The Muppets Return!

I was with Addie yesterday.  We were watching the Disney channel and all of a sudden the Muppets appeared on the television.  It was so cool!  I loved the Muppet Show as a kid.  It seems that Disney has a new show for this generation starring the Muppets and the new, hot teen favorites (actors from Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, etc.)  The new show is called Studio DC Almost Live.  Yesterday’s episode featured an actress from Camp Rock, singing one of the songs from the movie.  The funny part was that the song is a duet (sung with this female singer, Demi Lavato, and Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers), and one of the Muppets had to sing Joe Jonas’s part.  They ended up having Beaker do the duet.  For those of you who don’t remember who Beaker is, he works with the scientist Dr. Honeydew, and only talks in high squeeks with the word “Meep.”  So his part of the song is done in “meep, meep, meep”  I have to say that I liked Beeker’s version much more than the real duet!.  Check out Beeker and the Muppets here: Muppets And here’s the Camp Rock version: Camp Rock Hope you enjoy all of this!  (and thanks to the blogger for correcting Beaker’s speech for me )

Election Day!!

I voted this afternoon, and it took me a couple of minutes after I filled out my ballot, before I could place it in the machine, not because there was a line, but because I wanted to take the time to breathe and realize the history of this vote.  (There were police there making sure no riots broke out in this little town I live in that has 2 stop lights, so I didn’t want to take a picture of my ballot and get arrested!)  So I just stood there looking at my ballot and thinking about how I would remember this moment and this day. 

I’m now watching the news to see who is going to become our next President.  I am so hopeful that Barack Obama is going to win.  I’m also so proud of all of the kids that I’ve had the privilege of mentoring, babysitting, being their teacher, etc.  that are now able to vote, that registered and then VOTED.  This makes me so proud!! 

It has also been really neat to hear the stories of the people who worked in the civil rights movement in the 60’s, who are both white and people of color, who are so excited that this time in America’s history has come.   Not because we could have a man of color as our president, but because the issue of race in America is something that America is finally tackling.  We’re making progress, slowly, but progress.  Next, I hope we can begin the conversation on the equality for women!

NaNoWriMo 2008

My writing is going well this November.  I’ve really been serious about blocking out time to write, and then blocking out time for the rest of my life.  So this is making me very happy!