So what she says is always very grumpy, but what she does seems to be the opposite of that. So I suppose if you can ignore her grouchiness, she’s great. I get it. Kids never listen anyway. Except for ZPW in my class. She soaks up everything and is incredible. But she’s not my story to tell.
However, some of the kids (including her) were talking in the fall, and I promised them I’d call them in 20 years to say hi and catch up. So if I am/we’re all still around, stay tuned.
After watching the movie last Friday (which is always a timeless delight), I read the book last week. I have not read the sequel or seen “Saving Mr. Banks” yet. That in mind, I have some questions:
Mary Poppins is terrible.* She is not a pleasant person to be around, and she doesn’t seem to like children at all. All she does is scoff and snip at them. Is it some sort of Stockholm Syndrome? And not even the tricks she does redeem her, because they still have to be around her constant mocking and disdain even when they’re having ceiling tea parties, or Christmas shopping, or going on a racist journey around the world. She’s a nightmare lady, and this book is the stuff of future therapy sessions.
Travers was supposedly angry that Julie Andrew’s MP was nicer, but nobody would have seen the movie if she weren’t. I don’t see what the draw is to a horrible, egotistical, snotty nanny, even if she is a star-aged being and a snake’s cousin, and knows all the universe’s cool kids.
The Banks family is delightful. Mary sucks.
Review: a ladle of smiles, a soupçon of discomfort, and a stock pot full of “Why are you like that?!”.
I’ll let you know about the next one.
*More like Mary Poopins, am I right? …no? ok then.
When we take Miri on a walk, which admittedly happens rarely, she marks with urine as dogs do, and Adam calls it zesting. So this morning, I commented that she had successfully zested, and now I want there to be a song with that lyric. I’m opening it to anyone, because when I try to compose it, it just sounds like a jingle*.
*I would be a master jingle writer (a jingler?), if I cared to do so.
Hello!
I’m at a lull. I just finished a book and am waiting for the next of 3 in the series, but other than that, I’m auditionless, voice-wise.
I had a lovely therapy last week, learning that feelings, even shitty ones like jealousy, are messages telling you what you need.
So the Audies were last night. And I looked at the winners and WUZ JELLUSS. After I congratulated my longtime friendsister* who won**, I listened to what the jealousy was telling me, and signed up for Narrator’s Roadmap. It is the next step, one I would have liked to have done 2 years ago but wasn’t ready. But now I am.
I respect my process. I do. But sometimes I wish it was*** just a little faster.
*She’s the one who actually got my switch flipped and started me narrating
**And I’m SO PROUD of her!!!!
***Sorry, it’s probably “were” but that just didn’t sound right.