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Mar 11

Thankful

Last night was a great night in Prescott!  Avid arts supporter and Prescott Arts Beat Captain, Andrew Johnson-Schmit, wowed Prescott again with the Buckey Awards – an evening of arts celebration.  The evening featured Tumbledown House (What a great band!) and a wonderful dance performance by Switch Academy (with special guest appearance by Andrew himself), and then Andrew and a bevy of great presenters handed out the Buckey Awards to Outstanding Prescott area Artists.

And I got to take one of those pretty medals home!  I was named Outstanding Literary Artist for 2012.

It was very fun – even if my shoe did fall off on my way up to the stage :-P

And it all brought to mind just how wonderful a place Prescott is for the arts – I’ve really been welcomed home and I’ve been so fortunate to work on a bevy of cool theatrical events through PCA, The@trics, Little Black Dress INK, and also with The Artist’s Path (I’ve actually got a monologue in their upcoming event – and I’m going to be performing two monologues in the event as well – eek!) and I’ve been really fortunate to get to know and work with the Tomorrow’s Theatre Tonight writers, which is a monthly writer’s group workshop.

So, I guess you could say that although I’m no longer in LA where there’s a theatre/starving artist on every corner, I’ve found a great artistic nest of talent here to partner with, learn from, and support.

And it’s awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

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Aug 15

Catching UP

Holy cow-  It’s been a whirlwind week – and I didn’t have ANY internet.

Glory, glory…

But now I’m plugged back in and pretty excited about it.

I’m also damn tired, so I’ll catch you up in bullet points:

  • I just got back from a kick-ass vacation in Arkansas where I spent 5 beautiful days getting to know the Fella’s family, eating delicious food, and zipping around Greer’s Ferry (This HUGE lake, I mean, HUGE) on boat, innertube, and (for about 3 seconds – upright) water skis.   I had so much fun and the weather was beautiful at the lake.
  • Heirloom tomatoes… I’m hooked.  There was a palate of them at the cabin and they rocked my world.  I must now try to find a place to buy them around here…
  • Blue Bell vanilla ice cream.  It is seriously the best.
  • You can remove ticks by swabbing some nail-polish over them, which cuts off their oxygen, and then wait for them to back on out… then you grab them with a tissue and flush the fuckers.  (we had 1 tick incident, and no, it was not me)
  • I’m blogging for the LAFPI again… I know, way to come back into the week running!  But it’s great timing because it’s also Tech week for…
  • DIRTY LAUNDRY.  Can you believe it is actually here?  Do you know what’s going on with that whole thing?  Here, check out the link if you haven’t yet:  www.LittleBlackDressINK.org
  • This all means that I’m going to be really crazed again this week… so I probably won’t get you a proper blog nearly as soon as I’d like.  I’m thinking about you though :)
Thanks for sticking with me – I know it’s been uneaven – but remember, I also blog on www.LosAngelesFAIL.com, LAFPI, and Little Black Dress – so you don’t have to miss me ;)

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Nov 05

My Pet Project…

*UPDATE*  In my exuberance, I had forgotten to turn off the “registered users only” plugin… So, NOW you can follow the links below to check out the site.  Sheesh!

Sooo, that thing?  That I mentioned a few days ago?  The thing that was cooking?  It’s HERE, and it’s called LosAngelesFAIL.com.

Because I don’t have enough things to work on/write for/edit :)

It’s a blog-zine written by myself and a handful of other awesome writers.  It’s all about Los Angeles and our misadventures therein – and it’s FUNNY.

So check it out.  I might not be as regular here this week while I work out some yonder kinks… but I’d love to have you visit me on www.LosAngelesFAIL.com and share your thoughts on the new site!

Have a super weekend kids :)

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Oct 21

It began with a coat, and ended with Richard Simmons

Soooooo yummy! I ate, like, half of this thing! HOORAY, CHEF DOC!

My birthday.

My birthday.

It came early, stretched on for about a month, and wrapped up with the most unexpected of glories…

And I don’t feel too much older for it, which is always a good thing :)

You see, this is the first year in many that I’ve NOT celebrated in LA.  I think my (generous) parents were fearing I’d hunker down into a home-sick depression of sorts, because about a month before the actual day, they started delivering peppy surprises- like the coat.  You see, I lost my favorite navy-blue peacoat (purchased in Scotland, so extra “boo” for it’s disappearance), so when Mom saw that JC Penney was having a sale on the lovely style, she told me to pick one out as my birthday gift.  I got a yellow one, and I LOVE IT.

