for good-wicked

yes, I know I'm posting a lot of lyrics. I'm going to post some more lyrics and then I'll give an update. Really.

I'm limited just look at me I'm limited and just look at you you can do all I couldn't do Glinda so now it's up to you for both of us now it's up to you I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return well I don't know if I believe that's true but I know I'm who I am today because I knew you like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood who can say if I've been changed for the better but because I knew you I have been changed for good it well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say before we part so much of me is made of what I learned from you you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distant wood who can say if I've been changed for the better but because I knew you because I knew you I have been changed for good and just to clear the air I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for but then I guess we know there's blame to share and none of it seems to matter anymore like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood who can say if I've been changed for the better I do believe I have been changed for the better and because I knew you because I knew you because I knew you I have been changed for good

sailing for adventure~Muppet treasure island

When the course is laid and the anchor's weighed

A sailor's blood begins racing

With our hearts unbound and our flag unfurled

We're under way and off to see the world

Under way and off to see the world

Hey ho we'll go

Anywhere the wind is blowing

Manly men are we

Sailing for adventure on the deep blue sea

"Safely now, Mr. Silver. Let's not get sloppy, justbecause we're singing!"

Danger walks the deck we say what the heck

We laugh at the perils we're facing

Every storm we ride is its own reward

And people die by falling overboard

And people die by falling overboard

Hey ho we'll go

Anywhere the wind is blowing

Hoist the sails and sing

Sailing for adventure on the big, blue wet thing

I love to see 'em cry when they walk the plank

I prefer to cut a throat

I love to hang 'em high and watch their little feet try to walk in the air while their faces turn blue

Just kidding

It's a good life on a boat

There are distant lands with burning sands

That call across the oceans

There are bingo games every fun-filled day

And Margaritas at the midnight buffet

Margaritas at the midnight buffet

Hey ho we'll go

Anywhere the wind is blowing

Should have took a train

Sailing for adventure on the bounding main

The salty breezes whisper

Who knows what lies ahead

I just know I was born to live the life my father lead

The stars will be our compass

Wherever we may roam

And our mates will always be

Just like a family

And though we may put into port, the sea is always home

All right, Mr. Bimbo! I didn't know you had such a good singing voice --- your welcome!

We'll chase our dreams standing on our own

Over the horizon to the great unknown

Hey ho we'll go

Anywhere the wind is blowing

Bold and brave and free

Sailing for adventure

It's so nauseating

Sailing for adventure

So exhilarating

Sailing for adventure

we're all celebrating!

On the deep blue sea

Professsional Pirate from Muppet Treasure island

When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation
My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation
Though you could be a doctor or perhaps a financier
My boy why not consider a more challenging career"
Hey ho ho
You'll cruise to foreign shores
And you'll keep your mind and body sound
By working out of doors

True friendship and adventure are what we can't live without
And when you're a professional pirate
That's what the job's about
"Upstage, lads, this is my ONLY number!"
Now take Sir Francis Drake, the Spanish all despise him
But to the British he's a hero and they idolize him
It's how you look at buccaneers that makes them bad or good
And I see us as members of a noble brotherhood
Hey ho ho
We're honorable men
And before we lose our tempers we will always count to ten
Long John: On occasion there may be someone you have to execute
But when your a professional pirate

You don't have to wear a suit..... what?
I could have been a surgeon
I like taking things apart
I could have been a lawyer
But I just had too much heart
I could have been in politics
Cause I've always been a big spender
And me...I could have been a contender

Some say that pirates steal and should be feared and hated
I say we're victims of bad press it's all exaggerated
We'd never stab you in the back, we'd never lie or cheat
We're just about the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet
Hey ho ho
It's one for all for one
And we'll share and share alike with you and love you like a son
We're gentlemen of fotune and that's what we're proud to be
And when your a professional pirate
You'll be honest brave and free
The soul of decency
You'll be loyal and fair and on the square
And most importantly
When you're a professional pirate
You're always in the best of company

and I didn't spell "professional" with three s's in the title at all.......

