Is it worth it??

I've had this calendar for years. Every morning it gives me very good advice about eating healthy food. Most days I ignore it. Lately, I've been trying very hard to heed the happy children on my calendar. I discovered the Zip n' Steam bag which allows one to steam vegetables in the microwave. That and microwaveable rice make the whole cooking healthy food at home on a regular basis thing seem doable. So i've been buying fresh vegetables and cooking and steaming...

...and now i have teeny little black bugs all over my apartment. Thanks a lot, fruit and vegetables.

Full Disclosure

So, i spent the last weekend of the summer hanging out at the park. I did entertain elaborate plans of going to the beach or driving up to....OK, i have to be honest. that photo up there looks like i just pulled out my phone and took a casual snap of what was in front of me, which is what i did, but then i had to fix it. Look below at the original picture and you can see how i tweaked the setup. i felt like i needed some color in the middle. also, i wanted more plastic cup. i really wished i'd fanned that US Weekly so you could see some of Shannen Doherty peaking out from underneath the hummus.


I never claimed to be normal.

Welcome Back

wow! i haven't posted anything in a loooooong time. A lot has happened this summer. I went up to Omega for a songwriting workshop that couldn't be beat, and I just got back from visiting everybody up at the lake. I used lots of sunblock, but i never did break out the bug repellent. that's the second time i brought that with me and didn't use it. does bug repellent expire? does it work on "city bugs"? can i just rub it on my kitchen counter? i'd like to repel bugs now because i'm starting to feel bad about killing them. i feel bad about it, but i still really, really want to.

summer went by fast this year, didn't it??

August: Osage County

My sister, Joan and I went to see August: Osage County last week. I thought it was eh. Maybe it was because half the cast abandoned ship after the Tonys. Maybe it was because it has been compared to A Long Day's Journey Into Night. I just didn't think it was great. I thought it was funny, but play-funny not funny-funny. These are tropical birds! [go to 5:36] strikes me as the kind of line that wouldn't get that big of a laugh if it were in a movie or on a sitcom—well, it would on a sitcom bcs they'd add it with a laugh track. I wonder. Does the audience at a play, knowing how much they paid for their ticket and how long they'd have to wait to get in to see the play again, does that make them want to like it so much that they laugh extra hard and kind of over-enjoy a play? there was a woman sitting in front of me who was practically laughing at the lighting cues.

I guess i was just expecting more. It didn't have the poetry of an O'Neill play or the vulnerability of a Tennessee Williams play. I pretty much knew everything that was going to happen before it did, including what saucy put-down was going to come out of Mom's mouth. Again, it could've been the performances. I was lucky enough to see The Producers with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. I can imagine that after seeing it with John Stamos and Tony Danza you might wonder what the big deal was about. I know i was disappointed when i found out i wouldn't be seeing Mr. Katimski from My So-Called Life, although i was happy to see Jim True-Frost and he was great!

P.S. I'm not equating Estelle Parsons and the rest of the new people with Tony Danza, i'm just saying cast changes can have a big effect on the experience.

Did I really need to buy the movie Chicago? Not really, but it's so easy to buy stuff on iTunes and I really wanted to see Cellblock Tango and youTube wasn't cutting it.
P.S. i knew that i recognized Deborah from MILF Island as Sheila from A Chorus Line. NOW i know why she looked so familiar when I saw her in A Chorus Line. She's "Squish"!
P.P.S. "Pop" and "Squish" are my faves.

Wicked Betty

Great Ugly Betty episode this week. yes, it was a repeat but it was the first time I'VE seen it. Lots of Wicked, a very silly and inappropriate allusion to the civil right movement and Marlo Thomas. I love that in the beginning of the episode they did a little Marlo homage. When Daniel is pressuring Betty to tell him who she's taking to see Wicked she points waaay across the office at Gio and says, "That Guy!" :-]

What the...???

Last week i did the weirdest thing. I forgot how to get the key out of my door. i thought there was something wrong with the key and then i finally realized...after having the problem THREE TIMES...that it has to be horizontal i was trying to pull it out when it was vertical. Why i all of a sudden lost this memory that's always been second nature to me is completely beyond me. This didn't even happen when i first got the lock. Is my brain taking nothing for granted? Am i subconsciously craving change? Or just losing it?