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MyrnaLynne · 08-16-2008, 08:06 AM

Oh well - now my T-shirt will be wrong - they just bumped the Harry Potter back from this fall to July 2009, and then bumped the 'Twilight' movie forward from December 12 to November 21!!! (Entertainment Weekly news flash) Oh well, when the shirt comes, I can just cross out the date with a fabric marker and fix it, I suppose!

It makes sense to 'strike while the iron is hot' and put that 'Twilight' movie out sooner than later, while there is all the publicity about the final book, the movie, the fan phenomenon etc - when the hall at ComiCon was packed with screaming 'Twilight' fans, they realized, um, this series is popular and people might go see their movie! Duh!

Glad you are liking the book Wen - Mr ML couldn't believe I was re-reading the 3rd book again, now. I like to read a few pages before bed.

No Podmom 'Torchwood' is a spinoff series from Dr. Who - It's a team of, um, special agents sort of, who take care of aliens and temporal anomalies and whatever weird scifi-ish events (and you know how those are always happening inthe UK

), stationed in Cardiff, Wales. But unlike Dr. Who, the creepy aliens aren't the main point of it. It's a more adult spinoff and more about the people than the 'things' I think. And John Barrowman, who plays their leader, Captain Jack Harkness, is very cute! There are 5 of them on the team. Hard to describe, but it's a very interesting series. Just finished watching their first season. They are airing season 2 now, and I just saw that they've been picked up for a 3rd season. Woo! I just kept hearing about this show, and I decided to check it out and like it a lot! Mr ML isn't that fond of it, though (guess he's immune to the charms of Captain Jack, eh).

I wasn't thinking of taking my dad and uncle on the Bossy Sister's 12 day cruise - thought about taking them on something shorter that left from someplace closer to them in Florida, maybe Tampa. It's all speculative. I haven't been very good at making any plans these days. Still haven't done anything about fixing our disposer in the sink that died either! And this is 'tax free' weekend here and I still haven't decided about getting any appliances or not. Tax free saves a lot of money - not buying anything saves more! LOL!

OO, I got a $5 check from the Lottery! Very cool. Now if they'd just add about half a dozen extra zeros to the end...

I guess Mr ML is phobic about flying - his hands get all clammy - He has flown before (which I guess is how he found out he hates it). We flew to and from our honeymoon, and we flew down to visit my folks when Mr ML Jr was a baby but at some point after that he just said No More, not doing it. And every time a plane crashes, he just nodes his head and is more convinced of his decision. Nobody is as stubborn as a Capricorn guy when they make up their mind about a thing! <insert goat graphic here!>

Mmm, birthday cake! Podad's cake sounds yummy. Too bad MLette hates cake (have you ever heard of such a thing?) so we're going to get her an ice cream cake. But Mr ML Jr's b-day is around the corner and he is a frosting fan (like his mother).

Boyfriend took MLette away for the weekend. Nice. Of course there was torrential rain all afternoon/evening after they left (yet again; thunder too) so I hope they got there and got indoors before the bad weather. Supposed to rain more today too (again) and then turn HOT! Always something with the weather lately!

GAH, I just saw that John Barrowman and some castmates were at 'ComicCon last month! Wish I'd known. Every year, I'm sorry I didn't go to this (after it's over). But those crowds just freak me out...

I also didn't realize Dr Who David Tennant is Scottish too!

Saw him on a clip of a talk show with John Barrowman, and his accent is almost as thick as James McAvoy's! (Also found out his real name is McDonald, only there already was a David McDonald so he had to take a stage name - who knows, Dr Who could be related to Mr ML's mother's people! LOL!) I just don't get why he's such a hottie, though - he's so skinny and has such a pointy nose and big ears and goggly eyes, etc. His acting as Dr Who seems awfully hammy to me. Oh well, I thought Jason was funny looking like that, for about 2 episodes of Roswell and then WHAM!!!