So we were shopping at the Disney Store on Tuesday and I found this beauty http://www.disneystore.com/alice-through-the-looking-gla…/…/
but it only comes for the iPhone. I have an Android. So today we
went shopping for stuff to make it with! We found gear die cuts and
gold paper (originally gift bags). Had a blast cutting out all the
gears.:D freaked out the kid because her cutter didn't like it much. oops, she needed a new plate anyway. ;)
Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of the steps for you. But I should be able to explain it...I hope.
Items I needed:
clear cell phone case for my phone. I found this easily by googling my cell phone brand. The only problem I had is that the site selling the case did not indicate that the case I bought wasn't entirely clear. There is part of the case that is cloudy. However, for this it doesn't matter much as you can still see the design and from a distance the cloudy part isn't noticeable.
background paper. Since the original design that I was copying from Disney is white, I just used scrap white paper. The thinner the paper, the better as there is some bending required. If you have white wrapping paper that works really well.
the gears. We found these Tim Holtz gear dies at our local craft store and I had a coupon. My daughter already owns a die press although we did need to improvise getting the thickness correct (there is an adapter you can buy, but we just used an embossing folder).
I wanted to copy the gold foil look and since we couldn't find gold foil scrap booking paper we bought some gold foil gift bags instead. They were thinner and worked better. gold foil wrapping paper would have also worked for this.
The dies have tiny holes on the back to help remove the cut paper. We gently pushed the paper out of the dies with pins.
the rabbit. My daughter actually already had the rabbit stamp (go figure!) so all we needed was the gold ink stamp pad. It took a few tries to get that right but practice makes perfect.
Now for the assembly! First I popped off the back cover of my cell phone and traced it onto some thicker paper to make a template that we saved to make other cell phone case inserts. (actually, my daughter popped her cover off to make the template.) Traced the template onto the white paper and carefully cut it out, using an exacto blade for the cut outs for the camera, flash & speaker.
Carefully arranged the gears to see where everything would go, but don't attach yet as the rabbit stamp goes on first. Stamped the rabbit and then glued down the gears. Let everything dry with some weight on it so it is flat.
Then place the new cover over the back cover of the phone and place the clear case on.
Finished phone case
Friday, April 22, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Update on Constant Snoopervision Required
When I posted http://lillyput.blogspot.com/2016/03/constant-snoopervision-required.html I had assumed that my dryer wasn't working because of a broken belt. I mean it sure sounded like the belt had broken...there was a slapping sound at first and then the drum stopped spinning.
However, when hubby took the dryer apart he realized that the belt was just fine... the problem was that, oh gosh, I don't even know what you would call the part...let's see if I can describe it. The drum of the dryer sits on rollers on the bottom and then has an axle of sorts connected to the back of the dryer. This axle looks very similar to an artificial hip joint. http://www.eorthopod.com/images/ContentImages/hip/hip_arthroplasty/hip_arthroplasty_components02.jpg
Here's a picture of the actual part and they call it a shaft. (go figure!)
What broke was the ball from the shaft. No idea why it sounded like a broken belt. ???
So I searched for our favorite local appliance parts online and discovered that they are no longer in business. *SOB!* I had to order the part online. Not a huge deal, but we had a trip planned for my daughter's 18th birthday and wanted to have clean clothes for that.
Luckily even though FedEx Smartpost tried to give me heart failure by leaving my order in the truck for 24 hours just two hours away from my house and pushing back the delivery day by those same 24 hours...we did get the part in time and hubby was able to get it installed in about an hour & a half.
Of course our snoopervisor had to check out the package (she checks all packages coming into and out of the house now) and keep a close eye on all work. All work was approved by the snoopervisor!
I now have a running dryer! YAY! Not bad for a dryer that is going to be 24 years old this summer. note: we have not had to replace anything on the washer in all of those years. Going out on a limb of speculation here, but I assume that part of why we have had to replace some of the parts on our dryer are because the washer & dryer were in storage for 20 months back in 1999-2001. Or those parts were never meant to last this long.
At any rate I am so glad that we have these well built old machines. I am just bummed that all the kitchen appliances are not so well built and instead of just replacing a part when they go down, we have to get new ones.
However, when hubby took the dryer apart he realized that the belt was just fine... the problem was that, oh gosh, I don't even know what you would call the part...let's see if I can describe it. The drum of the dryer sits on rollers on the bottom and then has an axle of sorts connected to the back of the dryer. This axle looks very similar to an artificial hip joint. http://www.eorthopod.com/images/ContentImages/hip/hip_arthroplasty/hip_arthroplasty_components02.jpg
Here's a picture of the actual part and they call it a shaft. (go figure!)
What broke was the ball from the shaft. No idea why it sounded like a broken belt. ???So I searched for our favorite local appliance parts online and discovered that they are no longer in business. *SOB!* I had to order the part online. Not a huge deal, but we had a trip planned for my daughter's 18th birthday and wanted to have clean clothes for that.
Luckily even though FedEx Smartpost tried to give me heart failure by leaving my order in the truck for 24 hours just two hours away from my house and pushing back the delivery day by those same 24 hours...we did get the part in time and hubby was able to get it installed in about an hour & a half.
Of course our snoopervisor had to check out the package (she checks all packages coming into and out of the house now) and keep a close eye on all work. All work was approved by the snoopervisor!
I now have a running dryer! YAY! Not bad for a dryer that is going to be 24 years old this summer. note: we have not had to replace anything on the washer in all of those years. Going out on a limb of speculation here, but I assume that part of why we have had to replace some of the parts on our dryer are because the washer & dryer were in storage for 20 months back in 1999-2001. Or those parts were never meant to last this long.
At any rate I am so glad that we have these well built old machines. I am just bummed that all the kitchen appliances are not so well built and instead of just replacing a part when they go down, we have to get new ones.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Stop and enjoy the real world around you!
On the second day of our 3 day trip to Disneyland I noticed the following article online and shared it on my Facebook. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/went-without-smartphone-7-days-212218807.html
note: I did this from our hotel room...NOT while actually in the park.
I shared it because I also noticed how many people were at the park but not really experiencing the park. More than half the adults and several kids too were all busy with their cellphones instead of enjoying their vacation.
Now I can understand checking on your phone while waiting in the lines...especially if you were waiting for a character visit that wasn't even going to start for 15 minutes or more...you can only take so many pictures of the very cute duckies. (btw: we got to see 2 clutches of baby ducks while there!)
But come on people...you've paid a bunch of money for this trip...enjoy it!!!
Sigh!
note: I did this from our hotel room...NOT while actually in the park.
I shared it because I also noticed how many people were at the park but not really experiencing the park. More than half the adults and several kids too were all busy with their cellphones instead of enjoying their vacation.
Now I can understand checking on your phone while waiting in the lines...especially if you were waiting for a character visit that wasn't even going to start for 15 minutes or more...you can only take so many pictures of the very cute duckies. (btw: we got to see 2 clutches of baby ducks while there!)
But come on people...you've paid a bunch of money for this trip...enjoy it!!!
Sigh!
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Reinforcements Needed
I've kept a garden in the lower portion of my yard since we moved into this house in 2001. The back yard has a slope that is somewhat contained by two retaining walls. The upper wall is about 15 feet from the back porch to give you somewhat of an area to enjoy the yard...it then slopes down to the far left corner where a second wall is and then that area was never sodded and just kept as a garden. This has worked out well for us and every year I've managed to get something to grow there.
Over the past few years I've had to put up a fence around this area because my dog likes to help herself to the garden. If there are carrots, she'll dig one up for a snack. I knew that tossing my egg shells in the garden was a risk, but the fence was in pretty good shape and it was winter so I didn't think too much about it...
until yesterday
Lately Lilly who used to be happy sleeping in her bedroom until I got up each morning (for the most part) has started asking hubby to let her out. She has now been getting a small breakfast (hubby always gives her 3 pieces of his cereal) and goes outside each morning. However, she hasn't been a good girl about it and usually keeps hubby from leaving for work on time.
Yesterday, I heard the back door slam open and shut a few times and then heard the utility room sink. When I got up I discovered that Lilly was locked in her bedroom (aka my laundry room with the utility sink). The sink still had very dirty water in the bottom. So now I knew why I heard the sink...someone had dirty paws.
When I got to my computer there was a note from hubby explaining the situation to me...Somedoggy had gotten into the garden. sigh!
I had been planning on reinforcements to the garden for a while because the neighbor's bird feeder has attracted the squirrels who think that the garden must be for them and they eat all they can find. What I originally wanted to do was put a hoop house over the garden. http://www.ericsprojects.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC02244.JPG However, hubby has been pretty dead set against this idea. He doesn't care for the look of it and hasn't been all that supportive of my gardening efforts because he doesn't like vegetables so he doesn't see the point. There is also the problem that the retaining wall isn't exactly square and there are other obstacles that would need to be addressed.
While searching online for solutions to my pest problems I realized that I still had some 1/2" hardware cloth from our old rabbit pen that had been recycled...some of it never used at all. So my plan was to put the rabbit fence around the garden. Then I could use my bird netting across the top of the garden to keep the critters out.
Unfortunately, I did not know exactly how much hardware cloth I actually had and how much I actually needed. There wasn't enough to put hardware cloth on all 4 sides of the garden like I wanted. I was only able to put the fence on two sides. However, this works to keep the dog out of the garden as the sides I wasn't able to fence in with the rabbit fence are the back which has our 6ft yard fence and then the remaining side has blocked access and I put up my old plastic fencing as a temporary fence until I can get more hardware cloth. Now I just need to go take some measurements to see how much more I need.
