Saturday, October 04, 2003

Demons


This afternoon I have to face my demons. Not your run-of-the-mill type demons. These are of the jam and bread variety. This afternoon TinyTuna, GramTuna and I have tickets to see The Sound of Music in Detroit. The nanosecond TinyTuna first saw the television ad she was bug-bug-bugging me to go. Please? Please? Pleeeeeeeeeeeezzzze? Silly child. We already had the tickets. So what's wrong with The Sound of Music? Well, nothing, actually. It's just that TinyTuna did the play this past April, so it was "Doe-A-Deer", "So Long, Farewell", "Climb Every Mountain" and all the other great hits, five days a week for eight long weeks. That's alot of jam and bread, folks. It was a marvelous experience for TinyTuna, but I was ready for rubber room by the time it was over. But we go to the theatre today anyway, so TinyTuna can relive her glory and watch the play from the other side of the stage. It should be fun.

Facing your demons can be tough. I can remember going to Disneyland when I was TinyTuna's age (around 9 or so) and having the living BeeJeebers scared out of me in the Haunted House. To this day, I have vivid recollections of screaming and crying hysterically from start to finish. That was bad stuff. Then, when I was 19, I went to DisneyWorld. I can remember standing outside the Haunted House (same one) and getting freaked out all over again. Vowing to be brave, I went in. I was shaking and my heart was pounding. As we travelled through the house, I can remember finally being able to breathe and thinking "ok....ok....this isn't too bad.....ok....ok...." and yes, I made it through without a single tear. It's funny how you carry those feelings and memories with you as if it were yesterday.

Other demons I face knowing full well I'm going to lose the battle and it's ok. Case in point? Any bookstore. I walked in one today, because GramTuna needed a gift certificate. I walked out with four books, TinyTuna walked out with four books, and GramTuna walked out with three books and the gift certificate. "Did you find everything you were looking for?" they so cheerfully ask while I pay. I just smile. My biggest problem is choosing what to leave at the store until next time. These books made today’s cut:

Cookoff by Amy Sutherland
"Recipe Fever in America : Heartbreak, glory and big money on the competitive cooking circuit". Looks hysterical.
Taste of Freedom
"A Culinary Journey with America's Refugees". This is local publication. The recipes look fantastic.
Pushed to Shore by Kate Gadbow
Winner of the 2001 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
Why Girls are Weird by Pamela Ribon
Fluffy reading about a woman who posts stories on the Internet. Hrrmmmmm.....

Oh, and I bought TinyTuna Bridge to Terabithia because it is a Newberry award winner, because it is a banned book, and because Opheliagh from Hamster Time said it was a great book in her blog. I can't wait.

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