Lots To Catch Up On...

So it has been a while since I posted...I will catch you up on some things that have been on my mind lately.....
I am coloring my hair as we speak. I am at the point of sitting blogging while the hair color sets into my scalp... my full head of hair is twisted on top of my head in a pin knot with smelly hair color. Dark Brown has been my color of choice. As i approach 40 this upcoming weekend, the grey in my hair is endless...I mean endless... I would LOVE to be all grey... yes I would.. I think it is beautiful... But my hair is long and it would take a long time to grow grey... which reminds me I am also going to cut my hair soon...
SO I let the hair color sink in while I blog.

1. I am over Jon and Kate plus 8. I am over the nonsense. I am OVER her hair style, Come on cut it or grow it. But no more. I wonder is she THAT famous that she needs two body guards?
But really enough already, it's like Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton...ENOUGH..

2. I don't care WHO you are but there is always some kind of dysfunction in your family. Yes there is and if you don't want to admit it then that's fine, but just know others see it...I have this cousin, growing up who really thought he was WAY better than his family. He was well educated. Harvard educated actually.(which is great, I love Harvard..dabbled there a little myself) and when we would have family holidays and dinners or celebrations, he pouted because he did not want to be there. He hated being with his family. He as beyond them. He married a nice educated woman and they had two kids.They would come to family parties but didn't like it and he would sit alone and make it known that he wanted nothing to do with the low life's of the family...which was all the rest of us...Whatever. Now I have not seen this person in years... I mean Years.. and it's fine, but I had the same experience a few weeks ago...not with him but someone else....You know what. If you don't want to be a part of the family ....then don't. Then just don't come. Because sooner or later you will stop being asked to participate And according to you that is fine... I will share one last comment on this topic though.. My oldest brother was killed in a car accident in 1976...It's been thirty some odd years since he passed, and you know what
he's gone. I have wished for thirty some odd years that I would do ANYTHING to have two minutes in the arms of my brother. When they are gone, they are gone... no getting them back.

3. Ask my opinion and I will tell you EXACTLY how I feel. I am now 40, it is my rite of passage to be honest and I will. If you disagree with me, that is fine. I don't care...but don't be offended with me or anyone else who gives you an honest opinion and it's not what you want to hear. You asked an OPINION, which we are all entitled to have and that's it.....When I ask people and they don't agree with me, it's fine, I don't explain or defend myself unless they want me to, but I am not hurt. I stepped into it by asking. I am learning from that person...(read my Through The Door blog) Open yourself up to friends, family and others who will not always agree...it's the way it is. You choose your life and it's fine with me, and I choose mine. You may not agree, but all of these things are what makes the world go around. Remember God made us in his own image...and look how different we are. Love that...

4.I bought the movie 'Pretty in Pink' today at wal mart for 5 bucks. LOVE this movie...Brat pack stuff you cannot beat. I remember the first time I saw it too. I really was not crazy about it. I was dating Chris Ricci, my first (serious) boyfriend and we saw the movie. We saw a lot of people from school there too, like Jamie O'Neil and Kendra something...her sister. I remember after I stated I didn't like it. But I love it and got use to it as time went on. In fact, my junior prom, I took TD Carpenter and he dressed like Duckie Dale from the movie. That was cool. If it were on TV, I would put the clicker down and watch the movie. Perfectly produces high school growing pains. EVERYONE can relate.

5. I took the Bravotv.com quiz on what New Jersey housewife I was. My friend at work told me to take it. She was Caroline...I could have guessed for her. She is far more matriarchal than I... My result was that I was Jaceline. Eh okay w/ that. As long as I was not Danielle. My husband wanted to know why I was not the sexy hot tempered Italian Teresa...and I said I didn't like to shop... Love NJ housewives cannot wait to see the reunion show tonight and Thursday...

6.Glad to see RUNS HOUSE back on tv. For all of you christian friends and family out there, You should watch this show. It may not be like the Duggers (who I adore) but MTV really can come up with a famous well balanced family and put them on TV. Don't overlook Rev Run and his messages. It's all good and centered around GOD...
I think I am done.

Junkie...

This past Sunday the Tony Awards aired on TV. I LOVE live musical theatre. To me it doesn't get much better than a brilliant Broadway voice that can bring me to the brink of tears. Usually a mans voice.
I grew up with an appreciation of musical theatre. It is how I spent my jr.high and high school stints, as well as my summers in Hingham...Different plays and companies. I was always had a supporting roll. I liked that. Never really wanted the lime lite. I liked back stage too. I would have loved to learn the real way to direct a musical from my high school teacher. The man had nothing but brilliance for choosing the right musical for the talent of the year.
Summer Theatre was also fun. It was a way of spending the summer screwing around with out getting into trouble. The plays and people, the fun we would have. Then when you were asked to work on the Adult shows....you know the plays that only two teens were cast in and the rest were all twenty something plus talent...this was serious business too...these guys in their mind WERE Broadway material and could not understand why they could not make it in the Big Apple...THAT was brilliant because of the cat fights, and how this person should not have this role and that person can't sing or dance as well as I can and blah...but when a drama club member was asked to work backstage on the plays, it WAS big time. You were someone...
Yeah, so each year a handful of us would work back stage and have a great time, cause now we were hanging with the biggies.....
. I loved drama in High school though. President of the Drama club my senior year. Thespian Society troupe #1982 and for some strange reason I was awarded Best Female Thespian...hmmm but all in all, the Drama Club and it's people is what kept me going in High School...
I did not pursue Drama or Theatre after high School. I traveled with Up With People for a year in 1989. That was more good will ambassador stuff and less, much less theatre stuff. So throughout the years I did try to keep up on this musical and that one. Living in Boston it was easy...living in DC was easy too, cause lots of show came and went. But living in Naples, there really is not much around. When shows come here, they are REALLY expensive. The stage at the Phil is so small that you don't get the full effect and the shows stay for three days. They don't camp out like in the bigger cities. Naples doesn't give people a chance to scrape up the money yo see a show...but that's okay
It's why I have the Tony Awards. Every year I watch a small portion of it, the opening numbers and then move on the Gene Simmons Family Jewels, but I get a chance to see and hear what is a new on Broadway. I get a chance tos ee Angela Landsbury win Another Tony for yet another brilliant piece of work. I get to see more and more "famous"people work on stage and develop themselves as "ACTORS" eight shows a week...it's not as easy as TV or movies. I get to see..people living their dream and doing EXACTLY what they love to do...
Yeah, I am still a theatre Junkie...