"I don't want to be a laundress. I want to be famous."

HAIRSPRAY.
Officially the best musical translation to screen.
I've seen it now three times.
Friends want to go, I go.
The moment Nikki Blonsky's eyes opened during GOOD MORNING BALITMORE.
My heart sang with joy.
It's fantastic.
I even have a new respect for Zac Efron!

Amanda Bynes was hilarious as Penny.
Queen Latifah has a fantastic voice and was great.
John Travolta took his spin on Edna and I really liked it.
He didnt try to emulate others, he took it and ran with it.

But, Nikki Blonsky is seriously amazing.
I love her.
I CAN HEAR THE BELLS is seriously the best musical number ever put on screen.

Now, HARRY POTTER.
After HAIRSPRAY on Friday night, we drove by Barnes and Noble.
A mad house.
A little girl while in line to get food before HAIRSPRAY
was dressed as HARRY himself.
She was seeing the movie of the 5th book to kill time.
It was odd.
Me in my HAIRSPRAY shirt and her in her POTTER wear, it was fanlove at it's best.

I've been dragging my feet with this book.
I'm only on Chapter 12.
I don't want it to end.
I keep holding off on reading to stop the end from coming.
Unlike some, I didnt read the last page.
I won't read the last page till I get there.
I feel like I'm losing a childhood friend.
Every year or two, a new HARRY POTTER adventure would sit in my lap.
I'd read it and read it at all hours of the day and night.
Page by page feeling the magic.
And now, It's all down to one 759 page book.
And it's over. The magic. done.
8 years since I first picked up on Harry Potter.
Thanks to Rosie O' Donnell for having JK Rowling on her show.
I fell in love with Harry, Ron, Herimone, Neville, etc.
And now to see it end.
It's a sad day for me.

On a much light note.
Life is better.
Working, and anticpating a trip to NY in a few weeks.
Exiciting.
And my 19th birthday is 28 days away. [as of now, 11:13pm.]
I'll be 19 on the 19th! :)

It's an odd feeling.
Graduating, college and such.
You feel old when you see little kids.
Like all the time at Acme at look at these kids and their parents.
They don't know how good they have it.
Issues are so simple when your 5, 10 etc.
Your world is so small and the biggest issue you have is:
What toy will you play with after dinner.
But, growing up also is good.
You begin to feel wiser and more a part of a bigger world.
My dad thinks I cried at graduation because I realized, I'm no longer a kid.
Not the case, I cried because it was the end of an era and an end to seeing my friends every day.
But, that's life.
"You life, you learn.
We're right, were wrong.
We're weak, were strong."-- Aly and AJ.

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Oh, oh, oh
I'm all alone
My heart has grown
But it's broken, too

This morning
Life was a Baltimore fairy tale
Now i can't make bail!

My mother's in shock
My father's in hock
I much prefer link's arms
To jailhouse cells

So link, please rescue me now
'Cause i love you
And this prison smells.
Link, hear the bells!

And get ready, Baltimore
There's a bright, brand-new
Day in store
Let me out so this dream's
Unfurled
I'll eat some breakfast,
Then change the world!
And i promise Baltimore
Once i cha-cha right out of
That door
The world's gonna wake up
And see
Link's in love with me!


---- Good Morning Balitmore [Reprise] from Hairspray