Yeah, this Monday was not relaxing or productive. I spent it in class. The sr creative director from Vidal Sassoon in L.A. was here this weekend and today was an opportunity to spend the day in class free of charge. She is amazing and inspiring and my friends all got new fabulous cuts, which makes me think I want a new and—nope. not even close. still growing.

anyways, it was good. I’m tired. I came home, munched on goldfish crackers, watched Dexter, napped kind of…but I’m just still tired. I’ve got that kind of tired where I think I want to go out tonight and see comedy but really I want to stay home and flop and I’m torn between the two, as I seem to always be these past Mondays…gah.

So. Here I sit. couch. tv. goldfish. I need a vegetable and a vitamin.

that’s all I got today folks.

I love today. I’ve been looking forward to it for a year. Today we gather, we go downtown to the 3rd annual Ghouls Gone Wild Parade and the March of the 1000 Flaming Skeletons led by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips walking in his bubble

then we return to my casa and have a fire, roast some food on sticks, carve some punkins, sit around and enjoy each other for a night. We laugh. We eat more. We eat smores. We eat goldfish. Goldfish Smores, become Goldfish Whores and laugh some more.

I love today.

Last night was awesome. Boyfriend backed out, so it was just myself, Marcia and Brandon what met at the theatre and had a little culture and facetime! These are my friends from USAO days…we email, we see each other randomly, and always promise to gather and then never do. Brandon and I had some Mexican food for pre theatre dinner and laughed and caught up on life…twas good. The show we saw was Murderers…ever heard of it. Three person show. All monologues. and quite funny! Very delightful!

I finished my plays and turned them in along with my ratings…Beauty on the Vine. was the one that struck me as the most possible. I think, THINK I liked it. But I need other opinions on my opinion. It may be that just portions were well written and the rest was crap. who knows. I got 6 more so that should keep me for the next few weeks!

Speaking of reading time…I GOT RELEASED FROM JURY DUTY! HALAKALEEM!!! Duty, served. Check. Done. This makes me happy, that I won’t be called and miss work, that I only had to miss one day…things are still super slow and I have lost some clients for sure and I’m sad about that. I have a pretty slow day today and am hoping for some walk ins…sigh.

What else? That’s about it I think. I need to straighten up a wee bit, get something together for breakfast and get on with it today. Still have to go to the grocery store, set up the back yard, run the Dyson once more…

Kikimama has taken to NOT using the litter box. She’s pooping in it but peeing in the bathroom on the rug. I got thru more Swiffer pads and rugs in a week than a nursing home. WTF? I totally cleaned it all out and put in a new kind of litter that hopefully will lure her back…any ideas out there? Gah. crazy cat.

Ok kids. Happy Saturday. Enjoy your weekend. Muah and Halakaleem!

A Lot.

That describes my life right now. There’s a lot of good. I’ve been incredibly social, and that is winding down thankfully…kind of. Theatre tonight. My house tomorrow after the parade. Party next Saturday. Shower/Birthday party Sunday. Fly to Chicago the following Thursday. Then home to my birthday and relaxing…hopefully. Boyfriend is, I think, getting a little tired. I am having struggles juggling him, and everything else. The result is that my closets are science experiments. My finances are jumbled. I’ve forgotten to put payments in the mail. . . I know this because I’ve found them on the table under more mail.

and hey, turns out? I have NO winter/fall clothes. Everything is just scraps. which is disconcerting at best. I need to hit the Old Navy and Target. It’s a necessity by this time. Gah.

Sunday, we don’t really have anything. I’m supposed to be at play committee but am turning in my plays and reviews tonight when I go see the new show. Hopefully we can sleep late, catch a movie or something and I can come home and organize my closets and mail/bills. You know when that is looming over you…just puts a pit in your stomach. gah.

Elephantsoap loaned me the whole set of the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood books. I’d like to re-read those, perhaps I will begin this weekend!

