a child and their life in Paris when she's fallen in love with Marius. The scenery changes and so does Cosette. One of the things missing in the stage version as well is the fact that the obnoxious kid Gavroche is Fantine's brother and Thenardier's son, sothe Thenardier's pop up in the musical often out of nowhere and coincidence rather than from Victor Hugo's plotting.
More coffee.
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My parents like LES MIS the show and loved the movie.
I have a friend who loves the show. And he and his girlfriend loved the movie.
i am curious about the shaky camera work. How often is this present and for how long? I am not a fan of this!
My wife hates "shaky camera work," but she never mentioned it, so I guess it didn't bother her.
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Good Morning!!
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I have returned to the land of the living. We had wonderful Christmas Liturgy's with great music, great participation, and even great homilies! Yesterday was a lovely day spent with family. Everyone gave/received great gifts and had a great time.
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Interesting story - The DP's Mom ordered a ham for us for Christmas dinner. However, it turned out to be a 15lb cured prosciutto which was way too salty for anyone to consume. It was a bummer
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Today, I'm seeing "Les Miserables" - the movie with a bunch of theatre friends/people/snobs with a get together after. This should be interesting.
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I'll take the prosciutto, Matthew.
The only way to really eat that meat is if it is sliced so thin you can read the newspaper through it. Otherwise, your right, too salty and too chewy.
On Christmas Eve, the hostess of the party I went made Duck Wellington in which she seared the duck breasts, then rolled them in ground mushrooms, before she wrapped each one in prosciutto. Then it went in the puff pastry. It was the four course and way too much food, so I'm having mine as leftovers tonight.
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Interesting story - The DP's Mom ordered a ham for us for Christmas dinner. However, it turned out to be a 15lb cured prosciutto which was way too salty for anyone to consume. It was a bummer
When you've been on a reduced sodium diet like mine for 2.5 years, even ham tastes too salty. And don't even get me started on restaurant food!
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I do want to see LES MIZ, perhaps this weekend. Having read the complete unabridged novel, I disagree strongly with DR Druxy's comment that that story is all about the Javert-Valjean chase; LES MIZ is not THE FUGITIVE. It's a history of a generation of the French population (the wretched ones) following the fall of Napoleon and the political unrest,centered around Valjean's story. One of my biggest problems with the musical is that there is no explanation for the 10-12 years between Valjean's taking custody of Cosette as a child and their life in Paris when she's fallen in love with Marius. The scenery changes and so does Cosette. One of the things missing in the stage version as well is the fact that the obnoxious kid Gavroche is Fantine's brother and Thenardier's son, sothe Thenardier's pop up in the musical often out of nowhere and coincidence rather than from Victor Hugo's plotting.
More coffee.
A movie and/or a stage play cannot be a novel. Neither one has enough "real estate".
To make a credible dramatization of a novel like LES MISERABLES, you have to boil the story down to its "spine" or essence. And, storywise, the essence of LES MISERABLES is the chase. That's what moves the narrative forward.
Everything else (i.e. the social conditions, the revolution) is background or subplot (the romance), just like the Civil War is background to Scarlett's story in GONE WITH THE WIND.
If you want to dramatize the complete novel of LES MISERABLES, then it has to be done as a 10-12 hour mini-series. (Perhaps it has been done. I don't know)
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I do want to see LES MIZ, perhaps this weekend. Having read the complete unabridged novel, I disagree strongly with DR Druxy's comment that that story is all about the Javert-Valjean chase; LES MIZ is not THE FUGITIVE. It's a history of a generation of the French population (the wretched ones) following the fall of Napoleon and the political unrest,centered around Valjean's story. One of my biggest problems with the musical is that there is no explanation for the 10-12 years between Valjean's taking custody of Cosette as a child and their life in Paris when she's fallen in love with Marius. The scenery changes and so does Cosette. One of the things missing in the stage version as well is the fact that the obnoxious kid Gavroche is Fantine's brother and Thenardier's son, sothe Thenardier's pop up in the musical often out of nowhere and coincidence rather than from Victor Hugo's plotting.
More coffee.
A movie and/or a stage play cannot be a novel. Neither one has enough "real estate".
To make a credible dramatization of a novel like LES MISERABLES, you have to boil the story down to its "spine" or essence. And, storywise, the essence of LES MISERABLES is the chase. That's what moves the narrative forward.
