in essence, middle earth may die.

For the last week or so, our family has all been sick with some upper respiration thing and it has been no fun at all, as anyone could imagine.  Well, I decided that since I was going to spend all day in bed yesterday, that I would grab a few movies to watch as I laid there.  The ones I grabbed, as Megan pointed out to me, are all war movies.  Why did I choose them?  I can't say.  But for the last two days I have been watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies.  

Today, Megan joined me for the Two Towers, and we've sat in my bed laughing and making fun, being intensely grossed out, and even crying.  We handed out the "Cutest Baby" award to a little brown eyed, curly-haired little thing, and we have also compared the Orks [Orchs? Orx? Orcks? Oarcks? (question on the spelling there)] to many different farm and forest animals.  The comparisons have been with mostly ugly, stupid animals, too.  It's been great.  And, we've been humidifying, just like mother told us to!  Check us out.  

In other news, we've been going through a lot of nasal spray, and I've been eating a lot of chocolate.  I figure it will cure whatever I've got.  Yes!