Monday, 8. February 2010
I drove up to watch Chelsea’s Improv group on Saturday. In years past I would go with them the night before and stay in the hotel, spend the entire day at State Group Speech, etc. This year though, Chelsea was ONLY in Improv and typically she’s in at least three other groups (acting and something else) and one year Austin was in stuff too. Lucky for me she wasn’t performing until 4:40pm. Awesome! I left around 1:30pm and arrived around 3:30… hung out with Chelsea, watched her Improv and then we hung around for over an hour waiting on her score.
They received all ones! They were so funny! They only received positive feedback. We were hoping for All State but they weren’t nominated. Maybe next year, she and the others will all be seniors. One of the boys is very… “John Belushi”, lots of physical comedy and he’s a bit chubby, so mix him with Chelsea’s wit (and knowledge of stage direction) and the other witty boy… what a great act!
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Thursday, 4. February 2010
After much complaining, Chelsea was allowed to be in an Improv group for Speech competition. Usually she is in some sort of acting group, but since freshman year she has asked to be in an Improv group and until this year she was told that she was not good enough and “girls don’t do well in Improv”. She was told this by two WOMEN.
Chelsea refused to join anything in Speech this year. Not just because of Improv, but because it’s not fun. The coaches are fun suckers and she just ends up miserable. However they enticed her; “you can be in Improv”, so she jumped at that chance.
Then they put her in a crappy group. So she said “no thanks”, she knew which group she wanted, and they wanted her. The coaches caved and Chelsea joined with lifelong friend Ben (Austin’s roommates brother!) and another male student.
Last weekend was districts and her group made it to State. A big deal, if you remember when Austin was in high school Improv. So this Saturday they will perform to see if they can make it to All-State. They don’t perform until the end of the day, which may or may not be bad. I think the judges tend to judge higher at the beginning of the day, but with any luck the group will do well and be judged well.
Hooray for Chelsea! If she makes it to All-State, she’ll have to pass on the Bela Fleck concert! :/
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Monday, 1. February 2010
I purchased 4 tickets to see Béla Fleck Feb. 20th. Chelsea, Austin and his friend, plus myself will be attending.
The tickets are listed at $49/each on the venues web site. I was going to purchase them but went looking for a promo code. I found one, BANJO, from a movie site (for his documentary). I tried it. I purchased the tickets at $19/each! Holy savings.
The venue is a big theatre, usually used for Broadway type shows, ballet, etc. It’s beautiful. I didn’t learn of the concert until Friday and didn’t look for tickets until Sunday night. I was able to get 4th row in tier one. A bit far but still good since we are above the orchestra level. It should be fun!
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Wednesday, 27. January 2010
I am getting renewal notices for Bluehousedesign.net again. Really? I don’t think this is worth it. I’m not really doing anything with this domain, so I really really really don’t think I’m going to renew. If you are really missing me you’ll have to join Facebook :)
But we have about 25 days for me to change my mind.
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Tuesday, 26. January 2010
I recently commented to someone how the school here in Iowa rarely calls a snow day. They certainly didn’t call one when the temps were -35F/wind chill.
Today is the 5th snow day in a row. Last week there was no school Monday (not for Martin Luther King Jr day – ha, in IA? – but for a teacher in-service), Connor was sick on Tuesday, then snow, snow, snow. So Connor hasn’t been to school since the Friday before Lego League. Not that he minds, of course.
It’s not that we are getting tons of new snow, but some new with 40mph winds, causing roads to be drifted shut again. It’s also close to 0F so I suppose they don’t want to risk a school bus getting stuck on our rural roads. Actually, I think last week was closed because of an ice storm (seems so long ago!), I remember now that the car was encased in a perfect shell of ice, coming off in complete molded pieces. I was busy outside the car scraping windows, when Connor rolled down his and punched it out, as if it was thin glass. So I had him go to all the windows and do the same. Much quicker than my method.
I carefully drove to work last week, but yesterday I was unable to get down my road again due to the drifts. I’m in today, but I did have to drive through some small drifts, which scares the heck out of me. As I wince and drive through I envision myself spinning off the road and into the ditch. Luckily, that did not happen (today).
Sam spent the night at the shop last night so he’d be able to get to his job in Omaha in the morning. He really wanted me to come down, but I had no desire to sleep at work again. He had a neighbor plow the drifts so he could get home and get a change of clothes and said in the 15 minutes he was home the road almost drifted completely shut again.
I don’t know about you, but this weather here has me wondering if maybe the end of the world is near. Honestly it’s been so miserable I can’t think of any other reason we would have the worst winter in the 11 years I’ve lived here. I checked some stats. We received 23.3″ of snow in December. JUST December, which the norm is 7.3″. That’s a huge difference. We broke a 100 year old record. Not with just snow, but also with the temperature.
Hopefully that’s it. These horrible winters come once ever 100 years and I won’t have to deal with another again. Once Sam retires, I really hope we move to the South East Coast. I can not do winter anymore. The fun has been sucked out of it for a very long time.
PS it’s sunny today, no wind. Woohoo. I’ve also made another purse with a slightly different design. Suppose I should take photos!
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