Jun. 26, 2006

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I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:45 pm

i’ve been sitting here quietly typing and typing and typing because i’ve had a lot to say and then i hit “post/edit” at the top of my screen and then POOF the entire thing was GONE.

WHERE DID IT GO?

there is no way i can possibly recall all the VERY VERY IMPORTANT STUFF i wanted to mention.

rehearsal tonight wasn’t so good. once again i COULD NOT REMEMBER MY LINES; this was a different sketch than the one last week when i was hungry. this time i was TOO WARM which is of course a horrible excuse, or actually it’s no excuse at all. i don’t know what was wrong with me. i’ll do better tomorrow night. OR HEADS WILL ROLL.

jason and i are in this sketch, and mac warren was there to give us lines (which i desperately needed) and to make some good suggestions. but at the end he said i could try to have some levels not just that “really high voice.”

i thought my voice was very low sometimes. clearly, it sounded like that only inside my head. to everybody else it certainly sounded like the usual squeak.

this is like when i had to sing when auditioning for a play and when i was done the vocal director said “now sing it in your real voice.”

THAT IS MY REAL VOICE.

mollie the dog is sleeping on the couch across from me. my life has become a neverending rush of packing and unpacking boxes and sorting things out and throwing them away. when i came home from rehearsal mollie and i took a short walk, and she was thrilled, and then i gave her a treat, and she was thrilled, and then i organized my shoes and got rid of SIX PAIRS which i was thrilled about and mollie was lying in the hall gnawing at an empty plastic sack that had contained sausages.

and now she’s sleeping again and all is perfect in her world.

a dog’s life, not bad as long as you’re mollie.

wouldn’t it be weird to be a dog, you never know what’s going to happen next? we take mollie with us whenever we can, and she’s always CRAZY to get in the car, and she has no idea where we’re going or what we’ll do when we get there. sometimes she gets to visit amy and jim’s dogs, noodle and numi and shadow, and sometimes she has to sit in the car when we’re in the store. when we get back to the car she’s always ECSTATIC because we didn’t abandon her after all and she doesn’t have to figure out how to turn on the car and drive away on her own.

before rehearsal tonight mac warren and mary were talking about quirks they have. mary doesn’t like water, like washing dishes, and mac always buys two of everything when his wife sends him out for stuff. like he’ll buy two cans of tuna and two packages of macaroni and cheese. i thought it was interesting, first of all, that his wife sends him out for things. it never occurs to me to send anybody out for anything. plus i like going and getting things myself, usually. but then again, i’m not married. yet. maybe when i’m married i’ll want to send kevin out for macaroni and cheese.

except we already have it in the cupboard. we have pretty much EVERYTHING, and at least two of everything.

mac and mary asked me what my quirks are and i couldn’t think of anything specific. i think maybe the thing is that i’m sort of filled with oddness, so there’s nothing in particular that sticks out. i obsess about trying to lose weight, but don’t all women do that? all females who have left the womb, anyway. on a talk show the other day these women were going on about how now seven year-old girls are obsessing about their weight. soon, the first words out of a baby girl’s mouth will be “do these diapers make me look fat?”

i bought this beauty product at the store about three months ago, it’s supposed to make me look YEARS YOUNGER and LESS TIRED. tonight i finally dragged it out and was thinking about using it, but i read all the directions and decided i’m too tired to try to not look tired.

maybe tomorrow night. if i’m not sorting shoes or something.

did i mention we’re having a garage sale on saturday? hmm, how’s that going to come together?

i can’t worry about it right now.

tomorrow, tomorrow...

ok already,

nearing the end of june grace.



Jun. 23, 2006

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friday night [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:31 pm
and i’m feeling a little sad, i don’t know why exactly. mollie just came out of the bedroom where she’d been sleeping, maybe she thinks i have some sort of snacks.

dogs don’t get depressed. at least this dog doesn’t. her only emotion is hunger. hunger and happiness, which is mostly as a result of getting fed or eating or being about to eat.

last night at rehearsal for “danger: adult content,” i didn’t do so well. i go around doing my lines ALL THE TIME but i couldn’t get a grip on them last night.

i’m pretty sure jason was quite stressed about this even though he was acting all calm like his head wasn’t about to explode, but i felt it really was.

