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Hehehe, I spent £30 on six DVDs on play.com this evening; three of them are for my parents for Christmas and they don't know they're getting them. Well, mum already knows about PoTC2 (which isn't one of these three), but they were discussing (loudly) the other night some classic comedy films they "just have to get on DVD someday", so I thought I'd take the initiative, write them down, and buy them, for something for my parents to open on the day. Their gifts are both pretty untangible: dad's car tax for a year, and mum's yet-to-be-chosen- new bed. I also got my mum a little MP3 player, because she keeps going on: "if I only had a little collection of music to call my own, I would listen to it!" It holds like, 250 songs or something, roughly. MORE THAN ENOUGH for her.
The other three DVDs are for me; three for £15 is obviously hard for me to resist. I'm getting Batman Begins, Finding Neverland, and Brokeback Mountain (well I just have to own it! Even if I wasn't so impressed by it). And they'll come right under my parents noses, and they won't know, because I warned them I was buying stuff for myself ;) Hehehehe!
I'm rereading The Tawny Man Trilogy now too, just coz. I get cravings for Hobb novels about... Three times a year? And consider I either read the whole nine books each go, or at least one full trilogy, maybe two if I feel like it. As well as other stuff in between.
May I just mention that George R.R. Martin really stuck some open-mouth moments in Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold right towards the end! And I don't think he has an issue with killing off main characters; it's set during a war, of course people have to die. It's more realistic that people you're supposed to have an emotional investment in should die unexpectedly. I know it's not great for resolving things, but death tends not to be. And there are other people in the world. It makes everything change, and people are thrust into positions they did not want.
I really fancy a cup of tea right now actually.
The other three DVDs are for me; three for £15 is obviously hard for me to resist. I'm getting Batman Begins, Finding Neverland, and Brokeback Mountain (well I just have to own it! Even if I wasn't so impressed by it). And they'll come right under my parents noses, and they won't know, because I warned them I was buying stuff for myself ;) Hehehehe!
I'm rereading The Tawny Man Trilogy now too, just coz. I get cravings for Hobb novels about... Three times a year? And consider I either read the whole nine books each go, or at least one full trilogy, maybe two if I feel like it. As well as other stuff in between.
May I just mention that George R.R. Martin really stuck some open-mouth moments in Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold right towards the end! And I don't think he has an issue with killing off main characters; it's set during a war, of course people have to die. It's more realistic that people you're supposed to have an emotional investment in should die unexpectedly. I know it's not great for resolving things, but death tends not to be. And there are other people in the world. It makes everything change, and people are thrust into positions they did not want.
I really fancy a cup of tea right now actually.
