Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

The season finale of LOST was last night. *big sigh*

If you Tivo’d it and haven’t watched it yet, click away now.
Come back after you’ve seen it.

Okay, everyone who did watch it, let’s get down to it.

 Update: I’ve changed my mind about John being in the coffin. Click here for my new thoughts.

 The flash-forward to the future that we saw tells us that John Locke died alone and off of the island. No one attended his funeral; only Jack showed up in the hopes that Kate would as well. How sad. I’m wondering if they forced John to leave the island in some way. Maybe he was unconscious. Whatever it was, it was the death of him.

Kate isn’t with Jack, but she is with someone. My guess is Sawyer. The secretive way that Jack met up with her has me thinking that Kate is still on the run. She wasn’t pregnant though, which is curious. Is she not pregnant now, or in the future, had she had the baby already?

Things that were nice to see - Danielle and Alex finally meeting, Ben finally getting the shit beat out of him (although I feel in this particular case he didn’t deserve it, as he knows something no one else does and they really shouldn’t have made that call; but he does deserve it for all of his past actions), Penny knowing for certain that Desmond is alive and on the island, Hurley running down Ryan in the Dharma van and saving the day, Jack finally telling Kate that he loves her, and seeing John up and walking - albeit in a serious amount of pain and suffering.

Charlie could’ve gotten out of that room in time, and sealed the air lock from the other side of the door. He could’ve waited for the room to fill up past the porthole (equalizing the pressure) and then swam out of it, under the station, and back up through the submarine pool. He didn’t have to die, although I suppose he thought that he did in order to ensure that Claire and Aaron got off of the island. It was sad, but in a noble way - I didn’t even cry. Just sighed.

I did a lot of sighing last night.
Hubby continues to remind me the lesson we learned from the finale of Heroes - that the future isn’t set in stone. Perhaps the gut-wrenching mess of a life that Jack has off of the island doesn’t have to be the future. Perhaps John doesn’t have to die. Maybe they will have a happy ending.

And that’s all I want, in the end. For everyone to have their own happy ending. If that means that John stays on the island because he wants to, so be it. If that means that Bernard and Rose stay there too because of her cancer, so be it. If that means our Losties get split up in the end and some leave while some stay, so be it - as long as it’s their own choice.

And now we’re the ones who are lost, for 8 months while we wait for the show’s return. I hate that. But at least I’ll have Harry Potter this summer, and Halo this fall, to keep me occupied.

*sigh*

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The past few days I’ve been really remiss on anything household-related.

My mom sent me a link to download a Harry Potter fanbook (what this particular fan thinks The Deathly Hallows will be) and I sat up reading it all night Saturday. It was a fantastic book. Really well thought-out and the characters were pretty much dead-on. There was too much “snogging” going on and the few times when the book focuses on Harry’s increasing teenage hormones were a bit uncomfortable (simply because I think JKR would’ve been more subtle about it), but all in all the book was brilliant. It was great to get back into the wizarding world of Harry Potter, it felt like being around old friends. Even though it isn’t the official book ending the series, it definitely is worth the read if you need something to tide you over for the next 66 days. (Movie comes out in 52 days, book comes out in 66.) Look for the download on Google, I misplaced the link.

Speaking of the movie, there was a new trailer snippet that was shown during Survivor. I didn’t watch the show, but did spend a lot of time at YouTube today watching all of the different trailers both for the US and international versions, and some of the cool fan videos that have been done up. The movie looks like it’s going to be AWESOME. I tried not to get my hopes up too much, because the last movie disappointed me (too much stuff cut out, the director focused on the wrong things that weren’t key to the storyline and cut out stuff that was key, etc), but it’s no use. I just love the HP books and movies so much that watching the trailers today really got me all excited to see the movie. I can’t wait.

Mike’s been spending the time since Sunday reading the book; either on my Palm or on the laptop or on his desktop computer. We’ve been doing a lot of reading aloud, for hours and hours at a time. The fanbook is 660 pages long, so it’s taking a while.

