Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Aren't you a little old to be trick or treating?

As many of you may be aware, today is a little known holiday called "All Saints Day." Less commonly known as "Halloween" in some parts of the country. *cricket, cricket* Anywho....I went to Leigha's school for the Halloween parade and party and we enjoyed ourselves (FYI, there was a kid dressed like a whoopie cushion. Nice.) When Jason got home we went to the community bbq, then Jason holed up at the house while I braved the mean streets in pursuit of candy. It started out well, people smiling at the girls and saying how cute they were...but when it turned dark the trick or treaters got older and older. We've lived here two years and this is the first time it's been bad. A 10 year old kid got offended that Leigha was talking to her. "What's your name?" "Leigha." "Yeah, I don't KNOW you." Little snot. We kept going and after a while we were followed by a kid who wouldn't stop scaring Brianna. Finally I turned and said, "She's THREE!" The kid took the hint. I was greatly amused when Bri freaked out about some plastic spiders that were sitting harmlessly on a doorstep. As it got later, there were just teenagers left, which isn't bad....but they were all wearing "sexy" costumes and smoking. Yeah...I came home not too long after that and said, "Turn the light off, Jason, they don't need any candy from us." We had a pretty good night, all in all, but compared to previous years, meh. *edit* A couple things I forgot to mention. There was a group of 12 year olds and they gave the girls a bunch of candy they didn't like, which was very sweet of them. Also, instead of saying Trick or Treat, Brianna simply marched up to the houses, thrust her pumpkin bucket at the person and said, "I want bubble gum."

Ah crap.

You know what sucks? Trying on many different outfits and still ending up looking like me. Ugh.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

It's simple, just hire Ron Jeremy!

Hung out with the Hype 7 this evening. We had a "sketch writing meeting." It basically means we hung out, drank, and laughed while talking about random crap and had a great time. Jen is amazing, though. She brought her laptop and while it seemed for the most part like we were just goofing off and nothing was getting accomplished, she kept typing and by the end of the evening, she had a whole list of ideas and quotes from stuff we'd talked about and improvised. I do wonder what's going to come of it. I just love how tight knit the group is, such a phenomenal group dynamic. I'm really enjoying them. I helped record a bit that Bryan had...something about a guy who got a hernia trying to impress a girl by lifting waaay too much weight. It was pretty funny. Anyhow, I dreaded driving home because there's no radio (as of yet) in my new car, so I was there until almost midnight, and we had started at 7:30. We have rehearsal tomorrow night, too. Can't wait!

Monday, October 29, 2007

Awesome!



I would totally pay nine bucks to see this.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Horse sense

Today Leigha and Bri competed in events for the American Royal! We were at Kemper Arena all day long (and all last night as well) and I'm soooooo tired. Bri competed in two events. Lead line, in which she sat on the horse while Sheila led her around the arena with a rope, and stick horse, in which she rode around the ring on a stick horse. Yes, really. It was so cute! We didn't have a stick horse so last night I fashioned one out of a dowel rod, paper bags, string, and staples. It turned out really cute. When we checked her in for that one they asked me what the name of the horse was. I said, 'The stick horse?' 'Yes.' 'Oh....uh....give me a minute.' I came up with a name pretty quick (what can I say? I do improv.) and she took off prancing through the ring with all the enthusiasm a three year old can possibly muster. When the event was over they lined them up and "judged" them just like a real horse event, then read their names off and told them to get their ribbons (they all got blue ribbons). They got to her name and had to read the name of the horse twice, to much laughter. "Brianna Robins riding Maggie Paper Baggie....that's Maggie Paper Baggie. Oh my." Leigha competed in two events also, the lead line class and the small fry walk/trot. The lead line class was technically not allowed....but they bent the rules a bit. There's no age limit on the lead line class, and an older guy who had stalls next to ours in the stable told Leigha to take the rope and walk him around the arena. So basically there's all these little little kids being led around the ring by their moms, dads, and grandparents, and here's Leigha, leading a man old enough to be her grandfather. Nice. The walk/trot class was the big one, it consisted of Leigha walking then trotting her horse around the arena. Unfortunately, she ended up not trotting at all, even when they said to. Why? Because they said, "Jog your horses, please, jog your horses." Jogging and trotting are the same thing. Leigha had no clue. So basically she's walking her horse around in a circle, reversing, and walking her horse around in a circle again...not trotting. The other horses had very subtle trots, too. When Mecca trots her entire body moves up and down and she actually picks up speed. The other horses looked like they were just doing a semi-fancy walk. So poor Leigha had no clue what was going on! She got fourth out of four, but she did so well considering she was lost half the time. Oh well, she'll know next time.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Tissue issues