the thing was, i was hungry. if i’m hungry i can’t remember lines. i didn’t know this about myself because i’m not in a ravenous state of mind too often. but yesterday i had a busy day, gave two massages late in the afternoon and then went to practice and figured it’d be over pretty quick and then MFH and i were going to go have dinner.

but rehearsal dragged because we had to keep doing it over and over because i couldn’t remember a line to save my life BECAUSE I WAS STARVING TO DEATH.

i know this is how mollie feels, all the time except for when she’s actualy eating. but right before she eats and then right after, she feels she hasn’t eaten FOREVER.

but i hadn’t eaten in several hours and so i couldn’t remember my lines and then when we finally went to dinner we went to cheddar’s where they had to take our orders and it seemed to take forever for the food to arrive and i was so hungry that i only partially noticed the many many annoying small children running around like maniacs. i think there were about 10 small boys in the bathroom at any given time; i could see them darting in and out like very loud fishes.

when we left the restaurant i noticed a little girl sitting at a table by herself, quietly working on some very busy project, i think she might have been writing a novel. she wasn’t running around like a hyper psychopath at all.

today again, i got to the point of starvation. am i turning into mollie? this time, i waited to have lunch till after amy did my hair. my hair looks GREAT now, but i didn’t have time to notice because i didn’t have lunch till about 2:30 which is much too late.

it all started with the 12-mile hike, this newfound starving state.

and yet i manage to eat PLENTY when i’m around food.

i woke up at 5 this morning and looked up some addresses in the phone book for the sending of the invitations. i couldn’t find many people listed. this was annoying. everything felt annoying at five a.m., and i ended staying up for about an hour, looking names up in the phone book.

randy got his ping pong table put together finally. we played ping pong the other night and he beat me, 15 to three. not that this is a surprise at all in any way. i’m just surprised that i got any points at all.

he’s have a party for a friend tomorrow night, and i feel that he probably had to work a lot today and i should have called him to see how he’s doing.

instead, kevin and i went to see “over the hedge.” it was cute, but certainly no “incredibles” or “toy story” or “shrek.” i was dying to see a good romantic comedy but “breakup” sounds really really bad.

going to a movie finally after not going to one in about a million years makes me want to go to more movies except there’s nothing that sounds so appealing right now.

yesterday christine told me i need to contact the web host of my site in order to have some BETTER SOFTWARE that people get who just signed up but for some reason they didn’t automatically update me and therefore this is VERY VERY BAD and it seems like it’s going to be a lot of effort. she assures me that i’m LIVING IN THE DARK AGES, website-wise, which is a bother. she said i need to mention here that the SITE MIGHT BE DOWN for a while during the transition time to this MUCH MUCH BETTER STUFF that i’m supposed to call and get.

i just don’t see this happening in the immediate future, is the only thing. i hate calling places on the phone, and especially to tell them things that i’m not entirely clear about.

i don’t have to get up tomorrow at all if i don’t want to. i mean, of COURSE i will, but i like the idea of laying around in bed for a good long time.

perhaps i’ll sleep now. and i know i won’t wake up and toss and turn at five a.m., because there’s no pressure about getting up and doing things.

goodnight, goodnight.

gs


Jun. 21, 2006

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ZOOOMMMMM.... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:35 pm

that’s how the week is progressing thus far. mollie and i just got back from a 45 minute walk through my new neighborhood; we hadn’t planned on walking that long, but we got lost. but luckily we made it home safely.

i’m getting tired of people asking how the wedding plans are going. THEY’RE NOT GOING ANY MORE THAN THEY WERE BEFORE. right now i’m just trying to figure out how to fit my clothes in the amount of alloted drawer space i have. perhaps we’ll need to buy yet another dresser.

so, camping last week - was it just last week that we marched and marched and marched through giant city state park? yep, last wednesday, how time flies.

on tuesday we went on some short hikes. at the beginning of each trail there was a huge sign stating how long the trail was and the estimated completion time. they were all from 1/2 to 2 miles long, and the times we anywhere from an hour to two hours, which was ridiculous, and we always finished way quicker than the estimated time posted. it’s not like we were hiking fast or anything.