Other than that, not much going on. Mother’s Day was great; the boys got me a big beautiful Snapdragon plant. They were all excited when they found it because Snapdragon is an herb on Runescape. They also made me a couple of little mirror magnets with colored “gems” on them to go on the fridge; they’re really pretty and cute. I twisted my foot/ankle being silly Sunday afternoon over at Mom and Dad’s.

Monday evening Mike had a sudden bout of illness come on and I ended up taking over his Bear den while he stayed home. We had a lot of fun; we went out on a little nature walk around the Moose lodge property and saw lots of different kinds of bugs, flowers, leaves, and even a rogue possum. I also had the Wolf den because I’d promised the week before to take those over for their den leader (he’s been working 16-hour days lately); but he was able to come after all and we just blended the two dens together for our walkabout. Next week I get the Bears again, as Mike thinks he’ll be working second shift. That will be our last den meeting of the “year”; the Monday after that is the pack meeting and then we go on our extended summer break where we only meet once every 2 or 3 weeks for some kind of fun activity (like an ice cream get-together). Tomorrow I’m going to look over Mike’s BearTrax software and see if I can squeeze in a few different activities that will help a few of the boys finish off their badge requirements. These last few kids won’t be working on things during the summer (their parents aren’t involved in their Cub Scout stuff at all) and goodness knows things like ice cream socials isn’t going to help them get their achievements done. (Don’t get me started.)

Kelsey and Brendon have decided that this summer they want to do Cub Scout resident camp instead of the day camp. I’m both relieved and torn. The resident camp is earlier in the summer, so it won’t be so hot, and it’s in a great wooded reservation so they’ll be in the shade most of the time. The spot where they do day camp is on a coast guard base and there’s maybe 5 trees in the whole area; they had boys in the infirmary for dehydration constantly last year (including Kelsey). So it’ll be a better time for them health-wise, plus they’ll have a LOT more fun. I also get a few days “off”, since they’ll be staying there the whole time (resident camp means you actually sleep there too, like a “real” summer camp), rather than running them back and forth every day. But the cost is more than double that of day camp. I’m hoping my Dad will pitch in for that, once he gets back from Tennessee. My great aunt died on Saturday and my parents went to TN for the funeral.

Oh - strike another one off of my vision board, as well. We were gifted with a really nice couch and love seat set on Sunday from one of Dad’s neighbors. It’s not the sectional sofa that I was hoping for, but it’s nearly the same color and the throw pillows are almost identical to the picture I have of the sofa on my vision board. It’s waiting for us in Dad’s garage; we’ll be moving it in this weekend once I finish making room for it. I also called the local charity for a children’s hospital, and they’ll be coming to pick up all of our purged stuff on the 25th. What a relief that’ll be to get that stuff off of our front and back porches! Our decluttering/organizing/making space efforts have actually ground to a halt because we don’t have anywhere to put more stuff that’s being purged; nor any space to clean out a room and sort it. I do have a number of boxes in closets that are mentally earmarked to go out onto the purge pile, and I’ll get those out there before the 25th.

Other than that, we’ve just been working on getting the new badges sewn onto outfits and red jackets, Kelsey’s started working on his Webelos Craftsman badge (he’s building a bird feeder and a toolbox), Brendon built a wooden model of DaVinci’s flying machine, and we’re sadly watching our favorite tv shows (Heroes, LOST, Grey’s Anatomy, and Desperate Housewives) come to an end. With lots of read-aloud of the Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows fanbook going on the entire time. “Pottering” around.

I hope everyone else’s week is going well!

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Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.Net is having a group writing project this week, the topic being “Top 5″. You can write about whatever top 5 you like - I, of course, picked homeschooling. The article should be linked up tomorrow at Darren’s blog, but you can get a sneak-peek of it at my BWHS blog:

Big World Homeschool » The Top 5 Least-Considered Reasons To Homeschool

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