On the Stage

We're off tomorrow for Washington, the in-laws! We're excited, it will be a good time, and though they came up here for last Christmas, we haven't been there since June of '03.

I applied for a job today at the hospital as "Marketing Specialist." It's a job that I could do and I would feel like a million bucks if I got it. My mom was talking to the president of the hospital about the job and mentioned me and how I was right for the job because of this and this and she says, "Oh, well I'll have to put a good word in for him." Now whether she will or not, who knows. But a lot of people know my mom, she has been working there for 20-25 years and has done a very good job and has been advancing in her knowledge and skills and so that can't hurt!

I'll try to update in Washinton, but if not, bye!!

Thanks Yankeebob


:: how jedi are you? ::

This is mostly due to me answering anything about getting in Padme's pants, because Natalie Portman is SO hot and that's all I can think about.

I don't think my brain can fully comprehend how STUPID this auction is. Buying the water that Elvis supposedly drank from is stupid, but not as stupid as this:

Elvis water cup used onstage 2/21/77 on tour 1/8/05 - winning bidder gets to exhibit cup on Elvis' birthday

Winning bidder, which right now is THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, gets to SEE the damn cup. Just SEE it. And look at what YOU the winning bidder have to do to see this friggin cup, besides pay over 300 dollars:


winning bidder will supply 2 roundtrip airline tickets from Charlotte International Airport to City of your choice..( continental USA only)
Winning bidder will provide transportation from airport to hotel to venue.
Winning bidder will provide hotel accomodations
Winning bidder will provide adequate security for the cup at all times while on display.
Winning bidder will provide a safe, adequate display area.
Cup will stay in a clear, locked display case at all times.
Bids are to be followed immediatly (at time of bid or before) by an email from bidder to me stating proposed concept, venue, and related details.


Oh, he'll come to you with the cup...IF YOU PAY FOR IT, airline tickets for two, transportation from airport, hotel, SECURITY?!

Oh my FRIGGING LORD this just blows my mind...stupid people spending their stupid money.

You need to click and read the whole auction, it's just ridiculous...

This stems from Matt and Dweeze(though I don't know who that is) and greenman, so here I go finally. I'm just not going to talk about each of them or what I've seen or what I haven't or what I've been in, because that would take forever. If you like musical theatre and there's one on here you haven't heard of, chances are you should be getting it and listening to it, because it's a good one!

Favorites (in no particular order)

RENT
tick, tick...BOOM!
Assassins
Into the Woods
Sweeney Todd
The Frogs
A Little Night Music
Company
Aida
Les Miserables
Jesus Christ Superstar
Phantom of the Opera
Urinetown
Children of Eden
Titanic
Chicago
West Side Story
Kiss Me, Kate
Sweet Smell of Success
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Bat Boy
Avenue Q
Wicked
Big River
The Secret Garden
Sunday in the Park with George
The Producers
Cabaret
Mamma Mia
The Full Monty
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!
Guys and Dolls
The Music Man
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Taboo
Bounce
Chess
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (H2$)
Jekyll & Hyde
The Last 5 Years
Little Shop of Horrors
Miss Saigon
Seussical
Joseph...Dreamcoat
The Woman in White

I KNOW I'm missing some, but it's hard to call up all of these musicals from memory.

Beloved Stage and Screen Star Jerry Orbach Dead at 69

Wow, I didn't even know he was diagnosed or ill at all. He died of prostate cancer after only being diagnosed December of 2004 it says.

Wow...this is sad.

I'm watching this right now and they got to the anger management section, which has a lot of Bobby Knight and John McEnroe...I understand them, let's put it that way.

I could probably handle myself better than they do, most of the time, but I can feel their pain.

I don't much think it's a big deal the way they throw fits because I get angry sometimes too, I can only IMAGINE what it's like on the court where they are in their position. I kind of think it's funny. People make such a big deal of him throwing his racket on the court or swearing...come on, the emotions take over in a huge sporting event and the next thing you know you're acting like an ass!

I, for one, don't think that they are doing it for show or making up that persona to get attention, I think they really do just get frustrated and that's the way they can release it. It doesn't condone it or make it any less "offensive" or whatever, I just think it really is them.

Bobby Knight does annoy the sheite out of me, but John McEnroe is just hilarious.

But then again my family is just known for having a little bit of a temper problem sometimes ;-) It's endearing..........right? LOL

Besides all that, the millions of goof ups in all sports is just funny and that's why I taped it!

It was nice.

I just have this thing with people touching me, I love it. Now, that sounds weird, but let me attempt to explain.

When I had long hair, in college mostly, the girls would just sit there behind me and play with my hair and massage my scalp and all that, it's the greatest feeling in the world...I miss my long hair :-( ... but anyway, and when you get someone to just rub your back lightly with nails or rub feet or legs or anything...I just like being touched! It's probably some deep seeded thing I can't figure out yet...probably that I like affection so much from other people, like with my friends that are girls at college we were always hugging and laying on each other's laps and punching and smiling and, that's the best! It just makes you feel good, you know? To know that your loved so much by someone, they just think the world of you (mostly) no matter what you do, how can you not like that? Anyway, that's a whole nother topic in itself! but either way, I know I'm not the only one that is like this...right? lol

So, back from the long rambly paragraph...it was good! I'd love to do it again, if it wasn't so derned expensive..I got a deal because she's my friend and I did design work for her, etc. but I don't know if I'd get a deal again or not. I need her to work on my leg more, maybe whatever is wrong with it would go away...

Ouch, I hope this isn't stuck with me for the rest of my life.

It has been sore for a week now. Just constant like I worked it too hard and it can't keep up. But that's not it, because I haven't worked out at all. Sometimes it's my knee, sometimes it's my thigh, sometimes it's both.

My dad has had two surgeries per knee and my sister has bad knees, so I'm thinking my time is coming...usually people this young have problems with their knees because they worked them too hard with sports of something.

I'm really hoping it goes away though, because when I get my new kicks I want to go out running and try to work out and get in shape...though, I'm sure nothing of the sorts will happen...but a fella can wish can't he?

My left leg is sore...been sore for longer than anything ever has before...but I'm still holding out hope that it's just something weird that will go away!

I pass a car today with a yellow ribbon for cancer plain as day on their window and they're hunched over their steering wheel taking a nice big drag from a cigarette.

Huh?

;-)

My co-worker's mom dies, do I need to go to the funeral?

I don't think I do...I never knew her, besides the fact that I've only been working here for 2 years anyway. I mean, I know it shows support for her, and we're fairly close for co-workers here, but I don't really feel I need to go to the funeral.

It's also this Thursday and I'm taking Thursday off to clean the apartment and pack things to leave for Washington on Friday. But that's not an excuse I'm trying to come up with, I just don't feel like it's something I need to go to.

I'm not going to feel pressured into going because the rest of my department and probably half of the office is going, but this is a weird office I work in. My other co-worker's (her mom works here too) grandpa died (the mom's dad) and about half of the office went to the funeral...is that normal?

I just want to know if I'm being an ass or not...what would you do in this situation?

Ok, long story.

We set up our new TiVo last night and we set it up under V's name so we could refer me and see if it worked to give me a referel on myself (does that make sense?!). Well, it worked. BUT today I realized we would be paying for full service ($12.95/month) for each TiVo, because we were signed up seperately, instead of the advertised $12.95 for one + $6.95 for an additional, which we couldn't afford, so we were just going to cancel the first one and leave the service on the second one, but then we wanted to get referal points to me, so we tried that and were now going to be stuck next month with two bills of $12.95.

So, I called TiVo and told them what we did and that I wanted the old TiVo to be cancelled but I wanted my reward points to be brought over to the other account (not telling them that it was my own referal that got me those points) and so she did what she could, came back and told me I couldn't refer myself (dammit!) but she set up my two accounts as a duplicate account so it looked like I set up my accounts under the same name (instead of the old one under my name and the new one under V's name) different e-mail and so I said ok and she transfered me to the cancellation department.

The cancellation guy came on, I told him I wanted to cancel one and he went "oh, well I'm sorry to hear that." I say, "Well, don't worry I still have one TiVo that I'm using and the other is just going to go in the bedroom and not have service." and as I'm saying that he says, "Well, I see you have two." and then he says "Well that's strange when you signed up for the second one it should have signed you up at the $6.95 additional rate because your account names are the same" (because the first lady changed the names so they looked the same, instead of one saying Veronica and one saying Lars - hehehe) and so he says to me "How would you like it if I got you both TiVo's with service at $6.95 a piece?" and I said "yeah, I'd like that!" and so he hooks me up gansta style! Both TiVo's are now under one name and one e-mail address and I will be getting them both with full service for a total of $13.90/month instead of $19.90 as advertised for two TiVo's with full service!

It was a small something, but something went my way for once!

Yay for small victories :-)

P.S. - IF ANYONE IS PLANNING ON GETTING A TIVO, WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR THE SERVICE AND IT ASKS FOR THE E-MAIL ADDRESS OF THE FRIEND THAT REFERED YOU...USE theatretenor@hotmail.com FOR ME PLEASE!! Doug/Jody? You should look into a TiVo...YankeeBob...TiVo...refer me....theatretenor@hotmail.com...subliminal message...

