Hey, Look at the Sun Shiiiiiiiine!

[crookykanks]

Spring Break is here!!!!! Yay!!!!!!

And I'm actually excited for the Easter Vigil and Easter services. Usually I hate staying up and then getting up at the crack of dawn and singing all weekend, but this year I want to do it. I got my feet washed at tonight's service, too. I feel very good.

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[fabala_belle]

I'm also tilting my head to the side to look at your books, but I'm having trouble. I do see Redwall, though. I went through a big Redwall period once.

I need Glinda and Elphie. They get cuter every time I see them. I need to find them somehow!

[crookykanks]

The Elphie's terribly adorable in person. I didn't know how cute she was until I opened the one I got. I wanted her originally because she was Elphie and who doesn't want Elphie, but now I'm so glad I got her!!!

If you want a list of the books I can write them down. ;p

[fabala_belle]

If you want to write them down. It's not terribly necessary.

I went to a bank right next to a McDonald's today. It was very hard not to go in and check which toys they have... but my mom would have gotten ticked at me. Plus the McDonald's workers around here don't tend to speak English, so I don't know how well that would have worked out.

[crookykanks]

LOL. The people around here don't exactly speak english either, I think. I asked once for the "Wicked Witch" and they came out with Glinda and the Cowardly lion asking if either of those were what I was looking for. Oh sure, the one with the curly brown mane and tail is the Wicked witch. People just don't like to listen these days, I guess.

Books:
Frozen Summer - Mary Jane Auch
Running Out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Imposters - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Misty of Chincoteague - Marguerite Henry
Shiloh Season - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Saving Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Black Stallion - Walter Farley
Redwall - Brain Jacques
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
A Wind in the Door - Madeline L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeline L'Engle
Many Waters - Madeline L'Engle
The Night I Disappeared - Julie Reece Deaver
My Louisiana Sky - Kimberly Willis Holt
Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne
When We Were Very Young - A. A. Milne
Now We

[fabala_belle]

I haven't read a lot of those...

What I have read, in case you care: maybe Misty of Chincoteague, definitely The Black Stallion, Redwall, A Wrinkle in Time, maybe the other Madeline L'Engle books (I didn't read the whole series, but I read a couple), Now We Are Six, anything Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Women (although I'm not sure if it was the real book or a little kid version), and I can't remember if I read The Secret Garden or if I just saw the movie.

Now I'm tempted to write down all the books on my shelves...

[crookykanks]

That was one tiny shelf for me and I never said that I had read all of these. I've read most of them, but I still have a book mark in Many Waters and in Little Women. The one in Little Women has been there (right exactly at the half-way point in the book) for the last 8 years. When it moved from "Book I" to "Book II" I put it down for Harry Potter and simply never found the inspiration to spick it back up. I love the movie though.

[fabala_belle]

Oh, ok :)

I'm itching to clean out my bookshelves now, but I have nowhere to put any of this stuff. I really need my own library. Except not, because there are very few of the books I've owned in my life that I would actually need to keep around. There were years of Babysitters Club reading, and then the period in which I read a ton of awful young adult books (not to knock YA, because I still love a lot of it, but I read some total crap)...

But anyway... I have no clue what the point of this comment was supposed to be.

[crookykanks]

TO keep commenting, of course! What's the point of any comment when we have each other's e-mail addresses anyway?

I have 17 of the 18 books in the Clue Series, a few Boxcar Children shorts, a slew of terrible YA (such as T*Witches and Night I Disappeared, for instance) Several classics I have never and in all likelihood will never read, at least two copies of every HP book (hardback/paperback/special editions) the entire Lemony Snicket Series and many more.

Like I actually need to keep all those around!

[fabala_belle]

The only books I really really need to keep around are my Gregory Maguire ones. I tend not to read any of the other ones I have lying around more than once.

And at this point Wicked doesn't even need a spot on my shelf, since it goes wherever I go. It and I are attached at the hip, seriously. I'm home for just the weekend, but I couldn't bear the thought of leaving it at school in case there's some passage I need to reference.

[crookykanks]

I've got the book on tape for when I'm driving, too. It helps things. Pity Mom insisted on listening to it together on the College Road Trip we took this summer. First and only time I have been embarrassed of my love for it.

[fabala_belle]

There's a book on tape?! I want it...

Except that I like to be able to sing along to things when I drive, so I'm not much of a books on tape type of person.

[crookykanks]

Usually I'm not either, but WIcked isn't any ordinary book. I like having Billy Joel and the Wicked and Forrest Gump soundtracks in my car. Chicago's good, too.

[fabala_belle]

I like having different things at different times... anything I can sing along to. It used to be mainly Wicked, but I kill my voice if it's a long car ride. I can't pretend to be Kristin and Idina for that long. Every now and then I have to throw in something that a guy sings to rest my voice a bit.

I love plugging my iPod in when I sing so I get some variety. I have a feeling this summer is going to be all PQ all the time, though.

[fabala_belle]

I meant when I drive, not when I sing.

You can clearly see which I'm more focused on.

[crookykanks]

I got the idea.

[fabala_belle]

I saw a bumper sticker once that said "Caution: Driver singing." I need that.