The Sun is Setting on My Summer

This is my last day of summer. Tomorrow I start my 2nd semester of Nursing. On top of that I started another job (that makes two, now). I haven't had ANY days off since 8/10 and I won't have any until after Labor Day. I don't think I have ever worked so many days in a row before. But I digress.

This was a great summer. After my last final exam in May, I went to Beaver Dam and was able to see some of the filming of Public Enemies. My whole family went and we brought my friend's daughter. She is a middle schooler who just adores Johnny Depp. Who doesn't? Anyway, that was my reward to myself for a tough semester. One semester of nursing school was harder than my entire BS degree.

Then, in June, I went to St. Anne, IL with Osh and Evan, Blaznfire, and Shakenbsis. I was able to meet Johnny Depp in person. (See previous post from June). I would say that was the highlight of my summer.

Our family spent a lot of time at the Wilderness water park in Wisconsin Dells. We camped in Door County and visited our alma mater, UW Oshkosh.

I started to watch the tv series, "Lost" on the internet. I started with the pilot episode and made it thorugh season one and most of season two. I also rented tons of movies (caught up on a bunch of the Depp movies that I missed). I made lots of friends through the blog: Public Enemies Columbus, and started blogging myself.

Yeah, it was a lazy but busy summer. It will be hard to get back to studying again. Starting tomorrow, my internet usage is going to dwindle drastically. Nursing school takes up nearly all of my time. So if I don't post very often, you will know that I am studying my butt off! If I post too often--scold me so that I go back to studying. Hee Hee.

Goodbye summer, I will miss you. Until we meet again. . .

Ciao for now!

I met Johnny Depp!!!

Johnny Depp

St. Anne, IL

Meet & Greet

Public Enemies

This is the best picture my camera took. The faces you can barely see, are my friends Colleen and Evan. Then, I put my camera in my pocket to shake hands with him. He took both of my hands and held them while he talked with me. I said, "Hi, Mr. Depp", the rest is a blur, I remember saying that it is very nice to meet you. He talked to me, but I don't remember exactly what was said. I'm hoping my friend Betty's video picked up the sound. Then he gave my hands a squeeze and patted my arm and moved on.

My kids wrote Johnny some really cute letters. I said to his bodyguard, "Jerry, these are from my little girls". Jerry took them without a question. We are hoping Johnny read them that night.

More later.

I haven't slept in 37 hours.

Dinner then sleep!

Thank you my wonderful new friends:

Colleen--you made my dream come true, and thanks for being my chauffeur

Betty--you are so sweet to step back and let me meet Johnny. You are awesome!

Vicky--love your accent. Thanks for all the fun!

Evan-you are an awesome kid, with a great sense of humor

Tiffany--I enjoyed your company while we waited

This sounds like an award speech--I better sleep. More tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Johnny Depp!

Happy Birthday Johnny Depp!

Today, my daughter wanted to me call Johnny Depp to wish him a happy birthday. Isn't that cute? She doesn't quite understand. She figures if Daddy is in his movie and Daddy has talked to him, we should be able to call him.

Speaking of Public Enemies. The week of my final exams for the semester, Public Enemies was filming in Beaver Dam. As a reward for my success in Pharmacology, I decided (demanded) that I get to go see some of the filming.

Mike and I took the girls, and my friend's daughter (who is crazy for JD) and as soon as we got to Beaver Dam, we saw them filming.

Here is the best picture I was able to get:

Johnny Depp is the one in the brown suit.

Whenever they were filming scenes, we couldn't get close enough to get decent pictures. Whenever he was really close to us I couldn't get a picture, because people kept jumping around and getting in the way.

Whenever he was driven past us, between the set and the base camp (where his trailor was), he was quite close. He had his window open and he was waving and smiling. Since the girls are small, they were able to get in front of everybody and see him really well.

When they finished in Beaver Dam they had to head to Columbus for a night shoot. As he passed us for the last time, my girls had a really neat experience. One was waving her "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" DVD and she said, "He looked right at me!" My other daughter blew him a kiss and HE BLEW ONE BACK!!!

It has pretty much been DeppMania at our house, ever since the filming started in March. When I finished school, I started watching a lot of his movies. After all, for the last 10 years I've been watching G movies (parenting). So I saw:

Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3,

Blow,

What's Eating Gilbert Grape,

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (for the millionth time)

Finding Neverland (My very favorite one so far)

Don Juan DeMarco (only 1/2 of it, I didn't get a chance to finish it and it was due at the video store)

So, in addition to reviewing my nursing stuff, this summer I am: watching as many JD movies as I can, started watching the TV show Lost (season 1) and will try to watch as many of those as I can, so that I can watch new episodes eventually, working, and enjoying summer! When school starts, I won't be able to do anything except study, eat, sleep, work, and study some more.

Finally, prayers go out to all my friends with flooding. :-(

I'm still dumbfounded about Lake Delton draining out. I wonder how that is going to play out.

Here's to better, and dryer days ahead!

Ciao for now!