V and I are going to get one each tonight, an hour each, from someone I know who's giving me a nice discount :-) So I'll go first, she says she doesn't want to get a massage then have to sit around for an hour so I'll go first, and she'll play with Kaia for an hour and then vice-versa.

Now, to come up with something to play with Kaia for 2 hours! We'll bring our laptop and movies and some card games and stuff she likes...we should be fine!

I've NEVER had a massage before, so I hope it does something for me. They're suppose to be nice? I have no idea. If I don't like it then it will be a wasted hour, that's for sure!

Next blogging for 5 minutes produced nothing!

Lots of annoying ones where they changed it so much you can't even tell where you're supposed to look.

Lots of different languages.

Lots of repeats too...

Nothing interesting to read (not that mine is)

and one Brazilian superstar's blog - Leilah Moreno - though I have no idea who shes is and I can't read her site she has pictures of her at huge concerts and in front of a cardboard cutout of herself holding her CD, so she must be someone!

I snatched this from Yankeebob (word for word...hey he told me to copy it ;-) ). This looks like it could be interesting.

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album

(B) Ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. Answers will be posted next week--great time for strangers to say hi.

(C) Then go back to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything; say that you stole it from me.

We'll see where it goes.

Two minutes and counting until work officially begins...

I'd take off two days this week to catch up from Christmas break...but my co-worker quit and I really just can't. I do, however, leave on the 31st for Washington and will be gone until the 8th of January! Can my one loyal reader take a week off of my blog? ;-) I'm sure I'll probably have some down time there where I can sneak on and type a little something!

Christmas was great...I love Christmas.

Had a good time with the family, but it's the family I see every week anyway, so it's not like it was anything super special...the week in Washington will be, because we only see them 1-2 times a year. But I love my family, so it's a good thing!

The extended family Christmases were good too. It's always fun with the little cousins. I have a very fun family, we always joke and have a good time and make fun of each other, but we all love each other so much, so it's not a problem.

I'm tired...

Got the new TiVo set up last night...it's beautiful! A 40-hour TiVo now, with the ability to sync up our two TiVos and to control your TiVo from a computer. I'm a geek...that's what I got for Christmas from my parents.

Broadway Musicals...a big 300 page book about past and current Broadway musicals with tons of pictures and information...got that from one of my sisters.

BC/EFA ornament and stickers and a Broadway Carols for a Cure CD and a ceramic penguin ornament from my other sister.

Broadway: The American Musical the book...another 300+ book with tons of pictures and information, it's based off the series that was on PBS and The Wiz on DVD and Josh Grobans new cd/dvd from the wife.

Kaia made out like a bandit. She got tons of stuff and she's very happy. She had a great time with opening presents and waiting for the big day and taking turns to open presents and handing out presents and helping make food and everything. She had a busy, big weekend!

Veronica got her iPod from my parents/grandpa's Christmas money and she's ecstatic about it! It's quite spectacular though, I want one now!!! I got her an FM tuner for her iPod so she can use it in the car, because the crappy car she has is so old it doesn't have a tape deck even. I also got her a book she wanted and the Sims2 for the computer. (Meritt, Sims, you know what I'm talking about. Didn't your son or daughter get it?)

Wow, I don't really know what else to say, it was a big weekend and there's probably lots to say, but I'm at a loss for words!

My grandma has been in town and there are so many stories about her, but they're all long and I don't think you'd understand, so I'll spare the stories.

My sister-in-law's fiance called off the wedding. No idea why yet, I'm hoping to find out why when we head out there. What a friggin' punk! She still sees him but is not wearing the ring anymore...? huh? He called off their whole relationship once before and now he did it again...what the F? Do I need to kick his ass? I love my sister-in-law and I don't need to see her heartbroken.

I sang "O, Holy Night" on Christmas Eve at church and I did ok. Probably one of the worst I've done, but it was still ok. I was SOOOOOOOOOOO nervous I couldn't handle it. I was searching for ways out of the damn church and I was regretting ever saying I would do this, even though I have done it before and I sing all the time. I can't explain why I was nervous and it didn't go away when I got up there either. It was one of the most annoying things in the world. Grrr...

Oh...OH...and our friggin daycare lady's daughter is having a baby end of january beginning of february and so she decides she needs a 2 week vacation for that. Her daughter is single, unmarried and living with them and she needs a 2 week vacation? I don't see why since they'll be home all day anyway and she can just as easily watch our kids still anyway. BUT...so we're left trying to figure out what we're going to do with Kaia for two whole mother truckin' weeks. I think I'll have to ask my cousin, which I don't want to do, who has a new born as well...she'll probably say no, but who knows. I always feel bad asking people to watch my kid, I also have a problem leaving Kaia all day with someone too, but I'll have to get over that since soon I'll be sending her to school all day where who KNOWS what will happen there...ugh... So, Otherwise...god...who knows what we're going to do. V can't take two weeks off of school and I can't take two weeks off of work...and I'm willing to bet we have to friggin' pay her for those weeks too.

Well, I'm done. How was your Christmas? Did you get everything you ever wanted? :-)

Now 1 hour and 16 minutes into work...obviously I had to stop and do some work while I finished this blog :-)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU ALL :-)

I sincerely hope you all have a good Christmas and spread love to all your family members and all goes well...you are all special to me in some way if you are reading this!

God bless...

My co-worker who left's work is starting to come through as someone needing to do it. Just little odds and ends.

One was proofing a map with information on it.

I was asked if I had done that before, I said no. So the person then said, well do you want me to do it then, because ***** is on her way down. I said, "No, I'll do it."

PLEASE, it's my job now, not yours. You don't even work in MPCI, why would I want you to do it?
PLEASE, don't you think I can handle PROOFING a map?! Give me a break...

So, ****** calls and says, "DO you know who normally proofs the maps with (my co-worker)?"
I say, "No."
She says "Well,I think it was probably someone from this department."
I say, "Well, I can do them. Isn't just a bunch of information on an Excel spreadsheet that you need to make sure is correct on the map?"
"Yes."
"Ok, well, I'll need to learn anyway." Says I.
"Well, yes it is, ok, sounds good. I think it was someone in this department. So we'll figure that out and get back to you."

So........we HAVE to use the person that did it last year, because proofing a map is so hard that someone that did it last year would be the only person that can do it now? I can't do it here with someone in my department?

Want to know what else is going on? Someone who DOESN"T need to be telling me what to do, is trying to tell me what to do.

"Well, you need to have someone else know how to do what you do for when you're gone." -- No shit. I have someone else that knows what I do completely, thanks though. Lynn didn't even know what I did anymore because it had been so long since she had done what I do.

"Do you have a instruction sheet on what you do? Because you need to make a list of instructions on what you do so someone can follow it if you're gone and your replacement is gone." -- No shit. Do you not think I know this? Do you not think I can handle this? I can handle it. I just needed to freak out because it was unexpected and she left before she had a chance to tell me what I needed to know that she did, so now I have to play catch up. But as long as I'm here I can figure it out and I can handle it...why don't you just stick to what you know (which is a lot less than me) and let me handle it unless I ask you for help...thanks though.

I feel like I need to put something in here.

Christmas party at the office in an hour and a half. It's being kept under tight wrap as to what the "entertainment" will be. Last year it was a hypnotist. Now I hope you're not one of those people, but some people here at work didn't like the hypnotist. They thought it was mean and crude and embarassing.

No it wasn't! He was working an office crowd, he was not rude or crude in any way. Everyone who went up there was complete volunteer and new what they were doing. He didn't pull people up there, they went willingly.

I just don't get why a hypnotist is bad...but...oh well.

So we know it wont be a hypnotist this year, if it's something worthy of reporting about maybe I'll come back on later and let you know what it is!

Did some Christmas shopping last night. Got V something, got V something from Kaia, got something for a family gift exchange and that's about it.

I'm like a little child at Christmas, I can't wait for the presents!! V bought some stuff yesterday and is hiding it, and I know where it's hidden, but I have to try SO hard not to go look. Christmas just makes me excited!! This year's Christmas is just different than any other Christmas, I don't know if it's because I'm so stressed or what...it might just be because I"m at work right now.

Something different about this year's Christmas is Veronica and I had no idea what to get each other. Last year we were just all over the place getting all these things and ideas, this year we got nothin'. I talked to my sister-in-law and she and her fiance didn't know what to get each other this year either...it's just strange...

well, lots of work to do here, so I'm off!!

They let her go early because she's going to a competitor...

I'm screwed...

Sorry to get into this again, but it drives me NUTS!

The temp they hired for the "Special Projects" position has been for the past week sitting over there and doing the FMH newsletter. Laying it out, etc. etc.

Fine, whatever, don't think I can do the web work you want done, fine, sure, I think I could do it with just a little training, but ok. Fine. But don't hire some temp to do it and then not have him do it. He's sitting over there designing the newsletter...I CAN DO THAT. If you would let me have that job I could do a good job and get experience on my resume for a future job I keep trying to get. THEN, I'd have web experience too. I can sit at my home and do web and designing until the cows come home (and I don't, because I don't have time at home...which I realize is bad and sucks) but it's not going to do me any good because they want WORK experience, not home with your thumb up your ass experience.

DON'T hire someone with 1/4 the experience and expertise that I have to do a job that I want and was trained to do dammit.

