StarStruk By Life

My own look at the world and its inhabitants…

Post-Thanksgiving musings…

We are still enjoying our Thanksgiving leftovers.  I had a turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, mayo sandwich for breakfast yesterday, and leftover mashed potatoes and candied yams for dinner…may do the same today. Still not tired of it…haven’t even tasted the pecan pie yet (P says it tastes like pecan custard pie). No Black Friday shopping […]

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So far, so good…

Two shows down, 5 to go…live theater is such an incredibly fluid thing…no two shows are alike, no two mistakes happen in the same way.  It is always a wonderful feeling to get through a show and realize that the audience takes away ONLY what happened on stage that performance.  The lines might not always […]

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Another opening, another show…

Ohmygosh, it is opening night!  The culmination of a couple of months of hard work…performing in front of an audience is so different from rehearsing in an empty room.  This one has been particularly exciting and fun…working with a cast of 6 wonder women, a wonder woman director and a wonder woman stage manager…well, who […]

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Wow, what a night…

What a night last night.  P was traveling, so I watched returns with just the two kittens.  I watched until after McCain’s concession speech and Obama’s acceptance speech.  One of my favorite moments was when Obama reminded his kids that a new puppy was coming to the White House with them…wonder what kind of dog […]

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Windy Wednesday…

As I sit here in the dark morning, the wind is howling outside my windows…yikes!  It isn’t even November yet!  Temps are “normal” but with wind chill figured in, the meteorologist this morning said to take a warm coat. Speaking of warm, I have had a sharp, throbbing pain in my right center right buttock […]

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Monday morning, can’t trust that day…

It is so dark in the mornings these days.  Normally, I am a morning person…early to bed, early to rise. But, a combination of late-night baseball playoffs/World Series, menopausal middle-of-the-night wakefulness and the early-morning darkness, I do not want to get out of bed.  Woe is me! Rehearsals for Steel Magnolias are going well.  I […]

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I’m stalling…

It is 9:30am on Saturday and I should be outside staining the repaired trim work P just finished.  Instead, I am wallowing in kittens (asleep on my legs), watching FoodTV, trying to let the caffeine and Focalin kick in.  Naughty me… This has been a tough week, workwise.  I work for a real estate lawyer […]

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More kittens…

We are still hopelessly, shamelessly in love with Puck and Phoebe…they are now almost 3 months old and are still full of kittenish bounce and frisk.  As they get older, though, we approach the moment that makes me very nervous…reopening the cat door to the basement which is open to the outdoors.  I grew up […]

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