While I am at it, I want to try planting potatoes in containers this year. I've been watching gardening videos and having containers for the potatoes appeals because when it is time to harvest...all you have to do is dump out the container and sift through the dirt. The dirt can be reused and the potatoes don't get damaged from a shovel or pitch fork. Cool!
Over the past few years I've had to put up a fence around this area because my dog likes to help herself to the garden. If there are carrots, she'll dig one up for a snack. I knew that tossing my egg shells in the garden was a risk, but the fence was in pretty good shape and it was winter so I didn't think too much about it...
until yesterday
Lately Lilly who used to be happy sleeping in her bedroom until I got up each morning (for the most part) has started asking hubby to let her out. She has now been getting a small breakfast (hubby always gives her 3 pieces of his cereal) and goes outside each morning. However, she hasn't been a good girl about it and usually keeps hubby from leaving for work on time.
Yesterday, I heard the back door slam open and shut a few times and then heard the utility room sink. When I got up I discovered that Lilly was locked in her bedroom (aka my laundry room with the utility sink). The sink still had very dirty water in the bottom. So now I knew why I heard the sink...someone had dirty paws.
When I got to my computer there was a note from hubby explaining the situation to me...Somedoggy had gotten into the garden. sigh!
I had been planning on reinforcements to the garden for a while because the neighbor's bird feeder has attracted the squirrels who think that the garden must be for them and they eat all they can find. What I originally wanted to do was put a hoop house over the garden. http://www.ericsprojects.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC02244.JPG However, hubby has been pretty dead set against this idea. He doesn't care for the look of it and hasn't been all that supportive of my gardening efforts because he doesn't like vegetables so he doesn't see the point. There is also the problem that the retaining wall isn't exactly square and there are other obstacles that would need to be addressed.
While searching online for solutions to my pest problems I realized that I still had some 1/2" hardware cloth from our old rabbit pen that had been recycled...some of it never used at all. So my plan was to put the rabbit fence around the garden. Then I could use my bird netting across the top of the garden to keep the critters out.
Unfortunately, I did not know exactly how much hardware cloth I actually had and how much I actually needed. There wasn't enough to put hardware cloth on all 4 sides of the garden like I wanted. I was only able to put the fence on two sides. However, this works to keep the dog out of the garden as the sides I wasn't able to fence in with the rabbit fence are the back which has our 6ft yard fence and then the remaining side has blocked access and I put up my old plastic fencing as a temporary fence until I can get more hardware cloth. Now I just need to go take some measurements to see how much more I need.
While I am at it, I want to try planting potatoes in containers this year. I've been watching gardening videos and having containers for the potatoes appeals because when it is time to harvest...all you have to do is dump out the container and sift through the dirt. The dirt can be reused and the potatoes don't get damaged from a shovel or pitch fork. Cool!
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Constant Snoopervision Required
Hey everyone! I know it has been a long time. Busy, lazy, just couldn't think of anything, etc...
Lilly my dog will be 14 this year and over the past few months we have noticed some changes in her behavior. First is that her leg that she had surgery on in 2012 is bugging her more frequently. She limps almost every day and she has a much harder time getting up the stairs and up from a nap also.
We've also noticed that she is losing her hearing. She uses this to her advantage when she is outside and getting into trouble (by barking at the neighbor dogs)...it is easy to not come when called if she can't hear. sigh!
As part of her hearing loss she has started following me around. Wherever I am, she has to follow. If I leave while she is napping she goes into panic mode searching for where I might have run off to. That brings us to yesterday...
Yesterday was laundry day. When I got to the first load to be dried I discovered that the drum belt on my dryer had broke...so no dryer. That meant that I needed to hang all of our clothes to dry. After living here for almost 15 years we've had dryer issues before so I have back up ready...and I use it for other purposes. One of my drying areas is in my basement. There are 4 support poles that I have drying lines tied to. So I took my first load to the basement to dry there. and Lilly followed.
Lilly likes the basement. It is nice and cool and there are lots of things to snoopervise there as she isn't allowed there on a regular basis. The problem of course is climbing the stairs back to the main floor. She made it fairly easily.
For my second load I had several sweaters so I wanted them to hang outside as long as possible...we were expecting bad weather after noon. So I grabbed a clothes rack that I have and set up outside to hang the clothes...Lilly followed.
For my final load I was in the laundry room putting everything on hangers to join the 2nd load on the outdoor rack. But I had gotten up for it while Lilly was asleep. She woke, didn't see me and started searching. I could hear her (her nails need trimming) and I tried to holler to let her know where I was. But she didn't hear me and she went down the stairs to the basement. Poor puppy!
Over the course of the day she went downstairs 3 times. After that I just started blocking the stairs to keep her from going down. She didn't seem all that bothered by it.
A few days ago Lilly woke from her nap and for some odd reason didn't notice that I was right here at my computer (just like when she fell asleep) and she started searching the house for me. When she couldn't find me anywhere she tried to determine if I was upstairs (she isn't allowed up there) and I was watching her from my chair here. I think she felt rather silly. Poor puppy!
Lilly my dog will be 14 this year and over the past few months we have noticed some changes in her behavior. First is that her leg that she had surgery on in 2012 is bugging her more frequently. She limps almost every day and she has a much harder time getting up the stairs and up from a nap also.
We've also noticed that she is losing her hearing. She uses this to her advantage when she is outside and getting into trouble (by barking at the neighbor dogs)...it is easy to not come when called if she can't hear. sigh!
As part of her hearing loss she has started following me around. Wherever I am, she has to follow. If I leave while she is napping she goes into panic mode searching for where I might have run off to. That brings us to yesterday...
Yesterday was laundry day. When I got to the first load to be dried I discovered that the drum belt on my dryer had broke...so no dryer. That meant that I needed to hang all of our clothes to dry. After living here for almost 15 years we've had dryer issues before so I have back up ready...and I use it for other purposes. One of my drying areas is in my basement. There are 4 support poles that I have drying lines tied to. So I took my first load to the basement to dry there. and Lilly followed.
Lilly likes the basement. It is nice and cool and there are lots of things to snoopervise there as she isn't allowed there on a regular basis. The problem of course is climbing the stairs back to the main floor. She made it fairly easily.
For my second load I had several sweaters so I wanted them to hang outside as long as possible...we were expecting bad weather after noon. So I grabbed a clothes rack that I have and set up outside to hang the clothes...Lilly followed.
For my final load I was in the laundry room putting everything on hangers to join the 2nd load on the outdoor rack. But I had gotten up for it while Lilly was asleep. She woke, didn't see me and started searching. I could hear her (her nails need trimming) and I tried to holler to let her know where I was. But she didn't hear me and she went down the stairs to the basement. Poor puppy!
Over the course of the day she went downstairs 3 times. After that I just started blocking the stairs to keep her from going down. She didn't seem all that bothered by it.
A few days ago Lilly woke from her nap and for some odd reason didn't notice that I was right here at my computer (just like when she fell asleep) and she started searching the house for me. When she couldn't find me anywhere she tried to determine if I was upstairs (she isn't allowed up there) and I was watching her from my chair here. I think she felt rather silly. Poor puppy!
Monday, February 15, 2016
nope!
We started looking into the Early Colleges program that is offered through our school district. Basically it is a high school that also offers college classes through the local community college, but some of the classes are taught in the high school building (main ones like English & Math classes.)
In order to take the college classes DD had to take a test to see if she was ready to take college classes. She did awesome on the English part of the test and scored just 6 points off the max score.
Unfortunately since we haven't really focused on math classes much (the major she wants doesn't require math) she didn't score well enough in that area for college level classes in math.
And this particular school felt that she couldn't handle the course load if she took the college English...so the decided she wasn't allowed to.
Well the only reason we wanted the school was to get the college English classes.
Seeing as they didn't think she could do it (even though I signed a waiver that if she didn't pass the class with a c or above I would pay for the class), we decided that this wasn't the program for DD.
We're now looking at other options. I've got my eye on a good one...it should work out.
In order to take the college classes DD had to take a test to see if she was ready to take college classes. She did awesome on the English part of the test and scored just 6 points off the max score.
Unfortunately since we haven't really focused on math classes much (the major she wants doesn't require math) she didn't score well enough in that area for college level classes in math.
And this particular school felt that she couldn't handle the course load if she took the college English...so the decided she wasn't allowed to.
Well the only reason we wanted the school was to get the college English classes.
Seeing as they didn't think she could do it (even though I signed a waiver that if she didn't pass the class with a c or above I would pay for the class), we decided that this wasn't the program for DD.
We're now looking at other options. I've got my eye on a good one...it should work out.
Hacking the laundry
It is once again laundry day at my house and I thought that I would share with you all my tips for making laundry day a bit easier on me...feel free to add your own in the comments.
Sorting the laundry.
Kiddo has a 3 laundry sack sorter. One for whites, one for colors and one for her jeans. She puts her delicates on the bottom. Hubby & I have 3 plastic laundry baskets...same idea. As we take off our dirty laundry, we all self sort our items.
Delicates
they go into those mesh laundry bags (like the ones in the sorter link above) and get tossed in with the rest of the load. No hand washing here. Once the load is done the bag is easily found and those items can then...
Hang Delicates to air dry.
This house came with a laundry drying bar in the laundry room, but that is more for items you hang on clothes hangers. So I had hubby (could have done it myself, but he complains less if I let him do it) help me install a clothes line in the laundry room for hanging up the delicates. the heat of the dryer in the laundry room keeps it more arid in there so items are usually dry by the time I finish the last load (I wash the delicates in the first load to facilitate this!)