Even having that job to design one damn newsletter is still work experience for my future. Shit, who knows, if the job gets good, maybe I'll stay with FMH. You sure as hell better bet I'm not staying now. I'll do this job I have now and I'll do it good and I'll pretend I"m enjoying it, because I do enjoy most of the people, but as SOON as I can leave, I'm outta here. I've felt this way since day one because I spent all that money on education and I'm working a job a high schooler could have...SERIOUSLY. AGH! But now you turn me down for two jobs that I can do and went to college for, to a one year college drop out who was in friggin FASHION, and a temp, and my co-worker is leaving me...oh, I REALLY want out of here now.

Sorry to be a downer again, but this is affecting me big time, and it bothers me and y'all are my friends...ah, the price of friendship ;-)

I quit
Throwing in the towel
Splash some cold water on me I'm done

I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I am TIRED, which makes me bitchy, but today has stressed me out so much that when I'm stressed I get tired and cranky, so it's friggin multiplied itself over and over.

I get to work today and find out I didn't win the contest at work.

There was a contest to name the conference rooms at the new building we're moving to. There were 8 of them, and you had to have a theme. You could submit as many as you wanted. The prizes were $250 in mall gift card for 1st, $100 for 2nd and $50 for 3rd. Wow! Better enter this contest...so I did. I submitted about 25 different themes.

Did I win ANY of the places?! HELL NO. Who got 1st? Friggin state supervisor for MINNESOTA...oh yeah, that'll come in handy for HIM. I had so many good themes, I can't remember them all. I don't feel like explaining anything else, so let's just say that sucks.

BUT THAT'S NOT THE WORST NEWS...

My co-worked told me today that she gave her two week notice. Yup, she's done. I'm all by myself, not knowing what I'm doing in a job I despise. Her and I work the MPCI claims reporting center...she's been here 7 years and has lived and worked on a farm her whole life. She knows the answer to everything and knows how FMH does it and when to do things. She's leaving...just me now. I can handle myself when she's gone for a week or two, I sorta know what I'm doing...but she's leaving period now. I've been here 2 years, they say it takes 3-5 just to know what you're doing and then this MPCI business is changing so much that you're lost anyway.

This is all after I've been trying to find a job for 2+ years now. Granted, I'm not trying to find a crop insurance job like her, but still. This friggin company has turned me down for 2 jobs that I was qualified for and gave one to the girl that deserved it the least, ah, I'm so pissed about that still. The other one they gave to a TEMP. I don't feel like explaining this any further either. Let's just say I'm...in a nutshell...no word for it...fucked.

So........................................I quit. BUT WAIT oh, shit, I can't...we're poor, I need this job and every other job I apply for I don't get...so I can't quit...great. If I could, believe me, I'd give 2 weeks today too, and then just have the luxury of looking for another job, but I don't have that luxury. So I'm being the good dad and the good husband and bucking up some more. I'm just not being the good Lars or the good employee right now and I'm sulking and being pissed off and just working all day long, no talking, no anything, because...I don't feel like talking to anyone at work right now.

I don't get stressed...but I am right now.

It is Saturday and I am blogging away.

Well, now begins the first of many Christmases. We have the "Family Christmas" tonight. Which isn't what you probably think it is. We get together with numerous offspring of our last name. ANy creation that has come from the loins of my last name and can get to this party does. It's always the same people though and it's about 20 people I guess.

But this year sucks. I'll be there with Kaia, but Veronica wont. She has to work 3:30-close tonight. My parents won't be there. They are in Arizona visiting my sister and her little baby girl. My cousin Carolyn that I guess I'm closest with, she lives down the street and has three kids Noel, Eva and Nora and her husband died when there was just Noel and Eva but she eventually found Nathan and now he's in the picture and they have Nora together -- well, explanation aside, they won't be there either, I'm not sure why.

My other cousin, Carolyn's sister Barbara, who has two kids but who I don't get along with...long story I won't tell right now, big surprise I know!, will probably be there though...but, Jena, my sister will be there, so I'll just hang out with her and Kaia all night.

We do a white elephant (is that what this is called?) where all the adults bring one present a piece and we put it in the middle then we draw numbers and number one goes and gets a present and opens it. Then #2 goes and sees if they want to take #1's present or go for a new one and open it, if they want #1's then #1 will go take a new one and open it and then it's #3's turn...get it?

And that's tonight.

Christmas #1

About 5 more to go!

I am AFRAID of spiders. I dislike them very much...VERY much indeed. However, one must realize that I live in a household with a wife, who becomes violent if I don't immediately attack and kill the spider, LOL, and a little daughter who certainly doesn't like spiders, and reacts very scared to them because her mommy is so scared...

So that leaves the house with the man, I guess that's me, to kill the darn thing...which I do...everytime...unwillingly, lol.

I only mention this because it was Veronica's turn to give Kaia a bath and she goes in to start the water and lo and behold there is a big nasty spider in the corner of the tub. I don't know where he came from, and frankly, I don't want to know...at all! I just didn't want to deal with it, it makes me shiver and eehhh...it's just not good, spiders...yuck! BUT, Veronica comes out of the bathroom and tells me to go in there and take care of it.

Well, I don't confront spiders for sure. I will sneak up on them, but I will not get down there with them. The following occurs:

ME(L): "I don't know what to do!"
Veronica(V):"Well you have to kill it!"
V: "What are you doing?!"
L:"I'm getting hot water"
V:"That wont do anything! They just shrivel up in water, they don't die."
L:"Well, maybe I'll stun the guy and then I can get at him."
V:"Just get him! If he's gone when you get back I will not be able to relax because I won't know where he is!!" (oh, thanks a lot Veronica! LOL -- just what I need to think about)

So...armed with my cup of hot water (what? was I going to burn him very badly? LOL) and my green high top chuck taylor converse all-stars I go to the bathroom to seek out this spider. Luckily he is still in the same place...I lean over the tub THROW THE WATER ON THE SPIDER....he flinches...see, he's stunned just like I said he'd be! Then I lunge at him with my green high top chuck taylor converse all-stars and he's scrambling up the tub wall, but with the water he slips! AHA! Upper hand to Lars.

He's in the crease of the tub so my shoe doesn't get him...faced with no other option I dive into the tub, clothes and socks on and all, and bring down the shoe with avengance a second time. This time he's squiggling out the front of the shoe, green high top chuck taylor converse all-stars are naturally a little curled at the front of the shoe. In panic mode now (which I had been in for some time I'm afraid to say) I lunge one last time....

SUCCESS! Got the little bugger, still attached to my shoe I exit the bathroom, triumphant, and spray him off in the sink and down the garbage disposal...my heart returns to normal, and the daddy/husband comes through!

We suck so much at supper...we need major help, we never know what to do for supper and when we do it's something out of a box...god help us all...lol

The MTI theatre group just released the rights to perform these musicals:

Urinetown
tick, tick...BOOM!
Caroline, or Change

those are all good, and I could talk for a long time on tick, tick..BOOM! (and I probably will in another post) but this time I'm introducing you all to Urinetown, if you're not familiar already.

Urinetown is a great musical! It's premise was off the playwright who was backpacking around Europe and he ran out of money and couldn't go to the bathroom because in Europe is costs money to go to the bathroom, yet it's illegal to pee in public.

So in the musical they have a vast water shortage and so the water supply is being maintained and supervised by Cladwell who runs Urine Good Company, and his main cohort, Officer Lockstock and his henchmen Deupty Barrell keep the town in order. Well in short, Bobby Strong starts a revolt because it's illegal to pee in public but they have to pay quite the fee anytime they need to pee, there is no toilets anywhere except in public where they are guarded and you have to sign in and out everytime you pee, and pay every time you pee.

Anytime someone is caught peeing in public they get carted off to Urinetown and then we find out that Urinetown is them taking you up to the roof of Urine Good Company's building and shoving you off. Which ends up happening to Bobby but not until he gets a good revolt going and falls in love with Cladwell's daughter, etc.

Well I'll just stop there in the story, that's the basic plot.

There is a song, sung by Nancy Opel who plays Ms. Pennywise and it's called, "It's a Privelage to Pee" and it is some of the best singing from a woman I've ever heard in a musical. The notes she hits and with the force that she hits them, not many women on this planet can do. She doesn't go up into her head voice, it's just straight chest voice...now I'm at work so I don't know what clip they have on amazon, but have a listen...the song is hysterical.

The whole show is so hysterical and just phenomenal, it's great. My other person favorite is "Run, Freedom, Run!" by Hunter Foster who plays Bobby Strong. Check that one out too, so much fun!

Urinetown

IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO PEE

*Old Man Strong*
Bobby! Bobby, reason with the woman. I'm a little short this morning.

*Bobby*
He's my Pa, Ms. Pennywise. Can't he come in for free? Just this once?

*Penny*
Get your head out of the clouds, Bobby Strong. No one gets in for free.
Every morning you all come here. And every morning some of you got
reasons why ya ain't gonna pay. And I'm here to tell ya ya is gonna pay!

*Old Man Strong*
In the name of God, Penny, what difference could it make?

*Penny*
What difference?!

