spring and life

spring is warming up nicely...in a literal sense. i love warm weather. i feel so much more alive than i do during the winter months - all that darkness is bad for the soul. of course this spring also brought with it a sinus infection that went from bad to worse and i've had vertigo for three weeks. today was the first day i wasn't dizzy. i still had to limit myself when i felt weak but overall great progress.


i am working on updating the blog more often. i just can't decide what i want to update it with. there are so many things that interest me but still...

rehearsals are going well. i'm loving this show. the director and the actress who is alternating with me are incredible and i am learning so much just by being there.

anyway...hoping for some sun this weekend at the beach and a winning lottery ticket. hey, you never know.

scrooge or no scrooge

in the past i've really been a scrooge when it comes to christmas. the whole holiday season (which starts in SEPTEMBER now) is far too commercial for my tastes. in addition i hate all the stress and family dynamics that come with the holiday season. quite honestly, for most of my adult life i haven't even put up a christmas tree.

all that started changing just over two years ago when i met my bf. he loves the holidays. he plans ahead for his gifts and is usually done shopping by thanksgiving. he puts a lot of thoughts into gifts. your first impression of him would probably be that he doesn't really listen to much of what you say. but when you watch him pick out gifts you realize exactly how much he listens and sees in the lives of those around him. i have honestly never seen someone who could pick out the perfect gift for anyone repeatidly. he also has traditions. movies and christmas shows that must be watched. family events that happen. nothing is last minute.

since meeting him i've begun putting up a tree. i try to plan my gifts a little more ahead than in the past (we are three weeks from christmas and may shopping is approximately 25% complete. we're even sending our first "couple" christmas cards this year...complete with our super sweet "couple" photo.

the problem is old habits are hard to break. how do you go from hating christmas, hating the pressur of gifts and family gatherings and all the infighting that brings to loving christmas and living the true meaning of the holiday?

i don't know. all i know is that i'm no longer the scrooge i was.

patios, 5ks and shows - total randomness

we have a large yard and it has a lot of grass. it can take several hours to mow. today the decision was made to eliminate some of that area. we are going to put out patio bricks over a large area outside the door eliminating some of the time we hve to spend on the mowers. i am very excited about this.

it's that time of the year again. the komen race for the cure is in october and i am organizing a team from the theatre. unfortuntely for me summer hours took away two months of training. i'm not back at square one but i am close. my goal had been to run the whole race but now the realistic goal will be to run 1 to 1 1/2 miles. i want to do the race in 40 minutes which is a little over 13 minutes a mile. i know that is not an impressive time but for me it will be the best time i've walked/run since i was in high school (eight minute mile with bronchitis, thank you).

odd couple just finished up and it was the most fun i've had stage managing any show. we had a small cast who got along fabulously. now we are working on dearly departed. i'm playing an 85 year old woman. btw, wigs are itchy.

the family reunion plannig is back on track. bellydancing classes are back. so are acting classes. next month i'll be adding a couple of computer classes for work.

Ac-cen-tuate the Positive

As part of respecting myself (one of my goals for the new year) I am working towards a more positive outlook in general. The irony is that when one sets a goal to be positive life choses that exact moment to test you by throwing so many wrong things at you. This would be so much easier if life had a grown-up kindergarten program.

The Cherry Popping Post

This is the first post of my new blog. Honestly I have no idea where I'm going with this thing. Part of me wants to blog about all the crap I watch on television. Another would just love to blog about crappy employers and provide a place where people would be able to check a potential employer's reputation based on feedback of current and former employees. And yet another part of me just wants to talk about my life. Of course there's all the time I spend involved in theatre that could be talked about. Can't forget mental illness, debunking the myths and stereotypes is near and dear to me. But who knows!

How about just something for fun today?

My new favorite obsession...hulu. I can watch Buffy and Monk all day at work. Provides a great escape from the stress of my day. Just tune in, slap on some headphones and go.