October is my month.

One week from tomorrow night, we are going to see Broadway's "The Lion King." I am so excited! The only Broadway musical I have ever seen was "Les Miserables" when they made their annual trip to Salt Lake a few years ago. One of the awesome advantages to living near Dallas is that there are tons of cultural opportunities. "Wicked" was here in the spring, before we got here, and "Sweet Charity" (with Paige Davis, for all you Trading Spaces fans) was here this summer. We are so lucky to have these tickets. Our friend Brenda (the ones in Gunter where we have gone for holidays) has season tickets, and through some misunderstanding, ended up with extra tickets for the show. So she just gave them to us. And they are awesome seats. They are in section D (center on the floor) row P (which is like row 16). I absolutely cannot wait.

Maris, on the other hand, is not so excited, but October is my month, and I use it to get him to do things that he normally isn't so crazy about. "Honey, for my birthday, I really want to see 'The Lion King.'" "Sweetheart, 'Elizabeth' is coming out right after my birthday, and I really want to see it."

It has backfired on me before. A couple of years ago, I used the Birthday card to see "Elizabethtown." What a crappy movie, a total waste of time, and a waste of my birthday bribe.

I am wondering, though, why Cate Blanchett is playing Elizabeth again. She was awesome in 1998's Elizabeth. So I am excited to see her again in this one.At any rate, October is my month. I love October.

**edited: So I am looking at the stars of the new "Elizabeth: the Golden Age" and they are all the same people (ie Geoffery Rush) so, using my brilliant powers of deduction, I am guessing it is a sequel. Even better.