I don't know what's going on, but every time I log in I have to reset my password. It's getting on my nerves. Anyhow, so just when I think I'm over the uber cold, my allergies show up. It's like, "Oh, come ON! I've forgotten what it's like to not be a freakin' mouth breather! I'm starting to creep people out on elevators!" Not that I typically ride elevators, but I like to think that if I rode one, my standing there breathing out my mouth would creep them out to the point of casually shuffling into the corner and staring at whatever they're holding in their hands, and if they're not holding anything, then staring at the wall. I also like to think that the hypothetical wall is reflective and they can see me staring at them, mouth agape, trying to breathe, just watching them in the reflective wall of the elevator on which they're trapped. Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, so I'm almost positive my lingering cold and allergies have merged at this point, and are conspiring to kill me, or at least my taste buds. This sucks. Good news, though, I do have a car so if I die, I can totally drive myself to the hospital.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Quick! Dodge!

Today was a strange day in Jessicaland...Jennifer was on the phone with me nearly all day because she kept being sideswiped by problems. Like, serious problems. They're trying to move and the kid who retrieved their truck hit another truck in the lot with it. Later Joey sprained his ankle while moving things out of the house. As if moving isn't stressful enough. There was more to the story too. Later Jenny picked me up and took me to the chiropracter and then up to the airport to meet Jason. We went to Jennifer's to say goodbye to them, had some dinner, and waited for an important phone call. When the call came we drove out to a house to look at a car. Jason checked the car and it was mechanically sound, it was cute, it was blue, it only had 130,000 miles on it (the van had 256,000 when it died), it was a four door, and an automatic. We test drove it, it was great. We totally bought it! $775! I have a car again, woo hoo!!! It's not a complete piece of junk, woo hoo! Did I mention it was blue? Jason drove behind me to our house and we dropped it off (it's not liscenced yet) then he took me to rehearsal. I was really late but I had called to tell John what was going on. It was interesting...I walked in in the middle of the longform and literally felt the energy in the room change when I came in. Not that there was anything wrong before I get there (yeah...so not an egotist like that) it just changed, and I could feel it. It was interesting how palpable it was. I got there just in time to do a second longform and then we talked about things for a bit. I wasn't there for long but it felt very productive and refreshing. Everyone was happy to hear about my new car. Ah, I'm so wound up it's not funny!

Car tune

I haven't found a car yet, and at the moment we only have one lead. We'll see how this turns out. I'm having soooo much fun with the Hype 7, though! They're very much my kind of people. Random, scattered, full of energy....we should be called the hyper 7! We rehearsed in a room at KU, and apparently the geniuses that plan who goes in what room stuck us next to a med student class that were reading their presentations or something. After a bit, a girl came into our room and said (this is a direct quote), "Gee, guys, it sounds like you're having a heck of a lot of fun in here, but..." And then proceeded to say the stuff about the presentations and such..., "And there are fourty of us in here and only seven of you, so...if you could just keep it down, that'd be great, thanks!" We all kind of looked at one another for a bit, then everybody started talking at once. We could see their point because we were being a tad loud, but...she used a very patronizing tone (do they teach that in the med student course?) and the whole comment about how there were fourty of them and "only seven" of us was just...grr. Later Jen went to the bathroom and walked past the window of their door. She came back and said, "There are like 10 of them in there!" It was amusing to say the least. Rehearsal went well, we had a blast. I had gotten a ride with Nifer, and we stopped at Starbucks on the way out of town to caffeinate up. We got our beverages then walked up and down Mass street for a while, just talking. Good stuff.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree?

