On the Stage

Dirty Jack Cash


You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

lol...sorry! I haven't been playing Whizball non stop, just posted that real quick on Friday because it's an addicting game, I am here, alive, doing well.

All is well. I have started rehearsals now and have been busy at work with getting all the stuff ready for adjuster schools. I've had free time, just haven't really felt like posting, no particular reason :-)

Stuff about houses and trying to break leases, all things I could talk about. Found a cool place but breaking our lease was too complicated so, alas, we are in our apartment until July 31st, which, hopefully by then we will have found a HOUSE. If not, this place we almost got will be back open Aug. 1. But we'd much rather find a HOUSE.

Still waiting to hear on one job I'm really interested in. Haven't got a call for an interview, but I haven't got a fuck you very much letter yet, either. It's a job at a church in Ames, it would be a GREAT job, and I just found out they have a preschool there, so that would be fantastic...but, I don't hold out too much hope for getting an interview knowing my luck. Even though I deserve one and I put in a kick ass application (you had to answer three questions in essay format and I talked myself up to no end!)

Rehearsals are going well, tiring, but well. I'm excited for the show still, just a little apprehensive.

Kaia is going great, she is a beautiful girl, smart, funny as always.

Veronica is doing great, she is assitant directing the show so she's excited to be involved in that way.

Thanks for coming in and checking on me even when I don't post for 4 days...and leave you with some shitty posts before I leave too! I will now try to head off to your blogs, which I haven't read since Friday.

I absolutely LOVE this game Whizzball!

You should go check it out. Give it a chance, try an easy puzzle first and get your mind used to how you need to think to figure the puzzles out. It took me about 3 games, looking at some hard ones too by using the clue button to show me how they did it and now I'm hooked and I love it!

I have made three puzzles myself, you'll need to search by author and look up theatretenor to find the three I've made.

Then, let me know if you love it or not in the comments...because, I love it!

Remember the last time our apartment had a fire alarm? Remember that controversy...?

We had one AGAIN at 10:30 pm on Wednesday night -- this time the staff could be reached and it was turned off within a half hour

We had one AGAIN at 11:45 pm last night -- the staff could also be reached this time and it was turned off within a half hour

I hate our stupid apartment managers and our apartments in general.

Oh yes...dead sexy! 

Don't I belong in the GQ magazine?  

Hey folks, I have a job working on a web site. I'm doing it for free and I'm working on it with a buddy of mine who's also involved with JSTT, but JSTT's web site needs major work and so he and I are going to do it and make it smokin' and we'll feel good about ourselves and it'll look good on our resumes! :-) Wish me luck! He knows a bit more than me too, so it'll be good to learn from him.

Ok, so I just got my router security locked so no one can steal our Internet anymore, but boy do I feel good!

Yesterday I was having "conflicting IP address" warning coming across my computer, so to me it seems like someone is messing with my Interent. And it was always "Aquiring Network Address" and that's not normal.

So, I call up D-Link. Surprisingly the guy's not from India (do you call people from India Indian?) but he did have an accent, so who knows where he was from. He talks me through it, it took all of 10 minutes and it was done and I know how to do it in the future and I did it myself to V's computer.

The last time I tried this it took an hour and then things ended up getting all fucked up anyway and so I hung up and fixed it so it was working at 54 mbps and unsecure, but at least it was working.

So, as you can tell I was hesitant to call, but I did, and all works fantastic.

Did I tell you about 2 weeks ago at 1 in the morning page 2 of SOMEONE ELSE'S college paper printed on our printer? Yeah, since our printer is wireless it's running through our router and someone must have somehow accessed our printer, though lord knows why they'd want to.

Which reminds me, our printer wont ever turn on, and I don't know why...gotta fix that.

I hate our apartment, despise it with all my heart. It's small, messy and it just sucks, I hate it. There's no play space, no color space, no creative space, no space for anything.

Therefore, when I get home I'm never motivated to do anything...and I hate that too. I wish there was something Kaia and I could do besides let her play by herself and/or color or read books, or play hide and seek, but there isn't.