that was hiking on tuesday. on wednesday morning we decided to hike the trail that led to the remote campsite. it said it was six miles to the site, a big loop that would make it a 12-mile hike. the giant posted sign said it would take four hours. we figured we could make it in three, and we headed out with three water bottles of water and a few random snacks.

i was fully of energy, bounding along, MFH and Mollie were also making good time, even though we didn’t start till 11 a.m. and it was suposed to be hot, it was very cool in the woods.

and then there were ticks. we kept stopping and checking our legs and killing the ticks that were crawling up us.

and then we kept hiking and kept hiking and there were little diamond-shaped signs marking the path but no mile markers or anything to see how far we’d gone. and we drank some water and of course had to give mollie lots of drinks because she was covering twice as much ground as us because she’d run up ahead and run back to us.

and we walked and walked and walked, up hill and down, over rocks, across little creeks that mollie splashed in. more walking, more ticks, more walking, more ticks.

after about an hour and a half we started wondering about the alleged remote camp site. we didn’t see it. and onward we marched.

after two hours i started attempting some math which is always a stretch for me even when not hiking. i calculate how many MPH we were going on the short hikes, and realized that doing 12 miles would take us about...five hours. FIVE HOURS! bad news indeed.

we thought maybe this was wrong. we started wondering if somehow we’d missed the primitive campsite. how primitive could it be, to completely miss it? we hoped we’d missed it and were now on our way back.

we didn’t have a map, of course; we did have one in our posession, but it was safely back at the tent.

finally, with most of our water gone, we reached the primitive campsite. two hours and forty minutes we’d been trudging. it was a pretty site, although i have to confess i didn’t even bother to walk around and look closely because i was too tired. we ate our snacks and that was the end of the food and there was very little water left and mollie kept panting a lot and i felt very bad for her but also very sad at the thought of walking two hours and forty minutes MORE.

but what choice did we have? none.

so, trudging some more, more ticks, more walking, and eventuallly i encouraged kevin to go on without me, to leave me there on the trail, that i couldn’t go any farther. we’d been chatting a lot on the first part of the hike, but i didn’t want to talk anymore because my throat was so parched.

more hiking, more hiking, it was hot, no water, i was hungry, no food...

he finally started pushing me up the hills, which was very nice of him, and he also never abandoned me to the wild animals lurking in the undergrowth. actually, the only animal we saw was one turtle way back a million years ago at the beginning of the hike.

luckily we did come across some random creeks with water in them so mollie could have a drink and splash around. and even though she, too, was very very tired and hungry and hot and thirsty, she still kept chasing things she thought she saw in the woods. the dog is intrepid and would definitely do very very well on one of those survivor shows.

finally, FINALLY, we made it back to our campsite. the whole thing took exactly five hours. i’ve never hiked for five hours in a row before. i almost wept with joy at the sight of that stupid sign that claimed the hike would take four hours. we all drank lots and lots and lots of water, but we weren’t so hungry after all and we did a more thorough tick check, and they’d climbed high up onto our legs and there were quite a few of them.

we then had to pack up our tent and our huge quantities of stuff, and we got in the car and drove three hours back to spfld. whew, air conditioning never felt so good.

when we stopped to fill up with gas, i read the trail map. we had crossed some roads, and could have cut back to the camp at several different places if we’d had the map. also, the map stated that if you hiked fast, you could make it in FIVE HOURS.

whew. i didn’t feel like a speedy hiker.

we got home and stopped by amy and jim’s and amy found two ticks in my hair and that was really gross and i asked jim all about getting lyme disease from the tick bites because a few of them had burrowed into our skin a bit and he rattled off lots of info. about ticks which i figured he’d have since he used to camp a lot and he’s a very outdoorsy kind of fellow. but then he said we should look them up online because all this information was from a book report he did in high school! the man has an excellent memory.

so we didn’t get lyme disease, but all my bites were itching like crazy and got very red and horrible looking but they’re healing now and i probably won’t be scarred for life.

funny, that then today i took another longer-than-planned-for walk. maybe this will be an every wednesday occurrence.

but hopefully not.

damn, i was going to be in bed before 11:30 tonight. there are still so many things i want to accomplish before i go to sleep...

we’re having a garage sale next saturday. i feel that this is too soon, but i’m outvoted, so we’re having it. i’m not going to get out of bed at five in the morning because a bunch of people show up on the lawn, that’s all i have to say.

for now, anyway.

ok ok ok,

june grace.



