sunday afternoon

they’re not bad dogs, they just like to chew things. the beagle, Noodle, had a fuzzy little white squeaker toy. the toy had been on top of Noodle’s cage, so i figured it must belong to him. he busily played with it as i did other things. pretty soon, i realized the...

*whew,* on saturday morning

last night, the dogs WERE NOT BEING GOOD AFTER ALL. after i got done typing, i looked around amy and jim’s living room. there was an old blanket lying on the floor, it looked like something that might have belonged to somebody as a child – and there were many...

…and finally, friday night…

how is it that i can be this tired, when i’ve done so very little today? I did pick up my new massage name plaque, which reads “grace smith, massage therapist,” and it’s going to be affixed to the great big sign with the names of the other people i work...

friday morning

i woke up this morning and it was SUNNY, and i feel the sun hasn’t been out for about a year and a half, so it was good to see that it’s still up there in the sky. it’s supposed to be 47 today, which sounds marginally OK, but I’M READY FOR SPRING RIGHT NOW. it’s...

things on thursday night

I was starting to listen to dave brubeck’s “time out,” but decided it was just a little…busy. Too much energy for right now. So instead I put on a cd that may or may not have been a gift. Either that, or I’ve accidentally stolen it. It’s some truly lovely piano music....

life lesson #21

This is from Gil’s book, “How to Be Happy, dammit” (which I still have, although I’m not STEALING it, I’m going to give it back, because otherwise that would be STEALING HAPPINESS): Life Lesson #21 says you have to live in the NOW. As opposed to dwelling on the past...

nirvana

the day has been going ok. marginally ok. not that great. no particular reason, just a general feeling of blueness. i realized i needed something to boost my spirits. some bit of hope and happiness, something to make me quit walking around with an inward scowl...

volleyball madness

after giving many, many massages yesterday, last night i attended my niece’s final volleyball game of the season. she’s in 7th grade, but she gets to play on the 8th grade team, i guess because she’s so good. one problem with volleyball is the noise level. there’s a...

one more thing

yesterday afternoon, after the show, we had to tear the set down. mostly men were running around with tools, prying things up and ripping them apart and stuff. the guy in charge gave me a screwdriver and instructed me to pry staples out of the many set pieces lying on...

monday morning, PRESIDENTS DAY

President’s Day? Presidents’ Day? Presidents Day? I pick “B,” because isn’t it some sort of celebration of more than one president’s birthday? And where’s the presidents’ birthday cake? Ice cream cake sounds good right about now, although i always find it...

saturday

whew. i thought i was tired last week before the show. but now, i’m really REALLY tired. i’m sitting at my sister’s salon, waiting for my pin curls. i rushed to get here, but somehow every street i turned down had a red light, and it seemed to take forever. but she’s...

friday

awoke at 3, after going to sleep at midnight. WHY, i ask you, WHY??? torturous. i must nap today in order to have energy to pirouette badly tonight, but i feel i’m going to run out of time. my top priority is to make chocolate chip cookies for the cast party tonight....

Ultimate Nachos

one more photo: Rehearsal was good – fast, anyway. we didn’t start on time because i was five minutes late. the director, john, called me at 7:03 and i yelled into the phone, “I’M SORRY AND I’M DRIVING 50 DOWN MONROE STREET!” so then he couldn’t very...

Thursday!

Gee, where has the week gone? Thursday already, i need to get back into play-mode. i’d decided that i don’t know what i’ll do when it’s over, but i haven’t really thought about it much while i’ve been away. i haven’t even thought about my lines or anything, but...

wednesday

i just got done giving chair massages at the hospital. i gave massages to a guy who liked it a lot. then he said “that was like a lapdance in reverse.” hmmm. i thanked him, because i didn’t exactly know how to respond, and i definitely didn’t want to ask...

The day after VD

photo of me in my 1st scene costume: Whew, made it through that alive. I mean, I knew I would, but still. 363 more days till the next one, which I am sure will be better than this one. I’m just going to say that right now, I’m sure of it. Just putting it out there, so...

VD 2005, plus other random thoughts

One year, my friend Christine had a VD party. It wasn’t an anti-Valentine’s Day party, she remembers, it was more of an over-the-top celebration of the absurdity of the holiday, plus the fact that VD also stands for Venereal Disease, and how the two could easily be...

sunday

i woke up at 5:17 this morning, just lying there, not going back to sleep. i thought i’d get up and write on this site, but i then thought, no, you MUST GO BACK TO SLEEP. i repeated this to myself over and over for the next couple of hours. i wasn’t doing a good job...

1:31 a.m.

I never, ever stay up this late. We had our opening night, and it went really well, people laughed a lot. It was so much fun. Tonight I decided that I want to be in one play after another. I also realized why I like being in plays so much – it’s just a lot of fun,...

napless

all i wanted yesterday was a nap. but it was not meant to be. i gave an hour and a half massage in the early afternoon, and then wanted to show my sister my lovely new massage space. i went to her salon, and she said, “why don’t we color your hair?” so we...

wednesday

the day before yesterday, a remarkably vivid image popped into my head, of a specific street in LA. I’ve walked down that street quite a bit; it’s in Santa Monica, close to the ocean, and it’s tree-lined and lovely. i thought about how much i’d love to live there....

my friends

I spent a lot of time this weekend with my friends Shadow, Nubie, and Noodle. Here they are:

monday

i’m here at panera, taking advantage of the free wifi. yet another invented word, certainly not as annoying as the word “blog.” but wifi is too much like hi-fi, in my opinion. things are, well…fine. not fine, of course, but i do fool the people who i...

5:23 a.m.

i woke up at 4:17, tossing and turning, and finally decided to get up for a while. why not? well, because i’d only been asleep for about five hours, that’s why not. i was hoping for a good, interrupted 9-10 hours of sleep last night. i don’t know why i keep deluding...

FYI

OK, i just have to make one thing clear, then i won’t mention it again (probably): Somebody wrote a letter to the editor of the Illinois Times this week asking what happened to me, and the editor put in a little blurb that i have this website. But he neglected to say...

perspective

My friend Erica said to me last night, “You’re brave, writing all that stuff on your blog.” Certainly not brave. Foolish, yes. Not brave. Not foolish, I guess, either. Just me. I need to express myself, pretty much all the time. I can’t help it. I usually don’t wonder...

worse.

yesterday, after working out to the point of exhaustion (endorphins are truly wonderful things; is there a way to market/bottle them somehow?) at the fit club, i ran into one of my high school english teachers. Mrs. Neece, although i could call her Daria if that...