Pygmalion

Pygmalion. So awesome, yet so under appreciated by high schoolers. Honestly, it's a hilarious play, but no one seems to get it!

Yep, that's right. My drama club is doing Pygmalion. I really like Pygmalion a lot, and I think that I understand it probably better than any of the kids in the drama club, but I have to say. This is not a play you want to have to watch twenty times a week. It just starts to get really, really, really long.

I am playing the part of Mrs. Pearce. The housekeeper. I was thoroughly disappointed in this role when I first got it, but it turns out to be okay. She's kind of a fun character, I think. So I'll make due.

But. as luck has it, we've gotten ourselves an AWESOME Higgins! Which is great, and makes the whole show much more enjoyable than it might have been. So there's always that.

Keep you posted?

What Have I Done?!!

I just sold two of our goats to crazy people! Poor Marigold and Dill! This family came with three small children to buy two goats, and those children were chasing those poor little babies around, grabbing them, carrying them upside down, basically doing everything in their power to make the little dears freak out!!! Worst of all, you know what my dad told them? 'Nothing you do to those babies is going to hurt them'. What? That is insane! They could do many things to hurt them, like, say, light them on fire, drown them, throw rocks at them, strangle them, break their little goaty legs, or feed them to their two hairless cats which they kept talking about!!!

Let's just say I'm going to be calling to check on them in a little bit...

Why I Love Theatre

The theatre is awesome. Anyone who doubts me is uncultured and needs therapy. The Sound of Music is my current show, in which I play the part of Louisa, the second oldest Von Trapp daughter. First of all, Von Trapp? Super mega awesome name! Second, Louisa? Super mega awesome character! She's the trouble maker of the children and is always playing pranks on the governesses, her favorite being putting toads in their beds. Heh, heh...

Also, the children get to do all sorts of fun numbers in this show, such as Do-Re-Mi and So Long, Farewell. Would it have been nice to also get to do 16 Going on 17? Sure, that would have been nice, but I'm going to have to live with it. Yeah, I wanted Liesl, but I didn't get to try out for her, because I missed the initial audition being in Disney World, and so I just had to do a callback for any part they wanted, and they wanted Louisa. But I'm not complaining. I'm having a blast, and I have a great part still.

I am not looking forward to next week, though. The 4H fair cooincides with our last week of rehearsal. It will be insane. :( All that I know is that I'm sacrificing showing pigs, not rehearsal if the need arrises.

We get to climb a mountain at the end of the show, and end in super dramatic poses. I'm excited. I'll return with pictures or something later.

Goat Tales

Did you know that goats are the second most likely domesticated animal to revert back to their wild ways? Cats are first, of course, but I thought it was interesting that goats came after that. I would never have guessed. They're so cuddly! Who knew that they could turn on you in an instant! After reading Call of the Wild, I would have thought dogs would be second. And in case you are wondering, I hate Jack London. His writing drives me crazy. Although, I do have a funny Jack London story, which I will allow myself to write, no matter how irrelevant it is. We were getting ready to read one of his books in English once, and we were watching a documentary on him before we began reading. So out teacher asked us to guess what we thought his life was like, and who he was, or something like that. So I said that I thought that he was probably a hobo. And guess what? He was a hobo! Hilarious!

Anyways, back to the point of the post. That point is that Walnut is awesome. But, you may be saying, not only is that a very vague point, it is also the point of almost every post you write! And you would be correct. But I shall specify. Walnut is awesome because I think he's starting to get the hang of being walked on a leash, meaning that I will be able to do very well when I show him. Okay, 'getting the hang' may not be the right phrase...Maybe 'moving past the phase of just laying on the ground while I try to drag him along'.

In any case, I am so going to win the costume class. We're both dressing up as Newsies. You know, the street urchin children who sell newspapers on street corners? It'll be awesome. We both have newsie caps, and we'll wear big scarves, and vests, and I'll have boots and some of those gloves with the fingers cut off, and a big stack of newspaper tied together with twine. And I'll figure out a way to give him a little pack of newspapers on his back. Here, I'll photoshop a picture of him to include his costume, just to give you an idea:

Isn't it adorable?!!!! So, I'll post a picture of the actual costume when I finish it.

Creeped Out

Have you ever known one of those super creepy people before? You know, the ones who think they know you really well, and are in the loop on your life's goings-ons? I know someone like that. And I wish I didn't. She seems to have gone on facebook and friended all of the people I'm friends with, even though I'm sure she doesn't know any of them...And now she's talking about them like they're old friends, or something. Am I the only one who finds this creepy? Wish I'd never accepted her friend request...

Just to clarify, I do know her, though. She's not some random stranger who decided to friend me or anything...

Getting Paid for Basking in the Garden of Beauty!

This summer, I have a plethora of money. Well, not that much, maybe, but enough to be able to purchase all of the things that I've been wanting. How did I come across these funds, you ask? Well, since my sister left for college last year, I have been able to pick up all of her old neighborhood jobs. This means I got to pet sit last week for one neighbor, and I get to get the mail and tend to the garden of my other neighbor for all next month.

My pet sitting neighbor pays really well. She had initially said about $18 a day to watch the dogs. Then, when she was paying me, she kind of just rounded it up to $20 a day, and then gave me a five dollar tip in addition to that. I got nearly $170 for one week of letting two little dogs outside and dumping some food in their bowls!

And my other neighbor gives high wages, as well, if I remember correctly from when my sister did work for him. Last night, I went over to water his garden, and at first, I was thinking, 'Gee, I need to get over there before it's dark out!', because there are coyotes in our area, not that I've heard them more than once in the eight years we've lived here, and I've never heard of them even attempting to attack anyone or anything, but still. So, I went over there, and it started to get really dark really quickly. That's when I remembered that it doesn't matter if I'm over there in the dark because my neighbor lives in the midst of a nighttime light show extravaganza!!! Seriously, his garden is all lit up at night, it's gorgeous! His garden and yard are already beautiful, because tending to them seems to be his favorite hobby, but at night, it's spectacular! Plus, my neighbor and my family both have ponds in our backyards (who knows why...), so there's the added benefit of the waterworks in his yard! He has a giant fountain made of sparkling beauty in his pond that turns on at night! It's kind of worth the mosquito bites I get from going there at night. It is incredible.

Nougat: Everyone Knows It's the Best Part of the Candy Bar

I love me some nougat. Do you see? I love nougat so much that I just used improper grammar for it. Intentionally! Do you want to know what I don't understand? Why don't they sell just nougat? The only way to really get nougat is in a Snickers bar, or a Milky Way! And then you have all of the other candy bar components fighting for room on your tastebuds, when you really just want the nougat! That's why I tend to eat my candy bars with a knife. I can then cut off all of the chocolate and other stuff, and eat them first, and finally enjoy that luscious nougat, all on its own.

I'm going to have to try to make nougat. Every sit tight for a minute, I'll find a recipe and post it here. I'll be right back - hold on.

Okay, I'm back. Go here to make nougat. I shall try this recipe, as well. However, I am going to leave out the nuts, because I'm just not much of a nut person. I mean, they're all right, but not something I actively want to eat. Plus, that would just put me back in the same place I started - having to rip my poor nougat to pieces to get everything else out of the way, so I can just eat the darn nougat.

Well, I'll be off to make some nougat now. Bye!