"Times are hard"
"Our cash is tight"
"You've got no right"
I've heard it all before
"Just this once"
Is once too much
Cause once they've onced
They'll want to once once more

I run the only toilet
In this part of town, you see
So, if you've got to go
You've got to go through me

It's a privilege to pee
Water's worth its weight
In gold these days

No more bathrooms
Like in olden days
You come here and pay a fee
For the privilege to pee

Twenty years we've had the drought
And our reservoirs have all dried up
I take my baths now in a coffee cup
I boil what's left of it for tea
And it's a privilege to pee

The politicians in their wisdom saw
That there should be a law
The politicians taxed the toilets
And made illegal
Public urination and defecation

So, come and give your coins to me
Write your name here in the record book
The authorities will want to look
If you've been regular with me
If you've paid the proper fee
For the privilege to pee

*Bobby*
But Ms. Pennywise -

*Penny*
I said no buts, Bobby. You're a sweet lookin' boy and I likes to keep
you around, but this man ain't comin' in without payin'. Not this time.

*Old Man Strong*
I can't wait much longer, Bobby. There's no tellin' what I might do!

*Penny*
You think you've got
Some kind of right?

*The Poor*
Kind of right, kind of right!

*Penny*
You think you'll come in here and go for free?

*The Poor*
Snag a freebie!

*Penny*
The only thing you'll get it "no" for free!

*The Poor*
Negatory!

*Penny*
I'm a business gal, you see

*The Poor*
Business gal you see!

Penny
I sell the
Privilege to pee!

*The Poor*
It's a privilege to pee

*Penny*
The good Lord made us
So we'd piss each day
Until we piss away
The good Lord made sure
That what goes in men
Must soon come out again
So you're no different then
From lowly me

*The Poor*
Me
Lowly me
Lowly me
Lowly me
Lowly me!


*Bobby*
But, Ms. Pennywise -

*Old Man Strong*
That's enough, Bobby.


*Penny*
And I think I'll charge you twice


*Old Man Strong*
No need to jeopardize your position.


*Penny*
Or better yet, have you arrested


*Old Man Strong*
I'm through with all this, you see.


*Penny*
Since you prefer the law gets tested


*Old Man Strong*
Scrapin' cash three times a day


*Penny*
And in Urinetown you'll see


*Old Man Strong*
Crazy with the nitrates half the time


*Penny*
Why it's dumb to fight with me


*Old Man Strong*
It's no way to live, I tells ya. No way to live.


*Penny*
For the privilege to pee!

Are you any good at geography?

The most I've gotten is 40% and I've played it about 4 times....it's hard!

I have to say, I made some great friends last night. One of them just happened to be a blogger by the name of Meritt :-)

My family and I went over to see Meritt and her family last night and we had a good 'ol time.

She's a fantastic person and her DH is a fantastic person! And the kids, well, they're just little angels! They took Kaia under their wings and played with her while the mommy's and daddy's got to talk and Kaia has such great fun.

You know, it's something special, because although as she gets older she is warming up more, she is very much a Mommy and Daddy girl and doesn't warm up too fast to people. Well, Meritt and her little ones were so welcoming and warming to Kaia that she just lit up almost right away and ran off to play with Little Peanut and DS for the remainder of the night.

We don't feel comfortable just letting Kaia run away and be out of our sight, especially with people that aren't relatives, but this was surprisingly comfortable. The only thing I was worried about was if Kaia would hurt herself and then they feel bad even though it wasn't their fault, or that Little Peanut really didn't want to play with Kaia but was just being a sweetheart.

So, although I reassured V that Meritt was someone that was ok to meet, lol, she still didn't know what to think of going to meet someone from the internet ;-) But it turned out great, just like I knew it would!

I didn't eat lunch today, for a couple of reasons.

1.) Because of yesterday's money fiasco I had to pay yesterday's breakfast today, along with today's breakfast because I am SO hungry every morning that I have to eat at 9:30 break...so I have not enough money for lunch.

2.)I don't have enough money because I have a debit card, so I don't have to carry much cash anymore, and it costs money for me to get cash out of ATMs because my stupid little bank only has one ATM and I can never get to it.

3.)I don't have enough money because I also can't find my electric shaver, so I had to buy a normal razor last night at Target, and to use the 10% discount Veronica has we have to pay with cash, so what cash I DID have from the stupid WF machine yesterday I had to use most of to buy the razor and have some left over for today, but I forgot I hadn't paid yesterday's breakfast...see (a) above.



So, now I have $1.77 and I will probably go down to the vendo land some time this afternoon and have some donuts...

"I cannot hear the music,
I cannot hear a sound.
The roaring rush
Become a hush
whenever you're around.

The world beyond the window
the fury a fuss
grow distant now
and fade somehow with us

And here inside
this world you let me see
it's different than
they often let it be

I'll keep you safe
and also set you free
I offer you you
I offer you me.

I cannot hear the music
I know it must be there
the raging town is waiting down the stair
we'll make it vanish in the thin, thin air."

Check it out

Sung by Jack Noseworthy, playing the character Dallas, in the musical "Sweet Smell of Success"

He also sings a duet (Don't Know Where You Leave Off) and another solo (One Track Mind) and he's fantastic...have a listen to the clips they have.

What in the world am I suppose to get Veronica this year?

I have always been very good at birthdays and Christmas in the past but this year I am stuck of all stucks.

She told me she is stuck on whaty to get me too, which is funny because we're always good at what to get each other...

but it is 1o days from go time and we don't know what to do!

I know each person is individual, but I'm just talking, so ignore it if you'd like!

I'm apparently not very creative because I can't think of anything to write...I'm going to go attempt to shave with a normal razor instead of my electric shaver, since I can't find it! It is the cool razor with a battery that vibrates and all that jazz, so...if it goes bad I'll probably be back to tell you about it.

UPDATE:
Well, it went ok...I still like my electric razor better. It can get a more accurate line with the hair you want to leave and it's faster. I also don't know HOW to shave with a normal razor. I've heard both...do you go with or against the grain? I did a little of both because I didn't know which to do. I got nicked a couple of times, but it wasn't anything bad at all.

I'm really tired...time to put the little one to sleep...

As I mentioned in Meritt's blog I was going to talk about sleeping and me.

It's crazy really.

I can sleep through most anything, this is a fact. Storms? Eh, don't bother me. Traffic noise? No problem

That is, as long as I"m already asleep. I can't stand going to sleep with noise all over the place, it distracts me and I have a hard enough time going to sleep in the first place.

I"m one of those people that can take hours to go to sleep, it doesn't turn out that way, but it feels like it. If V is watching TV in the living room and I can hear it? Takes forever. But it just in general takes forever...

There's so much to think about for one. For two, I can NOT get comfortable. It's just insane. I am on my side, then my arm hurts, so I move to my back, well that's not comfortable for more than 2 minutes, so I'm on my other side, then my side with my legs up, then on my stomach, then other side with legs curled up and arm behind head, then repeat cycle again and again and again. Oh, then I'm hot, but if I uncover my legs (I only sleep in boxers and a t-shirt) then my bare legs are too cold, but if I put pants on then my legs are too hot. Cover up my legs but not my upper body, cold, cover my whole self, too hot, cover just my upper body but not my legs, legs too cold. Repeat, rinse, wash...it's never ending, I can see where my daughter gets it from. Last night she found her way into our bed and I woke up a couple times with feet in my face!

Now that's just me GETTING to sleep, talk about me getting awake!

That is a battle of self will.

I will NOT get up, I hate it, I hate mornings, despise them greatly. No matter when I go to bed I am too tired to wake up, or my nose is stuffed, or my throat is dry or both or all. The alarm is annoying but not annoying enough to wake me up enough because I know exactly where the snooze is and I hit that sucker lightning fast! If I move my alarm clock to across the room, still get it turned off and fall right back into bed, sometimes just at the end of the bed because that's all the power I have, it doesn't matter where as long as I can go back to sleep.

When I was in high school I would have to get up early to go in for Chamber Choir so my parents would wake me up when they leave, which was usually around 6:30 am. They would yell up the stairs at me. Now keep in mind it's my room then the break for the stairs, then the bathroom. So they would yell, "LARS GET UP..." numerous times then finally, "LARS I AM NOT LEAVING UNTIL I SEE YOU WALK AROSS TO THE BATHROOM." So for some reason I feel compassion for my parents and make them feel better by walking across so they see me (I don't know why but I always seemed to do what my parents asked me, what a loser I was!). And as soon as they see me, they do indeed leave, and I get a towel for my shower and lay it in a pile on the cold linolium bathroom floor and lay down using it as a pillow to go back to sleep.

Now sometimes they would want to hear the water running, so I could play that game too, I would turn on the water, lock the door and go back to sleep. Like I said, it doesn't matter where I'm sleeping in the morning after something wakes me up, as long as I get to go back to sleep. Surprisingly enough I was rarely late for chamber choir.

Now to school when I DIDN'T have chamber choir? Oh yeah, I was always late. Or I'd make it on time by putting clothes on but not showering, hey, whatever compromise needed to be made so I could avoid having to work that time off.

See, we didn't have "detention" so to speak. We had time we had to work off with some teacher doing god knows what for them to make up the time we were late. I can't remember the ratio of minutes late to time penalized, but I don't think it was an even 1:1.

To this day I can NOT get up for anything. I am constantly going 80 MPH to work to try and make it on time. I never eat breakfast at home, I never get to have a decent morning to take my time, I wish I did, I do...but...nope.