Everything else (i.e. the social conditions, the revolution) is background or subplot (the romance), just like the Civil War is background to Scarlett's story in GONE WITH THE WIND.
If you want to dramatize the complete novel of LES MISERABLES, then it has to be done as a 10-12 hour mini-series. (Perhaps it has been done. I don't know)
Good try. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps you're not. It all depends on whether you think the through line is Javert's chase or the story of Valjean's redemption and humanity.
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The taking down of the Christmas tree is done, as is the complete "un"-decorating of the house. We finished about 30 minutes ago. Oof.
Now it's done for another year.
Sigh!
I don't know anything about "Les Miserables" other than it was a pretty good movie with Michael Rennie and Debra Paget. Oh, yes, and it had a score by Alex North.
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A series of storms moved through our area yesterday and overnight. This morning was particularly gloomy, but "lo!" the sun broke through and the skies became totally clear.
And now...it's glooming up again.
At least it's not snowing!
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I think the BBC should do 5-10 part adaptations of the two epic French novels of the 19th century: LES MISERABLES and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. How many parts are there to their WAR ANDPEACE with Anthony Hopkins? 12?
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I do want to see LES MIZ, perhaps this weekend. Having read the complete unabridged novel, I disagree strongly with DR Druxy's comment that that story is all about the Javert-Valjean chase; LES MIZ is not THE FUGITIVE. It's a history of a generation of the French population (the wretched ones) following the fall of Napoleon and the political unrest,centered around Valjean's story. One of my biggest problems with the musical is that there is no explanation for the 10-12 years between Valjean's taking custody of Cosette as a child and their life in Paris when she's fallen in love with Marius. The scenery changes and so does Cosette. One of the things missing in the stage version as well is the fact that the obnoxious kid Gavroche is Fantine's brother and Thenardier's son, sothe Thenardier's pop up in the musical often out of nowhere and coincidence rather than from Victor Hugo's plotting.
More coffee.
A movie and/or a stage play cannot be a novel. Neither one has enough "real estate".
To make a credible dramatization of a novel like LES MISERABLES, you have to boil the story down to its "spine" or essence. And, storywise, the essence of LES MISERABLES is the chase. That's what moves the narrative forward.
Everything else (i.e. the social conditions, the revolution) is background or subplot (the romance), just like the Civil War is background to Scarlett's story in GONE WITH THE WIND.
If you want to dramatize the complete novel of LES MISERABLES, then it has to be done as a 10-12 hour mini-series. (Perhaps it has been done. I don't know)
Good try. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps you're not. It all depends on whether you think the through line is Javert's chase or the story of Valjean's redemption and humanity.
The chase makes better drama.
Actually, if you shift some of the events around (i.e. make Javert's suicide closer to the end), then you could probably have both.
Besides, by the time Javert kills himself, Valjean has pretty much redeemed himself. He just hasn't told Cossette about it. Storywise, does he really need to?
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I think the BBC should do 5-10 part adaptations of the two epic French novels of the 19th century: LES MISERABLES and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. How many parts are there to their WAR ANDPEACE with Anthony Hopkins? 12?
I'd watch either one, gladly. Then they could do some more Balzac.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
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Deb, Anthony made just one cracker for the small guy. We got the others at Tea and Sympathy in the Village. You can get crackers at Bed Bath and Beyond also. You can order make your own crackers from the Internet.
I usually get high end crackers right after Christmas and put them away for next year - Tom's usually has a nice cracker with nice quality gifts. Costco and BJ's occassionally have them as well. I was intriged when you were describing the one Ant made for the li'l one and knowing how artistic he is withthe doll houses I wondered if he actually handcrafted all the crackers-
Good idea, I'll do so if I see any but doubt I will since I didn't see them before Christmas. I think I saved leftover crackers and forgot what happened to them. I should have sent some to our daughter in-law you enjoys them. Ooops.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
Eponine's brother.
From Wikipedia: Gavroche is the eldest son of M. and Mme Thénardier. He has two sisters, Éponine and Azelma, and two unnamed younger brothers. He is also technically unnamed; the reader is told he chooses the name for himself, but is not provided with his real name. Mme. Thénardier only loves her daughters, and M. Thénardier shows no affection for any of his children. Gavroche is told by his parents to live in the street, because he would have a better life there.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
I think he meant "Eponine." Gavroche is a Thenardier.
