So as a Christmas/Birthday present for a few of my cousins, I bought tickets to Spring Awakening. I figured Judy and Cheenee would enjoy seeing a new show and I had talked the show up so much to Lizeth that I thought she needed to experience it. I'd never seen it either so I was pretty excited but also kind of nervous. I didn't even know if I would ( Read more... )

So, that was 2010.

It was a strange year, I have to say. Relationships were tested and the good ones survived (Marlene and the entire drunken insults/beer bottle-throwing debacle) and the unhealthy ones are thankfully locked away, never to be heard from again (Veronica and her madness [although I have a feeling that my curiosity and masochism will ( Read more... )

Last night, I had two dreams:

The first dream took place at work. I was working the cash register on a Sunday morning. It was very early. It had to have been just as the store opened. I was stacking and restacking six packages of staplers as I waited to ring up the next customer. She was carrying on a conversation with another lady and usually it ( Read more... )

So I got volunteered to work at the Ventura store today which sucked because, first, I didn't really have a say in the matter, second, I closed the night before at 11 and had to be up the next morning at 4 to be there by 5, and third, I don't like being away from my store. Apparently, they are backed up like crazy because of Back To School and ( Read more... )

So on Sunday, Judy and I saw Rent at the Hollywood Bowl. It was pretty amazing, to say the least. I can't say it was perfect, though, because it definitely wasn't but I enjoyed myself thoroughly and I got goosebumps at all the right moments and it was a good night of music. Before I talk about all the good stuff, let's discuss the bad stuff, shall ( Read more... )

I slept eleven hours last night, making up for the sleep I lost over the weekend. It was pretty busy and we'll get into that a little later. In those eleven hours, I had several dreams, one of which was interrupted by a rogue alarm clock. Dastardly alarm clocks! One dream from last night stood out in particular. I was thrown into a waiting room. It ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream that was basically an expanded three-part version of the classic Twilight Zone episode, "The Midnight Sun", one of my favorites. It happened like this:

It started as an overhead shot looking down on a staircase almost exactly like Psycho in the scenes involving Norman Bates entering or leaving Mother's room except rotated 90 ( Read more... )

Some how, over night, the situation went from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to Eponine in Les Miseables, which, if you don't know either of these stories well, is progressively worse. At least Helena's story is hopeful and ends rather happily if not a little to neat to be true. But Eponine is just utter melancholia. I was actually even ( Read more... )

A Midsummer Night's Dream is probably my favorite of Shakespeare's plays. I just love everything about it. It's fun and funny and whimsical and I really enjoy what it says about the nature of love and how it moves human beings. It's just such a great piece of fiction. I've always wanted to live inside that forest. Buyer beware! Turns out living ( Read more... )

I bought lotto tickets tonight. I just had this feeling that I should. People always ask what I would do with the winnings and the answer usually varies depending on how I'm feeling at the time but I think I've come up with my definitive answer. I would pay of the mortgages on my parents' houses. I would pay off my brother's school loans. I would ( Read more... )