Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog

Just a quick shout-out to tell about my new slight obsession... Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog.  It's this internet musical that is pure awesomeness, about an evil scientist trying to get into the Evil League, all the while trying to get through to the girl of his dreams, who happens to be dating his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer.  The Capt. is a real idiot, whose head is bigger than his ability. It was free on the net for a while, and now can only be bought on iTunes.  I LOVE IT!!!

Not only is it a really good story, but the characters are so real that you feel real sympathy for Billy (the Dr.)  The singing is Phenominal!! There's the one point when Billy and Penny (the girl) are singing a duet, and it's written and sung so beautifully that it sends shivers up my spine.  Yay!

The Trailer Is Here!

The End of the Holidays

So, after a lovely week away from civilization at my cottage (a pity there's no internet there or I would have written a lot in this blog) we come back home.  To a few surprises.

1.  The dog has a bladder infection.

2.  It's raining.  Really hard.  And we have to get our luggage out of the car.  Pity.

3.  There's something wrong with the cat.  He's got  bald patch on his neck, which we think comes from the fact that dad gave him the dog's flea meds instead.

4. The yard is flooded.

5. The heater is on!  In July!  The house is HOT!

6. The heater won't turn off!

7. The heater won't turn off because it is submerged with water (!) because...

8. The basement is flooded.

Oh well, we're all quite cheerful, and the repair man is nice.  The weather reminds me of the day we moved into this house... "It rained like you wouldn't believe!"  "We believe!"  We were so tired that we decided it was impossible to cook anything, so we ordered pizza, found out they didn't do delivery, went to get the pizza, got stuck in traffic, and found we brought home the wrong order!  Such is life! :)  And life is beautiful!

On a funnier note, some how some kind of seed has made its way into my worm farm, because it's sprouting something :)

Saying Goodbyes...

The problem with saying goodbyes is the pain that they cause.  Take the second last day of the school calendar, which happens to be the last full day of camp-out, which happens to be called Sob-fest, which is where the entire school gathers around a campfire and "reminisces"( aka tells funny stories) about the past year, the graduates, and the experiences they've had.  I don't cry at The Fest itself, because it's quite hilarious.  But afterward...

You see, the people that I have hung out with every school day for the past two years (minus a couple months at the beginning of grade nine) have all graduated.  No joke.  Holly, Allie, Beka, Andrea, and the new addition Laura have been my constant companions and shoulders to cry on.  I have shared tents with them, bus-seats with them, secrets with them, and mostly, my food with them :)  So the fact that they all have graduated makes me, well, almost like a fish out of water.  Of course, I won't be bumming around by myself, because a couple months from the end of the year, all the other awesome people at my school finally discovered how awesome we are (ha ha ha ha... RIGHT...) and started hanging with us.  So, I'll have these friends to be with. And Holly and Andrea are close by, and have promised to visit regularly.

Still, it doesn't matter.  It's not going to be the same, you know?  If I suddenly have a brilliant (or not so) musical idea, I won't be able to sidle up to Holly and expound.  No choruses of "Green Girl, because you are green, I shall oppress you!" in the hallways with Beka.  No Gollum voices from Allie, or Cake Song from Laura.  And no more mooching off of Andrea's nacho dip while she eats my healthy food.  I don't worry about being friendless, but I'm not happy either.  I guess that's what goodbyes are, really.  Thanking God for the good memories, and crying over the separation.  Because you know that even while your heart is breaking, life is beautiful.