Snowed In!
Hey friends!
The Dallas area has been SLAMMED with crazy cold temperatures, ice, and SNOW for the past several days. We’ve had lots of school districts (including mine) close for several days. I’ve been home, snowed in since TUESDAY! (today is Friday) Daron and I have tried to keep ourselves busy, but mostly we’ve just been reading, watching movies, and eating soup and cookies. ![]()
I’ve had a lot of time to rest, and I have loved every minute of it. It’s been like an unplanned bonus spring break! Honestly, I’m so grateful for it.
To keep myself busy, this morning, I decided to do the Accent Vlog Meme that’s been going around. I heard about it from Caitlin who did the video a few days ago, and I’m thinking it’s pretty much the most fun thing EVER.
My kitty cats have been so clingy and snuggly, which is pretty much precious.
On Wednesday, I think, Daron and I set off on a great, and icy ADVENTURE to the grocery store… We needed things like soup, and cookies to sustain us. Our grocery store isn’t very far, but on that day, it took us about 30 minutes to get there, and 30 minutes to get back. The ice was covering the streets, about 1.5-2 inches thick. IT was SOLID. It was SLICK.
I took a few photos and little videos of that as well… Please forgive my inexplicable speaking voice on these videos… I guess the cold caused me to regress and talk like a 10 year old or something, I have NO idea.
CRAZY.
I would LOVE if you’d do the accent vlog! be sure to leave me a message if you do!! ![]()
Tinni the Queen and other short stories.
Good morning, lovelies!
I’m in a good mood this morning, which rules. I am often in good moods, but sometimes they take me by surprise… like this morning.
So, that’s great. haha.
Today I wanted to take a second and respond to some interesting questions I’ve had on formspring.
Do you have any recurring dreams? If so, what do you think it says about your personality? How about your unconscious hopes, fears, and desires?
I do not currently have any recurring dreams. Honestly I don’t dream all that often. I probably have a dream that I remember wisps of once every 2 to 3 weeks.
I did, however, have a recurring dream almost every night beginning the day after I lost my grandpa in 2002 for almost 3 months. That recurring dream changed my heart, and was the inspiration for the symbol that I have tattooed on my left wrist
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I like where I live. I love our house, I love our little Dallas suburb. But I can also see myself living somewhere else.
We’ve talked about living in the southwest, either rocky mountainy or red rocky.
I’d of course love to live on/near a beach, but since the world might end and all of california might fall into the ocean, we’ll probably stay further inland. haha.
I do like the city and can imagine living there, but not for a long time… and I also like very rural settings, and can see living in a place with no people around for miles. I guess I just like living… no matter the location. As long as I’m with the one I love.
If your pet were arranging a dinner party, who do you think they would invite and what would they serve?
If Tinni and Dala were hosting a dinner party, I think it would be a great event!!
I think Tinni is a fierce Queen of the most outlandish and glamorous type. Gay, yes, I think my cat is straight up gay. (and of course I support his right to be whoever he chooses to be, and to identify as a homeowsexual if he chooses. Yes. I just typed hoMEOWsexual) bwahahaaa.
Tinni posing for a Real Simple spread (above) and Tinni saying, “Le Sigh” (below)
Actually, Tinni might be in drag for the big event. Who knows?
Sweet Dala is kinda butch, and no nonsense… she’d be the one actually holding it all together. Tinni would be crying over his salmon pate’, flailing his arms and screaming about how, "its all going to be simply RUINED, and everyone is going to HATE it, and I look totally FAT in this BALLGOWN! I knew I shouldn’t have picked red with this WRETCHED orange hair of mine. WAIILLLLLLL", so, Dala would have to make sure things went off without a hitch.
Which they would.
Tinni battling a tantrum when the cleaner ruined his favorite Jimmy Choos (above) and The elusive Dala trying to find a moment of solace in the face of constant adversity (below).
They’d serve salmon and a coq au vin, with vanilla ice cream for desert. Running water would be available for their guests, of course.
