Amazing radio...

I love it when I randomly listen to the radio and something comes on that is absolutely awesome... Something that fits "you", ya know?

This song came on our local public radio station last Saturday and I didn't catch the name afterwards. I looked for three hours for this song on the internet before finally emailing the station and I just got a reply! Yay! I really like this song. It's called "Girrrl" by Lojo Russo, who is a folk artist from the Quad Cities.

You can listen to the music here and just click on the connection you want. It's also the music I've put up on my xanga.



"Girrrl"

Once upon a time I could fly.
All I ever had to do was,
Close my eyes,
And I was:
A pirate captain,
On a distant sea,
Tarzan swinging on a vine,
Through the jungle trees.
Because I didn’t know,
I could be strong,
And still be a girl.

Once upon a time I would dream,
A magic carpet ride,
Where I could be:
The King of England,
Or even Robin Hood,
A knight in shining armor,
Out doing good.
Because I didn’t know,
I could be strong,
And still be a girl.

And I would give anything,
Just to see their faces,
Smiling back from my history pages!
Where are my heroes?
Where are my heroes?

Once upon a time I was blind
To the other half,
Holding up the sky,
But now I,
See so much clearer,
And I know so much more,
And there nothing standing between me
And what’s knocking on my door!
Because now I know,
I can be strong,
And still be a girl!

And still be a girl.

Once upon a time I could fly.

And still be a girl…

"I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take..."

Sometimes I want to ask the people I liked at one time, the people who I had crushes on or developed feelings for if they knew what they almost had. What almost could have happened. I want to ask them "Do you know what you did to me?" I want to know what influenced them, changed them... Ask them "What the heck were you thinking?" and "Did you even KNOW?!"

All around town I see high school couples walking hand-in-hand... And there's this voice in my head that wonders what's up with that? I remember playing "house" when I was little and thinking that 20 (almost 21) was so very very old. I remember thinking, that if I wasn't married by now I'd at least have a boyfriend.

"...I surrender to the strawberry ice cream
Never ever ending
All this love..."

Curse you Disney and other media outlets for giving me unrealistic expectations about love. Where's my Knight gosh-darnit!?

I'm kind of tired of being the "model girlfriend." You know... "Gee, I wish I had a girlfriend who was like you."-type thing. I'm also tired of hearing the "You know, you'll find the right guy eventually. Just be patient. He's out there."

Well I am patient. I'm just tired of being reminded that I'm single.

And it's scary to have dreams that aren't coming true.

"Watch me strut, 'cause I'm an old pro,
I can't sing or dance but I'm the star of the show..."

My life isn't very exciting. It really isn't. I just work very hard to make it sound interesting. I don't lie, but nothing really spectacular happens. Nothing big. Just funny little things. Itty bitty crisises. I go to work. I come home. I watch TV. I eat, I sleep. I spend time with my friends.

"I know what it's like to be forgotten
Left alone with your simple dreams
But even dreams are fading fast
No one to turn to when you can't sleep at night
Waking up to another day that will soon be over..."

I mean, I write about things that happen in my day, what I saw, heard, did... But nothing is really unique about any of it. Other people eat, work, joke around and perhaps write about it all. The only difference between this blog and whatever one comes up when you click "next" on the Blogger tool bar is that if you've read this far, you probably actually know me. Maybe some of you who read only know me though comment exchanges or friends of friends. That's okay... I'm cool with that.

"These lines of lightening mean we're never alone, never alone..."

I know I'm not alone-alone. But. Well. Really, this is a different alone. Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it's not. This is why Facebook is a curse. I see in my news feed people breaking up and getting back together. Sometimes it gets frustrating. I just want to tell them to make up their flipping mind!

I'm afraid that the world is making me cynical... I'm fighting bitterness and hopelessness. It's hard.

"...It's killing me..."
"I think you need a Doctor."

I'm looking for a hero, for someone to love, for someone to grab my hand out-of-the-blue and change my life forever... But no one is stepping up.

