{This has NOTHING to do with my blog today, but I like this picture for so many reasons…so there you have it}
I’ve been a little quiet and neglectful on the blog front lately, but not for a lack of activities to share or things to say, but more for a lack of the right words to say them. I’ve had some interesting and diverse thoughts swimming in my head for the past few days (weeks?) but I’m still wrapping my own mind around them before I put them out there to the universe to see how you feel about them. That, and I’ve felt like I’m in an odd place of extraordinary busy-ness and ceaseless exciting projects, programs, and events at work that thrill but exhaust me during the day, and then leave me with zero motivation to do much more at night when I arrive home from the theatre than cook dinner, slink into my pajamas, and crawl into the warm embrace of our couch and my cozy knit blanket while watching House Hunters and Property Brothers on HGTV. I’m either moving at a beyond frantic pace or brain-dead – and, at least last week and this week, there seems to be no in between. It’s lightening fast or wicked slow. I’m also trying pretty desperately to finish up The Snow Child for book club on Thursday night. I’m almost there, but my work, my thoughts, my book, my activities, and my deep desire to be utterly lazy when I’m not at work haven’t left a whole lot of spare time for blogging lately. So, what all have I been up to for the past week? It’s all thoroughly thrilling, I assure you.
I deep cleaned the entire house (I do love the smell, look, and feel of a spotless home), did all my coupon planning and grocery shopping for the week, packaged and mailed a few sets of those tasty homemade truffles that Becca and I slaved over to a few family and friends that I thought might be in the mood for an exotic chocolate pick-me-up, made a ‘welcome home’ dinner of Italian sausage pasta casserole and lemon bars for Ted (he was away for a week on designer business), picked him up from the airport, cleaned Cider’s tank, made more lemon bars for our office potluck, used a gift certificate we had to treat ourselves to dinner at a sweet little authentic Mexican restaurant in Penfield and a performance of Clybourne Park at Geva on Friday night, used more gift cards we’ve gratefully accumulated for a fun mini Macy’s shopping spree on Saturday, took a bubble bath and read my book, cozied up to some fried chicken, cole slaw, biscuits, and the 3-hour Bonnie & Clyde mini-series DVD on Sunday (which was excellent, by the way), purchased and assembled a new shelving unit for our basement and reorganized the whole space (it looks amazing!), scored a treat of two free diet cherry coke slurpies at Seven-Eleven for Ted and I – which made me feel like I was 16, invincible, and away at summer theatre camp in San Marcos with my friends and boyfriend again (because I’m pretty sure that’s the last time I had a slurpie)(also, you should download the Seven-Eleven app on your phone because they give away something free almost every week), took the Buick in for a car wash, oil change, new spark plugs, and an engine tune up – all of which has helped exponentially but left us totally broke, and yesterday morning we woke up early for a pre-work breakfast date of free buttermilk pancakes at IHOP to support their Children’s Miracle Network fundraiser. I’m sure I’ve also done a billion more mundane things in the past week, but you get the gist. Either totally productive or totally lazy – and it changes hourly.
At work I’ve been in a quicksand beach of company meetings, department meetings, other meetings, Student Matinee performances and talkbacks for Clybourne Park, attending and snapping photos of our Discovery Workshops at schools across the city, planning and hosting Career Day, running Stage Door Design Project sessions, sitting in on rehearsals for Informed Consent and Stranded on Earth, organizing and attending several events at local library branches with the Clybourne cast, facilitating several Clybourne post-show public talkbacks, participating in our monthly office potluck, working closely with marketing to prepare materials for our upcoming Summer Academy auditions, handling applications for Summer Academy apprenticeship positions and Audio Describer auditions, diving into The Odd Couple Discovery Guide, and there’s still two upcoming multi-hour training sessions for Exceptional Service and Audio Description for me to tackle on Friday and Saturday – along with all my other work duties that still need to faithfully attending to. It’s exciting and I adore it, but it’s also been a page straight out of the looney-land book lately.
In conclusion, life is weird.
I do actually intend to blog more frequently this week and next week, but March always seems to bring the madness in the oddest of ways.
So, for sticking with me through this long and rambling post, I’m rewarding you with this brilliant one-minute video. It’s awesome. You’re welcome.
