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Petula:
I am going to visit my boyfriend whom I haven't seen for a while now. I even bought myself some blemish balm and make-up so that I am looking absolutely stunning as soon as I step out the train. I am so excited that I already packed my things a couple of days ago...

celticgeek:
Daughter and son-in-law have arrived.  So far the activities have included eating WAY out of our league, movies (the second Sherlock Holmes, Hunger Games, Skyfall, and Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol), and computer discussions. 

Good times.

Edit:  The plans are complete, and daughter and son-in-law are on their way back to Ohio.

We ate well:  Mexican, Middle Eastern, Cajun, two separate Irish pubs, twice at a local micro-brewery, a sports bar, and a sandwich shop and ice cream parlor.  This is in addition to various breakfasts, lunches and dinners at home. 

For Christmas (Eve) dinner we had prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes, Jello salad, green salad, candied yams, olives, pickles, with pumpkin pie for dessert. 

Based on the above, ( and presents mentioned below)I have gained about 500 pounds in the last week :).

As presents I got a book on the History of Bray, Ireland, some sample bottles of Bunratty's mead, a sample bottle of Molly Sallivan's Irish poitin (Irish moonshine, I understand), a set of twelve different holiday coffees, a Dilbert calendar, and other things.  As a family we received about 250,000 calories of cookies, cakes, fruitcakes, crackers cheese, wine and whatnot. 

We saw a bunch of movies:  Skyfall and The Hobbit - 3D in theaters, and Bolt, The Amazing Spiderman, Men In Black 3, The Descendants, Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Bourne Legacy, Total Recall, Hope Springs, and as a finale, A Thousand Clowns.

An extremely fun and enjoyable week!

Carl-E:
Saw Les Miz on Christmas day while the turkey was cooking. 


Ohgod, I wept so hard at the end.  I swear, the ending made little sense to me whenever I saw it live (nearly 20 years ago the first time), it just seemed that they tagged the "rousing anthem" onto the end as a theatrical tidbit, but the way they handled it in the movie...


Shit, I'm crying again.  Dammit. 



Go see it. 





Oh!  And I got a wind-up nutcracker music box/automota for my nutcracker collection.  It beats a drum while playing the dance of the sugar plum fairy, all mechanical.  It's not christmas without at least one stupid, impractical gift! 

Bluesummers:
Wow...the movie was that good? Mkay, I was gonna hold off, but I guess I gotta see it too. My wife is fanatical about the musical, and I played the orchestral arrangement back when I was a concert tubist...Ah, those were the days.

Carl-E:
OK, here's the thing - I read one review after seeing it that said it was overkill to have the actors emoting the same thing they were singing.  That is, the emotions in the songs were being hit over your head by the acting, and vice versa. 

But really, I thought it worked surprisingly well.  I'm thinking that reviewer never saw a movie musical before - they're all like that.  It's sort of the point...


Also, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as the innkeepers were a tour de force. 

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