:)

So I just got back from tae kwon do and I'm PSYCHED about tomorrow. WHY am I psyched about tomorrow? Because TOMORROW is the day that I FINALLY GET MY ALADDIN MUSIC!!!! WOOT!!!!!!!!!! I'm happy. I
I've started to really enjoy piano. Maybe it's because I can actually put it to good use by playing for kids in musicals. Maybe it's because I now have an excuse to play songs from musicals. Maybe it's just summer. Who knows?
Anyway, I get to go to swim practice tomorrow and work my arms off. :(. It's not fun, but tomorrow's the pancake breakfast, so I think practice is somewhat shortened. I HOPE practice is somewhat shortened. Practice is HARD.
I talked to my brother about him giving me supplemental swim lessons, but he said that I probably didn't need it. Apparently, I'm actually overdoing myself-I'm working myself harder than he is and he's STILL doing better than me. For example, in races, I don't breathe for the first lap and then breathe once or twice on the second lap, thus totalling one or two breaths. He normally does like four or five breaths in a meet. I breathe every three or five strokes in practice. He does every other stroke. And this is the guy who's one of the relay record holders! RR!
He also said that I'm slower than everyone else because I haven't been in the water to practice since last season, and that practices have gotten harder. I HOPE that's true. But mind you, I was always really lousy at swimming. I'm not denying it-my brother may be able to swim a fifty breast stroke in 34 seconds, but I am most definitely NOT able to do anything better than a 48. I'm starting to see why a lot of people on the team are surprised when they find out we're related. We're totally different, both in appearance and in our swimming skill. He's brilliant; I'm lousy. Way to go, me! NOT.

Swim Practice is out to get me

I have learned, from many years of experience, that it is good not to push yourself over the edge repeatedly. However, this is what I've had to do for quite a while now, as swim practice is so darn hard and I'm so darn out of shape. Well, I'm not horribly out of shape, but I'm not in top condition. So now my shoulders are crazy tired and my leg still hurts from those annoying crouch hops on Monday (the pain shouldn't be as strong as yesterday, if at all, yet here it is).
And now, of course, I'm going to go eat and get extra protein and stuff-I put protein supplement in my milk. I hope it helps.
I don't eat before swim practice because of the whole don't-eat-for-an-hour-before-you-swim thing. But it's still hard to swim on an empty stomach. Really hard. But now I get to have SUSTENANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why am I sitting at the computer when I could be eating food? I already had some cheese but I'm kinda hungry still. I'm going now.
BUT WAIT!
HAPPY JULY 1st!

ASP!!!

Yeah, so basically a recap of ASP:
Monday we hung around and did nothing significant except like talked to the family and stuff. Then the materials FINALLY came and we primed the T1-11 (the drywall, basically) and then we took down most of what last week did because they did it all weird. During Evening Gathering (EG from now on), I had to lead a bunch of people from my group around while they were blindfolded and I wasn't and I wasn't allowed to touch them; I was only allowed to guide them with my voice, which was kind of hard but it was fun.
Tuesday we got to work a lot, and I got my first chance on the saw. I used the Miter saw first-the one that sits on the table and then you line it up properly and then you cut it. Then I did the handheld circular saw, which was kind of nerve-wracking at first. If my mom had been around, she would have been like, "no WAY are you touching those power tools, missie!" but since she wasn't, two of the leaders were like, "hey, you wanna try the saw?" I told them I was nervous, but they showed me how to do it and it was all good. The circ saw we were using had a laser that you lined up with the line that you wanted to cut, which made it easier. After my first cut, one of the leaders was like, "So tell me again, WHY were you nervous?" That night's EG was this couple who did a bunch of songs from Appalacia. They were pretty good.
Wednesday was when I squished my finger and I had to keep it iced for most of the afternoon. It was annoying. But I played with the really cute baby on our site and she succeeded in pulling my glasses and my hat off my head multiple times.
Thursday we did some more work, but nothing really significant happened except I hurt a different finger.
Friday was really depressing because it was the last day. We gave the kids in our family some stuff-koala beanie babies for the young girls who didn't actually live there, a water gun for the guy, and a really cute outfit for the baby, who'll turn one next month. The family gave us each some food of some sort-deer meat, dill pickles, sweet pickles, or tomato juice. I got sweet pickles and tomato juice-I didn't want to try the deer meat and I don't really like dill pickles. After we drove up the holler and were at the gate, the grandpa of our crew drove up on his ATV because one of the leaders had forgotten his tape measure.
So that's the basic recap of ASP.
It was really fun.
:)

OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Our family had a frikkin huge angus bull, and I got to pet it even though it was almost three times my size.

And tuesday was "Talent Show Tuesday" and four of us sang "A Whole New World." On Love Song Thursday, me and one of the leaders sang "Seasons of Love" but he dropped out halfway through, which was really annoying because I had to sing really high over the noise of hammering.