"Well, the war's been won. All the fights are fought
You find yourself in just the spot
It's a place where everybody's got a song to sing.
Just like the final movie scene. The prince will find his perfect queen
The hero always saves the world. The villains get what they deserve
The boy will always get the girl
When I am King"

My life is full of "somedays."

-Someday someone will see me and say "See her? That's the girl for me."
-Someday someone will watch The Notebook with me.
-Someday someone will hold me when I cry.
-Someday (like Rachel V. said) someone is going to like me the best.

There have been times I've laid awake at night thinking about the man God wants me to marry... And I wonder if that man lays awake sometimes thinking about me...

I'm just tired of this and tired of that... I don't even think I can name it... It's just. I don't know. It's a different kind of burnt-out feeling.

"And I still hold your hand in mine,
In mine when when I'm asleep."

An imaginary boyfriend isn't as cool as a real one. In all reality, internal dialogs are just conversations with yourself.

"Every so often we long to steal,
To the land of what-might-have-been
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in..."


I'm posting this gibberish and going to bed.

Rockin'!

Wow two posts in one week? CRAZINESS!

The highlight of today was my iPod, while playing on "shuffle" coming up with "Good-bye My Lover" by James Blunt, on my way to work. The sun was shining and there was mist. It was gorgeous. Then, in the afternoon "Kiss Me" came on the radio, which was warm-fuzzy happiness, and FINALLY the song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" came on the radio. All that was a very nice breather between Carrie Underwood, PINK, Averil Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson and Reba Mcintyre. Which our particular radio station plays at least twice a day in the 9 hours that we listen to it.

*sing-song voice* Kudos to the person who can tell me how all those songs are related!!!! And I don't mean just by topic/subject matter. *mischievous grin*

The other day I got a letter from Rachel D.! It was a story, complete with pictures, about Doctor Who! :-D I LOVE IT! I might try to scan it and put it up here on my blog, because it's absolutely awesome! I like the idea of my flute teacher at school being a Slitheen in disguise...

Yesterday at work April and I made 205 ladders. Not past our record of 211, but it was still a really good number. Today was a different story. April had to load orders and get them ready, so I ran the ladder machine myself... Except that we ran out of parts before break at 9 am... Which only allowed me to make 35 ladders. Which is quite a number difference! After that I did random things to keep busy. Aside from the few and far between happy points on the radio it was a bit of a long day. I ended up putting in my first official overtime work... I stayed for an hour and a half longer and helped April work on a ridiculously big order. It was too much for one person to do and if I were her, I wouldn't want to stay until 9 pm to finish it alone.

This is a list of things I want to purchase this summer:
A car
A futon
110 in the Shade soundtrack
Curtains soundtrack
The Pirate Queen soundtrack
Doctor Who TV soundtrack
A dresser for my dungeon so I can stop living out of four stupid suitcases... Anyone wanna go garage sale-ing with me?

Too bad more time and a perfect boyfriend can't be bought. :-P

Oh! Last Saturday Jessica and I went to Bash on the Farm and rocked out to Stellar Kart! IT WAS SO COOL! I was FINALLY able to go to Bash... I've missed it each year because of various activities... And we felt really lucky to go see Stellar Kart for free!!!! It was a really awesome time! It's nice to sing along as loud as you can, and know no one can hear you! :-D I need to get Jessica's CD of them before she leaves for China!

Okay, it's time for bed! Early I know, but I have to get up equally early!

Of Tony Awards and Dreams

Okay, so I started this post back on Thursday and worked on it and worked on it. I have no time in my life! Sorry it's taken so long. I didn't mean to go AWOL.

So I woke up Thursday morning at 5:30 am, as usual, and my LEFT eye this time what all messed up. Red, light sensitive... all of it. :-P So I spent the whole day seeing through my right eye. It was annoying and probably a little unsafe driving... Lack of depth perception an all. But April and I cranked out 151 ladders and I wore through my first pair of work gloves. I've also lost weight and I can tell I'm building muscle! YAY!