This week I've even been setting my alarm for 6:10 am to try and wake up and have a bowl of cereal and watch a show or something, but that never happens. I'm always rolling out of bed at 7 am and saying "SHIT! Now I don't have time to do anything." It sucks...

That was probably a really boring read if you made it all the way down to here, but it seems like all of my posts are, I don't get 6 or 10 comments per post, I don't have very many loyal readers, but those of you I do have...thanks for hanging in there. I was tempted to stop blogging, but I met a really great friend this way, and hey, it gives me something to do, some place to write, even if it's not always witty ;-)

Have you ever had an M&M war?

We have M&M's here in the office and I got to thinking about what I used to do with my friends when I was younger.

We would have M&M's and one would hold one in their first two fingers and thumb and the other would do the same. Then you'd squish them against each other and whoever's cracks first would lose their M&M to their opponent.

Maybe I'm the only one that did that...

Let's see...we used to have indian wrestling competitions. Hand Stand Competitions. Bloddy Knuckles, that verions of bloody knuckles but with the slapping of hands.

What else?

Argh...

I go at 11:30 to leave in my car and get money from the only ATM I know that's around our office. It's a Wells Fargo (the greedy bastards) and they're under construction...but it's the only one that I know of! So I pull in the one lane drive and you have to get out to use the ATM...well I can do that.

The make me pay $2.00 to get my damn money out...oh I'll always hate that fee and I'll never understand it.

I get in my car and there is a line to beat hell waiting to go through the drive-up...well that's the only way to get out of there so I have to wait in line behind 6 or 7 cars to go through the drive-up I don't even need to get out to the street with my $20 and 2 wasted dollars on Wells Fargo.

This is all on the half an hour lunch that we get which I value because it's not very long and there's so much I want to do.

I need to add I usually eat downstairs and don't even leave, but this morning at morning break I ate without money and said I'd pay her back at lunch so I had to go get money to eat lunch and I figured since I was out I'd go to Subway.

This is the greatest Subway ever! The people are SO fast and they're SO nice and it's just the best atmosphere. I suggest it to anyone.

I am finally back at my seat and it's 11:56 and now it's 12:01 and I'm done with my post and I've only eaten two bites of my sandwich and none of my cookies yet.

And I didn't talk about anything I wanted to talk about...bye!

I will be getting these for my birthday (1/16/81) from my parents and I'm excited!

You get to design them yourself and this is my design (it fits me perfect):



With these I plan on trying to run and work out and just have a pair of sneakers, I've never owned a pair of sneakers before. I have Converse All-Stars, but I don't count them, and then I've had lots of other shoes, but no sneakers you know? So...we'll see if anything comes of this, if not, I have these cool shoes that are really comfortable and I'm excited! :-D

I've never owne Nike before either, I don't really buy brand name stuff you know? So this is a first for me, and I"m not proud of it either...lol

where my shaver went. Has anyone seen it? My poor face looks like crap right now because I can't find my electric razor to shave all this junk off. Well...all but the "caterpillar" as it's referred to. :-) I love it so much, it's that thing on me right now that no one BUT me likes. Well, occasionally I'll have a friend who thinks it's awesome or thinks its funny, but Veronica, my whole family they all think it's dumb...and I love it!

It's just like my long hair when I had it for that 3+ years. My mom didn't like it at all, lol, and my dad didn't care. Veronica liked my long hair because that's how she knew me. My friends all thought it looked like shit too ;-) lol, but I loved it, and I still do. Everyone told me, "You're going to look back on your wedding photos and wish you didn't have that hair!" and I can honestly tell them that will never be the case. I loved my long hair and I was sad to see it go. I will forever look back on those pictures and the first year of Kaia's life and be glad I had my long hair :-) Right Doug? Though I do have to admit, Doug's long hair looks better than mine EVER did...but like I said, I loved it, and I don't care! :-)

I had to cut it off for the last play of my college career, and I did it. Then I grew it back :-D And I loved it again. Veronica liked me with my short hair and dind't really want me to grow it back, but didn't care that much. Then she liked it long again...I got some friends converted that second time to liking it long again, for some reason it grew a little different the second time and curled into me as it got longer and it looked pretty good...well to me! LOL

Then...I had to cut it again, for another show, and I did. After that I knew it wouldn't be pretty if I tried to grow it back, and I didn't have the patience, so I went the opposite way and buzz short cut it and I've kept it that way and I love it this short because it's NO work at all, ever, and it's so great to not have to worry about my hair anymore!

Most people say, "Hahahahaha, you're going bald!" or something like that, but you kno what? I'm looking forward to being bald, you can't make fun of me, because I want to be bald...it's even less work, and it'll be a distinguished bald. So, folks, I'm well aware I'm going bald...and I love it!

But so, since I don't have my hair anymore, I have the "caterpillar." I had the "caterpillar" when I had my long hair too, but I kept it so I have that going for me, and I know no one else that has it, so that's good.

Oh, that brings up an interesting point...when I had long hair, I knew no one else that had long hair...I cut my hair and EVERYONE starts growing out their hair. All of a sudden people at college have long hair, friends from my graduating class at high school have long hair...I must be a trend setter ;-)

I bet everyone is just waiting for me to cut the caterpillar for good so they can grow out theirs! LOL. Now I say cut it "for good" because I have to cut it every damn time I'm in a show, but I always grow it right back out. It's in the process of being grown out right now, it's a slow process, but it'll get there again :-)

So...completing the circle...does anyone know where my shaver is?! I need it back because I don't like hair anywhere else on my face except the "caterpillar," especially the mustache...UGH...don't like that at all, oh, and the bottom of face/top of neck area...that just looks gross.

By the way, does anyone know how HARD it is to shave around this huge adam's apple?! No...I don't think you do!

;-)

I went to my friend's church in West Des Moines of Jordan Creek Parkway again to sing in the choir. It's Lutheran Church of Hope and it's such a good church!

Now, I like church, it's not bad at all, I just don't like getting up in the morning to go to church, and if there's a church service on Saturday, I really don't feel like going Saturday either! But this church can change my mind!

The two times I've gone to Lutheran Church of Hope I've had to get up at 7 am or earlier to do so, and I was ok with that.

This church rocks! They have about 8-10 pastors and the two I saw preach for the two different Sundays were awesome! Both of the times I was there I met nothing but nice people, it was so refreshing. It's a lively church full of energy and hunger.

This church is HUGE. I believe even though it's only been around, I think less than a year, it is the largest Lutheran Church, maybe in Iowa. It's got over 4,000 members. It has tons of bible classes etc, it has about 8 services a day between contemporary and traditional and, like I said, about 8-10 pastors. It has a full gym in the basement and tons of rehearsal spaces and classrooms, etc. It's just awesome.

The first was intern Pastor Molly. Interestingly enough two of my best friends are in seminary up at Luther Seminary and they were in classes and studied alot with this Molly and now their both off doing their internships and she's here in Des Moines doing hers. She was a very good speaker. She just was impressive and loved what she was doing and carried it well, I was very impressed.

The second time I was there, yesterday, Pastor Mike was preaching and he was AWESOME. His sermon was SO good, it just...was great. They were still covering the book "Dream Giver" by Wilkinson I believe. He didn't just talk about the book though, he talked about the themes in there etc. and it was such a good service.

Oh then there's Pastor Richard who just ROCKS out on the organ. This dude is the best organist in the country, he has to be. Chris, my best friend who's the new choir director at this church and is why I have been going to sing, was a music major at college and he knows the organ and teaches lessons etc. and even he is blown away, he can't do anything Pastor Richard can. He such a fireball when you talk to him too, it's awesome.

We sang "Mary Did You Know?" and it was a beautiful arrangement.

The ONLY problem is it's 45 minutes away from home...which just isn't convenient in any way shape or form...and it makes me mad! So I've only gone up for when the choir sings so far.

I was saying in the car with V and our friends Allison and Chris that I loved the church and the sermons and Allison says, "That's just surprising to hear. I never really considered you a church person. I mean you're Christian and all, but you don't attend church reguarly." and I don't, I go to my church about 1 or 2 times a month, maybe. I went on to explain that I like church and I just don't like getting up early and I've never felt as awesome about a church until this one and so that's why. I also just don't like those psycho church people, who just talk non-stop about it and seem a little kookoo for cocoa puffs in the head. I don't like people who throw and stuff their religion down your throats, or who think their all high and mighty but are really the biggest hypocrites in the world...yeah, just don't like that.

I should mention that I will attend church reguarly when Kaia needs to go to Sunday school. As it is, we DO need to go more because she likes church even though she has no idea what it is, etc. She likes church and the singing and whatever else. I just wish I could find a church that makes me excited like Lutheran Church of Hope does.

Hmmm...maybe we'll just make the sacrafice and go there anyway...we'll have to see.

LOVED it today! Fantastic...remind me to tell you all about it, sorry, but I'm really tired right now...suffice to say it was excellent and I'm in a very good mood!

Meritt, you're awesome! Just wanted to throw that out there. :-)

Oh! And had a JSTT meeting tonight, something exciting there too, let me tell you about that tomorrow also. :-D

NOPE, zippo, nada, you suck, etc. etc.

Not that I even expected it after they turned me down for the other job, same department, for a girl that didn't go to college and scored 10s of points lower than me on every proficiency test we took. Whatever...