I dreamed that I was in a room full of art...really, really cool art. It was vaguely abstract in nature, all strongly resembling human figures and faces. As I was admiring the artwork, Tiffany from Hype 7 came up and said, "Do you like my artwork?" And I realized it was a gallery and she was the featured artist. I said, truthfully, "it's amazing!" I remembered admiring one picture in particular and I couldn't figure out what medium she had used. I asked and she told me "soup!" So then I was picking up that the green was split pea, the red tomato, etc. I remembered thinking what a brilliant artist she was and how I wished I was that inspired. Now that I'm awake, I'm just thinking, "It was ME!! That came from ME!" I didn't know I had that kind of abstract in me! How do I tap back into that place? I wanna go there again!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Picking Pumkins

We went to the pumpkin patch today, here are some cute pics:
Leigha and Bri were very proud of their pumpkins, Bri sang to hers while we were walking to the car and informed us that it was crying because it didn't have a mouth.

Brianna liked the "camels."

Leigha clutches her pumpkin to her one the car ride home. She looks quite bored.

Bri didn't make it to the highway before she fell asleep.

Don't forget to use your wine fork!

Oh man...if you've never been to improv shows...you're missing out. Like seriously missing out. So many inside jokes! Tonight was Ryan and Dana's first show. They were awesome. We went out after and had a blast...oh, I'm sooooo tired!

Come see improv!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Stop and smell the centipedes

You know what sucks? Walking a mile to the chiropracter on a busy road with no sidewalk! Blecch! And instead of having the decency to have a shoulder or flat ground next to the road, it's steep sided ditches alllllll the way down. Mmm, fun. Especially when on top of that you're walking with a tempestuous three year old who refuses to hold hands and expresses her displeasure by grunting and running into the road. Not fun at all. Bri and I did just that this afternoon. It wasn't all farts and suckage, though, we did manage to find about 35 cents worth of loose change just lying around, and my back feels great at the moment. We went to Sonic after the appointment because it's right there, then turned around for the long trek home. I got about halfway when a guy pulled up and asked if I'd like a ride. I checked my "stranger danger" radar (hmmm...minivan...carseat...) and he passed so I got in and he drove me back to the house. He said, "I saw your little girl and figured you weren't walking for fun." Ain't that the truth. What a nice guy. Poor Bri was so tired when we got home that I put her down for a nap right away. It took us an hour to get there at her pace! She's a trooper. :-)

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Torque control

It rained psychotically today...seriously. That's something I love about this area...rain for longer than 15 minutes. Yay! So I was obviously not walking the mile to the chiropracter's. Luckilly, Jennifer called and I was talking about it and she said, "What? Oh, you have to go, I'll drive you!" So sweetheart that she is she drove from Platte City to take me to the chiropracter's office. I had to buy her Starbucks to thank her. I have another appointment tomorrow, so hopefully it won't rain. Apparently when I fell at Wal-Mart I twisted a vertabrae and it's been pinching a nerve, giving me all kinds of lovely spasms in my back. Yay! So we're going to fix this sucka. After much crazy running around I got to rehearsal and we had a good time. The scenes were pretty fun, although some were very strange. We might do a death pendulum for the Saturday show (yes! Death pendulum!) so that's cool. I wish I could keep my big mouth shut sometimes, though...I called somebody out on something and I feel bad for it. Why do I do that? It's not like I'm so perfect! I really shouldn't try to offer constructive criticizm if I just come across like a jerk for saying anything...just let some stuff go, you know? I'll try to work on that.

