And we're back. During the break, you were talking about....

[raybear]

Note to self: driving on Thanksgiving weekend is sort of a bad idea. Not a horrible idea, like polio, but certainly not as good as the idea for the polio vaccine.

But we survived, as did Sophie. She was quite popular among limenal's family and caused very little trauma to herself or others. I think her favorite part was being able to run free in a huge manor meadow. I think my favorite part was when she was upstairs and could look through the balcony and see us, but couldn't figure out how to get to us simply by going down the stairs next to her. Oh, poor Sophie and your lack of spatial relations.

Highlights of the trip included:

• Lanie's uncle: "I guess it's just one of those movies that you either love or you hate."
  Me: (with genuine nonjudgmental shock) "Wow, I don't think I've ever met anyone who hated Amelie."
  Postscript: They supposedly only like romance movies, a la "Sleepless in Seattle". I guess Amelie was too quirky of a romance.



• The battle of the annoying dark grey SUV's in the toll booth lane. The bigger car in front of us did NOT want to let the smaller guy sneak in, and they ended up hitting each other. So, the lane sneak-er's attempts to save time by cutting in line, and the beligerent self-righteous fool's attempt to keep their place in line ahead of them were both foiled since they ended up having to pull over on the side and exchange insurance information. Suckas. Of course, I nearly gotten taken out by a green minivan while we drove by gloating, but we still ended up okay.



• Tastykake chocolate frosted donuts. A dream. I wanted to bring back a whole box but MelRo didn't take me to a 7eleven as promised, which also birthed my new favorite phrase: "I'm sad at you." It's when you're not exactly mad or angry or wounded or hurt, but the person's actions or lack thereof did make you sad.



• At approximately noon on Saturday, I crossed the 50,000 word mark on my novel and two of those words were "The End". I will be posting the last couple chapters soon. My characters haven't left me alone one bit, but I'm forcing myself to hold off on revisions a couple weeks. I might get started around xmas. In the meantime though, I've written a novel. I can cross that off my lifetime to-do list.

Overall I enjoyed the Thanksgiving (pronounced THANKS-giv-ing) weekend and I like hanging out with MelRo's family who are quite accepting of my presence. Also, the thanksgiving dinner itself on Thursday was tasty, but I miss my cornbread dressing and canned cranberry sauce and having leftover turkey on sandwiches for the next three days. I think I might make a sequel to thanksgiving this weekend -- hopefully the turkeys might even be on sale.

Comments

[the-passives.livejournal.com]

I do not understand Toll Roads.
Actually, I think everywhere but the west coast has them.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

the South doesn't have them either. i hate them.

[clockwatcher.livejournal.com]

actually, phyllis hated it. go figure!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Is Phyllis's favorite movie Sleepless in Seattle? maybe she can hang out with them.

I think what was odd is just that they don't like any sort of remotely difficult or strange movies. or frankly any genres that don't contain Meg Ryan. They seem to want only romances.

The following evening (after the Amelie discussion) they went to the movies and instead of opting for My Big Fat Greek Wedding, they saw Solaris. I think they hated that movie even more than Amelie. I told them that they should have called me and would have told them what NOT to see, to which Mary Cay said "I just wanted a romance!" Why would you not pick the movie about a wedding if you want a romance? Maybe it was just too ethnic for them.

They were strange and funny people.

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[clockwatcher.livejournal.com]

I actually did walk in on Phyllis watching sleepless in seattle once, but she made no positive or negative comments about it. i will try to do a bit more detective work around it.

that's pretty funny about solaris/BFGW. but george clooney is just so handsome!

[crafting-change.livejournal.com]

that is the coolest lj icon ever.

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[raybear.livejournal.com]

thanks! i thought it was great too -- mad props to vfc for hooking me up.

[gotmce99.livejournal.com]

A) Love the toll booth idiots

B) Plan on stealing "I'm sad at you," but giving you credit in the liner notes.

C) c remarked today that I sometimes say, "Now I'm going to cry big Margaret tears," when I'm jokingly sad/disappointed. I think that's really weird.

margaret

[mrtrystan.livejournal.com]

No one can hate Amelie.
It isn't possible.
I think maybe yr friends are insane.
I worked at the only movie theatre here in Portland, OR where it was playing and it played for months and months on end, selling out until the last weekend it ran. People waited in line for hours to see it. And every last one left the auditoriums with a grin on their face.
Insane.
I'm telling you.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

they might be insane, but they're NOT my friends!!! they're quasi-in-law's. ;)