The Circus Girl

( Batman At Movie Theater Experience )

Author's Note: A short sweet story I devised after I watched Mary Poppins. Takes place during the movie as Bert sings 'Jolly Holiday' to Mary. Hope you enjoy, there should be more on this lovely pair soon.

Jolly Holiday With You



Mary always thought it was marvelous when he sang. That voice might not of been much when he was a child , but over time it had progressed and what he'd lacked in vocal prowess was always made up for with such childlike enthusiasm that she never failed to smile. Even now, in his fine pinstripe suit, Mary could hardly contain her grin.

'My dear, Bert', she thought fondly as he crooned bousterously to her.'You've grown so that I can no longer see the boy you once were. Tugging at my skirt, begging me not to go the same way I know Jane and Micheal will eventually'. But now here they were, arms linked in a chalk drawing come to life. Straight out of Bert's companionably wild imagination. A man who'd come to know her best through time and patience.'Oh the learning you forced me to let you do'.

Since then, Bert was never far behind. Always three steps behind Mary's arrival like clockwork. Vying to be her foil when it came to educating the children on the lessons they need know for the future.And she'd have it no other way.

'Oh, Bert. When did we start growing old together?To such a way that we know each other so well and know just how to speak without words?I know it doesn't seem like we're aging.There aren't any wrinkles in my face and I can only see cheerful laugh lines in yours'. But she could feel his age with every passing year. And it saddened Mary to think that one day all that would remain of her dear friend would be the memory of mischevious eyes and that ridiculous grin.

"Oh, it's a jolly 'oliday with Mary. No wonder that it's Mary that we love."

And with that phrase from Bert's lips she was suddenly swept into his arms and dancing. Fitted within each others arms in a way only years of practice could create. Making it impossible for Mary's heart not to lift into her throat and tumble out as delighted laughter.

'How long has it been,Bert? You and I playing these roles?' She mused to herself as his expressive face beamed down at her. Frankly she couldn't remember, and maybe that was for the best. Letting herself believe it had been eternal, that it would never come to an end.

She watched his eternal child come out in full when the penguin waiters joined him in a dance for her. By now she had dropped all pretenses of the strict but kind nanny, and let herself enjoy what Bert was giving her, if not intentionally. A moment of happiness with him. If only for a short, fleeting time.

And with a panic like realization she felt the day coming to a close. Her time with Bert was slipping away as he offered his hand to her in one last dance. She took it with some reluctance but no less amount of joy, to twirl and spin with him under the bowing willow tree branches.

And then she heard the carousel music, reminding her, pulling her back from the moment and telling her that it was time to let it come to a close. But if nothing else, if she could not allow herself to rebel anymore against it afterwards, then she would have this moment.

Bert meant to pull away, to let her do what she had to, all the while with that beautiful smile on her face. And instead of bringing them to the children she reached out and grasped one of his hands. She could feel the jolt that ran up Bert's arm at the unexpected touch, the suprise he must of felt at her initiating such a thing.

Then, with a soft and slow understanding that she loved in him. A smile like no other lighted Bert's face and his fingers curled around hers, bringing the back of her palm up and to his lips. And with a secretive wink, he pressed a kiss to the uncovered tips of her fingers, making her heart flutter in her chest.

"Off we go then, Mary Poppins.Children that need lookin' after, after all." He said cheerfully and Mary nodded, this time with a returning smile upon her lips. And they both turned down the lane towards the carousel, fingers intwined for as long as their roles permitted it last.

So, some people probably wonder about my absence. I have no excuses this time, sorry. I got a new job. Does that count?

Oh well. Like the title entry says, I've been extremely crafty lately and have found the wonderful art of gothic scrapbooking/collaging. Haven't heard of it? Me neither. I made it up because I do not fit into a regurlar collaging or scrapbooking category at this moment.

So I thought I'd let you guys take a look at them. Hope you like them.


All The World's A Stage,And..

Dream Abstract

The Doom Clock

Someone's Watching

Enough said! Night!

