Tuesday, December 30, 2014

2015 is almost here!

Need some inspiration for 2015?

It's not even here yet and I'm already beginning to do some New Year's-ish things.

1.  Ate 2 donuts from Krumpes for breakfast.   Eating healthy resolution broken BEFORE the new year even begins?  Genius.

2.  Washed my make-up brushes.  Not sure I've EVER done this before.  So gross. Yet, hopefully inspiring to someone out there who needs to do this too.

3.  Cleaned out my medicine cabinet AND my food pantry.  Had some sauerkraut that expired in 2012.  And some ear drops that expired in 2011.  Again, so gross. Yet, hopefully inspiring and potentially life-saving for that someone out there who might be saved from botulism.  Or totally ineffective gingko biloba.

4.  Photo organization.  Still in the process, but working on printing photos and deleting them from my phone.  Does anyone else still print pictures?

5.  Think about deleting my facebook account.   I say this every year and we all know it won't happen.  But I still like to think about it.

6.  Bossing Superfrydad around and getting him on my clean it up bandwagon.  He is working on getting new shutters, painting the front door, putting up a cast iron dinner bell that will hopefully be the endcap to a grape arbor, getting rid of random crap out of our basement, and other random jobs I cannot do.  It's very satisfying to get someone else to do stuff for you.  I should be an executive at a giant corporation. I'm great at delegating.  Actually, not really.  I'm a control freak who only delegates jobs I absolutely cannot do or just don't want to do.  And I don't like to wear a suit.  If I could be an executive who wears yoga pants and only deals with people that listen to me, I'd be killer.

I will turn 39 in less than a week.  I've got to get it in gear.  Not like I plan to die at 40, but I suddenly feel like I am running out of time to do what I need to do. What do you need to do in 2015?

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Break a leg

I wish I could say my absence from the blogging world is due to my world travels helping orphans or something awesome like that.  Truth is, I just haven't been feeling it lately.  Sometimes I start to write something and then I realize that this blog is not a personal diary for the world to read. That's what facebook is for, right?

If you just nodded your head in agreement with that last statement, maybe you should rethink what you post on facebook.  Also, maybe you should begin working on identifying sarcasm.  I'm looking at you, Sheldon Cooper.

Do you have a bucket list?  I don't.  Why should I make a list of things I'll probably never do?  It's kind of a downer, really.

But if I did have a bucket list, one thing I might include would be to be in a musical, preferably on Broadway.

I'm sort of crossing that off my non-existent bucket list.  It's not Broadway.  It's not off-Broadway.  It's not way-off Broadway.

It's local community theater.
Or theatre, if you're fancy.
I'm not fancy.
But you're now singing I'm So Fancy......you're welcome.

Superfrykid and I will be in the local theater's production of Two From Galilee, a Christmas musical telling the story of Mary & Joseph and ending in the birth of Jesus.  We are in the chorus, which is pretty much our speed.  No starring roles, no supporting roles, just the chorus.

This is our first foray into the world of musical theater.  It started as a fluke. Superfrykid enjoys going to the Youth Theatre productions and said she wanted to be in one.  The cost is $200, but I wasn't $200 sure she would like it.  A friend told me that there were auditions being held for the Christmas play at the Apollo and they were taking a few kids for the chorus.  And it was free.  Being a cheapskate, I decided she could wet her feet with the free Christmas play and then go from there.

Little did I know I would have my arm twisted by a woman named Karen I would end up auditioning too.  Several weeks later, we are now just getting ready to leave for our first performance.  It's been quite an adventure and I hope that someday Superfrykid will look back on it and be glad she had a mom who wasn't afraid to make a fool of herself in public.

And.....we can't say "break a leg", because Superfrykid already did that in the middle of our practices.  She fell and fractured her tibia so she's been on crutches practically the whole time.  Tiny Tim doesn't make an appearance in this play, but a limping kid from Nazareth does.

I just pray I don't fall into the pit or walk out with my robe tucked into my shorts.