Taking time for a brief update

I've experienced a thunder storm on the mountain. (See, I told you it was wet...) It was lovely and strangely calming, but if the clouds stick around we may not be able to see Mars tonight. At least we did last night (after looking up online which part of the sky it was supposed to be in, and finding out from Someone Who Knows Directions just which way was southwest [or wherever it was])

Today savetheolives and I went to a fantastic used book, music, and video store. I came out with...well, a lot. Good thing I packed lightly, because my bags will be stuffed going home! But I'm teribly glad I got what I did: a really nice copy of The Way We Live Now (Trollope), the Anne of Green Gables series minus the two books I already had, a wonderful hardcover edition of The Last Battle (Lewis) and some other misc. stuff.

And I started reading Til We Have Faces (Lewis again) this afternoon. I like it a lot! I'm not sure I'm catching all the "hidden" aspects of the story, but I'm not sure most people get them all in the first reading anyway. I'll definintly have to buy it sometime.

To show Hannah how much faster I can fill out a survey =)

b>*Ten Movies You Own

[1] An Ideal Husband
[2] Fellowship of the Ring
[3] Toy Story I and II
[4] Notorious
[5] The Lady Vanishes
[6] Sound of Music
[7] Africa Screams
[8] Arsenic and Old Lace
[9] A Night at the Opera
[10]My Fair Lady

*Ten CDs You Own

[1] Andrea Bocelli - Romanza
[2] The Best Songs of Ireland
[3] An Ideal Husband ST
[4] The Two Towers ST
[5] Gil & Orli Shaham - Dvorak for Two
[6] Murray Perahia - Chopin, Four Ballades, Etc.
[7] Fellowship of the Ring ST
[8] Strauss's Most Famous Melodies
[10]O Brother Where Art Thou ST

*Last Two Movies You Have Seen In The Theaters

[1] Fellowship of the Ring
[2] The Two Towers (movie tickets are rather expensive in my town =\)

*Two Recent Movies You Want To See

[1] The Matrix: Reloaded (even though it's not as good as The Matrix)
[2] Pirates of the Caribbean

*Three Movies You Need To Buy!

[1] The Two Towers
[2] Signs
[3] The Matrix

*Three Bands/Groups/Artists You Have Seen In Concert

[1] Red Wine
[2] Doyal Lawson and Quicksilver
[3] Ricky Scaggs

*Three Bands/Groups/Artists You Want To See Really Badly!
(well, maybe not really badly, but...)
[1] Vince Gill
[2] Alison Krauss and Union Station
[3] The One and Only savetheolives!

*Name All of the States You Have Been In:

Oklahoma, Arkansas, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio.

*Top Five Places You'd Like To Live

[1] Italy
[2] Sicily
[3] New York City
[4] The south of England
[5] Ireland

*Top Four Dream Jobs

[1] Chef
[2] Food critic
[3] librarian
[4] book store person

*Five Stores At Which You Could Spend A Million Dollars
[1] Any good book store
[2] Starbucks
[3] Saks Fifth Avenue
[4] Black and White (only sells clothes in black and white)
[5] Petty's Fine Foods

No need to spell check this post, since Hannah has corrected my every little mistake along the way. **grin**