Post by MvTFan on Dec 25, 2004 23:02:13 GMT -5
Is everybody in the US watching our favorite movie at the moment? I am, but wanted to get on and post this during a commercial.
I posted last night on some of these boards and lists about the Mary Higgins Clark/Carol Higgins Clark book (The Christmas Thief) I'd just finished reading which is set in Stowe, Vermont, and has lots and lots of references to The Sound of Music and Maria von Trapp. That was my mom's book that I borrowed long enough to read (after a friend of hers told me about the TSOM and MvT mentions), but I was already wanting my own copy. Well, today some of my cousins gave my mom a copy of the same book, so when she opened it, I immediately said, "The first one is mine!" LOL! My mother then confirmed that I could have the first copy of the book since she'd just been given another.
We were with a big bunch of my cousins for Christmas dinner today, so I took along my laptop computer so I could show them the pictures I took in Vermont, as well as some family pictures I have stored on here. When my cousin's wife was looking at my pictures on my computer, she noticed the desktop wallpaper I have, which is a TSOM publicity shot of Julie and Christopher, and she pointed at Christopher and said, "My daddy looked just like him." As I'm sure all of you can imagine, my mouth dropped open! Now, my cousin's wife's dad died when she was very young, long before she married my cousin or before I knew her, so I had no idea! However, I've always thought my cousin's wife was absolutely beautiful, so I shouldn't be surprised that her father was gorgeous. She went on to say that when TSOM came out, people kept telling her that her dad had looked like Christopher Plummer and that her mother couldn't watch the movie for the longest time for that reason. I don't know how old she was when her dad died, but she was evidently young enough that her memories of her dad aren't that clear. Anyway, I told her I'd always thought Christopher Plummer was absolutely gorgeous!
One more comment on Christmas, then I'll sign off so we can call these same cousins and be sure they made it home safely since the weather's bad..... Some of my cousins gave me a new, paperback copy of Maria's book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers! Needless to say, I am absolutely thrilled with it, since the copy I have is VERY old, and every time I read it, I feel like I have to be extra careful with it. It's nice to have one I can actually use!
On that note, I'm off to see the rest of the movie. I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas; obviously I sure did!
Paula
I posted last night on some of these boards and lists about the Mary Higgins Clark/Carol Higgins Clark book (The Christmas Thief) I'd just finished reading which is set in Stowe, Vermont, and has lots and lots of references to The Sound of Music and Maria von Trapp. That was my mom's book that I borrowed long enough to read (after a friend of hers told me about the TSOM and MvT mentions), but I was already wanting my own copy. Well, today some of my cousins gave my mom a copy of the same book, so when she opened it, I immediately said, "The first one is mine!" LOL! My mother then confirmed that I could have the first copy of the book since she'd just been given another.
We were with a big bunch of my cousins for Christmas dinner today, so I took along my laptop computer so I could show them the pictures I took in Vermont, as well as some family pictures I have stored on here. When my cousin's wife was looking at my pictures on my computer, she noticed the desktop wallpaper I have, which is a TSOM publicity shot of Julie and Christopher, and she pointed at Christopher and said, "My daddy looked just like him." As I'm sure all of you can imagine, my mouth dropped open! Now, my cousin's wife's dad died when she was very young, long before she married my cousin or before I knew her, so I had no idea! However, I've always thought my cousin's wife was absolutely beautiful, so I shouldn't be surprised that her father was gorgeous. She went on to say that when TSOM came out, people kept telling her that her dad had looked like Christopher Plummer and that her mother couldn't watch the movie for the longest time for that reason. I don't know how old she was when her dad died, but she was evidently young enough that her memories of her dad aren't that clear. Anyway, I told her I'd always thought Christopher Plummer was absolutely gorgeous!
One more comment on Christmas, then I'll sign off so we can call these same cousins and be sure they made it home safely since the weather's bad..... Some of my cousins gave me a new, paperback copy of Maria's book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers! Needless to say, I am absolutely thrilled with it, since the copy I have is VERY old, and every time I read it, I feel like I have to be extra careful with it. It's nice to have one I can actually use!
On that note, I'm off to see the rest of the movie. I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas; obviously I sure did!
Paula