Jun. 19, 2006

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THE INVITATIONS HAVE ARRIVED! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 2:23 pm

I ordered the wedding invitations last sunday. last monday they called to check some stuff, they shipped them friday, and here they are!

this morning i woke up early and panicked about my lack of wedding-preparedness but WE HAVE INVITATIONS!

the weekend was a blur of packing. amy and jim have been living at kevin’s house for about a month while their house was being finished. we started hauling box after box of stuff over to their new lovely and spacious home on saturday morning, and now their gigantic garage is filled with things.

and they’ve spent a YEAR getting rid of stuff.

americans, people with TOO MUCH STUFF.

actually, i’m sure it’s like that in other countries too.

so we’re very slowly starting to move all my stuff from my apartment to MFH’s house, plus all the stuff he had that was a my place...it’s a blur of moving. it’s a lot easier moving somebody else’s crap, because you can just lug it around and set it down and you’re not in charge of doing something with it. and there’s a satified smugness you can have of not having SO MUCH STUFF.

of course that feeling is completely gone, now that i’m faces with an apartment full of stuff that i DO NOT KNOW WHY I HAVE.

not to mention that i’ve been trying to memorize my lines for this show i’m doing on july 7th adn 8th at the hoogland center, “danger: adult content.” this one sketch is very very funny but i have many many lines and i hope you get a chance to come see the show. in this one sketch i’m a woman who is turning into a bag lady. this is sort of appropriate given the huge quantities of junk i’m always carrying around. the other day we took my car to be washed and K. started picking stuff up from the space below the dashboard and he kept asking me if i really needed the spoon and the highlighter and the 27 pens. YES I NEED THEM. what if i want to eat pudding? and what if i need to write something, and then i need to highlight it?

i have to tell you about our serious TICK ENCOUNTERS at giant city state park, but right now i have to rush away.

i hope your monday is a good one.

ok then,

june grace.



Jun. 16, 2006

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT SANDY! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 6:25 am

her birthday was actually yesterday, and all day i kept thinking, I HAVE TO CALL AUNT SANDY AND WISH HER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, but then suddenly it was midnight and the entire day had escaped.

so now, happy belated birthday, instead. i hope it was lovely.

it’s a birthday-rich period of time right now. jim’s b'day is sunday, randy’s is next friday.

and it’s just after six and i’ve been lying in bed for at least an hour and decided i might as well get up, although it irritates me to be up now although i just saw a jogger runing along and felt infinitely lazy and slothful.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT SANDY, there, at least i’m doing one decent thing at this hour,wishing somebody i care about a happy birthday.

will i accomplish anything else at all today that matters?

at least if i go back to sleep for another hour or two, perhaps i’ll have a less surly friday.

because friday is no time to be surly.

so much has happened since the last time i wrote, and i’m definitely not up for doing all that typing.

it took sears over two hours to fix my flat tire on monday, after they’d said it would take 45 minutes. we had lunch, we wandered around sears, and we spent a lot of time watching the huge gigantic TVs they have there. on one was “the incredibles” and on another was “willy wonka,” so at least there was good entertainment.

but after two hours i was beginning to feel that i lived at sears. also, there are many many people working there although there weren’t many customers and people kept wanting to help us and so this morning i should be happy that i don’t have a boring job at sears trying to wait on non-existent customers.

we were going to leave spfld to go camping by one, or two in the afternoon, but instead we left at 4:15. it’s about a three and a half hour drive down to southern illinois. and it gets dark about 8:30.

we would have made better time, except we didn’t bring a map with us (we didn’t bring quite a few things that we meant to, because of spending the afternoon at sears instead of packing) and so weren’t clear on which exit to take off of I-55, and so we had to take about three different exits and wandered down some country roads for a while before actually going in the right direction.

we got to the campsite at 8:15. fifteen minutes to get the tent up before it got dark.

we did manage this feat somehow, but then our main source of light, the propane lantern i bought last summer, doesn’t work anymore. you are NOT SUPPOSED TO KEEP THE LANTERN ATTACHED TO THE PROPANE because it will corrode and then, even though the lamp looks very shiny and brand-new still, IT WILL NEVER WORK AGAIN.