I'm not creative enough to think up things or projects for us to do, nor do we have anything but the supper table to do it on. We have crayons, markers, tape, glue, colored paper. Anytime we go to a store, I buy something, so that doesn't work. I hate being holed up in our apartment all the time, but it's cold outside, there's nothing else to do.

I need help being motivated stuck in a little shithole apartment. Can you's peoples help me get motivated? Please...I'm going nuts.

The Wedding

Well, we sang at the wedding this weekend. It went very well! We were spot on and everyone in the wedding party LOVED it, so that felt good. I got to see a couple of my high schoolmates that weekend too, so that was nice.

The groom's side of the family is ITALIAN through and through. Like, 100% Italian, and half of our song was in Italian, and we dind't know they were Italian until we got there for rehearsal! So that was interesting, but Grandma could speak Italian and she said she could understand most of it, so that was cool.

The groom's dad, who owns a fairly large business in Des Moines and who is part of a large Italian family, liked us so much that he took our name and # so he could call us again when someone else was getting married, so they could have that song! Wow! That was pretty neat, felt good.

I forgot to take a picture of me looking striking in my new suit! Sorry...maybe I'll put it on tonight and have V take a picture of me.

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Raising Tuition in Iowa Univeristies

I don't like this. They said on the radio that they're rasining tuition because Iowa government (or something, I forget) is short on money.

So........to get money your going to make it more expensive to get an education?! You DON'T want kids going to college because they can't afford it or don't want to be in debt the rest of their lives? is that it? Is that the reasoning? because if it is, I sure don't get it.

If ANYTHING, I would like to see the tuition LOWERED, so more people can go to college. It's starting to become a luxury to go to college. Am I the only one that feels this?

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No blogging over the weekend

Gosh, I sure feel like I miss a lot when I neither blog nor check blogger over the weekend.

My weekends are always just jam packed and so I don't get to the Internet. I DO have Internet at home, and at my parents house, I just don't get to blogging, don't have the time to sit and blog.

Every Monday morning I feel like I'm so far behind there's no use in trying to catch up! It's disenchanting.

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NCAA Basketball....how 'f'ed up is that!? So many upsets...my brackets are just shot to hell in two of the conferences. I"m doing O.K. in the other two though, I predicted a couple of the upsets right, but the majority really messed me up.

Like Kansas losing
Like Wake Forest losing
Like Wis. of Milwaukee winning
Like Oklahoma losing
Like Georgia Tech losing

but despite all that, I'm still doing semi-good. Sorta...lol, but who really is doing well with their brackets anymore?!

This is what people on Fox News have to say? I guess I'm glad I don't watch then.

Gays can't have kids — other than going to the abandoned kids store and getting one or two, or borrowing sperm from someone with more sperm than brains — so by definition they're out of the marriage game.

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Here is the article in it's entirety:

The Basic Idea of Marriage Is to Raise Kids
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
By John Gibson

A word about gay marriage: As you might have heard, a judge in San Francisco has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the state of California to ban gay marriage (search). That means all those same sex couples who were married by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom can go back to thinking they are married.

Now, just to be clear on this, those same sex couples are something, but I am quite sure it is not married.

Why? Because marriage is something men and women do. They don't always do it well — you only have to look at the divorce rate, or the number of pregnant women killed by their spouse to realize that. But, nonetheless, for all its imperfections, for all the gory fun of divorce court, it is something that men and women do.

Why is it just men and women? Because since history has been recorded, chipped in stone, inked onto papyrus, scribed into great books or printed on your ink jet, the basic idea behind marriage has been to set up a system for the raising of kids.

The first knuckle-dragging people recognized they didn't want to raise their kids like the monkeys, so they set up another system.

Gays can't have kids — other than going to the abandoned kids store and getting one or two, or borrowing sperm from someone with more sperm than brains — so by definition they're out of the marriage game.