I imagine they’d invite Daron and I… cause, you know, they love us. (we’d decline, cause we know how cray cray Tinni is when he’s event planning) I think they’d also invite my mom’s new puppies Dooley and Bella, cause they’re cute.
The pope and Jesus would also be in attendance.
**If you have a question for me, you can use the form on my blog page, or to to my formspring and ask there. It is a lot of fun.
I’ll leave you with a VLOG wherein I discuss my experience 2 weeks into New Rules of Lifting for Women! Also a shout out to RUBY of Completely Delicious Life, and a response to her question from my previous post! **hi Ruby!!**
Things keep happening…
I may not tell you about it… but things definitely keep happening.
This post may be a little bullet pointy… but, it’s what I’ve got for ya.
- I submitted an audition video for GLEE’s open casting call.
If you have a myspace log in, and a few minutes, please go here, and leave me some stars! There is no limit to how many you can leave.
Please go have a listen.
Here is the voting link: My Glee AUDITION
2. I’ve been making a LOT of Vlogs lately. Vlogs are video blogs, and I’ve been having a ton of fun with them lately. You can visit my youtube page to see all of them, but I’ll post a couple of them here for you, too.
3. The rehearsals for the musical are going extremely well! I’ve been working hard, dancing, memorizing, and trying desperately to do a great job.
This is one of my favorite songs… no, probably my SINGLE favorite song from the show, called Love is my Legs, and it is HILARIOUS! Mandy, who is playing Muriel in our production filmed us practicing it, and posted it. I thought I’d share it here too.
4. We performed at the Denton Arts and Jazz festival yesterday, and it was a very… interesting experience! Lots of fun people watching… I did not perform my best, and was a little disappointed, but I honestly did the best I could, and just tried to survive it. :-\
Lots of my friends, and co-workers showed up, so it was great to see them.
I also got to meet lots of the people who are special to my new friends and castmates, which was super fun.
5. Daron competed this weekend in the Flower Mound Open! He and his partner, Jimmy took 1st place!! He made several videos and vlogs, and I’m sure he’d love it if you went over to his site, Tennis and Tunes, and checked them out.
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK!!
6. I updated my 365 photo project! So far, I’ve only totally dropped the ball, and not photographed ANYTHING 6 times, out of 115 days! So, that’s pretty good!
Please visit my flickr stream, here: to see all of the new photos…
I think that’s enough content for tonight.
xoxo.
a break in the radio silence…
Hey lovelies…
So, I’m not on hiatus anymore, despite my lack of blogging! haha… I just haven’t felt like writing too much.
Its weird, because I really love writing, but sometimes I’m just not into it.
I’ve been placing my attention into:
1. keeping up with my crap around the house because being in a show can be very distracting,
2. being attentive, prepared, and professional during rehearsals
3. trying to keep my kids motivated, even they can smell summer on the horizon and are WAY ready to check out.
4. making the best decisions I can, while not adding extra stress to my world.
Somewhere in there, daily blog posting, let alone reading and commenting, gets swept back.
That being said, I do have 2 posts in the works that I’m drafting now, that I’ll probably schedule to post in the next few days just so I’ll have a little word flow.
This would be the perfect time to make sure I’m in your google reader. I’ve got some really good thoughts I can’t wait to share with you.
xo my friends.
PS: This week held both a mini vlog, and a regular vlog that I posted for some twitter friends. thought you might like to see them too so here they are.
First rocknroll training run: Vlog
Hey gang,
I took a short vlog after my very first training run for the Dallas Rock n Roll half marathon!
I mentioned that some of you would be stoked for another vlog, and some would think I’m a dope, but its okay… I think it is fun…
And it can be easier than typing all the time!!
Here ya go!
Training run stats:
1.76 mi / 00:19 10:46 pace
Total training miles to date:
1.76 mi
Talk to you guys later!
