i clearly didn’t read all of the lamp directions last summer, and at that point MFH and i weren’t spending so much time together so i’d taken my lamp home and put it in the garage after our last camping experience back then, and now it is broken. we threw it away even though i kept saying to him, can’t we fix it somehow? can’t we poke something into the hole in the bottom of the lamp to make it become unclogged. no way, jose.

we had one smaller, battery-powered lamp and a few citronella candles that didn’t give off much light. we managed to make a delicious dinner anyway, and by the time we were finished all the other campers there had gone to bed.

we were at Giant City State Park, which is a very beautiful place, but the tent campsite leaves a little to be desired. isn’t the whole point of camping getting away from it all, including other people? but this campsite was a big wide open place. there were lots of trees, but there was nothing to separate one individual campsite from another, so we could see and hear all the other campers there. it was supposed to hold 14 tents, but on the first night there were only three other tents at the place. when we first got there, many children were running around all over the place, but like i said, by the time we’d fixed dinner they were all in bed, thank goodness.

what would it have been like if all the sites had been filled? VERY VERY CROWDED. who wants to camp like this? do people really crave that much closeness to others?

now i see hordes of both walkers and joggers outside.

time to go back to sleep.

ok then,

just grace.


Jun. 12, 2006

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p.s. mitch [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:44 am

this guy i know from a long time ago, named mitch, lives in decatur now and he sent me a funny e-mail about the fact that i hadn’t written in a few days. i tried to write back to him but whenever i’ve tried to write to him, it’s always undeliverable for some strange reason.

so thanks, mitch, for the funny e-mail, but i just can’t write back to you.

i bet some computer person knows why this is. i bet there’s some secret reason he can’t get my e-mail, some special thing that only computer people know about.

it’s always something. memorize those phone numbers!

ok ok ok,

grace

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monday morning [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:41 am

this morning i decided not to take my cell phone with me. it needed to charge, i was only going to be at work for a couple of hours. as i drove down sixth street, a woman in the car next to me seemed to be yelling at me, and i wondered what i’d done to piss her off. i felt i was doing a good driving job, but then you never know for sure.

i got to work, and my back tire was flat. so i’m sorry for all the bad things i thought about that woman, she was just trying to help me.

i tried to call MFH. his phone wasn’t on yet. i called amy, but she rarely answers her phone, especially if she doesn’t recognize the number, and since i was calling from the hospital, of course she didn’t answer. i was going to call jim to tell him to call amy, but i couldn’t remember his cell phone number. i was going to call mom to call jim to call amy, but i couldn’t remember her cell phone number, either.

so, valuable lesson - MEMORIZE PHONE NUMBERS. i used to have lots of phone numbers memorized, but i’ve gotten lazy because everybody is programmed into my cell phone. but what if i actually lost the phone? i’d be stranded.

right now i’m still at work, waiting for kevin to come to my rescue. he’ll fix the tire and we’ll take it to sears and they’ll fix it for free because i bought that special bonus insurance stuff when i got the tires and after i bought it i figured it was a total waste of money but how about that, it’s actually going to be valuable.

and then, and then, finally, we’ll start heading down south to camp. hopefully we’ll get there before it gets dark.

memorize those phone numbers!

that is all for monday.

ok then,

june grace.



Jun. 11, 2006

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more photos [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:38 pm

so after running with mollie, i basically did nothing for the entire rest of the day. i took a nap. i was going to go to the grocery store because i was going to make fig bars to take camping, but i went outside and got in the car and decided that i didn’t have any energy for that at all. so instead i had a nap.

i was going to go to the store on the way to randy’s but then i started reading “blithe spirit” and so i ran out of time. kevin says we can stop at a super walmart on the way to camping.

so right now it’s 11:30 and i’m pretty darn awake all of a sudden, more so than all day long. mollie is walking all around, hoping that she somehow missed some treats because she is, of course, starving TO DEATH.

this is a picture that kevin took of dad when we had lunch in this great little place overlooking the beach up in lake worth. lake worth is about 30 miles from ft. lauderdale, and dad went there when he was a kid and we found this hotel he’d stayed in, and then we had lunch at this place on the ocean and it was very very windy but we had a great time. and kevin took this picture and i told him to send it to david because i figured he’d like that, so he did.