In theory, so would couples who get married in their eighties. Chances are good that no kids come out of that holy union. But it is at least theoretically possible. Not so with gays.

Now, gay couples should have certain rights of marriage — inheritance, insurance, visitation — all that lawyerly stuff.

But they should take the advice of a friend of mine who said he'd defend gays against any form of discrimination, but they had to pick a new word — marriage is taken.

Now what about this ruling that gay marriage is legal from the judge in San Francisco?

Well what about it? He's a judge in San Francisco — of course he says gay marriage is constitutional. You think he could live there if he said otherwise?

As they say in Jersey: "Fuhgedaboutit!"

That's My Word.

Eh, I don't like the ruling. I don't think it's going to stop meth producers in the slightest bit. All it's going to do is make normal people like us have to sign a log book, show our ID and spin in a circle three times to try and fight our cold.

Merrit, Jody, Doug -- I would think you wouldn't like this rule, am I right?

I FINALLY got around to watching the first episode on my TiVo last night.

It was SOOOOOO good.

I just found myself rivited to the TV. A guy who is #3 in the world, Peter Malfredo Jr. considered one of the top boxers if not the top boxer in that show, got challenged by Alfonso Gomez, a boxer from Mexico who is considered one of the weaker contestant.

Alfonso Gomez's team, the West team, won the challenge and got to pick a boxer from their team and a boxer from the East team to go head to head. They were going to pick one of their weaker boxers and one of East's weaker boxers, but Alfonso looks over at their boxer of choice and can tell this dude is scared and doesn't want to do it, so he pipes up.

"I can tell he doesn't want to do it and I want to take on Malfredo"

He wanted to go up against a stronger opponent. He wanted to show that they can be beat and he wanted to prove himself.

When they announced their boxers of choice, Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Lenoard were both like "I can't believe it. I don't get it, but ok"

Malfredo has a wife and little 3 or 4 year old daughter. They come to see his fight, the first fight his daughter has ever seen. (I would NEVER let my daughter watch me box if I was a boxer) Malfredo, mind you, is 22-0, and Gomez is like 14-6 or something like that.

Everytime a contender boxes his win or loss goes on his record, it's not just some competition where it doesn't matter in the real world. When someone like Malfredo comes to this competition he is putting his perfect record on the line.

They got all the families, who had them, of the contenders put up in houses around L.A. so they could be there with their husband/daddy, so that's why the family was there.

THey did this whole montage on Malfredo's family and how much he loves them and how much he was thinkign about the fight and when his little one came into the locker room about an hour before the fight, she started crying. It was SO sad, I didn't want him to lose.

But I was SO rooting for Alfonso, just the nicest guy who has all the good kind of confidence in himself. Very determined, very rooted in his family. They had a montage of him with his Mom and Dad and brother. His dad was a boxer too. I wanted him, the big underdog, to win too.

So they fight, and alfonso just WHOOPS up on Malfredo in the first round. And they show Sylvester and Sugar Ray and everyone who is just liek "What they hell?! Where did this come from??" and then in the second round Malfredo whoops up on Alfonso, gives him a cut under his eye and all that. THen in the third round it's a tie, they both did well. In the fourth and final round, Alfonso comes out and just takes Malfredo to town, and Malfredo knows he just not going to win, you can tell, his team can tell and his family can tell.

So Alfonso ends up winning...it was SUCH a good fight and SUCH a good show.

They show Malfredo in the shower afterwards and he's crying and he's not mad at Alfonso he's just disappointed in himself and he talks about that, and it's sad.

This show GOT me, so now I have to make sure the other 2 shows that have aired so far don't delete so I can watch them.

I certainly do. I try to have intelligent conversations, but I just don't think I can do it. I don't know enough about political or governmental things to do it, yet I try to run with the big boys. I think I'm going to stop now. I used to just keep every opinion of mine to myself, when did I decide that it was ok for me to share my opinions?

Honestly, I don't like getting into skirmishes, I don't like getting all red and hot in the face because I tried to assert myself and now may be shot down, I just don't like confrontation, so I have just kept most everything to myself.

