Time for Chota Mota

I don't have much to say today, but I don't want to start a trend of not posting anything on Wednesdays, so I'll resort to Chota Mota/Small Fat/This and That/Bits and Bobs.

I helped Hubby move furniture last night, from one room to the other, so that he could rip up the carpet. The worst part about the renovating is actually trying to figure out where to put stuff while a room is being worked on. :-/

Speaking of that, everyone in charge of this renovating show is excited about a mass of volunteers who want to come help do painting and such. Everytime they talk about it, I get a tension headache. It will be nice to get the work done -- and it's that much less work for the Hubby -- but we're the ones who have to supervise the, and have them underfoot and in our house while they do all that work, and they tend to come when it's convenient for them and not for us. /minirant

I am paying the price for not keeping better records, as I try to reconstruct who stayed when and how many meals they ate, during the last few months. Bad girl! Fortunately, I hardly ever delete an email, so I can usually find enough info about it to jog my memory, which is pretty good (so far).

I'm feeling tired today, and I don't know if it's because of stress, low blood sugar, a need for coffee, I'm bored, or what. Coffee with sugar is a cure for many woes, so maybe I'll try that and see how it goes. ;-)

Guess that's enough chota mota for one day! Back to work.

Bamfurlong -- or, Lin = LOTR geek

Here's my trivial observation for the day:

I have always suspected that I knew the text of LOTR very well (after reading it at least once a year for 30+ years), but now I have proof. I was reading FOTR (my new revised edition copy that has a wee picture of Boromir on the back cover) and came to the part in A Shortcut to Mushrooms where Pippin says "I know these fields and this gate!" he said. "This is Bamfurlong, old Farmer Maggot's land. That's his farm away there in the trees."

Well now, I knew immediately that I had never read that before; since when was Maggot's farm named Bamfurlong? So, just to prove I wasn't crazy, I looked it up in my old battered copy of LOTR, and sure enough, that phrase wasn't there. My old copy reads: "I know these fields and this gate!" he said. "We are on old Farmer Maggot's land. That must be his farm away there in the trees."

Yay me! I spotted a change in the revised edition! And it pleases me no end! I think I'm over the Wednesday hump at last!

BTW, I am having a grand time rereading the LOTR books; I haven't read them properly since the films came out. I'm reading every word this time around, and it's great -- there's something about being be able to actually visualize Frodo for a change that makes my reading so much better. Frodo was for some strange reason the most ephemeral character for me in the past; now he is there for me. Boromir, of course, was always there in a rather omnipresent way -- can't wait until he turns up! Only 10 chapters to go...