I got called in to HR's office and told I wasn't even getting an interview because they didn't think I had enough web experience.

Then a day later I get an e-mail from HR telling me the position was filled and that person is starting Monday...which means they probably never even considered me in the FIRST place...once again, NOT that I expected anything...

That's ok, I just wanted to get my resume in there so they could tell me I wasn't good enough, and I'll keep doing so for every job I'm qualified for but they don't hire me for until I find a better job somewhere else and I can tell them to fuck off! :-D

Last night, ladies and gentlemen, I made THE most PERFECT pan of Hamburger Helper.

It was amazing, revolutionary!

Kaia and I went to the grocery store to pick of some free beef (My dad and I placed in a golf tournament in Story City and won $100 in free beef certificates) and donuts and milk. :-)

Well, I get the beef back home and immediately start making supper. I put the beef in the pan with a little water and mash it into little pieces. Now mashing from a non-frozen pound of beef as you're browning it is perfect. It gets all nice and tender and there are no chunks of beef to cut up that you scraped off the solid frozen pound from the freezer. It is this perfect pound of ground beef, perfectly small, tender pieces. The rest is all out of the box and easy.

It gets done and it is SO good looking I was going to take a picture, but I have no digital camera, so I didn't.

YOu should have tasted it! Mmmmmm,mmmm,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Veronica doesn't like HH so I only make it when she's gone because Kaia and I like it.

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Has anyone tried Google's AdSense program? It's on the right hand side of the blogger dashboard. I looked into it just now and it seems I let them put some ads down the side or bottom of my blog and they pay me when people click on them...now wait a minute, how is that a bad thing?! Put a search engine on there too and the same results, money.

If someone can tell me how this is a bad thing I will think about not doing it, otherwise I might just go for it...

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Veronica has a theatre show tonight for her class and I have no babysitter...grrrr...my two friend from Des Moines are both doing something so can't come up to watch her, and I haven't heard back from my sister yet...ugh...I can't take Kaia with me because apparently there is mondo swearing and some killing in this here show.

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I'm singing this Sunday in my friend Chris' church choir again. Yay! And my OTHER Chris friend should be there and he is a tenor with me and him and Eric and I were the three first tenors at Waldorf College and we had a hoot all two years we were together before I graduated, and they were sad the next year when I wasn't there anymore. Some of the best times I've ever had with those two guys, so I'm excited to sing with Chris again. We're singing a choir arrangement of "Mary Did You Know?"

I love that song, so that should be good! Meritt, want to bring the fam to a different church this Sunday morning? :-) Doug/Jody?

I couldn't get into damn blogger till just now, so I'm not sure what to say anymore.

I have some articles to share, I have some stories to share...

Here's the articles...I'm sorry, they just make me so frustrated, it's hard to know what to say about something like this...

President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned


'We have to protect people'

President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned. Gary Taylor meets the politician in charge of making it happen

Thursday December 9, 2004
The Guardian


What should we do with US classics like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or The Color Purple? "Dig a hole," Gerald Allen recommends, "and dump them in it." Don't laugh. Gerald Allen's book-burying opinions are not a joke.

Earlier this week, Allen got a call from Washington. He will be meeting with President Bush on Monday. I asked him if this was his first invitation to the White House. "Oh no," he laughs. "It's my fifth meeting with Mr Bush."

Bush is interested in Allen's opinions because Allen is an elected Republican representative in the Alabama state legislature. He is Bush's base. Last week, Bush's base introduced a bill that would ban the use of state funds to purchase any books or other materials that "promote homosexuality". Allen does not want taxpayers' money to support "positive depictions of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle". That's why Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker have got to go.

I ask Allen what prompted this bill. Was one of his children exposed to something in school that he considered inappropriate? Did he see some flamingly gay book displayed prominently at the public library?

No, nothing like that. "It was election day," he explains. Last month, "14 states passed referendums defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman". Exit polls asked people what they considered the most important issue, and "moral values in this country" were "the top of the list".

"Traditional family values are under attack," Allen informs me. They've been under attack "for the last 40 years". The enemy, this time, is not al-Qaida. The axis of evil is "Hollywood, the music industry". We have an obligation to "save society from moral destruction". We have to prevent liberal libarians and trendy teachers from "re-engineering society's fabric in the minds of our children". We have to "protect Alabamians".

I ask him, again, for specific examples. Although heterosexuals are apparently an endangered species in Alabama, and although Allen is a local politician who lives a couple miles from my house, he can't produce any local examples. "Go on the internet," he recommends. "Some time when you've got a week to spare," he jokes, "just go on the internet. You'll see."

Actually, I go on the internet every day. But I'm obviously searching for different things. For Allen, the web is just the largest repository in history of urban myths. The internet is even better than the Bible when it comes to spreading unverifiable, unrefutable stories. And urban myths are political realities. Remember, it was an urban myth (an invented court case about a sex education teacher gang-raped by her own students who, when she protested, laughed and said: "But we're just doing what you taught us!") that all but killed sex education in America.

Since Allen couldn't give me a single example of the homosexual equivalent of 9/11, I gave him some. This autumn the University of Alabama theatre department put on an energetic revival of A Chorus Line, which includes, besides "tits and ass", a prominent gay solo number. Would Allen's bill prevent university students from performing A Chorus Line? It isn't that he's against the theatre, Allen explains. "But why can't you do something else?" (They have done other things, of course. But I didn't think it would be a good idea to mention their sold-out productions of Angels in America and The Rocky Horror Show.)

Cutting off funds to theatre departments that put on A Chorus Line or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may look like censorship, and smell like censorship, but "it's not censorship", Allen hastens to explain. "For instance, there's a reason for stop lights. You're driving a vehicle, you see that stop light, and I hope you stop." Who can argue with something as reasonable as stop lights? Of course, if you're gay, this particular traffic light never changes to green.

It would not be the first time Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ran into censorship. As Nicholas de Jongh documents in his amusingly appalling history of government regulation of the British theatre, the British establishment was no more enthusiastic, half a century ago, than Alabama's Allen. "Once again Mr Williams vomits up the recurring theme of his not too subconscious," the Lord Chamberlain's Chief Examiner wrote in 1955. In the end, it was first performed in London at the New Watergate Club, for "members only", thereby slipping through a loophole in the censorship laws.

But more than one gay playwright is at a stake here. Allen claims he is acting to "encourage and protect our culture". Does "our culture" include Shakespeare? I ask Allen if he would insist that copies of Shakespeare's sonnets be removed from all public libraries. I point out to him that Romeo and Juliet was originally performed by an all-male cast, and that in Shakespeare's lifetime actors and audiences at the public theatres were all accused of being "sodomites". When Romeo wished he "was a glove upon that hand", the cheek that he fantasised about kissing was a male cheek. Next March the Alabama Shakespeare festival will be performing a new production of As You Like It, and its famous scene of a man wooing another man. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is also the State Theatre of Alabama. Would Allen's bill cut off state funding for Shakespeare?

"Well," he begins, after a pause, "the current draft of the bill does not address how that is going to be handled. I expect details like that to be worked out at the committee stage. Literature like Shakespeare and Hammet [sic] could be left alone." Could be. Not "would be". In any case, he says, "you could tone it down". That way, if you're not paying real close attention, even a college graduate like Allen himself "could easily miss" what was going on, the "subtle" innuendoes and all.

So he regards his gay book ban as a work in progress. His legislation is "a single spoke in the wheel, it doesn't resolve all the issues". This is just the beginning. "To turn a big ship around it takes a lot of time."

But make no mistake, the ship is turning. You can see that on the face of Cornelius Carter, a professor of dance at Alabama and a prize-winning choreographer who, not long ago, was named university teacher of the year for the entire US. Carter is black. He is also gay, and tired of fighting these battles. "I don't know," he says, "if I belong here any more."

Forty years ago, the American defenders of "our culture" and "traditional values" were opposing racial integration. Now, no politician would dare attack Cornelius Carter for being black. But it's perfectly acceptable to discriminate against people for what they do in bed.

"Dig a hole," Gerald Allen recommends, "and dump them in it."

Of course, Allen was talking about books. He was just talking about books. He never said anything about pink triangles.


So, if they don't want children and anyone, I guess, to learn or be influenced by homosexuality because it's "bad" or whatever, then they should take out all books and drama that has to do with murder or rape or incest or, for some people, black culture, people think that is wrong too...you know, where should you go with this?

I don't know, that's not all I have to say, but I'll just stop there.

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Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker

Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
KIM CHANDLER
News staff writer
MONTGOMERY - An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.

A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, would prohibit the use of public funds for "the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the "homosexual agenda."

"Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle," Allen said in a press conference Tuesday.

Allen said that if his bill passes, novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural would have to be removed from library shelves and destroyed.

"I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them," he said.

A spokesman for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center called the bill censorship.

"It sounds like Nazi book burning to me," said SPLC spokesman Mark Potok.

Allen pre-filed his bill in advance of the 2005 legislative session, which begins Feb. 1.

If the bill became law, public school textbooks could not present homosexuality as a genetic trait and public libraries couldn't offer books with gay or bisexual characters.

When asked about Tennessee Williams' southern classic "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," Allen said the play probably couldn't be performed by university theater groups.

