Oh NB, did you read the Misty books? I loved the horse books too.

I wish I could get my daughter to read...she would love this kind of stuff.

Weaver, my sis found an old Trixie Beldon book at a used book store and bought it for my DD. That ws the first book she enjoyed reading.

LOL, GC, you're welcome any time you like. I bet there are some nice single kiwi girls who'd like to give you a smooch. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

FF, I read Trixie Beldon as well. Her best friend's name was Honey. I thought Honey was the most beautiful name I'd ever heard and so "American" LOL. There was another girl heroine called Donna something. She went to Hawaii. LOL, I'd forgotten all about them. My favourites of all time were the Little House books.

Weaver, I just read what you wrote about beautiful nuns. Yep, you sure are weird.

I wanted to BE Honey, Jen <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I loved the Little House books too! Did you see my post to you in Idiotville?

"I just wanted to know how the spooky space between protons could be likened to what happens in the universe when two people are attracted to each other romantically. (and not OP or WS addiction stuff either...when it is a GOOD thing)"

Huh?

I can write down the equations predicting the interactions between any two subatomic particles you choose. I can even put a couple of them in 11 dimensions for you, if you wish.

But what happens to the universe when two people are attracted romantically?

Uh, err, hah… space time twists or something. Yeah, that’s it. It gets all twisty like. The protons in my head start spinning. And time dilates, it dilates a lot.

And in the case of my particles, they fell out of my mouth all over the floor every time I tried to entangle with FWW.

Added: As my FWW likes to say, "Welcome to my world."

That's over my head AP - but I did get this



And "spooky actions at a distance" in reference to what happens with mutual attraction/relationship (even if apart) is that what one does has effects on the other but it can't really be explained.

Say I fall in love with someone but this love cannot be requited for one reason or another...but stuff keeps happening which still binds us and somehow we stay entangled with each other.

Oh never mind, I can't quite grasp what the scientist in the show was saying. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Oh that was hilarious! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Never mind but thanks all the same.

...whew...

Almost all of this is over my head ......... however........
I know how to read, if the words are not too big, and I can roast marshmellows over the fire.

SS

OMG, I'm still laughing over AP...I'm sorry AP, but that was way funny. The "whew" part too.

SS, me too, but yanno I just keep plodding on along anyway. LOL I used to try to keep my mouth shut but now I just blurt any stupid old thing out...hoping that somewhere along the line it will all align somehow into something that actually comes together in a way that makes sense...to someone. LOL

I haven't read this yet Gray, but did you read "The Shipping News", by Annie Proux, it too won a Pulitzer Prize a few years ago.

The hero in the book was a BS...but it is nontheless an incredible book and one of my all time favorites. I had to put it down several times because of his pain, but it is something everyone should try to read IMO.

I used to read much more prior to Dday. I now spend far too much time on the computer instead.

I was invited to a book club meeting last week so although I hadn't read the book, I thought it would be a good way of meeting some new people and maybe having some intellectually stimulating conversation. Wrong. At 12.30 am when I left, the people were mostly drunk, argumentative and the book hadn't been mentioned once. No idea what next month's book is or whether I'll bother going.

Is the film "You've got Mail" the one where Meg Ryan has that cute little bookstore that has to close? Jen - is your's an adult version of that?

I read The Shipping News long long ago, when it was new. One of the more enjoyable reads I can remember. I keep meaning to pick it up again. When I like a book I read it over and over. Annie Proulx's writing is bleak. I'll never forget the old man in one of the Close Range stories who says to his family, "I'll carry you all to he!! and spit on you."

GC

nbII, gc:

I insist! SJ is an EN! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ac2ally, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she does something soon in her personal life or in the movies that 2rns my stomach.

Like Jolie. I can remember when I thought SHE was hot, even WITH her fat lips. That was until 4.5 years ago - one of the emails I saw on d-day talked about how RM's perfect woman would be an Angelina Jolie about 26 years old, all his own.

SJ was in that lost in translation movie with Bill Murray. Clearly they had an EA, which tweaked my gain knob because it wasn't handled entirely right, in my view.

