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Funeral. Shock shock, pretty much as typical as you can get. Didn't cry until we were all getting up to walk by the casket. Teared up. Didn't sob. Other than that, typical, typical, typical.

Maddy doesn't get it. At the gravesite she asked if she could see down the hole. She asked why Great-Grandma wasn't there. Gah.

Another big family gathering where I only knew half the people. I finally cried when I was BORED to tears. (No, just kidding. But almost.) Finally Maddy came in from playing all whiny and tired so I asked Alicia if she wanted me to bring her back to the house and put her down for a nap. Alicia said to give her a drink and read her a story and she'd go right down. So I gave her some lemonade in a "big-girl" cup and we read "101 Dalmatians" and then she settled right down. I checked on her about five minutes ago and she wasn't SLEEPING yet, and the clock just rung, so she may not be asleep yet. But she's laying down and being quiet and she hasn't whined for me, so she's okay. ^_^ She knows where I am if she needs me.

Today they were making a big to-do of divvying up the excess flowers. They're keeping the biggest ones and they gave some away (like my cousin Brad's company sent a bouquet so they sent that bouquet home with his family). There was one all purple-and-white silk arrangement that looked like a normal spring spray, not funeral flowers, and they were in a purple glass vase, so I told Mom to claim it for me if they decided to give it away, and if not, oh well. I'm not big on flowers but I really liked the vase. Whatever.

It's such a stupid tradition, really, sending flowers to the grieving family. Clearly we don't need them if we;re trying to give them all away. Now if it would have been Grandpa it would have made sense because Grandma would have kept and appreciated all the plants. And when they tried to get other people to take plants and they're all, "Oh, no, I kill plants..." (That's the other reason I liked the arrangement I did, 'tis silk. I can keep silk alive, lol. I figure if I get it I'll put the arrangement over my window and use the vase for...something. My bamboo, maybe. It's in a borrowed jar currently.)

Anyway.

If I write more later it'll be an attempt to cut my list down. I'm going to work on chapter titles for SID now. No. I'm going to check on Maddy first and THEN work on chapter titles. (I'd go back but of course I have to stay with Maddy.)

Hehe. She's OUT. What a cutie. ^_^

Beauty and the Beast!

Jennifer came back around ten to eight and woke Maddy up. Jerry and Sherri had left.

Me and Maddy watched "Beauty and the Beast," her favorite movie. Mine, too, when I was that age. I'm glad she's into the eductaed, take-control-of-her-own-fate Disney Princess instead of like, Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. Don't get me wrong, I love those stories, too, but Belle is all proactive and thinks for herself. She's just so much cooler! Come on, the girl refuses to marry the buffoon, she sacrifies her dreams to save her father's life, then stages a protest to keep her dad out of the asylum and to save the Beast's life. Also she understands that looks aren't everything.

And I love the whole stained-glass window thing at the beginning and end. And the songs. And, just...everything! I have this movie memorized, I watched it so much when I was a kid. When we watch it I can quote the whole dang thing, with much higher accuracy than I have with LotR, even.

My only nitpick about it is that the Beast/Prince needs a name. Really. They named the freaking HORSE, but not the romantic lead? What's with that?

Anyway. I'm on my way to Acting class, thirty minutes early, in hopes of seeing Tim. Mwahaha.

Jason and Alicia will be gone when I get home and I didn't see them this morning since they were still asleep. *sigh* That sucks.

One Act Plays

I just got done with the blocking for my part in Trifles. I'm playing Mrs. Hale, who SO rocks--she's all like, "The law is one thing, but what's right is another thing entirely." ^_^ Luckily I only have one part.

Anyway. More later. But read the play.

LOST theories...

gamgeefest has hit on a theory. I agree with part of it. (And I SWEAR I commented on it but it's not showing up for some reason...)

Boone's being bloody in the dream could have been a tipoff that following the plane was a bad idea. (But admittedly, it didn't occur to me at the time, so I can't expect it to occur to him, either.) And why was Locke's mother being in the dream seemingly irrelevant? Do you think she's behind any of it? She raised her hand to the sky, the plane went down. Since it seemed that she was into the occult/fortunetelling/whatever (I got that impression, anyway), maybe she's connected to Claire's psychic...