Major Achievement

I've finally seen the end of The Sound of Music.

Now, look, that may not seem like a mammoth feat, but it's taken me years.
I must have seen the first three quarters of the damn thing at least 10 times. And I knew how it ended, of course, but it's been one of those Jane Eyre-type things. Twice I read Ms Bronte's novel and got stuck in the same place - the third time I managed to break through to the end (and now it's one of my favourite books). Odd how your cherished parts of something can change as you get older. (I'm sure I never used to cringe at spontaneous song quite so much.) Fictional it may be, but for now I'm going to believe that if a curtain-wearing, bowl-cut-sporting nun can win her man, surely I must be in with a chance!

Now all I have to do is stay awake for all of Spaceballs.