Julie needs memes

1.Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence here in a comment and on your own blog along with directions.

(Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Go with what is actually closest to you)

I'll start:

"You cannot know for sure that anything is real." - from Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb

Happy Midsummer!

It's been over 90 all weekend and I'm thanking my dear and fluffly lord that I have central air. A few friends of mine are glad I have it as well...Oregonians are simply NOT prepared for this kind of hot.

In response...

Quinn's blog hates me so I shall respond here. . .

How did Bo Bice get to be the captain of the Argenita team?

Really, to be fair to the Italian team, Nestra photographs nicely.

I must give shout outs to Andriy Shevchenko , Jan Kromkamp (still working to get over the name Jan), and possibly my fave Michael Ballack (sigh) .

Game 7

The magic starts in about 30 minutes.

I haven't been this excited about a non-Olympic hockey game in my entire life. And mere months ago I thought the game was dead! Now, I want an HDTV just for hockey viewing.

The boys don't have to bring home the cup for us to be proud of them and grateful for the season they gave us...but we would really REALLY like it!

The ides of June

Welcome to the world little Kara. Your auntie loves you!

No more classrooms. No more books...

Sometimes the cake says it all!

Finally, some GOOD news!

After a phenomenally bad start to the week, finally something good happens!

We (Oliers...for those not quite following along at home) finally learned how to score on the power play. They must not have wanted to see the Stanley Cup come out tonight so they scored in OT to force a game six and head back to Edmonton.

Home ice, baby!

Word to your mother.

Broken hearts all around

Phebe

1994-2006

Cup, shmump

The pain. The agony. The passion. I know you are all thinking it is to be found on a grassy field these days but the further north you go the more you realize it is on the ice. It might take me a while to recover from last night.

Ad sense

There is an establishment in town that advertises fairly heavily. On top of that I pass it quite often on 217. I saw their ad tonight on the slides before seeing Prairie Home Companion and had the same thought I always do...

"Dentistry By Design" - so much better than dentistry by accident.

Everything is beautiful at the ballet

Ok, everything but toddlers sitting behind you kicking your chair and being talked to in Chinese by their mother through the whole first act. Who decides that their child needs to experience the entirety (that's 3+ hours folks!) of Swan Lake by age 3? But I digress.

I don't know why but I always think I love going to the opera and that I just like going to the the ballet. I know I love the music in both but I find when I get to the opera I'm not as moved as I hoped to be. The ballet I don't usually get tickets to but when, on the off chance I go, I have a truly wonderful time. Magical, moving...all that. I never even snapped at the kid's mom (serious character departure for me).

We got a new artisitic director recently and he has left the fundamentally pop culture repertoire of James Canfield behind. I'm sure I'll miss that, the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon ballet was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my whole life (Seriously!). But he's getting rave reviews.

I know very little about the world of ballet but this shall be a new mission. They have some affordable season tickets and some exciting things coming up. Hmmm. Baseball is over in October, OBT season begins in October...yeah, this is doable.

Would you light my candle?

So, as I might have referenced, I am officiating two wedding ceremonies
this summer. We're about a month away from the first and I've been
working diligently on the - for lack of a better word - script. The
groom is insistent on a unity candle. No problem. The service is
outdoors and likely to be windy, but sure. In discussions the bride has
stated that it is important that they leave the 'personal candles'
burning rather than extinguish them once the unity candle is lit.

I went in search of a ceremony that included this and the best I found online
(my book from the ULC only extinguished) mentioned states it is to show
"they still retain their individuality." This is not quite what she's
going for. So, while I struggle to write a passage (grrr. I'm so not a
writer) that encompasses the idea the whole is greater than the sum of
its parts and that it is the individuals that will be continuing to keep
said marriage/candle aglow blah blah blah (I said I wasn't a writer) I
started thinking. Thinking I wanted to ask a few feminists I know,
married and unmarried what they think of this whole deal. Did you or
would you have a unity candle ceremony? Why or why not? What would you
or did you want it to symbolize? Just trying to get the creative juices
flowing....