Fall Fest on the Frontier tonight! The boyfriend and I went out last night to string lights, set out the straw bales, hang banners, move tables, set up the inflatable, eat dinner with Crazy MeMe.

My MeMe is batshitcrazy. so much so that we need a new word for batshitcrazy. She told my boyfriend that he was tall, but the men in our family were much taller and skinnier.

niiiiiiice.

She was pretty good entertainment for the evening. He didn’t run away screaming…in fact it was hard to figure out which one of them was talking the most!

I’ve been running ragged and the thing is…it’s not going to end until mid November. Seriously. Just SO BUSY!!!! I’m super psyched for this weekend. Making money tomorrow which I need. I’ve already got an envelope addressed to Ft Worth! I get the concert of a lifetime with my girl and only my girl (and 60,000 other people) on Sunday. Next week there’s a possible Girls Night Out on Thursday, theatre Friday, the 2nd Annual Smores & Whores party at my house Saturday, the next dang weekend is Halloween!!!!

We still need costumes for our party. ANYONE???? Ideas?

Hope your Friday is Fabulous. Huzzuah and Halakaleem. I’ve got to gulp this coffee, take more vitamin C (our poor FactoryGirl at work got the flu)load up all my stuff for the party and for the weekend, get to work, bang some hair….count the hours.

I finished The Farnsworth Invention by The Sork.

THREE THUMBS UP. I wish I’d seen it on Broadway. I just do….gah. I think we can do this. It’s a LOT of men. a LOT of different scenes in a LOT of different places. Working in the round presents its own set of challenges but I know we can do this. I think it’s a great piece for our educational show that we do for the schools in the Spring. I wish The Sork would have written about ohhhhhhh HALF the roles for women as he wrote for men, but oh well. He needs to write more.

Ok thats it. I’m outta here. Gotta go check new stuff on http://twitter.com/Shitmydadsays

She is the most successful relationship in my life. We have been through hell and back. We have the scars to prove it. Falling books. Broken hearts. She is always ass deep in funk around and on her birthday…but this year…THIS YEAR she’s got a perk about her! She has an amazing cast of love surrounding her finishing up Sunday night with she and I screaming our hearts out at the U2 concert!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, today is Gert’s birthday. Today is Love Thursday. She is the epitome of how I feel about this day. I love her. She loves me back. We are far from perfect. We are closer to perfect than imperfect, though! She is risking and leaping and growing and moving and changing and making her dreams come true in order to pass that gift along to her beautiful child…and it’s not easy, and it’s not fun all the time but she’s doing it in one Big Texas Hanging Way. So, be it here or over at her place, go. Give my girl some love.

Happy Happy Day my dear. Happy Happy Day.

I need some sunshine. We haven’t seen the sun since Saturday. It’s starting to wear me the frack out. Bright side (i’m searching) is I feel like a human again!!! WOO HOOOO!!!! Thank GOD for quick med clinics, for antibiotics and for credit cards that still have some room on them to pay for it all!

I’m ready to get back to work this week. I’ve got to get the bills in order and start humping to get them paid down and off. Payday is Friday, but with taking off for RFTC and jury duty, I’m sans two days…GAK. Hopefully the next two days will rock it out to first commission…I hope.

My facebook is posessed. I can’t read my wall. I can’t get into my inbox to read mail. Something is bad bad leroy brown about it and I don’t know what. Anyone else got any ideas? I get error reports all the time. “cant post status” “cant retrieve info” “cant do anything you want at the time that you want” so I just keep punching the buttons and eventually I get in. Chrome hasn’t been able to see my wall either. . . HELP!!!!

Tomorrow is Gert’s birthday. She’s not a big fan, but stroll over to her site and give her a Hooo and a HAAA and a HAyaaaa today and tomorrow!

I forgot to take the trash out again. oy.

huzzuah and halakeleem! Happy Humping Day! MUAH!

Well I got cut today. Not released but cut. I’m still on call. I call the hotline on the 23rd after five pm and find out whether or not I report to jury selection the following Monday. It was pretty nerve wracking at first, I had to approach the bench because this jury term goes till November 6th. I fly out of state the 5th and had to let them know. They were kind and said they would accommodate that. Swell.