DIY laundry detergent
http://happymoneysaver.com/making-your-own-laundry-detergent-worth-the-cost/ I started using this recipe a few years ago and I will never go back to buying name brand detergent again. This recipe is way cheaper, last so much longer and gets our clothes so much cleaner. I mean why would you ever pay for all that filler in the name brand stuff? I don't put in the fragrance stuff as my family doesn't like it...they prefer the smell of the regular ingredients.
DIY dryer balls
http://livesimply.me/2014/09/04/homemade-wool-dryer-balls/ I made up a batch of dryer balls. I'm pretty sure that I blogged about them here before. While I was felting them, they sort of imploded...or exploded? anyway, it was a mess because I had forgot the important step of stuffing them into old hose before trying to felt them. So I rewound them, stuffed them into the hose and then just left them in the hose. They're still in the hose today, but it's not looking so good. I figure once the hose totally dies the balls will hold up on their own for a long time. Now I set the dryer for the sensor setting and the clothes get dry faster because they're getting fluffed up more.
finally
DIY "dryer sheets"
even though the dryer balls are supposed to eliminate the static, here they just don't. So I did this http://lifecheating.com/2013/11/16/never-ending-dryer-sheets/ I didn't cut the sponges, I bought a six pack of smaller sponges and used a smaller container so the sponges all stand up on end (makes rotating easier) I did notice that this method would leave an oily residue on our clothes, so I tossed an old wash cloth over the sponge (I put the sponge in first, then the wash cloth, then our clothes with the dryer balls). Now all the extra oils are soaked up by the wash cloth and the clothes are static free.
In the summer I hang the clothes up outside when I can. Unfortunately that isn't much here.
oops, not done yet...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fast-way-to-fold-a-T-shirt/ Only I don't even do that much when folding the shirts. I lay the tshirts out flat. Pick up a shirt at the first folding line, fold the shirt in half and then tuck the other fold line as I'm setting the shirt on the pile. Hubby isn't a fan of this method (since it isn't the way his mom did it) so he refolds his shirts, but he doesn't dare say anything about the way I do it, lest he wash his own clothes. bwahaha!
Sorting the laundry.
Kiddo has a 3 laundry sack sorter. One for whites, one for colors and one for her jeans. She puts her delicates on the bottom. Hubby & I have 3 plastic laundry baskets...same idea. As we take off our dirty laundry, we all self sort our items.
Delicates
they go into those mesh laundry bags (like the ones in the sorter link above) and get tossed in with the rest of the load. No hand washing here. Once the load is done the bag is easily found and those items can then...
Hang Delicates to air dry.
This house came with a laundry drying bar in the laundry room, but that is more for items you hang on clothes hangers. So I had hubby (could have done it myself, but he complains less if I let him do it) help me install a clothes line in the laundry room for hanging up the delicates. the heat of the dryer in the laundry room keeps it more arid in there so items are usually dry by the time I finish the last load (I wash the delicates in the first load to facilitate this!)
DIY laundry detergent
http://happymoneysaver.com/making-your-own-laundry-detergent-worth-the-cost/ I started using this recipe a few years ago and I will never go back to buying name brand detergent again. This recipe is way cheaper, last so much longer and gets our clothes so much cleaner. I mean why would you ever pay for all that filler in the name brand stuff? I don't put in the fragrance stuff as my family doesn't like it...they prefer the smell of the regular ingredients.
DIY dryer balls
http://livesimply.me/2014/09/04/homemade-wool-dryer-balls/ I made up a batch of dryer balls. I'm pretty sure that I blogged about them here before. While I was felting them, they sort of imploded...or exploded? anyway, it was a mess because I had forgot the important step of stuffing them into old hose before trying to felt them. So I rewound them, stuffed them into the hose and then just left them in the hose. They're still in the hose today, but it's not looking so good. I figure once the hose totally dies the balls will hold up on their own for a long time. Now I set the dryer for the sensor setting and the clothes get dry faster because they're getting fluffed up more.
finally
DIY "dryer sheets"
even though the dryer balls are supposed to eliminate the static, here they just don't. So I did this http://lifecheating.com/2013/11/16/never-ending-dryer-sheets/ I didn't cut the sponges, I bought a six pack of smaller sponges and used a smaller container so the sponges all stand up on end (makes rotating easier) I did notice that this method would leave an oily residue on our clothes, so I tossed an old wash cloth over the sponge (I put the sponge in first, then the wash cloth, then our clothes with the dryer balls). Now all the extra oils are soaked up by the wash cloth and the clothes are static free.
In the summer I hang the clothes up outside when I can. Unfortunately that isn't much here.
oops, not done yet...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fast-way-to-fold-a-T-shirt/ Only I don't even do that much when folding the shirts. I lay the tshirts out flat. Pick up a shirt at the first folding line, fold the shirt in half and then tuck the other fold line as I'm setting the shirt on the pile. Hubby isn't a fan of this method (since it isn't the way his mom did it) so he refolds his shirts, but he doesn't dare say anything about the way I do it, lest he wash his own clothes. bwahaha!
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
I am a TERRIBLE consumer!
I'm a part of a survey panel company. They send me emails and I take their surveys. I was doing them with this company a long time ago and quit because it was so frustrating how often they didn't want to have me finish the survey because I wasn't who they were looking for... reminded yet again what a terrible consumer I am. but that isn't a bad thing. so I still do the surveys and eventually I earn enough points to get stuff from them...so yay there!
Today I was canning beef broth and thinking because, you have plenty of time to think while you're waiting for the canner to get to pressure. and I thought about why I am such a terrible consumer...
and basically it is because I'm not buying the carp the advertisers are feeding us.
Do you remember how back in the old days when you bought something it was actually worth what you had paid for it? How companies fought to make good products to earn your hard earned money and to earn your trust so that you would continue to buy their brand?
They stopped doing that. I think it was around the time that credit cards became more popular with businesses to accept. I can still remember having to write checks at places because they didn't take credit...yeah, I'm dating myself here. But I'm pretty sure that quality products went out the window around the same time that everyone had copious amounts of money...even if it was borrowed. No longer did you have to save up the money to go and buy a new microwave...just charge it! Want a new album by your favorite artist but don't get paid for two weeks and the rent is due? charge it!
And that brings me back to canning of broth. Why on earth would anyone in their right mind be canning food in this day and age? I mean except for the preppers out there...they have a reason. For me there are a few reasons... 1) why am I throwing out perfectly good bones when I can make broth from them? I mean most everyone makes a turkey soup after Thanksgiving. Why not with the chicken bones? 2) do I even know WHAT they're putting in the stuff at the store? I mean I can read the ingredients, but WHAT IS NATURAL FLAVORING? 3) this way I don't suffer the ever shrinking can. It seems that every time something is NEW AND IMPROVED it is also smaller. Do you know how many recipes were made from the old size? sigh! 4) bone broth has collagen, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate...good for you stuff! (sorry for the font change, had to cut & paste because I can't spell any of that...hummm I thought I read somewhere you shouldn't eat it if you can't spell it? alrighty then)
I really wish that I could convince hubby that we need a compost bin. If I had a compost bin then I could put the bones after I make the broth into that and let them rot and become compost for the garden...now if I put them in our compost pile, my dog will dig them up and eat them...and she shouldn't have cooked bones.
Now I have in my pantry 4 jars of chicken bone stock (I just used one yesterday, so I had 5) and 6 jars of beef bone stock. Chicken is on sale, so I'm gonna stock up!
So now, I've been studying prepper youtube videos and getting loads of tips on how to can stuff. I'm probably gonna can some potatoes here next because I'm tired of the bag going bad before we can eat them. worst case, we have mashed potatoes.
Today I was canning beef broth and thinking because, you have plenty of time to think while you're waiting for the canner to get to pressure. and I thought about why I am such a terrible consumer...
and basically it is because I'm not buying the carp the advertisers are feeding us.
Do you remember how back in the old days when you bought something it was actually worth what you had paid for it? How companies fought to make good products to earn your hard earned money and to earn your trust so that you would continue to buy their brand?
They stopped doing that. I think it was around the time that credit cards became more popular with businesses to accept. I can still remember having to write checks at places because they didn't take credit...yeah, I'm dating myself here. But I'm pretty sure that quality products went out the window around the same time that everyone had copious amounts of money...even if it was borrowed. No longer did you have to save up the money to go and buy a new microwave...just charge it! Want a new album by your favorite artist but don't get paid for two weeks and the rent is due? charge it!
And that brings me back to canning of broth. Why on earth would anyone in their right mind be canning food in this day and age? I mean except for the preppers out there...they have a reason. For me there are a few reasons... 1) why am I throwing out perfectly good bones when I can make broth from them? I mean most everyone makes a turkey soup after Thanksgiving. Why not with the chicken bones? 2) do I even know WHAT they're putting in the stuff at the store? I mean I can read the ingredients, but WHAT IS NATURAL FLAVORING? 3) this way I don't suffer the ever shrinking can. It seems that every time something is NEW AND IMPROVED it is also smaller. Do you know how many recipes were made from the old size? sigh! 4) bone broth has collagen, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate...good for you stuff! (sorry for the font change, had to cut & paste because I can't spell any of that...hummm I thought I read somewhere you shouldn't eat it if you can't spell it? alrighty then)
I really wish that I could convince hubby that we need a compost bin. If I had a compost bin then I could put the bones after I make the broth into that and let them rot and become compost for the garden...now if I put them in our compost pile, my dog will dig them up and eat them...and she shouldn't have cooked bones.
