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 Ahhhh......had the nicest bike ride with Mikee today (with him on the way there, solo on the way back) to the Castro to distribute the very last of the postcards I had for Precarious Theatre's "I'm Yours! (or: Deranged by Love)"  It's closing weekend....come if you can!  Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  www.precarioustheatre.com ( Read more... )

OK, I just got this in an email from MoveOn and cut and paste, I admit....I'm not as "hope"ful as some people I know about the changes that Obama might make, but I mean come ON, seriously....can you imagine the state this country would be in after 4 years of the jokers currently on the republican ticket (shudder to even breathe their names) and ( Read more... )

 Just got back from Petaluma, spending time with my lovey sister and the kids.  So good to see them....I came back with extra bundles of love and some paintings done by my niece.

They got a kitten!  Oh, so cute!  Kitten love.

 I was just thinking about how as I get older, things are less black and white and more shades of grey.  It's sort of strange, because I think there's this general idea that getting older and wiser means getting more things figured out and sort of implies black and white, concreteness ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a most challenging day.  One of the most challenging that I have had in ages.  Won't get into details.

But I have to say that at the end of the day, I felt I had accomplished something.  I spoke my mind about a difficult work situation, I danced off my frustrations, I cried 3 times (and once was out of joy!), and I literally HOWLED ( Read more... )

OK, I realize that eventually, it will probably start to feel like a JOB....

but can I just say that my new job is a lot of freaking fun?!  Who knew that being a party entertainer would be such a lucrative field (more lucrative than anything else I was doing with my college degree....) and that I would love painting faces so much?  Balloon animals ( Read more... )

Contrary to last weekend, when I was so freaking down in the dumps, I can think of nothing more I want to do than make tea, listen to weekend NPR shows (Prairie Home Companion, This American Life, Wait, wait don't tell me!) and finish up these puppets.  Good thing, because I have about 15 hours to do it.  Eep ( Read more... )

At least there is an extra day in this weekend, that is all that I can say.  The stuff I am working on takes such an amazingly giant amount of time, I just hope having an extra day will help me catch up a bit ( Read more... )

candy falls into 3 categories for me ( Read more... )