The life of an Actor

On our first morning in Santa Fe we were out early on the hunt for Expresso. There was a group of really stylishly dressed people with perfect makeup and hair hanging around the New Mexico museum of Fine Art. So I had to ask what was going on. I was told they were shooting a commercial. It was 20 degrees outside with a good wind and they were all outside in the cold waiting for the film crew to arrive.

Later I watched them begin to shoot the commercial. They were a group of white hip looking people gathered in front of stage listening to a white musical group. On the street behind them, mostly out of view, was a long row of american indian people selling their jewelry and other crafts.

Random Thoughts on Cirque in Vegas

Sometimes I feel guilty about having random thoughts because I have a lovely DIL that creates a really nice blog on that subject!!

As I watched four lovely young women perform splits and other graceful moves high above the stage the question popped into my head. They are dressed in WHITE outfits, tight White outfits. How do they manage to perform all month??? You know what I mean????

Vegas

I was feeling the affects of sitting in the car all day. I had to ask Patrick to open my water bottle. I can hardly walk and drink coffee at the same time. Then I sit down to watch the Beatles Love and watch a women with long red hair decend from the top of the theater suspended on one arm.

Amazing is not a big enough word for the Cirq. The timing of these people, the stage changing, the costume changing and the high wire acrobatics were unbelievable. We had a great time at the Mirage in Vegas. There is even a special section of slot machines out side the Love theater where they play Beatle music.

There were also three VW beetles used in the show.

Traveling Down I-5 or "This is no place for children or dogs"

I was so happy not to have little children with me when traveling on I-5 last sunday. It seems I had decided to start our trip back to Alabama on the busiest travel day of the year. There was lots of bumper to bumper traffic. The rest stops were full of people traffic jammed to get in.

Thanks Paul and Andrea for the Tip about Kettleman. We stopped there for the In and Out. If we had not stopped there we would have starved!! Poor people coming from Southern California could not hardly get off that exit.

At Kettleman I watched people take their dogs out of the car to do their business on big hills of construction dirt.

Reboot of the Brain

http://builderhouse.blogspot.com/

This is a new blog I am working on. I decided I would organize all the house renovations into one place. We moved into this house full of $9.00 lighting fixtures and cheap $1.75 a yard carpet, miserable thin vinyl floors etc. almost 10 years ago. So I am going to put everything together in the new blog.

I worked for years in Information Technology with all kinds of technical stuff. This blog formatting is driving me crazy so I will be working on that as I add to the builder house blog.

Anyway, feel free to follow!!!!

When I go to the Home

I am just going to put this out there so maybe someone will remember. When I go to live at the old folks home I would like the following:

1. A window, with the drapes and blinds open.
2. Wi-fi
3. A laptop
4. The complete set of the Beatles playing continously

I guess I spend tooo much time at the Assisted Living place.

Train Station, what Train Station

This is where the passenger train station once stood. It was torn down a few years ago to make way for some condo development. The passenger train service stopped after Katrina. The tracks were repaired but the passenger train never came back.

The Train station had two entrances and two waiting rooms. That is because way back when there was a white waiting room and a black waiting room. Hard to believe.

That parking garage was built for the Carnival Cruise ship Holiday. It worked quite nicely until the Holiday was replaced by a bigger ship. Now guess what, not enough parking!! The over flow has to park in an outside lot about 1/2 mile away and let me tell you in the summer, cars outside cook.

I went down to the River and what did I see

Not only is there a permanent sign that the restroom is out of order, the park is locked up tighter than a drum. What is wrong with this city. They lock the river away from their own people. Just Ducky.

Across the River I saw this ship. This ship put a lot of people to work.

California Here I Come - YEHAAAA

I think this is appropriate transportation don't you??? I am getting out the map and lining up all the campgrounds for the trip. Heck, I even put my initials on my house. I am also reading up on the latest waste disposal procedures. Oh, and getting the wireless router set up for the trailer. Home Sweet Home on the road.

South Beach Diet

As my husband says: "We" are on the South Beach Diet, and have been for a couple of weeks. Well today I had some REALL caffinated coffee and tonight we both went and loaded up on mexican food. I feel like the energizer bunny. I may not sleep until tommorow.

Free Things to Do

One of my most favorite free things to do is to go to the Marriot Grand Hotel at Point Clear for a day trip. Park the car and walk along the bay. http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/ptlal-grand-hotel-marriott-resort-golf-club-and-spa/

Baby Land

Well that is what it looked like around here a few weeks ago. I lost my voice with all the yelling I did (well actually I lost my voice for some unknown non contagious reason).

LOVED having four out of five of our grandchildren here!! We missed our little blond girl!!

Babies have lots of gear.

OK Dear Readers - No more Complaining

Our cute grandchildren came over and helped take the ornaments off the tree. We purchased the tree in 1995 from Orchard Hardware in Petaluma. It is now being held together with a bungee cord and some well placed garland. Hopefully it will live another 10 years or more!!

Next decorating project is Mardi Gras

I will try again FRIDAY

I am not working yet I have a calendar full of stuff to do.

Today I had created the following assignment for myself:
Collect and finish all unfinished Art projects
Take books back to the library and get a good DIET cookbook
Drink more water
Join the Eastern shore Art center

What I actually did:
Cleaned the bathroom and kitchen (including under and around the yukky stove)
Cleaned out the top drawer of my bathroom cabinet. Rearrange medicine, makeup, etc.
Helped husband put the bike rack on the car.
Washed towels, ran the dishwasher, threw dinner together for 6 people
Cleaned up the kitchen again
Talked to my father, twice. Explained to him how to find ESPN on his TV.
Drank more water (yahoo)

Am I maybe AVOIDING Art or something????
Tommorow is Doctor day for the parents. That assignment takes all the wind out of my sail.