Now I have in my pantry 4 jars of chicken bone stock (I just used one yesterday, so I had 5) and 6 jars of beef bone stock. Chicken is on sale, so I'm gonna stock up!
So now, I've been studying prepper youtube videos and getting loads of tips on how to can stuff. I'm probably gonna can some potatoes here next because I'm tired of the bag going bad before we can eat them. worst case, we have mashed potatoes.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Playing the run around game!
I cut my finger while getting ready for Thanksgiving on Nov 25, 2014 We went to our closest ER and got me all stitched up. DH paid the co-payment while I was being treated and went home on our merry way.
We soon got our Explanation of Benefits(EOB) from our insurance and all was good... or so I thought. Honestly I didn't read it and notice that I "still owed."
Even so the hospital didn't bother trying to get the left over $90 until Sep 23, 2015!!! hummm couldn't have been hurting that much. :-/
So I see on the bill from the hospital that they have broken up the charges for my visit so that rather than paying just my normal co-pay, I was charged 3 times and owe a co-pay for each charge...thus the extra $90. I call up the hospital to ask why they have charged me 3 times and no good reason...just that I owe the money. I got rather testy with the guy, said "I AM NOT PAYING THIS!" and hung up on the jerk.
I then called up my insurance. Where they immediately saw that yes the hospital had billed me incorrectly and said that they would take care of it. I received a new EOB in the mail shortly afterward showing that my co-pay had already been satisfied. And thought nothing more of it...
until...
Oct 27th when I got a bill for the entire amount minus $450. (about $2K) ??? The bill says that "If you provided insurance information, it was billed and all efforts to collect from them have been exhausted."
can you say WHAT???
So I call up the insurance on Nov 4th and the gal there says they paid on Oct 15th. She calls up the hospital billing who says they'll investigate...should hear in 30 days.
on Nov 26th the hospital sends another bill for the $2K. I've been busy, so today with a bit of lag time I call up the hospital. They say that my bill is still outstanding and that no, they have proof of my insurance but that the insurance reversed the payment. Say what? They guy who just happens to be the exact same guy that the insurance gal spoke with on Nov 4th says that insurance gal never sent him an EOB. But if I fax him one he'll look into it.
I don't have a fax, so I get the snail mail addy.
In the mean time I call up the insurance and they say that they'll send the EOB by the end of today. (humm... not so trusting now) so I ask "just for grins...can I get that fax number?" he gives it to me and I google how to fax from my computer.
I scan all the documents and fax it to them. So I've either opened up a can of whoop butt or confused the world. sigh
All I want for Christmas is a paid hospital bill!
We soon got our Explanation of Benefits(EOB) from our insurance and all was good... or so I thought. Honestly I didn't read it and notice that I "still owed."
Even so the hospital didn't bother trying to get the left over $90 until Sep 23, 2015!!! hummm couldn't have been hurting that much. :-/
So I see on the bill from the hospital that they have broken up the charges for my visit so that rather than paying just my normal co-pay, I was charged 3 times and owe a co-pay for each charge...thus the extra $90. I call up the hospital to ask why they have charged me 3 times and no good reason...just that I owe the money. I got rather testy with the guy, said "I AM NOT PAYING THIS!" and hung up on the jerk.
I then called up my insurance. Where they immediately saw that yes the hospital had billed me incorrectly and said that they would take care of it. I received a new EOB in the mail shortly afterward showing that my co-pay had already been satisfied. And thought nothing more of it...
until...
Oct 27th when I got a bill for the entire amount minus $450. (about $2K) ??? The bill says that "If you provided insurance information, it was billed and all efforts to collect from them have been exhausted."
can you say WHAT???
So I call up the insurance on Nov 4th and the gal there says they paid on Oct 15th. She calls up the hospital billing who says they'll investigate...should hear in 30 days.
on Nov 26th the hospital sends another bill for the $2K. I've been busy, so today with a bit of lag time I call up the hospital. They say that my bill is still outstanding and that no, they have proof of my insurance but that the insurance reversed the payment. Say what? They guy who just happens to be the exact same guy that the insurance gal spoke with on Nov 4th says that insurance gal never sent him an EOB. But if I fax him one he'll look into it.
I don't have a fax, so I get the snail mail addy.
In the mean time I call up the insurance and they say that they'll send the EOB by the end of today. (humm... not so trusting now) so I ask "just for grins...can I get that fax number?" he gives it to me and I google how to fax from my computer.
I scan all the documents and fax it to them. So I've either opened up a can of whoop butt or confused the world. sigh
All I want for Christmas is a paid hospital bill!
Monday, December 07, 2015
oh that wasn't all!
The theater conference saga continues!
We arrived at the conference earlier than the school we were going with. So we hung out, they had provided music in the lobby for the kids to dance to, but we mostly just people watched and kept an eye out for our group.
At about 10 til their arrival time, I checked with registration to see if they had showed up yet... they had NOT.
At 20 min after they were supposed to arrive, I checked again. Seeing as the first session was due to start in 10 min the registration gal allowed me to go through the check in bag to get our badges so we could go ahead to our first session. She just asked that we let the school person know so they wouldn't be freaked out as to why our badges weren't there.
After 3 checks we discovered that our badges were not there. So the registration gal looked and saw that we were registered LATE (which explains why we couldn't get our IEs). So they printed out our badges and sent us on our way. We never did check in with the highschool...although we were at one point sitting near them and said hi to several of the kids we knew.
The schedule for the conference indicated that the vendor hall would be set up before the conference and be open during the entire thing. um... not so much! After our first session when the others were checking into their hotels we went to check out the vendor hall and there wasn't anyone to talk to...EXCEPT for the one college that has been bugging us like crazy since we first signed up to go...it is in another state...in literally the middle of nowhere. So while they may have a decent program, they don't have an audience for any of their shows. :-/
I'll spare you the details on how I thought a lot of the content presented at the group events was totally inappropriate for high school kids and totally juvenile in the gratuitous swearing. Let's just say that I am SO very glad that my child isn't in the public school system as the director was PROUD to be able to present this garbage to our kids. sigh! I got an earful from some totally liberal brainwashed mother on Facebook that if I didn't like that content then Theater isn't what I should be involved with. Sorry but I choose to not pimp out my child for entertainment value! And so far my child has indicated that she won't audition for shows that compromise her morals. I pray she stays strong in that.
Good things about the conference are that she and her friend got to do a lot of very interesting classes and DD did her audition...where she got 5 "callbacks." We thought going in that the callbacks would be offers to attend the schools and possible scholarships. Um nope! they weren't even close. Basically, the callbacks were offers to apply and audition for that school's program. :( And the kicker...the school DD wants wasn't part of the process even though they were at the conference. They couldn't spare the manpower to go to the audition due to an event at the school...projects for finals that the students had to do.
However, DD & I were able to talk to school reps and DD got to take a class from and chat with a professor...cementing her desire to go to that school. so we're happy about that.
Now onto getting her into a program to knock out her core required classes for free through the early colleges program.
We arrived at the conference earlier than the school we were going with. So we hung out, they had provided music in the lobby for the kids to dance to, but we mostly just people watched and kept an eye out for our group.
At about 10 til their arrival time, I checked with registration to see if they had showed up yet... they had NOT.
At 20 min after they were supposed to arrive, I checked again. Seeing as the first session was due to start in 10 min the registration gal allowed me to go through the check in bag to get our badges so we could go ahead to our first session. She just asked that we let the school person know so they wouldn't be freaked out as to why our badges weren't there.
After 3 checks we discovered that our badges were not there. So the registration gal looked and saw that we were registered LATE (which explains why we couldn't get our IEs). So they printed out our badges and sent us on our way. We never did check in with the highschool...although we were at one point sitting near them and said hi to several of the kids we knew.
The schedule for the conference indicated that the vendor hall would be set up before the conference and be open during the entire thing. um... not so much! After our first session when the others were checking into their hotels we went to check out the vendor hall and there wasn't anyone to talk to...EXCEPT for the one college that has been bugging us like crazy since we first signed up to go...it is in another state...in literally the middle of nowhere. So while they may have a decent program, they don't have an audience for any of their shows. :-/
I'll spare you the details on how I thought a lot of the content presented at the group events was totally inappropriate for high school kids and totally juvenile in the gratuitous swearing. Let's just say that I am SO very glad that my child isn't in the public school system as the director was PROUD to be able to present this garbage to our kids. sigh! I got an earful from some totally liberal brainwashed mother on Facebook that if I didn't like that content then Theater isn't what I should be involved with. Sorry but I choose to not pimp out my child for entertainment value! And so far my child has indicated that she won't audition for shows that compromise her morals. I pray she stays strong in that.
Good things about the conference are that she and her friend got to do a lot of very interesting classes and DD did her audition...where she got 5 "callbacks." We thought going in that the callbacks would be offers to attend the schools and possible scholarships. Um nope! they weren't even close. Basically, the callbacks were offers to apply and audition for that school's program. :( And the kicker...the school DD wants wasn't part of the process even though they were at the conference. They couldn't spare the manpower to go to the audition due to an event at the school...projects for finals that the students had to do.
However, DD & I were able to talk to school reps and DD got to take a class from and chat with a professor...cementing her desire to go to that school. so we're happy about that.
Now onto getting her into a program to knock out her core required classes for free through the early colleges program.
Thursday, December 03, 2015
Just what I don't need!
more stress!