Okay going now.

again

I was just reading the titles of some of my old posts, and one was "my iPod is being stupid. Grr." But then, it was nothing. Last Saturday, however, I accidentally left it in the pocket of my jeans, and put the jeans through the wash, and now it's officially dead. But really, I don't mind. I mean, I wanted an iPod for so long, and now it's dead and doesn't work anymore. My luck with iPods is absolutely horrible. First one got stolen/ lost. Now one isn't working. Sheesh!

Service Projects!

Well, I went to church today, as I do most Sundays. And after all the ASP people had been recognized and we went off to do our recap and whatnot, I had an idea. I really want to carry on the service project thing, as I really, really, really, really, really enjoyed ASP, and I really, really, really, really, really like knitting, so I thought, well, why not put the two together? So I continued knitting and thinking and listening, and I thought, since I was making a scarf, even though it's June, why not knit scarves for some cause, even though there's a gazillion causes for which you can knit scarves. So I thought, why not do my own cause, like knit them for homeless people and then give them to Christ House? So I thought I'd do that. And in the car just now, on the way back from California Pizza Kitchen, where all the ASP people ate lunch, I brought up the topic with my mom, and she was like, well, why not do it for your gold award project? I thought that was a pretty good idea. So now, after many hours of random thoughts about nothing that really worked for my gold award, I came up with an idea in a split second. Weird how this world works, isn't it? During the time when I first thought about the thing, I, for some reason, decided to name it the Rainbow Scarf Project, even though that's a really silly sounding name and the project has nothing to do with Gay Rights, however much I support them. So now I'm just calling it the Gold Award Project, even though that's an even worse name. Or I could just not name the project. That works, too. Or maybe I'll just let it go through and figure out a name once I'm done with the Gold Award. That works, too. Well, I'm off. I'm going to go knit for the Whatever-It-Is Project.

LYRICS!!!!!!!

So, to bump up my post count again, here are some lyrics! (Santa Fe from Newsies. Yes, Christian Bale sings it.)

So that's what they call a family-mother, father, daughter, son. Guess everything you heard about is true. So you ain't got any family, well, who said you needed one? Ain'tcha glad nobody's waiting up for you? When I dream on my own I'm alone, but I ain't lonely for a dreamer, night's the only time of day when the city's finally sleeping all my thoughts begin to stray and I'm on the train that bound for Santa Fe and I'm free Like the wind Like I'm gonna live forever. It's a feeling time can never take away all I needs a few more dollars and I'm outta here to stay dreams come true yes they do in Santa Fe Where does it say you've gotta live and die here?Where does it say a guy can't catch a break? Why should you only take what you're given? Why should you spend your whole life livin trapped where there ain't no future even at seventeen breaking your back for someone else's sake If the life don't seem to suit ya how bout a change of scene? Far from the lously headlines and the deadlines in between Santa Fe are you there? Do you swear you won't forget me? If I found you would you let me come and stay? I ain't getting any younger And before my dying day I want space Not just air Let 'em laugh in my face, I don't care save a place I'll be there so that's what they call a family? Ain't ya glad you ain't that way? Ain't ya glad you got a dream called Santa Fe?

OH!

Well, since my last post was two days before school let out, I didn't tell you The Story of How I Got Lost Because of the Annoying Bus.
So I went to the library the day school let out because I'm awesome like that, and I accidentally took the wrong bus home and ended up a mile from any landmark, and probably a mile and a half from home.
And I just barely missed the right bus going back.
It was a serious epic fail.
Okay, done.

wow...