I just don't feel like my opinions are ever validated. Like I'm a little school boy the older kids just brush aside as not worth their time.

I feel like if I share opinions contrary to what my friends believe that I will lose them as friends. I also feel like if my friend gets another friend that I'll fall in the ranks and then be gone from their friendship, or they'll find something they like about that other person better. I start looking at that other person and wanting to be like them because they obviously do some things better than you if they got the attention of your friend. This isn't normal behavior...

Maybe it's because the only time, recently, I have tried sharing my opinions is when I felt compelled to in regards to something I didn't agree with, or didn't like. Maybe if I start sharing my opinions on things that everyone else shares the same opinions on then I'll be safe! :-)

Ok, enough serious Lars, but hey, I haven't had a post like this in a while, so :-P!

In other news, I'm excited about wearing my suit this weekend!

I'm also excited about my first rehearsal for the quartet tonight...I shall let y'all know how it goes.

Face Memory Test

I did this test and I did fairly well. I got 92% for the first part and 62% for the second part, I can't tell you what the parts were or I might give away part of the test.

It's very good scientific test. Just try it, and make sure you follow their instructions to wait 5 minutes between each part.

Let me know what you got!

I bought a new suit today. Well, new, but it is my first one ever!! I love it, and it looks good on me :-) I am singing in a wedding this weekend and I sing in two more before the year is over, I've always wanted a suit, now I have one!

I had every intention of taking a picture of myself to show y'all, but it all comes down to the tie...

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TIE A TIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Veronica doesn't know how.

I look on 3 different web sites that teach you and I can't DO IT. I got close once, but I got so frustrated I swore a bunch and threw the tie across the room.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

I want to be able to tie it, wear it, then untie it until the next time because it's not good for ties to stay tied. But right now that's all I can do because after I get a tie tied I don't untie it because I don't know how to RE-tie it.

I know if I ask my dad to teach me then we'll both just get frustrated with each other and end up yelling and being pissed. But I must do it anyhow because I need to know.

I just never tried to learn because it's too hard (even though I KNOW it's extremely easy). I just let people do it for me.

I'm such a loser.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Moderate
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Moderate
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	High
Narcissistic:	Moderate
Avoidant:	Low
Dependent:	High
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Moderate
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! --

I guess I disagree with some of the results.

I don't consider myself dependant at all, and I don't think I'm schizotypal as they define it, I also kinda don't like theiri definition of histrionic, not that I've ever heard of that, but I dont consider myself much of that either...but it was a fun little test, so I took it.

It's still being a big 'ol bitch to me, I'm so sick of it. I can't comment on anything and 3/4 of the time I can't even get in to see what everyone else is commenting on. DAMMIT...

Four Stars, but then, I usually like any movie I go to see. But I did really like this one. Kaia seemed to enjoy it, even though she couldn't hold still to save her life!!!

It was very cute and wow were the graphics good! The made up robots city and their mode of transportation were awesome! All the actors did a fantastic job. Some say there was no plot, but there was a plot and I enjoyed it. It was a little cliche, but so what? The movie was good.

Robots The Movie Official Web Site

Top American Idol 'favorite' drops out suddenly

weird...glad they called in Nicco Smith to take his place though :-)

**UPDATE** Some rumors say that there was too much pressure on his sexuality. That people were speculating about him being gay, but if that's what made him drop out that would be sad, because whether he is or not makes no difference to the American Idol competition, or at least it shouldn't. But, I guess with the limelight comes speculation and rumors. But...that could have absolutely nothing to do with it, so who knows.

I stepped away from Blogger for the weekend, like I like to do, and now here I am!

Thanks for asking Merrit, we indeed did have one rehearsal. It was just the read-through cast mixer. We got our materials and sung through some of the chorus songs...so it wasn't really worth much.

This Wednesday the quartet is getting together on our own, so that will be my first rehearsal, though unofficial. My first official rehearsal is March 28th, then I have them pretty steady after that. How exciting!!

