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Jen & Bob are OFFICIALLY my heros.
Went to see the new Pride & Prejudice with Jen on Friday. While she is completely head over heels in love with the new Mr. Darcy, I'm still a Colin Firth holdout. While the new Darcy has very soulful eyes, and a fantastic cross-moor trudge, he just can't compete with the broody beauty of Colin Firth in his heyday. I've sworn to force her to watch the old A&E version with me. All 7 heavenly hours. There were some excellent lines in the new one, such as:

Darcy: You have bewitched me, body and soul.
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Lizzie: You may only call me Mrs. Darcy when you are perfectly and incandescently happy.

I just really love that phrase "perfectly and incandescently happy." And Mr. Bingley rehearsing with Mr. Darcy was pretty cute, too.

The low point of the movie was easily the two clueless old people sitting next to me. They couldn't follow the plot to save their lives. "Who's Mr. Wickham?!?" "Is that Darcy?!?" "How many daughters do they have?!?" "Is that her sister?!?"

Attention Old People: a guide to Pride & Prejudice.

1. They're going to throw a lot of names at you very fast, and MOST of them are Miss Bennet: There are FIVE Miss Bennets: (in chronological order) Jane, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Mary, Kitty & Lydia. The "plain girl" is Elizabeth's friend Charlotte Lucas (Maria Lucas does not appear in this film).

2. The Bennets' home is "entailed to the male line", which means since there is no son, the property would go to Mr. Collins (the boring clergyman) upon Mr. Bennet's death.

3. Mr. Wickham is the charming militia officer that flirts with Lizzie, and has bad blood with Mr. Darcy.

After the movie, Jen & I went back to her house to watch "The Wedding Date" (disappointing), and she let me raid their CD collection for my iPod. I picked out 20 CDs. Then Bob provided me with another 10 based on my previous selections (Interpol, Wilco, Hot Hot Heat, My Morning Jacket, PJ Harvey, Rilo Kiley, etc.)

However, this is when the hero stuff comes in--like the huge dork that I am, I managed to leave my keys in the ignition when I was unplugging my iPod to come inside, and locked them snugly inside. Jen & Bob were sweet enough to let me stay the night with them AND drive me to my mom's (and back) for my spare car key.

This act of heroism is in addition to the evening (which Bob was so sweet to mention) when they came to pick me up from Rachel's bachelorette party when I was drunk off my ass. ("Kim, why are you crying? What's wrong?" "I... DON'T... KNOW, but I CAN'T STOP!!")

Also, you'll all be proud to read, I was chosen as "Rock Star of the Month" Check it out:


I'd like to thank the staff at Houlihan's for presenting me with this certificate, Jen, for putting my name on it, and all the people who--what? What do you mean this is just my drink coaster?

I spent all day Saturday ripping the CDs I got from Bob & Jen (which meant installing my old CD burner, since my CD/DVD drive on my laptop has decided it no longer knows what a music CD is) and watching The Office on BBC America.

Today was gift exchange day. I took back the purse Kirsten got me (very cute, but too big for me), and the Glow-in-the-Dark Tinkerbell sheets I got from my grandma (180 thread count & glow paint do not make a comfy night's sleep). So, Kirsten ended up getting me a sweater & two blouses from the Gap, and Grandma got me a "Support Cedric Diggory" t-shirt from Hot Topic (it's a cute shirt, and I couldn't find anything else I liked, outside of a baby shirt I would have given to Cooper Merritt--"I'm gonna poop double for you today"--but that's not the point of Xmas exchanging).

Also, Katie Ostrowski is now 25, and in case she reads this before she checks her voicemail (very possible), I wanted to take her out for Cheese & Chocolate at the Melting Pot as a present, on the night she names.

SKINNY UPDATE: I have now lost 11 pounds! Happily, it seems to have ALL come off my belly. My pooch is almost gone, and my boobs are just as big as ever (which I was worried about).

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