h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No new yet. But, the is acting more like Maverick. I have found her sleeping on his old towels. She now begs at the table. She doesn't eat much of what we give her...just likes being involved in the meal. The other evening Mike was out late, and Xena started guarding the door. How is that?

That is WAY !

Has the spirit of Maverick possessed Xena ? Or does she just figure that SOMEBODY has to do the dirty work around there!?!?!?

Only the Shadow knows! (bwah-ha-ha!)

We've thought the was possessed for a few years...zipping around the house all fluffed out for no discernible reason, climbing the louvred doors, and then falling asleep for hours.

's seem to have the ability to live ON this planet without actually TOUCHING it! I swear sometimes my cat teleports!

Thinking of such things, there's a comic strip called "9 Chickweed Lane" that does strips called "Hallmarks of Felinity". If you haven't seen it, you really should check it out... the artist has cats pegged!

If it's not TOO much of a change of subject ....

Anyone any ideas about how to tell a [talented!!] 9-year-old songbird that "Memories" (from 'Cats' - what else???) just MIGHT be a tad ambitious as a chosen piece for her first major audition??

Like the honey bee, nobody has ever told her she can't "fly" so she just goes out and does it ....

I don't want to knock her confidence, but I'd also hate to see her crushed by trying too hard .....

Oh the relief, I'm not the only one who can leave a room before a only to find the same waiting in the next room when I get there, at least I assume it's the same but now that you mention it....

*changes subject*
Bagheera,
How out of reach is Memories? Sometimes it's important to try and fail in order to achieve something more important later. Other times it's best to do the one thing really well instead of the other, more glamourous thing half as well. Only, I'm not sure which one this is...

*waits to see what subject appears next*

Well, it's your journal, so I reckon YOU ought to pick the next topic...

If I picked the topic, then I would feel obligated to stick to it.

There is that, I suppose!

So how are you and Xena

Thanks,Evangeline!!

Problem is, she sings it REALLY WELL!! (so in one sense it's definitely NOT "out of reach")

I know as a parent I can't really make an unbiased judgement, but her class teacher and others also say she has a wonderful voice - people are still stopping me in the street to thank me (as if I had anything to do with it!) for the way she 'led' the singing (and sang a solo) for the children making their First Communion at our local church last weekend.

Perhaps I should stop worrying and let things happen naturally

Warrior Ranger,
Xena and I are doing okay, this morning she was playing with Mike, which was a bit unusual.

Bagheera,
I can't for the life of me recall how that song goes. If she can sing it that well without straining her voice, let her sing it. Parents aren't supposed to be 100% objective. When is the audition?

and for

Hi,Evangeline - it's that man again

The lyrics from the play, set to music for Sarah Brightman by Andrew Lloyd-Webber are:-

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her mem'ry?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Mem'ry
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
Life was beautiful then
I remember
The time I knew what happiness was
Let the mem'ry live again


Ev'ry street lamp
Seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And a street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning


Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new life will begin


Burnt out ends of smokey days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies
Another night is over
Another day is dawning


Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with my mem'ry
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look a new day has begun ...

Audition went extremely well, concert will be mid-September to support a Charity 'Bash' raising funds for a local childrens' hospital

*applauds*

Anyone else visualizing a singing this song?


That's great about the audition. Will the performance be filmed?