inspiration

So this last weekand my parents came up from CA to see me. We had a great time. What they brought with them was a huge amount of surprises. The first being that they did not fly up here which is what they told me they were doing, they drove there new car as well as the Jetta they own. And then told me that the Jetta was mine!! What! I no longer have the GEO. You are kidding. But they were not and I am completley floored. Not only did I recieve a car but we went out furniture shopping. I am thrilled ;I have a couch and a ottaman. So come on over and check out the new digs. It is so fun to walk into my own apartment and sit down on a great couch and watch a dvd and smile!!

I feel very fortunate and thrilled to be moving into a new decade of my life. Thanks mom and dad for being who you are and for sharing in the joy of my growth. You both kick ass!!!

And let us all have a moment of silence for petite and I going seperate ways.

She will live on with Lisa so don’t worry the next time it snows Lisa will be driving us around.

Alright so my birthday is around the corner and I have planted three statements to begin the inspiration process. They are:

Spectacular
Portland Cosmopolitian
and
Adventure

So where do we begin and end this adventure? And what limo service will donate for the night?? Get your thinking caps on and share your ideas!! I only turn thirty once!

I am embracing the WOW postion and have moved!! That is right I now have my own space. It is so sweet. Be on the look out for your evite to the housewarming party. Feb 12th , we will see you there. If you don’t recieve it just ask, I may not have your email. Love and new shifts in the world.

So not only am I moving on saturday there are a million other things happening of course. First it is two friends birthday on Saturday which I also read was National Yoga Day. Go figure.

Charity Ruth Edmondson will be 28 and celebrating in the warm sun of Arizona and James Jay Fenton will be 36 and celebrating in SF. I am sure he will either be working or contemplating life and the world. Welcome to the Aquarian times.

Along with that Kindred, Insight Out’s production will be opening on the 2nd of February. It is going to be amazing EVERYONE should check it out. Fly up to Ptown and witness great work and storytelling in action. It will be at the IFCC if you want info go to insightouttheatre.org

Also this interesting event of Drammy drinking and hobnobbing with the people and community of theatre here in Portland. Should be intresting if I go. Hey there are door prizes, who wouldn’t want to go.

As well as New Avenues for Youth aka NAFY and Playwrite Inc. are coming together for an afternoon of plays. Playwrite has been spending time with homeless youth and teaching them how to write plays. They then write them and then professional actors act them out. It will be happening on Tuesday. It should be such an afternoon of stories and great accomplishments. Way to go young writers!!

So that is sort of all I think. Hope all is well and busy for you and love and creativity to all

So as I left the house after my happy no rain thoughts, the showers came down and as I crossed over the Hawthorne bridge into downtown the clouds got extremly heavy and dark. Isn’t life funny? You think one thing then another thing come into play.

Well today I wake to find the sun and a most of a blue sky with few white clouds. Not dark and heavy full of rain. What makes the day even greater is it is my last night in my apartment. I have lived in this apartment for three years practicaly to the date. I love this neighborhood, the back yard the darling child that was born the day we moved in and my roommates. And at the same time I am thrilled to move on to my very own space. It is such a cute apartment with a great quite neighborhood and a wonderful landlord. If you would like my new address give a call or email me and i will give it forth. Sunshine and moving wheels…..

Okay in vein of Sean Keener I will mark my travels for the year 2005:

Cannon Beach, OR
Lake Tahoe, CA
Auburn, CA
Seattle, WA
Anchorage, AK
Moose Pass, AK
Cooper Landing, AK
White Salmon, WA
Maupin, OR
San Francisco, CA
London, UK
Amsterdam, Holland
Cologne, Germany
Koblenz, Germany
Rudensheim, Germany
Wertheim, Germany
Wurzburg, Germany
Rothenburg, Germany
Bamberg, Germany
Nurnberg, Germany
Regensburg, Germany
Passau, Germany
Vienna, Austria
Portland, OR
Sacramento, CA
Denver, CO
New Orleans, LA
Atlanta, GA

that is all for 2005 I am looking at hopefully one large trip for 2006 and that would be for my 30th birthday. Any ideas…….

Alright ,
Last night we were hanging out watching Zeus and Caspian in the tank and we could see that they were doing the “bitch slap” love mating ritual. And it was Caspian being more flirtatous and aggressive to Zeus. So then Julianna and Sonali were getting mad at Zeus for not paying attention to Caspian. It was very funny how Caspian would swim and glide around the tank and Zeus would be under water with his shell turned to her and his head in his shell. He was playing hard to get we assumed. Then Caspian attempted again to get his attention to no avail and Juls and Sonali got even more upset at Zeus. I said ” Now look, if Zeus was doing the exact same thing to Caspian you all would say ” leave her alone, let her have her space. Don’t attack her Zeus, why that is almost asault.” Every one was quite until Lisa piped in with ” Cornered in the Tank”
Uproar into laughter.
We think if we change their rocks into sand maybe we could get eggs. We will be taking a trip to the coast soon!!

So yesterday I was awoken by a phone call and I had a wonderful talk about buliding a theatre space. This was a great inspiring “drafting & dreaming” session. In the middle of me still being in bed and having a great conversation I look out my bedroom window and see the overcast grey sky and the drizzling rain. I say to my friend “This has been the darkest wettest winter in a awhile”. It has been raining I think 27 days out of 28.
Now don’t get me wrong I like the rain and I love what the rain brings. And around here everything is vibrantly green. This I love. So today Julianna and I woke up and were going to a meeting, we stepped outside saying “good morning sunshine” and ” Oh shoot I forgot to put on my sunscreen” and ” Well I am glad I am wearing my shades and have my flip flops on.”
I guess it is just how you think of it. Rain on.

Okay I mean packages in the mail. Not the other kind you dirty mind you all. Well I have been recieving packages in the mail latley and let me tell you how fun they are. Especially if you are creative about the packaging and what is inside. Sometimes they feel like very special inside jokes. My last one was a great “gag” gift it had freez dries corn and a insulated container that reads in the instructions ” will keep items100= degrees for four hours at room temp.” Well it’s a good thing I don’t live in Alaska and also that I like to store everything in room temp surroundings. Lucky me. I already used my corn and it was so tasty. The best freeze dried corn I have had in years. Thanks so much. Keep all packages coming because they are FUN!!