This makes me happy!!

Little black kitten with wide yellow eyes,
Curious about the world.
Your claws dig in lightly as we walk around.
And the excitement in you makes me smile.

Little black kitten I've picked out your collar and it's adorned with a black cameo.

But you're not mine,
So I'll leave you behind.
My sweet Mistoffolees.


I wrote this little poem after my mother told me the little black kitten at the adoption center wasn't coming home with me. I read this to her and she nearly crumbled, damn it, so close.

So I decided to make a seperate jounral for those times when I subject you all to my random fandom fan fiction. It's actually one of my old ff.net account names that I'm using so if you guys actually enjoy the writings I sometimes post, then go check it out. I have a new warning: slash Dresden Files story that is in the works over there right now. It's been getting a lot of raves from the community I was on so I'm pretty proud of it.

If you are brave enough to venture continously into my scatter brain fanfic mind. cayshagriffin

So I have odd writing triggers that set stories off in my mind. Usually this happens at a flea market, an antique store where I have to initially tell myself that I'm not going to write the next Curio Shop story just because I won't let myself. Well I just broke my own rule, I was in my own garage, sorting through old childhood toys for the garage sale next month when I decided this.

Actually it was a mixture of the toys I found and the childrens cartoon 'The Cat Returns'. So now I'm in the process of my first finished 'found in a antique store' fantasy story. We'll see how this goes and I might let everyone look at it when I'm done. So far this story is all cuddly and warm, it won't be some evil item story. But there is an eerie factor to it that makes me giggle. Wish me luck.

Okay, you guys remember the post I made with all the Doctor Who videos? Well I decided it was a good time to put up some more and even a few Dresden File ones I'd found. Yes annef, I put them up especially for you.

( Dresden Files: Bob Vids )


( Doctor Who )

I shall have more for you guys later, promise.

Well Disney thought about how a lot of grown up woman still love the Disney Princesses. So they went ahead and hired designer Kristie Kelly to create an array of wedding dress's based off the famous Disney Wedding scenes. So far they have Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, Jasmine, Ariel and Belle. They don't look like the dress's from the movies except for Belle's, but they are all beautiful. Disney also made sure that the dress's were affordable. They start at about 1,000-2,000 dollars and then go up to about 15,000. I think this was a great idea but I was only dissapointed by the lack of color, the dress's only go through various shades of white, ivory and very light gold.

Go ahead and be your own judge though.

http://disneybridal.com/index.html

This is my first Firefly/ Serenity fanfiction so be nice. Takes place two years after Serenity the movie, with Mal and River already in an established relationship. Hope you all like it and I want some real critisism, so please feel free to comment truthfully.

( Never Goes Right )

I have at least picked up two job applications, have one more in mind and am going to visit a few other places myself tomorrow. So here is what I have so far on my, I will do that list.

Going in order as the ideas came to me:

1. Half Price Bookstores ( I know how to do this job and the dress code allows me to wear my chucks, not a bad thing at all and the discount supposedly rocks. But I'm a bit burnt out on the whole bookseller thing so maybe I'll try that job again later. You never know, especially with my life.)

2. Hobby Lobby ( Since I've gotten a bit crafty, and I mean the glue and glitter kind of crafty, this isn't a bad place to work. And since the normal staff at those stores can never find anything or know where it is mom demands that I work there. It would save me an ass load of money on party projects too. But it's still scary retail.)

3. TJ Max ( Same pros and cons of the one above.)

4. Horse Ranch ( Convenient for many reasons. Since I live outside of Dallas and a god awful distance from everything there is enough horse ranches in walking distance of my house that I could throw a stone, realistically I could use a catapult and hit them. On the circus I was used to getting up at six in the morning to do the customary mucking out of pony stalls and cleaning hooves. This is something I know how to do and personally I miss working with animals. Added bonus, I get some exercise getting to work and get around paying for car fuel. I also bet they'd understand my taking off at the end of the year to do the tour if I come back.)

