30 July 2006

Lady, Come Down!

I leave for Germany tomorrow...

My mom and I got together tonight for a last minute movie/pig out session. And, I'm happy to say, we rented a movie that we had neither seen nor heard of. "The Importance of Being Earnest." I picked it out. Romantic comedy, rated PG. Utterly delightful! There was hardly a plot but the laughs were there and we agreed to add it to our collection the next time we see it for sale.

Germany. Tomorrow. Wow. This summer has definately flown by.... Lately I have been imagining myself walking down the street to get a doner instead of driving to Wawa for a snack. I guess that means I will be happy to be back in Germany.

For those of you who don't know, I graduate after this semester. My mom is coming to see me graduate and then we are going to travel around Europe for about 15 days...in the dead of winter. It will be an experience.

Anyways, keep in touch everyone! Skype me, e-mail me, Myspace me, etc. I'll try to keep in contact but I've never really been all that great at it. Another one of those things I should work on...


in HIM
Stephanie



"Lady, Come Down"
Rupert (as Algy): After you dear boy.
Colin (as Jack): Oh no after you.
Rupert: No, no, no, do go first I'm not really good at the high bits. I'm much better low
Colin: Oh we'll see...
Hm hm hm hmm
Rupert: 1 2. and!

Colin: The western wind is blowing fair
Across the dark Aegean Sea
Rupert: And at the secret marble stair
My Tyrian galley waits for thee

Together: Come down, the purple sail is spread
The watchman sleeps within the town
Oh leave thy lily flowerbed
Oh lady mine, come down

Chorus: Come down
Lady come down
Come down
Lady come down,
Oh Lady come down

She will not come I know her well
Of lover's vows she hath no care
And little good a man can tell
Of one so cruel and so fair

Colin: True love is but a woman's toy
They never know the lover's pain
Rupert: And I who loved as loves a boy
Must love in vain
Together: Must love in vain

Come down
Lady come down
Come down
Lady come down

Colin: I think your high notes may have damaged our chances old boy. You do want them to come down don't you?
Rupert: well she is never gonna come down if you're singing like that. You're completely out of tune
Colin: How dare you
Rupert: I'll take this bit
Colin: you leave this to me. You go and have a lie down old man
Rupert: no I'll take this bit
Colin: out of my way I'm coming through
Rupert: go easy, my dear fellow
Colin: COME DOOOOOWWWNNN

Come down
Lady come down (Rupert: You're over-doing it, less is more)
Come down
Lady come down

Colin: That wasn't so bad, was it?
Hmmmmhmhhhhmmmmm
Rupert: Maybe they're really not gonna come down.
D'you think we should go up?
Maybe we should go up.
Colin: Algy you're always talking nonsense.
Rupert: Well it's better than listening to it
Colin: Lady come down
Rupert: Doo bee doo bee doo bee doo bee doo

22 July 2006

Take me out to the ball game

One thing I DIDN'T tell my mom was that I really wanted to go to a baseball game while I was home. Doesn't matter, God knew. She called me yesterday morning to ask if I wanted to go to a Phillies game -- she had gotten free tickets. So last night we went. She had four tickets, but we didn't have enough time to find two other people to go. Luckily, while walking into the stadium we met with two scalpers who were more than happy to buy our tickets. $15 each.We had pizza before the game and then went to our wonderful seats. First base line.

Anyway, it was a great game, and I played with my new camera. I took three videos. One of Meat Loaf singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," one of a Phillies home run, and one of the big Liberty Bell made of lights ringing at the close of the game. Phillies won, 6-5 against the Atlanta Braves.


If you look closely, you can see the Philly skyline in the clouds. It was SO muggy...




And the Braves pitching to the Phillies.





20 July 2006

five, six...pick up sticks

Anyone here know that I am scared to death of tornadoes? No? Well, I am. We had a severe thunderstorm here on the 18th, and I was happy to make it through the night. I didn't see a tornado, but the sky was green and there was hail. So I go to work the next day and what do I see? The debris left by a tornado. Since insurance still had to look at it all (for my boss, of course) all we could do was some minor clean up. I picked up a LOT of sticks.

See?


Oh, but about halfway through the storm, there was a break. ABSOLUTLY beautiful! I'm not a photographer, but I tried my best.



This one is my favorite.





The damage at the Kennel? You can see that it definately WAS a tornado (ignore the fact that my boss Sam saw it) because of the way these trees are down. The big one is perpendicular to the smaller one. I thought wind blew things down the same way...must have been a more...cirular wind.

This is the bigger tree. That fence is five and a half feet high.


Here is the smaller one, and you can see the vines attached to the larger one in the foreground. This one was twisted off its' trunk.



This makes me want to move to, oh, I don't know, Germany. I think I'll leave in a couple of weeks....

17 July 2006

Gone Fishin'

My mom and I went to the beach this past weekend. Fun stuff. We met a lot of Russians, went fishing, and had one awesome day at the beach. I am still nursing my sunburn. Anyway, my mom caught a fish, a keeper...but I didn't catch ANYTHING!!! Here's mom with her fish. (It's in a bag 'cause that's where Anton put it while we finished fishing.)




Oh, and we had the worst pizza known to mankind. This is us mourning said pizza.




And the Ferris Wheel on the pier at the boardwalk.