Dec 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
i just had lunch with my friend thad, who is here visiting, and we went to the gateway of india and had their most excellent lunch buffet. if you like indian food and you haven’t been to the gateway, WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU WAITING FOR? today there were more choices than...
Dec 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
pluses: my hair is now longer and blonder, after my journey to amy’s salon this morning. she was supposed to do my hair tomorrow morning, but she called me at ten and said CAN YOU COME RIGHT NOW? and luckily i was actually dressed and could head right out the door and...
Dec 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
randy was feeling it, and so was i. i’ve been fighting it all day, though. i worked out for quite a long time at the fit club, except when i stepped on the treadmill and was treading for a minute or two it suddenly ground to a halt and said REPAIR NEEDED so i had to...
Dec 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
this is me and kevin, at the place where we thought amy and jim got married. it’s near the hyatt resort on kauai. i talked to mom on the phone a few times about where, exactly, they got married, and we reallly thought this was the place and got a woman to take our...
Dec 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
picture me saying this very very sleepily, as i attempt to get just a few…just a few…more things done b4 xmas. which is about a half hour away. nothing critical to do. just overly-tired. today we took mollie for a 50-minute run, which was good. i spent the...
Dec 22, 2006 | Uncategorized
is just one of the many things that make living here in the heartland so awe-inspiring. the other day a neighbor brought us a plate of xmas cookies. mostly it was pizzelles, which were quite delicious. but there were also some small balls which were fried something,...
Dec 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
i talked to christine tonight, after about four years of not talking for no good reason. and they’re having a HUGE HUGE SNOWSTORM there in denver. piles and piles of snow. it started yesterday but she went to work this morning anyway because she is christine and she...
Dec 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
AT LEAST IT’S NOT SNOW. but i was thinking about running today, but not in the rain. ok, here’s my photo for first night. perhaps it will be in a paper, as part of the first night advertising. but don’t expect to see it. but here it is. i keep going out and buying...
Dec 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
well, except for doing any xmas shopping or baking cookies. i did bake one batch so far except it was just one big pan, of these delicious bars, not much work. things with the SHOW are coming along, though. kevin graciously sat through another performance a few...
Dec 14, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’ve been getting things done, fyi. many many things. show, memorized. which is a weird miracle; i just started on monday, and i finished doing it yesterday. speedy, i was very speedy. but now i think it’s too long. i need to cut more of it. and i need to practice a...
Dec 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’ve spent most of the day memorizing, memorizing, memorizing my show. i want to get half of it memorized today, because i’m very busy for the rest of the week. the weather is warmer. the evil snow is melting. honey the cat continues to be very very bad. the other day...
Dec 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
that’s really all i want to do. that’s why you haven’t heard from me the past few days; i’ve been busy during the day, then at night i just want to put on my big pink robe and my slippers and hibernate. BRRRR. right now it’s about 7 outside. maybe it got up to 12. but...
Dec 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’m here at randy’s, TRAPPED, forced to watch the Billboard Music Awards. today is the first time i drove outside. i made it, somehow. our neighborhood is like an ice skating rink. like an ice skating rink from HELL, with huge huge craters and bumps and it’s worse...
Dec 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’m having a bit of trouble focusing on doing just one thing today. i was going to say “this morning,” but somehow the morning has slipped by. lots and lots of snow. kevin went to “nutcracker” rehearsal fairly early, and i went out and trudged...