StarStruk By Life

My own look at the world and its inhabitants…

Archives for August 2009

Anxiety clutches…

I’m starting to freak out a bit about auditions and sets and costumes and lights and sound.  Since I am trained as an actor and have come to directing only through watching others, I’m always a little nervous at the start.  Will I be able to get my concept across, will I be able to […]

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I love empty weekends…

Hus is home and it is a rainy-ish weekend and we took advantage.  Watched On Demand Jackie, went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast, to Ikea for bookcases, to Chilis for a pre-movie drink and snacks, to the movies for Julie & Julia, home for Sox game…sleep all night.  Wake up, sip coffee, check email and […]

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In the news…

What a week!  Ted Kennedy succumbed to his brain cancer this week.  Having lived in New England for most of the last 35 years, we have had a unique view of what the Kennedy Family has meant to New Englanders.  Streets and highways were lined with people holding signs saying “Thank you, Teddy” and clapping […]

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Summer’s ending…

My veggie garden is in a holding pattern.  The peas are turning into dried peas on the vine…nothing edible.  I pulled the non-performing broccoli and they will be plowed back in.  The red cabbages are heading beautifully and what’s left of the green cabbages after the bugs consume the leaves are starting to make tiny […]

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He’s home…

Hus has been away for two weeks and as much as I enjoy living my own life, I am always glad when he comes home.  The first few days are always tough, as I am forced, kicking and screaming, to give up doing things my way.  But that’s okay…I’m willing to go through the pain […]

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