Some ranting and a movie recommendation.

Ok, let's start off with the ranting so that you'll be good and primed for the awesome movie recommendation at the end. Bethany had a chorus performance at school last night. The parents were supposed to have their kids there for 5:45 so that they could be all set up and ready to go at 6:00. PUHLEEZ. That so didn't happen. We got there at 5:40 and they proceeded to warm up ON STAGE, in front of the audience of parents. WTH? Since when do they do warm ups in front of the audience they're performing for? Plus, toss in the tidbit that we had no idea that they were warming up and we just thought the chorus director was seriously OCD and was stopping the performance repeatedly because he was unhappy with their execution or something. It was like, "hey, remember us-THE AUDIENCE??????". Anyway, we finally figured out that they were warming up when the kids tromped offstage and sat down. Then, cue the high schoolers who were going to be performing. Um, what???? High schoolers will be performing also? Since when? Oh, and what's that you say? The high schoolers will be going FIRST???!!!! Ok, that may not seem like such a big thing unless you consider the fact that Dorian was being the devil incarnate and we were in the 7th circle of HELL. By the time the damn warm ups were over, we had been there for a freaking HOUR. And Dorian was not happy. He was highly annoyed and kept saying OW!! really loud, when no one was touching him or doing anything to him. I'm sure everyone in there was getting my physical description for the CPS hotline. Also, he kept repeatedly tapping my arm while saying "get up!!". I gave him an old, but working, cell phone to play with and he decided it was a good idea to slam it against the back of the seat in front of us. So, I took that away and he cried. Very loudly. So, I gave him a marker and paper to use. He promptly threw the marker down and it rolled under the seat in front of us. After I contorted myself to pick that up, I put it back in my bag and gave him a little stuffed animal. He threw it down. You see where this is going? It was freaking horrible. And all of that was BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE started. The damn high school got up to sing and Justin and I had a furiously whispered conference about who was going to take Dorian out of the auditorium so that we could quit ruining everyone's night. I finally agreed and said "FINE, I'll take him" through my clenched teeth. Know how when your kid is misbehaving in public, especially in a venue that requires silence, and you feel all instantly super stressed out and sweaty and flustered? Yeah, it was like that. So, I ended up taking the little sucker out of there for the duration of the high school performance, which was cut short because some girl fainted. Anyway, I came back in for the middle school performance and Dorian continued to be a bad ass, but I was NOT going to miss Bethany's portion, so we just dealt with it. Ok, so THEN the chorus director stood directly in front of Bethany THE ENTIRE TIME. Every now and then, I got a glimpse of her right eyebrow and eye and, if I was lucky, part of her right cheek. After every song, Justin and I would look at each other like "oh good, only _______ more songs". It was so uncool. I really wanted to enjoy the performance, but in reality I just wanted to slam my head into the seat in front of us (by the way, I'm sure the guy that was sitting there hated us). Plus, every time I looked over, Justin was doing one of these:




And I'm pretty sure that every time Justin looked over at me, I was doing one of these:



By the time we left that joint, it was 8:10. So, then we still had to eat and go to Wal-Mart. We went to Chili's for what was supposed to be my birthday dinner. Woo. Hoo. Can you feel the celebratory vibes from where you're sitting? Yeah, it was no good. Dorian was all in a tizzy from his enforced semi-but not really-silence/stillness from the chorus performance. So, he continued to be the devil. And Justin was pretty much ordering alcohol as we walked in the door. We ate, we went to Wal-Mart. We didn't get home till after 10. Dorian usually goes to bed at 6:30, Sebastian at 8:30, and Bethany at 9:30. Good times.


Ok, now for the movie recommendation. We have a 14 day free trial of Netflix and we used it to watch this movie:




It was EXCELLENT!!! I had no idea that breakdancing was so international. The first 15 minutes or so kind of detailed the history of breakdancing and then the central plot started. It's a documentary film and it basically follows a few of the teams that are performing in the Battle of the Year contest. The Battle of the Year is the biggest contest around for breakdancing and it's held in Germany. So, they got in depth on several of the different team members and it was really interesting to see the different cultural takes on doing breakdancing for a living. There was some pretty fascinating racial undertone stuff about the team from France. And of course, the dancing was freaking AMAZING. Some of the dancing just defies gravity and boggles the mind. I highly recommend this movie. It would even be appropriate for kids, except there's some cursing at the end when they're all performing at the Battle of the Year. Trash-talking and whatnot. So, there you go. As promised, some ranting and a movie recommendation. Till next time.