"To licking correctly!"

so I just got home from my overnight at my school-home, Arcadia. it was just me and two of my best friends in for the weekend, and WONDERFUL. I got in later than I wanted to because I had to run about purchasing things saturday morning before I could roll out, but it was worth it.

I arrrived, picked up the glowing roses for Beauty and the Beast, saw one of my favorite people in the world, painted my room, then grilled with all the Bradley people who were in town!! absolutely what I needed to happen.

good food. good drinks. good people. a good weekend.

AND! my room actually look like a bedroom now!!

original room...










new and improved room!!


I am pleased. the yellow isn't as nausiating as it seemed at first, and I am really happy with the red.

it was just really nice to get away, see some of the people who make me outrageously happy, and to concentrate on something different. something completely for me. ahhhhhh...

I'm a little refreshed. I'm feeling ready to get this week done. not "done" done, in a bad way, I'm just ready to tackle it and get P&P finished.

peace kids.

I can't decide if life just got more or less stressed.

I think I need to get away to Peoria this weekend. I was a little trepidatious before, just because I am so concerned with the P&P costuming and everything, but now...I just need to run away a little. just a little. a short getaway.

a chance to breathe.

I'm feeling a little too full at the moment.

and I mean, it's not just all that I am doing in my days, I'm used to all that craziness and stress, it's nothing new, but now...I just...I just need a getaway before diving back in headfirst.

life is interesting. and good.

peace children.

BUNNIES!!

So there is a bunny hole in the middle of my backyard. my dog, true to stupid dog manners, I think was excited by the bunnies and tried to dig them out. the result was strewn dirt and baby bunnies.

I just save three baby bunnies lives.

the other two were still sleeping in the hole.

one of the saved bunnies was just fine, but two were injured. one not so bad, but the other was pretty hurt...

I really hope the mommy comes back and the other two are ok. if not...well I may not be able to resist gaining a rabbit for a pet.

but really, all that matters is that I saved those three babies that were tossed about.

I rock.

"Nice legs sweetie"

Molly and Ryan are married.

wow.

Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Minard. Mrs. Molly Minard. It's so funny. I've known Ryan (through Cori of course) since he was in jr. high, and now he's married! man...I can't imagine how strange it will be when it's one of my best friends standing up there...eeesh.

Despite the strangeness of it all, it was a lovely wedding! Zuber, kevin, cori and I had a grand time dancing our white boy/girl dancing.



the rest of my weekend has been/will be consumed with working parking for Prarie Fest. but, oddly enough, I really don't mind it too much. I mean, a.) I'm getting paid (only because I am already a park district employee) and b.) I kinda like directing cars...I don't know why...

today went well, I got to sleep in, which was much needed. then I was out in the sunny heat and live-saving breeze for around to 10 hours (well, that sunny part only lasted about 7 of those hours, but you get the drift) but the whole world kind of shows up for prarie fest, as least the part of the world that I never see, so I got to chat with a lot of people that I haven't seen in ages throughout the day and that was nice.

we didn't clear out until about 12:30am because of all the delays due to the small armagedon that we braved earlier in the evening, so we all were a little punchy by the time we signed out.

ah well, off to shower then sleep so we can do it all over again!

peace.

oh, ps, so I actually don't have crazy deadlines for my class, whoever was posting that shit was OFF. I actually just have until I take the test, which happens for the next like, ten days. so yeah, I have some deadline to it all, but it's totally do-able. w00t! that's a relief, I'll tell you hwhat.

inhale....exhale....inhale...exhale....

well, life has gotten back to its usual hectic self!

I've got a real full schedual, but for the most part, everything is really good.

last weekend was spent visiting those Aguilars at Whagon Wheel Theatre in Warsaw, Indiana.

(the artistic direction was "be candid!".... Cori got the cute picture of them in costume...I'm still waiting for her to get me a copy...)

We saw Damn Yankees and DAMN was it a good show. I HIGHLY reccomend that you all try and make a road trip out to see them. you can find out more about these kids and their shows at Adrians blog http://blogitout.adrianaguilar.com/

but generally it was a very theatrically inspiring weekend. I just love seeing as much theatre as I can because I adore all the creativity that goes in to each and every show...it just gets me excited about life and creating and theatre and people... and it kinda sealed the deal that I NEED to work in a theatre next summer. like, real work. the kind that gets you paid. and looks good on a resume.

I've almost finished our first full week with my class of Special Ed kids. I've got 5-8 year olds this year and they are very different from the 3-5 kids. But, I am loving it. I'm in a room that had to have two classes put together (ok, with a school as HUGE as East, why do we have to do that? it just seems silly to not have enough rooms.) so that means my class has 14 kids (10 boys, 4 girls), 2 teachers, and 3 Aids. Generally, the kids are pretty good. they are still at that precious 'holding hands' stage, but they're old enough to actually 'talk' to, so it's real fun. I'm still not very good at being scary to dicipline them though...still working on that.

Limelight has really hit the ground running. I had the OH GOD moment on Tuesday when I realized just how soon Pride and Prejudice was happening and how I had almost nothing together for their costumes yet. But I've been working and will hopefully be able to get everything together and looking good in time!

Ump-ing for Sugar and Spice has been good this year. I've had the same two teams a lot of my games and luckily I really like the girls and the coaches, so they have made the games fun. otherwise that could really makey my nights suck.

