A dream completed

I'm not sure for how long this has been in my head...at least the past 3 or 5 years, but it has been a dream that before I die I will see these 3 Broadway musicals: Beauty and the Best, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera.
Papa took me to Beauty and the Beast in 2005. I saw Phantom a few years back with friends, and yesterday, I saw Les Miserables. It's amusing to me that it didn't take very long for me to do those three things, since when I first conceived the idea I pictured it taking decades.
I loved Les Mis. It is such a beautiful and moving story, I was crying, almost sobbing the entire last scene.
All three of those shows exceeded my expectations and I love them.

Oh the agony

I have always been the type of person who agonizes over a decision especially but not limited to purchases.  I think about every angle, is this a wise purchase, is there another way I should spend this money, is this a quality product, is it worth the money, will I actually use it,  why do I want to buy it, is this a wrong decision, etc...

And then finally, if all questions are answered at least somewhat favorably I end up buying it - whatever it is.  Although I have been known to keep contemplating the subject after a purchase and even  go the point of returning the item because I decided it did not meet whatever of the qualifications I deemed most important.  

Now, it's important to realise that I am not this way about every item I purchase.  (I can buy milk with very little thought)  But to a degree it is a process I use in every day life.  I sit back and laugh at myself even while I am in the middle of working through the thought process.  It can take hours, days, weeks, months or in extreme cases years - although nothing comes to mind in the years category so that one may be hypothetical - unless you count spouse hunting  ;)

So what brought on this long and rather boring post about Amanda's crazy inner workings?  I just bought an iPod.  Don't ask how many hours/days/weeks this one took.  The relief is that I made the decesion and am not looking back because, if you go back to the moment I first thought to myself, "an iPod would be a nice thing to have" it has been years coming.  But then, good things come to those who wait!  Which is a rather silly saying, unless taken in the context of "those who wait on the Lord."

Dreaming in Chrome

I'm not all that knowledgeable about technology and such, but there are 2 companies who consistently come out with products so cutting edge, fun and usable, that I admire and get excited about what they do.  Those 2 companies would be Apple and Google.  

This morning I downloaded Google's new browser, Chrome.  So easy, fast, simplistic, fast, such a clean design, and did I say it was fast?   :)

He must be a Wright on the inside

Today I taught the 2&3 year old sunday school class at church. During play time, Ric was 'cooking' on the play kitchen set when he told me, "I only cook. I don't wash dishes."

Princess Tinkerbell???

Last night I had a dream that we (Overlook) were doing Aida and I was in it. I was wearing a purple and green fairy dress because I was Tinkerbell and on the Sunday matinee' performance, instead of the princess singing the opening song, Scotty asked me to. So when the stage went dark I stepped out and sat on the swing that was on stage left and started to sing and swing which was a little scary because the swing went really high, above horizontal each way and sorta stalled there for a few seconds and I was worried about falling off or not getting off in time for when the music changed. But I made it through the song and hit all my cues and right as it transitioned into the next song (which Scotty was singing, of course) I woke up. The show Aida has nothing at all to do with swings or fairies. It was such a silly dream, I had to share it with you. :)