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Tonight I had the most wonderful coffee date with my most wonderful friend Allyson. It was absolutely beautiful out – the kind of beautiful that makes you realize just how lucky you are to be alive beautiful – so we sat outside at a pretty little park bench on the hip Hyde Park Square, in front of a picturesque lawn of soft green grass and a stone fountain, and we drank coffee, watched the sun set, and talked and talked and talked – about life, about our significant others, about apartments, about jobs, about theatre, about acting, about auditioning, about money, about frustrations, about joys. It was so nice! I love good friends. They make life’s daily frustrations seem so much less significant and the good things in life – friends and family – seem so much more important. Now Ted and I are enjoying the Daytona 500 Nascar race and a home-cooked meal of carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and smoked pork. Just happy to be home, together.

I’m so thankful that a great, easy day today made up for such a hectic Sunday. Even though I had the day off on Sunday, I spent the entire day designing in-depth lesson plans for five theatre classes, creating numerous worksheets for said classes, writing a 13-page script, and starting the process of finding and filling out a massive slew of legal documents for our future – wills, various powers of attorney, etc. It was busy and insane and so un-relaxing, but I feel extremely grateful to be so busy because it means that I’m employed, full-time, in theatre. The script, by the way, is kind of awesome. I’m really proud of it. Ted helped – his creativity makes me so happy! Yesterday I did get some reprieve though. Ted and I slept in a little, went to mass together in the morning, and took a fun little drive to the fish store to visit the fishies and see about maybe getting one. It was such a fun break from all the work. I’m so lucky to have such a great husband!

In other news I’ve decided that I really should be going to school at the Academy of World Languages instead of working. That place is awesome. The school got a fruit & veggie grant that allows them to bring in a different fruit or veggie from countries all around the world for the kids to try for snack everyday. Last Wednesday’s fruit was the ‘lemon plum’ from Chile. It is a juicy, sweet fruit that is similar to a pear in shape and color, but tastes totally different. It is only available in the United States in the month of February. So awesome!! Also, because the kids come from all over the world and speak all these different languages and have all these different cultural influences, the kids are super creative, which I love! For one of the plays we are writing with them one little third grade boy suggested the most incredible character I have ever heard of:

A super galactic kicking karate cow who uses mind control ice cream called “brain freeze” to control his subjects.

Seriously. I about died of sheer joy. It was all I could do to NOT leap and laugh out loud! Such an amazing character! So I’ve been really enjoying this part of my job lately. Also of importance is Ted’s broken shoulder blade. Oh, yes. Broken shoulder blade. A few weeks ago he got injured while at work (oh, theatre, the risks we take for you!), so the medical costs and care are being covered by worker’s comp and our insurance, but no wonder his shoulder has been so sore for the past two weeks! Poor guy! :-(

And because I like pretty things, here are some Piperlime dresses I’ve been stalking lately. Maybe when the money gods show up one day, right?

What have you been up to lately?