Pre-birthday-ish stuff

My birthday is tomorrow … so this is the last day for me to write when in my 30’s :veryshocked:

I’ve had the ability to get a few “b-day presents” ahead of time, with me saying the other day “every day from now thru my birthday is my birthday” –meaning to “treat me nice” the whole time and “make it feel special” –so then DH decided to make it that something would be gotten for me every day, mostly — so let’s see:

• Fry’s: a DVD: “The Sixth Sense” –I have never seen it, but based on “The Village” being a favorite of mine, I had thought of getting the other movies that M. N. S. has put out (I’m using initials for spelling reason, too you-know-what to look it up)
• Best Buy: something for my Sansa e260 (Sandisk) — the Sandisk Sansa e200 series Travel Kit
• Best Buy: using money from FIL for birthdays to DH and me, and a bit more donation from DH a new mp3 player just to have Audible Ready-ness ability. It’s a Sandisk Sansa m230, which is for the family to use with my Audible.com account only (and I am still wanting my Sansa e260 to do Audible …)

A nice little list. The Sansa’s don’t use bookmarking, and I would like it if they did, but as it is, it is nice to finally have a device to listen to Pride and Prejudice, or other Austen e-books, as well as other stuff I have, like: Prydain Chronicles; Chronicles of Naria; Eragon, Eldest (Inheritance Trilogy); Atlas Strugged; etc. an I have slim but great hope to have Audible Ready-ness added to a firmware upgrade for the e200’s.

Another thing I’ve had for my birthday countdown week is DH watching “Cold Mountain” with me last night. It’s the first time he’s seen it. I saw it so long ago, and it really affected me, and I have been trying to get DH to see it too. I did see it as a rental first, when DH was out of town. He later bought a used copy of it for me, but wouldn’t watch it. I MADE him under Her Majesty Declaration last night, and after the about 3 hours, he declared it a good movie, though through out it he struggled with it the length and that is understandable since we watched other movie first, “Must Love Dogs” which was OK, cute, but too long and drawn out and filled with stuff that could have been left on the cutting floor. We saw that as a rental, DH trying to get something for us to watch and NOT have to watch Cold Mountain. I declared the movie to be watch to BE C.M. but DH wouldn’t and only caved after I insisted for having gone through “Must Love Dogs”.

It’d be nice to have seen it only, Cold Mountain, but how it happened worked out OK.

I really enjoyed seeing the movie again, and cried sticky tears many times. It is such an emotionally engaging movie, it really is good to see a deep look at that time in The South. There is no glory in war, not really. It’s all man-made sophomoric stuff

[Wikipedia: Sophomore – Folk-etymologically, the word is said to mean “wise fool”; consequently sophomoric means “pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). While it appears to be formed from Greek sophos, meaning “wise”, and moros meaning “foolish”, it is in truth from the word sophumer, an obsolete variant of sophism; ]

[Online Etymology Dictionary: sophomore
1688, “student in the second year of university study,” lit. “arguer,” altered from sophumer (1653, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. sophos “wise” + moros “foolish, dull.” Short form soph is attested from 1778. Sophomoric “characteristic of a sophomore” (regarded as self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature) is attested from 1837. ]