create your own personalized map of the USA
or write about it on the open travel guide

I feel like I’ve driven through the three southern states, but not enough to actually count them. and it’s kind of weird about NM, eh? I’m doing pretty good, thanks be to The Children’s Theatre Touring Years.

what’s your map look like?

OK I CORRECTED THE WRONGS!

http://www.hulu.com/embed/759O2O3ZTQmcFTtwRS5pZw

I just absolutely cannot wait. I just can’t.

I’m mush.
Here’s what I need to do.

keep in mind it’s already noon thirty

Laundry. I’ve had clean clothes on my love seat for three weeks. it sucks.
spare room is wrecked.
clean bedroom thoroughly, sheets to floors to closet.
dyson the carpets.
grocery store.
drive to batshitcrazytown and hit up the credit union for a consolidation loan.
deposit money in the bank for reunion and my savings…
call about insulation getting done this week or next.
find something to eat for lunch*
wash the red dirt mud off of my car

What I want to do is this:
*lunch. immediatly if not sooner.
couch and sports night until I have to nap.

I worked a wedding yesterday then spent time with LT on her new patio which, is three streets away from me. We broke out their chiminea and I brought firewood and it was blissful. all in all yesterday was not bad. it was not stressful. it was fine. but it was full of things NOT pertaining to said to do list…

I’m needing some time.
Seriously folks, I’m needing some time. . .and I’ve just about decided to maybe only do groceries, banking and bootcamp. everything else will be there tomorrow….

now, about that lunch…

I shot my final sketch for the TV pilot tonight.

I was a titch frazzled because I THOUGHT I’d blocked my book out early today, alas I did not. We were supposed to start the shoot at four. I got there around 6:30 ish…but I made it just in time for my line. . . in fact we switched around the lines and I got the funniest part (in my opinion) and added some shtick with an ice cream bar! heh! Cannot wait to see this edited together on the 15th of October. We’re having a live event in Bricktown showing the sketches interspersed with some live comedy.

We had a wrap party on campus corner and it was fun and it was good and I sat at this table and thought…two years ago I had no idea any of these people even existed. Thanks be to the Redhead.

On the way home, I was thinking about all of this, and really just silently rejoicing life and it’s quirks and snickers when I just kind of manoeuvred in the drivers seat. Lil gassy, if you will pardon me…and what the hell?

totally peed my pants.

are you kidding me?

apparently, instead of whoo-ha muscles…I have a Slinky.

Here’s a little story about how Life works.

Within all of the crazy, (and in all fairness it’s not true crazy, but the loss of the computer and the planning and finagling of the new computer via my Fort Worth Angel, the getting and starting up of the new computer via my OKC Guru…kind of a lot) So yesterday I started my day out by de-funking a friend. It was needed. It was necessary. It almost never ever in the history of ever happens, so…yeah. it was needed.

Then the funk was mine. and I started to listen to the voices.

it’s September…you won’t make any money.
the wedding season has slowed down…you won’t get anymore shifts.
your money will dry up and you will be in serious trouble.
what were you thinking.
and ps you’re fat and George Clooney hates your guts.

Fucking voices.

However, this voice was louder yesterday.

LOOK AT HOW GLORIOUS LIFE IS? YOU HAVE A GREAT FAMILY THAT LOVES EACH OTHER IN SPITE OF ALL THE FRACTURES IN THE TREE! YOU HAVE ANOTHER FAMILY COMPRISED OF FRIENDS THAT ARE TRUE ANGELS IN YOUR LIFE! YOU HAVE WALKED 3 MILES PLUS SEVERAL TIMES THIS WEEK! YOU HAVE A NEW COMPUTER! YOU HAVE A JOB AND A HOUSE AND A CAR THAT ARE ALL DEPENDABLE AND STABLE AND COMFORTING! YOU ARE SMART ABOUT YOUR MONEY, SMARTER THAN YOU’VE EVER BEEN IN YOUR LIFE, SO IT WILL WORK OUT! AND GEORGE CLOONEY HAS A NEW MOVIE COMING IN NOVEMBER AND HE DOES LOVE YOU!!!

So, I shook it off, ran some errands, found a nice hot pink purse at le target, went to work and found a check in my cubby. we get 100 bucks for referring students to our school. . . and one night at some random bar north of batshitcrazytown, I talked to the bartender about doing just that. apparently, she did. I logged onto my Facebook and had a message from a high school friend asking if I wanted to pick up a wedding shift in two weeks, easy money. beer, wine and ‘ritas.

Hell yes I do!

I had great clients all day long, great conversations, helping and laughing each one. Remember the Pilot? he came in yesterday. Just funny, that one. He gave me a grand compliment, saying “I remember the first time I came in here…Man. You have changed SO MUCH! for the better! You’re not even the same person, Zelda!”

no. no I’m not. and thanks for noticing.

I was only going to come home last night, come home and delve into the spare bedroom that looks like a missile testing site…but Pseudo Sister 1 said as I was leaving, “wanna come sit on the patio at chelino’s and have a cold beer while we watch my kids throw chips around?”

hell yes I do.

During the night, I took another phone call…something has come up unexpectedly and do I want to pick up a bartending shift tomorrow, Sunday for a few hours in the afternoon? Easy breezy. All cash bar, specific beers only. easy money.

hell yes I do.

