Am very bummed and am feeling like a very bad fan-girl.

Apparently, Elijah Wood was within mere miles of me, at a premiere that I could have attended, if I had of realized that he would be there. But the only celebrity news I had heard of Sundance was that Paris Hilton was going to be there, and I really have very little desire to meet her. Elijah and the other Hobbits are a different story.

*Pouts* And I just know that he was supposed to bump into me and fall instantly in love. That’s the only thing that’s been holding us back.

To top it off, I missed seeing the premiere of “Ringers: Lord of the Fans” because I was out of town when the tickets went on sale. I’m hoping that I can grab some same day tickets on Thursday, but I’m not holding my breath. However, Ellie, you’d better keep those toes crossed!

There’s pics on the slamdance website of my LOTR friends here in their costumes at the premiere. *sigh* I haven’t been able to go to a meeting in months. I miss the lembas bread. And raving about Tolkien.

In fact, I miss my Tolkien group online too, my LOTR Inklings. We started reading LOTR again and it just fizzled. I know I didn’t help matters by taking forever to get my chapter out and I’ve been a perfectly lousy list mommy. But I’ve been working on my webpage and hope that tomorrow, I will have all of Book 1 finished, and at least the index page looking nice. And since I’ve had to reformat all of the emails into a readable, pretty webpage, I’ve been reading all of our old discussions. I’m just amazed all over again of the insights we discovered together, the life lessons, the ties into mythology that left me astonished. I’m lost as to how to reactive the group to get that again. I’m hoping that the website will help – having all of the basic pages actually say something and actually have something to which you could navigate would probably be nice.

I suppose I could just let it die naturally, but I am really reluctant to do so. We really had something, something that I haven’t found in another group. But maybe, it’s just like everything else in my life and I don’t know how to say goodbye. Any ideas?

Enough pointless fretting about something that nobody wants to read anyway. It is definitely time for bed!

Am back. Am tired. And cranky. Don’t like airports. Will write more later after blessed sleep.

Love. Peace. Happiness

AM CURRENTLY ON VACATION IN ILLINOIS STOP IN GOOD HEALTH AND SPIRITS STOP HAVE SEEN MANY STATUES OF LINCOLN STOP INDIANA IS CENTER OF UNIVERSE STOP AMISH COUNTRY NOT PARTICULARLY INTERESTING IN JANUARY STOP HUGS TO ALL INTERNET FRIENDS STOP MISS YOU STOP WILL WRITE MORE IN FUTURE STOP

LOVE ALWAYS JULIA STOP

🙂 *hugs*

Dear Santa,

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, that I’m pretty greedy, asking for presents right after Christmas (thanks for the iPod, btw, it was just perfect), Or that I’m too old to still believe in you. Or both. But hear me out, will ya?

This is a letter for next year. I’m giving you a whole year to work on it, because I want a really special gift, and I don’t think that even with your or your elves superior skills in the workshop, that you can get this custom-made job done overnight.

Next Christmas, Santa, I want a boyfriend. I’ve been really good, for a really long time. You’ve gone and given every other girl a boyfriend, financé, husband, and I think I’ve been patient long enough. I deserve one. And more importantly–he deserves me. I know that I’m a really good catch – I’ve got brains and can crack a joke and am redheaded to boot! I’d make an excellent girlfriend. I know that wasn’t the case in the past–I was much too insecure and socially awkward. Yeah, I would have been pretty lousy about it. But you’ve seen how I’ve changed and I think it’s time.

So, I hate to admit this, Santa, especially since you’re going to be so nice and give him to me, but he can’t just be any boyfriend. He has to be special, and made for me. I mean, I know my grandma told me to stop being picky and just marry anybody as long as he was a good man, but I just don’t think I’m quite that desperate yet. I’m attaching the list of what I want, so you can get him to the right specifications, but I’ll allow you some leeway in the color of the eyes–I do want to be surprised!

See, I told you, it wasn’t too hard. And believe me, I want to make it easy for you. So if creating him all at once is too difficult, I’m more than willing to take him as a work-in-progress.

And Santa? I’m all for celebrating Christmas in July. 😉

Julia

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