Thumbs Up, Everyone!

I just got home from seeing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Somewhere in my blahg I've already admitted to being a closet fan, something that feels almost shameful to admit, since I'm an adult, but I've heard there are plenty of us around, so maybe it's going to stop being a stigma soon. ;)

Luckily, I decided to attend the 12:01am showing, thinking that most children would not be allowed out on a school night to see the first show. I was wrong. I forgot about college kids. I ended up at the theater with about 500 college kids, and they were the best audience to see this with!

They were enthusiastic, laughed in the right places, cried where they were supposed to, didn't seem to need numerous potty breaks (although they made up for this one by hitting the concession stands HARD) and most of them managed to stay awake for the whole show, unlike their younger counterparts.

I would wish that everyone had as great an audience to see this film, and if anyone wants to know about my thumbs ... both of them are up, WAY UP!

GREAT MOVIE, go see it! :D

The Outer Limits

So much has happened since my last posting, yet I've blogged not a bit of it. Instead, I resorted to the old-fashioned pen and notepad to record my mindless ramblings.

Why? Because I took my show on the road to the wilds of Lithuania.

Where in the WORLD is Lithuania? It's in the Baltic Region, silly! Oh, you don't know where that is? You know, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia ... right next door to Belarus? Oh, this will help you, slightly south of the north pole ... that's slightly to the east of COLD AS HELL!

I found out when I arrived with my suitcase full of cute fall fashions that I should have packed my sub-arctic polar gear; Lithuania is the place that Santa supposedly hails from, you know. I didn't know. Everything I read kept saying the same reassuring thing "Lithuania is a maritime country with mild temperatures" Mild? Who are they asking?

I left the East coast with hot high 70's and stepped off a plane 14 hours later and into 20's. You want to talk about BRRRRRRRR? And remember, I LIKE the cold, so heed my words. It is COLD in Lithuania!

My favorite gifts to myself were my new ski jacket with detachable hood and mohair pashmina. I spent my trip muffled to the eyebrows, while the native Lithuanians strolled about in their lightweight fall jackets, with nary a scarf or gloves to be seen. Must be in their genes or their thickened blood. Amazing.

At any rate, this is just a quick catch up email with the promise of the trip entirety, with all of the boring details, to follow. :D