DD is in the middle of a show. A Christmas Carol. I'm in it also. :D and I've been working on making our costumes and some extra bits for the rest of the cast...the majority of the costumes are being made by my friend and they'll all become part of her costume rental when we are done.
our tech week schedule has changed so I may have to cancel our trip to the Operation Christmas Child distribution center to pack boxes... most of the folks who were going have to be at rehearsal. I have to break the news about this to DD today...I'm sure she's going to be heart broken.
and today we are heading off to a theater conference. but let me share that saga
DD is in the middle of a show. A Christmas Carol. I'm in it also. :D and I've been working on making our costumes and some extra bits for the rest of the cast...the majority of the costumes are being made by my friend and they'll all become part of her costume rental when we are done.
our tech week schedule has changed so I may have to cancel our trip to the Operation Christmas Child distribution center to pack boxes... most of the folks who were going have to be at rehearsal. I have to break the news about this to DD today...I'm sure she's going to be heart broken.
and today we are heading off to a theater conference. but let me share that saga
My daughter and her friend are both
students of a voice teacher here AND the president
of highschool's Parent Patron's club. (I believe you heard from him when
we first learned that our girls did not have IE spots) He likes to
have all of his students compete in different events as their scores
reflect on him. So he highly encouraged us to attend theater conference this year
and made arrangements for us to go through highschool's Theater troop...
even though when I inquired last year I was told that homeschoolers
could go solo to the event.
We first asked highschool for permission to join them and promised that highschool would have
no responsibility for our kids. All they had to do was get us in the
door. They agreed, took our money and registered us for just theater conference...while not registering us for the IEs that we requested (the
ENTIRE point of us going pretty much.) Apparently the person in charge
messed up several other students IEs as well. There was no
communication between highschool and us after they got our money.
Apparently the person in charge of doing the registration was under the
impression that we would register for our IEs ourselves...but no one
told us that was part of the process. and apparently this was NOT part of the process for everyone as several of highschool's theater troop did get registered for their IEs through this person.
After we
found out that our girls were registered but not for IEs we also learned
that I, as their chaperon needed to be registered also, but no one knew
how to do that. That's where I got in touch with you while voice teacher
badgered anyone who would listen. He learned just a few minutes ago
that I am registered to attend.
okay, so we can go to the conference and I can go also. DD can do her audition for college because that was separate and I did it. whew. Now the scheduling and negotiating all the getting there, food and stuff.
DD is a picky eater. Friend is a vegetarian. We have to figure out how to feed both girls. fun as Friend is used to just eating at home.
Showers for all of us to leave the house by 7am for two days. yay
I'm gonna hide now
Friday, November 27, 2015
Our Thanksgiving feast
Sharing our thanksgiving meal...and documenting it so I remember for next year...what worked...what failed
Turkey - It is only the 3 of us, so last year I cut our small bird in half and only cooked one half...this year I thawed the other half and cooked it... It was already brined from last year (a huge time saver!) and it turned out perfect! The half size is perfect for our family as we will have enough for dinner tonight also and possibly turkey with gravy tomorrow.
Gravy - cooking just the half bird can make gravy time a bit scary, but I've learned that if I carve the bird I get enough juice to make the gravy with. A brined bird makes for a really flavorful gravy. This is something that always concerned my mom. She searches all over town for her special sausage and then bastes her bird constantly. Me, I brine the bird and roast it...no basting!
Mashed Potatoes - this year after boiling the potatoes, I ran them through the food mill into my crock pot with a stick of butter and some milk. I set it at low until it was heated up (a lot of heat is lost in the milling process) and then left it at warm until after dinner. We had nice soft potatoes that didn't get all dried out in the oven. The only problem was that the potatoes did dry and stick to the sides of the crock...but a bit of soaking and scraping (I use an old gift card as a scraper) got it right out.
Rolls - I made the rolls with my bread maker several weeks ago...I just had to thaw them out and pop them into the oven. yum
Yams - couldn't be easier. I don't care for yams. But DH & DD like them in the syrup that they're packed in add in brown sugar & butter. Bake for an hour. done!
Rutabagas - I'm the only one who eats these, but since I don't eat the yams, this is my treat. This is also how I sliced open my finger last year! But I searched online how to cut the rutabaga... and while I didn't find it any easier, I also didn't end up in the ER again this year. I just cut it up, add some salt & sugar and boil them until soft. Then run them through the food mill.
Mushrooms with quinoa - This was my attempt at a stuffing replacement. I'm the only one who eats stuffing. But basically stuffing is just bread with fat. I read online that it was done as an attempt to add calories to the diet. My family stuffing recipe does that quite well...and I don't need it. So I tried the mushrooms & quinoa instead. It tastes just fine, but Thanksgiving food it is NOT! So I'll probably have it for lunch this afternoon. I'll stick with just mushrooms next year.
Green Beans - just microwaved with seasoning
Corn - just microwaved... no matter what I do to the corn, hubby always adds salt at the table. So I stopped bothering to add any salt when I cook it.
Cranberry Sauce - DD could just eat the entire dish with a spoon. oh it is just the jellied cranberry juice. She'll eat the whole cranberries also (but not the fancy stuff with oranges & spice :p ) but I get the cheap stuff and she loves it.
Pumpkin Dessert - This is sort of like a dump cake or cobbler. Mix pumpkin (I get whole pumpkins and make the puree myself...which no one seems to notice or care. If I manage to grow the pumpkins myself it's a savings of money. fingers crossed for a good crop next year!) with spices, sugar, eggs & evaporated milk. pour into a greased pan and sprinkle a dry yellow cake mix on top. pour melted butter on top. The original recipe called for pecans, but DD might be allergic and it is fine w/o the nuts. bake til cake is golden brown & delicious!
Cherry Dessert - Oh this is soooo easy. Cherry pie filling (that's the hard part...finding one that isn't full of garbage) dump into greased dish and sprinkle with dry cake mix and pour melted butter on top. bake til cake is golden brown & delicious!
and that's it. For lunch, I served cheese, sausage & crackers. I served dinner at 4:30 because it was done by then. Lilly thought it must be midnight though. sigh!
Turkey - It is only the 3 of us, so last year I cut our small bird in half and only cooked one half...this year I thawed the other half and cooked it... It was already brined from last year (a huge time saver!) and it turned out perfect! The half size is perfect for our family as we will have enough for dinner tonight also and possibly turkey with gravy tomorrow.
Gravy - cooking just the half bird can make gravy time a bit scary, but I've learned that if I carve the bird I get enough juice to make the gravy with. A brined bird makes for a really flavorful gravy. This is something that always concerned my mom. She searches all over town for her special sausage and then bastes her bird constantly. Me, I brine the bird and roast it...no basting!
Mashed Potatoes - this year after boiling the potatoes, I ran them through the food mill into my crock pot with a stick of butter and some milk. I set it at low until it was heated up (a lot of heat is lost in the milling process) and then left it at warm until after dinner. We had nice soft potatoes that didn't get all dried out in the oven. The only problem was that the potatoes did dry and stick to the sides of the crock...but a bit of soaking and scraping (I use an old gift card as a scraper) got it right out.
Rolls - I made the rolls with my bread maker several weeks ago...I just had to thaw them out and pop them into the oven. yum
Yams - couldn't be easier. I don't care for yams. But DH & DD like them in the syrup that they're packed in add in brown sugar & butter. Bake for an hour. done!
Rutabagas - I'm the only one who eats these, but since I don't eat the yams, this is my treat. This is also how I sliced open my finger last year! But I searched online how to cut the rutabaga... and while I didn't find it any easier, I also didn't end up in the ER again this year. I just cut it up, add some salt & sugar and boil them until soft. Then run them through the food mill.
Mushrooms with quinoa - This was my attempt at a stuffing replacement. I'm the only one who eats stuffing. But basically stuffing is just bread with fat. I read online that it was done as an attempt to add calories to the diet. My family stuffing recipe does that quite well...and I don't need it. So I tried the mushrooms & quinoa instead. It tastes just fine, but Thanksgiving food it is NOT! So I'll probably have it for lunch this afternoon. I'll stick with just mushrooms next year.
Green Beans - just microwaved with seasoning
Corn - just microwaved... no matter what I do to the corn, hubby always adds salt at the table. So I stopped bothering to add any salt when I cook it.
Cranberry Sauce - DD could just eat the entire dish with a spoon. oh it is just the jellied cranberry juice. She'll eat the whole cranberries also (but not the fancy stuff with oranges & spice :p ) but I get the cheap stuff and she loves it.
Pumpkin Dessert - This is sort of like a dump cake or cobbler. Mix pumpkin (I get whole pumpkins and make the puree myself...which no one seems to notice or care. If I manage to grow the pumpkins myself it's a savings of money. fingers crossed for a good crop next year!) with spices, sugar, eggs & evaporated milk. pour into a greased pan and sprinkle a dry yellow cake mix on top. pour melted butter on top. The original recipe called for pecans, but DD might be allergic and it is fine w/o the nuts. bake til cake is golden brown & delicious!
Cherry Dessert - Oh this is soooo easy. Cherry pie filling (that's the hard part...finding one that isn't full of garbage) dump into greased dish and sprinkle with dry cake mix and pour melted butter on top. bake til cake is golden brown & delicious!
and that's it. For lunch, I served cheese, sausage & crackers. I served dinner at 4:30 because it was done by then. Lilly thought it must be midnight though. sigh!
Sunday, November 08, 2015
Conflicted
It's over now and I'm really okay with how everything ended up going, BUT!!!
I came across this article today Is it selfish to have adults only weddings? and that got me thinking about it all again.
