Yay, fun!

Something to pass the time... :)

http://www.youdontknowjack.com/

Q: So, are you glad the tour's over?

Other variations include...

-You glad to be back?

-Happy to be done exploring the great white north?

A:  No, no, no, no, no!

Other variations include:

-No, I miss my boys.

-I want to go out on the road again NOW!

-Actually, I'm desperately sad it's over.

 

It was such a lovely time.  Exhausting and new and always exciting.  Just when we started to really fall into a groove, it's over.  And I'm sad that those 8 people will most likely never be in a room together again at the same time.

Here's to blizzards and traffic cones and bobble-heads and Leinie's and bitch seats and hot tubs and cheese trays and ice holes and shanties and snowmobiles and zippers and laundry and frozen pizzas and per diem and karaoke and TV theme songs and Becca specials and roadboxes and "yyaaaa" and memories and all the rest.

"I hope you're in this show, cuz you are SO good looking!"

Singles Ad

This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It is reported to have been listed in the Atlanta Journal.



SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Call (404) 875-6420 and ask for Daisy, I'll be waiting....

 

 

 

Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society

a season of great gifts

This past few months I've been given the BEST gifts ever!

First, the SM team at the Rep bought me a portable DVD player for my birthday, and in addition, Briana bought me a subscription to Entertainment Weekly.

For Christmas, my sister knitted me the most beautiful afghan ever.

And now, for the closing of Guys on Ice, Jimmy bought me a full year subscription to Flickr Pro, so that I can upload as many zillions of pictures as I want to!  (I guess I'll have to take lots of pictures on this blizzardy closing weekend)

I love my friends.

cutest baby ever

Here's a picture of Annie from the latest Kohl's circular.  She is so darn cute!

 

(Annie is Kelly's baby, who I spent lots and lots of time with during A Flea in Her Ear.)

Day Off

Today is my "day off" since yesterday we had a performance and load-out.  But Jimmy and I decided not to drive back last night, so we stayed in Stoughton and I drove back with him this morning, and immediately had to come to The Rep to check the e-mail pile-up and see what's new around the fifth floor.  What a day off!  We leave for Hartford tomorrow morning at 10.

My horoscope today: If anyone knows how to go the distance, it's you. People marvel at your stamina, and it's true -- right now you feel like you could go on forever. Just remember that you are, in fact, human. Take a rest afterward.

Yes, I need a rest.  This past week was crazy but fun.  I'm extremely TIRED.  Highlights included my cell phone dieing, blowdrying frozen laundry detergent, a drunken night in Manitowoc, a trip to New Glarus, a theater with no freight elevator, a traffic cone, and a bobble-head from Burger King.  Oh my.

Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow - xoxoxox!

 

P.S. This is what happens when I'm bored.

Not for the Squeamish...

Dog Pack Attacks Gator In Florida

 

At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.

The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the "apex predator", can still fall victim to implemented 'team work' strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and "survival of the pack mentality" bred into the canines.

See the remarkable photograph below courtesy of Nature Magazine.  Note the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it from breathing, while another dog has a hold on the tail to keep it from thrashing.  The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the gator.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not for the squeamish!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thoughts from the road

Three days back on the road, and it's been a crazy one, full of cell phone and truck drama.  And as much as I find the lack of independence that is inherent in being out on the road incredibly frustrating, I really love being on the road too.  I don't have time to think about anything that is NOT tour related.  Literally.  I was telling Judy as she drove me to Ryder the other day, that when you're on tour, you eat, sleep, and breathe the tour.

I didn't have ANY chance to check my e-mail in the past two days.  It just wasn't going to happen.  So even though a few people from the outside world briefly intruded into my tour life, I really didn't think about them.  But then I come online and DO check my e-mail (finally), and get on myspace and facebook, and I'm reminded of that other life I have, in Milwaukee, and even Pennsylvania.  And it's a little bit upsetting right now; honestly, there are several aspects that I LIKE not thinking about right now.  Recently I've been easily hurt by the most random things.  Things that should not upset me, and I'm just paranoid, and wanting attention, and clingy and all that same old stuff, but to a larger degree, and I don't enjoy it.

With all that said, I'm really glad I was in Milwaukee last week.  It was a weird week, but one that I'm glad I was there for.  I like touring.  And I like the fact that I'm about to go get in a hot tub.  The end.

checklists

My horoscope today:

Making a list and checking it twice doesn't make you Santa Claus -- it makes you a thorough, knowledgeable person who's definitely on the road to success. So get out that pen and start checking.

Umm, all I ever DO in life is make checklists!  And then check them off.  With multicolored pens... yum.

Also, according to AccuWeather.com, the current temperature is 0, with a windchill of -26 degrees.  No WONDER my legs are numb after walking to work!

welcome to Milwaukee, the second

So, remember last year when it was all cold outside and stuff?  And The Rep reimbursed us for cab fares back and forth from the Plaza because they didn't want us to freeze on the way to work?

That time has come again!

Last year when this happened was the weekend after Valentine's Day, when the paint shop had a Luau party.  I have SUCH good memories of that weekend... :)

I've been thinking about this time last year a lot recently; thinking about how this is the time period right after Melissa left the internship and how changed my life here was after she was gone.  It feels like a long time ago... and yet I'm in a very similar state of mind.  In fact, I just read BUNCH of old entries on here from the beginning of January '06 through April, and it's RIDICULOUS the cycles my life moves in.  Or my state of mind.  Something like that.  I miss those people - Jeanine and Rachel and Charlotte and Kyle and Lauren and Melissa.  They should come back here and hang out with me for a week.

Finally, Manitowoc just becomes more and more intriguing to me daily.  We're going to have SO many fun people there to hang out with after the performance :)