I think I'm enjoying my work with ESY and Ump-ing more this year because this is the second year I'm working both of them, so I am a lot more comfortable and confident with what I am doing. less paranoid about fucking up. it's a good thing.

now, what's really the thorn in my side right now, amongst all this other stuff, is I started two online classes through waubonsee on monday. I'm taking intro to psyc and intro to soc to get ride of some gen eds. so what happened was, I totally missed the memo that I had to get textbooks for these classes, so, we didn't get to "log in" until the friday before classes start, so I didn't realize this until saturday morning as I was checking out my class work for the first time. I immediately e-mailed my teachers, telling them what happened and crap, then ordered my books. Anyways, the point is, I still don't have them and while it is an ONLINE class, generally promoted to be "work at your own pace" apparently my psyc class has several assignments due each week that will be inaccessible after that weekend.

ASS FUCK.

I am not happy about this situation. I know it's only a gen ed class, but I can be kind of anal about grades and this is putting me in a very uncomfortable position for the FIRST WEEK of classes. and I feel like and IDIOT having to e-mai my teachers like this. really, this has me more stressed than all of my other work this summer combined. damn books. better get here REAL SOON.

on an up note! I've actually made it one the treadmill pseudo-regularly for the past week or so! I'm determined to keep this up. I forget how good it feels to be pysically tired. I just wish I had a more interesting way get back in to shape, but hey, anything is better than nothing.

so, with all that on my plate, the next few weeks in particular are going to be crazy busy, so I don't know how often I'll be updating. hopefully I wont be too bad. I'm going to a wedding tomorrow night (Molly Ernst and Ryan Minard!!) so I'll hopefully steal a few minutes away from the HOURS AND HOURS I will be working parking for Prarie Fest to put up undoubtably cute picture and fully stories that will ensue.

until then, peace.

I love Michel Godry

So I just spent my weekend at my soon-to-be-home, Arcadia, in Peoria, cleaning and painting. Miss Alison accompanied me and was basically a rock star. seriously, she cleaned and painted as hard if not harder than I did and she doesn't even GO to Bradley! she's the shit.

soooo, the big part of the weekend was painting my room. before I go too much further, let me explain the room. All right, so the situation with the house this upcoming year is that there were five people new people signed on to live in the house for this year, and then one person who is a senior and has only one semester of school left. but, after this had all been set up, one of the housemate ended up transfering schools, and therefore leaving them one roommate short. but, since the senior is leaving halfway through the year, the four who are staying wanted to find someone to replace the sixth housemate so they wouldn't be saddled with lots of rent money once the senior leaves.

this is where I come in.

I agree immediatley and requested to get permission out of the lame contract that says I have to live in the dorms for two years yada yada yada, and joined the party. now, unfortunatley, there are only five actualy bedrooms in the house. this meant that I would be converting the "green room" in the basement into a bedroom for a semester.

I probably should have looked at this room a little closer before I left for the summer, but I didn't want to get my hopes up before I knew for certain if I would be able to be granted permission to live off campus, and once I did know, it was the very end of the year and I was all caught up with finals and saying goodbyes, so yeah, I didn't asses the situation very well...




BUUUUUUUT! thanks to some MAJOR cleaning and painting from alison and I, the place is looking better already.




now....the colors are all off from what I was expecting. I wanted a much warmer, muted yellow, and a darker blue. buuuuuut....I'm not about to paint those lumpy walls all overy again, jesus, did that take FAR longer than inticipated. I'm thinking I'll do a texture of another color over the yellow to soften it up, and maybe distract from the fact that these are ugly cement walls a little? we'll see.

but yeah, once I get some carpet in there, I think it'll really start feeling like my place. I'm really fuckin excited to tell the truth. Arcadia is a beautiful house and my housemates are great people, so I have very high hopes for next year!

all right, off I go to do the millions of things that I should have been doing instead of posting on my blog. ooopsy.

peace.

life is suddenly very busy...

soooooooo...yeah.

so, for anyone who doesn't know, my community theatre group, Limelight Theatre, is doing Beauty and the Beast for their musical this year. I have procured the awesome position of being in charge of basically everything that encompasses Costumes. From designing to building, and eventually, their upkeep. SO! I finally sat down a couple days ago to really look at just what that entails...

OH.

GOD.



Now, we are not renting ANYTHING for this production so every piece will be found/hand made. granted, I do have my sister and some moms who are great sewers on my side, but still....ahhhhhhhhh.....

this is a BIG undertaking.

especially, for me, because we are in Oswego East High School. The best way to describe that theatre is just UNNECESSARY. it is HUGE and waaaay too nice. and while it is a great opportunity for all of us to grow to do bigger things than Bednarcik Jr. High can offer, it also demands that we really bump things up and put on a show that at least attempts to do the theatre justice.

sooo...this show NEEDS to look GOOD.

not just good, GREAT.

FUCKING AWESOME.

I am not over-whelmed, but maybe a just a bit whelmed...

but in a good way. I am so excited for this, you have NO idea. I am determined to make these costumes beautiful. or die trying. this is a huge opportunity to prove that I can do this stuff. and, not even just to anybody else...but to myself most of all.

I mean, I am NERVOUS about life after school, and I could really use some kind of reassurance that I am not just leaching off others that are around me. I need to be able to say "I did this. I MADE this. I am PROUD of this."

I guess I am just very insecure still about my abilities...and I...I dunno. I just am.

so yeah.

I have that on my plate for this summer. this all is on top of an 8 to 12 job every morning, being a softball umpire in the evenings, costume Pride and Prejudice, then kind of acting in Pride and Prejudice as well? (the question mark is because I auditioned for the show, but casting isn't decided yet) A very small to no part with the acting thing would actually be a bit of a relief for me, just so I could focus more on getting all that work done...

then trying to get to Peoria at least two times before school starts so I can have a livable room, a wedding in two weeks, as well at trying to get out to Wagon Wheel to see my Mexicans in their awesome theatre...

oy.

but really, I am the happiest when I am busy, so this fits me well! I was really going nuts for a while...I have had too much free time and I was getting FAAAAR too lazy.

so yeah.

peace kids.