The Kindness of Friends
Oct. 13th, 2006 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrWell, after that extremely surly post this morning, I was exceedingly surprised and excessively touched to receive in the mail, out of the total blue, a package from Amazon from someone on my friends list who just, apparently, wanted to give me a nice surprise by sending me a couple items on my Amazon wishlist. I will be curling up with the Letters of Jane Austen this weekend (I have never read them; can you believe it? But I'll be reading them now!) And a vegetarian lunch cookbook.
I also picked up my reward CD on the way home from work, Past Times With Good Company, by Blackmore's Night (I had wanted to get Entrain, but they didn't have it in stock. That'll have to wait for another time). I had never heard of Blackmore's Night until this month, but I discovered them through Pandora Radio (and Pandora Radio I heard about, again, through my friends list.) I've listened to just a couple tracks, but I already know that it is a winner. The first cut, The Shadow of the Moon, makes me wonder whether the composer was thinking of the story of Luthien Tinuviel from The Silmarillion when he wrote the words.
You can hear a sample cut of one of Blackmore's Night here. Scroll down and listen to "Ghost of a Rose." I hope to get that album sometime, too.
I'll be passing on a personal thank you to the kind-hearted person who sent the books, but I just wanted to say to you all in general: Friends list, you all rock. Really.
Peg, in a much better mood now. Thanks!
I also picked up my reward CD on the way home from work, Past Times With Good Company, by Blackmore's Night (I had wanted to get Entrain, but they didn't have it in stock. That'll have to wait for another time). I had never heard of Blackmore's Night until this month, but I discovered them through Pandora Radio (and Pandora Radio I heard about, again, through my friends list.) I've listened to just a couple tracks, but I already know that it is a winner. The first cut, The Shadow of the Moon, makes me wonder whether the composer was thinking of the story of Luthien Tinuviel from The Silmarillion when he wrote the words.
You can hear a sample cut of one of Blackmore's Night here. Scroll down and listen to "Ghost of a Rose." I hope to get that album sometime, too.
I'll be passing on a personal thank you to the kind-hearted person who sent the books, but I just wanted to say to you all in general: Friends list, you all rock. Really.
Peg, in a much better mood now. Thanks!