I should probably first say that when I got married I wanted an adult only wedding... BUT I DIDN'T GET IT! I was not a fan of children back then (honestly, my kid is the only one I really like...okay some of her friends are really cool...but) so I didn't want them at my wedding, messing anything up. I can also add here that back then America's Funniest Home Videos was in full swing and the most popular videos were guys getting hit in the jewels and kids messing up weddings. We also did NOT want our wedding video taped... guess what we have...
I was not able to have a kid free wedding because my dear fiance is the youngest of 5 children who were all married with kids and so to exclude their children would have really ticked off my new in laws...so we had the kids there. Steps were taken to insure that the kids did not ruin my wedding and they didn't. a fun time was had by most and there were no tantrums from the bride. ;)
Now we are into the time of life where my husband's older nieces and nephews are getting married. The same kids who all had to be invited to my wedding. After attending two weddings in hubby's hometown we had already decided that when the next one got married that we were probably not going to attend...so when the save the date card arrived with a Fall date on it, we weren't all that concerned. We didn't want to go anyway.
But then came the invitation for the wedding. It was addressed to just hubby & me. The invite and reception said it was "Respectfully an Adult Only Occasion." and the RSVP card had that only 2 seats were reserved for us at the reception. It was very clear that my nearly adult (17 & 1/2 year old) daughter was not invited at all.
And even though I had no intention of going to this wedding...I was really bothered by the fact that the couple had clearly excluded my daughter. (I know, weird right?)
But then I got to thinking...
Perhaps the couple really didn't want any of us at the wedding?
I mean think about it...
Do they really expect for us to a) leave our kid at home alone (I know, loads of people do at her age and that's fine...we choose not to) b) pay to fly the 3 of us out there and leave daughter to do something else while we go to the wedding? Or did they expect us to fly all 3 of us out and then ask for kiddo to babysit her younger cousins?
I don't know. And honestly I am not upset at not going to the wedding. We've done two there and there isn't much of anything else for us to see or do in and around hubby's hometown. And sorry family but the thought of flying anywhere for just one or two days? I don't think so.
I guess this opens the door for when kiddo gets married though and she doesn't want kids there... thanks for making it okay couple... and I really do hope that no one gave you any grief about your kid free wedding. It's your party. I guess I'm just a wee bit jeally cuz I didn't get my kid free wedding. :-/
I came across this article today Is it selfish to have adults only weddings? and that got me thinking about it all again.
I should probably first say that when I got married I wanted an adult only wedding... BUT I DIDN'T GET IT! I was not a fan of children back then (honestly, my kid is the only one I really like...okay some of her friends are really cool...but) so I didn't want them at my wedding, messing anything up. I can also add here that back then America's Funniest Home Videos was in full swing and the most popular videos were guys getting hit in the jewels and kids messing up weddings. We also did NOT want our wedding video taped... guess what we have...
I was not able to have a kid free wedding because my dear fiance is the youngest of 5 children who were all married with kids and so to exclude their children would have really ticked off my new in laws...so we had the kids there. Steps were taken to insure that the kids did not ruin my wedding and they didn't. a fun time was had by most and there were no tantrums from the bride. ;)
Now we are into the time of life where my husband's older nieces and nephews are getting married. The same kids who all had to be invited to my wedding. After attending two weddings in hubby's hometown we had already decided that when the next one got married that we were probably not going to attend...so when the save the date card arrived with a Fall date on it, we weren't all that concerned. We didn't want to go anyway.
But then came the invitation for the wedding. It was addressed to just hubby & me. The invite and reception said it was "Respectfully an Adult Only Occasion." and the RSVP card had that only 2 seats were reserved for us at the reception. It was very clear that my nearly adult (17 & 1/2 year old) daughter was not invited at all.
And even though I had no intention of going to this wedding...I was really bothered by the fact that the couple had clearly excluded my daughter. (I know, weird right?)
But then I got to thinking...
Perhaps the couple really didn't want any of us at the wedding?
I mean think about it...
Do they really expect for us to a) leave our kid at home alone (I know, loads of people do at her age and that's fine...we choose not to) b) pay to fly the 3 of us out there and leave daughter to do something else while we go to the wedding? Or did they expect us to fly all 3 of us out and then ask for kiddo to babysit her younger cousins?
I don't know. And honestly I am not upset at not going to the wedding. We've done two there and there isn't much of anything else for us to see or do in and around hubby's hometown. And sorry family but the thought of flying anywhere for just one or two days? I don't think so.
I guess this opens the door for when kiddo gets married though and she doesn't want kids there... thanks for making it okay couple... and I really do hope that no one gave you any grief about your kid free wedding. It's your party. I guess I'm just a wee bit jeally cuz I didn't get my kid free wedding. :-/
Sunday, October 25, 2015
it's crazy here
starting to wonder when it isn't crazy
So kiddo is in a musical revue...she's been practicing and rehearsing for that...every night on her own and then at least once a week with the group, sometimes more. They opened last night to a decent sized audience and they'll close and strike this evening.
This afternoon she has an audition for her next show. Different theater company. Fingers crossed as getting in here could lead to a lot more things. She's pretty attached to her current company, but the new one could mean payment instead of paying.
There's an audition next week with her current theater company but she is leaning toward not doing that show at all...we'll see how she feels this evening.
and now it is the next day so I have updates on the stuff above and more things to add as always...
the revue is now over. They did very well. I didn't go see it as I've been listening to these songs for the past two months and a wee bit tired of some of them. But overall it was a marvelous show and we're looking forward to the next one.
Unfortunately the audition didn't work out for kiddo. they had about 20 girls or so show up with ages ranging from 11 to 17. and all different looks. But judging from the first cut it seemed they were going for a shorter girl...so certainly looking for a size difference between the older and younger versions of this character...oops I forgot to mention that...kiddo was going for the younger version, the older was already cast. However, the silver lining of this is that a friend of ours who was in the revue also was not cut yet. So we look forward to hearing if she is cast or not. Her mom was telling me that they were asking the girls with lighter hair if they minded coloring their hair for the show...our friend already has darker hair. :D plus for her!
We still don't know if kiddo is going to audition for the other show yet. She was trying to determine if any of her friends were going to be in the show also and of course she can't get anyone to commit to it. ;)
In the mean time she has a different kind of audition coming up in December...this one will be for getting into a musical theater program in college. there is a chance of a scholarship, which would be awesome but it will be interesting to see which schools might be interested in her. A friend of hers ended up in New York! so fingers crossed on that one.
still plugging away on the driver's license. I went out with DH & kiddo last time and she was driving my car for the first time...she did awesome. She still needs to get comfortable with my car, but most of her problems were with DH changing the directions on her. We were both ready to hit him. lol
My garden never really did all that well this year...I think I didn't get started in time and all the rain we had also put a hamper on things...now things are cooling off quickly so today I took several of the plants and put them on the compost pile. I am still hoping for a few more tomatoes but they and the peppers keep splitting so probably not.
Time now to make kiddo's halloween costume and then start making broth out of all the bones in the freezer to make room for our turkey and stuff. I have no idea how much I might get...I should go count my jars first. ;)
I found a sewing job the other day. The gal had wanted to meet on Saturday to discuss the details, but of course I was busy...hopefully we can get together soon so I can knock that one out...super easy sewing job, shouldn't take me more than an hour. and then I'll look for others. or maybe keep an eye out instead.
So kiddo is in a musical revue...she's been practicing and rehearsing for that...every night on her own and then at least once a week with the group, sometimes more. They opened last night to a decent sized audience and they'll close and strike this evening.
This afternoon she has an audition for her next show. Different theater company. Fingers crossed as getting in here could lead to a lot more things. She's pretty attached to her current company, but the new one could mean payment instead of paying.
There's an audition next week with her current theater company but she is leaning toward not doing that show at all...we'll see how she feels this evening.
and now it is the next day so I have updates on the stuff above and more things to add as always...
the revue is now over. They did very well. I didn't go see it as I've been listening to these songs for the past two months and a wee bit tired of some of them. But overall it was a marvelous show and we're looking forward to the next one.
Unfortunately the audition didn't work out for kiddo. they had about 20 girls or so show up with ages ranging from 11 to 17. and all different looks. But judging from the first cut it seemed they were going for a shorter girl...so certainly looking for a size difference between the older and younger versions of this character...oops I forgot to mention that...kiddo was going for the younger version, the older was already cast. However, the silver lining of this is that a friend of ours who was in the revue also was not cut yet. So we look forward to hearing if she is cast or not. Her mom was telling me that they were asking the girls with lighter hair if they minded coloring their hair for the show...our friend already has darker hair. :D plus for her!
We still don't know if kiddo is going to audition for the other show yet. She was trying to determine if any of her friends were going to be in the show also and of course she can't get anyone to commit to it. ;)
In the mean time she has a different kind of audition coming up in December...this one will be for getting into a musical theater program in college. there is a chance of a scholarship, which would be awesome but it will be interesting to see which schools might be interested in her. A friend of hers ended up in New York! so fingers crossed on that one.
still plugging away on the driver's license. I went out with DH & kiddo last time and she was driving my car for the first time...she did awesome. She still needs to get comfortable with my car, but most of her problems were with DH changing the directions on her. We were both ready to hit him. lol
My garden never really did all that well this year...I think I didn't get started in time and all the rain we had also put a hamper on things...now things are cooling off quickly so today I took several of the plants and put them on the compost pile. I am still hoping for a few more tomatoes but they and the peppers keep splitting so probably not.