Van Gogh

And that's that. My van is gone, sold to a scrap yard. As Strong Bad in his infinite wisdom said, "It's overrrrrr!" As we were driving away all I could think was, "My van...." We just renewed the plates but we'll get a refund for that, add that to the cash from the scrap yard and I have a tiny "car pool" which I will add to on Friday, and hopefully we'll be able to find a cheap (read: under $1,000) car. Yes, I had to specify, we've had a lot of people say, "Oh, I know where you can get one for $16,000!" Um...yeah, 'cause I totally have $16,000 just lying around, that's what I meant by "cheap." If you're wondering why I don't just get a car loan...well, it's very simple. Jason and I are trying to live debt free and we've almost got everything but the student loans payed off. Obviously when we get a house we'll finance, but that's the only payment I want to have. Besides, I've seen some really good cars for what most people consider a "down payment" so...why make a down payment when you could just buy a car outright? Anyhow, went to the chiropracter yesterday, he made some adjustments and told me to minimize my "bending, lifting and twisting." Um....I had Hype 7 rehearsal last night, hee hee! I don't think I stuck very well to his instructions. Oops. I have another appointment today, but I'm sooooo not going to walk in the rain. Jennifer said she'd come by this afternoon and take me, so that'll be good. Oh, and I have Roving Imp rehearsal tonight, aaah! So bad with instructions! Anyhow, back to Hype 7 rehearsal. It was good, we had a lot of fun, and I got to meet the infamous "interview pigeon." Good times. He was freaking out for no apparent reason...a lot. After rehearsal we all went out to Uno's because it's right there. It was the first time I've been out with them, and we had a blast! Sharing ideas for sketches, talking about scheduling upcoming show dates, and just getting to know one another...Tiffany and I anyhow, the others were getting to know us. Improv folk are the best. We all have the same mindset for the most part. Yay for freaks like me!

Monday, October 15, 2007

Nothing to do, nowhere to go-oh-oh-oh

Not a ton to say...but I'm still feeling pretty icky. At least my fever sweats have gone. Now if I can get rid of the sinus headache I'll be back to peachy in no time. Huzzah!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Visiting hours

Went to see my car at the tow lot today. Jason looked at it and thinks it might be the torque converter...if it is it just MIGHT be worth fixing up until I can save for a better car. It may just be a toss-up, though. We'll see I guess. I took all my crap out just in case, though. Jason's mom came by to drop off the horse at Jared's friend's barn so Leigha can train for her upcoming show. Leigha rode around the ring, but had a heck of a time getting Mecca to trot. We'll see how she does after this week's lessons. We all went to Simple Simon's for dinner and Jason talked to his mom about diabetes pumps the entire time. Blah. Jason, I know you read this, so...maybe think about sharing the medical benefits once in a while? Between your leg and all those test strips you've used it all up and I have a raging cavity, dude. I'm just saying. Oh, and you also have a car. Yeah. Way to be fair. ;-) Busy day tomorrow...couple appointments. I'm hoping to bum a ride to rehearsal Tuesday but I might have to have Jason drive me. Hopefully we'll have time. Not having a car=teh suck. Did I mention I put gas in on my way to theater? 'Cause I totally did. Fat lot of freaking good it's doing me now.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Stunned isn't the word for it....