A. Lot.

Then the next weekend (or thereabouts) we went to Tucson for a September birthday extravaganza, since my mom, my dad, my brother’s girlfriend, and a family friend ALL share the birth-month.  There I was, happy to sing to everyone, when they surprised me with my own little “pre-birthday’ birthday card at the group-birthday-dinner.  They weren’t leaving me out, oh no.  I got a giggle, and a little blush, at being sung to, two weeks away from my day.

Next, on the Birthday train, was Vegas.  You see, we went for mom’s optical convention, but she wanted to eat at The Paris (where she made sure to tell the Waiter it was my birthday) resulting in additional chocolate mouse to go with our taster’s meal dessert EXPLOSION.  Seriously, check this out:

YUMMMMMM

It was kind of incredible.

Aaaaand, although we returned on Sunday,(with my birthday actually within grasp that Tuesday), Dad was scheduled for hip-replacement surgery on my birthday morning, so we decided to celebrate with dinner and cake on Monday. (get all of that?) Dinner was yummy, the cake was super delish, and my parents (crazily enough) surprised me with more cards and a gift certificate for a MASSAGE.  (cue chorus of angels!)

I really thought that I had rounded it all out, that I was Birthday-spent.

But no.

The actual day arrived and I fielded an avalanche of Facebook love (yesssss, it felt so good) and a balloon bouquet, and, a surprise card/gift from my new friend at work who shares the same birthday.  (How cool!  And she’s totally nice and fun to talk to… us Libras!  So much fun ;)  Dad’s surgery went well, and Mom and I swung by for a visit, after which we decided that we deserved a tasty dinner…  Red Lobster it was!  Where (of course) mom again made sure the server knew it was my birthday and we got a cookie-pie-ice-cream thing that I’m pretty sure was made by the divine.

So, are you counting it all up?  That’s a lot of birthday so far, right?  Well…

Once I got to LA, my girlfiriends and I celebrated at UGO with oodles of wine, and (once again) some birthday desert.  It was splendid.  Then Friday night my dear friends Doc, Jacob, and Adam surprised me with dinner (Doc is an absolute CHEF!  You can read about his menu here) and more (you guessed it) dessert (this time HOME MADE!  YUMMMMMM!)

All this eating required some sort of exercise, so when my friend Rachel, whose birthday was Sunday, invited me to Sweat it Out with THE MAN himself, Richard Simmons, I LEAPED at the opportunity.  It was one of the best things I have ever done for myself, this man is energy and light, and I smiled the whole way through.  We danced, we clapped, we lifted our legs about 65 gazillion times… I was a hot, sweaty mess by the end of it… but I was still smiling :)  And then he hauled about 7 of us birthday peeps up to the front, made the whole room sing “Happy Birthday” to us, and gifted us with an adorable (and hilarious) little Richard Simmons birthday doll on a beaded necklace.

Awwww, so cute!

Perfection.

So, as you can see, it’s definitely been a Birthday Month, and I’m feeling hopeful that with such a love-filled (dessert filled) celebration as this, that 32 will bless me with plenty more to keep smiling about. (please?  I mean, 30 and 31 kind of SUCKED BALLS, you know?)

Thank you to everyone who participated in the festivities :)  You made this girl smile big time!

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Oct 07

Mini-Vacay

I’m going to Vegas… land of the hedonistic…

I’m going with my mom.

You see, I haven’t been to the city of sin in ohhhhh, about 5 years?  Maybe?  Because it’s expensive and smokey and, well, so hot!  But I do enjoy a good pool, a luscious buffet and good nickel slot machine.

In any case, Mom has a convention to attend, so I am tagging along as her faithful sherpa and pool lounger.  So don’t be upset if I’m a little less than regular for the next couple days… I’ll be sipping fruity drinks by the pool :)

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Oct 04

Ahhh, Fair Bliss

I. Love. The County Fair.

LOVE IT.

Ever since I was young, it’s been a source of joy and amazement.  I remember my mom taking me out of school on the Friday of Fair Weekend so we could avoid the crowds.  We’d get our hands stamped and away we’d GOOOOOOOO – stuffing out faces with corn dogs and Navajo Tacos (an Arizona delicacy) cotton candy, caramel apples; running through the fun house 18 bazillion times because I had an all-day pass (Thanks Mom!); lingering in the animal, mineral, art, and photography exhibits… God, it was amazing!

I think I have such fond memories of the whole thing because it was something I did with my mom (and as I got older, my favorite gal pals + mom), and because, being a county fair in Prescott, AZ, it was never massively (re: anxiety inducing-ly) crowded.

