I finally read it.

Yellow. Yellow is such a happy color. Today I've got my yellow chicklet earings on and my yellow flower. Ya just gotta bring some flare to the world sometimes. Today is an exciting day...for lots of reasons. Most people are psyched about the return of the SEC football season, most of my friends won't let me forget that one! Roll Tide, Hotty Toddy, Go Gamecocks, take your pick. Another friend is getting a puppy tomorrow and of course its Friday, which most everyone will enjoy the celebration of a long weekend! For me, GA's on my mind. I get to go home and for that I am excited and thankful!

In other news I finished Alice in Wonderland. I babysat last night and boy did I have some interesting conversations. I may have to save them for that book that I should write some day, the one that's like kid's say the darnest things. Anyway, I now have a new appreciation for the story. Today, Ms. Quinn showed us a pop up Alice in Wonderland! I was sold! One of my favorite things to do, yes you can probably tell I'm an El Ed major, is to check out all the books in the Children's section of the bookstore. Oh it's just so fun. Next time you go, you must look for this book. Growing up, I was never really interested in the story. I never saw the Disney version all the way through and when the remake based on 'Through the Looking Glass' came out with Johnny Depp, though I love the actors, I still never really had a desire to read or watch it. With the pop up story, oh it's great!

There is some discrepancy as to the actual author of the story. Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll was a professor of logic and math. Some say he was too logical to write such an illogical and silly children's book so he did it under a pen name. Still others believe that Queen Victoria is the secret author. She asked Dodgson to publish it and because it wasn't his work, he used a different name. I mean who else could make fun of the Queen in such a way? Her oldest daughter's name was Alice. The Queen was said to have always worn black, after the death of her husband, save for Alice's wedding day in which she added a white collar. Can you spot any other similarities? Pretty interesting. Wonder who really wrote it?

Well here are some of my favorite lines from this rather uncanny tale. You certainly have to be in the right mindset to read this one...

"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

Good way of thinking!

" 'I am older than you, and must know better.' And this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said."

There are some advantages to being older.

" 'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.' "

Now ya gotta laugh-out-loud at that one!