The Den of Ubiquity

I finally finished reading The Hobbit to Simon. Well, Nicole and I were alternating, so it doesn't even count as a reread for me, because I missed half of the chapters. I'm always surprised at how much of the book takes place after they reach the Lonely Mountain, in a clumsy anticlimax.

This week we managed to persuade Simon to watch "Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone", too, and he enjoyed it so much that he wanted to watch it again. He certainly didn't seem to find any of it scary, as we were afraid a year or so ago when we last considered it. He got to see at least part of "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" at school, and now he wants to see the rest of it, though I might be able to talk him into the first one instead. Not sure if I want to see them myself, but they do have Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne...who I never recall as being very dynamic in the TV shows.

Simon's last day of kindergarten is tomorrow. If he's well enough to go. We all got sick on the weekend--Simon first, but Nicole and I both succumbed on Sunday evening, and I stayed home from work on Monday. I always stay home during the sore-throat phase, but when I'm in the runny-nose or cough phase(in other words, when I'm most contagious), I'm willing to leave the house. Large of me, isn't it?

Luke turns three on the 4th. Born on the fourth of July, yes, I know. One day he'll have to go to the States and see some big fireworks on his birthday. Of course, I always said I'd have to go to France someday and see how they celebrate my birthday, too. Nicole is organizing his party, of course, which makes me slightly guilty, but on the other hand I hate organizing parties. I think the last time I tried to do an actual get-together for my own birthday was my 18th, and I was always a bit disappointed at how that turned out. I don't have the knack for bringing disparate groups of friends together and actually having them gel, so I don't bother to try.

It's also felt like a bit of a social whirl for us recently, with the Humphrey family reunion, a potluck with Simon's class, and the Cult of Pain meeting all within a couple of weeks. Then Luke's birthday, and Nicole's dad is actually celebrating his a week early, on my birthday, because he'll be turning 65, and this way more of his family can come, or something. So my birthday will probably be celebrated on the weekend or something. Then the end of July we go down to Drumheller for our actual vacation(since we decided not to go to Westercon in Calgary), and our anniversary in August... Sorry, getting ahead of myself there. I'm a big fan of quiet evenings and weekends at home, with perhaps a movie or an hour of television in there. Introverted Intuitive, that's me.

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I've been intermittently working on the wiki. I've now gotten done as much of The Fires of Heaven and A Game of Thrones as I had done before my data losses of last fall. Now I'm pondering what to do next. More of FOH or GOT? Backfilling from The Eye of The World? Or starting something new, like The Gameplayers of Zan or Gardens of The Moon? So far I'm leaning toward EOTW, but I'll probably just keep switching back and forth. I have no hope of catching up before either Knife of Dreams or A Feast For Crows comes out, so there's no point in working towards that... Those two, as well as the next Harry Potter book, are ones I will actually buy in hardcover when they come out--an honour I don't bestow lightly.

Also been playing lots of Neopets. ( For those who are actually interested... )

That's all for now. It feels like I keep thinking of things to write, but I forget half of them when I sit down, so sometimes I get a little stream-of-consciousness. Which reminds me--