Yesterday was so bizarre. After that last posting Leigha reminded me that it was homecoming. So we walked across town (yeah, like I was going to fight THAT traffic...) to the school, I dropped her off with her classmates who were walking in the parade, then Bri and I sat down along main street to enjoy the parade. We got lots and lots of candy and she really enjoyed herself. After locating Leigha in the ensuing chaos I came home, made dinner, then got ready to go to the theater. I was quite nervous but I actually had found that delicate balance of caffeine and cold and flu medicine, so I was feeling great. I turned on my iPod and blasted my bounciest, most energetic music. All was going swimmingly until I hit I-35. I got into the left lane to exit on Southwest Trafficway and into Westport, when suddenly there was an ominous "t-CHUNK!" My RPM's went up and my spedometer dropped at an alarming rate until my car was completely immobile, halfway in a lane on the exit ramp! Ahhhhh!!! It was 9:12 pm and my show began at 10. I called Jason in hysterics, and he was elbow deep in the tub with Brianna, who had just gotten conditioner in her hair. He said, "I'm on my way." Just then a cop pulled up behind me. Like any good cop he behaved like some kind of freaky automaton, completely unmoved by the fact that there was a human being in trouble. He called a tow truck then went back to doing whatever it is cops do with those computer screens in their cars. I kept calling John and Julie and not getting ahold of them (didn't surprise me, I hadn't intended to take my phone in the theater either.) I called Jason and told him to call the Westport Coffeehouse and get a message to John. Meanwhile at the theater, everyone is watching the clock. It's 9:30 and I'm not there, they've begun to realize something is up. Even Keith who I barely know knows something is wrong. "She's NEVER late, she's always early for fight club!" They begin warmups without me, much to Cristil's dismay. "I can't warmup without Jessica, we always have the same energy level!" (I was flattered when I heard that.) The message somehow trickles around that I'm having car trouble, and John tells everyone that I won't be coming and they'll have to go on without me. "The show must go on" is not an exaggeration, people. Back to the highway. Jason pulls up behind me just as the tow truck backs up in front of me. It's 9:45. I tell Jason we need to sort this out so I can get to the theater. He says, "Honey, I don't think you're gonna make it." I said, "I have to try! There's still a chance!" (melodramatic much?) he's sorting things out with the tow truck driver and the cop, while on the phone with our roadside assistance plan, who is taking absolutely forever to take care of anything. I'm watching the clock obsessively, it's 9:53 when I finally begin to think this ain't gonna happen. I started crying, careful to dab my eyes because I still haven't given up just yet and I don't want my mascara running. The cop gets impatient and calls City Tow (very very expensive!) So Jason finally says what I've been wanting him to say all along. "Just tow it, we'll figure it out later." The van is loaded up on the back of the truck and Jason gets in the car, Westport Coffeehouse bound. It's 9:54 when we start driving. We sped (just a little) down Southwest Trafficway to Mill Rd. Jason actually ran a red light and squealed into the parking lot. I tucked and rolled onto the sidewalk and dashed through the coffeehouse. As I was rounding the corner, I saw Cristil. Her eyes lit up and she said, "you're here!!!" It was 9:58. *whew!* I bolted down the stairs and hear "Hey! You made it!" It was Keith. I said, "Yeah, barely!" and hi-fived him. He said, "go backstage, hurry!" I ran back behind the curtain and down the hall. I saw Julie first, and turned into the room. Everyone was surprised to see me and at that point I was so relieved to be there that I started babbling and shaking. I heard a couple of "You don't HAVE to perform" 's and I said, "Oh, yes I do. I went through too much to get here not to." Everyone was expressing concern for me and I said, "I need a hug!" All the girls came over and group hugged me. Denise said, "Oh, baby you're shaking!" I couldn't help it. John said, "Okay, get it together, we have a show to do." We did a couple quick quick warmups, then Ed came and said "It's time!" He introduced us and we went onstage. The show itself was a bit of a blur, I wasn't completely in the game until the first couple scenes had gone by. At one point my character yelled at her husband (played by Cristil) and she told me later that she had been afraid I was going to lose it onstage, that my eyes were red rimmed and there were tears forming. I was completely oblivious to that, and the funny thing is I didn't even feel it! I was too "in the moment" by that point to think of anything but my character, which is how it should be. We left the stage to applause, then sat down to enjoy the groups "Poke" and "revolver." (revolver doesn't capitalize the r, so that's grammatically correct.) They were fantastic and I had a great time. After the show I noticed Jen from Hype 7 was there, and we talked for a bit, then I went with the Imps to Jerusalem Cafe. (No, I didn't pick it, it's just a really great restaurant. I'm really thrilled someone suggested it though, I love it!) We all talked, laughed and smoked a hookah (oh chill out, it's herbs and legal ones at that) which was something I've never done before. I didn't find it an unpleasant experience, but I wouldn't replicate it often. Very strange, but it was nice. Cristil and her fiance' (Dusty? Crap, I never remember names!) were kind enough to drive me home, and I climbed gratefully into my bed.