Allen said no state funds should be used to pay for materials that foster homosexuality. He said that would include nonfiction books that suggest homosexuality is acceptable and fiction novels with gay characters. While that would ban books like "Heather has Two Mommies," it could also include classic and popular novels with gay characters such as "The Color Purple," "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Brideshead Revisted."

The bill also would ban materials that recognize or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of Alabama. Allen said that meant books with heterosexual couples committing those acts likely would be banned, too.

His bill also would prohibit a teacher from handing out materials or bringing in a classroom speaker who suggested homosexuality was OK, he said.

Allen has sponsored legislation to make a gay marriage ban part of the Alabama Constitution, but it was not approved by the Legislature.

Ken Baker, a board member of Equality Alabama, a gay rights organization, said Allen was "attempting to become the George Wallace of homosexuality."

Aside from the moral debates, the bill could be problematic for library collections, said Jaunita Owes, director of the Montgomery City-County Library, which is a few blocks from the Alabama Capitol.

"Half the books in the library could end up being banned. It's all based on how one interprets the material," Owes said.

Canada's Supreme Court Allows Same-Sex Marriage

Here is the whole article:

Religious Groups Not Required To Marry Gay Couples

POSTED: 10:39 am EST December 9, 2004

Canada's highest court said Thursday the government can redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, but it added that religious officials cannot be forced to perform unions against their beliefs.

The ruling brings to the final stages a long, bitter fight over whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry in Canada.

Judges in six provinces and one territory have already overturned the traditional definition, allowing thousands of same-sex weddings.

Canada would join Belgium and the Netherlands in allowing gay marriage if the government acts to make it legal nationwide.

The legislation also needs approval of the House of Commons.

Now if THAT isn't a catchy title!

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Laptops May Harm Men's Fertility

P.S. I don't ever have my laptop on my lap, it's always on the desk, phew!

We had a former NBA basketball player that had apparently been into drugs come into our high school and talk about drugs and how he got off them etc. etc.

Well he said something in the speech that me and my friends laugh and we'll never forget it, and the way he said it, which won't translate over to type, "I was stylin' and profilin' with my big head and my bad attitude and I said, 'Hey Mr. Basketball Man, whatcha doin?!'"

Oh, it was hilarious!

Anyway, I always think of "stylin' and profilin'" and today I am indeed stylin' and profilin' with my light khaki high water pants on with dirt all over them from leaning against the car to scrape the frost off and my white socks...oh bessie, I'm stylin' and profilin' today! :-)

There is this person at work that I used to consider an "ok" friend. We would chat and talk about life and family and things were good. Then said worker goes and gets a new job with more responsibility. Well that's ok, I was proud of said worker.

But now, said worked wont even barely give me the time of day. Said worker will be flying down the hallways and said worker's desk is a mess and said worker is always in meetings and doing this and doing that and is all happily frazzeled. Well, said worker is the "I'm so cool for being so busy look at me, look at me" worker.

The one that doesn't have to act the way they are, they just want to seem so cool for being so busy and somehow gets off on it. Yeah, said worker may be busy but they can't be busy every second of the day. I know that when said worker had the other job said worker had that said worker would slack off to no end, everyone slacks off a little, but said worker made it an art, but then also got their work done too. So it's not like said worker likes to work so hard, so it is in my opinion that said worker is enjoying her new position and the esteem it brings with showing everyone how busy they are and how much responsibility they have.

I had told said worker in one of the brief moments I got to share with them about the new Josh Groban CD/DVD because said worker and daughter love him and wnet to see him in concert, etc. Said worker had never heard it was out but was genuinely excited and was going to get for daughter.

So today I ask said worker if they'd checked into the CD yet and as said worker rushed by me said "Nope, not enough time in the day."

Ohhhh, come on! Said workers other half makes a crapload of money, you don't do THAT much at home, especially with daughter at college now and only one kid left in the house and you're telling me you don't have enough time in the day to check out a CD? Riiiiiiight "too cool" said worker!

Ah well, whatcha gonna do?

The phenom is Josh Groban. I'm sure you are all aware of who he is, but I just wanted to share my love of Josh.

I discovered Josh Groban years ago while I was watching Jay Leno randomly and this boyishly good-looking young man was singing a kick ass song with a kick ass voice. I didn't catch his name and vowed to find out who it was, I just knew it was someone I shouldn't forget. I have since picked up everything he has put out.

He has his self-titled debut album out with the most famous song on there being "To Where You Are" but there's also "The Prayer" with Charlotte Church, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Starry, Starry Night"

His live PBS concert is on DVD with bonus CD of some of the songs from the special and "O, Holy Night"

Closer, his second album which has his famous song, "You Raise Me Up"

His live DVD of his 1st tour this year just came out, with bonus CD...I'm getting it for Christmas so I don't know what's on it for sure without looking on the internet

He was in Chess for a one-night only AIDS benefit concert on Broadway -- he played the Russian, Anatoly -- VERY good job

He had a recurring role on Alley McBeal - caught those re-runs with my TiVo -- very good too!

He is also currently on tour still

Sang "Believe" on the Polar Express soundtrack. Apparently it's played during the ending credits, but I haven't seen the movie. I have heard the song on the radio though and it's not near as good as his songs from his albums and live DVDs so get those instead.

He was discovered by producer/pianist/etc. David Foster and was taking lessons from him at age 17 (he's now 23) when Andrea Bocelli (famous operatic tenor) couldn't make it to dress rehearsals for the '99 Grammys where he was performing "The Prayer" with Celine Dion so David Foster brought in Josh Groban to fill in during rehearsal with Celine Dion -- very impressive, and he just took off from there.

Now to the GOOD story :-) The story that makes me smile non-stop :-)

V, myself and a friend of ours were at the Aerosmith concert in Ames (didn't know when we got our tickets that Josh's concert was the next night or I would have spent my money on that instead!) and I knew by this time that Josh's concert was the next night. Well, were just sitting there waiting for the concert to start and I'm perusing the floor of the auditorium just seeing what's going on and all of a sudden I fricking see Josh walk in with some people and his girlfriend, January!!! I FREAK OUT because I absolutely love him and so I hit V and Allison and I say, "It's Josh Groban, it's Josh Groban, he's down on the floor, look, look!" and I finally get them to see him and so THEY'RE excited because they love him too and so I say,"Ok, on the count of three we yell 'HEY JOSH' and wave our arms about!" and so we agree to do so.

I count one, two, three, "HEY JOSH!" I start waving my arms waving my hands "HI!" and he looks up and you can tell he is surprised that someone at an Aerosmith concert knows who he is. I'm grinning from ear to ear, V and Allison are doing the same, he looks up, smiles, waves back and then goes about his normal business.

Ah............ :-) I waved at Josh Groban! and he waved back! :-) Best "famous person" story of my life. If I wasn't in the damn balcony area I would have ran to the wall and seen if I could reach down and shake his hand.

His concert is rolling through MNPLS again, and Sioux City, in February of '05 and I want to be at it so bad!

He's amazing, if you don't know his music you need to. Go to your local record store and get some of his CDs, you wont regret it. Go to www.joshgroban.com and check it out. There are whole complete songs on there to listen to as well. Give it a try!

Picture time:

First CD

Second CD

Live PBS concert with bonus CD

Live Tour DVD with bonus CD

Can I tell you how excited I am about this?!




Monty Python's Spamalot
A hilarious and haphazard musical search for the Holy Grail courtesy of the Monty Python boys.


Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail in song, Monty Python's Spamalot features "a chorus line of legless knights, men in tights (with legs), killer rabbits and sexy dancing divas." The production also promises "some of the most unforgettable musical numbers you will ever see in the theater on this evening!"
If you haven't figured it out already, Spamalot is an adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the 1975 film that is the best loved and most successful of the Monty Python screen ventures. This outrageous new musical stars Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as King Arthur, David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) as Sir Robin and Hank Azaria as Sir Lancelot. Tony and Academy Award-winner Mike Nichols will serve as director.

Prior to its New York premiere, Spamalot will play a pre-Broadway engagement at Chicago's Shubert Theatre from December 21, 2004 through January 23, 2005.



Tim Curry - King Arthur
Christopher Sieber - Sir Galahad
Hank Azaria - Sir Lancelot
David Hyde Pierce - Sir Robin
Steve Rosen - Sir Bedevere
Michael McGrath - Patsy
Sara Ramirez - Lady of the Lake


Book by Eric Idle
Based on the Screenplay by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
Music and Lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez
Directed by Mike Nichols
Choreography by Casey Nicholaw
Set and Costume Design by Tim Hatley
Lighting Design by Hugh Vanstone
Sound Design by ACME Sound Partners

So, what do you do when you don't want to be at work, but you don't want to be at home either?

When someone who's suppose to comfort you pisses you off?

When everyday normal tasks piss you off?

WHEN THE GODDAMN PHONE WONT STOP RINGING AND IM SUPPOSE TO BE ON LUNCH

FUCK

How can I lash out like this when this is one of the exact examples of what I'm pissed about?

But why do I always have to be the calm one? But no matter what I do it isn't good enough and it doesn't work? I don't always want to be the rock, sometimes I want there to be two rocks...jesus christ, just get your act together and grow up.

But how can I say that when I'm being the exact same way right now? Though I'm not like this 24/7. I'm sure there are times when I'm actually not helping, or things I could do better, but give me a damn break. Grow up...jeez...sometimes I just want to be through, but I know that's not the answer, all will come to pass, we can get through the hard times, but there needs to be effort on both sides of the fence.

