Anyway- whenever she watched the movie- i would somehow also get caught up in watching it too... and on Wednesday- there i was again- staring at the screen watching the same scenes... with new children.
I never decided if i liked the movie because i love Roald Dahls books, the creepiness of Movie Willy Wonka dude always irked me some... lets not get into Johnny Depps rendition that was just bordering on ridiculous... but he's Johnny Depp - so we'll let it slide.
Anyhoo so tonight- i'm watching TV with Zane while having dinner after the children have been fed, bathed and read to... and we end up flicking til we get to HESTON'S FEASTS. He's doing a 60's Wonka theme... and he's making lickable wallpaper and chocolate waterfalls... and i declare i will marry him because he knows how to make these things.
(To which Zane answers 'You can't. He is gay'. (a totally unsupported allegation) to which i answer ' I don't care if he's gay as long as he feeds me and makes my dreams real.' To which he mumbles something featuring the word gay again... all reaffirming my conviction in acquiring a second husband with a sharper wit and the ability to make fairytales edible.)
Earlier on today Jacien and i, in the process of sharing a moment, watched a Cars Toon Dvd that at the end, featured 'extras'- they talked about the making of Cars and wrapped by introducing a team of people called Disney Imagineers. The Disneyland equivalent of engineers... the people who could turn 12 hectares of land into Radiator Springs.. complete with mountain landscapes and life size cars.
Real life people who dreamed the dreams and made them life size... when i watch such things, read such things, know such things... i feel incredibly small and ashamed of my thus far efforts at doing anything spectacular. I would be inspired... but i wouldn't trust myself to know what to do with inspiration... and that always choked me at hello.
One guy who worked on cars says (something like) 'People walk into Pixar Studios and say they want a job... and they'd do anything to work for us... ANYTHING, putting the responsibility on others (to think of what they should do '..... '...walk in and say, i want to work here- i can do this for you, and i can do it damn well. Thats how you get a job.'
One guy talks about how he started off as a janitor who would play games on the computer there but one night decides 'Hey i have access to this multi million dollar computer network what am i doing...' and starts teaching himself how to use the computer learning software til he becomes part of the I.T team there.
So i'm rambling a little- but Jacie- he likes to pull books from my shelf and hand them to me- he handed me The Alchemist by Paulo Choelo not too long ago- and the other night i read it to him. I stole the book from Vy a long way back- it told me to read it and it made me happy in my highschool kid confusion of days.
The book is a fable- about following dreams. About a universe that conspires in helping you achieve your destiny. About seeing signs- and choosing paths.
I muse that the universe is trying to show me something.... Is telling me something- is leading me somewhere. Or it's the other way round- but whichever way it is- either I or the powers that be are sending me a message.
So true so true
what is there to do
when life is not everything
you want it to seem
a man in a hat on a tv screen
scares you and tells you
you make the music-
and dream too the dreams.
I dont know what the point of this post was... just that - there's something in the air tonight
the stars are bright (fernando)
tehehe... there's something coming. And it's gonna be fun methinks.
End post.
**** Things to remember about now- because they're cool *****
- Che comes running to me every day that he has childcare and states 'I didn't cry today!!'
and i think 'Nor did i.' and we know silently that it has been a good day because neither of us has cried. ANd we hug for there is goodness in this fact.
- Jacien said 'I hung-giiii' when i asked him if he was hungry. He also learnt 'happy' and 'Sad' complete with facial expressions and likes to stab me in the eye with his finger and say MUUUM! then jab himself in the chest and say JASHIE! Self awareness is the beginning and the end of days.
- Tivi got really excited about bringing home the new issues of Book Club, and about the new dustpan i bought, because she's practicing sweeping. Strange joys and loveliness.
- Zane came home early enough to clear the dinner dishes- bathe the kids and himself and even though they took ages to get ready for bed, it doesn't matter coz they were having a good time.
Routines can be ruined as long as its for fun.
- I- know its possible to make lickable wallpaper. I know who can do it.
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