Where is my car? I have no clue. What's wrong with it? Probably the transmission went out. How am I going to get around? I really don't know! To be honest, I'm not worried about it and I know it'll all work out. All the events from yesterday were so surreal that I'm just in shock and disbelief right now. I'm so glad I got to the theater on time, though. I needed that.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Bummers, suckage, and some good stuff

Well dang. Our garage sale went as best as could be expected based on the fact that it was a weekday in October that looked as though it was threatening rain...I got about $10. Yup.... We can't do it tomorrow because Jennifer was asked to work. I was going to have Jason take the day off to help me, but his co-worker is taking the day off. He's also taking off the Saturday that my whole family is going to be in San Diego for. There are only so many Saturdays left before Jason CAN'T take them off due to the seasonal flights from Mexico, and this guy is snagging them all. So unfair! I told Jason if he ever says "I can't take a Saturday off because then Jody would be all by himself with the planes" I'm going to hurt him. This guys is screwing us over. Jerk. *cough* Anyhow, so yeah, we're rescheduling for next weekend. Yard sale at my place, next weekend, woo hoo! Oh, and also since Jason can't take tomorrow off I can't go to the improv workshop I desperately want to attend. Grah! Okay, enough about that. Anyhow, I'm still quite sick, and feel really really crappy, but tonight is the big deal show (eep and yay!) so I CAN'T feel sick tonight. I won't stand for it. So I'll TRY to take a nap, although I feel icky when I do, and I'll down a ton of coffee, hoping it doesn't mess with my ADD too much...what we're hoping for here is a happy state of normalcy...well, Jessica normalcy. Is there such a thing? *ponders* Eh. Whatever. Oh, and I made a cool new ringtone for myself out of an Ima Robot song. Ka-ching!

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Big bootay, oh yeah!

Okay, so I fixed the comment problem, so feel free to decorate my ramblings with words of your own! Seriously....anyone can comment that wants to. *taps foot....feels lonely* Yeah, so...big day of purging at my house. The basement, silly! I've been going through boxes like a psycho ninja woman! I honestly have no idea how much I've thrown away! The good news is I found tons of yard sale worthy stuff, and we open at 8am tomorrow! (Please come if you can, let me know if you need directions or whatever) I think I'm overdoing it, though...I'm totally wiped and it's only 10:30 (note, the time stamp on this post is wrong, I started a draft then my computer screwed up and it kept the time of the draft, so this is actually 10:37 when I'm posting this). Although I did go to the gym today. This sick thing is really starting to get on my nerves. Now when I cough I get a headache to go with (yay!) I'm actually thinking about breaking down and going to the doctor...I never freaking go to the doctor for me! Grah! Oh, and tomorrow night is the big night of improv! Sooooo nervous!!!!

Avoi-dance

Still sick. This totally sucks! I went to RI rehearsal last night and was feeling good for a while, but a couple games in I felt that cold, clammy, yet flushed feeling again. For heaven's sake, I want to go to the gym but I'm afraid of what will happen if I exert myself! I've been cleaning out the closet and basement for my yard sale like a crazy person these last couple days. I got into my old clothing boxes and found an old pair of Jnco jeans (remember those? The mid-late '90's wide leg pants that if you didn't have any you were lame!) and the shirt I wore on the first day of school when I went to Swink. So it's the shirt I met Jason in, basically. I happen to remember what I wore because I was starting fresh at a place nobody knew me and I wanted an image overhaul, so my first impression, especially clothing-wise, had to be JUST right. I tried on the shirt and took a pic. Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Just trust me that once upon a time I looked hot in it. Oh, and in case you can't see the shirt clearly, it's got a girl in jammies holding up one hand and it says, "Keep dreaming, loser." My parents were like, "What's that supposed to mean? Keep dreaming about what exactly?" I'm still not entirely sure what they meant by that. They were very strange when I was a teenager, always assuming the worst of me for no apparent reason. I got in trouble for all KINDS of things I never did, and the constant suspicion made me rebel like crazy. I'm gonna have to remember to not do that to my kids. Anyhow, my yard sale pile is getting bigger and bigger. Jennifer is coming over tonight to go through our collective stuff and set up on the tables (which I had almost forgotten to pick up last night...) FYI, she's moving back to Texas. I'm going to miss her something fierce, but it was so great to have her here for these past few months.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