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Well, one thing that I do have to do is go out and fill my bird feeder. I've gotten in the habit the past few weeks of keeping it filled with seed. It doesn't attract anything more exotic that thongs of sparrows (and an odd cardinal or two which the sparrows tolerate--they've driven off the bluejays that attempted to take over the joint). These hungry birds are going through a 40 lb bag of seed a week, but I enjoy watching them.
:)
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My friend, Bonnie, loves getting books for Christmas, but only if somebody gets murdered in them. In other words, mysteries and mysteries only. She reads dozens of them a year. So, she was particularly incensed when a friend gave her "Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures," a book about a woman who becomes an actress in Hollywood. The gift was from someone with a doctorate in philosophy and seems to have been picked up off a new book table without the slightest thought about the recipient.
Anyway, her reaction made us want to pick up the book and see what it was really like. Well, it came under a great deal of fire as the prose was decidedly underpar. We all took turns opening to random pages and within three or four sentences, we discovered that the author had penned something laughable. The first was on page one and went something like: Cherry County, so named because of the cherries that grew in the county.
Then the title character's son, Junior, was found "scampering" up to his mother and wrapping his legs "against" her waist.
Perhaps the best was an entire paragraph of how our heroine had been forced to sleep in a closet without a door. There was a curtain to provide a little privacy, but it picked up all the smells of the awful mystery meat being cooked in the nearby kitchen. Such hardship made her long for the day when she could have a door of her own, one "made of real wood."
Of course, as I look on the Internet, the book is getting fairly decent reviews.
Curiosity got the better of me so I checked it out on Goodreads, lots of 1 & 2 stars for this as well as 4 or 5. The range is very wide but at mostly 3 stars I wouldn't read it unless the topic appealed to me.
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Dan (the Man), I have house finches, Gila woodpeckers, a flicker, peach-faced lovebirds, white crowned sparrows, quail, curve-billed thrashers, Anna's hummingbirds, and cactus wrens that visit my birdfeeders. As well as the invasive pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings.
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The taking down of the Christmas tree is done, as is the complete "un"-decorating of the house. We finished about 30 minutes ago. Oof.
Now it's done for another year.
Sigh!
I don't know anything about "Les Miserables" other than it was a pretty good movie with Michael Rennie and Debra Paget. Oh, yes, and it had a score by Alex North.
SAFE AND EASY TRAVELS HOME!
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I think the BBC should do 5-10 part adaptations of the two epic French novels of the 19th century: LES MISERABLES and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. How many parts are there to their WAR ANDPEACE with Anthony Hopkins? 12?
I like this idea, especially for Les Miserables.
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Dan (the Man), I have house finches, Gila woodpeckers, a flicker, peach-faced lovebirds, white crowned sparrows, quail, curve-billed thrashers, Anna's hummingbirds, and cactus wrens that visit my birdfeeders. As well as the invasive pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings.
I think you'll have to post some photos.
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Happy Mixed Martial Arts Caged Fighting Day to everyone (Boxing has become so passé)!
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Welcome back, Dan (the Man). I have missed you.
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Oh that's what I thought.....but then I thought maybe I missed something....sometimes I do.
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Oh that's what I thought.....but then I thought maybe I missed something....sometimes I do.
I missed the news about the day the movie was supposed to open. Perhaps you could tell me.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
Yep! and they are Thenardier's children.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
Eponine's brother.
From Wikipedia: Gavroche is the eldest son of M. and Mme Thénardier. He has two sisters, Éponine and Azelma, and two unnamed younger brothers. He is also technically unnamed; the reader is told he chooses the name for himself, but is not provided with his real name. Mme. Thénardier only loves her daughters, and M. Thénardier shows no affection for any of his children. Gavroche is told by his parents to live in the street, because he would have a better life there.
Yu are correct! I screwed that up. Eponine is the daughter the Thenardier's prefer over their lofger Cosette.
I had a hard enough time remembering Gavroche's name.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
I think he meant "Eponine." Gavroche is a Thenardier.
I did. But gavroche is not an older brother of Eponine; he's a younger brother. He's just a kid when he dies on the barricades.
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My memory of the stage musical is that we never know Gavroche is Eponine's brother. And the Thenardier's do not show up at the wedding in the novel.
