Labored days

I did nothing today except homework. Literally. ALL day LONG. Absolutely nothing but homework. Yup.

What?

Please to meet!

Our former music/youth dude came into town this weekend for Rock the Light, so this morning after church a group of us went out to eat with him and his wife. They are seriously stellar people and it was great to see them. Meanwhile, I was seated across from Brittany. Brittany likes to draw a huge 'B' on her food then the rest of her name in teeny letters. Jessica likes to take huge 'B's and turn them into BRITTANYFLIES!!!! This one is especially beautiful. You can tell because if you look closely you see that the top wing is a peacock tail and the bottom wing is the Mona Lisa. (Go ahead. Click on the picture to enlarge it.) The Brittanyfly is accompanied by her friend Vinnie, the vampire cactus. (Having roots: Not, as it happens, a particularly effective way of catching your prey. Huh.)

I held a cat and I liked it

Today was the last meeting for the KC Improv Festival so we met a little later than usual and had lunch instead of earlier and at the coffee place. The girls split a giant meatball sub and LOVED it. The meeting itself went really well since by now all the planning is done (no time left for anything else, after all) so it was mostly just, 'Did you do this?' 'Yes, I did this.' Best kind of meeting. This evening we went to RI and saw a new format there called 'It's Debatable.' Tom is in it and he asked if we'd come out and see it so Jason and I got some popcorn and headed out. The topic up for debate was 'Should congress pass a law forcing Americans to believe in Faeries.' It was done in high school debate rules. (*shrug*) The affirmative team won and Tom actually won best debater, which was way cool. Brianna got totally into the subject matter and was nodding solemnly when a speaker argued that faeries die when people say they don't believe in them. For the most part it was a pretty good show. We came home and put the girls to bed and watched TV while I worked on my embroidery. Kitchen towels! What do you think? Pretty cute, huh?

What are you doing? I've gotta go!

Today a gaggle of improvisers, including myself, met up in the Crossroads district to hand out flyers for the Festival (hey, it starts next week!) I love that part of town, there's so much interesting stuff. This shot was taken in an organic farmer's market called 'Bad Seed.' I so have to go back there, it was way cool. Those colorful orbs on the table are all tomatos. Heirloom blends and unusuals, along with the typical reds, and a color chart telling you which are which. Love it! After handing out flyers Trish invited us to her place to watch a movie that is famous for being awful. Awful to the point of being one of the most unintentionally hillarious comedies ever made! It's called The Room. Oh it's bad, it's so bad. I can't stop giggling at how AWKWARD everything was! There were scene where characters would enter a room, have a two minute conversation, and suddenly one (or both ) would say, 'Well, I gotta go. I'm very busy.' The plot was incredibly stagnant. The mom of one of the main characters actually says, 'Yup, I got the test results. It's defenetly breast cancer.' The daughter doesn't react except to say, 'Oh. You'll be fine.' And that's the last time we hear anything on the matter for the whole movie. Yeah.

Cape Thursday

I went to my theater class today to find that several people were wearing capes. Why? Well......that's a very good question. I wore a scarf and the girl in the back of the picture arranged it so it looked more cape-ey for me. Awesome. Either way, here's a cute becaped trio, and FYI, the girl in the pink skirt is the 'alpha female' I referred to, but who can henceforth be known as 'Sarah.' I'm still not 100% clear on the other's names, but I posted the picture on Facebook and I'm going to go ahead and guess Sarah will tag them. (yay Facebook!) Jason and I had a great evening. He mowed the lawn, the kids rode their bikes, I made a semi-elaborate dinner, the kids went to bed and Jason and I sat in front of the TV while I worked on embroidering some kitchen towels. Very domestic 1950's.......except when you factor in the part where I set up my new cell phone and had a Facebook contest to see who could text me first. Yup. Let it be known that Shannon won. Oh yeah, and before you envy her, that's pretty much the extent of her prize. A mention and the title of 'first text on the new phone.' I'm lame like that.

A heartwarming tale of high adventure

Right......so today I wanted to get to school early and do some work and have a coffee and yadda badabba. I've got all my stuff and I'm walking out the door, do the mental checklist, and shut the door....one nanosecond before my brain reaches the most crucial part of the list, 'Oh yeah, and by the way, your keys are on the counter next to the sink. Enjoy! That's for making me work so hard lately!' Oh shoot..........The good news is I had all my stuff, including my phone. Immediately I call Jason and say, 'Nguh! Meheeba, nishck plehhh!' Translated from hysterical female into English that roughly translates as, 'Darling, I seem to have locked my keys in the house. Could you be a dear and help me out in some fashion? Thanks, you're a peach.' He works about half an hours drive from the house and since there was no obvious point of entry (key under mat, overlooked unlocked back door, etc.) he started out for home. Meanwhile I'm in the backyard trying to see if I can get in Brianna's room through the window. It's roughly 7-8 feet off the ground and just slightly to the left of the deck (which would have been a great way to get in if it was lined up.......) so I did the first logical thing, which was destroy the screen and throw it on the ground. Next I got a building permit and a contractor to help me create a structurally safe tower consisting of a lawn chair and the air conditioning unit. Fortunately my self preservation instincts kicked in before I tried to kick my left leg up over my ear to reach it in the window. I also tried leaping headfirst from the deck into the tantalizingly open window, but alas, my brain has this weird thing that tells me when I'm doing or about to do something stupid, and this time it clicked on and I decided there was no possible way to get onto the windowsill without dying horribly. One painful bruise in a straight line across my midsection later (what? I only hung from the windowsill by the ribs for a very short time), my knight in shining pegleg arrived bearing the key of entry.

Do I feel like a moron? Why yes, why do you ask?

Chinook

On Tuesdays Jason makes dinner for us since Ihave classes allllllllllllll day long and it's his day off. It's one of the many helpful things he does that makes him pretty much the best ever of anything. Anyhow, tonight he grilled up some venison and after we took our first bites he said, 'Man....this is a little overdone.' I said, 'I like it, it's really good.' He said, 'Well.......yeah, but I overdid it a little.' 'Okay, maybe a little....it's kind of like British humor.' 'What? Oh come on, it's not THAT dry!' Ha ha, awesome. We had a rehearsal tonight where we watched our video and whined about what we personally did wrong. I realized as I was leaving for home that I hadn't gotten a picture yet, so I grabbed the last lingering people in the troupe (which tonight was Jen, Tom and I) and we snapped this cute trio shot. I had one where I accidentally cut off most of Tom's head 'cause Jen and I are both short and he's on the gosh darn tall side. It was really funny, I said I was going to use it........but then I realized how adorable Jen and I were in this pic and went with it instead. You just can't argue with epic cute.