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1) Pick one of your favorite movies: what is the title?
Pride and Prejudice (2005)

2) When and where and with whom did you first see it?
Dec. 20, 2006. At home, by myself.

3) What about the movie makes it one of your favorites?
I knew nothing about it. An LJ friend had been talking about it a lot, and so I bought it one day as I was browsing at the bookstore. I think I had it for a couple of weeks before watching it, probably waiting until winter break. I was confused, and had no idea what was going on or why. The first proposal (to me) came out of left field. Then I was really glued. The second proposal...that whole scene...the forehead touch...GAH!! Watching it and falling so hard in love with it got me into reading Austen and other books of the era.

4) If you've watched this movie since the pandemic quarantine started, how did it make you feel?
I watch it usually once or twice a year. It always makes me happy. I watched it again this evening, and picked up on a few small details I never noticed before.

5) If this movie was remade, who would you cast for the five main characters and why?
Pride and Prejudice has been remade many times already. I love this version, and don't need another. Yes, I also like 1995 with Colin Firth, but the 2005 version holds a special place in my heart.

1) What is your favorite December holiday food?
In my family, we like appetizers before dinner. Like eat all day and then be almost too full for dinner. My favorite is potato chips and onion dip. Must be Ruffles chips, and dip made with Lipton onion soup mix. I just mixed up the dip to bring tomorrow, and it's killing me that I have to wait.

2) What is your favorite December holiday beverage?
I don't have one, but suddenly I want hot apple cider.

3) What is your favorite December holiday song?
O Holy Night, Carol of the Bells, Last Christmas by Wham, and

4) What is your favorite December holiday tradition?
Having a Christmas tree
ETA: I was reminded by

ragnarok_08's comment of watching holiday specials about my 'tradition' of forgetting to watch Sound of Music each year. I swear it used to be on the Sunday AFTER Christmas, but it's usually a week or two before. So, I either totally forget or am reminded halfway through by someone posting about it online. I'll have to watch my DVD.

5) What is the one thing you will miss most this December because of the pandemic?
Not going home to be with family. Work might have prevented travel anyway, but still.

Random is awesome. :)

1. Are we losing the art of listening?
Depends on what area. In listening to opposing views, yes. However, I think people just used to ignore opposing or differing opinions. Now, people just yell something to the effect of "You suck!" and discussion is over.

On the other hand, I listen to people all damn day as part of my job. So, I'm pretty good at it.

2. Have you ever interacted with the police?
I've been pulled over for speeding a few times, and a few other times for burned out headlights or tail lights. Otherwise, there were school resource officers or customers where I worked.

3. Do you like being alone?
Heck yeah. I'm alone most evenings. Tonight, however, I'm going to see Captain Marvel with Amanda.

4. Who would you share your passwords with?
In high school, Allison was one of the first people I knew with a debit card, maybe even before it was a Visa check card. Her PIN was 1225, and she'd make a show of dropping her card around me and somehow saying Christmas or the number itself. It was an ongoing joke. I don't know what her PIN is now, but we still make the joke sometimes.

I have the same password for a bunch of things, one of which is Netflix. I gave my old roommate my Netflix password to make her own profile. She asked me the origin of it, and I told her. I didn't tell her it's for other things too, but you'd have to know where to use it anyway.

5. What are you grateful for today?
Grateful it's Friday, for the cool weather a little longer, seeing Amanda tonight, and not really having much to complain about.

I've done what I hoped to do today, for the most part. This included sleeping in, going to Home Goods and World Market, and cracking open my newest cookbook. One of the food bloggers I follow on posted about this book on IG, and it looked like something I could do. Looking through the recipes, there's a lot of kale...I actually don't mind kale, but it's a lot of prep work. I think. I've never actually prepped it. Anyway, I used sticky note flags to mark recipes I want to make. When I'll make them is another story. I still have two other baking books waiting for me. Plus, I need to see if my current book has something that will use up the 4 bananas I purposely left uneaten.

Speaking of eating, why am I feeling weird after my bagel and cream cheese? Could have something to do with the overabundance of coffee I've consumed today.