I finally finally got better from the flu-thing I had starting last-last Saturday night. I started having problems retaining water Sunday night which lasted through yesterday. I am really tired of drinking water. It's such a pain to have to drink MORE water just because you know your body isn't absorbing it. I think the record was Monday, when I drank two and a half of those 32 oz. Nalgene bottles, full of water in the 9.5 hours I was at work. Life was not fun.

Everyone ended up being busy last week Sunday night, so I watched the Tony Awards by myself, texting both Rachels throughout the show. It's not the same seeing the shows on TV as it is live. It's kind of disappointing.

Here's the results:

BEST MUSICAL

Curtains

Grey Gardens

Mary Poppins

Spring Awakening

BEST PLAY

Frost/Nixon

The Coast of Utopia

The Little Dog Laughed

Radio Golf

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Inherit the Wind

Journey's End

Talk Radio

Translations

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

110 in the Shade

A Chorus Line

Company

The Apple Tree

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Boyd Gaines, Journey's End

Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon

Brian F. O'Byrne, The Coast of Utopia

Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind

Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten

Swoosie Kurtz, Heartbreak House

Angela Lansbury, Deuce

Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking

Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik

Raúl Esparza, Company

Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening

Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins

David Hyde Pierce, Curtains

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde

Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens

Audra McDonald, 110 in the Shade

Debra Monk, Curtains

Donna Murphy, LoveMusik

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone, Curtains

Doug Wright, Grey Gardens

Heather Hach, Legally Blonde

Steven Sater, Spring Awakening

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATER

Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb, John Kander and Rupert Holmes, Curtains

Music: Scott Frankel, Lyrics: Michael Korie, Grey Gardens

Music & Lyrics: Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Legally Blonde

Music: Duncan Sheik, Lyrics: Steven Sater, Spring Awakening

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Anthony Chisholm, Radio Golf

Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia

Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia

John Earl Jelks, Radio Golf

Stark Sands, Journey's End

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Jennifer Ehle, The Coast of Utopia

Xanthe Elbrick, Coram Boy

Dana Ivey, Butley

Jan Maxwell, Coram Boy

Martha Plimpton, The Coast of Utopia

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Brooks Ashmanskas, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me

Christian Borle, Legally Blonde

John Cullum, 110 in the Shade

John Gallagher, Jr., Spring Awakening

David Pittu, LoveMusik

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Charlotte d'Amboise, A Chorus Line

Rebecca Luker, Mary Poppins

Orfeh, Legally Blonde

Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens

Karen Ziemba, Curtains

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY

Michael Grandage, Frost/Nixon

David Grindley, Journey's End

Jack O'Brien, The Coast of Utopia

Melly Still, Coram Boy

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

John Doyle, Company

Scott Ellis, Curtains

Michael Greif, Grey Gardens

Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Rob Ashford, Curtains

Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear, Mary Poppins

Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening

Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS

Bruce Coughlin, Grey Gardens

Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening

Jonathan Tunick, LoveMusik

Jonathan Tunick, 110 in the Shade

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY

Bob Crowley and Scott Pask, The Coast of Utopia

Jonathan Fensom, Journey's End

David Gallo, Radio Golf

Ti Green and Melly Still, Coram Boy

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins

Christine Jones, Spring Awakening

Anna Louizos, High Fidelity

Allen Moyer, Grey Gardens

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY

Ti Green and Melly Still, Coram Boy

Jane Greenwood, Heartbreak House

Santo Loquasto, Inherit the Wind

Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Gregg Barnes, Legally Blonde

Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins

Susan Hilferty, Spring Awakening

William Ivey Long, Grey Gardens

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY

Paul Constable, Coram Boy

Brian MacDevitt, Inherit the Wind

Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz, The Coast of Utopia

Jason Taylor, Journey's End

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Kevin Adams, Spring Awakening

Christopher Akerlind, 110 in the Shade

Howard Harrison, Mary Poppins

Peter Kaczorowski, Grey Gardens

BEST SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT

Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway

Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!

