Avoiding

I am avoiding folding show laundry. The mountain of it that you see here as well as what is still in the dryer. The newest issue of Artful Blogger came out and I just can't put it down long enough to fold that laundry. Darn.

New Toy

This came in the mail today. It was very exciting, and free! Now that we have a Small Business account with AT&T they are just trying to make me happy, something they never did when I was just another customer.
My kids are really shaping up this week, and Thank Goodness for my partner Glo she keeps me sane.

Sweet

Today's sweets: My new Target sandals and shaggy red bath mat from JC Penney's. Loving them!

I am so happy to report that my application for health insurance has been approved and I can finally go get birth control! Huzzah!

Everyone should see the movie Fur about Diane Arbus, I caught it on Cinemax this evening and I couldn't take my eyes off of it.

As You Like It

Started rehearsals tonight. I've been teaching myself to play guitar so that I could play and sing for this show and it looks like it might actually work. I'm working on the songs with a cool guy named Mitch, whom I may have to develop a crush on. It went way better than I expected. Hoorah!

Play

Thursday night I found one of my favorite childhood toys at Urban Outfitters. Although it is now called a "hypotrochoid art set", it will always be spyrograph to me. Here are some of my experiments:


This is what I would call Super Sweet!

In Progress

The room I am moving into has awful fake wood paneling, so to deal with it I am hanging a grip of art on the walls. Since my jewelry box was exploding with stuff I decided to move everything into the built in drawers, but I'm hanging the necklaces on a pin board, then hanging it on the wall as art. When hanging my beloved "Rainy Day, Paris" print, I needed something lovely to hang with it. This fantastic print "Keep Calm" is something I had seen in a few magazines so I decided to search etsy and there it was. So excited. Don't they look good together.

Today was the company meeting for the Woodward Shakespeare Festival, which was very exciting. I got to see the stage and meet some of the cast who were not in attendance at the read through. Also got to show off my basic guitar skills. I'm teaching myself so that I can accompany myself and others during the show. It's really not as hard as I thought it would be.

Grateful

I had a day filled with negativity yesterday, so I thought that today I should conteract that with lots of positives. These are the things I am grateful for today:

1. My dogs (here Lego helps dad work)

2. Health - I have been living without health insurance for nearly my entire adult life, and so far have been lucky. I was reminded of this when I spoke with my insurance lady yesterday (the store is paying for me to get insurance) and I was denied coverage because my height/weight details were entered into the application incorrectly. No I am not 4'6" and 195 pounds, I am 5'6" and 195. Only slightly better!

3. Time - to myself, Grandma and my Mum have been on their drive across the country for two weeks, and I get four more weeks of blissful alone time before they return. In which time I must clean the house of my moving debris, ekk!

4. My Jobs - both of which have been remarkably flexible and willing to let me do a play in Fresno this summer. Hoorah for bosses that understand the need for someone to do what they love.

Have a lovely Friday!