Gondorbunny's Musings From the White Tower

Hello! I know I haven't posted for a REALLY long time, but it's not because I don't love you guys. Honestly! Real life has played hell with me in the past year, but I have a feeling 2009 will be much better.

For those of you that still kept me on their friends' lists, despite my lack of communication...you guys are the best. Thanks for hanging in there. I will try to do better in the coming year. Lots of fandom shifts have taken place, even though I am still loyal to my men of Gondor and always will be. So I hope to have more to contribute soon.

Hope everyone on my friends' list is doing great. I'll be in touch soon.

Couldn't ask for better than this!

The Candy Heart You Should Give Is:

To: Boromir From: gondorbunny

Taken from aflon

The Recipe For Gondorbunny

3 parts Elegance  2 parts Flirtation  1 part Energy  Splash of Daring  Sip slowly on the beach

I just wanted to wish everyone on my f-list a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   All the best to everyone in 2008. :-)




I also want to wish mistressofrohan the happiest of birthdays tomorrow as well.  This is for you, sweetie. :-)

Technically, the calendar says that it's the beginning of October, but this past weekend has me seriously doubting that.   It was sunny, yes.  But hot and muggy.  And hot.  And...and...muggy.  And...

Well, you get the picture.

On the plus side, I didn't hear about anyone dying or nearly dying in the heat down here, unlike those poor people at the marathon up in Chicago.  Yikes!

I've actually made a bit of a start on clearing out one of our spare bedrooms.  When we moved into this house in July, we just kind of treated the two spare rooms like gigantic walk-in closets.  Everything that we didn't have an immediate place for was unceremoniously dumped there.  The upside is that we can just shut those doors and forget about the disaster.  The downside is that we occasionally DO have to find something in one of those rooms, and what should be a simple enough procedure turns into a 20 minute ordeal.

So I finally felt inspired enough (or fed up enough) about it this past weekend to at least start trying to organize some of the stuff.  Lots of the boxes are full of clothes that we obviously don't miss much because we haven't even thought of wearing them for almost 3 months now.  With a Goodwill conveniently about 3 minutes away, I think a big donation is coming their way in the very near future.  I'm just going to work on one room at a time and maybe....by the time all is said and done...I'll really feel as thought I accomplished something.  Who knows?

Other than that, the weekend was fairly uneventful and my work day today was pretty damned boring.  

Hmmm...Methinks I should have quit this post while I was ahead. :-)

Hard to believe yet another Monday has come and gone, and behind it yet another weekend.  I hope everyone enjoyed theirs.

I went to the theater last night and saw Eastern Promises, the new David Cronenberg film starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts.  I must say, I was very, very impressed.  I'm not normally the sort of person that goes for realistic violence (as opposed to stylized or obviously exaggerated violence of the type in films like Kill Bill or Sin City), but this film managed to be shocking at the same time as it was engrossing and dramatic and even a bit sweet in parts.  

Anyway, I don't want to give away any plot details, all I have to say is this should be seen if you have any interest at all in good movies and aren't afraid of a bit of blood (okay, in the case of a couple of scenes, a whole LOT of blood) or a couple of glimpses of Viggo Mortensen's woo-woo. :)

Other than that, the weekend was uneventful.  I'm looking forward to relaxing tonight and watching the Patriots perform their 4th ass-kicking in a row (my apologies in advance to any Cincinnati fans out there!) 



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 I hope everyone had a great weekend!   Here's how I spent parts of mine:  

Name five films that have you in tears almost every time you view them, and the scene that causes those tears in each one.

NOTE: Try to refrain from listing animal-related films. We ALL know those make us cry. :)

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THESE FILMS*

( Enter here )

This is probably the most moving and heartfelt song I ever heard recorded about this tragedy.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj6zdWLUuk&mode=related&search=



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Got to give her credit though. Still frisky even in her 40's! 

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/15375200.html

I hope everyone has had a good weekend!

I went out to breakfast this morning, and when the waitress dropped off my bill on the table, this actual phrase was printed along the bottom:

If you notice that any item that you ordered has not been
added to your check, please let the management know right
away, and that item will be FREE.

