UPDATE:

Travelling season has officially started. Want me to visit you? Better let me know soon, or there won't be room for you before the end of the year. Current trips planned:
- Home for younger brother's birthday
- Home for older niece's and Grandma's birthday
- Home for Mom's and older brother's birthday (same day)
- San Antonio for bestest friend's wedding
- NYC to visit Jane!

And all that by mid/late-October.

Also, I have finally decided to purchase a high-end point-and-shoot camera. Yeah, I know I said I'd get a new camera back in January. I even filed my taxes early to get the return to buy the camera! And it's September! But deciding what broad category of camera to buy is a major step in this process. Now at least I know the price range I'm looking at and can stop worrying about the SLR I won't ever have because I can't fit it into my purse. My deadline is the San Antonio/NYC trips. I am NOT going to these awesome events/places without something adequate with which to document them.

I have two of the cutest and smartest nieces ever.

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

I went to the Ren Faire a week and a half ago, and since my friend wasn't dressing up, I decided not to do so either. This was the first time in years that I didn't dress in garb for faire. It was fun, although not the same kind of fun you get when you can't breathe and your endowments are out there for anyone to admire.

The point of this story, however, is that I was called up on staging during the final performance of Moon and Broonie. Most of you won't care about this, but there are a few who will recognize the amazingness of this. Not only was I called up, but it was for the juggling trick, that one where you stand as still as you can, and they pass clubs to each other in front of and behind you.

And then they switch to flaming torches.

You know that sound that fire makes in the movies when it flares up? That's not a fake sound effect. The torches made that sound as they went flying by about an inch from my face. Exciting.

Naturally, my camera crapped out after two pictures. Hence the need to get something new.

I have seen Little Miss Sunshine twice. Freakin' hilarious. You must see it, you'll love it.

I have also seen two operas now: A Masked Ball and Die Fledermaus. Die Fledermaus is less opera-y than most, what with all the talking, but the second act was very entertaining, with ballet!!

Speaking of, I am going to see The Nutcracker in December. It's kind of sad that I had to check to make sure that I didn't buy tickets that would conflict with parties that month. In September. Might as well go buy a tree and start decorating it now.

Exercise is intermittent at best, but I'm eating alright, if with a deplorable lack of creativity. Trader Joes is the savior of uninspired cooks.

Oh, and if you're ever planning to be in SF on a Sunday evening, see if the Rob Evans Quartet is playing at Rose Pistola. It's a lovely way to end a weekend.

That's about it. Hope you're all doing well!