Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Here's day one. Let's see how far I get with this one.

Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust

1. I can wiggle my ears.
2. I can roll my tongue.
3. I always have an earworm; some song or another is always stuck in my head, mostly songs I like, but sometimes songs I can't stand.
4. I was a huge fan of the Monkees as a teen; my first and only celebrity crush was Peter Tork.
5. I used to collect DC comics, and still have hundreds of them left, although none of them are in "collectible condition". I bought them to read, not seal up in plastic. I collected them from the '60s through the 70s.
6. In high school I was on the debate team in my junior and senior year. I was pretty good at it, too. I enjoy a good argument.
7. I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism for many years. I was known as Lady AElfwenna of Shrewsbury, and I was a scribe and calligrapher. I still have most of my garb, and hope to play again someday.
8. I can play the piano and the recorder. Not very well, but I can play them. I took five years of piano lessons, and sort of taught myself the recorder. However, I don't play for anyone but my family.
9. The only kinds of needlework I have never tried are tatting and needlepoint. One of these days...
10 Tolkien was my matchmaker: my husband and I got together through our mutual interest in his books. This year we will have our 39th anniversary.

I just opened my emails to find out that one of my favorite fanfic authors has passed away.

Fiondil of Stories of Arda had been regularly posting updates of his latest stories on a regular basis. When his Monday update did not appear, I worried something was wrong, but it never occurred to me it was something like this.

I'm so sad. He's one of a handful of writers who could get me reading about Elves and the Valar, and he was always very faithful in answering comments, and very kind in his own comments. My last communication with him was a review on one of my own stories just last week. :(

We went into Stillwater on Saturday for some errands and some fun. I had another $10 gift card from those surveys I'm answering for OSU to spend at JoAnn's and the DH picked up some shelves and bins for organizing the garage.

We took along my new Silmarillion audio-books. The DH didn't remember ever reading it (he started it when it first came out in 1977, but soon gave up) and I failed at my last attempt to join in at the silwritersguild's re-read. (I've read it through about 3 or 4 times, but mostly I just cherry-pick the bits I need if I'm writing.)

So we listened, and I found myself having to explain things to the DH ("Iluvatar is God; the Valar are archangels; the Maiar are angels--Gandalf was an angel.") while he occasionally made me giggle with some comments on the names. I wasn't really sure if he was actually listening to the story, when it came to the part when Tulkas appeared on the scene.

"whereas Tulkas laughs ever, in sport or in war, and even in the face of Melkor he laughed in battles before the Elves were born."

The DH said "MICHAEL!"

I was a little startled and gave him a funny look.

He said, "You know, John Travolta, the angel Michael: 'BATTLE!'"

Of course I remembered that scene:



Yes, I certainly do see the resemblance. And I should never ever think my DH is not listening.

Sunday we were very busy at work, and when the DH picked me up, he told me we were going out to dinner with our son and his family. I was very glad I did not have to cook dinner. We took him, his girlfriend and her four kids out to a local Chinese restaurant, where we had enough food to feed an army! I put some of his leftovers in his lunch today, while I will finish up my sesame chicken for my own lunch.

My friend dawn_felagund, whom some of you know as the founder of the Silmarillion Writer's Guild, and as the website developer and co-mod for Many Paths to Tread, gave a talk this past weekend at Mythmoot.

You can watch a clip of her giving a talk here at her LJ! It's really fascinating. If you took part in her survey not long ago, you can see the use she made of your answers!

To the Professor!

Finally a chance to put down a few of my thoughts about the movie. I really hope to get a chance to see it again soon!

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I typed this up a few days before I got sick, and just realized I never got around to posting it. I suppose you could call it a combination of rant and advice. Now I've got cabin fever, since I haven't set toe out of the house except to go to the doctor's office since Saturday. Behind a cut, for length...( Read more... )

I have felt like crap all day: stuffy head, sneezes, achy, exhausted and unable to focus. At least I haven't run a temp yet. I stayed home from church. Spent most of the day in my recliner with a blanket and the cat on my lap. I'm off tomorrow. Hope I feel better by Tues.

Good night, all.

I signed up for Fandom Stocking over at DW.

My entry is HERE if anyone is interested. There are still a couple of days left to sign up! I noticed a couple of my frends there already.

I opened a notification this morning and it took me to a friend's comment page, but before I could even scroll down, and without me clicking anything, it flipped to her main page. Then I tried to look at my friends page and it flipped to my main page. It won't let me look at either comments or friends pages. Bwuh?