sometimes technology can be very good. anyway, dad was drinking a strawberry daiquiri, which was his drink of choice during the trip.



and this is me, about to scream as i jump in the water to snorkel. this is before i’m wearing the mask and flippers, obviously.



when we went on a boat tour of the intercoastal waterways, we went past lots of mansions. the house in the middle here, i realize it’s kind of a faraway shot, used to belong to johnny weismuller. a modest house compared to all the rest of them.



i just remembered that i did accomplish something today; i printed out some photos of dad’s and my birthdays. this is my favorite photo of all, amy and dad.



i like it because they both look so cute and also kind of daffy.

and that’s all for now. i hope your weekend was pleasant, and that you didn’t have any big outdoor plans since the weather has been ridiculously cold.

ok ok ok,

june grace.

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BACK from vacation... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:33 am
laundry is done, we even drove down to st. louis yesterday to see “phantom of the opera,” which i’ve never seen before. i liked it, pretty much.

ok, a couple of photos from the trip. here’s the big TV on the wall of our place in ft. lauderdale that somehow we missed when we arrived because we were so delirious and tired.



and this is our kitchen counter, which we managed to litter with all kinds of food and plastic bags and general vacation stuff.



and this is a view of just some of the many many big fancy boats right outside our balcony.



and here’s kevin and mom and dad, getting ready for dinner poolside.



MFH, grilling, with the boats on the intercoastal right behind him.



there are more photos, but i have to get them off the other camera, or i have to download them from e-mails that MFH took with his camera phone and e-mailed to me. so you’ll have to wait on those. there are some good ones, i’ll tell you, including these incredibly cute little monkeys we saw at the Bonnet House. This is an old place in Ft. Lauderdale, this rich guy who was an artist owned it and they’ve preserved the house and the large amount of surrounding grounds, and it’s almost the only place up the coast that’s preserved instead of being over-developed.

and on the grounds are these 13 little monkeys; the original monkeys escaped from a nightclub in the 30’s. or at least that’s what one of the many guides told us, and guides at places like this are always very earnest so she probably wasn’t lying. but it’s incredible seeing monkeys just hanging out, instead of at the zoo. i do have a great photo, maybe a couple of them that Kevin took, but like i said, not gonna happen just yet.

i realize i also have photos of dad’s birthday festivities, which were a MONTH ago, and my birthday, and yes, i’m very very far behind, getting more so every minute.

right now i have to go take mollie for a run. she’s snoring on the chair across frm me right now. she’s going to be extremely excited to go running, but i have to figure out how to do it without letting her slog through each and every puddle, so at the end she’ll be a muddy mess and will need a bath, because i don’t feel like giving her a bath today.

we only went to the beach once during our trip; we waited till late in the afternoon of our very last day, and the water had been so calm like i’ve never seen the ocean before, but of course because we waited so long, a wind had picked up and the waves were choppy so i didn’t get in the water too much. MFH frolicked around quite a bit, but we didn’t stay to have a picnic because everything would have been promptly blown away.

the first night we were there we went to the hard rock seminole indian casino, because that’s what dad loves. but he wasn’t impressed with it, said they weren’t paying out much money. there were tons of people there, a few actual easy-to-spot prostitutes, but mostly kind of sleazy looking women. plus your usual shuffling around tourists with glazed-over eyes.

we took no photos there of course, because if you do that kind of thing they’ll quickly exterminate you.

we went snorkeling one morning and that was fun except i did realize i was the only person who screamed upon jumping into the water. it’s just a natural reaction i have to jumping into water, i can’t help it, but i was the only one to do it, not even any of the many many children on board didn’t do it.

mom and dad didn’t snorkel; instead they stayed on the boat and watched the fish through the glass bottom. mom also got to witness a woman throwing up. also there was this very very young couple along, who had three very young children, one of them a baby. the woman and one of the kids went snorkeling, but the husband stayed on the boat with the baby and the boy who was maybe three. the boy wandered all around the boat and the baby was just lying there and the dad didn’t seem to pay any attention to them, and mom said the baby eventually threw up (mom got to see all the exciting hurling) but the dad didn’t notice or clean it up or anything.