Um...Excuse me, but if an item you ordered hasn't been added to your check, wouldn't you get that item FREE anyway? o_O

In other news...both the Patriots and the Packers won their respective season opener games today, so both hubby and I are happy campers. :)

I was tagged by mythicdove for this one, so here goes!



List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself. Tag seven people to do the same. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

1. I need to have at least one cup of coffee in the morning or I develop a most annoying headache.

2. Although I love all of my animals, I still consider myself much more a "cat person" than a "dog person".

3. I like foods that make a lot of other people I know say "yuck", such as sushi, chicken livers, and rabbit meat.

4. I am very slow to get angry...unless someone insults my intelligence. That is guaranteed to fire me up right away.

5. I have not been seen in my natural haircolor (dark brown) in ten years.

6. I become almost paralyzed with fear over spiders (large ones, mainly) and heights (of the climbing variety. I'm fine in airplanes.)

7. I am very close with my parents and the idea that they won't be around forever simply terrifies me at times.


Most of the people on my f-list have already been tagged by this, but I will name a couple that I don't think have done it yet. mistressofrohan, sally_simpson76, and bluespirit_star.


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And the world still mourns her loss.

Are you tired of receiving "chain emails"?

You know, those emails you get every day telling you that you must forward it to "X" many of your friends or else something bad will happen?

Then this is for you!

http://info.org.il/irrelevant/may02-smilepop-soapbox4.swf

August is finally drawing to a close, which leaves me partly relieved and partly apprehensive.

Relieved because the end of August in Florida means that the end of 95+ degree temperatures is actually in sight.

Apprehensive because September is the month that people's minds tend to start turning toward *horrified gasp for effect* the Holidays!! I am certainly in NO way prepared to discuss those just yet.

Also, my ongoing car woes continue. I ditched the rental car today after keeping it for 6 days, and my car is now running again, but it looks like a new starter is on the horizon next. *cries*

On a happier note, the new autobiography by Pattie Boyd was released today (see userpic). I'll have to wait until payday on Friday before I can get a copy, but I've been looking forward to reading it ever since I heard rumors of it's writing over a year ago. I don't expect it to be the next Great American (or in this case, English) Novel, but I'm sure it will be an interesting read.

So that's my thoughts of the day. You may wake up now and continue on with your evening/afternoon/morning or whatever it is in your particular time zone at the moment you read this. :)



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Just hunting around the net on a lazy Sunday and decided to post some lovelies that I came across.

All pics courtesy of the site www.josh-holloway.com

( Step this way )

Well, I just arrived home from work in my shiny little rental car. How did it come to this, you ask? It happened kind of like this:

Husband calls me at work with the news that between him and the auto guy, they had discovered that the problem with our car was a little thingy called a solonoid switch. The place said they could order the part and have it by Friday. Total cost: Only $38.

Major relief on my part. I was anticipating much worse!

Okay cool. Is the car okay to drive short distances until then?

Sure!

Half hour later I receive a second phone call from the spousal unit.

Guess what? The car died in the middle of traffic. Everything is dead. The battery won't even click. The car won't even come out of gear. He had to have a cop help push the car into a nearby bank parking lot.

Oh just beautiful. So, being the dutiful wife that I am, I call a tow truck to collect both my car and my husband and take them both home. Total cost: $60.

And of course, the part we need won't be in until Friday. So what does that mean, boys and girls? A rental car for 2 days! Total cost including initial deposit to be refunded upon the return of the vehicle: $250.

So I'm already out $310 and I still haven't paid for the part yet! It may not be the $500+ I was anticipating, but it's getting there!

I normally don't drink alcohol during the work week, but am I having a beer right now? You bet your ass I am!


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Sometimes I wonder if having a car is worth all the bother. Just when I think I have all my finances in order, my husband informs me that while using the car today, the car starting feeling "rattle-ly" and the *check engine* and *traction control* lights came on. (As you can see, my darling hubby is NOT very mechanically inclined.) :)

So off he goes to the shop to get things checked out as I sit at my desk at work, waiting for The Phone Call and envisioning my bank account being lighter by about $500 or so.

*big sigh*

Moving to a city and using public transportation for the rest of my life is looking more and more appealing all the time.


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