Middle of June

     And then it rained even more....

     Seriously, it's been a wet summer so far.

     In recent reading, returned to the Land of Fairytales(which is similar to, though not exactly the same, as Mr. Rogers' Land of Make-Believe) with The Ordinary Princess, by M.M. Kaye, and Once On a Time, by A.A. Milne. The Ordinary Princess is a completely straightfoward, unironical fairy tale, about a princess who is just...well, really ordinary. Who ever heard of a princess with mouse-colored hair, freckles and grayish-brown eyes? Well, that's about what Her Royal Highness the Princess Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne of Phantasmorania looks like.
     Once On a Time is rather strange. Even Milne thought so, and as he said in the introduction, "You will either like this book, or you won't. It is that kind of book." There's not really a villain, and the narrator's persona is rewriting the history of Euralia from the works of noted historian Roger Scurvilegs. (Is that part of where William Goldman got his idea for how to write The Princess Bride?) It deals mainly with how easy it is to deceive people; so that's rather different than most fairy tales.
    Oh, yes, also read through most of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales a couple weeks ago. ("The Little Match Girl" is my favorite; but I'm not exactly sure why.)

     Caleb and Trevor have wanted me to help with video games pretty often, so I've played LEGO Indiana Jones with Trevor and beaten Caleb in six of the last seven hockey games we've played, and the last three races.

     Chicago won the Stanley Cup over Tampa on Monday night; which was pretty cool to see. Sure, I would've preferred they hadn't, but it's the Stanley Cup. Hard not to be glad for whoever ends up winning it. Also, the Warriors won the NBA Finals, so that was good, since that meant Cleveland lost. I didn't watch any of the NBA playoffs since the Thunder weren't in it; didn't see any reason to.

     Last weekend was slightly out of the ordinary, but not much. Dad was in the hospital because they thought he might be having a heart attack or something; after a bunch of tests they think it's probably something with his gall bladder. So we just flipped into Crisis Mode and survived. (Not like we have a lot of experience doing that or anything...)

     Been cleaning a lot, and trying to keep the laundry and dishes running. Not much time for writing this week, but clicking away at the keyboard when I can.