AUBREEVISION - Observations from the far side of the dial

Sitting on my window seat with a candle-lit lantern hanging above me, a cat and a laptop on my lap and a view of gumdrop-licious multi-colour-light-swathed trees dotting neighbourhood lawns. All in all, it's quite a cozy scene!

Rang in the new year with friends, champage, chocolate and Scene It -- Music Edition. The gathering also doubled as a birthday celebration for happyinpink. I also have to give a shout-out to cricker81, who's provided many a laugh in recent nights. Two of my favourite exchanges:

Me: I always get Julie Andrews and Judy Garland mixed up.
Cricker: But they're not even the same person!

Me: Happy Ought Six, everyone!
Cricker: It's the year of the ox?!

Oh cricker, a laugh a minute are you!

Saw Brokeback Mountain this afternoon -- thought it was beautiful, devastating, tender and generally fantastic with particularly amazing performances by Heath, Jake and Anne (Hathaway, in a radical departure from her Princess Diaries beginnings). I was especially impressed by the male leads' ability to play their characters convincingly from 20ish to nearly 40 years of age.  Not to mention the drool-inducing hotness of the cowboy-on-cowboy action -- be still my heart!