Okay, so there is an obvious choice and tomorrow I'll see if I get the dream job. I got the phone book, circling what I want and visiting a few on foot that aren't in the phone book. Like the one behind my house. We'll see what happens.


And hush you Anne, I know that I pull too much from my life. Hopefully I'll predict my own life again like I did with Barnes and Nobles, with a happier ending.

So..........I decided to go with my mother to the social committee meeting because it was for the Alice in Wonderland easter egg hunt. Yeah............they didn't even have an Alice for the party so I volunteered. No one to supervise the children's mad tea party, I volunteered. No one to do any story telling for the party...*sigh* I volunteered. They didn't even know what they were doing. And I, who has been planning my own tea party for a few months now was a bit frustrated.

They wanted to narrow down every activity to fifteen minutes, I told them no. They wanted to build doors because of the theme, they have less then a month and they want to build these. I just told them to take extremely color construction paper and cut out funky doors in all shapes and sizes and tape them to the walls of the pavilion we're using as the main party area.

After that they told me I was to come to every meeting because I'm extremely creative. Next time I come I better get to plan this stuff as well as anyone else. Because they are this screwed up every time. No one likes the events they put together because they all fall apart. I refuse to let it happen this time.

Well, my laptop hasn't booted up for three days now. Not for lack of trying to make it on my part. The only things I've been able to do in the mean time is sneak onto my father's desktop and check livejournal. I have an appointment with the nice folks at the macintosh genius bar tomorrow so all will be well after that......hopefully. Here's to me getting back into active internet zoning soon.

So, normal day yesterday. Nothing unusual except for my sad attempt at making miniture furniture out of sticks, but it's okay, I know when I'm beat. Until my boyfriend calls me from work and says that Gene Wilder is going to do a signing for his new book at one of the local bookstores. And I took the news like any girl who was raised on Gene Wilder, yes, I totally lost my fricking head and started jumping around.

( Rest of the story...... )

All right! I used to do animated/movies/tv news reports and broadway reports on my journal. I think it's time to combine all categories in one entry today, and knowing my audience for this journal I picked a good topic. Doctor Who! And yes 'all' apply to the entry today. But since this entry is so huge and full of clips I've taken from YouTube I'll put these in easy to access cuts so you don't have to jog down an entire page to get to what you want to see.


( New Doctor Who )


( Classic Doctor )


( Torchwood )


( David Tennant )


( John Barrowman )


Okay, so that's it. Hope you guys had fun and if I find more, I'll put it up.

It's always nice to know that when you did something good the first time it wasn't just a fluke. I created another Mad Hatter/Alice music video. Using bri_chan's photo's this time instead of her artwork. Hope you guys enjoy it. I promise the Quillings music video is my next priority, I'm just trying to collect all the photos.

So I went to the eye doctor a few weeks ago only to find out that I'm slightly farsighted. Which is weird to me cause I thought I never had a problem with reading words up close considering how much I do read you'd think I'd notice. But I was kind of giddy when I found out that I'd be getting glass's to wear when I read or use the computer, again (that's a lot). So they finally come in today, pretty little rounds things with violet frames that my sister dubbed as too small for my head because she thought they were childrens glass's. But they are just smaller frames then hers. I put them on, realize that all the words now look 3D to me and that is how they are supposed to look. I take them off and everything looks blurry, I didn't notice my vision was like that till now. Only problem was I tried to walk up the stairs right after I put them on and almost fell on my face with the visual height difference. So while I celebrate this new, clearer way of reading I'm also learning how to walk all over again. Hurrah!

Other then that, I got the whole sexy librarian thing going on now. Well.........at least I think so,:)

Well my father decided to put some of our magic on youtube recently. I feel like a video of the week page now. Lol. So here is Dad and my little sister doing one of the fastest, non cheating styles of the subtrunk. Enjoy.

All right, so I made this for Bri-Chan using her wonderful art. This is my first music video so tell me what you think. And enjoy!