A Weekend of Good and Bad
I don't write on a personal level that often. I prefer to stick to politics. Tonight however I just feel like writing about my weekend. A slice in the life of the Troll if you will. An indulgence I ask of you and our host occasionally. Not that often, but just enough to remind myself and you that even us villains are just people with the same pain and joy as the rest of you.
To start with I got told this weekend that my aunt probably won't make it through to Monday. She has Cancer and it's in its final stages. She is the last of my mothers family that she has left. My father passed over twenty years ago, and her mother and father have gone since then. She is taking it hard, a lot harder than she is trying to let show. As her son all I can do is be there for her. It's hard to feel powerless and still stand as we should.
That is my pain at this moment.
My joy comes in two sizes, ages 11 and 8. My daughters are my life's blessing. We went to Dorney Park yesterday, we started in the water park. Four hours of waterslides and wave pools. The next seven hours were spent riding every ride we could squeeze in. My little one has grown quite brave and finally tall enough to go on any ride she wants.
Like her father she is getting an addiction to roller coasters, and Dorney has several. One of them is Steel Force the first roller coaster in the East to break the 200-foot barrier. With a 205-foot drop, two tunnels, steep banks and speeds reaching 75 miles per hour. One of the others was a wooden coaster Originally named "The Coaster," ThunderHawk debuted in Dorney Park in 1923 and was re-christened "ThunderHawk" prior to the 1989 season. Designed by Herbert Schmeck, this wooden roller coaster was manufactured and installed by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The Thunderhawk roller coaster was originally constructed as an "out-and-back" roller coaster, but was modified into its present figure-eight pattern in 1930.
I spent the day watching them run from ride to ride laughing, while their mother and I enjoyed every minute of it. We ended this weekend tonight with a trip to the movies. We of course went to see Batman. Do yourself a favor and indulge in this film.
Some of you my know my feelings about the bat, if not you can read them here. As for this movie Heath Ledger brings the joker to life. Not in the buffoonish way like Ceaser Romero did, but as he is written in the dark graphic novels. The whole film is a treat. It captures the characters and offers a story that could be based in reality rather than comic books.
Not that in real life we could ever have a man running around in a costume saving us, but the story is no campy comic book tale of super villains and hero's. Go enjoy.
Well that was my good and bad. The cycle of life.
The Troll
Grizzly Mama / Troll
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Thank you for sharing that. Sorry to hear about your Aunt, life can bring its woes. Glad you enjoyed the Batman movie, I will be going to see it as I am a fan of the Dark Knight graphic novel persona and it does look good. Also glad to hear you had a good day at the water park - I do not have the stomach for such things I'm afraid!
The roller coaster was an apt metaphor for life as you point out the twists and turns it takes, even in the course of one weekend.
Batman is cool, and I dig your tolerance of a guy who likes to dress up and lives with his young male companion (the Boy Wonder).
I'm down with Superman as well (check out The Crash Test Dummies tune "Superman" as the anthem for Clark Kent).
I like these kinds of posts!
Very sorry about your aunt and your mom. My mother lost the last of her parents and siblings over the past few years and she gets very weepy on a regular basis nowadays - makes her sad.
I love taking the kids to amusement parks! They're so happy and in love with every bit of the whole experience. My 7 year old just got tall enough to get on the coasters this year, I guess we'll see if he's brave enough to ride a few when we head to Fiesta Texas in San Antonio in a few weeks.
The older boy went to see Batman on Friday with his best friend, he LOVED it.
I do like the posts Troll, it shows your part human side! (think Spock).
I wasn't too up on the movie, but after that trailer, even I gotta go see it. Did you take the 8 y/o too it? I have a 9 y/o nephew and don't know about the intensity level. Then again, it's prolly me I need to worry about!
yes we took the 8yr old also, some of it was a little rough I thought for her but she weathered it fine.
Off topic Troll, but I thought this might interest you.....
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better watch Daphne Frank can have you burned as a heritic for that site....lol
I know! :-)