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Different phrase, same definition?

I am going to write for a blog. The blog has its own forums and each week i am going to be making a summary of whats going on in the forums. I want something like “Weekly Wrap Up” but i cant use that for specific reasons. Can anyone help me think of something catchy to use??
Does this paragraph use the correct definition of the word surreal?

Yes, this blog is titles the Surreal World, because, well, I was looking to get in to blogging, inspired by a friend (commandyourtime.com) and while thinking about that, I was drinking orange juice. The orange juice was fresh squeezed, and better than most of the orange juice that I had in a while, but that is beside the point. To shorten this story, the orange juice was made by a company called Sir Real. So I went online, and found the exact definition of surreal: having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic. Then I realized that this is the way most people live their lives, surreal. It’s even impossible to explain. I will try to put it in to simple terms, and then apply it to much more, whats the word, touching events. Everybody has that time that they look for, I know I count down for camp - say you count down for a family reunion. You have it on a countdown website, and you look at that number, 274 days until camp. A few weeks later, 258 days until camp. You see this but you can’t imagine being there at camp again, or with all 113 people who look like you, but you just don’t know them. Its a surreal feeling. Sure, you can understand that, but what about something more serious. For example, an event such as the holocaust, darfur, starving children in Africa. Most people see this, and realize is, but then again can’t grasp that concept of it actually happening. It’s surreal. Or your computer, you didn’t just end up with it. That computer was made in a factory (with air one billion times cleaner than the air we breathe!), each piece coming together to make this computer, never thought of that, did you? It’s the same with most things, artists painting, musicians writing songs. Think about that for now, because that’s what I’m covering. It may not all be so surreal, but it’ll sure as heck be interesting. It can range from something serious like the holocaust, to a musician writing a song, because lets be honest. Nobody imagines somebody sitting there humming “Let it be, let it be”. You can’t imagine John Lennon sitting there, writing the song, you only see him as that performer married to that crazy lady named Yoko Ono, but that’s about all you know about her because somewhere along the line she just dissapeared. Check back, because everything on this site will make you think. . .