Mulch & Treasure

So, I went to the grocery store last weekend and what should I find stacked up outside the store? Mulch! Now, I really don't remember ever seeing this before. Mulch...at the grocery store. It seems weird. I'm there to get ice cream and bottled frappuccinos...and mulch? Hmm. Seems like a gardening store item to me. Well, that's Vermont for ya! Well, I guess it comes with spring? (which it really is here. The trees are blooming, the grass is green, it's been nice weather, and my allergies are here (not that I like allergies, just that I get them in the spring. I'm fully armed with both Claritin and Zyrtec)).

So, that answers the "mulch" question from the title. Now you're wondering about the treasure aren't you? You aren't?!?! What kind of imaginary friend are you? Well, just out of spite I'm going to tell you anyways. This weekend I watched Treasure Planet (oh, I am LOVING renting from iTunes). Not a Disney "classic", but a movie I had never seen. I decided to watch it because I just recently bought the song "I'm still here" by John Rzeznik which I remember really liking even then (when the movie came out). They played it on Disney, and I had it on Napster, which, of course, is no more (or, it exists, but you have to pay for it and why get that when I can have iTunes which works so magically with my Mac and my iPod?). All this to say, it was really cute. I liked it. Is it my favorite movie? No. Do I plan on buying it? Not really, no. But I enjoyed watching it. It's made me wonder about the original book (Treasure Island) which I've never given much thought to...must Spark Note it. Anyways, here's a scene from the movie (where the song plays) that I really liked (it's very bittersweet): Watch Me!

Thirdly, I have recently discovered DisneyChannel.com. I really like it when it works (which it doesn't always. Sometimes it stays a black screen and won't show any show or at least not the one I'm trying to get it to show. It's very frustrating. But when it works, it's great!). It's annoying that they'll show you the exact same commercial like 2 or 3 times during the same show (which is what, maybe 22-23 minutes?), but oh well. I also discovered that they have some episodes in other languages. I remember seeing the ads for that on Disney Channel whenever it came out, but I forgot. So now, I have discovered it, which is good because I can watch some shows in French and in Spanish (and German or Mandarin if I new them...where's Italian, I might ask?). Downside? There are a total of 3 episodes translated (at least when I was last on there). I think 5 would be better....oh well. Also, I wonder -who's the target audience for the foreign language shows? You see, the site is in English. It says "French episodes"...in English. The commercials are in English. So I'm just wondering. I went onto the Disney Channel France website, and unless their hidden somewhere in the website (sometimes I have trouble finding things on websites, which is why I LOVE the "search this website" boxes. SO much easier to find something that's likely been buried in a website for whatever reason), they don't have videos you can watch online. Does that make sense? Americans can watch shows in French online but the French can't? I must be missing something...maybe? I'll check again. It'd be SUPER awesome if they had an equal amount of episodes available on their website. I can find other language versions of shows on YouTube, but then you have to watch them in 3 segments (aka. wait for three sections to load, hope that the people who put them up did a good job so you don't miss parts of the show or anything, hope the quality is good enough, etc), and that's no fun.