LA-BOUND!

you may recall how excited i was at the prospect of dog/housesitting for jerri and brendan. but my excitement has waned considerably because it didn’t happen INSTANTLY, and i’ve had other things to focus attention on. BUT I JUST GOT THE CALL! from jerri, who was...

yeah, WHAT

am i doing up at 3:13 in the morning? i mean, is there any excuse at all? nope. anyway, tonight christine told me that the pittsburgh steelers are playing the seattle seahawks in the super bowl, which is SUNDAY FEBRUARY FIFTH, and she wants the steelers to win...

one quick thing…

i forgot to mention that i found this guy online, his name is jess winfield, he’s a writer in la and he’s working on a novel about working at disney, and he has this blog that i found and i like a lot. here’s the link:La Food Crazy the funny thing is, in today’s...

friday, for real.

i don’t feel so bad considering that i haven’t gotten my full eight to nine hours of sleep in about…hmm, in about a long time. maybe last weekend i achieved that, actually. and with luck i’ll do that again this weekend. sleeping, planning to sleep, wishing i...

officially, technically, it’s friday

how did it get to be 1:15 a.m.? phone calls. e-mails. after one a.m. bad, very bad. worse and worse, every day. at least i think i should sleep well. cause of the very very tiredness. goodnight for real this time, grace.

the big grey elephant team

so i actually looked at the description of the item i purchased today. it’s a 7″ record, so isn’t that a 45? so what does the 45 MEAN? i’m sure it’s very obvious. and on the A side is “we have lost two little elephants” and on the B side is...

OH MY GOD!

so i have about 10 minutes between massages and checked my e-mail and there was an e-mail from a friend down in s. illinois, david, who said there was a babar record on ebay. i looked at it and figured it probably wasn’t right but i bought it anyway because it was...

p.s. wow

january is certainly roaring by, isn’t it? there are many thing i wanted to accomplish in january. some have been accomplished. others, not. not YET. one thing i thought i’d accomplish today is getting to bed by 12. it is now 12:20. so, one thing not accomplished. oh...

report from the zoo…

ok, i know i’ve mentioned more than once that i’ve sort of quit watching tv. except for “sex & the city” re-runs, which are a little annoying because they took out all the nudity and swearing. but i love it just the same and almost always watch unless...

this sort of illustrates me, grace smith…

…and how my life is like, on a day-to-day basis. attempting (sometimes completely in vain) to muddle through as best I can. i was defrosting some bread in the microwave to make a sandwich. i lost the twist tie. i kept looking and looking for it as the bread...

not exactly surly, but…

not fully awake yet, either. i have to go take a shower. sleepy, very sleepy. why can’t i go to sleep earlier? tonight, i promise. i would have slept even a litlte later but there was lots of barking going on. a couple of minutes ago Numi was desperately trying to...

not SO alone in this big world…

…i mean, just because i haven’t found my actual soul mate, the man who also knows the arthur and celeste song and maybe knows even more of the words than i do… at least there are some people out there. reading what i have to say. making contact with me,...

THIS JUST IN!

i was both surprised and delighted to find an e-mail in my inbox this morning, from a guy i don’t even know, who lives in a town in illinois i’ve never even heard of, telling me what he knows about arthur and celeste. as you may recall, i just wrote about wanting to...

(probably) the last time i’m going to write tonight…

in order to read a friend’s blog, i had to sign up for his blogging service. i’m sure there’s a more “correct” name for it than blogging service, but i had to sign up and it annoyed me immensely. i didn’t have to give that much information, i could have...

utterly, utterly alone in this big wide world…

if you watch the video over there on the right, the very first one called “singing” (couldn’t ANYBODY have thought of a more interesting title???), one of the songs i sing is called the “arthur and celeste song.” at least i assume that’s what...

sunday evening…

this morning i was trying to lift amy’s red mixer off the top of her refrigerator. up on top of the refrigerator is not the place that i, personally, would store such an INCREDIBLY HEAVY thing. as i was doing so, there was this little “twang” in my back,...

early in the evening on saturday

and i DID get to sleep late, a great great great thing. i went running through the park and felt that i wasn’t wearing quite enough clothes, at least until i was about halfway done and got warmed up. there weren’t too many people outside, because of course it is GRAY...

friday friday friday friday friday

and it’s grey and dismal and cold but i don’t care at all. rehearsal last night was very intense. well, it was intense for others, anyway. we worked on the crazy second act where the entire set is rotated front to back and you see the action of the players doing the...

things FOUND

i lost this cable that plugs my camcorder into the VCR, and i was going to buy a new one but i decided I HAVE THE POWER TO FIND IT, but i doubted that this would actually come to pass. because i’m good at losing things, but only mediocre at finding them. it was...

ok, one more quick thing…

today i went bustier-shopping (for the play). i also went yesterday and hated everything i tried on. but today i went to bergner’s and they had a bunch of bustiers that looked cute. and they were half-off, but then they were 60% off the half-off. i bought three,...

wednesday afternoon

cold. brrr. but at least we have some sun. so the big news in spfld is that bars and restaurants are going to be SMOKE-FREE! this is amazing. it won’t happen till september, but at least they passed the measure. because i’ve been going to some bars recently and i hate...

neck transplant

ok, maybe that would be a little too radical. at this time. a good neck massage, that’s what i need. even an OK neck massage. if you happen to see me today, i’ll give you a dollar if you massage my neck. and actually i could tell you just how to massage it. because a...

monday night (technically already TUESDAY)

i was going to be in bed, lights out, 45 minutes ago. didn’t happen. i was going to title this entry “therapists, theater and pasta.” but then i didn’t. i’m entering into the weird frame of mind that starts in when i’m seriously tired. i’m not going to...

p.s. pudding and paying attention

tonight, because i wanted a big slab of chocolate cake, i decided to make some sugar free fat free instant chocolate pudding. which is actually quite tasty, despite all of christine’s very loud and vehement protestations that anything sugar free fat free is CRAP. it’s...

sunday night…

…and i was really looking forward to relaxing, finally, and watching some of the movie “noises off.” but now i’m starting to think i’m going to run out of time tonight. if i’d done more yesterday, this wouldn’t be happening right now. if i’d done...

sunday morning…

…and once again i’m in bed. i haven’t spent the entire weekend in bed, it only feels that way. but i’m about to jump out of bed and accomplish the things that i cleverly managed to avoid yesterday. but first, a few photos. here’s one from first night: and here’s...

so far a very very lazy saturday…

i know it’s lazy thus far cause i’m writing from bed, and it will be noon before i know it. i do have a bunch of stuff to get done this weekened. but can’t they wait till tomorrow? probably not. G. (Grover) informed me that i’m not allowed to say it’s spring, because...

RETRACTIONS GALORE, PLUS MANY APOLOGIES

patrick quickly informed me of the REAL THING HE SAID, not the version that i remembered. this is verbatim, taken from his actual e-mail: “for the record, it was Ed who said it was some rock musician and I guessed maybe Lenny Kravitz. This is relevant because I...

IMPORTANT CELEBRITY CORRECTIONS:

Randy told me all the TRUE FACTS about all the celebrity excitement i just wrote about. here are THE FACTS: 1. Nicole Kidman is NOT engaged to a ROCK musician (i’m afraid this makes patrick wrong, which is somewhat disappointing because he led me to believe that he...