Rhinos are people too, and they deserve respect!

I spent a lot of time with these two today. Three long phone calls and a multitude of texts on the Blackberry keeping up with friends, and lots of promotion and PR for KC Crossroads Comedy on the computer. *whew!* The girls enjoyed their snow day thoroughly, having just acquired the DVD of Mary Poppins from their Aunt Lynette. Leigha declared that the purple carousel horse was her favorite in the part where they go into the chalk drawing and win the horse race. That one was always my favorite, too. Leigha asked me today if she and I could be a 'little improv troupe' someday. "You know.....just me and you!" That would be so cool. I think we can do that, yes.

Weather or not?

We got up early and said goodbyes, then flew out of Reno (snowy) into Los Angeles (definitely not snowy) and then home to Kansas City (snowy and snowing). We got back to the house a little before four and set to work clearing away the last of the Christmas mess and packed up the tree. Jason let the girls go outside and take advantage of the fresh powder and I changed all of our sheets. We all got new ones for Christmas, so why not? I had found a great sale for the ones I got us and they are super soft. I may not get up tomorrow. And why not? They already called a snow day for tomorrow...which was supposed to be their first day back at school after Christmas!

Mythbustin'

Okay, so when I say my parents live in Nevada, people usually picture Las Vegas. Warm, desertyness, and casinos. They live near Reno, which is way North and yes, it's desertful and has lots of casinos, but the warm part only applies in the Summer. Reno is surrounded by mountains and is near Lake Tahoe (skiing, yo.) so, yeah. This picture was taken on the way from Reno to Carson City and is in an area called the Washoe valley. So, yeah. Thanks, friends, for wishing me a break from the cold but it's only a relative break since the Reno area is more like in the 30's as opposed to Kansas City's current single digits. I'll take it, but it's not like I'm in Vegas. *wink* We had a great day. My parents bought a new piece of furniture so we all went to Reno to pick it up, so we had lunch at In-N-Out Burger (aw yeah!) then my mom and I took the girls to Barnes and Noble. I love hanging out in bookstores. I got myself Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the plane ride home. I've been dying (ha ha!) to read this one, so it should be great. Maybe I'll pick up Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters after I finish. This evening we went to my grandparent's house and had dinner then played a friendly game of Apples to Apples Junior (so the girls could participate). My dad teamed up with Bri and they had the most cards at this one point, and Bri was flashing them around in a smug manner, so Lynette said, "You're a real punk." And Bri came back with, "No I'm not. I'm the WINNER." She takes after someone we all know...

More bars in more places

We pretty much spent the day hanging around the house. My parents had to work today so it was just Jason, the girls and I in the morning, but my dad took a half day and we all went to visit my mom at the school. She introduced us to teachers and let the girls check out books from the library and stuff. Lynette came over in the mid-afternoon and the girls had goofy fun with her (see photo). We called my grandparents on the webcam and talked with them for a bit, which was nice. Basically we did all those things your family does on actual holidays. It's just too hard to try to fly standby around the two days of the year everyone else flies, you know? And like I said, even yesterday was hard to get a flight. Yeah yeah yeah, all those other passengers buy me dinner and keep me in a house. *pssht* Whatevs.

Parental rights

So this morning we got up and went to the airport. Lots of fresh snow on the ground, and on the way into the airport grounds we passed a plane that had slid off the runway and gotten stuck. Yeep! Not a good omen at all. But we sucked it up and boarded a plane to Vegas with the intention of heading from there to Reno, which we eventually made it to...but since everyone starts school tomorrow after Christmas break (except our girls' district, which goes back Thursday) everyone was flying home. We got bumped off a couple flights and spent a good chunk of our day in McCarren. Ew. The good news, though, is they have a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf there, and we happened to sit near a guy who was playing a clarinet. Really well, too! Sweet. We made it into Reno about 6pm and my parents took us and Lynette out to dinner. I've missed my family. A lot. My dad was trying to say things in German and I got to talk circles around him, which was fun. He laughed then kicked me in the heinie.

Oh, and in case you read this and don't see me often, I'm officially announcing that I got my lip pierced back in November. My parents read this too. I didn't think it was fair for them to find out on the internet. (ooh she's sneaky!)

Chicken crossed the road

Today was a huge pendulum swing from frustration to elation for me. After an irritating struggle with printing some material and getting the theater ready, we had two phenomenal opening night shows for KC Crossroads Comedy! I hosted, which is just nerve wracking when you're not used to it just yet. I enjoy it, sure, but it's like, "Eep! These people don't want to see me, they want to see the next act!" Kind of an odd spot to be in, because you are there to keep the show running smoothly and make announcements and stuff, but you can definitely feel the 'on with the show' attitude from the crowd. In hindsight I wish we'd gotten a picture of all the acts together, but this Anomaly Orange cast photo is certainly worthy of doing the trick for encapsulating palindrome day for me. (01/02/2010)

Save Bandit!!!

I did a lot of cool stuff today but forgot to take any pictures, so here's a picture of me blogging! (Ahhh! *head asplode*) I could hurt your head even more if I took another picture of this right now, 'cause then it'd be one of those 'picture within picture within picture' things, like looking into a mirror or whatever, but I'm feeling sleepy and lazy. So, right....Jason and I ended up getting home this morning at 5:30am. *whew.* We slept in into the early afternoon then decided ordering a pizza would be stellar and we watched a bunch of episodes of The Office on Netflix. Perfect New Year's day.