happy thanksgiving!

may you all have a wonderful and happy thanksgiving surrounded by the people you love!

d-day!

tomorrow i start a diet. again. this time i hope it sticks. no, i'm going to be positive - this time it's GOING to stick. i have never been so disgusted with myself. even my "fat" jeans are tight. i don't even want to get dressed anymore - nothing fits. we had a weigh-in at work last week so if i fall off the wagon, everyone will know. i'm putting it in writing now....i'm serious. every sunday i will post my progress.




so tomorrow is it.



no kidding.



i mean it.

i got it!!!!

the producer of the show i did an episode of a few weeks ago is auditioning for the upcoming season. he had called me after the shoot to ask if i'd be willing to help him and read against the auditioners. it sounded like fun, so i agreed. so.....after 3 hours of reading the same two scenes, i'm back. and he offered me another episode! one of the actresses who came does a lot of voiceover work and is actually kathleen turner's voice double! i didn't know there was such a thing. body double's, yeah, but not voice double's. if you closed your eyes, she sounded just like her. maybe i can get her to hook me up with her agent!

yeah baby!

the eighth wonder of the world

why are men such buttheads? why can't they pick up a phone? why can't they just hit the "reply" button?

is it that difficult?

is it that complicated?

is it a chemical imbalance?

is it the testosterone?

do they just live to annoy us?

funny how if they want something from us, they have no problem with any of the above.


we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

good (?) dog

allow me to introduce you to the cocker spaniel from hell.

meet our little princess, an equal opportunity biter. there is no rug too expensive for her to pee on if the spirit (or her bladder) moves her. she knows she's not supposed to be on the furniture but her philosophy is, i know i'm not supposed to do it, but if noone is looking, or in the immediate area, i'm gonna do it anyway. kind of like most kids, i guess. anyway, she is the light of my husband's life and can pretty much blink her long cocker eyelashes at him and get away with murder. we have already decided that should we ever divorce, he's getting her! i'll even pack her suitcase.

they say cats have nine lives. cats have nothing on this little piece of work. she's had to have 6 teeth pulled, been stung by something that caused her to literally blow up to the point where she could hardly move her head, had surgery for a torn ACL, eaten money, and been paralyzed from the waist down. yet she just keeps on ticking.

how do you stay mad at a face like that???

(even though she's on the furniture!!!)

curtain call

for the past two nights i've been helping out with house for a local show. several of my friends are in it, and i try to lend a hand when i can. you can usually count on there being as much drama going on behind the scenes as on the stage.

the table in the lobby where the box office/ticket takers were decided to collapse. on them. of course there had to be a cup of coffee on it as well as programs, money, etc. it was not a pretty picture. then there was an inverse skunk prowling around outside the front door. i call it an inverse skunk because instead of being black with a white stripe, it was white with a black stripe. very pretty actually, though after having had my dog skunked a while back, i wanted no part of it, pretty or not. thankfully, noone was sprayed, at least not up until i left. oh, and one of the actors somehow got locked in a room. they managed to get her out in time for her cue.

they had quite a big crowd and i had set up all the refreshments during the first act. i had two people helping me, one i put on the 50/50 raffle, the other was supposed to help me at the food table. doors open, this ginormous crowd descends upon me, and mr. helper is nowhere to be found. i can't leave the room to go look for him cuz i'm the only one there. there is literally a swarm of people lined up to the door. i do my best to get everyone taken care of, and finally, after what seemed like forever, he saunters in. "oh, do you need help?" yeah, bend over so i can kick you in the butt!!!! where the heck were you???? talking to someone? you couldn't say, excuse me, i'm working, i'll catch up with you later. typical!

but i did get recognized - that was pretty neat. i'm standing at the door taking tickets and someone said he remembered me from a show i did a couple of years ago in another theatre. i guess when one of your characters only wears a skirt and a violin, people tend to remember you!

that's all for now, i'm exhausted. good nite.