It finally arrived. As mentioned on Friday, dear sweet Jeff sent me a package via my Amazon.com account, but it never got here even though it said it was delivered. Coincidentally, the same day I called about it, it showed up, and now I can see that he was sweet and generous and sent me the DVD edition of one of my all-time, and my family's all-time, favorite movies: What's Up Doc?.

And as I said to Jeff yesterday on the phone, this movie has special sentimental value to me and my family. When my brother, sister, and I were kids, our mom, who's a giant Barbra fan, recorded the movie off the TV one afternoon (this was back when we first got a VCR and they were new and all the rage and everybody suddenly realized you could record stuff and watch them over and over, you know, the early 1980's). Anyway, my siblings and I would watch that over and over with my mom. We must have watched it a million times. And the funny thing is, when she recorded it that first time, it was during a thunderstorm in Kansas City, and so throughout the whole movie there's this thunderstorm warning at the bottom of the screen; it's going to be fun watching the movie without the thunderstorm warning, but then I may also miss it in a way.

Anyway, thanks again Jeff!

P.S. I've already decided, especially after reading this article yesterday, that for my next birthday, I really want, and deserve, a trickling, landscaped water fountain in my backyard. I don't have a landscape or a yard or a house, but I need a water fountain in it.