I was in the second group to go up. I was then about the 12th person called to go sit in the jury box, there were about 25 of us called total with about 8 leftovers sitting in the audience. We went thru ?’s from the bench. I had to tell that I’d previously testified in a murder trial. I’m thinking that was what got me dismissed. Whatever.

If I have to go, I have to go. The trials usually dont last but a few days. At least this isn’t in full blown holiday hair season. And it won’t interfere with my trip.

In other news, my hole feels better. I’ve slept pretty much all afternoon, am making chili to eat this week. It’s cold and dreary. We have Fall Fest this friday night, so will go out to the Frontier tomorrow or Thursday to help set that stuff up.

I’m a little panicked about $$ right now. After this next bartending gig, I’ll be able to send chunky payments for my computer down south, and get all kinds of stuff caught up! Just holding out this week for good tips and lots of clients!!!

I think that’s pretty much all I have the brain space for tonight, kids. I’m going to eat, watch a lil tv and go back to bed. Tomorrow…tomorrow is going to be a perky day. I can feel it!

Jury duty today. I’m up at the crack of ass to get my coffee on and wake up and be there earlier than usual just in case I can’t find parking and whatnot…GAH.

I’ll be completely off the grid today. This alone is enough to send me to the nervous hospital. No texting. No phones. No internet. Nada. Zilch. Bubkiss. Flop. Sigh. There is an emergency number in case anyone needs me for an emergency. I’ll email/facebook that out this morning.

I feel better. Slept for about 12 hours last night, four hours yesterday…the meds are kicking in and starting to work. Feels better. Still, I’m broken hearted for missing NYCVegan last night, DannyOH was in town as well…sad sad sad.

Ok here’s a small bitch of mine regarding government and healthcare…riddle me this kiddos. The government, Republicans especially, but not solely are verrrrrrrrrrrry adamant about healthcare and government staying out of it…unless it comes to a womans’s right to choose, and a woman’s right to privacy. My lovely state is doing THIS. Clearly someone is on the crack. It makes my blood boil. I mean, yeah, it’s allegedly anonymous but this comes after my state tried to pass THIS law.

After yesterday, I would wish the biggest of wishes that my government gave as much of a shit about my insurance as they do my vagina and what I do with it.*

Huzzuah and Halakaleem. Happy Tuesday. I’m heading to lockdown.

*not the most cheerful of posts this morning. but I’m kinda wearing my cranky pants. and I’m going to Green Mile for the day. Without the mouse.

So, that lovely little UTI thing I had last week? Faithfully injested twice daily the antibiotic and the cranberry and everything I was supposed to do. Didn’t budge. I was swinging back to the dark side with the pain so this morning I just decided to say to hell with it. I went to a First Med clinic. (do NOT get me started on the insurance thing people. just do NOT.) The office visit was 80 bucks. I think that’s fair, ya know. I got right in. No appointment. It was a clean facility, all good stuff.

Well, after telling them that I’d already done a round of meds and what not, they were a little skeptical that any kind of test would read clearly…yeah. I guess when you’re off the freakin charts with bad things swimming around in you, it reads pretty clear. The doc was super nice, offered to give me a shot of antibiotics to jump start this, but when he realized I was self pay. (no insurance) he went to see the cost first. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a shot of antibiotics.

we said no thank you and just got the script for the pills and the pain.

another 80 bucks to fill ONE of those and I came home. I took a pain pill I had in the cabinet and actually slept for almost four hours…this is wearing me out. it really really is.

and I’m soooo nervous about jury duty tomorrow. I’m nervous about getting there so early, getting parked and reporting by 7:30 am. I’m nervous about no phones with me, no computers with me, so I’ve got four plays from committee mtg to read. I’m nervous about sitting all day and not getting called. I’m nervous about getting called and going into the courtroom and having a panic attack from sense memories of the time I had to testify in the murder trial. I’m nervous about getting picked on a jury. I’m nervous about not working…

gah.