Oh, I also wanted to maybe make millionaire's shortbread, but that will have to wait a while.

So the popular thing lately is Marie Kondo's show on Netflix. I remember her book coming out a few years ago, but fewer people seemed to take notice of that. However, I don't need the KonMari method. I declutter on a regular basis. I just get aggravated when things are disorganized or take up too much space. Not that my house is by any means spotless. The chair I never sit in is currently the home of 3 dresses that I need to donate to an organization that provides free prom dresses to girls in need. They are old bridesmaid dresses; fancy but not blingy or outlandish. One is cocktail length. One has a lot of snags in the tulle at the bottom, though I don't think they are too obvious. Plus, the dress can be shortened to cocktail length if they wanted to. How do I know this? The sample at Nordstrom had one that had been shortened. However, it's a lot of layers of tulle, and it cost an arm and a leg to get it shortened and taken in for me.

I think I'll watch Ant Man, so I can eventually watch the sequel before it's taken off Netflix. It's been a good day to relax.

I finally had my first proper half-day today. The last two had overtime hours tacked on. Next week does as well, but again, I'd rather have it on the half day than any other day. Tomorrow is a holiday so I get holiday pay, yay. I've been spending money left and right on really random things or extra trips to the grocery store. The bonus we got, along with my tax return, made me feel rich for quite a while. Still have some savings built up but I don't want to waste that.

After work, I went over to Barnes & Noble, where I wanted everything but got nothing. Actually, they did not have 2 cookbooks I've been considering. Not that I need them because a) they are by bloggers I follow, and B) I hardly use the cookbooks I have (again, recipes online).

Two steps forward, one step back: Finally got my laundry put away and washed my sheets. However, the sheets are still in the dryer, and there's a good chance the bed won't get made tonight. We shall see.

Songs have been reminding me of various people, videos, etc. Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" reminded me of a bonus video from the webseries Autobiography of Jane Eyre. Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" made me want to watch Thor: Ragnarok again. It's on Netflix, and I had extra time today, so I watched it. I kept getting distracted by hair inconsistencies at the beginning, but that didn't last past the Doctor Strange scene. Also, Loki! Tom Hiddleston is adorable, but man, as Loki I completely forget that's him. Thor was the dose of ridiculousness I needed. Jeff Goldblum, you funny, funny man.

1. So, how are you really feeling today?
Well-rested, happlily reminded of Edinburgh by my coffee mug, less anxious about work, and excited for my friend's annual holiday kick-off party tonight.

2. Is there something you should have done yesterday, but totally blew off?
Nope. I actually did something I've been meaning to do, which was to see Thor: Ragnarok with Natalie. It was funny and weird and we had a good time.

3. Is there something you need to do today that will likely meet the same fate?
Work on laundry, but that's the chore that never ends.

4. What could make this the best weekend ever?
The party tonight is one I look forward to every year, so that's a good start.

5. If you are in the US, did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales? If not, do you take advantage of sales or just buy things as you need them?
We went to a few stores last night after the movie, but only because they were in the shopping center. I picked up a few things I needed at Target, but did not get anything on sale. I wanted S1 of Victoria because it was $10 but they were out. I usually just buy things as I need them. I went to Target on Thursday night just to see what it was like. The checkout line wound up and down the aisles almost to the back of the store. There was nothing at the store I really wanted/for a good deal. KitchenAid mixers were $100 off, but I already have one. That was the only deal that caught my eye. Plus, even that sale was not worth standing in line for.

1. How did you choose your LJ/DW username?
At the time I started my LJ, I was newly (less than a year) obsessed with Lord of the Rings, and also working at Starbucks, which was good for my coffee addiction. So, I chose a name that reflected the things I loved. I almost went with javaoliphaunt, but thought it was too out there. So, ringsandcoffee it was.

2. What has been your favorite day this year and why?
Either the days in March when I went to Disneyland, or the last day of work, which meant I would not be getting away from the job that was making me so unhappy.

