of ants and postcards...

[la_rainette]

...but not necessarily in that order.

Nny: postcard and pictures for you are on their merry way. It took longer than planned because I had Visitors. Also, the bloody cat fell asleep on the postcard this morning and it took me a while to locate it. You, my dear, have some sort of weird relationship with my cat.


Also, in honor of A New Icon (well, an old one for most of you, but I am using it today for the first time), the Pfui moment of the day - Pfui in the sense of EW! in German. Because Pfui, in German, is Ew. No, really. That would be berk in French, in case you're interested. And even if you're not, being able to say "ew!" in three different languages can come in handy one day, so there. Trust me, I know.

Tadpole tried to squish an ant (not of the tiny, harmless-looking variety, it had to be A Great Big Ant of Doom of course), and it got caught, alive or at least still moving, in the sole of her shoe, and I had to literaly fork it out because Tadpole freaked out and wouldn't wear the shoe anymore. EWWWWWW, BERK, PFUI and then some. And dead ant in the sink. Only marginally better than Froglet bringing back a beetle in the kitchen on Sunday: "Look, mommy, I saved the teeny cutee cockroach's life!" she exclaimed in delight, before dropping the monster onto the floor. "Oh, it escaped", she beamed.

See the beetle scurry away in one direction, and la rainette, totally not living up to frogish expectations, hopping onto a chair instead of catching the offending insect with her tongue. Urgh, urgh, wrong mental image altogether. *bleaches brain*

Yeah. It's been one of those days.

The icon is all copperbadge's, borrowed with much gratitude. I might even get to read a Nero Wolfe book one of these days *smiles sheepishly*. Once I'm done with Lord of the Rings. Ahem.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

LOTR is a good bedtime book -- you can easily come back to it, read little parts without loosing the narrative, and it gives good dreams if you stop in the right places.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D You know, my biggest fear is that it might be too good a bedtime book. My dad used to have this one Agatha Christie novel, always the same, that he claimed was the perfect bedtime book: he'd read one page and fall asleep, and then repeat the whole process the next day because no crucial information actually made it through to the brain. I don't think he ever found out who had committed the crime, but that was OK because he didn't know what the crime was, anyway.

I read one page on Hobbit birthday parties and I yawn. Sorry. (Don't tell Gareth, he'd be very sad.)

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Start with the third book. Then, if you feel the urge, you can work your way back. It's not like you don't know how the story ends...:)

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll do that. Sounds like good advice. Anything I should be aware of that I will not understand if I have seen the movies but not read the books?

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Without having my books at hand, this is just off the top of my head:

1. Eomer is actually a brave, kind, generous guy...not an aardvark.

2. Faramir is actually a brave, kind, generous guy...not a total twit who hobbitnapped Frodo and Sam, took them nearly to Gondor, and then mysteriously had a change of heart and let them go. No, he figured out what they were hiding but had too much sense to think he could control the Ring. He didn't want to let them go on to Mordor because he was afraid for them, but he thought, like Gandalf, that it was the only course left open to them, so he did. Best line never filmed: "Not if I found it on the highway would I take this thing!" Most appropriate line in the movie that was not in the book, that had book-readers shouting out "D*mn right!" in the theaters: Sam's "By rights we shouldn't even be here, Mr. Frodo!"

I think you'll be OK for everything else.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

who's Eomer?

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Eowyn's brother, Theoden's nephew...he nearly cuts off Gimli's head when they first meet up in "The Two Towers".

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. I see, now. :D Thank you again.

Oh, and I read your Discworld drabble over at Sam's and :D that was excellent!

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Thank you! First time I ever did that. Normally I am quite timid about letting my writing out in public. I think LJ is helping.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

yeah, this is true. Gets better when they get to Tom Bombadil, or Visiting with Elves.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Once they get moving, in other words. :D I mean, Hobbiton gets on your nerves after a while.