"I'm, like, totally here to take you to Valhalla, okay?"

Okay, hockey game is over (we lost, boo!), Little Sister and her boyfriend have gone home, and I'm avoiding anything that looks like work. Fie upon thee, work, for it is Saturday night and I am home watching tapes of Kim Possible! Once, long years ago, I thought, "Someday I'll be a grown-up, and I'll go out on Saturday nights and have a social life," for I was very young then, and not very wise. Oops, and now I'm out of ice cream. That won't do a'tall.


I'm sure that lots of people know this already, but castalianspring is most exceedingly cool. People who like ships tend to be cool to begin with, but people who give pretty little sparkly ships to their friends? That's a whole new level of coolness. Thanks muchly, Castalia! I love it!

(You may wonder why I'm using "cool" so often rather than my normal mix of "keen," "shiny," "snazzy," etc. It could have something to do with the fact that my house is about fifty degrees, even with both the furnace and the woodstove going. All of my other adjectives are frozen.)


Also very cool is my mother, who got me a Viking Barbie. She's pretty fabulous (the Barbie, I mean, though my mom is as well). She's rather more Wagnerian (or "What's Opera, Doc?") than historical, but her little winged helmet, breastplate and chainmail overskirt are so cute that I don't care a whit. Also very cute are the pink-sailed Viking ships on the packaging. She is Barbiehilda, after all. First Barbie I've ever seen with a sword. Pretty nifty, if you ask me.


I'm crossing my fingers and toes (and hair, since I always wear it braided) that I can swing seeing RotK again on Monday or Tuesday. I was watching the "Concerning Hobbits" bit on the FotR EE this afternoon, and you know, for all that that version of the beginning is closer to the books and is a thoroughly charming piece of filmmaking, I think I have a slight preference for the theatrical version, where it jumps from the prologue right to Frodo under the tree, without meandering through Shire life first. It's a very slight preference, but even so. Many, many people (myself included) are already eagerly waiting for the EE of RotK, nearly a year away, in hopes of seeing all the lovely scenes that didn't make the theatrical cut. Still, there is one apparent plot-twist peculiar to this version that I'll miss once the other scenes are added back in. ( Slightly spoilery for RotK )

I was going to blather about the RotK score and the Oscars a wee bit, but my attention wandered so much while I was typing this that it's taken me ages, and instead I'm going to bed. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...