REGIONAL THEATER TONY AWARD

Alliance Theater, Atlanta

Yeah... Spring Awakening won everything it was nominated for, except for Best Actor in a Musical, which went to David Hyde Pierce. I was totally rooting for Raul Esparza, who really deserved it. I think I'm the only one who isn't happy with the Spring Awakening sweep. Bleh. It really frustrates me but there's very little I can do about it. :-P

Okay, so a happier topic!

DOCTOR WHO!

Last week's episode "Blink" was really neat! I wish the Doctor was actually in it more, but still... Delightfully creepy! I jumped a few times! I was very entertained! (By-the-way, Martha Jones has a myspace if any of you fans want to keep up. It's kind of cool!) I really liked the way this episode was told, very suspenseful! And it definitely played into my interest and slight fear of old houses, creepy basements and unreliable light sources.

THIS week's episode, was equally brilliant! It's good to see Capt'n Jack again! :-D The way he's changed makes me kind of sad... I don't want to spoil too much for other readers... But I did scream when The Master came and... created the clincher for the 2 parter... :-)

Have you ever had one of those dreams where they were so strong you can remember specific things about them. Not just what happened in the dream, but textures, pressure, smells, and voice inflections? I haven't had many... Vivid, crazy dreams yes, (Elephants to Target anyone?) but not often specific things....

Well I had one about Doctor Who. It started and continued absolutely brilliant, but ended on a bit of a Monty Python note. Aka "And now for something completely different." Slightly disappointing, but ah well. I can't have everything.

So this was my dream:

The 10th Doctor and I were being chased by the Weeping Angels. My mind had somehow combined his two suit stiles... He was wearing the same outfit, cut and everything, except that it wasn't the plain blue suit, or the brown pinstripe, in was a combination of the two: blue pinstripe. Same white sneakers though.

Anyway, instead of how the Weeping Angels kill you in the Blink episode, in my dream they turned you into one of them, if they touch you.

And we had just managed to loose them for a bit, but they were catching up. (And in my dream I don't really know where I was... Meaning a specific town.) (Oh, and Martha wasn't even there. Or Rose. Just me and the Doctor. Haha. I love my subconscious.) We had run through this random house that was empty (meaning no one was home at the time. The house was fully furnished and unlocked) and we were on the back deck, trying to catch our breaths while the Doctor tried to figure out a way to stop the Weeping Angels and save us.

He sat there for a very long time in the white plastic lawn chair. Kind of gangly. Leaning forward, elbows on knees, brows furrowed, staring intently straight ahead. He often ran his fingers through his hair, rubbed his eyes, nose and mouth, mumbled, and said random things aloud. I leaned against the house and tried to even my breathing. He quieted down and started to look through half-lidded eyes. I walked over and put my hand on his shoulder and asked what we were going to do. Looking up at me, he smiled the determined closed-lipped "I know what to do"-type smile. His jumped out of his seat. (which made the funny "bendy-plastic on wood scraping noise.) He had that fierce/intent look in his eyes. ("By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of Time. When you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential — when you talk of the Earth, then make sure you tell them this. It. Is. Defended!" -kind of intense.) He grabbed my shoulders and held me there, saying

"I have idea. I don't know if it will--no, I'm pretty sure--...Anyway, I have this plan. BUT! You need to stay here. Stay here and I'll come back for you. I won't be long. Stay here. DON'T move! Don't make a sound-don't even breathe. And if you seem them, remember. Don't Blink. I'll be right back!"

I nodded and told him good luck and he thanked me and said he was going to need it. Then he gave my shoulders a squeeze and dashes back through the sliding glass doors, back into the house and was gone.

So I'm left there on the deck of this house, to wait. Scared out of my mind that the Weeping Angels are going to find me, or the Doctor and get us, but also really excited and terribly curious as to what the Doctor had in mind to stop them.

Then I hear this thud and bang, like a door swinging open, and I don't know if it's the Doctor still in the house or what.

