One in a Million

Did you know, there's actually a fairy tale that doesn't have a happy ending? I was sure surprised when I finished a story called The Godfather Death. Turns out the guy dies in the end, unmarried, and feeling cheated. He really shouldn't have felt cheated though because he DID disobey Death TWICE. I was half expecting him to trick Death and marry the princess like all the other fair tales, but it was not meant to be...and it was awesome! I'm noticing a lot of repeat stories in the book too, like Thumbling and the The Travels of Thumbling,which was basically the same tale (they even had the same name!) My favorite tale so far is the Golden Bird because I actually remembered all of it from when my music teacher told us the story in fourth grade (she was the best story teller ever!) I had actually heard of quite a few of these fairy tales though under different names i.e. The Little Elves and The White Snake. I'm not even halfway through the book yet...oh well this interesting, though they never seem to run out of beautiful princesses, weird kings, ugly step-mothers and their daughters, and a brave nobody who somehow becomes a king in the end. That's fairy tales for you ;)

Trip to Butler

I went to Butler today to get my physical for my driving permit. In the end i went through the entire process twice because I was someones training project and I also got two shots: one in each arm. After that i went to the bookstore, but didn't find the one I wanted, so I was disappointed. And then it was off to Red Lobster, where I showed off my new found flag identifying skills and shoved a pound of crab legs in my mouth like I hadn't eaten for days (you know, the usual). We went to the petco to replace Simon with an automatic litter box (it cleans itself! Much better than Simon already!) Mr. Anderson wasn't there, though three new kittens were. My right arm was burning at this point and we made our way to Sam's Club. We looked for Simon's Laptop and my video camera, but again I was disappointed. I fell asleep in the car going home because it was hot and i was bored. When i woke up my stomach hurt and it still does...ugh, I really hope i don't have food poisoning or something. All in all today kind of sucked...

Oh! I started reading Grimm's Fairy tales yesterday and it's kind of weird. It's like every story must have a happy ending. A lot of it seems forced and very very unrealistic (as in no human would ever act that way...) But it's a fairytale, I should expect that I guess.