My heart bleeded, girl

So last night, while I watched Boston College and Boston University play hockey on TV, I also watched "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" on my computer.

That's the movie I claimed for j2_everafter.

So, Depression-era, orphan girl runs away, talks her way into a job with a traveling show involving a diving horse. She wants to be the girl who dives with the horse, the owner of the show says she's too young, the established diving girl is snotty and superior, plucky girls trains and bonds with horse named Lightning, the owner's son helps her, they fall in love, she gets diving gig, originial diving girl goes to NY to be an actress. There are shenanigans involving the son and his father fighting, the son takes off for a while, writes to the girl, father hides the letters, no one cares about that, seemingly, Lightning gets colic, son returns to save him in the nick of time, father and son reconcile. They go to Atlantic City, where apparently all your dreams come true, father dies en route, girl dives on a different horse because Lightning is still recovering from colic, inferior horse gets spooked, dive goes awry, girl hits water with eyes open, is blinded. She, being plucky, dives again triumphantly against all odds with Lightning, she and son marry and live HEA while she keeps blindly diving.

Personality-wise, Jared needs to be the plucky girl, although he's a little tall to be diving off a 40 foot tower on the back of some poor horse. Jensen is obviously the son.

Except Ashley wants me to make Jensen be Lightning the Horse. There's actually a part of me that's intrigued at how that would work. And she's almost never wrong about these things. Can I focus long enough to do it justice?

Tonight is the Christmas party Larry and I always go to, given by a guy he used to work with and his partner. All the folks he worked with in Pgh will be there. Larry is stuck in Cbus, but he wants me to go and say hi and tell them all how happy he is. It'll be good to see everyone, and as Lar pointed out, it's not like we spend any time at that party talking to each other, so I won't really notice he's not there.

Except that I will. :(

And it's time to decorate the house and get a tree and all that, but we're having Christmas in Cbus this year, and no one will be here all month except for me. I need to put up a few things just for me, and do the outside lights, which I think I'll do today, but it's making me feel melancholy. No big-ass tree for Larry to drag home and complain about, no decorations for me to spend all of January taking down. It's sounds kind of nice, really, but weird. His house in Cbus is small, so we'll put up a small artificial tree there. I know it doesn't matter where we have Christmas, the point is who will be there (not Adam, as usual), and not where we are, but it's still weird.