it's been quite a long time since I last posted, hasn't it? It's kind of late now, but I SWEAR I'm going to do better.
I just got back from ASP-Appalachian Service Project. It was with my youth group. Now I've been dubbed the "saw queen" because I loved sawing. And I was fairly decent at it. Well, I was better at sawing than hammering, in any case. I absolutely HATED the hammering, mostly because I was absolutely horrible at it. Honestly, for every time I hit the nail, there was at least two for every time I hit the wood. It was really annoying. And when I did manage to hit the nail, it usually got bent. It was super annoying. But, on the other hand, I got to meet super awesome people.
ASP is basically this service mission that goes into the Appalachian mountains during the summer to work on houses in need of repair. Seriously, we in suburbia might consider them poor, but in reality, they've probably got more to them than any of us do. They're just happy people.
The family we worked for needed their wall reinforced because it was bowing (like David Bowie, not like take a bow), and so that's what we did. We also had to take down most of the stuff that the last group put up because they had done it wrong. I have no idea how-I was just the labor force. It was fun, though.
The first day on site, we had nothing to do because we had to wait for the inspector dude to come to check out the house and our plan and stuff to make sure it was okay, and we had to wait for the ASP staff to come and OK our plan AND give us our materials and stuff. Once all that happened, we started ripping out nails, another thing that I failed at.
The next day, one of our leaders went and managed to squish my finger in between a concrete block and the (very heavy) roof support thing we were working on. It hurt. I was already having a minor breakdown because the nails were being really retarded and weren't going into the wood like I wanted them to, that is, when they went in at all. I was also being given about fifty million contrasting pieces of advice about hammering- some said swing from the shoulder, some said from the wrist, but I was thinking, "Screw it. Seriously. What's the difference?" It was really annoying.
By the end of the week, the same leader had managed to squish my fingers a total of not one but three times-once on the index on my right hand, and twice on the middle finger of my left hand. Yes, the same one that died under the concrete. By the third time my fingers got squished, we were all like, you know what? You two probably shouldn't be working together, as that leader has some strange instinct to squish her fingers every other day. But it was all in good fun, though.
ASP was seriously one of the most fun experiences of my life.
I'm going to finish summarizing tomorrow. And the next day.
And the next day.
As long as it takes.
Bye.

la

I know I haven't posted in a couple days, but whatever. Anyway, I got to go to the library (the one down the street, not the one at school) and I got the WICKED SOUNDTRACK! I only knew a couple songs from Wicked, but now I know two more that I like: Dancing Through Life and The Wizard and I. They're both really catchy songs. Well, Dancing Through Life is. The Wizard and I is just a good song. LYRICS TIME! (dancing through life)
the trouble with schools is they always try to teach the wrong lesson believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know they want you to become less callow less shallow but I say why invite stress in? stop studying strife and learn to life the unexamined life dancing through life skimming the surface gliding where turf is smooth life's more painless for the brainless why think too hard? when it's so soothing dancing through life no need to tough it when you can sluff it off as I do nothing matters but knowing nothing matters it's just life so keep dancing through dancing through life swaying and sweeping and always keeping cool life is fraught less when you're thoughtless those who don't try never look foolish dancing through life mindless and careless make sure your where less trouble is rife woes are fleeting blows are glancing when you're dancing through life so what's the most swankified place in town? that would be the Ozdust Ballroom. sounds perfect! Let's go down to the Ozdust Ballroom we'll meet there later tonight we can dance till it lights find the prettiest girl give her a whirl right on down to the Ozdust Ballroom come on, follow me you'll be happy to be there dancing through life down at the Ozdust if only because dust is what we come to nothing matters but knowing nothing matters it's just life so keep dancing through Miss Galinda I hope you'll save at least one dance for me I'll be right there waiting all night oh thats so kind! but you know what would be even kinder? See that tragically beautiful girl the one in the chair it seems so unfair we should go on a spree and not she gee i know someone would be my hero if that someone were to go invite her well, maybe i could invite her! Oh, Bick, really? you would do that for me? I would do anything for you Miss Galinda. so so I'll be picking you up around eight? after all now that we've met one another its clear we deserve each other you're perfect you're perfect so we're perfect together born to be forever dancing through life oh Elphaba- isn't it wonderful? Finally, for this one night I'm about to have a fun night with this Munchkin boy Galinda found for me and I only wish there were something i could do for her to repay her Elphaba see? we deserve each other and Galinda helped it come true we deserve each other me and Boq. please Elphaba, try to understand I do Galinda listen Nessa and I were talking about you just now and I was just talking about you! I thought you might want to wear this hat to the party tonight! It's really,uh, sharp, don't you think? you know black is this years pink you deserve each other this hat and you you're both so smart you deserve each other so here, out of the goodness of my heart (interlude) listen- Nessa- yes? uh Nessa I've got something to confess, a reason why, well why I asked you here tonight now I know it isn't fair Oh, Boq, I know why. You do? it's because I'm in this chair and you felt sorry for me well isn't that right? No! NO! It's because- because- because you are so beautiful! Oh, Boq, I think you're wonderful! and we deserve each other don't you see, this is our chance? we deserve each other Don't we Boq? you know what? Let's dance! what? Let's dance! Dancing through life down at the ozdust if only because dust is what we come to and the strange thing: your life could end up changing while you're dancing through!

The end!
Okay going now.