how did that happen? it’s too hot to go outside right now. the thermometer outside the door reads 100. no point in going outside, except to get ice cream sandwiches, which we just did. i’m going to nap in a minute.
we’re going to muni to see “chicago” tonight but IT WILL BE MUCH TOO HOT. we looked for mini personal fans while at the store buying ice cream but couldn’t find any. wouldn’t it be funny if you took a big box fan and set it up and brought lots of extension cord and plugged it in? of course they wouldn’t let you actually do it, but it’d be funny attempting it.
i can’t imagine that the show will be crowded tonight because IT’S TOO HOT TO BE OUTSIDE.
maybe a cold front will blow through any minute.
this morning i was lying in bed thinking about the garage sale stuff. we sold LOTS AND LOTS of stuff and took the rest to the salvation army drop box over in the wal mart parking lot. the signs around the box said DO NOT LEAVE ITEMS OUTSIDE BOX but all the boxes were stuffed full and there were already lots and lots of things piled around the boxes, so we unloaded all our stuff and left.
but this morning i kept thinking about all that stuff, wishing we hadn’t been so hasty in carting it all away, wishing i hadn’t given away those four white plates even though i have at least 10 others…i toyed with the idea of driving over there and digging through my stuff and pulling out things that i really can’t live without.
this is a little ironic given the one character i’m playing in our show DANGER: ADULT CONTENT which opens this friday, because she’s a woman turning into a bag lady and she does dig through garbage cans quite a bit.
but this wouldn’t be like that, because i’d just be digging through MY OWN STUFF, plus it’s not a garbage can, it’s a salvation army box.
and it’s too hot to do it anyway.
luckily.
because otherwise i’d probably do it.
Kevin says that if we actually NEED any of the stuff we got rid of, we can just go buy a new one. WHY BUY A NEW ONE WHEN I JUST GAVE AWAY PERFECTLY GOOD STUFF?
i was kind of amazed at the things people bought. somebody actually paid 50 cents for my crappy black plastic colander. and randy’s mom had the most ugly thing to hang on the wall that i’ve ever seen, but somebody paid at least a couple of bucks for it. the sale was supposed to start at eight, and people were there by seven and the place was completely crowded until 9:30. after that it died down a little and randy kept saying that it was over, but they kept coming in right up to the end and beyond. at 12, when we said it’d be over, a couple of women and a girl jumped out of a car and the girl ran up and started grabbing things. her mom wouldn’t let her keep my red patent leather purse, but they did buy a bunch more stuff, including this thing MFH had hanging on his wall that i was never extremely fond of and i was glad to see that a little girl wanted it instead of having to toss it in with all the other salvation army stuff.
it was a frantic sale, we made a bunch of money, and we celebrated with lunch at panera. last night we celebrated some more, because friday was randy’s birthday, and then i was more tired than i’ve ever been.
and we’re going to muni tonight and it will be VERY VERY HOT.
today i’m wondering why we live here. it’s too cold in the winter and in the summer it’s frequently unbearably hot, like today.
once i get all my stuff settled here at K’s house, i guess i won’t want to move away because of the thought of doing any more moving.
but maybe i’ll change my mind.
change is good, after all.
brendan and jerri are moving out of their fabulous loft apartment in downtown LA to a house in Pasadena. a house will be better for the baby, and for Brooklyn the dog. but it sure was a cool apartment. i can’t imagine moving all their stuff, because they have more books than anybody i know. but i’m sure they get movers to move everything every time they move, which is a lot. but still, even if movers move stuff, don’t you have to put the stuff away once it’s there?
it seems daunting. it seems daunting thinking of squeezing all my stuff into this house right now, but then again, K got rid of an impressive amount of stuff and i might have a good amount of closet space.
at rehearsal on friday night, we went to carrie’s house and did it in her back yard which i’m not sure you can technically call a yard because it’s more like a concrete place with a little screened house, and we had a cookout and ran the show. and it’s going to be VERY VERY FUNNY so i hope you can make it. friday and saturday nightts, club room at the hoogland arts center downtown, 9:00 p.m. it only lasts about an hour and a half, including intermission, and it’s funny and different and like nothing you usually ever see around here.
plus it’s AIR CONDITIONED.
what more could you ask for?
ok then,
july grace.