The throne of funk!

I didn't have a good day. It wasn't AWFUL, but it was as though everything I did or attempted to do was doomed to failure from the get go. Life can't always be magical, and with as good a run as I've had these past couple weeks (all things considered) something was bound to give eventually, but I do wish life would be a little more even handed with me. It seems to either be all rainbows and faeries or all isolation and foiled plans. Even the minesweeper guy isn't having fun up there. But then he's dead, so..............yeah. Given the choice between the two of us, I'd pick my problems over his any day.

Baby, get in the truck!

I totally only took one picture today. This was it. I said to myself as I was taking it, 'Boy, I should get a few so that Tom putting improv eyeliner on Jen while Zak and Joe hang out is only one option of many.' Yup, forgot to take any more. Oh well. Exciting coolness, though.....I came up with a new format and we worked on it tonight at rehearsal, and it TOTALLY worked and was perfect for the group!!! Yay! I love creating customized awesome for these amazing people. We are going to continue to work this format to hopefully kill any and all lingering bugs (if any) but yeah, this is exciting. Go improv!

Zwanzig Jahre Maurerfall!!!!

Yup, that's a ladybug on my knee, and yes, it's November 9th. The weather has been just beautiful lately! 70 degrees, not too windy for the most part, and mostly sunny! We had a little rain move through this evening, but still! Just gorgeous! I took this picture while I was sitting on the hill at my school, just before German class. Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, so in lieu of actually studying in the book and such, our teacher showed us pictures, postcards, a Newsweek magazine, and a documentary all about the wall. So fascinating! Communism sucks! Seriously, if I had to live in as beige and gray of an environment as the East Germans did, I'd die. It would not work for me. Yay, capitalism! (wait.......)

The art of the perfect weekend

Dahhhhhhhhhhhling, you look fantastic!

Oh thank you, dear, it was nothing, I assure you.

Nothing? Why you're positively glowing!

*fake chortling laughter* What? Why......surely you don't mean this old thing?

Oh come now, dahling, surely you know you look smashing!

*feigning modesty* Oh, well, you know I hate to toot my own horn.........

(under breath) You do?

But the word 'bling' WAS invented just for me!

*fake chortling laughter* Ohhhhhh! Yes, I seem to remember you telling me that story. Was it yesterday? Maybe the day before? Oh yes.........(with a hard edge) it was BOTH.

(pause, slightly taken aback) Well there's no need to get vicious, love.

*eyes wide* Did I? Just now?

(skeptical) Perhaps I've had a bit too much punch.

(smug look) Perhaps you have.

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.