It was one of the things I missed most about Prescott when I left – there was no way in HELL anyone was dragging me to the LA fair- YUCK CITY – (too many damn people!)

So… here I was, actually in town for Yavapai County Fair, 2010… I was super excited.  Like, I mean, waaaaaaay more excited than any woman in her 30′s should be about a fair…  I even got all revved up about entering some of my photos in the photography exhibit.

And then, Friday rolled around, and I started to doubt myself… “What if it’s only magical in my memories?  What if the new location sucks balls?  What if the Navajo Tacos aren’t right?”

I mean, here I was, totally looking for excellence… was I just gearing myself up for one massive letdown?

This is what YUMM looks like

Nope.

Everything was AWESOME!  Mom and I stuffed our faces with the best of the best… We visited all the critters in the animal exhibits…

You know I can't pass up a good cut-out opportunity...

… we laughed, we howled, and we ate some more!

Happy faces...

And then we checked out the photography exhibit, where my photos won, like, FIVE ribbons, which amounted to $7 … just the right amount to go buy myself a second Navajo Taco before we left!

That's 1st place, yo!

All in all, it was a BOUNTIFUL Saturday afternoon, and we created another great YC Fair memory for my memory bank.

And, to top it all off, we plunked ourselves down in front of the X-Files movie that night (while our stomachs processed all of our booty), got good and scared, and then were treated to a massive lightening show and thunderstorm.

We watched out the window as all the cars from the fair drove home… wet, tired… but hopefully as happy and contented as we were after our fun little day :)

I. Still. Totally. Love. The County Fair!

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Oct 02

The Thing Under my Desk…

Sitting… typing… working… sighing….

I work way down at the end of the hall in my building, and there aren’t any students here on Fridays, so it can get pretty quiet.  I had just had lunch and put the happy peel from the MOST DELICIOUS BANANA EVER (okay, I was really starving when I cracked that sucker open) into the trash bin below my desk and got back to work reviewing Intermediate Algebra (Because just when I thought I wouldn’t EVER need Algebra AGAIN, and threw my TI 84 graphing caculator into the garage sale pile not more than four months ago,  I’m leading the Algebra review lab at school, and, umm… welll… Wish me luck!)

Anyway, time ticked on until I heard a silent swoosh, crinkle, THUMP, below my desk.

EEK!

Now, it was just the banana peel, having been improperly tossed, making its final descent to the bottom of the bin- but I freaked out!  Because my brain, highly geared towards the supernatural and extraordinary, determined that some form of rodent, or lizard, or alien-banana-sniffer, had somehow made it into the building, down the hall, and under my desk, where it was now lurking suspiciously close to my feet.

In the next instant (and sadly after the beads of sweat and panic had already arrived) I realized what had really happened, but jeez!  What an imagination.

What an out of control imagination.

Alien Banana Sniffer, indeed.

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Sep 09

Nasty Comments (or) A Prayer for the Hasty-Haters

Oh, ye of few words and much anger…
May your patience weigh out over heavily tapping fingers.
May your brain demand a moment to kick in.
May you please, please, for the love of GOD, PLEASE, consult The Little Brown Handbook, or OWL or some other esteemed writing site before you hit…
SUBMIT.

A while ago I blogged about a play – a while ago, people lost their minds over it.  Today I received the following comment on my “About me” page.  Now, normally I allow comments, but seeing as Mighty Joe was obviously in a twist over my review, and since he made it so clear he wouldn’t be returning to view my response, I deleted it from that page and am now devoting this little bit of space to it instead.   What a shame that he won’t be able to see the time I took in correcting his note.  Then again, he probably wouldn’t appreciate the effort very much, would he?

I think it serves as a lovely reminder to always go over your work before you turn it in.

(note, you will have to click on the image below in order to see the whole pic)

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Aug 25

The Oatmeal… nails it again

Oh my God, this made me howl!  I’ve definitely been here, have you?   Seriously, I don’t have a ton of time to write today (we are gearing up for class to start and I’m guest-blogging for LAFPI again) so, you can either check out my posts over there, or, if you are just in the mood for giggles, check out THE OATMEAL


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Aug 15

Dark-Hamster-Humor

I don’t know if any of you are familiar with The Oatmeal but the blog belongs to a very funny and (maybe a bit insane) comic artist who creates wonderful, strange comics to amuse the senses.  I’m a big fan of his grammar comics (how to properly use i.e. and e.g., how to use a semicolon, etc.) But this popped up on his blog the other day and really made me cringe… then laugh…  and laugh some more… and then cringe a whole lot more too.

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