Christmas gifts

[kitanzi]

Christmas was a quiet holiday this year, but all the better for it. On Christmas eve, ACat and I watched our DVD copy of The Fellowship of the Ring since we planned to go see The Two Towers on Christmas day. We showed up for the noon showing of TTT, the first of the day - and it was even, sort of, snowing while we waited for them to open. I don't quite count it as a white Christmas but it was still amusing and neat. Anyhow, the theatre was only half full and we got the best seats in the place which was wonderful. The movie itself was, well... something of a disappointment. What they did well, they did wonderfully well. They made a lot of changes and only some of them seemed to actually enhance the movie as a movie or as a story. They also made one enormous botch of a character that was completely unneeded and completely threw me out of any sense of charity with the rest of it. Fortunately, that was fairly near the end of it, but dammit! Oh well, I'll still go see the third as soon as it's around, since I have to see how they finish this off.
Afterwards we swung by to give greetings and gifts to Telynor and her household, then came home and watched Big (big couple days for movies!) and I made the last of my obligatory family phone calls, all three of which were short and sweet and happy. This was greatly helped by the fact that my brother and his wife opened their biggest gift just a couple days early, and I am once again an aunt! *G* My mother seemed especially happy, since she loves spoiling babies, so I suppose this scrap of a girl is a gift all around