The last two nights my men and I have been out on the town hanging out with friends. From helping long term friends decide if a new house is right for them to navigating the insane PRIDE crowds with budding new friendships it's been just the social jolt we've all been needing. Today we take a little drive to see Vienna Teng in concert which should be a nice way to spend the day.
| June 29, 2008 09:49am | 
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Screaming Damon photo by Mike Eccles, remaining photos and layering by non-screaming Damon
| June 20, 2008 11:16pm | 
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Saturday night I saw Wonderboy by the Joe Goode Performance Group. This modern dance company is known for mixing artistic disciplines in unexpected ways to brilliant effect. Even so, I was skeptical about seeing a dance performance that involved a puppet. Joe Goode didn't let me down as the lone puppet, Wonderboy, captivated my attention with his deeply personal journey. Through puppetry, dance, singing, powerful monologues and an amazing original score the performance touched me in ways that still resonate strongly. The extremely well done puppetry (accomplished through collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist) and amazing dance moves all supported the intense awe, fear and excitement of this overly sensitive puppet who bravely decides to become a part the scary world outside his window. The score was also powerfully emotive and stands alone and some brilliant work by Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Boss.
I find this kind of artistic collaboration so inspiring. Now if only I could find a puppet, dancer, lighting designer, costume designer and touring company to work with...
| June 19, 2008 01:08pm | 
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Michael, Mike and I helped throw a birthday party for our 6 year old friend on Saturday complete with clues, mysteries, scavenger hunt, treasures, art project, pizza, cake, ice cream and eight 6-year-old girls battling over who gets to play with the new presents first. The treasure (buried in the sand box at the nearby school) was eight gold masks. These masks, once decorated, transformed the girls into princesses of magical kingdoms like "Pony Pasture" and "Flowertopia." In spite of many kingdoms to choose from each and every girl decided to be princesses of "Kitten Land" and decorated their masks accordingly. We've received reports that days after the party Kitten Land is still enjoying it's many new princesses.
| June 16, 2008 10:46am |
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So I've not been great about keeping my gym routine lately and when I have made to the gym my workouts have been abbreviated because I was "just not feeling it today." Add to that being pretty free-loving with my diet and you get 10 extra pounds that put a strain on my waistband. So I'm officially back on a regular workout schedule. I'm also officially removing gummy bears, ice cream, vanilla wafers and italian sodas from my "daily recommended" list. It is summer afterall and it'd be nice to not have use a shoe horn to get into my swimsuit.
| June 11, 2008 11:40pm |
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Michael's mom turns 70 today. Last weekend we crammed a party into two cars and drove 3.5 hours north to her new home in Point Arena to unleash this party on 50 guests. We had fabulous drinks, catering, musicians in a live jam session and all around a great party. Add to that meeting and spending time with members of Michael's family from around the country and it made for a very full weekend. Fortunately the family wasn't nearly as crazy as you fear in-laws might be. I had a great time with them. I was worried they'd see me as the bastard third arm that's grown onto a relationship they already knew and loved. Instead they were very loving and wonderful toward me.
All that party throwing, nervousness about being accepted and non-stop family time has left me exhausted and far too emotionally fragile for my own good. It might take a few days before I feel like a real person again.
| June 10, 2008 11:39am |
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