Chapter 220: Funny Girl

Once again, this just isn't a good weekend for me and the blog is suffering because of it. I understand that and I apologize to anybody who may actually follow and be disappointed with the past few days. It's just not the best time for me. I spent most of today holed up in my bedroom distracting myself to the best of my ability. The highlight of my day was signing up for a free trial of Netflix. I used the instant watch service they have set up to watch one of the most amazing films I have ever had the pleasure of seeing, "Funny Girl." I'm sure you all remember a while back when I decided to start listening to Barbra Streisand and did a full week of Barbra Streisand song titles on the blog. During that time I briefly discussed how much I want to start seeing her films, as well, because I simply fell in love with her. Of all the movies she's done, in my research, "Funny Girl," was the one I was most excited to see. For one, I absolutely loved the music from it that I had heard in my Streisand-fest and wanted to see how exactly they all fit into a story. I also was really intrigued by the fact that so many artists that I love and find so much inspiration from have cited "Funny Girl" as one of their earliest influences. Deborah Gibson, who I adore, has covered several of the songs from the film and they have also used a few different ones for Lea Michele to sing on "Glee." Of course, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, my two favorite Broadway divas, have both cited Barbra and "Funny Girl" as big influences on them, as well. So, these factors combined made me really want to see this movie. As soon as I saw it was on the Netflix instant play thing, I knew I just had to watch it this evening. I am really glad I did, as well, because it completely blew me away. It was gorgeous. The story of Fanny Brice and Nick Arnstein was beautiful. I also had never actually seen Omar Sharif in anything before and was very impressed with him. He was very sexy in this movie. The best part of the film, though, was the music. Barbra is a stunning vocalist and had no qualms about showing this off to the extreme in this film. Like I said before, it was gorgeous. While picking through the Netflix site, I came across several classic musicals that I would really like to see. So, I have decided that as soon as my free trial runs out I am going to sign up for a membership on Netflix and kind of work my way through all these classic musicals and stage shows and such that I have been interested in seeing for a long time now. That should be a fun way to spend some of my evenings, especially in this next week when I am going to be alone here. I think classic musical films will be a good distraction. Maybe I will make that a week-long theme, as well. We'll see.

The lowest part of my day came in the form of me cancelling my piano lesson for this week. I called my sister and told her that I did and she said I didn't actually have to and they would have no problem getting me back home. I appreciate that but I also understand that it is already inconvenient that they have to take me every week, I don't want to put them out even further by making them pick me up there, as well. It will be alright. Perhaps I will be able to set up a makeup lesson for the following week or something. Either way, I have the money to pay for the rest of the month currently and I have no plans on spending any of it. That will be fine. It still sucks, though, that I won't be going this week. It's okay, though. I will be here holding down the fort while my Mom is in California handling what she needs to handle. Fortunately, her boyfriend came down last night and has served as a very good distraction for her today. Up until this evening, when I decided to watch "Funny Girl," I didn't have much to distract me and I found myself thinking about a lot of really dark and depressing things that I won't go into here because I don't want to start thinking of it all again. It just freaks me out that there is no telling when it could call be over for any of us. My Uncle was only 51 years old. You can never know when it is going to end for you. This is a very big, daunting concept and one that I simply cannot bring myself to understand. I don't know what else to say about that really. It's been a long day and I need to get to bed immediately. Back to work in the morning. Goodnight.