afterwards we ate at the cafe right there on the dock and the family was also eating there and the little boy kept wandering away and eventually the dad would go get him, but then they walked to their minivan and the kid was just wandering around the parking lot all by himself and we were all quite horrified. it’s like they were a zombie family; we never heard the couple speak, not to each other or the kids, and they didn’t really seem aware that the kids were even there.

strange. people should be required to pass some kind of rigorous screening process in order to be allowed to have kids. at least SOME kind of test.

there weren’t any kids at our hotel, and as a matter of fact, we’re pretty sure we were the only people there. it was a small complex, a condo kind of place with only 10 units, and somebody said that they’re all booked up during the winter. it was nice to be the only ones there.

i really have to do stuff now. wedding plans, they’re going to happen any day now, mostly because of the pressure i’m feeling because people keep saying “how are the wedding plans coming?” i’m going to do some planning this afternoon, except that we’re going camping tomorrow for a couple of days and i have to plan for that because it’s much more imminent.

that is all for now.

ok then,

june grace.



Jun. 05, 2006

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slooowwwllllyyyy from FT. LAUDERDALE FLORIDA... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 9:49 pm

well, i did bring my computer with me. actually, MFH suggested we bring it and he dragged it around the airport and he managed to get the internet to work except we had to dial-in using jerri in la’s phone number. yeah, weird. we allegedly get free long-distance calls here, so hopefully that’s true.

so, things are GREAT here in florida and i would like to vacation forever. today we went on a tour of the intracoastal waterway and sailed past mansion after mansion and WHERE DID THESE PEOPLE GET ALL THIS MONEY AND WHY DON’T I HAVE ANY OF IT??? lots of people who own various sporting teams, people who are the heads of companies, stuff like that. probably lots and lots of doctors and lawyers, too, although they didn’t mention them so much except for one plastic surgeon. barbara mandrell. johnny weismuller’s (former, since he’s dead now) house. a little ramshackle place that allegedly used to belong to sonny and cher. lee majors' old house.

plus we saw a cruise ship. looking at a cruise ship made me want to go on a cruise again, except i guess i don’t really want to go on one in reality. because if you think about it, most of the cruise ship stuff is really just about eating and drinking and watching shows and stuff, it’s not about being out on the water.

many people in ft. lauderdale are quite tan. apparently they haven’t heard about skin cancer from getting too much sun. also there are many people walking around all over the place in their swimming suits.

tomorrow we’re going on a snorkeling/glass bottom boat tour. it leaves at 10 in the morning, and everybody is acting like this means we have to get up SO EARLY. my parents are here, along with kevin. my parents are already in bed, in anticipation of getting up VERY VERY EARLY. i mean, the place is about five minutes away, we won’t really have to get up early.

but we did have a very busy day. in addition to the boat ride, we also walked around on Los Olas Boulevard, which is an extremely EXREMELY fancy street chock full of very very pricey shops. dad bought a nice white jacket. we bought some fudge. we looked at some very beautiful dresses, which i’m sure cost about a bazillion million dollars.

we went out for dinner to a nice steak place. it rained a couple of times today, and when it rained, IT POURED but luckily we were inside buying fudge so we didn’t get wet. it rained yesterday, too, but we were inside baskin robbins at the time.

the place we’re staying in is beautiful. i’m going to take some pictures of it so i can put them up here when i get back. it’s a lovely two bedroom apartment with lovely furniture and a flat-sc'reen tv mounted on the wall. when we got here at midnight on saturday we couldn’t find the tv in the living roomm and kept looking all over for it and finally i said THERE IT IS ON THE WALL!

outside the balcony is one of the many intracoastal waterways, and there are VERY BIG FANCY EXPENSIVE BOATS moored. some of them are yachts. there’s a couple on a huge sailboat and dad talked to the man for a while and this couple has been sailing the world for the past nine years! how about THAT. they must really get along well. what if they run out of water? but i guess that’s not a worry anymore because now they’re going to sell the boat and do something else.

what if they were in a horrible storm with waves the size of an apartment building? kevin kept trying to tell me that you could spring back up, like a cork bobbing in the water, but i just didn’t buy it. but somehow the couple did anage to not get swept away by storms or sharks.

vacationing, a very very good thing. i hope you’re doing well.

ok then,

june grace.


