Brittish Aisles

Today was another amazing day. Not quite as 'one train ride of awesome to amazingsville' but pretty close! I had a meeting this morning at Mildred's coffeeshop in the Crossroads and figured, 'Well, as long as I'm halfway across town I may as well hit that great looking estate sale I saw on Craigslist.' So I drove to the far end of town only to discover that the sale was lame. Card tables and nic nacs? Srsly? Nahthanks. So I called Jason and asked him where the nearest Sally Beauty was. I'd been thinking about dying my hair (you just glanced up at the picture and looked closer didn't you? If not then, surely now) for a while so I decided, "I've got time, let's do this." If you noticed it's darker, congratulations. If you noticed that down in the lower right hand corner you can see a peek of blueish greenish, then you win a fabulous prize! (Well SOME people consider being observant prize enough by itself, sorry if you don't!) Yes, my hair is now black on top, blue-green underneath. I love it so much! Naturally, a 'do this cool deserves a proper showoffage, so Jason and I took the girls to the theater to see the 7pm show of the evening, 'It's Debatable.' After the show I went to see a band that Tom had told me about. He invited several people via Facebook but I was the only one besides him that ended up going. Oh well, we had fun and the band was amazing (Tigercity was the name.....that could be two words, I don't know for sure. I saw both on posters) I feel priveleged to have gotten to see them at a small small venue before they become huge, because they will be.

For only 15 minutes a day you can feed an artist

Today was one of those rare days when everything aligns just so and BAM! Perfect day. Love it! It began with yoga, moved on to coffee, a great class session in German, wonderful time with my family, and closed out with a bang, a performance arts piece hosted by 'Andy Warhol' with brilliant, beautiful, moving, and creatively inspired pieces. Even the weather complied beautifully! If I took any tiny bit of today and placed it anywhere in any given day of this year, that day would be considered a good day. Seriously, even if it was a fictional day in which the ceiling caved in while I was in the bathroom and the only way my rescuers could find me would for me to scream N'Sync's entire discography at the top of my lungs for eight hours until they pulled my bruised pruny body out of the tepid bathwater it would be good!

In flux

I decided to put up a vid in lieu of a picture today. This is me doing my daily presentation for my voice and speech class today. Everyone else has stood and read their pieces off their papers thus far, not an option I am particularly comfortable with if I have a choice in the matter. Oh, and yes, I do know I accidentally said 'burbled' instead of the correct word 'chortled' at the end of the piece, but if that's what you're going to choose to focus on, go read someone else's blog. FYI, my teacher gave me a perfect 50 points for this. Aw yeah.

P.S.-On this day 54 years ago, the fluxcapacitor was invented. Yes.

What's up, Chuck?

I'm sure I could have taken a better picture today, but this one just felt right. So here you are. I had a really full but laid back day. Just enough stuff on my plate to where it was full but with just enough downtime to where it didn't feel like it. That's a good balance to have, but uncommonly hard to find. Finding it for a day, yeah, I'm good with that. I had a few funny thoughts that occurred to me during the course of the day that I wanted to jot down and put in here, but I didn't get around to it and now they're gone. Ce'st la vie! So as long as I've written about virtually nothing, perhaps I'll just keep this mystery train rolling and tell you nothing else about my day beyond, 'it was sorta full sorta not' which, at this point, is the entire essence of this blog posting.

Oh don't look so disappointed.

Good and bad: There's a difference.

Rehearsal tonight was awesome. We took last week off because of all the performances we did the two weeks prior, so we came together tonight ready to work our improv butts off, and we went above and beyond. Our scenes were tight knit and fun, nobody was overshadowing or talking over anyone else, and there was an incredible sense of play and teamwork. Not to mention there were several scenes we were patient with and let breathe so we could discover them at a natural place that went Ker-POW!!!! I love nights like this. Oh, and all the gray and black we're wearing-welcome to fall in the Midwest. Color largely goes bye bye around here when the trees fade. Well, for most people. I just happened to wear a black shirt tonight. Usually I'm like a technicolor butterfly.

Look at me when I rock with you

I decided to take the instructions that my self-portraited......self issued from my chalkboard. I did indeed have a spiffy day. Sure, I had classes and the kids were a little more boistrous than was strictly necessary, not to mention the fact that I had a TON of homework that I'd been putting off and had to do it all at the end of the day......but that's okay. That's life. I've got a lot going for me. I've got a great family, incredible friends who are as close as family, and I'm able to do the things I love on a semi-regular basis. What on earth do I have to complain about? Nothing.

But what is the daylight saving?

Happy daylight saving's time everyone! Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep! I barely noticed mine, personally. Today was exceptionally sunny out so it seemed like a good idea to go ahead and rake the leaves. We have a lot of huge trees in our neighborhood and the leaves go EVERYWHERE. Fortunately, we employ the help of slave labor. Today was one of those weird days where you do lots of stuff but it doesn't feel like it because by the time you get to the end it's like, "Oh.............is it still just Sunday?" It's disorienting to try to smash ten days into one. Fortunately for me, I got an hour's extra sleep last night to help make up for it..........that's why we do that, right?