I thought I had given up younger men, especially now that I'm married. Tomorrow night, however, I have a date to see Lord of the Rings with someone young enough to be my son.

Rob and I bought tickets to LotR last night, planning to go Friday night. As we're driving away, Rob realizes he's on call this whole weekend. Tonight is my company Christmas party (and we almost screwed up and bought tickets for tonight!) so we had to switch the date. When he's on call, he usually doesn't get any calls....but you know the One Time we actually have plans, he'd get beeped.

So instead of my husband, I'm going to take Liz's son Troy, who is a wee bit older than Phil and has started reading The Hobbit. He looked a bit blank this morning when I invited him (with Liz's permission) to see "a movie." Then in the background the commercial for LotR came on and he goes, "Whoa. Are we seeing that?" and perked up.

Rob and I will go again when my boys are with us next week.

Where are Broos's thoughts on the movie? Hmm??