This is how we do it

Just in case you were wondering, the card did not work. Shucks. I've been cleaning my closet out today, we're going to have a yard sale. You would not believe some of the stuff I have in there...whew! And I thought my purse was random. Lots of hard work. The good news is that I got rewarded for my labor by the fact that it's Tuesday, and Tuesday means improv rehearsal! Yay! I got a little lost finding the room we were meeting in, so I was a tad late, which sucks. But we had a great rehearsal and we're planning a show for November. I had a great bit where I was doing a puppet show for some kids and then somebody randomly came in and said, "Okay kids, back to coal mining." Everyone groaned and started picking up "pickaxes" and I made my puppet say, "Remember kids, work will set you free! Welcome to Auschwitz!" It was awesome. There was also a great scene that Nifer and Joe did about the Olsen Twins. Oh, and Bryan and Ryan (I know, right?) had a great scene with a guy in the New Orleans Superdome during Katrina and a guy on Sesame Street. It was great! They opened a trash can to put garbage in and Oscar was dead! Hee hee.... I must say, I'm really enjoying being a Hype7'er. It's such a different group dynamic from Roving Imp (neither is better or worse, they're just different) and I think that's helping pull me out of the same ol same ol scenes that I tend to do. It's also nice being able to drive right by Starbucks after rehearsal to get a Pumpkin Spice Latte. :-D

Mystery solved!

Nearly eight years ago Jason and I received a ton of gifts. The occasion? The birth of our firstborn, Leigha! Among the gifts were a smattering of gift cards from the only store in town, Wal-Mart. We decided to save them for emergencies, such as no money/need diapers. Those kind of emergencies came, of course, but I always thought we had one more card. Every time we moved I'd search the baby shower cards from Leigha's shower to see if I had overlooked one. After several moves I finally figured I had just imagined one. Tonight I was cleaning out my closet and found several cards from Leigha's baby shower. I read them all with a smile on my face, then to my shock, a Wal-Mart gift card in the amount of $15 fell out of one! How on earth could I have missed it? I wonder if it's still good? I sure don't need diapers anymore, what are we going to use it for? I'm sure we'll find SOMETHING. :)

Monday, October 8, 2007

Nursing a headache

I've pretty much decided that Mallomars are, in fact, just about the greatest things EVER. The irony is that I discovered them from hungrygirl.com 's newsletter. (Great newsletter) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I happened upon them at Wal-Mart on Saturday night after the show. FYI-you know what's not cool? Going to Wal-Mart at midnight when you're sick and being faced with the uber lines at checkout. Yeah. Oh, and I finally feel like I'm on the upswing of this thing, so woo hoo! Anyhow, I woke up with a headache this morning, something that never happens to me, I typically don't get headaches fortunately, and the knowledge that I have to go to the DMV to renew my tags...yay, paying for taxes on a car I own outright when my gas purchase taxes already pay for road repairs...I love redundancy! So I went into the kitchen to rustle up some breakfast...realizing that I had forgotten adult cereal when I was at Target the other day. (Adult cereal means there's not a cartoon animal on the box, you perv.) So faced with the descision of do I eat the fruit loop knockoffs or (snicker snicker) actually cook myself something, I spied the box of Mallomars. The most important meal of the day staring me in the face, I chose to eat two of them since they're just about as nutritious as Pelican Joe's Frooties (not the real name, I just wanted to yuck it up) I feel confident in my descision.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Escaping the madness!

My myspace blog was misused by several friends assuming my every word was dripping with malice. Therefore I have moved my blog. I had it restricted up until this point (this post edited 10/13/07) but have decided I don't want to go through the annoyance of inviting every person who wants to read and having to get their e-mail and blah blah blah. Therefore, if anyone assumes my writings are in any way containing content that is perceived by them to be horrendous, shocking, cynical, malicious, or detrimental to anyone's character...tough noogies. Your comments will in fact be deleted because I just don't care if you're reading stuff into it that's just not there. If there is anything there...well, it's my honest thoughts and opinions and quite frankly, I'm done censoring those.