Archive for February, 2005

Do you have a pink or blue ribbon?

// February 16th, 2005 // 3 Comments » // tagged:

LOST ... I still don't like Sawyer. And I don't know if I'm supposed to or not? Yes, there was great tragedy in his life. But tragedy doesn't give you free reign to be a total jerk the rest of your life? Oh and back a few episodes. When it was about Walt and Michael. Did anyone notice his comic book? It had polar bears in it. We know Walt is "special" somehow. In his flashback - when he was studying the birds, and mom/stepdad weren't paying attention to him, he got angry - and a bird flew into the window. Did he get angry and "summon" a polar bear? Did he cause this whole thing - them getting stuck on an island. Is he there because Claire had to be there? Is Claire on the island because SHE has to raise the child (and the psychic knew the plane would crash - and therefore knew she would have to raise the baby) -- or is Claire on the island because "whatever" is on that island wanted the baby. Did "it" cause the plane crash. Ahhh ... so many questions. That's why this show is soooo good. J.J. Abrams was on the radio this morning talking about LOST. He said one of the reasons he thinks its so popular is because you never know from one week to the next what type of story it will be. Are you going to be scared witless? Are you going to be shocked? Are you going to be heartbroken? Are you going to be laughing? He did say that Kate's little plane story will be wrapped up this year. Don't know if that means this season, or 2005. GILMORE GIRLS Wow. Another great episode. Did the writers get the Season 1-2 DVD's or something? Did they watch them and remember what Gilmore Girls is all about? We're getting classic GG moments over the past several weeks. Loralei's reaction to the breakup - oh yeah. Running over to get the answering machine tape. And of course we knew Luke would already be back at her house. Wasn't expecting her reaction at the end though. I mean ... she totally ran over whatever Luke might have been going to say. And next week's episode looks to stink. Loralei and Luke getting snippy with each other? What's up with that? Not sure that's too realistic? Who knows ... will wait til I see it. Still loving Logan. Although I kinda wished he had offered to take her to Stars Hollow. But the Limo and driver were funny - especially when Luke was honking at it! AND THE RIBBONS!!!! hahahaha!!!!

The Most UnRomantic Day

// February 14th, 2005 // 1 Comment » // tagged:

Why is it considered romantic for your significant other to do something for you because a national holiday has reminded them to do so? Is it not more romantic, more special, and certainly more meaningful, for your significant other to give you flowers, send you a card ... give you a present ... on a random day. Just a normal day ... no holiday, birthday, anniversary. Just a normal day. March 19. January 5. October 4. Whenever. On those days ... it means more because they were thinking of you all on their own. My husband gets this. He sends me silly little cards ... gives me flowers ... gets me a starbucks on the way to pick me up ... and he does all this quite frequently ... without a national holiday having to remind him. I love that. :heartbeat: So, on this capitalistic-greeting-card-industry-created holiday, to my husband Steve -- I say -- thank you for knowing me well enough to know you don't need to waste your money getting me flowers on Valentines Day ;)

Assisted Computing Facilities

// February 14th, 2005 // No Comments » // tagged:

This is hilarious. Be sure to click on the four different subsections. You don't want to miss the "course offerings":
  • Cut & Paste Night
  • Printing for Life
  • Screensaver Hour
  • Meet Your Neighbor's Mouse
  • Puppet Show with Floppy, Zippy and Chippy
  • Old-Fashioned Defrag-A-Long

Me and You. We’re Done.

// February 8th, 2005 // 1 Comment » // tagged:

Oh yeah ... good Gilmore Girls episode. So, so tired of Chris. Love, adore Luke. He was treated like crap all night - and still tried to make the night work. He IS too good for Loralei ... and hopefully she'll realize it and start treating him better. Loved Luke asking Chris where he was during all those times in Rory's life. Yeah, loser ... where were you. That DOES matter. Just because you've showed up recently doesn't make you a father. Ugh. I used to semi like Chris. But nope. He needs to move on. Rory and Logan. I like Logan ... is that wrong? I guess it's the good/bad boy thing. He's not a bad boy like loser Jess ... but he's not a good boy like Dean. He's a good mix. And he totally gets Rory. "You're special" ... hmmm ... we'll see. And of course ... the last line... "Me and You. We're Done." Oh yeah. This should be fun.

Catch My Breath

// February 4th, 2005 // 2 Comments » // tagged:

Whew. This is the first chance I've had to blog in two weeks. I've been covered up with web work (which is nice) - and then of course, it's musical time again. For the past two years, I've worked with my church's musical productions. It's a pretty cool endeavor - as the church does ACTUAL Broadway musicals. We've done Sound of Music, Brigadoon, Meet Me in St. Louis, Hello Dolly!, Oklahoma, Crazy for You, Bye Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof ... and this year we're doing Anything Goes. As it's a church .. we do some serious rewriting of some of the more "off color" lines of dialogue and songs -- but not too much. We do several big dance numbers - yes - even at a Baptist church!! We usually have about 50-60 people involved ... and atleast two casts. An adult cast .. and a youth cast. The chorus sings with both casts. We do four performances -- and they are always sold out. It's a big thing at the church -- and a lot of fun. And A LOT of hard work. This year ... it's a bit more work than I originally signed up for. I was signed on as the assistant director this year ... assisting a woman who has amazing talent in directing and choreography. She used to be a dancer on cruise ships -- playing the lead in most of the shows she was involved in. Now she's a music teacher in the local school system ... and directs musicals at her school - and also at our church. We've worked together on the musical for the past three years. A little over a week ago, her dad was put in the hospital - and she had to go to Cincinatti to be with him. Which meant I was going to have to direct the weekend rehearsals. Something that isn't exactly my strong point. But hey ... it can't be that hard, can it? Exhausting. That's what it is. You have everybody coming at you -- the whole entire time -- asking you questions that sometimes don't have anything to do with the scene you're currently blocking. And you have those high-maintenance people who think that everything is about them ... it just makes you want to scream! But we got through our big Saturday rehearsal ... and got a lot accomplished. Our directors' dad just kept getting worse - so I ended up doing our weekday rehearsals. Those aren't as bad ... because you're only dealing with the principal actors. The chorus doesn't come on weeknights. Sigh. Thank goodness! Then on Thursday, our director's dad passed away. She is completely heartbroken ... and it's so hard to talk about something like that over the phone. You just want to go give her a big hug. She is in shock - having gone up there thinking he was just really sick, and would come out of it -- to now -- she's having to deal with funeral plans and dealing with all the aftermath of a parent dying. And yet ... during all this ... she's still worrying about the show. That saying "the show must go on" -- so true. Less than 2 hours after her father passed away, we were on the phone blocking scenes for the next few rehearsals that I'm going to have to lead. I'm extremely stressed and think I'm coming down with a cold ... but I think -- at least I can do this for her. At least she knows the show is in fairly competent hands. I don't want her to have to worry about this. She should be back by Thursday of next week ... and then she can work her magic in the scenes we've worked on. You know ... adding in those extra touches that really make a show ... sing! Sooo ... back to getting my schedule together for tomorrow's rehearsal. Maybe I'll have another chance to blog in March -- when the show is over ;)