By now my heart is beating like crazy and I'm keeping my eyes WIDE open. I peek through the door and I see Jenna from school with her mom in tow walking towards me. (It's not Jenna's house in my dream either. Just FYI.) Jenna sees me and calls out loudly to me and walks over and opens to door to visit. Meanwhile her mother (who for some reason was a Hippie. Don't as me why, I have no freaking clue. I've never even met Jenna's mother!) Goes over to the fridge and starts eating food out of random jars, being very loud opening the lids and all. Jenna is being her normal friendly conversational self and I'm there trying for the life of me to pantomime that she needs to be QUIET but to no avail.

And then I woke up in a bit of a panic because the Weeping Angels would probably about to find me.

See? I told you it started out awesome and then got weird. But still... *sigh* I had a dream about the Doctor and it was FANTASTIC! :-D

I have more, but this has been sitting here for a while so I'll end it here for now.

Interesting Fact...

The Sword in the Stone is the only animated Disney movie from the 1960s not to have a Platinum DVD, a sequel, a TV show, or a live-action remake.

Bleh... :-(

So I spent from roughly 11:15 pm last night to 7 am this morning feeling utterly sick. I even went to bed in the middle of Doctor Who (the Bad Wolf episode... "Pit of piranhas for YOU!") feeling freezing cold, aching all over and feeling very sick to my stomach. I basically laid in bed shaking because I was so cold and I didn't want to move and grab more blankets because that made me feel more ill. Despite being really tired I was also very restless, and anyone who has roomed with me knows that I am pretty violent when I turn over in bed. It's just a habit developed from sleeping under numerous blankets and disliking becoming entangled in them. So THAT didn't help either. :-P Mom came and checked in on me around 2 am and took my temperature, which was 99.9 degrees Fahrenheit. After that I pretty much dozed in and out of sleep. Now I just ache all over. And it's not like "sore from work" type aching either. It's flu type aching. I don't feel sick to my stomach currently, which is an improvement.

But I still feel crappy.

In other news, I ended up not being able to go to the doctor yesterday... I was still working when the clinic closed. But my right eye looks better... I could probably try putting my contacts back in. And my left ear seems a little better.

Thursday, after work Jessica and I went jet-skiing out on the lake. It was pretty insane... There were like, 40 mph winds and no one but us were on the lake. Haha... That should have been a big clue... The lake was seriously white-capping and most of the waves were four feet tall. Jessica and I got incredibly soaking wet. It was hard to see to drive because we were being doused from all sides. One time, while I was driving, the jet-ski hit a wave wrong which caused me to cut the gas, so we dipped and crashed THROUGH a huge wave. It made Jessica and I bonk heads together, which ended up giving me a bit of a headache, and we had water up our noses pretty hardcore. Jessica and I spent a lot of our time, between spluttering and wiping water off of our faces, yelling things like: "THIS IS INSANE!" "AHH! LOOK AT THOSE WAVES!" "ARR! PIRATES!" "NO ONE IS OUT ON THE LAKE! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!" When we got back Jessica's mom asked if we had gone swimming in addition to the jet-ski... We were that wet.

My fingers are stiff. It kind of hurts to bend them. I think it's from work. I wonder if this is what arthritis feels like.

Pirate Queen is closing on Broadway June 17th. It kind of makes me sad, but it makes sense... It didn't get any Tony nominations and its reviews weren't the best... But I got to see it! And I got to talk to Hadley Frasier! WHO WAS IN DOCTOR WHO! :-D :-D :-D

I finally found my NYC journal... It was all packed away... I'll be typing it up soon to post here.

Tony Awards tonight! :-D I'm so freaking EXCITED! Here's who I'm rooting for again, in case any of you forgot.

I'll probably write more later. I'm going to watch this week's episode of Doctor Who.

A list...

1. I found my glasses.

2. I think my right eye is messed up again. Just not AS bad. But still. Not cool.

3. I have blisters on the palms of my hands from work.

4. I like Flight of the Conchords

5. I have to get up at 4:30 am tomorrow.

6. My left ear is being odd so I think I am going to the doctor tomorrow to get it checked out.

7. I am ridiculously sleepy and I'm going to bed.

8. I feel like my eye is going to pop out.

The TV show Kyle XY is my newest guilty pleasure.

