ok, so in a fit of pre-birthday mania i bought myself a copy of the importance of being earnest, the play by oscar wilde......i saw this originally in college with a boy named maynard who told me that he could never be serious about me as long as i was so stuck on myself..........oh my, if he could but see the mm now.........anyway, i have spent the past 23 years with someone named ernst, who is often referred to as ernest...my own grandparents asked, at his meeting if he was not, in fact an ernest....a family name, as ernst is his family name, but a different family..the ernst's are from mainz, which i did not visiit due to the unfortunate business with the diesal fuel...........the movie with colin firth, judy dench, frances occonner, and reese witherspoon is delightful for anyone interested in such melodramas.......i will remember it for sheer entertainment....and for the tatoos...........