Did anyone else crave hot dogs after seeing the movie “Hyde Park on Hudson” – the F.D.R. movie? Hot dogs aside, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie! I thought it was beautiful. Just lovely. The car in the lavender field? Breathtaking!
This bedtime calculator helps you determine what would be the best time to hit the hay so as to maximize your sleeping hours and not wake up feeling sleepy or groggy because your alarm woke you mid sleep cycle. Genius!
I really want this adorable polka dot top from Loft. It’s work-friendly, goes with all colors, is a great layering piece for dressing up or dressing down, fits well (window shopping/window trying on…same thing, right?), and the seersucker-like fabric would be perfect for both winter and spring. Anybody want to be my angel? Size small please! Please. Pretty please.
I’m serious about that shirt.
The building I live in has decided to redo the entire sprinkler and fire system. Which is great. Really. But it required us to empty out every single closet in our apartment (a massive undertaking because we all know what our closets look like!), and leave it all a rat’s nest in our totally impassable living room over the weekend so they could install a maze of bright orange pipes along all the walls and a large flashing light bulb and siren speaker directly above the pillow on my bed. Like, directly. I’m already dreading the day they decide to test that it all. They started on both Monday and Friday promptly at 8 a.m. Did I mention my roommate is a nurse who worked the night shift at the hospital from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and she got home just as 17 workmen invaded our apartment with drills and pipes and hammers? Yeah.
There is an alarm clock app for the iPhone that requires you to solve a math problem before you can hit snooze or turn it off. This sounds like ALL of my worst nightmares rolled into one.
There’s a Living Social deal for an aerial arts class (we’re talking ribbon dancing, aerial acrobatics, and trapeze, people!) and I bought it and am totally gonna do it! It’ll be a new adventure and I love trying new things! Plus a bunch of my friends in Rochester are buying the deal too, so I smell the beginnings of a super awesome ladies day coming on! I think there should also be some delicious food and a wine tasting trip to the finger lakes after we show off our mad trapeze skills. Consider me thrilled! I also bought a Groupon deal for dinner for two at an Ethiopian restaurant using a credit I had in my Groupon account. I’ve never tried Ethiopian food either, so I’m excited for that too!
At our company meeting on Tuesday our Artistic Director started the meeting off with a question for everyone (we are a theatre after all, so we don’t have “normal” company meetings!). Since we’re producing the hit musical Next to Normal at the theatre right now, his question for each of us was a two-parter: A) Growing up, do you think your childhood and family was normal, next to normal, or far from normal (or ‘paranormal’ as our New Plays Coordinator offered)? and B) As an adult, do you see your own extended family and life as normal, next to normal, or far from normal? It was a fantastic topic and so interesting to hear what your co-workers have to say!
This blog has a comments section, you know! I’d love to hear from you: Normal, next to normal, or far from normal? Remember, it’s a two-parter!