I need to grow up too, but I don't think it's fair the situation I'm constantly put in...but life's not fair. Life's a bitch and then you die, right?

Hey...I'm not taking this post off, so deal with it, I am.

That's why my little "mood dude" on the right is musical! I sang Sunday night with my sister for a church community Christmas concert sort of thing. We sang "The Prayer" as sung by either Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli or Josh Groban & Charlotte Church, whichever you're familiar with. It's a very beautiful song, I love it a lot.

I love singing a lot, I mean, more than I can probably begin to describe. There is all kinds of singing too, that's what's so damn great! Singing is almost like sex for me, it leaves me that satisfied (well, you know, not physically or anything, but you get the phrasology.)

Solos -- are fantastic how can you not feel good about yourself after you finish and damn good solo? I love listening to soloist too, but I do have a confession to make, I like listening to a male soloist leaps and bounds more than I do a female soloist. I just like male voices better, the timbre, the clarity, the range, it's pleasing to the ear. Not that I have a problem with female soloist, I just prefer the male voice. It's all around too, it's not just for solos. I prefer a chorus of men, men's acapella, but let's not digress into other kinds of singing just yet, I'm breaking them up into categories folks!

Acapella -- can I tell you my love and fascination with acapella music? I love it very much! Someday I tell you, someday, I will be in an acapella group. I have my best friend, Chris, and then another good friend, also Chris, that we are all very much musically inclined, that's what Chris and Chris majored in at college, and I would have had things gone differently, and so then we have us three and then we need one more to make a nice acapella group with tight, tight, 4-part harmony. I would helm the 1st tenor position, Chris Y. would be 2nd tenor and Chris V. would be baritone, so we need a nice strong deep bass and we've got it ready to go! We've talked about it before, many times, we just need to actually do it. Acapella is beautiful, and you know why it's beautiful? 1.) It has NO accompaniment, it's amazing with no piano or instruments of any kind, just the voices, 2.) It has tight, tight, spot on harmonies. MAN, you just can't beat a nice tight harmony of notes in chords no normal person would dream of. It's hard to explain, but it's the best sound in the world.

Choir -- oh boy do I miss choir. Once again, it's the tight harmony and blend of voices and chords and notes that if sung right just makes you want to cry! It gives you goosebumps and makes the hair stand on end. I felt that way at Waldorf in our college choir and in "Christopher" our smaller elite choir. It just produces some of the most beautiful sounds in the world. So much on a different scale from acapella and solos. The blending and togetherness of mass amounts of people. That unity of voices, the big booming power of choirs is AMAZING, and then the next minute they're all so quiet and beautiful...simply rewarding to listen to.

Duets -- just the feeling of blending your voice with one others. I've felt it many times, with another man and with another woman, I've done both. Traditionally with another woman and you can sing some of the most beautiful songs in the world. Love songs, how can you beat that? Those composers just know what they're writing and it's great. I have sung a duet with my friend Nathaniel before and it was some amazing, powerful music. We sang "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and let me tell you, oh, it was fun!

Small groups -- different from acapella because you have instrumental behind you. It's such a great feeling too! Like I mentioned above we had "Christopher" at college. It was, give or take, 2-3 people per part and we sang all kinds of music. It's such a different take on choir, but it's just choir on a smaller scale. But you really feel you're part of something with so few voices combining to make that sound. You really get to connect with the others and make beautiful music for everyone.

You know, we sing because we love to do it and it feels good, but really, at least for me, we're giving the music to everyone. Don't you feel good when you're listening to beautiful music? DOn't you forget about others things? As much as I do it for myself, which I do because it's so beautiful and feels so good, I do it for that reason too, because it makes people feel good and it's a beautiful thing to share.

I auditioned for the Soldiers Chorus right out of college, I didn't get the job, but that would have been a dream come true. No, I wouldn't have been fighting the bad guys, but I would have been in the service and I would have been a professional musician/singer. The fact that someone was willing to pay me to sing, it just made me giddy. However, everyone in that chorus was in their late 20's to late 40's and 98% had music degrees, so I was aware I didn't stand much of a chance! Maybe someday though...

So, that was just a small taste of why I love singing so much. As I said before, it's impossible to put into words why I love it or all the positive experience I have had in singing and people that sing, etc. etc. just impossible to try and explain. I"m sure you all have that feeling for whatever you have that makes you feel the same way and you may know what it feels like then. I just hit the top of the iceberg on explaining things as well, too many things to go into, I dind't even touch on musical theatre I just realized! Another day, my friend, another day. Ask me someday how I got to be a 1st tenor, it's a pretty interesting story, and one that those that are musically inclined find hard to believe.

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aaahhhhh....that was a good laugh...

Got a letter stuck to my door this weekend that said "Hey, we're the new company, we're taking over for the old company that owned these apartments, nice to meet us!"

Now, that may not be a big deal to the average person, but it is to us.

We were getting $100 a MONTH off of the normal rent on the apartment we have. Now doing the quick math you would come up with $1200/year that is saving us! We have that because I know the woman that works for Ev Cochrane & Assoc. and she talked to good 'ol Ev himself and got us that deal...pretty nifty huh?! I actually know someone and got to do something about it, instead of always hearing how other people get through parts of life by knowing people! :-)

So, anyway, as you have figured out that means we won't get that deal anymore in August when our lease is up...or does it? I don't know, I don't know who to talk to about this or what to do. This is a damn nice apartment for what we're paying. This last August we did a two day search for a new apartment because we didn't like the fact that we pay for ALL utilities, they don't pay for ANY. Which SUCKS. But...everything else about the apartment is nice (well, the managers SUCK and the people above us about made me bust a nut and go up there and beat the living shit out of them, but that's a different story and they're gone now so it's ok) but it's a very nice apartment, and after our two day search...NOTHING. I think we have the best apartment for our money budget, and now we may not have it after this August.

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a house...but, money...not gonna happen...damn money, so...not sure what exactly to do right this moment, I guess look for apartments again. A nice townhouse or something would be nice, there are some right down the street from us, I'm just afraid they're about $200-$500 more than we can pay...grrr face....

For Gamecube

< geek >
and I'm excited about that!

Here's a little taste:














It looks SO much better than Mario Party 5!!

Go Here for the movie sample!

< /geek >

Yeah, baby! After a bit of help and a little experimenting on my own, I now have it the way I want it! Woooohoooo, funny little bird dude is there.

Thanks to 3-D Artist for all the cool 3-D pictures including this bird and a funny mouse I need to show you and then a bunch of other pictures I saved to make as a nice screen saver.

Excellent... :-D

I can't get that damn thing in the top left corner of my blog to turn into a picture I want on there. I have tried various things based of another bloggers source code, since they have the same blog as mine...no luck, all I can do is get it to be blank.

Me thinks I'm dumb...

Canker sores...hate...

I wanted to write about a couple of things quick

Monday night my best friend and I watched Bader Santa with Billy Bob Thornton. OMG, I haven't laughed like that in AGES. I mean, I laugh a lot, I have a good time in life, but that was HYSTERICALLY funny. Maybe because it was two guys together being immature and loving it, but it was SO funny. I might have to make a purchase just so I can laugh again at that movie. Though I suppose my theory might be true, and it won't be as funny unless it's with him. But still, the fact remains, it was an awesome movie. It even pulled at the 'ol heartstrings too, with the kid and all and him becoming attached and what not and what have you. A+ for that movie.

Sunday night my best friend and I watched Walking tall with Duane "The Rock" Johnson and Johnny Knoxville. Sweet movie dude. It's a typical guy movie, but we both enjoyed it very much. The one dude's arm gets busted the wrong way, oooooh that's GOT to hurt. It has it's funny moments too and the action is, of course, awesome. A for that movie.

I do have a secret to revel to you all...there's rarely a movie I don't like. I don't know what it is, I think it might be that I can just tell what I'm going to like and what I'm not going to like, so I only end up watching good movies. But I've seen my fair share of movies and I just like them all. People walk out of a movie and say "Eh, I dind't like it blah blah blah blah" and I just liked it. I DO know that it has to do with me immersing myself into the plot and the characters. This is a much better explained in person situation, but the long and short of it is, I don't go to critique I go to enjoy a movie and I just throw myself into what I'm watching and get attached and yell at the movie and tell the characters what to do and what not to do and I get emotionally involved. Now some psychiatrist and come voodoo me all they want, but I like that I do that, it makes life all the more interesting when you have some good entertainment and you don't have to critique all the time. I do enough heavy thinking without having to do it with movies and plays and musicals.

Golldarnit, I forgot the other thing I was going to talk about. That's so frustrating...

This isn't it but...Going grocery shopping tonight...it's always an adventure when V wants to buy this and that and I don't want to spend the money but want it to and end up getting it anyway. And she wants those things and I don't understand why we need them, etc. etc. :-) We have SUCH a perfect relationship. *roll eyes here* ;-)

My sister has no voice and we're suppose to sing "The Prayer" on Sunday, we'll see if that has to be cancelled then.

I have some chocolate donuts sitting here begging to be eaten, but I'm going to try to hold of till 2:30-3:00 area.

Ok, I'll stop typing since I can't remember the other thing I was going to say!