3. What is your favorite film you've seen in the past year and why?
Funny that I have Pride and Prejudice on as background noise, as that's one of my all-time favorites. Past year as in since January or since last September? Either way, I have not seen that many new movies. I saw Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galexy 2, and in December, Rogue One. I feel like I'm missing something, either in the theater or on Netflix. Nothing really sticks out as something I LOVED.

4. What is your favorite book you've read in the past year and why?
I've read half of One Thousand Gifts (Ann Voskamp), all of Ragamuffin Gospel (Brennan Manning), and have started A Homemade Life (Molly Wizenberg). My word, I need to read more books. I read too much online.

5. You get to program a half-hour of music videos on MTV. What videos to you pick?
Probably stuff from the 90s, when they actually played music videos. Even now, all I can think of Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much, and that was on VH1. Oh! I'd have it be an episode of Pop-Up Video, so I could read random facts along with hearing the songs.

Current Music: Pride and Prejudice

Today's five questions are brought to us by livejournal user amguynes, the letter F, and the number 5.

The name of...

1. Your favorite book?
Jane Eyre

2. Your favorite movie?
Pride and Prejudice (2005), Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Dirty Dancing, The Little Mermaid (yes, I said more than one movie)

3. Your least favorite adaptation of a book to a movie?
The adaptation of Jane Eyre with William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg was painful to watch. It started out badly and just got worse. I watched through my fingers, mumbling about how terrible it was over and over.

4. Your least favorite adaptation ever of anything to a movie?
Probably same as #3, as I cannot think of anything else at the moment. No, wait. The TV miniseries adaptation of Scarlett (sequel to Gone With the Wind) went downhill towards the end.

5. Your first ever novel/comic book/movie character crush?
Hmmmmmmm. I really need to think about this! Probably Rhett Butler. I read GWTW in high school. I cannot remember what other books I read around that time. I think some John Grisham and Michael Crichton, among others, but they didn't have characters worth falling for.

On a happier note, I used one of my teacher appreciation gifts to go see Avengers 2 last night. It was fabulous. Lots of giggling, lots of cheering, and then I'd say the last third of the movie I was just curled up in awe. I just had to take it all in. As soon as the credits rolled, I texted

ewanspotter but the only reaction I could conjure up was "hot daaaaaaaaaamnn."

I'm really curious what the next movie will involve. Civil war between whom? Or wait, is Civil War the next Captain America movie?

As for the previews, they scored 1.5/6 movies I could possibly see. Jurassic World was downgraded from for sure to hmmm looks a bit scary. Tomorrowland was 1/2, and AntMan the same. Thumbs down to Superman vs Batman, Terminator (though I chuckled at seeing Ahhh-nold), and San Andreas.

Tomorrow is 6 years since I first watched Pride and Prejudice (2005). I felt like watching it tonight, but decided to check my archives first. Yup, the anniversary is tomorrow. :D

P&P - the movie that started my obsession with British lit.

Fangirl release. You've been warned.

-I watched all of The Office UK pretty much because Martin Freeman is in it.
-Holy carp THE HOBBIT part 1 in December! I didn't even like the book that much!
-Today is Benedict Cumberbatch's birthday.
-I have the same blue/green/gray/yellow, change-colors-depending-on-my-shirt eyes as Benedict.
-The taxi driver in "A Study in Pink" looks sort of like my dad.
-Watching Bleak House with my roommate, I suddenly realized that Mr. Smallweed is played by the same actor as the taxi driver in ASiP by recognizing his front teeth.
-I got a call from some random number. Instead of silencing the phone, I let it keep playing the Sherlock ringtone.

Current Mood: giddy

How did I NOT recognize Mark Gatiss (Mycroft in Sherlock) was John Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (2008)? Maybe if I'd watched that version last night instead of 1995, I would have made the connection.

Current Mood: surprised

Three times in the theater, and now once at home.

spally, so glad you got to see it.

holbytla, you've got to see it! Oh, and somehow my excitement last night led me to put in Our Mutual Friend. No idea how that movie relates to Jane Eyre.

