I finally posted again to Get Ready to Be Amazed.

Enjoy!

I feel so guilty! If only I had used the ideas more often...indeed, if I had READ the ideas more often!

I joined Blogfodder quite a while ago in an effort to find good topics for blogging. The ideas were creative and interesting and made me think.

But I got into a habit of dragging the email to a special folder for blogging ideas and then never bothering to go back and read them. I'm sure you've noticed that I don't post as often as of late and reading the ideas would probably have helped me post more often.

But, alas, they have folded. The final idea, which I received nearly a month ago, was on how you know when it's time to go. I guess I don't know when it's time to go OR when it's time for someone else to go.

Gee...I hope I don't treat my friendships the way I've treated Blogfodder!

Goodbye, Blogfodder...I'll miss you as I go through the last several months worth if ideas and catch back up on them. My readers will miss you when I'm finished with the list.

Well, Sunday was the final performance of 'A Christmas Carol' as adapted by Jeff Weiss. All went well, the cast party at our home was fun and we have our evenings back.

We have been swearing that this is our first and last performance. The amount of time that rehearsals take and the stress involved in being busy nearly every single night of the week, especially when we have so little time to prepare for the Wed. Coffee House and the Thursday Bible Study, are just exhausting.

However...two of my favorite plays are coming up. Jeff will be directing "'Night Mother" and the other theater instructor at the college will be directing "Fiddler on the Roof" in the Spring. As much as I'd love to be in Jeff's, I wont' kid myself that I have the talent, time or memory for a 2 actress play. I CAN convince myself that my singing is just enough on this side of decent to try out for "Fiddler." It is one of my favorite plays and has been since I was 6. Am I nuts? Probably. But, hey, if you don't live a full life, is your life 1/2 full or 1/2 empty?

The play (A Christmas Carol) starts Wed. and I'm getting pretty nervous.

Practice is going ok...there is nightly improvement, although not nearly enough English accent is being thrown around. And with all the other stuff we're doing, I'm really worn out. I can't think well anymore and my short term memory problem is nearly Memento-esc in it's severity.

But it has been fun, and getting to know some of the students has been fun, too. I regret that, at the moment, I don't think we'll do this again, since it is taking so much energy that I don't think I had to start with.

And, this bloody diet thing is at the bloody wrong time! We're doing the 'South Beach Diet' and I miss my Unleaded Mountain Dew (UMD) and Bagel in the morning. I miss a lot of things, but mainly I miss my UMD. It's like a smoker quitting at tax time when he's deeply indebted to the feds. It's good for my heart and my pancreas, but it's bloody 'el on the rest of me!

OK...I'm exaggerating. But I do miss it dearly.

Well, we have returned from the 'Crusin' in the Country Century' bicycling event in Claxton, Ga. A good time was had by all.

I heard of only one broken wrist, and in a group of 800-1000 cyclists, that's pretty darned good! I'm sure there are plenty of saddle sores and aching muscles, but I really heard no complaints.

We also skipped out on some of the weekend to see 'The Matrix: Revolutions.' It was fabulous! I was annoyed at some of the other viewers who didn't seem to understand some of what was going on and the significance of it all...there was a bit of inappropriate giggling and such. But this is certainly a deep and thought provoking movie, so you can't expect it to be for everyone.

I plan to see it at least once more in the theater and probably won't write much about it for a while, as our lives are so busy right now that I don't have time, and this is the kind of movie that requires much thought and discussion before committing ideas to paper!

I'm so bummed!

I like being known as the 'huge Matrix fan' and yet I have not been able to see Revolutions, yet!!! Please don't ask...please tell me NOTHING! I'm not even poking around on the 'net because I want NO details...I want to see it with as few expectations as I can muster.

Hopefully, though, after we get done with the bike ride on Saturday we'll be able to find a theater near the town we're camping in and we'll get to see it.

I haven't even gotten anything written up, yet, about Reloaded!!

What a week it's been. What a couple of weeks, actually.

First, I found out that the 'under the porch' cat, Sydney, got hit by a car and killed. The I discover that a neighbors dog bite a child and started causing trouble with passerbys and the decision was made to put it to sleep. Then a neighbors cat was found dead under the porch. Then a kitten got into our dog run and nearly got killed by one of my pooches.

And THEN...Saturday morning, Canaan, our 11 year old Chow/Rotti mix had trouble walking and fell on the stairs, surfing down the largest portion. She possibly has a brain tumor, might have ruptured a disk in her spine, and has Coccidia (an intestinal parasite). We can't afford surgery, so she is on medication and we hope she will recover on her own. Right now, she can't stand on her own, so we carry her out several times a day (she hates that) and she spends most of her day in the house.

We thought our lives were busy before! This really makes getting to work on time harder, not to mention that I'm reluctant to be gone very long, so what am I going to do about the Claxton 'Cruisin' in the Country' bike ride this weekend? It's a tradition! I'm a cactus people!!

AND---if THAT were not enuf! The Matrix Revolution opens TODAY at 9:00a.m. (yes, A.M.) here on the east coast, and I won't get to be there...in FACT...I may not get to see it until at LEAST Saturday night, more likely NEXT WEEK sometime. Do you realize how HARD this is for me?!?!

{sigh} I really believe the Adversary is at work here.