it snows nine months of the year and hails the other three

Changed my layout a couple days ago. We have moved from MirrorMask to Delacroix and Hugo. xD It's also, IMO, easier to read. And easier to decipher my flist to boot. xD

Um. Not much going on. I've been really lonely and down recently, and then realized that I've been forgetting to take my meds. So hopefully remembering those will help me feel a bit better. Gymnast is coming over tonight too, so that will be fun. I can't wait until she gets here.

was thinking about that, actually, my names for my friends. MBF and HLBF (MormonBestFriend and HorseLoverBestFriend), haven't changed, thank God. But DrumMajor is no longer a drum major and Gymnast no longer a gymnast. gothsocks changed her name so many times that I just eventually stopped, because it was confusing. xD And then I realized I haven't really talked of my friends a lot recently. I blame Costa Rica, I was kind of out of the picture.

BUT THE NEWS OF THE DAY

Today, at 8:30 this morning, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously voted to

LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!

I'm SO HAPPY!!! Guys, it's awesome! It goes into effect in 3 weeks and IA will be only the fourth state in the country to do it, after Massachusetts and California (and they struck it down fuck you prop 8) and Connecticut, and it's IOWA. MY state! I'm so happy!!!!! My little, hickish, 3 million people, farming, mixed-up-with-Idaho-and-Ohio-all-the-time state. WE DID IT!!!! :DDDDDD

If there's any external event that could pull me from depression, for at least a while, this is it. There are not words for how happy I am. :D

This is the most wonderful thing ever.

It's snowing again and I love it. I love it a lot. I even like the sound of the snowplows as they go by. It's super-cold, too, which is equally wonderful; hot tea, my down comfortor, and the snow outside. It's glorious.

Phantom is in town and I saw it tonight. I'd never seen it on stage before; just read the book and seen the movie.

Even though Patrick Wilson is dreamy and talented and uber-Raoul, just the whol effect of it on stage was soooo much more brilliant than the movie. I really was blown away, though not as much as Spelling Bee and certainly not as much as Les Mis. It truly was brilliant.

I still don't see what everyone sees in it though (along with Wicked and Rent, which are the Pokemon and Sailor Moon of the musical world; everyone knows them and loooves them and it's uber-irritating). I mean, yes, it's good, and the music is great, but it's still not nearly as good as anything else, especially some of the other stuff that's come out in recent years and is totally avoided, like Spelling Bee (which I shamelessly plug constantly) and Les Mis, which never, ever dies. *huggle*

Rent bothers me too; it's good but the only reason it's popular is because of Jonathan Larson's story mixed with the sexual crap that was rarely covered, or so a lot of people think; however, in the seventies, La Cage Aux Folles came out and the main characters were two gay men in love. Great musical--better than Rent, even--but totally forgotten.

Wicked is all right, the music is good but not great and that bothers me too.

I wish the good musicals would get the attention, dammit!

Though I like small fandoms, I guess.

But Phantom was very good, I had seats with Maman in Row J, and, on top of that, I get to see it again on sunday, which I am certainly not adverse to . At all. In any way, shape or form (but I would have seen Les Mis every night it was here if I had the chance, *sigh*).

nebulia out.