Say it's my birthday..dunuhnuhnuh..

Well, it is. And Kyle is in the process of making me a delicious homemade from scratch german chocolate cake. Yowza!

This weekend has been pretty packed. Friday I ran all kinds of errands and then we went to the Purim celebration. That was fun, made a lot of noise with groggers, ate pizza, there were children running around screaming every where and in costume, and the rabbi was dressed up as a giant Sponge Bob, it a surreal kind of experience.

After the service, we went to our friend's Susan's to cut some gourds open. We are using dried gourds to make mask for the play I'm in. Let me tell ya, it's a pain in the arse to cut open a dried groud. We were hacksawing it when a vicious storm came roaring in with hail. So the gourd cutting was delayed until Sat.

So instead of finishing that project we sat around drinking and talking. I learned how to knit too. The basic stitch at least, I still need to practice.

Sat morning I went bellydancing, which is fun yet difficult. I just don't know how they keep the hips moving and then move other things all at the same. Anyways, I'm hoping to go back this coming up Sat. I spent the rest of Sat. inhaling dead gourd guts and painting my mask. Stupid gourd made my allergies attack.

At night we saw Der Golem, an old german silent film, at the Alamodraft house with Ash. There was live music. We had to take Ash home early due to my allergies. Alas, we did get Ash a junior bacon cheeseburger to complete the night.

Today, I have rehearsal.

Book #2 completed for 2005: Bongwater. A book set in Portland, Oregon, kind of depressing subject matter, but the kind of depressing I wanted to keep reading.

Time to check out ebay.

Happy Birthday!!!

Awww....ssspring...brrreakk!

This past weekend I:

-Got a perm and cut. It's really curly and fun.

-I won 3rd place at the poker tounament at Fado's, winning a $10.00 gift certificate and I qualify for the final tounament sometime next month.

-spent way to much money

-rehearsed da play.

-suffered horrific allergies


Hmm...that's about it. I am infatuated with the color pink. I want to buy pink everything. What is wrong with me?

I will try to make my costume for the play I'm in over the next 2 days. I really wish we had space. We will when we move. Yes, we are moving again, in August. This time we are going to try to stay for more than a year. We shall see.

The new Whole Foods opened. It is amazing. I did not know food could exist in those quanties. I can't even put in to word the awesome power of the new Whole Foods. I'm the little Mermaid singing ...ahahaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

K'back to cleaning and trying to de-allergize this hole I call home.

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling Right Along

One Act Play is over!!!! Hallelujah!!! We competed this past Friday in Caldwell. Four of my kids received awards, 3 for honorable mention cast and 1 Allstar Cast actor. I was pleasantly surprised as I was quite embarassed at our production, they didn't know their lines, and they were just so bad. Apparently the judge understood and expected this from junior high.

Now I can focus more on the all women Scottish play more, and I can catch up on work that I've not done.

We bought some new music last weekend. These are some links if ya'd like to hear some clips. I love them all. There were many others I wanted, but managed to have self control.

Frou Frou
Kings of Convenience
Green Day
Hildegarde Von Bingen

Books read so far: 1
The Secret Life of Bees

I loved this book. I've had a hard time finding a book to get into as much as I was into this one. And I haven't had the time, so maybe now I can try to find something.

Tonight: Poker at Fado's. And we are in the process of making Brazilian cheese bread, which is sooooooooo tasty. Click here for the recipe to make pao de queijo.

Cheerios!

Butter "Love" Cookie...mmmmm....

Butter "Love" Cookie 2.

Yup, that's what Kyle and I did tonight, bought a butter "love" cookie and took pictures. After painful theater work with teenage actors, I could not muster the energy to go work out. I was able to eat this cookie. It was alright, a tad to much lemon, but pretty good none the less.

Kyle and I looked at the Barr Mansion as a possible wedding locations. It reminds of fondly of Shakespeare at Winedale. There is this awesome reception room with many glass windows and it has beams in it like the barn at Winedale. I don't know, this is a tough choice already.

Peace out!

Butter "Love" Cookie 1. 

This week's Highlights

Yesterday, one of my students called me a "f-ing whore." He didn't directly call me that but he generally referenced all teachers as he was walking out the door to the office. He is suspended for 3 days. He was also one of my tech guys for the play I'm directing. I fired his ass.

I will be playing a witch in an upcoming all women prodution of Macbeth. It's gonna be good. It's an adaptation, so it's the bones of Macbeth with a message about the historical torture of women as witches. So you should come see that in April.

Kyle and I went to look at a wedding location called the Vintage Villas. A lovely spot on Lake Travis, we've still got some more places to look at. The location will most likely be Austin, and we are aiming for June 4,2006.

Dat's about all for this week.

TOO MUCH WORK

The time has come, two weeks after holidays and back to work, that one (me), begins to wonder what other jobs are out there. Jobs that are less stressful and where I don't always have to clean crap off myself.

I think I'll make it till Friday, but I'm not sure...

Between trying to practice a really crappy play and getting a new student every 5 secs, I've about had it.

Good news is, I have the third season of the West Wing.

It's too early to begin the count down to the last day of school....

Wow - What a new year!

At 12:00 am on January 1st, Kyle asked me to marry him.

I said yes!

and

The UT Longhorns won the Rose Bowl.

Whoo-hooo!!!

Huzzah 2005!

I'll keep you posted on any wedding developments. We are planning to get married sometime in 06, there is some time to just wallow in engagement bliss and my beautiful fiancee.

Planning a wedding is easy, right?

An engagement picture.

Poker

We went and played Texas Holdem at Fado's last night. Kyle made it all the way to the top 10, and actually was out as ten. He lost on some lucky last card that made the other guy have 3 of a kind. It was boggus.

I was the second person out at the table we started at.

Suzanne is visiting from California, she attends what she calls a clown school there. We met during a play this past summer, The Two Gentleman of Verona. She's one crazy cat.

Anyway, she was also very close to going out of the game when she pulled some moves to get out of the hole. She also lost to a guy getting a lucky 3 of a kind, and she had pocket Aces. That was so crazy!!!

I'm still trying to figure poker out. There some strategy behind betting that I still don't get.

Poker night for the first time was surreal. Geez, there was sooo much smoking, it was disgusting.

Cheers to Kyle and Suzanne! Maybe next time Kyle can win us one of those gift certificates for 1st-3rd place.

OH, and I lost online scrabble to my brother Larry, and he's illiterate, what's up with that? He won with words like ga, goons, and crap crap crap...J/K, he's improved and now I must smush him in our next literati game.

A day of lose for me, yet still a whole heck of fun.

Larry kicked my ass at Literati. I think he cheated. 

Suzanne at Town Lake, showing off clown school techniques. 

See that little pile by the wine glass. That was Suzanne's until she did that whole comeback kid action.

Kyle's chips.  

Suzanne's comeback chips. 

Kyle and Suzanne moving on to the winner's table with their winnings from round 1. 

Thanks Santa!!!!

I'm loving the new camera. Christmas day was tame. I received an awesome new coffee machine from Kyle. It can be programmed to make coffee in the mornings, and it grinds coffee beans right there in the ol' coffee pot. It is swell! I gave Kyle a new grill.

We didn't do much Christmas day. Played Godsstorm Risk, in which I was whomped on. I only had 3 countries left at the end of the game, and these 3 countries all had the plague. I also went to house sit for my brother Larry, and everytime Kyle and I went to do this, someone had already done on the work. It was quite frustrating to drive all that way, only to find everything already done.

Some Christmas Day Pics

Kelly and Kyle.

The tree after all presents have been opened. 

Godsstorm Risk. I'm about to get devasted by the blue.