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‘Unfriends’ we are no longer. 😉
BUT THIS MAKES ME HAPPY. Seriously. My blog gave you LAUGHY TEARS!!! When I started it, I honestly just wanted to bring a little joy to the world, so when people tell me that it made them laugh, or it brightened their day a little, or whatever… It’s terribly fulfilling.
My mum loved the severed wampa arm cake. I would have done exactly the same thing. 😛 I dissected a fish today, and this is a picture of it by the time I’d finished. My thoughts during the process were disturbingly Gollum-like. “Aren’t we a nice little fishiessssss. Looks! there’sss your liversessssss!” 😀
I don’t actually know how to post a picture, so let me keep trying! 😉
I’ve tagged you.
ROCK AND POOL, IT’S NICE AND COOL, SO JUICY SWEEEEEEET….
That is so stuck in my head now… XD “Look at the fishiesss! Nice fishiesss. Smeagol eats the tasssty little fisshieess…”
Isn’t it scary how sometimes in real life, you’ll start mentally referring to yourself in the third person? I’ll accidentally make a mistake, and find myself thinking, “We didn’t mean to! It wasn’t us, Precious!!! It wasn’t us!”
I know! 😀 I haven’t even watched the movie, just read The Hobbit, and starting LOTR soon. But a friend of mine and I often swap Gollum and Bilbo’s riddles…
Well sheesh. The first part of my comment probably just went completely over your head then.
Oh, no, don’t worry, I got it. 😛
When you’re a part of a community like this, you can’t stay in LOTR ignorance for very long!