This is How I Feel

Someday, far in the future, I will share a bit of history with my children. I will tell them of two phrases that define my generation:

The Boy Who Lived

The Girl on Fire

Their faces will hold looks of utter bewilderment. I will go back to this day in history (in my mind) and remember when I watched "The Hunger Games" for the first time.

Kind of epic.

(P.S. They only won't understand the second phrase. No child of mine will start junior high without first reading the Harry Potter series!)

February 15, 2012

Today I got my first big-girl-paycheck and opened a savings account.

Look out world!

The Classiest of Women

Two nights ago I had a dream in which I spent the day with Julie Andrews. It was the greatest dream of my life! I will compare it to that scene in "The Princess Diaries" where Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews spend the day doing things that Anne Hathaway loves, i.e. picture booth, arcade, corndog. Except it was nothing like that. The only thing I really remember is, at one point, we were listening to a song from "The Sound of Music", and I looked at her with unwavering enthusiasm and said "That's you! That is you singing!" And she, being the gracious woman that she is, simply smiled and nodded as if the knowledge that she has made beautiful masterpieces and is world renown didn't really matter. I like to think that this dream was a foreshadowing of what it will be like when I meet Julie Andrews in Heaven.

Also I have had the strong desire to watch "Mary Poppins" all evening (which is not something I would normally desire). Or "The Sound of Music".

So I just thought I'd give a shout out to the incomparable Julie Andrews. Not only is she beautiful in song and demeanor, she has rubbed shoulders with the greats (WALT DISNEY), she has starred in legendary films, and she never once forsook her high standard of behavior for the benefit of Hollywood.

Way to be, Julie. Way to be.