Hey, Star Wars? Pretty freakin awesome. The whole philharmonic/movies/laser light show combo was pretty cool! We all let our geeks hang out a bit! The dude who gave Yoda a big shoutout was one of my favorite moments. I was disapointed by the “museum exhibit” that we got. One. One thing. Chewbacca. And yes, that’s cool, but the whole thing hits Dallas this weekend and their exhibit is WAY bigger. The whole thing. and I think that’s just not quite fair. But whatever. I’m glad we went. I’m glad I got to do it with Elephantsoap and Numskullery. We’ve made some amazing memories this year. True story.

If I had one wish, I would wish I could make enough money to pay all my bills AND join a gym. the Y perferably. When Boyfriend stays over, he has to get up at the crack of ass. So here I am. awake. I could be at the gym. I could be. I am not. I am on the couch with coffee, the computer and my dvr. I wish for that.

Yesterday, my book picked up a bit. Hopefully today will bring the same thing. Crossing fingers. Praying. Head to the grindstone…let’s go TEAM!

Happy Friday ya’ll.

I’ve put together a little party of my own for my girl:

It’s my girl Chrome’s birthday!

She’s going to enjoy the following forbidden fruits this weekend, travel to hang out with the amish, purchase some wood. *dirty!* and hopefully have an all round fabulous weekend celebrating her arrival on this planet!

Happy Birthday my sister! Here’s to a year of discovery, of laughter and love. Of beginnings and endless “yes’s” To a year chock full of happy.

i love you.

This is what I’m doing with Elephantsoap and Numskullery tomorrow.
Dont be too jealous.

Dear Tuesday,

If by putting the dead bird in my diningroom floor is a means to scare me off? You’d best try again. I saw Bono and The Edge and Fergie and Wil I Am forty eight hours ago. In yet another twenty four hours I will be witness to Star Wars in Concert.

Just because the cats got some fresh catnip from the frontier this week, doesn’t give you license to turn them into killers.

This week is full of light and love and energy and hopefully tons of clients! I’ve got class tonight and tomorrow morning, learning new tricks of the trade! Friday is a fabulous show at the theatre and Saturday is the Ghouls Gone Wild parade then Smores&Whores party at my house!

So you see, Tuesday, one measly dead bird, feathers flying everywhere on my floor only motivates me to get out the Dyson at 7:35 in the morning rather than Facebook. It has not motivated me to jump back in the bed. It has not motivated me to ignore and retreat.

In the words of Bono:

Force Quit and Move to Trash — Re-start and Re-boot Yourself

Unknown Caller – U2

Love & Light,

Zelda

I am still sideways. Gert is too. She coined the phrase last night en route home from the U2/Black Eyes Peas concert…all we could do is laugh for about a mile!

Sideways.

We had quality facetime. She and I. This best friend of mine for the last quarter of a century. This hasn’t happened in about ohhhhhhhh 8 or 9 months? yep. We were in dire need. We had some Oprah A-Ha moments on the porch, talked, cried, laughed and that was before we got in the car to drive down to the concert!!!

I cannot possibly even explain how amazing the concert was. Perhaps she will attempt it today sometime. My friends who sold us our tickets took tons of pics, which I will borrow from their flicker (with their permission of course) as soon as they post them.
The set was a monster space ship. The band was soul wrenching body bopping awe inspiring goodness. the Black Eyed Peas? Couldn’t have had a better time with them!

Gert and I laughed. We danced and bobbed and I jumped up and down with the crowd of over 60,000. Our seats were 19 rows from the ground. It wasn’t too cold or windy in the stadium. We were never uncomfortable at all. We were sideways with the absolute grace of it all, that we got to experience that together. . . and we, she and I, have seen many a concert lo these 25 years. It’s what We do. This one?

This one beat them all.
(Paul McCartney was taken out of that and set aside on his own pedestal.)
Beat Them All.

We came home, took a muscle relaxer as our bodies started to stiffen up from the bopping as soon as we got into the car, and slept till damn near 11am! Halakaleem.

Together. Sideways. Fabulous.

I hope you have a sideways experience this week…something so full of fabulous that you just can’t walk straight.

Huzzuah and Halakaleem my circus friends. I’m to the coffee pot to eat the grounds…I need me some more caffene!

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.