-There's 7 or 8 deleted scenes on the dvd. Some I am glad they didn't include in the finished movie.
-Me being the book nerd, I kept picking out direct quotes and doing silent cheers upon hearing them.
-I watched the ending 3 times in a row. I won't spoil anything by describing it, but I must say it gave me chills. The second time, I turned on the subtitles, and then totally missed them. Usually subtitles draw my eyes to themselves, but not in this moment.

Now, I wait for the icons to start rolling in.

Current Mood: giddy

After yesterday's impromptu double Pride and Prejudice event, I realized we could have similar days with the following stories:
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Persuasion
At this moment, a triple Jane Eyre-a-thon, but potentially we could watch five different versions.

Yes, I can see your looks of either gasping disbelief or utter admiration. :D

Current Mood: amused

Thanks to

ewanspotter's post, I got to see Fellowship of the Ring, extended edition, on the big screen tonight. Saw her post, flailed, Googled, bought ticket, and flailed again. This all took place in about 5 minutes. Happened to be going to get my haircut, and shared my geeky news with my hair dresser. She already knew about it, mentioned fathomevents.com. She would have gone with me tonight, but had to work late. She'll go see the other 2 with me. I saw Michelle on FB and told her, and she decided to go on less than 2 hours notice.

Last time I watched LOTR was a marathon this time 3 years ago, with Michelle and Reena. Ahhhh, just like Peter Jackson sait, it's meant to be seen on the big screen. So true. I know what happens in the movie, and I still got all nervous over the cave troll. As soon as I saw Boromir, I got sad knowing he dies. Legolas...so pretty. As Michelle said, he even runs pretty. Aragorn, I still love you in all your dirty, sweaty manliness. Gandalf, your fake nose looks quite realistic. Frodo, dang, you have perfect skin. I need to meet your makeup artist. Balrog, YOUUUU SHALL NOT PASS (boom)!!

Hmmm LOTR love. I think I need to change my default icon to something LOTR. My love for these movies has been reignited.

By extreme, I mean extremely busy or extremely lazy. Slept in, then worked most of the day. Body is still teasing me with cold symptoms that come and go. I don't want to finish report card comments. I don't want to work this week.

Should learn by now that anything with thin straps (bras, camisoles, etc) will end up getting caught and twisted in just about everything else washed in the same load. Holy crap, I never want to spend 5 minutes untwisting a tank top, a bra, a pair of pants, a sweater, and a shirt ever again.

With all my complaints, I feel guilty because many people have far worse problems at the moment. I just need to shut up.

Saw Voyage of the Dawn Treader last night, and loved it. Ben Barnes looked different at first, to the point of me not recognizing him. I'm actually glad I didn't finish the book before seeing the movie, so I didn't know everything that happened.

The itch to watch P&P is starting up again.

Current Mood: anxious

I want a job where I drink coffee and watch dvds all day. Oh, and squee about said movies. Too bad I can't get paid to blog all day.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: Josh Groban - "Illuminations" cd

Watch on YouTube

It's not perfect, but I still can't wait. The first (of only two, I swear) time I watched I had a huge grin halfway through it. One rather dull line kind of ruined it, but the rest looks great.

Current Mood: anxious

In the first two weeks of school, I have watched 3 new movies, read one book, and baked 2 batches of cookie bars. I have brought home work to do each night, but only actually did it once. Lesson plans are started on Sunday and continued through the week.

Wait - 3 movies and a book? I never do that! Avoidance, that is my new middle name.

Movies: Iron Man, On a Clear Day, Remains of the Day.
book: My Lobotomy

Current Mood: complacent

My mommy and sister are gone back home. I'm glad they came, even though it seemed to go quickly. Well, 4 days is pretty fast. We went to the Grand Canyon via the scenic route, got me a new bookshelf, and ate a ton. I should write more here, but I'm feeling lazy. :)

Finished watching Bleak House. I like it. Maybe not enough to watch it again, but I liked it. Well, I take that back. I'm sure I'll watch parts of it here and again. One character's voice, not face, was so familiar, I had to pause it to check imdb. Mrs. Rouncewell on BH turned out to be the gypsy on Jane Eyre. Ah hah! I knew it was somebody I should know!

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