I'm nervous because the other three in the quartet are in an actual quartet and they travel around to area churches and what not and sing, but I'm taking over the 1st tenor position so I hope I can keep up! Some say that their other first tenor is a bit of a touch and go kinda guy and their getting sick of him not wanting to do performances or having to be gone and stuff and so I might take over for him if I do well enough! :-) So we'll see there, that would be something special.

Whew! Some good basketball this past weekend! I tell ya what, I don't normally watch basketball, at all, and certainly not the NBA. When it comes down to the good stuff with the NCAA, the tournaments and march madness, I usually watch. I am enjoying myself too. Some damn good games this past weekend, and this up coming Thursday-Sunday will be some more good basketball too!

Taxes - Whew! Got my taxes done this weekend too, that's exciting! Feels good to have that done, now I just need to wait until those checks come in.

Good weekend overall, rehearsed with my sister for "The Prayer" which we're singing at a wedding this weekend, it felt good, so I'm exciting for that too!

The Incredibles comes out on DVD Tuesday, you bet Kaia and I will be picking that up tomorrow! We would also like to go see Robots in the theatre, want to wait to see it with Mommy, but she works every damn day this week, so we might not wait, we'll see! :-)

YOUR COMMENTS SYSTEM SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That's right folks, we all know it, but I need to stop feeling so bad that I can't comment on my favorite blogs, so, that's why I'm not commenting my friends.

I CANT!

Now I'm glad I stuck with Haloscan...

Almost America....Substitue Nikko for Scott, Nikko SO deserved it, he is smooth, he is good! Scott is scary and totally changed from his audition.

Substitue Amanda for Mikayla...Janay totally annoyed me and isn't that good, Mikayla annoyed me A LOT and Amanda is only ok...but of the three I'd take Amanda over Mikayla anyday...

Mikayla butched Somwhere straight to hell and really, really annoys me and most everyone else...but, none of the girls are going to win anyway, they all suck compared to the guys, so hopefully the girls will just get picked off until it's only the guys left.

My final two:

Anwar
Mario

The Winner:

Mario
(though I think it should be Anwar)

I was wondering this today. Do you think people have it easier going to college right after high school or going to college as an adult in the workforce, taking evening classes and such.

I don't know for sure, because I didn't try to go to college with a full-time job, but...in my opinion, which I'm entitled to have, it seems like they get it a lot easier than kids going to college right out of high school.

There are a fair amount of people here at work who are doing this exact thing and it seems the classes are easier and the work load is easier and the expectations are lowered. Now, I don't know why this would be, but it's the general impression I'm getting.

Let's open a free-range discussion on this, I'd like to hear some opinions.

Oh man, did we have fun last night!

They have these couple of CDs at daycare that the kids just go nuts over and run and dance all around the room.

They are of Laurie Berkner, and she is fun!

So...we go to Target last night to see Mommy and check out their CD collection.

Lo and behold I found a Laurie Berkner CD! Because we had set out with hopes of finding a CD to have fun and dance to, we bought it. We also bought VeggieTales Song that Kids love. It has Teapot song and I've Been Working on the Railroad and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star...things like that.

We get the CD home and it's 8:55 PM but I let her stay up and dance a little hoping it would wear her out, and it's fun. So she dances for about a half hour and she is so cute! She listens to what Laurie is saying in the CD and does it and remembers some of the songs from the other CDs.

We had earlier played Dora Bingo and after someone gets bingo Dora starts singing and we would jump up and dance whenever someone got bingo!

I know I'm not nearly describing the cuteness of my daughter but suffice to say that fun times were had by all. :-)

So if you have a little one and you want a fun, clean good times dancing CD check out Laurie Berkner's CDs. I believe it's Laurie Berkner

I got this e-mail and it was SO funny that I had to share...

1. A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but it was dead.
"How do you know that the cat was dead?" she asked her pupil.

"Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move," answered the child
innocently.

