This week I've been gardening and I have been having so much fun! I've been pretty much like this:
While I've been gardening I've also seen a bunch of squirrels. One in particular looked all cute and fluffy and he let me feed him a grape.
When I told my brother about it, he asked me if I wanted him to shoot the squirrel. I told him "no" since that cute little squirrel wasn't hurting anybody.
During this time my pineapple plant that I've had a few years actually flowered! I was so excited!
Here's a close up of what it looks like, though this specific picture isn't mine.
I've waited years for it to do something and then it just decided to flower! So today I went to church and then saw the new Cinderella movie with some friends afterwards.
Meanwhile at home.....
And I came back to this.
HE ATE THE FLOWER AND SHREDDED THE REST!
My beautiful plant was destroyed!!!
And so I've been in the pit of despair.... But the movie was really good :)
*sigh* But I'll be okay... I'll just go wait another five years for another pineapple plant to bloom...
And the next squirrel I see?
Just kidding, I wouldn't want to shoot the wrong squirrel.
So today I had to write a short biography in third person for a program that will be at my graduation. I thought the first biography I wrote sounded great (though the first line may not have been entirely true), but my mom said she didn't think it would be accepted. However she and my sister thought it was pretty funny and encouraged me to post it here, so here it is!
After being abducted
by aliens at the age of five, Emily Wand has not been allowed to go
places by herself; because of this, she mostly stays at home playing
weird instruments in her room and creating suspicious creams and
ointments out of weeds from the back yard. On the unlikely occasion
she does leave the house, she mainly takes a sonic screwdriver to the
theater to watch a new Disney or Marvel movie, but sometimes she just
helps her mom go grocery shopping.
I ended up writing a more boring, though I suppose more professional (and accurate) biography. Which took me a lot longer to write than the first one.
I also had to send in 3-5 pictures for a slide show. Here are a few I considered but decided against in the end.
Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone! I though I'd post my favorite Divine Comedy skit, "Brotherly Valentine". The first time I saw it my sides hurt so badly from laughing.... But then I am told that I'm easily amused.... Anyway I think it's pretty funny. ;D
Plus, if you're familiar with Studio C you should recognize a couple of people. :)
Oh, just so you know, the woman who runs in and gives Steven a kiss is actually married to him. :)
This Christmas we went to my Aunt and Uncle's house in Wisconsin. Before we left, we saw the James Island lights which happened to be celebrating their 25th anniversary.
After we drove through the main lights we walked around for a bit to see the rest of the park and participate in some of the activities scattered about. Hayden and Joey rode the carousel,
all three boys tried rock climbing,
and I ate a funnel cake. ;p
We also got to roast marshmallows!
About a week after, we left for Wisconsin. After a long, but mostly enjoyable car ride, we reached my Aunt's house and were met by some very excited cousins.
We also got to see my great uncle, his cousin and her daughter, my great grandmother, and my uncle Brad's family.
Here's Sammy with Addy
and Hayden with Skylar.
This year I got a very exciting present.... A banjo!
Yes, needless to say, I was very happy about that. ;D
I saw the Newsies for the first time this week and I LOVED it! A few weeks ago I also saw the Broadway version on YouTube so I decided to review both of them at the same time. I'll start with the movie.
Plot: A musical based on the New York City newsboys strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses, they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business. -IMDb
The movie stars Christian Bale as Jack Kelly. This was helpful in getting my brothers to watch this movie with me since they love Batman.
Who knew Batman sang and danced? I think that's also how we got Harrison to watch Little Women... Batman is a powerful tool. ;D
The music is very energetic and fun, and the songs will quickly get stuck in your head. It's a lot different than the musicals I'm used to watching. This one was about 98% guys. I think I enjoyed the singing so much mainly because I never get to hear a bunch of guys singing in harmony.
As for bad stuff, I think there was one bad word, but it was said with a New York accent in the middle of a bunch of people talking, so I could be mistaken. There's also a theater singer named Medda Larson who isn't my favorite character, but at least she isn't too immodest.
One song I like better in the Movie than the Broadway is Santa Fe. I like it better in the movie because they had to change some of the lyrics in the Broadway version to go along with the way they changed the story and I prefer the original lyrics.
I enjoyed this movie way more than I was expecting to. If you like musicals and haven't seen this one, I recommend watching it. It is now one of my favorites. :D
Now for the Broadway....
First of all, I was greatly disappointed to find that there was language added to most of the songs. Also, Medda Larkson was not *ahem* quite as modest as is the movie. However, there are a lot more songs in the Broadway version, and the singing and music is better quality.
One of my favorite songs that they added (that didn't have any language) was "Brooklyn's Here".
Though they did add language, it's a pretty clean show for Broadway, though it still doesn't make me happy that they added it....
"Seize the Day"
One change in the Broadway version was Jack's love interest. In the movie Jack liked David and Les Jacob's sister, Sarah. I thought that was sweet since the Jacobs were kind of like brothers to Jack. However Sarah had a really small part. In the Broadway version, Katherine Plumber (who isn't related to the Jacobs) is the leading lady, and has a much bigger role in the show. I like that Katherine has a more substantial part, but I was sad she wasn't the Jacobs' sister.
"King of New York"
Something I really admired in the Broadway production was the set. They had these great three story structures that could be rolled around the stage to make all the different buildings in the musical.
I love, love, love the music and I wish I could make you all listen to to the whole album or watch you watch the movie, but I suppose that won't do... So instead of posting every song, I found a medley. Even better, it's an a capella medley! (I'm a such a sucker for anything a capella) ;D It doesn't have the same powerful punch as the actual songs, but it's still really fun! :D
Lately I've been doing a little writing. I've been working on a play based on"The Princess on the Pea" which (I hope) is a comedy. I'm also writing a Christian retelling of King Thrusbeard/Grislybeard. Hayden wants to write half of that one, but she's been really busy lately editing Hidden Pearls and learning lines for the play she's going to be a part of. So for now, I'm the only one working on it. I don't usually write a whole lot (as far as stories go). That's been more of Hayden's thing. But since I started, I've been really surprised at how fun it can be. It may even become a regular activity of mine. ;)