Home early, sated and happy, I crawled into bed and thought, man oh man…I love life.

Hell yes I do.

I’m typing you from my fabulous shiny gorgeous delicious FAST new machine. Pretty pretty girl. By the grace of my dear and fabulous friend, I was able to get my new MacBook Pro and an external hard drive and a wireless router tonight. By the grace of my Guru I (he) got stuff set up, hooked up, loaded up, fired up and here I am. at 11:22 in the p.m. sitting on my couch, wirelessly typing away to you.

I am so blessed. I am soo soo sooooo blessed.

The payments will be paid monthly and finished in 18 months or less.

The brand new operating system comes out tomorrow, which I will get my update and have it installed before I know what I was missing out on.

Guru aka Numskullery set me up on Twitter tonight, too! I am CONNECTED I tell ya! We were discussing the machine with glee and giddy and I realized that really…really…I’ve never had a machine capable of DOING. He asked me what I really wanted to use this for, what I wanted to do with it and my response was EVERYTHING. yes. I’ve had my first Mac, gifted from Bonusmom, and it was fabulous and sweet and got me through. So totally not dissing that gift. It helped me learn about the Mac itself, taught me lots, and I fell in love. It was tired and a wee on the vintage side, so some things were just not an option.

Everything is now an option.

In other news, I officially have enough moolah to get the insulation blown into the house. I’m going to wait until after my next wedding, just to have a lil cushing in the account. This makes me feel pretty danged good. I’m not on the schedule to work again for awhile…so hopefully there will be a few more events here and there to soften the blow that is September. I’m convinced that things will be fine and dandy.

In dog news, I looked at pound puppies online today again. I’ve about convinced myself to hold off a bit longer. Will keep you posted on that. I’m sure it’s in my future…

I need to get some sleep. (since Numskullery and I had coffee during our jam session, that is probably just wishful thinking) I’m walking in the morning, and have to run by the battery store to pick up my specially ordered ancient battery for my garage door opener. Oh man. Life is starting to just work on every single angle. I’m also running by Le Target to find a special GUSHY carrying case for my new machine. It’s show and tell tomorrow at work! heh heh heh.

man. I cannot believe I got this.

thank you.
a million times over,
thank you.

Huzzuah and Halakaleem and I love George Clooney and I love this machine.

We all know that I treasure friendships. With my wholest of hearts. I hope, pray, that I am half the friend to you that you are to me…

We had a torrential storm last night. Crazy ass rain. Horrifying thunder and lightening. Knocked my power out a few times. Thought I’d lost tv, but it eventually came back…crazy. Luckily I had the Crackberry phone with which to communicate with Numskullery, a.k.a. my new Guru. and with Rog who lives down south in Ft.Worth…

We’ve hatched out a purchase plan, and exactly WHAT to purchase to get me computerized and up and running successfully again. I’m super excited. It’s just amazing the help that these two have poured out onto my head…such blessings.

In other news, Ted Kennedy. sad sad sad, yet with that horrible cancer I hope now he finally has peace. I wonder who will replace him…and whatever side of the fence you sit politically you can’t deny the fact that he was the last connection to such a historical family, and worked so hard for so many years…sad sad sad.

Dominic Dunne, as well. The Cancer. I feel like I knew who he was BEFORE the OJ trial (first one) but that’s where he really really came into focus for the general public…I read his column in Vanity Fair, he was a good writer. Sad sad sad.

I almost talked myself into a pound puppy yesterday. Seriously. I think I talked myself out of getting it as soon…but I think another member of the circus is in our future…heh heh heh, I type that as the two black men are chasing each other and one almost ran right into the door jam. Ahhhh, I might have been tipsy lo those many years ago when I named this space, but it’s still fitting.

Ok kids..will keep you posted on the computer situation…cross fingers!

and to Numskullery and Rog…

MUAH!!!

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Found the car title. after I’d even called Ex-Him and had him look in his files. Yeah, there was ooooooooone box in my garage full of just stuff. one box I’d been stepping over for over a year now. I cleaned after I mowed and weedeated tonight..just had a sinking feeling.

Oh well. Now I have a duplicate. and I have filed every little paper I need to in my file cabinet and feel pretty confident that I know where stuff is. That’s a nice feeling.

SO. Will just have a look at my schedule this week. If I have slow time I may block out and drive to the credit union and try to get this party started.

but damn. wouldn’t it just figure?

This machine is working some. I can get online via my crackberry too, so that’s keeping me sane! Makes me realize just how much I do, other than blogging and networking, on the computer…crazy that.

So. cross your fingers and whatever else you’d like to, hopefully within a few weeks or so I can type you from my shiny new Mac!

somehow thru the wonky computer my netflix cue didn’t get updated. Instead of season one disc one of MadMen that was due tonight, I was alerted that Season two disc two of Slings and Aarows will arrive tomorrow, and the postman didn’t pick up my last Dexter disc today…harumph. I havent even started S&A, so this particular disc will not help me one iota. And…AND AND AND Netflix has also alerted me that S1D1 of Madmet will be a quote Long Wait unquote. flop. I’m rewatching Sports Night instead. I hope I get that by the weekend…and get back on track. I had it down to a science…damnit.

I’m going to get more water and grill myself a burger. Happy night, ya’ll.