-ol' 2long

Books:

Even as a tyke, I was starting 2 get interested in Skiffy themes.

The Mushroom Planet books by Eleanor Cameron.

The Shy Stegosaurus from Cricket Creek, Evelyn Sibley Lampman

More... my DD's coming over 2 borrow something off my computer...


-ol' 2long

I started reading the Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Very well written. My sister, bigsis, had recommended them 2 my kids, and they loved them - even more than the Harry Potter and LOTR stories.

I started reading the first one, The Golden Compass, while on travel last month, so I'm not very far in2 it yet, and I've been 2 busy 2 pick it up again.

I also devoured all the non fiction books about astronomy and dinosaurs when I was about 9-12. When I was 10, I read Edwin H. Colbert's "Dinosaurs: Their Discovery and their World". Check it out. I'm pretty proud of myself for reading that stuff at that age...

-ol' 2long

Hey cool!

XIT's "Nihaa Shil Hozho" is on iTunes!

Probably my favorite mushy lovesong ever.

XIT was a sometimes rather militant native American band from the early 70's that I got interested in while working on the Navajo Reservation back then.

Very nicely arranged recordings, though.

-ol' 2long

My favorite books for girls were the Anne books and the Little Colonel books. The latter were written in the Deep South in the 1890s and 1900s, and my grandmother received them as gifts when she was a child. I had to be very careful when I read them -- the paper wasn't the highest quality, and it was very brittle.

The stories themselves are wonderful -- and their portrayal of African-Americans is sure to be objectionable to many. Still, I think they're an accurate reflection of the relationships between blacks and whites in the American south of that time. I'll let DD read them when she's old enough, as long as she and I can talk about them and what we don't agree with anymore, too.

The Anne books are quite timeless, as far as I can tell. I re-read them a few years ago and found that many of the situations and lessons in them are ones that still apply today, ones that we still need to think about. I loved the way Anne got herself into and out of scrapes. My favorites of all the books were the later ones where she had kids of her own. That family -- with all the kids and laughter and love -- is perhaps the closest thing I have to a vision of a "perfect" family.

Odd, that. Never thought about that till just now.

Ooo, and remember Captain Jim and the lighthouse? How romantic and sad! And remember how wonderful Gilbert turned out to be? After all that time when Anne thought he was a dodohead. Hee hee hee.

Ahem, okay, I'm done being an adolescent girl, now.

The other half of my brain loved Heinlein. Warning: Do not let your children read Heinlein without your careful oversight. His ideas about marriage and relationships, particularly in Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Time Enough For Love shaped much of my worldview. And while he weaves a good yarn, he seems to always leave out the ugly consequences of the fact that real people are never as smart or perfect as his characters. And then there's the whole reactionary libertarian part. *sigh*

Let's see, what else did I read? Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Riddlemaster of Hed, Piers Anthony. Escapism? Absosmurfly! I Did Not Like my world when I was a kid.

These days, I know that things are going well when I have a little time to read (an hour, say), but not more or less than that.

I haven't read fiction for a solid uninterrupted hour since DD was born, of course, but that's okay. I'm managing to slowly work my way through the latest Honor Harrington book nonetheless. I got it for Christmas and I'm maybe 2/3 of the way through...

SS, you asked about feeling bad about myself. It lasted for about an hour while we were trying to get to -- and then back from -- the airport. The problem was that I couldn't take the time to sit still for a moment and really feel my upset. (Driving a car is not the time to close your eyes and feel intense emotions...) Because of that, the yucky stuff lasted a good bit longer than it usually does. Once I was able to get out of the car and be quiet with myself, feel the intense emotions, and then release them, all was well again in my world.

HoFS is still wonderful. I wrote him a letter about my hopes and dreams. He said I sounded young -- excited -- and very happy in it. All true. He didn't write me a letter, but things were said and implications made and, well, things progress.

The first weekend of May, he's going to meet my parents, my sister, and two of my cousins. Later this month there's a chance I'll meet his dad. All the brothers are already out of the way in terms of meeting. Somehow the brothers are the easy ones.

And all the kids have met us and each other now. What a crazy weekend that was. Whee!