Chickafinty ~ A Life in the Laundry

Don't tell George Lucas

I think I made reference the other day to my occasional problems with insomnia and the solutions that work for me.  I have a couple of DVDs that have never been known to fail in sending me back to sleep and I can't work out why because I love them.  The two in question are Star Wars Episode 2 and Star Wars Episode 5.  For some reason Attack of the Clones and Empire Strikes Back see me drift off to LaLiLa Land within minutes.  I've been known to nod off between the end of the crawl and the opening scene.

Mister Bear knows when I've had a bad night by what's on the DVD player when he wakes up.  If it's Episode 2 or 5 he knows it has been a bad one.

Now, like I said I *love* those films (all six actually) AND I beat Mister Bear at Star Wars Trivial Pursuit, so it's not like I fall asleep because I'm bored.  I'm not.  Persoanlly, I think it is psychosomatic.  I've come to (subconsciously) associate the films with sleep, so they have the desired affect.

But spare a thought for poor Mister Bear who's been known to see the opening segment of both DVDs every night for a week.

And don't tell George Lucas.

Oh, wow!

Went to see Happy Feet while on our anniversary weekend and got the shock of my life.  Was sitting there watching it with Mr Bear and we got to the scene where Mumble is in the Zoo and feeling sad and dejected.  There is a little girl with red hair who taps on the window and reminds Mumble that he can dance.  The camera swung around to show the girl's face and it was Charlotte!  Charlotte who was in my 9.00 Monday morning class last year.  I couldn't believe it and hunted for her name in the credits at the end and she gets top billing for the live action cast.

Like, WOW!  Such a gorgeous kid, too.

She said last year that she was auditioning for Happy Feet, but I didn't know that she got the part.