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DR Ginny--your snow is headed this way (Buffalo). We're expecting up to a foot of the stuff. I wonder how my flight tomorrow will be affected. Oh, well...
Yesterday, it snowed in the Olympia/Tumwater area! Snow on Christmas! But it didn't last long, at all. It was already melting by the time I left my house at arount 1:00 pm.
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
I think he meant "Eponine." Gavroche is a Thenardier.
I did. But gavroche is not an older brother of Eponine; he's a younger brother. He's just a kid when he dies on the barricades.
No, not her older brother, but her oldest brother.
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Slow day here at work. Very sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow .
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But I did get to listen to a few of the CDs I got for Christmas that I've uploaded to my MP3: Yeston's December Songs, Sweet Little Devil and Dear Edwina, which is as charming as Matthew said it was.
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Hope to have time tonight to upload Eileen and Pipe Dream.
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
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Good afternoon/evening. Back from paying property taxes (don't ask) and from picking up the new vacuum cleaner I'd paid for the other day when they were out of stock.
It's so nice to see a higher price on something AFTER you've bought it. ;)
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Happy Mixed Martial Arts Caged Fighting Day to everyone (Boxing has become so passé)!
;D
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
I'm sorry my doubts regarding his singing abilities are true, what a shame his acting didn't measure up.
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Slow day here at work. Very sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow .
Our son, the paramedic, was sent home early today for that very reason.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
I think he meant "Eponine." Gavroche is a Thenardier.
I did. But gavroche is not an older brother of Eponine; he's a younger brother. He's just a kid when he dies on the barricades.
No, not her older brother, but her oldest brother.
I'm battin' zero!
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But I did get to listen to a few of the CDs I got for Christmas that I've uploaded to my MP3: Yeston's December Songs, Sweet Little Devil and Dear Edwina, which is as charming as Matthew said it was.
Hola, Lola! is my fave!
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
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Slow day here at work. Very sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow .
Our son, the paramedic, was sent home early today for that very reason.
That's a good reason.
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It took me two attempts to make the last post. Anyone finding the site sluggish?
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I bought the "Les Misérables" highlights soundtrack MP3 downloads from Amazon. Someone posted here that it was only $5. Well, it's still only $5 from Amazon but iTunes has the exact same tracks for $15.99! Since it seems that a complete recording isn't going to be released, I would at least rather have what is available (even without an electronic booklet :P) and when the DVD is released, I'll probably make my own complete recording.
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Just started watching "49th Parallel" from Powell and Pressburger. First time I can recall seeing a movie in which the composer gets an above-the-title credit. "Leslie Howard ... "and the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams in ..."
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I'm having Chinese food for dinner and I'm waiting on the delivery. I'm over halfway through the Waltz from THE BIG COUNTRY.
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Just started watching "49th Parallel" from Powell and Pressburger. First time I can recall seeing a movie in which the composer gets an above-the-title credit. "Leslie Howard ... "and the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams in ..."
Guess he had a really good agent.
;)
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Snowing! Didn't take long at all to have a solid covering.
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Had a wonderful visit with the Darling Daughter, then went to the editing room - where the missing folder was right there on the hard drive. I couldn't believe it. I looked six times at home, just to make sure I wasn't missing it. How it could disappear and reappear is not known to me and I doubt would be known to anyone else. Totally weird and wacky. We put the stuff on again a second time just to be safe.
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Just started watching "49th Parallel" from Powell and Pressburger. First time I can recall seeing a movie in which the composer gets an above-the-title credit. "Leslie Howard ... "and the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams in ..."
Guess he had a really good agent.
;)
You got it.
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Gavroche is Fantine's brother?
Eponine's brother.
From Wikipedia: Gavroche is the eldest son of M. and Mme Thénardier. He has two sisters, Éponine and Azelma, and two unnamed younger brothers. He is also technically unnamed; the reader is told he chooses the name for himself, but is not provided with his real name. Mme. Thénardier only loves her daughters, and M. Thénardier shows no affection for any of his children. Gavroche is told by his parents to live in the street, because he would have a better life there.
Thank you! I thought he was Eponine's brother.
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Well, one thing that I do have to do is go out and fill my bird feeder. I've gotten in the habit the past few weeks of keeping it filled with seed. It doesn't attract anything more exotic that thongs of sparrows (and an odd cardinal or two which the sparrows tolerate--they've driven off the bluejays that attempted to take over the joint). These hungry birds are going through a 40 lb bag of seed a week, but I enjoy watching them.
