Tired and Beat
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As my Twitter says (hey look, it is over to the right over there) I took a nap yesterday after work. It caused me to miss my sister in law’s birthday party. I called and apologized of course. Then I was able to stay awake for a bit. Got some dinner. Then the wife came home and explained some trouble that had happened on the errand that she had been on.
Within a few minutes, her mother calls. There was an issue with my mother and father-in-laws home. The recent rainstorm (started around 4 p.m. and continued past midnight), had caused their house to be flooded. Her parents were in the process of replacing the shingles on the roof. Long and short, there were holes through out the home. Particularly the living room and the garage-converted-into-a-nice-bachelor-pad were affected. My wife raced over to be with her mother in her hour of need. We got the kids calmed down (at 10:30ish) and into bed. Frantically, my wife called within an hour.
“I need you to come over here. I need you to bring, this and that…”
Oh man!
I think ended up driving up there and spending until 12:30 over there. I got home and of course due to the nap, and dinner and so on, I wasn’t able to go back to bed. Then at 1:30 a.m. FINALLY… Top Gun came on. So Nancy and I watched it until 3:00 or 3:30. Back to bed. Woke up at 4:15, snoozed on the couch until 4:45.
Now at work… feeling the cycle begin again.
List of Musicals
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Nancy said in one of my last few posts about musicals, that she wanted to start watching the musicals that I love so much. I decided to make a list of the musicals that we own.
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Moulin Rouge (she has seen this one)
- Into the Woods
- Hairspray (she has seen this one)
- Sweeny Todd (both Tim Burton’s and the original Broadway version)
- Phantom of the Opera (she has seen this one)
- Godspell (this is the campy 70’s movie)
- RENT
Other musicals I wished we owned/could buy:
- Starlite Express
- Les Miserables
- Wicked
- Avenue Q
- Assassins
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Oliver (I know she saw this one as a stage play when we were in Jr. High… she knew the star Oliver… ME!)
I am sure I will think of and find more later. Possibly even in both lists.
Good to See Culture Grow
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Last night, as I was working in the library at the Church, we were watching and Into the Woods and someone heard a particular song coming out of the library. “Hey, is that Agony from Into the Woods?”
“Yup, sure is.”
“I played trumpet for that in High School.”
“Small world.”
The guy ended up watching through the end of the song, and then walked away happily humming the song to himself.
Glad I could help brighten his day.
(btw, Into the Woods is 100% church appropriate musical and a great story to boot!)
Pardon the Dust
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Trying to find out how to use this new template but there is an annoying overlay in one particular place so the theme may change a bit over the next couple of days while I work on the issue.
Amazed at the Skills
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Recently I have been listening to a lot of different of soundtracks. Some of the singing amazes me. Not that it is so good. It is decent, but these are not the faces of accomplished singers in my mind:
Cyclops - James Marsden
Catwoman - Michelle Pfeifer
Victor Garber
Each of the above singer are featured on one or more of the soundtracks that I had listened to this weekend.
James Marsden: Corney Collins from 
Every time that I saw James in the part, I mainly thought, “Hey, he is a good actor. Has a pleasant look”. Never put two and two together to associate James Marsden with Cyclops.
Michelle Pfeiffer: Velma Von Tussle from Hairspray as above, and as Stephanie Zinone in 
Michelle Pfeiffer has always a favorite actress of mine. I loved her in Dangerous Minds, I loved her in One Fine Day (CHICK FLICK!), and probably my favorite Ladyhawke. Seeing her sing, in both of the movies, shows such a different version of her in singing. In Grease 2, she plays a hard nosed girl. In Hairspray, she plays a former beauty queen trying to control and prevent integration of a television show. Both leave me wanting more but somehow I never associated that voice with Catwoman.
Victor Garber: I never was a fan of Alias. Don’t know why, it just never grabbed me. I did see him in Eli Stone, and on rare occasion, he would sing on that show. Recently in looking up some information for another post, I found out that he was singing on one of my favorite musicals of all time Assassins. Whoah, I never associated the voice with the voice.
There are also additional people we could mention of course, Adrian Zmed from Grease 2, Jesse L. Martin in Rent, and Steve Martin from Little Shop of Horrors. Of course anyone that bought Steve Martin’s Wild Crazy Guy 8 track… already knew he could sing as well as he could zing.
KING TUT!
This One Made Me Laugh
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Future Plans
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As I alluded to in one of my last posts, we have some plans for our family. We want to move to Utah.
In order to keep this short and concise for feeds and what not, I am going to keep most of this behind the cut.
Virtual Theft is Almost as Painful as Real Theft
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My World of Warcraft Hacked Story: (hence the cut for those of you who don’t care for World of Warcraft)
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So It Has Been Some Time
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Leave it to me to leave my blog dead for a month. I am going to try and update more regularly now that my vacation is over. I plan to also discuss our vacation and the dream for the future.
Week Long Update: Last Update
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Tonight she comes home. YEAH!!!!
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I finished the basic structure of the food storage. All that is left is to create the shelving to create the storage.
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The last of the laundry is in the washer this morning.
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The ceiling fan went in VERY nicely. It is remote controlled. It also includes a dimmer for the lights and so the kids may no longer need another night light.
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The last of the items went out to the DI.
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The sinks are down to one last sink of dirty dishes.
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The new vent hood has the power box on the wrong side and hence I am going to have to buy an a way to extend the power cord. At that point, we can hang the new vent in about 5 minutes.
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