Life On The Planet

Girl's Weekend: Sweet Julia, Inspirations & Twilight

Julia is not doing well.

"Mama!" Butterfly called a couple of hours ago. "You'd better come here."

Julia had fallen over trying to drink. She was still down when I got there. After attempting to rise, she fell over again.

She hasn't gotten up since.

I phoned our Vet., who is a friend, and we are doing what we can to make her comfortable. We will have to see what the next few days bring. It doesn't look good.

Butterfly and I had been enjoying "Girl's Weekend." (The C.F.O. is working. Tiger and Sal are camping.) Prior to the Julia incident, we had been having a really great couple of days.

Yesterday we went to a lecture by Dr. Jane Goodall. She was quite awe-inspiring, and I am so glad that Butterfly had the opportunity to hear her speak. Dr. Goodall's telling of how her mother's encouragement and support enabled her to achieve her dreams reminded me of the awesome and wonderful responsibility I have as a mother.  It is more than a little daunting. Her schedule of 300 days per year traveling and speaking would bury me. That she is able to maintain that level of activity in what you might call the evening of her career is phenomenal.

To say I was impressed would be an understatement.

Last night was rehearsal for The Pied Piper.

This morning we quickly tidied the house, and then we picked up Twilight.

We watched it three times.

Copious amounts of popcorn and Thin Mints were involved.

*Edit: Upon reflection "Girl's Weekend" probably should have been "Girls' Weekend." I just thought of Butterfly, and forgot to count myself. I really need to work on the whole self-awareness thing.

Anti-Social Homeschoolers

I have been following Dana's coverage of this youtube.com phenomenon, and I was content to continue along that path until I received a mandate, an overwhelming mandate I tell you, from the 15-year-old demographic in this household to post it. It is exactly the kind of thing he and his goofy er, precocious friends would do. That is, if he had friends. He is homeschooled, after all.

(Removing tongue from cheek.)

So, here they are, those desperate, unsocial homeschoolers, in search of love...

(Not wanting to steal all of Dana's thunder, I will only provide the links. They are worth following!)

Episode 1: Comedy of Homeschoolers

Episode 2: The Email

Episode 3: Everything is Collapsing

Now, get thee hence to youtube!

And don't forget the pork rinds.

National Treasure

We went to see National Treasure: Book of Secrets. I thought it would be fun to have a little Aunt The Major movie rating Q & A:

Did you like it? Uh-huh.

Was it good? Yeah.

Did you like it better than the first one? Write your own blog.

I'm interviewing you. Nooooo, you're not.

Why can't I interview you? Because I don't want to, that's why.

What's your favorite color? No comment.

What's your favorite thing about Seoul? No comment.

Aunt The Major just left the room, muttering something about pushy reporters, so I guess it's up to me to tell you that the movie was fantastic. I think it just might have been better than the first. Go and see it. You must, you must!

P.S. I forgot to add that The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will be out on May 16th. I saw the preview and I can't wait!