"You did WHAT ? ! ?" the teacher exclaimed in surprise.

"You know," explained the boy, "I leaned over and went 'Pssst!' and it
didn't move."



2. A small boy is sent to bed by his father. Five minutes
later....."Da-ad...."

"What?"

"I'm thirsty. Can you bring drink of water?"

"No, You had your chance. Lights out."

Five minutes later: "Da-aaaad....."

"WHAT?"

"I'm THIRSTY. Can I have a drink of water??"

"I told you NO! If you ask again, I'll have to spank you!!"

Five minutes la ter......"Daaaa-aaaad....."

"WHAT!"

"When you come in to spank me, can you bring a drink of water?"



3. An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief,
finally asked him "How do you expect to get into Heaven?"

The boy thought it over and said, "Well, I'll run in and out and in and out
and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, 'For Heaven's sake, Dylan,
come in or stay out!'"



4. One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her
son into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a
tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"

The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can't dear," she said.
"I have to sleep in Daddy's room."

A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice; "The big
sissy."



5. It was that time, during the Sunday morning service, for the children's
sermon. All the children were invited to come forward. One little girl was
wearing a particularly pretty dress and, as she sat down, the pastor leaned
over and said, "That is a very pretty dress. Is it your Easter Dress?"

The little girl replied, directly into the pastor's clip-on microphone,
"Yes, and my Mom says it's a bitch to iron."



6. When I was six months pregnant with my third child, my three year old
came into the room when I was just getting ready to get into the shower. She
said, "Mommy, you are getting fat!"

I replied, "Yes, honey, remember Mommy has a baby growing in her tummy."

"I know," she replied, but what's growing in your butt?"



7. A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself; "Two plus
five, that son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is
nine...."

His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, "What are you doing? "

The little boy answered, "I'm doing my math homework, Mom."

"And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?" the mother asked.

"Yes," he answered.

Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, "What are you
teaching my son in math?"

The teacher replied, "Right now, we are learning addition."

The mother asked, "And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son
of a bitch is four?"

After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, "What I taught them was,
two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four."



8. One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little
to her class. She came to the part of the story where Chicken Little tried
to warn the farmer. She read, ".... and so Chicken Little went up to the
farmer and said, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you think that farmer
said?"

One little girl raised her hand and said, "I think he said: ' Holy Shit! A
talking chicken!'" The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.



9. A certain little girl, when asked her name, would reply; "I'm Mr.
Sugarbrown's daughter."

Her mother told her this was wrong, she must say, "I'm Jane Sugarbrown."

The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday School, and said; "Aren't you Mr.
Sugarbrown's daughter?"

She replied, "I thought I was, but mother says I'm not."



10. A little girl asked her mother, "Can I go outside and play with the
boys?"

Her mother replied, "No, you can't play with the boys, they're too rough."

The little girl thought about it for a few moments and asked; "If I can find
a smooth one, can I play with him?"



11. A little girl goes to the barber shop with her father; She stands next
to the barber chair, while her dad gets his hair cut, eating a snack cake.
The barber says to her, "Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie."

She says, "Yes, I know, and I'm gonna get boobs too."

I hate them. I despise them with a passion.

I had about 5 today since I've been home. All for Veronica and all of them you can tell right away that it's them.

They call at all hours. I just had one at 9 PM...what they hell are they doing calling me at 9 PM?!

Now, I've been home for about 4 hours and I've had more than one an hour.

GGGGRRRRR...........they piss me off so much.

I've been reading about the pope and I still don't think I understand him or what he is or what he does or anything...

So much controvery on whether her should remain pope or step down. I hear so much "let the old man die" or "he should step down and let someone else lead" or "why should he have to step down?" or "he still has his brain" or "don't be so mean" or "how could you think that"

I don't really care...I just don't understand what he is or why he is or what Christians believe about the pope.

Kaia and I had Macaroni & Cheese with hotdogs tonight. BUT, we had Blue's Clue's mac and cheese with "clues" in them! For those of you unfamiliar with Blues Clues...when blue leaves a clue for everyone it's her blue paw print. 