Time now to make kiddo's halloween costume and then start making broth out of all the bones in the freezer to make room for our turkey and stuff. I have no idea how much I might get...I should go count my jars first. ;)
I found a sewing job the other day. The gal had wanted to meet on Saturday to discuss the details, but of course I was busy...hopefully we can get together soon so I can knock that one out...super easy sewing job, shouldn't take me more than an hour. and then I'll look for others. or maybe keep an eye out instead.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Not that it will help any...
today I posted this to my Facebook http://theadaptivemarketer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Social-Media-Explained.jpg
reason?
someone decided to use Facebook like Twitter to keep me totally up to date on a soccer game. Not to worry, she wasn't the first who felt like I needed to know all about the game... I've had several Facebook "friends" who wanted me to be aware of other sporting events or other things constantly!
ARGH!
While I'm sure that folks on Twitter aren't wanting the play by play either...but really I'm pretty sure that it doesn't go on Facebook.
I had unfriend a family member recently because their FourSquare let me know where she was...all the time! and even though I hid her posts they kept popping back up. and I couldn't block FourSquare because I use it for the discounts...sigh!
Maybe I should just stop social media-ing.... yeah right!
reason?
someone decided to use Facebook like Twitter to keep me totally up to date on a soccer game. Not to worry, she wasn't the first who felt like I needed to know all about the game... I've had several Facebook "friends" who wanted me to be aware of other sporting events or other things constantly!
ARGH!
While I'm sure that folks on Twitter aren't wanting the play by play either...but really I'm pretty sure that it doesn't go on Facebook.
I had unfriend a family member recently because their FourSquare let me know where she was...all the time! and even though I hid her posts they kept popping back up. and I couldn't block FourSquare because I use it for the discounts...sigh!
Maybe I should just stop social media-ing.... yeah right!
Thursday, September 10, 2015
I got me a treadmill!
After lots of searching, I finally found a used treadmill that wasn't falling apart and I could get home easily enough. Turns out it was at our favorite thrift store! I had seen several listed on craigslist but this one the money is going to a great cause.
All we had to do once it was in the house was to realign the belt. And even though hubby nearly blew a gasket that I had got the treadmill and moved it inside by myself, he insisted that he be the one to fix it. It really bothers him how independent I am sometimes.
I've used it several times now...still trying to figure out the controls on it...and even with the manual it is confusing. I'm a bit spoiled with the treadmills at my old gym that "talked" you through it. ah well. Another thing is the book rack/control panel is set too far back. If you get close enough to use them you're bumping your feet into the motor housing. I know it doesn't work so well for the folding (oops, did I remember to fold it back up last night???) but the bar should be over the tread more.
In other news:
Darly did get into the musical review (we knew she would though). She's currently singing 4 songs with a few solos. There are still more solos to be assigned so she's working on that music so she can get a few of them...she really wants one that would be one of her bucket list roles. fingers crossed!
She did NOT get into the "Improv" show that wasn't really improv. The folks casting went with their own people. Which I know happens all the time, but why bother wasting folks time if you're not really going to consider them??? Another thing we learned was that this show was for a fundraiser that was going to be $100 per person to attend (not the cast, but if I wanted to see the show). And then there was all that the part required, in the end it didn't seem to me that the pay was going to make the part worth doing...we're a bit spoiled in that the improv troop that Darly is in charges more per hour than she would have made doing this show. ah well
I submitted Darly's headshot & resume for another role, but we haven't heard anything so I guess that's a no. It would have been nice if they had told us that they got it. sigh
Lots of Halloween gigs coming up, but I'm not sure we can squeeze them in with the musical review. One that came up today had their show running for two weekends including the weekend of the review.
Darly went driving last night. With me she was pretty much totally against driving. She got mad at me for DH asking her to go drive. But apparently that went really well. Parents are hopeful to get her driving here soon.
All we had to do once it was in the house was to realign the belt. And even though hubby nearly blew a gasket that I had got the treadmill and moved it inside by myself, he insisted that he be the one to fix it. It really bothers him how independent I am sometimes.
I've used it several times now...still trying to figure out the controls on it...and even with the manual it is confusing. I'm a bit spoiled with the treadmills at my old gym that "talked" you through it. ah well. Another thing is the book rack/control panel is set too far back. If you get close enough to use them you're bumping your feet into the motor housing. I know it doesn't work so well for the folding (oops, did I remember to fold it back up last night???) but the bar should be over the tread more.
In other news:
Darly did get into the musical review (we knew she would though). She's currently singing 4 songs with a few solos. There are still more solos to be assigned so she's working on that music so she can get a few of them...she really wants one that would be one of her bucket list roles. fingers crossed!
She did NOT get into the "Improv" show that wasn't really improv. The folks casting went with their own people. Which I know happens all the time, but why bother wasting folks time if you're not really going to consider them??? Another thing we learned was that this show was for a fundraiser that was going to be $100 per person to attend (not the cast, but if I wanted to see the show). And then there was all that the part required, in the end it didn't seem to me that the pay was going to make the part worth doing...we're a bit spoiled in that the improv troop that Darly is in charges more per hour than she would have made doing this show. ah well
I submitted Darly's headshot & resume for another role, but we haven't heard anything so I guess that's a no. It would have been nice if they had told us that they got it. sigh
Lots of Halloween gigs coming up, but I'm not sure we can squeeze them in with the musical review. One that came up today had their show running for two weekends including the weekend of the review.
Darly went driving last night. With me she was pretty much totally against driving. She got mad at me for DH asking her to go drive. But apparently that went really well. Parents are hopeful to get her driving here soon.
Monday, September 07, 2015
BIG Sore Loser!
Darly decided to teach DH & I a card game that she plays with her friends. It is called Nerts. You can look it up...it's all over the internet and it's a game that I enjoy.
At first I was winning the game almost exclusively. I play solitaire all the time and the game is solitaire with more people. My winning was upsetting to the other two players though, so making sure that I was following all the rules I found that I could stall my wins to make the game higher points for everyone. Well THAT didn't go over well when DH noticed that I wasn't playing my winning card and ratted me out. So I had to be more sneaky about it...
At this point, DH feels that to keep me from winning that HE has to be in charge of shuffling my deck so that I can't win. And at first I allowed this because he was being rather bratty about it and I assumed that allowing him this simple concession would calm him down and show that I was winning only by skill, not trickery.
um no. It seemed that allowing the shuffling made him worse...even though I wasn't winning the hands anymore. He was STILL being a BRAT about it. He was even winning hands (okay, I was still throwing hands) but that wasn't enough to make him quit.
Sigh! It seems that I will have to give up playing my new favorite game...at least with DH.
I've known since meeting him that all of DH's family plays for blood at games...highly competitive and will play all night in order to be the winner. It's so sad. I usually do not play with any from his family. This makes them complain that I'm just a sore loser... but really I don't care about winning...I just have fun playing the game...but not against any of them. They totally take all the fun out of the game.
At one point Darly gave DH a mini speech about how it was JUST A GAME OF CARDS! It was awesome. I told her that I couldn't be more proud of her.
I'm pretty sure that sore loser totally ignored her! sigh
At first I was winning the game almost exclusively. I play solitaire all the time and the game is solitaire with more people. My winning was upsetting to the other two players though, so making sure that I was following all the rules I found that I could stall my wins to make the game higher points for everyone. Well THAT didn't go over well when DH noticed that I wasn't playing my winning card and ratted me out. So I had to be more sneaky about it...
At this point, DH feels that to keep me from winning that HE has to be in charge of shuffling my deck so that I can't win. And at first I allowed this because he was being rather bratty about it and I assumed that allowing him this simple concession would calm him down and show that I was winning only by skill, not trickery.
um no. It seemed that allowing the shuffling made him worse...even though I wasn't winning the hands anymore. He was STILL being a BRAT about it. He was even winning hands (okay, I was still throwing hands) but that wasn't enough to make him quit.
Sigh! It seems that I will have to give up playing my new favorite game...at least with DH.
I've known since meeting him that all of DH's family plays for blood at games...highly competitive and will play all night in order to be the winner. It's so sad. I usually do not play with any from his family. This makes them complain that I'm just a sore loser... but really I don't care about winning...I just have fun playing the game...but not against any of them. They totally take all the fun out of the game.
At one point Darly gave DH a mini speech about how it was JUST A GAME OF CARDS! It was awesome. I told her that I couldn't be more proud of her.
I'm pretty sure that sore loser totally ignored her! sigh
Friday, September 04, 2015
Dares BEARS.....
in dem dare NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!!!! (translation: there are bears in my neighborhood!)
okay, they found one cub about a mile from my house...but where there are cubs there are momma bears...usually. We still don't know where momma is. Baby was caught and taken to a rehab center where he'll be fattened up and snuck into a hibernation den in a few months to wake up and wonder "whut now?"
Apparently the word is that last winter froze the berry bushes so the bears are hungry. There have been 8 caught closer to the mountains and one in my friend's neighborhood...which is totally odd because she's pretty much in the all human part of town. At least "our bear" could follow the gulch to where he was picked up.
I've always said that "I don't run, unless there's a bear chasing me. So it is a good thing I live where there aren't any bears!" Now it looks like I'm gonna have to move. sigh
well at least I no longer have to worry about meeting a bear on the walking trails... because I bought a treadmill. Unfortunately, the trauma from getting the treadmill into my house has me not using it yet. That and I also have to adjust the belt and that's just effort! :p
In other news: Darly finished up Fiddler on the Roof Aug 16th. Then took a tiny break...