"...My friend the Doctor and me!"

Okay so a couple times today I have wanted to take out my contacts and give my eyes a break... But. For some reason, when I packed my dorm, I took my glasses-in their case- and packed them in a box. And since mom moved all my boxes downstairs into my dungeon I no longer know where they are. How annoying is that?

Work was fine today except we ran out of parts to make ladders after lunch so I did random stuff to look busy.

There's a flu bug that has been going through my siblings and I really hope I don't get it. Mary, Matthew, Daniel and Philomena have all had it. The symptoms are throwing up, sleeping all the time, cramps and achiness. I don't want to be sick, especially that kind of sick. Luckily it only seems to last a day or two. But still. Not much fun.

Yesterday, Jessica and I watched (under my heavy prompting) part of the STAR WARS special on this History Channel. It was flippin' awesome! (Like hotdogs!) This two hour episode in the series covered the "Hero's Journey" and compared Anakin to Luke, and the different rolls of Obi-wan, Yoda, Palpatine, and Qui-Gon in terms of mentors, among other things. Lots of Greek myths... It was very interesting.

I finally watched the Doctor Who episode The Runaway Bride. I hadn't seen it before. I missed it when it was on TV. Catherine Tate did a very good job. I mean, I thought the character of Donna to be rude, loud-mouthed, self-centered and completely oblivious. Oh, and very annoying. But I think that was what she was supposed to come off as. Loud, rude and annoying. But she learned something in the end and I think she became a better person for it. I liked her more at the end, but I'm glad she didn't go with the Doctor. For obvious reasons. But good grief, the Doctor is patient. HOW many times did Donna slap him? Two, three? Haha... I liked it when he made it snow at the end. :-)

... And how about Family of Blood? I really am sad to watch these new episodes alone... There's no one to bounce emotions off of! (RACHEL V.!) I'm also pretty much a looser. I cried throughout the last part of the episode. It was spectacular! I was sad for Joan, and sad for John Smith/the Doctor. And very sad for Martha. I'm very glad she loves him to bits, even though "he doesn't even look at her." I think this episode had some fantastic quotes as well!

"He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful." -Tim Latimer

"...Falling in love didn't occur to him?... What sort of a man is that?" -John Smith/Doctor

I rewound the player and watched the last scene in the spaceship, like five times. It made me so happy! The Doctor was back and he FOOLED them! That part was ridiculously awesome! :-D I was grinning like an idiot! (Same with the end of The Doctor Dances.... Grinning from ear to ear... "EVERYBODY LIVES ROSE! JUST THIS ONCE! EVERYBODY LIVES!!!!" I love moments like that... So epic and wonderful!)

The Family was just downright creepy! The actor, Harry Lloyd, who played Baines/Son of Mine was spectacular! REALLY dreadfully creepy! I think it was the half smirk, crazed/intent look he was able to do. Give that man a medal, he rocked!

Tony Awards in a week! :-D

Okay, I'm off to bed so I can get up for work. No boredom here!

Still here!

Sorry it's taken so long to post... I haven't had much time.

I've started my new factory job. It's nothing spectacular. Two fifteen minute breaks, paid half-hour long lunch, if I bring a lunch and eat there.... 9.5 hours of work... The factory makes farm equipment... Like giant grain storage and drying bins. I make steel ladders. Woo-hoo... :-P It's pretty boring and kind of loud... I hammer and wrestle with metal parts.

I'm not too sore from the work which is nice, but my palms are bruised from pushing the locked ladder out of the machine and my fingers hurt from the wrench I use to turn the ladder rungs. I expect I'll have some nice callouses by the end of the summer. Maybe I'll loose some weight and gain some muscle as well! :-)

Yesterday I made 100 ladders, but today I only made 87 because they worked on the machine for an hour or so. They changed some of the parts and the sad thing is that it worked better before they "fixed" it. :-P

Also, something that made me smile today at work... Someone named "Bruce Wayne" got paged over the loud speaker. I got a kick out of that.