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Throngs--not thongs...
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They don't tell us that in the musical, though. As far as the audience knows, he's just a street urchin. The other children of the Thenardiers are never mentioned.
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Welcome back, Dan (the Man). I have missed you.
Thank you, good sir. I missed being here.
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Dan (the Man), I have house finches, Gila woodpeckers, a flicker, peach-faced lovebirds, white crowned sparrows, quail, curve-billed thrashers, Anna's hummingbirds, and cactus wrens that visit my birdfeeders. As well as the invasive pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings.
I probably need to upgrade to a better brand of seed. Right now I'm using Pennington wild bird seed from Home Depot.
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
I don't remember Russell Crowe in PROOF.
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So Gooch and Saltine aren't brother and sister?
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Dan, I am glad to know that the birds at your house are not wearing thongs.
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
I don't remember Russell Crowe in PROOF.
Wrong movie: Australian 1992.
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
I don't remember Russell Crowe in PROOF.
Wrong movie: Australian 1992.
Well, that is why I don't remember him!
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I can't believe how heavy it's raining outside. It's coming down heavier than when Hurricane Sandy hit!
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I swear, the food at the Cottage on 77th gets worse every time I order. we need a good Chinese place in the area.
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The Kennedy Center Honors are being broadcast tonight, if anyone is interested.
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The Kennedy Center Honors are being broadcast tonight, if anyone is interested.
I set my DVR to record this.
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Just saw something most amusing on the Film Score Monthly message board. The label that likes to make pre-pre-pre announcements has just done their first pre-pre-pre announcement for 2013, basically telling everyone that they've got a humungous release schedule for 2013 that will not abate, glut be damned. But here's the amusing part - the thread title - Farewell 2012 - Hello 2013 complete with exclamation point. Why is that amusing? Well, for any of our usual denizens around these here parts, you'll know that exact phrase with the exception of the changing years, is always how I title the New Year's Eve notes. Every year. Do I think this is coincidence? No. Is it? No. Does it tell me something interesting? Oh, yes, it tells me something interesting all right.
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The Kennedy Center Honors are being broadcast tonight, if anyone is interested.
i am. Although no musical theatre performer I love this year.
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BK it could be a coincidence. I read the notes every day and would not know that is the phrase you use every January 1st. It is a pretty common phrase.
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Boxing Day was very crazy here!
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Got some good deals.
I got three really nice long sleeved shirts from Old Navy for free.
And I got a $110 Nine West purse that I have been in love with for $35 (well actually this was free too since my mom bought it for me as a gift).
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Free is good, Jennifer.
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Had a wonderful visit with the Darling Daughter,
:)
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
I don't remember Russell Crowe in PROOF.
I looked up PROOF since I didn't/don't remember seeing it. Russell Crowe wasn't mentioned in the cast.
I then looked up Crowe. Under his list of movies is PROOF OF LIFE.
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I can't believe how heavy it's raining outside. It's coming down heavier than when Hurricane Sandy hit!
My cousin is in Philly for the first time. He is there with his wife visiting their daughter who recently moved there. For a So. California girl she sure has been hit quickly with some bad weather.
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I swear, the food at the Cottage on 77th gets worse every time I order. we need a good Chinese place in the area.
What happened to that good restaurant with the great prices?
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BK it could be a coincidence. I read the notes every day and would not know that is the phrase you use every January 1st. It is a pretty common phrase.
Ditto.
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Boxing Day was very crazy here!
I forgot about the crowds and am glad the rain kept me from going shopping.
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
I don't remember Russell Crowe in PROOF.
I looked up PROOF since I didn't/don't remember seeing it. Russell Crowe wasn't mentioned in the cast.
I then looked up Crowe. Under his list of movies is PROOF OF LIFE.
Keep going further back. The Australian Proof came out in 1991.
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Free is good, Jennifer.
Sure is and I'm sure your mother was pleased to save money. I looked up the purses and they are nice. Will you be sharing a photo of yours?
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Loved reading the various responses to "Les Miz." May try to see it this weekend, if possible.
My sister took my parents to see it yesterday with my nephew. Apparently, all of them loved it.