Aug 29th - Audition workshop
Sept 1st - Audition for Broadway Musical Review
Sept 2nd - Audition for "Improv" show (that's in quotes because I don't think that means what they think it means)
Sept 3rd - rehearse for her standing improv show
Sept 4th - work on picking song for Musical Review
Sept 5th - Improv show
WHEW!
The Audition workshop was just as I suspected...a great big LONG ad for acting classes with this group. But for FREE what can you expect? At least we came away with some useful tips.
The musical review audition went well - but today we have to run over for a bit more work on picking a perfect song for Darly...the director wants to match her voice up perfectly.
The "Improv" show...hummm well first they asked folks to prepare a monologue, but never had them do it. Then they provided way too much for the bits...almost an entire script. It was weird. and they seem to think that a 5 hour long performance will be all short form improv. Like I said ...I don't think it means what they think it means.
Improv rehearsal (see we know what improv is!) - I had to leave Darly to go pick up DH at the airport, so I don't know too much of what went on, but they had fun getting ready for the show. BTW: you can't really rehearse improv...you just run a version of the games so you can fit the suggestions into it.
and in a bit we'll be off to go work on that music piece for the Musical Review. Hopefully she didn't fall asleep in the shower!
okay, they found one cub about a mile from my house...but where there are cubs there are momma bears...usually. We still don't know where momma is. Baby was caught and taken to a rehab center where he'll be fattened up and snuck into a hibernation den in a few months to wake up and wonder "whut now?"
Apparently the word is that last winter froze the berry bushes so the bears are hungry. There have been 8 caught closer to the mountains and one in my friend's neighborhood...which is totally odd because she's pretty much in the all human part of town. At least "our bear" could follow the gulch to where he was picked up.
I've always said that "I don't run, unless there's a bear chasing me. So it is a good thing I live where there aren't any bears!" Now it looks like I'm gonna have to move. sigh
well at least I no longer have to worry about meeting a bear on the walking trails... because I bought a treadmill. Unfortunately, the trauma from getting the treadmill into my house has me not using it yet. That and I also have to adjust the belt and that's just effort! :p
In other news: Darly finished up Fiddler on the Roof Aug 16th. Then took a tiny break...
Aug 29th - Audition workshop
Sept 1st - Audition for Broadway Musical Review
Sept 2nd - Audition for "Improv" show (that's in quotes because I don't think that means what they think it means)
Sept 3rd - rehearse for her standing improv show
Sept 4th - work on picking song for Musical Review
Sept 5th - Improv show
WHEW!
The Audition workshop was just as I suspected...a great big LONG ad for acting classes with this group. But for FREE what can you expect? At least we came away with some useful tips.
The musical review audition went well - but today we have to run over for a bit more work on picking a perfect song for Darly...the director wants to match her voice up perfectly.
The "Improv" show...hummm well first they asked folks to prepare a monologue, but never had them do it. Then they provided way too much for the bits...almost an entire script. It was weird. and they seem to think that a 5 hour long performance will be all short form improv. Like I said ...I don't think it means what they think it means.
Improv rehearsal (see we know what improv is!) - I had to leave Darly to go pick up DH at the airport, so I don't know too much of what went on, but they had fun getting ready for the show. BTW: you can't really rehearse improv...you just run a version of the games so you can fit the suggestions into it.
and in a bit we'll be off to go work on that music piece for the Musical Review. Hopefully she didn't fall asleep in the shower!
Monday, August 17, 2015
Show's over...now what?
We finished up Fiddler last night and struck* the theater (*strike - remove everything we brought to the theater and return back to it's original state as much as we can). Darly & I are both so very tired. I woke up two hours ago but now feel as if I could go nap for another 5 hours or so. ergh!
Saturday night I heard from the director of the film that Darly was cast in. He had recast the role of Tony and wanted to shoot Darly's scene today at 9:30, an hour away from where we live. sigh!
We decided to decline the role...let me count the ways...
Auditions for the next musical got pushed back, so we're happy to not have to audition today...as a day of rest is needed. :D
But now I'm looking for our next project. Future shows with the theater company that did Fiddler have not yet been set. Shows with the other big theaters in town aren't all that interesting to us...so we're looking at smaller theaters.
Maybe I should just go nap. ;)
Saturday night I heard from the director of the film that Darly was cast in. He had recast the role of Tony and wanted to shoot Darly's scene today at 9:30, an hour away from where we live. sigh!
We decided to decline the role...let me count the ways...
- Going into this project we knew that the only payment would be if the film made money. So we accepted for just the film credit. (meaning: we only expected for Darly's name to be listed in the film's credits.)
- Darly was cast into a very small role in the film because of her look. The cast is mainly Latino with a very few Anglo parts.
- The script is very short (less than 100 pages) but the writer/director/producer is a film student and is used to writing much shorter so he felt it was very long.
- The story is, well let's just say it isn't something that is going to have the same appeal at the box office as say um *insert movie title that you wished you hadn't paid to see here*
- The project has faced a lot of setbacks. Mostly due to the inexperience of our "fearless leader." I am pretty sure that he STILL has not secured a location for his interiors.
- Originally, filming was going to take place before tech week for Fiddler. Due to setbacks and recasting filming was pushed back several times...including to have a filming day during tech week. Luckily the new Tony couldn't make it as it was going to be difficult for us to film that day.
- The locations that the team has come up with so far all all about an hour away from where we live. (note: no pay)
- Darly got a last minute job a few weeks ago that actually paid, so the desire to have a film credit on her resume isn't as pressing...and that film will actually be seen by people as it was produced for educational use.
- When we went for the read through, that became not a true read through because 1. only part of the cast could be there and 2. our "fearless leader" decided to turn it into a teaching moment to share his newly gained education with the cast...who were all more experienced than he was. :-/
- While some of the cast members had more film experience, it seemed from the reading that was able to happen that Darly was the best trained actor there. The director loved everything that she did and was trying to figure out how to expand Darly's role.
Auditions for the next musical got pushed back, so we're happy to not have to audition today...as a day of rest is needed. :D
But now I'm looking for our next project. Future shows with the theater company that did Fiddler have not yet been set. Shows with the other big theaters in town aren't all that interesting to us...so we're looking at smaller theaters.
Maybe I should just go nap. ;)
Friday, August 07, 2015
Busy Acting Summer - Funny how that works out
You may remember a while back we were having fun with what to audition for. And then how Darly got into Fiddler on the Roof discount code 18TOLIFE if you would like to come and see it!
For the most part we've been in the grove of going to rehearsals and learning the part. They decided to just rent the costumes for this show because this show is different from anything this theater group has done before and they have limited storage space for costumes...so I haven't been working on costumes. Instead I'll be working back stage for this show, moving sets between scenes.
This theater company does their rehearsals on different days, so it has meant less time with hubby and our dog. We've been eating out a lot more. However, since I haven't been actively working on anything during the rehearsals, I've been walking with one of the other moms...hopefully that will cancel out all the extra calories?
While all this has been going on, I've been keeping an eye out for other opportunities for Darly and found a film for her to try for. She got in and has a small part that will hopefully start filming this weekend (they've had a few set backs). I am kinda hoping that he ends up pushing production to the week of the 17th now because this was originally supposed to get filmed this week and now is running into tech week for Fiddler.
Then while at rehearsal on Tuesday, Darly got an offer to do another film...on Thursday! The gal who told us about it was originally asked Tuesday for her daughters to be in it, but they were already busy. So yesterday Darly and her friend spent the day at a high school pretending to be high school students...in the background.
Darly has mixed feelings about doing film work. While it is quick with filming only taking a few days, it is rather tedious because you have to repeat the same scene over and over so filming can happen from different angles. I'm sure this one she is about to film will be worse as it is a very small production crew. But after yesterday she says that she isn't opposed to doing more film work, but she would rather stick with theater.
Once Fiddler strikes (is over and all the properties returned) Darly will be auditioning for another play. We've been told that she's guaranteed a part, we just have to hope it's the one she really wants. I am also hopeful that the rehearsal schedule changes to something that works out better for our family.
For the most part we've been in the grove of going to rehearsals and learning the part. They decided to just rent the costumes for this show because this show is different from anything this theater group has done before and they have limited storage space for costumes...so I haven't been working on costumes. Instead I'll be working back stage for this show, moving sets between scenes.
This theater company does their rehearsals on different days, so it has meant less time with hubby and our dog. We've been eating out a lot more. However, since I haven't been actively working on anything during the rehearsals, I've been walking with one of the other moms...hopefully that will cancel out all the extra calories?
While all this has been going on, I've been keeping an eye out for other opportunities for Darly and found a film for her to try for. She got in and has a small part that will hopefully start filming this weekend (they've had a few set backs). I am kinda hoping that he ends up pushing production to the week of the 17th now because this was originally supposed to get filmed this week and now is running into tech week for Fiddler.
Then while at rehearsal on Tuesday, Darly got an offer to do another film...on Thursday! The gal who told us about it was originally asked Tuesday for her daughters to be in it, but they were already busy. So yesterday Darly and her friend spent the day at a high school pretending to be high school students...in the background.
Darly has mixed feelings about doing film work. While it is quick with filming only taking a few days, it is rather tedious because you have to repeat the same scene over and over so filming can happen from different angles. I'm sure this one she is about to film will be worse as it is a very small production crew. But after yesterday she says that she isn't opposed to doing more film work, but she would rather stick with theater.
Once Fiddler strikes (is over and all the properties returned) Darly will be auditioning for another play. We've been told that she's guaranteed a part, we just have to hope it's the one she really wants. I am also hopeful that the rehearsal schedule changes to something that works out better for our family.
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