I had a super great fantastic weekend though! Boyfriend and I hung out in Batshitcrazytown on Friday. We went to the War Bar and sat with his best friend and talked to Gert. We stopped by his parents house for a visit first, and that was nice. Saturday was Race for the Cure and it was just amazing. Elephantsoap took photos, check out her blog for those. Saturday night, as posted below, was another fun one and then last night he and I went up to the bar for some Colts football and fellowship. Home around 10 and since I was feeling pretty bad by then, sleep came fast.

I am going to comedy tonight. I know I should stay home, but the NYC Vegan is performing. I am DYING to see his face! I’ll skip out early due to my tomorrow, but I must must MUST go see him tonight!.

what else??? I’m hungry. I’m sloshy from the 64 ounces of cranberry juice that is in my belly. and that’s about it.

i’ll keep you posted!

Oh, here’s my reading list this week for the Play Selection Committee

Steve & Idi by David Grimm
Beauty on the Vine by Zak Berkman
The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin
Great Falls by Lee Blessing

I’ll report back later!!!

huzzuah and halakaleem!

Saturday night: reunion committee reunion. Fabulous time!

Sunday: brunch with Gert and Joe, play selection committee meeting, pick up U2 tickets (have I mentioned that Gert and I are going to the U2/Black Eyed Peas concert a week from today?) home to rest a little bit then to the bar for Colts football.

Monday: meet Bonusmom at noon to shop for Fall Fest. Comedy with the NYCVegan.

Tuesday: 7:30 am report for mother effing jury duty.

Wed: hopefully report to work because said mother effing jury duty has decided not to use me.

Thursday: Wish Gert a Happy Birthday. Wish the NYCVegan a Happy Birthday. Help set up for fall fest.

Friday: Fall Fest

Saturday: work during the day banging hair. work a wedding that night.

Sunday: U2 and Black Eyed Peas with Gert! HALLA!!!

this week makes me tired just looking at it.

I need some Halloween costume ideas. Boyfriend and I are going to a party and need some inspiration. Help us.

Before I know it, I’ll be flying off to Chicago and seeing Dionysas and Kizz and all my Saginaw peeps….

my favorite time of year. hands down.

how’s your life going?

I missed Love Thursday yesterday. As any of you can attest, my mind is otherwise unavailable for consultation. Today, though, I’m playing Thankful Friday.

Today I am thankful for my friends Elephantsoap and Numskullery. For they set an example with effortless grace of what I want to be. They offer no judgement, yet can call foul and set things straight without burning anything. They give love. Relentless, graceful, hysterical, love. I want to be them.

Today I am thankful for LT and Mgirl. Whether it’s under the gazebo or at the round table this trio has become another saving grace. We talk. We laugh. We get it. We bless it and let it go. We feel better and are better because of it.

Today I am thankful for the rest of my tribe, spread out across the land. For each one of them.

Today I am thankful for Wonderboy who sends me his school papers to view. Stars! 100%’s! He’s brilliant!

Today I am thankful for my family. For the opportunity to see them next week.

Today I am thankful for my job which is offering flu shots this morning. I will have one. yes. Ouch. yes.

Today I am thankful for my house. It’s kind of wrecked but I love it.

Today I am thankful that it’s Friday and that tomorrow I will Race For The Cure with my BonusMom and company. I love this day.

Today, I am thankful for you. Thank you for reading.

Today, I am just thankful.

and for those keeping track? I’m still crazy. I’ve got some conversations to get out of my head and onto the table. But I think it’ll be ok. I truly truly do…

Oh and one more thing?

I’m thankful for him.

so my sis commented yesterday that 9 out of 10 patients admitted to the hospital sighting “mental status changes” are diagnosed with a UTI.

that is some SERIOUS shit, people! and truly explains a lot. By the end of yesterday I was not fun or happy or bueno in any shape or form. We went to eat at Cheesecake Factory, then home and just flop. I could barely speak! He’s too kind.

anyways, today is a brand new day. I feel better. I need to get up and get ready, but the rain, oh the rain is preventing any sort of productive movement in this house.

I’m going to get up now. I’m going to get myself together and get to work and bang some hair and make some money and be grateful for all that I’ve got going on. I’m going to try to take my cranky pants off and put them WAAAAAY back in the back of my closet.

That’s what I’m going to do. What are you going to do today?