I have to say (well, I don't really have to, but I'm going to)...I thought that Russell Crowe was the acting and singing weak link of the show. He was just two-dimentional in his acting and didn't really "emote" with his singing. He wasn't as intense or driven as you would expect Javert to be.
Just my additional 2¢.
Except for "The Sum of Us," I can't say I've been a big fan of his work.
He's so good in "Proof"!
I don't remember Russell Crowe in PROOF.
I looked up PROOF since I didn't/don't remember seeing it. Russell Crowe wasn't mentioned in the cast.
I then looked up Crowe. Under his list of movies is PROOF OF LIFE.
Keep going further back. The Australian Proof came out in 1991.
Thank you. It is a completely different story. I don't recall seeing this either.
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Dan (the Man), I have house finches, Gila woodpeckers, a flicker, peach-faced lovebirds, white crowned sparrows, quail, curve-billed thrashers, Anna's hummingbirds, and cactus wrens that visit my birdfeeders. As well as the invasive pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings.
I probably need to upgrade to a better brand of seed. Right now I'm using Pennington wild bird seed from Home Depot.
I forgot about the goldfinches. And the mockingbirds.
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I put out black-oil sunflower seeds, shelled peanuts, unshelled peanuts (the pigeons can't get those - they are for the woodpeckers and the thrashers), nyjer seed for the goldfinches. And a half an apple for the mockingbird.
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DR Jane here is a picture of the handbag I got today:
(http://www.ninewest.ca/images/products/magicmirror_medshop_sgpm_pd.jpg)
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It's nice and I like the color.
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I've been trying to find out something about the scarf Bryan sent me. It is from the Ohio Knitting Mills but they don't have anything on their website.
Bryan is sweet to send gifts but I'm always telling him to leave the pretty wrapped packages empty as it is the pretty package I like the best.
I don't know what the yarn is on the scarf but I seem to be somewhat allergic too it, plus it is so long it goes all the way down to my knees. It would look very pretty on a long black coat I have except, to my horror, it began to shed all over the coat.
I've got to figure out some way to wear this.
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BK it could be a coincidence. I read the notes every day and would not know that is the phrase you use every January 1st. It is a pretty common phrase.
I don't believe in coincidences, and I especially think it's no coincidence with another soundtrack label. As I said, the use of it sort of cements something that's been in the back of my head since it happened.
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'night
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Happy Mixed Martial Arts Caged Fighting Day to everyone (Boxing has become so passé)!
LOL!
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bk
saw this on line.
looks like the took it from the DVD version. You may want to give them the Blu Ray's cleaner version
http://annyas.com/screenshots/updates/first-nudie-musical-1976-title-sequence/
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we were supposed to go see The Hobbit tonight but the Vixter is feeling unwell and the weather is frightful so I made potato soup and we stayed in
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It's nice and I like the color.
ANd it's quite light. That is a must for me.
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Time for me to leave work. I'm going to Costco to see if there's anything that I want to get with my gift card. :D
I may save it and just use it for gas, though. We'll see.
Until later.
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Feel better vibes for the Vixter!
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Watching a fascinating indie called "George Washington." Had heard about it, but I knew nothing about the picture. Really good.
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We've got at least 3 inches of snow, with every other kind of wet, cold, icy precipitation coming down on top of it.
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We've got at least 3 inches of snow, with every other kind of wet, cold, icy precipitation coming down on top of it.
Hope you're safe and warm.
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Night, all.
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We watched a NOVA program about Gothic cathedrals and then the second half of Kennedy Center Honors.
'Night!
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Time for me to leave work. I'm going to Costco to see if there's anything that I want to get with my gift card. :D
I may save it and just use it for gas, though. We'll see.
Until later.
I suppose that it would've helped if I would've brought my gift card to Costco. ::) Oh, well...I didn't find anything that I wanted to get, anyway. I'll just bring it with me next time.
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We watched a NOVA program about Gothic cathedrals and then the second half of Kennedy Center Honors.
'Night!
The Kennedy Center Honors just started here on the left coast.
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Good evening all
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The good news is I had a great talk with Sharon my REAL cat sitter today. She's in a rehab facility in town and got to go home for the first time in three months on Christmas day. He dog went nuts! I will be visiting her sometime in the next few days.
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The bad news is Paul's mom died this afternoon. She's been in the hospital and I had a feeling this was coming He wouldn't talk about her and asked me not to ask. We had lunch today and a couple hours later he let me know she died and that they knew it was coming. She was in her 90s and had pneumonia. I'm glad I was here to have lunch with him today. He said it was just what he needed at the time.
