Comments on: the last 5 Decembers http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eve http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9769 Eve Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:47:53 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9769 OK, Mark, I'll give Wodehouse a try. But hey, he was reviewed in the Atlantic Monthly--just how lowbrow can he be? (Is he one of those lowbrows for highbrows?) Sweet Home Alabama is a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song? My husband sings it around the house sometimes, and he dragged me to the movie a few years ago.... OK, Mark, I’ll give Wodehouse a try. But hey, he was reviewed in the Atlantic Monthly–just how lowbrow can he be? (Is he one of those lowbrows for highbrows?)

Sweet Home Alabama is a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song? My husband sings it around the house sometimes, and he dragged me to the movie a few years ago….

]]> By: Mark IV http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9663 Mark IV Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:45:27 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9663 <p>Eve, Wodehouse's characters have names like Looney Binney, Stilton Cheesewright, and Gussie Fink-Nottle, they all belong to the Drones Club, and they are forever getting themselves into impossible problems of the romantic variety that can be solved only by Jeeves' superior brain power and discreet manners. His novels are worth at least one belly laugh per page, but I'm not sure they can be called even middlebrow... :-) Do yourself a favor and read just one, but don't blame me if your sides hurt afterwards.</p> <p><blockquote>I wouldn't recognize a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song if I heard it</blockquote></p> <p>Sweet Home Alabama?</p> Eve, Wodehouse’s characters have names like Looney Binney, Stilton Cheesewright, and Gussie Fink-Nottle, they all belong to the Drones Club, and they are forever getting themselves into impossible problems of the romantic variety that can be solved only by Jeeves’ superior brain power and discreet manners. His novels are worth at least one belly laugh per page, but I’m not sure they can be called even middlebrow… :-) Do yourself a favor and read just one, but don’t blame me if your sides hurt afterwards.

I wouldn’t recognize a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song if I heard it

Sweet Home Alabama?

]]> By: Eve http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9646 Eve Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:11:45 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9646 Mark IV, heh heh. My husband and I actually had a terrible time finding books to agree on. He usually can't be persuaded to read fiction ("where's the data?")--even after I found a study which I can't figure out how to link to right now suggesting a correlation between reading fiction and the development of empathy. But he likes history, biography, that kind of thing, so that was usually our compromise. The Warren Buffett tapes were 100% his choice, but to my surprise he actually picked out Stephen King's book on writing and really enjoyed it, and one year we listened to a terrible dramatization of The Lord of the Rings, the story of which he also enjoyed (after having seen the movies). Music posed similar problems. He likes classical, but every time I put it in he would complain that he needed something more raucous to keep him awake, so we usually ended up going back to the louder of his CDs I could stand (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Morrissey, the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show--bleah). I wouldn't recognize a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song if I heard it, but I do know the name from his CD collection. I've heard great things about P.G. Wodehouse. I've never read him, but it was my impression he's at least sort of highbrow...? Mark IV, heh heh. My husband and I actually had a terrible time finding books to agree on. He usually can’t be persuaded to read fiction (“where’s the data?”)–even after I found a study which I can’t figure out how to link to right now suggesting a correlation between reading fiction and the development of empathy. But he likes history, biography, that kind of thing, so that was usually our compromise. The Warren Buffett tapes were 100% his choice, but to my surprise he actually picked out Stephen King’s book on writing and really enjoyed it, and one year we listened to a terrible dramatization of The Lord of the Rings, the story of which he also enjoyed (after having seen the movies).

Music posed similar problems. He likes classical, but every time I put it in he would complain that he needed something more raucous to keep him awake, so we usually ended up going back to the louder of his CDs I could stand (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Morrissey, the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show–bleah). I wouldn’t recognize a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song if I heard it, but I do know the name from his CD collection.

I’ve heard great things about P.G. Wodehouse. I’ve never read him, but it was my impression he’s at least sort of highbrow…?

]]> By: Mark IV http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9629 Mark IV Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:42:11 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9629 Digital cameras are great because not only can you take lots of pictures, but you can edit them too. BiV, my mother came from the Uintah Basin and we always went there to visit family and go to reunions. The views through Provo Canyon, Heber, Daniel's canyon, Strawberry valley, and on out across the flats are unique, and the presence of mountains and their shadows, especially on snow, would be worthy of at least 357 pictures. Eve, next week we'll be doing I-80 across Nebraska and Wyoming, but our tastes are much more lowbrow than yours and your husband's. Instead of Warren Buffett, it'll be Jimmy, the book on disc will be by P.G. Wodehouse about the adventures of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves (yes, that is my wife's gift to me, and she doesn't know that I know), and there is something about long, caffeinated drives that requires music by Lynnyrd Skynnyrd and ZZ Top. Digital cameras are great because not only can you take lots of pictures, but you can edit them too.