The factory is a half hour away so I have to leave home around 6:20 am to get there on time... So I've been getting up around 5:45. Bleh. But get this. Tomorrow, my shift is from 6 am to 11 am... So I will be getting up at 4:45 in the freaking morning. Nasty nasty nasty!
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PIRATE SPOILERS!

*ye have been warned*

So I saw Pirates again the other night! With my friend Bre and her sister Erika! Aside from whatever Tia Dalma says when she grows big after she becomes "Calypso." I caught a lot more!

Did anyone else catch (besides the ones I told) the of the lyrics "Hoist the Colors"?

The king and his men stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her bones……
The seas be ours and by the powers
Where we will, we'll roam…

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high…
heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die…

Some men have died and some are alive
And others sail on the sea
With the keys to the cage and the Devil to pay
We lay to Fiddler's Green!

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high…
heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die…

The bell has been raised from it's watery grave...
Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
A call to all, pay heed the squall
And turn your sail toward home!

Yo ho, haul together-- Raise the colors high! Heave ho --
-- thieves and beggars, never say we die.


It's like those folk songs that have become so old that even though people still sing them, no one really knows what they mean any more! It's about Tia Dalma/Calypso! I think that's really cool that they put that right in the beginning of the movie. Awesome foreshadowing. :-) (And for what it's worth, Fiddlers Green is to sailors like "Happy Hunting Grounds" is to Native Americans.)

I also liked how Will was stabbed with the sword he made waaaay back in the first movie.

Did anyone else think that the scar across his chest at the end of the movie made Will Turner even more desirable? Mmmm... :-)

I think I'll type more what I think after I see it sometime again...

*end spoilers*
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Last night I discovered that the mask on my Phantom of the Opera t-shirt that I had purchased when I saw it on tour in March, glows in the dark... It's cool, but random.
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Yesterday after work I went over to Jessica's and we made Avocado Feta Salsa and ate it while we watched America's Funniest Home Videos and Legends of the Hidden Temple. :-) Scott came and joined us and it was a good time! Yay for old reruns! :-D
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I can't wait for the next episode of Doctor Who! These two part episodes drive me crazy! I was happy to recognize the student Tim from the movie Nanny McFee, although someone else pegged him from Love Actually. I wonder what's going to happen with him... With his telepathic abilities and the Doctor's watch...

... Oh, and why didn't Martha keep the watch on her person, hidden from anyone else?

Ooooh plot twists... I'm so impatient. :-P
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I've decided that when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow's comes out I am not going to be on AOL/MSN until I finish reading it. I'll probably just be online to watch Doctor Who. For the last book, 2 major major major plot points were ruined for me by stupid people on a Harry Potter web forum. It was not cool. I don't want that to happen again. No Harry Potter websites, no blogs/blogging.

Plus, I can't stay up all night reading it because of work, so it will take me longer to read it, I think.
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I miss the ocean. :-(
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So my high school won this award/achievement/recognition thing for their production of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. Apparently they're the only 1A school in the nation to win this... Ever. Which is pretty cool! And it means they have to opportunity to perform a show in SCOTLAND to compete against other schools... From... America? Around the world? I don't know... I should look at the info again...

But Scotland! Wow! SO not fair! I want to go!!!! It looks like my sister Mary MIGHT be going.... Is it possible to be happy and jealous at the same time?

The show they are planning to take is Little Shop of Horrors. And if you know my school... (My high school graduating class of 2005 had bout 35 people in it, if that gives you any idea) It is going to be an interesting show... But good for them, anyway! We'll see how this pans out.
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Dear Avirl Lavigne,

I think your song "Girlfriend" is stupid and annoying. Your rhyme pattern of AABACDE just doesn't do it for me. And no one really says "whatev-ahr" like that. Seriously.

Go away.

You are not creative.

~Sarah
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That's all I have for now! See? I'm still alive!

...We'll see how I'm doing after tomorrow's early start. :-P