Jun. 03, 2006

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very very early on saturday morning [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 6:00 am

did you know that it gets light before five a.m.? i’ve been up since about 4:30 and i hope i’m going to go back to sleep soon, but of course that won’t happen if i keep sitting here on the couch with the computer on my lap.

we’re leaving for florida this afternoon. i have to put my clothes in the suitcase, but i already have them in a huge mound on the floor. maybe i’m taking too many things. i’m probably taking too many things. i can’t help it. maybe i won’t take as much as i’m planning.

i got up because i felt that there are many many things i have to do before leaving. i try to never, ever fly anywhere really early in the morning, because that way everything has to be done the night before. we’re not leaving the house till two, and this way i get all morning and part of the afternoon to remember everything.

i’m not taking my computer with me.

I’M NOT TAKING MY COMPUTER WITH ME.

gee, that’s going to be kind of strange. computer-less. although less strange than at other times in my life, because i’ve been so busy that i haven’t had time to be on the computer so much.

ok, that is a COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIE. i didn’t lie intentionally, it’s just that right now i’m typing in my sleep, i should be sleeping right now, i don’t know why i’m not. but anyway, i’ve been spending HOURS AND HOURS on the computer, looking up honeymoon destinations and wedding stuff and just stuff in general.

but i haven’t been doing so much writing.

WHEN am i going to start writing another show? i’m actually thinking about one.

it’d be nice to take a walk right now, except that i’m really sound asleep in the next room.

MFH thinks that we’re going to share his huge suitcase. i’m very skeptical that my stuff is going to fit in half the suitcase. maybe my shoes will fit in half the suitcase.

i know i’m taking too many shoes. we’re only going to be gone through thursday, but i’m taking at least five pairs of shoes.

but at least most of my clothes are small, because it’s warm outside. nothing bulky like sweats and sweaters.

i woke up and started working on these questions for a press release for our upcoming show, “danger: adult content.” i went on and on and on for a while, but i’ll wait and send it when i’m officially awake, because maybe i’ll have to edit the content a little. if you see one of the posters around town, please know that i look HORRIBLE in the photos and i promise i haven’t really gotten totally ugly all of a sudden, it’s just not such a great image of me.

me me me.

it’s going to be a funny show. i have to start memorizing. i could have been memorizing for an entire hour now.

i just saw some runners jog by. actually, i just saw their legs, because the shade is only up a little bit. i wish it was up more because i’d like to see out, but i’m too tired to go over and lift it. plus of course i’m actually really asleep.

what about sunscreen? and a deck of cards? i wish i had a pen, to make a list of things i think i forgot about taking. do i need a hairdryer? we’re staying in a condo, i bet they don’t have a hairdryer.

they might sell sunscreen in florida, though, you never know.

it seems very decadent to be going to florida when i should be saving my money for the wedding/honeymoon/quarterly taxes.

would it be socially acceptable to say that instead of wedding gifts, i want money to help pay my quarterly taxes? because they’re due june 15th, and then they’ll be due again on september 15th, THE DAY BEFORE OUR WEDDING. how will i remember to pay them the day b4 the wedding? actually, it’s written in my calendar so i won’t forget.

i guess you won’t hear from me till thursday. unless i write more later today when i’m awake. and unless i find a computer somewhere when i’m gone. i bet i could find one at a ft. lauderdale library. i’m sure they have libraries in florida, with huge large-print book sections. yeah, i bet you’ll hear from me. you never know.

i’m going back to sleep now. i really hope you’re still sleeping, although now it’s 6 a.m. and i realize that some people get up that early, some of them even earlier.

goodnight.

saturday morning june grace.


Jun. 01, 2006

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a whole new month... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 10:55 pm
and i just read that last posting, and could i have used ANY MORE CAPITALIZATION? so this month my goal is to refrain as much as possible.

tonight we rehearsed “danger: adult content,” which is going to be on july 7th and 8th. the rehearsal went quite well. i think the sketch we did tonight is going to be funnier than i thought it was. the people are funny. jason goodreau is amazingly quick and organized and he’s thought things out ahead of time and yet he’s also flexible. it’s going to be good, i think. plus it gives me something else to think about - i have to do a lot of memorizihg in the next couple of weeks, even though i’m going to be florida then i’m going to be camping.

in the airplane. that’s when i’ll memorize.

ok then,

FIRST DAY OF JUNE GRACE.

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