BiV, my mother came from the Uintah Basin and we always went there to visit family and go to reunions. The views through Provo Canyon, Heber, Daniel’s canyon, Strawberry valley, and on out across the flats are unique, and the presence of mountains and their shadows, especially on snow, would be worthy of at least 357 pictures.

Eve, next week we’ll be doing I-80 across Nebraska and Wyoming, but our tastes are much more lowbrow than yours and your husband’s. Instead of Warren Buffett, it’ll be Jimmy, the book on disc will be by P.G. Wodehouse about the adventures of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves (yes, that is my wife’s gift to me, and she doesn’t know that I know), and there is something about long, caffeinated drives that requires music by Lynnyrd Skynnyrd and ZZ Top.

]]> By: Eve http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9571 Eve Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:03:13 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9571 Ziff, coughcoughphotosnappinglunaticcough, I have to admit that your kids are so incredibly cute that they could probably drive even me over the border into digital-camera mania land. I can't <i>wait</i> to see them next week and be amazed at how much taller they are than they were last year. Ziff, coughcoughphotosnappinglunaticcough, I have to admit that your kids are so incredibly cute that they could probably drive even me over the border into digital-camera mania land.

I can’t wait to see them next week and be amazed at how much taller they are than they were last year.

]]> By: Ziff http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9537 Ziff Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:24:40 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9537 Bored in Vernal, Aren't digital cameras <i>great</i>? Ever since my wife and I got one, I have not stopped taking pictures, mostly of our incredibly cute kids. I take so many that my wife and sisters actually mock me and call me a "photo snapping lunatic." Can you imagine? :) Bored in Vernal,

Aren’t digital cameras great? Ever since my wife and I got one, I have not stopped taking pictures, mostly of our incredibly cute kids. I take so many that my wife and sisters actually mock me and call me a “photo snapping lunatic.” Can you imagine? :)

]]> By: Eve http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9527 Eve Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:17:45 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9527 BinV, oh oh oh...I miss the mountains! If you and some of our other Utah Bloggernaclers could all be arranged into one ward and I could be in it, I'd move back in a flash. BinV, oh oh oh…I miss the mountains! If you and some of our other Utah Bloggernaclers could all be arranged into one ward and I could be in it, I’d move back in a flash.

]]> By: Eve http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9524 Eve Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:10:31 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9524 cmac, LOL. I was just thinking how incredibly OLD I am. (We'd have to go back to 1988 to find my junior year of high school.) cmac, LOL. I was just thinking how incredibly OLD I am. (We’d have to go back to 1988 to find my junior year of high school.)

]]> By: Bored in Vernal http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9522 Bored in Vernal Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:08:52 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9522 Eve, we just took that trip through the mountains of Vernal/Roosevelt/Duchesne/Heber/Deer Creek/Provo Canyon to pick up our BYU girls and bring them home to for Christmas. What beauty! I took 357 pictures of the scenery with my new digital camera. Eve, we just took that trip through the mountains of Vernal/Roosevelt/Duchesne/Heber/Deer Creek/Provo Canyon to pick up our BYU girls and bring them home to for Christmas. What beauty! I took 357 pictures of the scenery with my new digital camera.

]]> By: cmac http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9520 cmac Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:59:49 +0000 http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2006/12/19/the-last-5-decembers/#comment-9520 Not nearly so eloquent as Eve: 2001: I was a junior is high school, pretty much hating life. 2002: I was a senior in high school, we had the sister missionaries over, and they even spent the night. I wonder if that was weird. 2003: Freshman at BYU and relieved to be away from my roommate. 2004: Sophomore at BYU and the first time my whole family had been together since 2001 (because of missions). 2005: Junior year -- First married Christmas. We went to Houston the day after Christmas to be with my husband's family. First time to Texas. If it's that hot in December, I will never go any other time of year. Sorry in-laws. 2006- Senior year (hurrah!) Whole family together again! And I don't even have to go to Texas this year. (and this makes me remember how incredibly young I am . . . ) Not nearly so eloquent as Eve:

2001: I was a junior is high school, pretty much hating life.
2002: I was a senior in high school, we had the sister missionaries over, and they even spent the night. I wonder if that was weird.
2003: Freshman at BYU and relieved to be away from my roommate.
2004: Sophomore at BYU and the first time my whole family had been together since 2001 (because of missions).
2005: Junior year — First married Christmas. We went to Houston the day after Christmas to be with my husband’s family. First time to Texas. If it’s that hot in December, I will never go any other time of year. Sorry in-laws.
2006- Senior year (hurrah!) Whole family together again! And I don’t even have to go to Texas this year.

(and this makes me remember how incredibly young I am . . . )

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