What Do You Want

I've been thinking long and hard about this question for the past couple of weeks. I remember that in high school I was encouraged to be a well-rounded person, to be interested in many things, and I am, but I think that it may have been easier if everyone had just said stick to one or two things. Part of the problem for me is that I am 'good-ish' at many things, but not great at any one thing. I have a good singing voice, but not great. I'm a good actor, but not brilliant. I'm cute, but not beautiful. I can remember little details about the stupidest things, but I have to ask for help in MS Office for something I've done a million times. But I really wanted to get down in writing the things that I know I want for sure. Please feel free to add your own to this list if you care to comment.

1. To live comfortably, not worrying each month where my rent is coming from.
2. To make art with people I care about.
3. To find real love before I leave this world.

These don't seem that hard right?

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.