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We are going to have snow tomorrow and the next day. I think I'm going to go to see Les Miz one day and visit Sharon on the other. I will adjust everything according to whatever I can do for Paul. His sister and her family all live here and he has tons of friends, several other very close friends. He's going to call me in the morning
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If I am going to read the complete Les Miserables, what should I get. There was a discussion about the unabriged versions starting differently. I was a bit confused. There is an unabridged version for the Nook.
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Can't believe I don't have to work until the 2nd. I really don't remember the last time I took this much time off. Today I slept in and didn't do too much. I went to the grocery store, shopped a little at Shopko and had lunch with Paul. It's really nice just to be home and do nothing in particular
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I'm a bit sleepy. Think I'll go get some rest.
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We watched a NOVA program about Gothic cathedrals and then the second half of Kennedy Center Honors.
'Night!
The Kennedy Center Honors just started here on the left coast.
are you recording it? I was outvoted on viewing selections this evening
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The good news is I had a great talk with Sharon my REAL cat sitter today. She's in a rehab facility in town and got to go home for the first time in three months on Christmas day. He dog went nuts! I will be visiting her sometime in the next few days.
what a wonderful Christmas present for Sharon and her family - she is in my prayers
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The bad news is Paul's mom died this afternoon. She's been in the hospital and I had a feeling this was coming He wouldn't talk about her and asked me not to ask. We had lunch today and a couple hours later he let me know she died and that they knew it was coming. She was in her 90s and had pneumonia. I'm glad I was here to have lunch with him today. He said it was just what he needed at the time.
I am sorry to hear this - vibes and prayers for comfort for all who loved her
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Finished with my viewing. I think I'll shower now.
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Thanks Vixmom...on both accounts. I didn't know Paul's mom that well. She and Paul were very close, so I'm concerned about him.
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Sharon sounded very anxious to have me visit. She saw one friend today and first told me the best visiting time...then said I could come any time at all and that if I was there during PT I could just go with her and be there while she did it. So, I'm going to try to go tomorrow, but I'm glda I didn't promise it just in case I need to do something for Paul
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I have been thinking about Sharon - her medical bills must be astronomical - has anyone been conducting any fundraiser for her?
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The good news is I had a great talk with Sharon my REAL cat sitter today. She's in a rehab facility in town and got to go home for the first time in three months on Christmas day. He dog went nuts! I will be visiting her sometime in the next few days.
Great news, Cilla!
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We watched a NOVA program about Gothic cathedrals and then the second half of Kennedy Center Honors.
'Night!
The Kennedy Center Honors just started here on the left coast.
are you recording it? I was outvoted on viewing selections this evening
I am...I can send you a copy.
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The bad news is Paul's mom died this afternoon. She's been in the hospital and I had a feeling this was coming He wouldn't talk about her and asked me not to ask. We had lunch today and a couple hours later he let me know she died and that they knew it was coming. She was in her 90s and had pneumonia. I'm glad I was here to have lunch with him today. He said it was just what he needed at the time.
I'm so sorry about Paul's mom, Cilla.
~~~Vibes of Comfort for Paul and their Family!!~~~
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We watched a NOVA program about Gothic cathedrals and then the second half of Kennedy Center Honors.
'Night!
The Kennedy Center Honors just started here on the left coast.
are you recording it? I was outvoted on viewing selections this evening
I am...I can send you a copy.
:-* :-* :-* thank yoy!
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good night all tomorrow will be a busy day
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Tina Fey's introduction for David Letterman was VERY funny!! ;D
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Oh, dear, very tired. Kind of wishing I didn't have these two meetings tomorrow so I could write the contextual commentary, but alas I do. I did start it this evening, however. And I'm told there may be a problem with our guest star, Hal Linden - it's my fault if there is, because somehow when I wrote him about it I said it was Sunday the 7th, when it's really Sunday the 6th. He said the 7th was fine because he was out of town on the 6th, but I'm just not sure if he means Saturday the 5th - it's confusing so I wrote him to make sure we're fine. If not, we'll do without a guest for this show and he can join us for another. I'm really hoping it works out, though.
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Seven GUESTS. I guess all our usual GUESTS are off borrowing our patented sayings :)