I got the part I was going for in The Music Man! I am Jacey, the first tenor in the quartet. If you've seen The Music Man then you would know what I am talking about.

I didn't want to be Harold Hill, just have never wanted to be that lead. Since high school when we did The Music Man and I got screwed I have always wanted to be in the quartet, I just love it. So, I am very excited!!

The only other part I wanted was Marcellus, Harold Hill's friend that lives in River City. The weird thing is the guy that they offered the part of Marcellus to, turned it down. It was either Harold Hill or nothing for this guy because he had another musical he could audition for. So the direct calls me and asks me which one I would prefer because she knows I could do any part in the show but she has concerns over who else to give that part to. She would rather see me in the part of the first tenor and can't see anyone else doing that part, but thought she would give me some say in it.

Well, I chose Jacey because it's the part I've wanted forver and it's the part I was really gunning for. And I'm happy with my decision, but the guy they gave Marcellus too may do it funny, but he cannot sing the part, and that's unfortunate.

I'm thoroughly excited to be the first tenor though!! Everyone is invited to see it. It will run the first weekend in June in Story City!! I will let you know when tickets go on sale. And I will have some tales from The Music Man rehearsals too, I imagine.

Toodoloo, off to the big company meeting from 9 am - 1 pm.

We had to write fiction stories in our high school freshman year English class and I LOVED it. (I still wish I could be a writer, really bad) I remember writing a fairly long story about a detective I named "Pepsi Harris."

See...I was really good at writing these stories, but I was SO picky on how I named my characters that if I really thought about it, if it just didn't come to me and I really thought about what I wanted to name them, I'd be there all year trying to think of the perfect name. I'm really finicky in that way. So anyway, Pepsi Harris came about because I had the basic plot of the story, I just couldn't write it until I had my damn character's name. I don't remember the rest of the characters names, but I do remember Pepsi Harris. So I was looking around the room at my classmates and one had a Pepsi shirt on...and another one had a Harris Auto Racing t-shirt on. The birth of Pepsi Harris.

I know I wrote a kick ass story, and I know I wrote several over the course of the semester...but I can't find any of them, and I'm sure my teacher has long since thrown them away and if I go back to read it they were probably horrible, but for some reason I still think they were good, because why else would I remember them?

The real reason I came on to type all this out was because I did something that I know of no one else doing...I always killed off my main character in some wicked twist that no one saw coming in every single story I wrote.

YES BABY! *I envisioned myself sounding like George Constanza when I said/typd that -- so go with that*

I loved it. Everyone is writing these stories, some interesting, some not, but they all end the same damn way...the main character is ok or wins or gets the girls or solves the crime. Not just in English class, but in movies and books and everything. No no no no no no no...in Lars' stories the main character dies and it is almost always a "bad" or "tragic" or "sad" ending...

I've always wanted to be unique I guess...do something different...approach it from a different angle...catch the teachers/students/readers attention.

Not many people liked it, I don't actually remember if anyone did. I can't remember if the teacher did. I would venture a guess my best friend did. I should call him and ask him if he remembers our stories we had to write.

I do, for some reason, remember he was in to fantasy writing and he had an elf, who was normal height, with pointy ears he named "Surreal" as the main character in his story. I guess I remember because I didn't know anything about fantasy so I had debated with him at great length on the fact that all elves are short. Such great length that we even went to Waldenbooks and he got out some books to show me that elves are indeed normal height sometimes. I must also remember this because it was my introduction to the word "surreal." Don't ask me why, but I hadn't heard the word before.

The memories...they make me smile :-) I feel all good inside now :-)

This would have been '95/'96...

like you don't want to be at work SO bad that you just can't function, but you have to anyway?

Got this from Meritt and Doug

bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...

Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /

Also, Iceland twice and Norway twice...

as we all well know now, this is to the best of my memory, which isn't good, so it's probably somewhat wrong...