12x6

January 22, 2010 - $5.00

• Heather Whitpan presents work on the play I<3 Hummels
• Alex Vaughn returns to present Thick As...The City Pulse.
"A short narrative dance piece about a girl who leads a secret fantasy life to excape her own"
• Sara Barker and Heather Haney present Mary Stuart.
"A drama about England's Queen Elizabeth versus Mary Queen of Scots"

I'm really too tired to do anything else so I'll post an update to the three people who actually read this.  Sigh.

Dennis has been awful lately.  At least with me.  He's getting demanding and he yells at me.  He wakes me up in the middle of the night, demands milk, crawls in my bed and practically sleeps on top of me.  Needless to say I am not getting much sleep.  I talked to his father and decided that I need to institute more rules at Mommy House.  Things need to be seen more as a privilege than a right.   I'm starting with video games, which he is a huge fan of.  All walks, Play Station, Wii, Computer, Leapster.  I am instituting a 60 minute a day rule, with a chart and he will lose minutes for bad behavior.  I'm debating if he can gain minutes for exceedingly good behavior also...  we'll see.   Any advice from the parents out there?  I'm not a strong disciplinarian.  

Other than that things are great.  My job is going swimmingly.  I am making a little more money in 2010 and am still in great spirits about it, love the office, love the people and love the work.  I do worry about longevity here though.  Sometimes I get a strong feeling that my boss wants to drop it all and move to North Carolina.  That feeling comes from the fact that my boss tells me that all the time.  :-(  Here's hoping he gives me a shit ton of notice should he decide to that.  We did just start a 401(k) plan, so I'm guessing I've got some good time.

I've been thinking a lot about future Heather though.  What the heck does she want to do?  I know I DON'T want to be an office manager forever.  I'm good at it and I make decent money, but I want to be in a field where I will be growing.   I suspect this will mean going back to school at some point.  But first I need to figure out why.

Jon and I are moving on towards the two year mark.  Things are great.  We are going to Vegas to celebrate.  I haven't been since 2004 when I was pregnant.  Not a great time to be at Vegas.  Plus I didn't gamble.  I plan to really enjoy it this time. 

Jon's talking about buying a house and we are looking together.  I'm really excited.  It's also a little scary!

I'm costuming for Molotav theater's next two shows, which is super fun.  Helping out with some lyrics for a musical, which is hella harder than I ever imagined.  LiveArt is going well, mostly.  We have a reading next friday for Artists Bloc.  I'd like to see a lot of folks there to give some imput.

12x6

	Date: January 21-23, 2010	Time: 8:00pm
	Location: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Melton Rehearsal Hall Location: 641 D Street NW Location: Washington, DC 20004

January 22, 2010 - $5.00

• Heather Whitpan presents work on the play I<3 Hummels
• Alex Vaughn returns to present Thick As...The City Pulse.
"A short narrative dance piece about a girl who leads a secret fantasy life to excape her own"
• Sara Barker and Heather Haney present Mary Stuart.
"A drama about England's Queen Elizabeth versus Mary Queen of Scots"

Another one for gwenergy and madhatternalice I'm not sure I'm hip to the new bacon craze? Bacon Chocolate, and now this? Bacon Coffee? Really? Eek.

http://www.bocajava.com/showProductDetail.do?productId=5370&catalogId=1

I realize I'm a lazy asshole and I never post anymore, I just can't imagine anyone is really that interested in the daily monotony of my life and I really feel like I have nothing creative or interesting to say...

So instead, and mostly for gwenergy and madhatternalice , I bring you this weirdness....

I still don't know if that would make me eat it.

visited 12 states (24%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

I have to say I think this is a little pathetic. I'm adding Vermont to the list next week. But I think it's time I do a little exploring of the states 'eh?

I also think I may have driven through West Virginia on my way home from Tennessee or through Connecticut on my way to and from Massachusetts, but I really don't remember either, so I'm not counting them...

I was going to post his inrosered's comments as a response to her "30 days of things you don't know about me", which was referencing a scar... but it's actually an interesting story and I haven't posted in a millenia so here goes...

I have a moon shaped scar on my knee. When I was about 5 or 6, I convinced my little sister that we NEEDED the Flintstones vitamins in the middle of the night.  I was apparently very good at convincing her that we needed to do strange things, like the time we painted the bathroom with nail polish.  So we head into the dark kitchen and I  know the vitamins are in the high cabinet, so I climb on top of my sisters shoulders I believe, or something like that, in order to reach them.  Of course I fall, but not until after accessing said vitamins which I also, of course, drop.  it's the early eighties so the bottle is glass, it shatters on the linoleum and I fall on the glass, with a big shard in my knee.  I apparently went to the hospital to get stitched up and sometime later, when I was all healed up, my grandmother removed them.  This is before these new-fangled dissolving stitches they use today.

So why is this story interesting?  Because it's not what I remember AT ALL.  I have a very clear and vivid memory of dancing around a bonfire with my sister and falling on a rock.  I also have no memory of going to the hospital and have a vivid memory of my Grandmother stitching me up.  

So why is that interesting?  Because I have virtually NO memories of my childhood before say age 9?  And the most vivid memory I have is one I made up.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-Barry LePatner

www.asofterworld.comI really really want Chop'd Why is there no Chop'd in Rockville.  :-(


Day 12

silly things.  Goofy Little distractions from my otherwise mundane day... here are today's funnies:



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There are tons more where those came from...
I'm obsessed with some web comics.  Garfield Minus Garfield, A Softer World, XKCD, SomeeCards, Toothpaste for Dinner, Married to the Sea, Natalie Dee, Secret Vespers, Explosm

There are a gazillion more, but I check these regularly!

Before I get to the thing I <3 I have to share a "Thing I don't get" in honor of tompurdue

"Fashionably Late".  I don't get it.  What is fashionable about being late?  If I was late for work it wouldn't be fashionable, it'd be grounds for termination.  If I was late for a doctors appointment, they'd cancel me and likely charge a fee.  So why are people late for parties and gatherings without proper communication?  I'm of the opinion that a person announces the party time as the time they want to start the party.  I just don't get it.   Whatever, it's not a big deal or anything.  And sure, sometimes as the host it gives you some extra time to set up, blah blah blah... I just don't get it.

now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Day 11
Orange.  The color.  It's not my favorite color in the way that some people claim "blue" or "red" in a blazie way.  No.  I really really love the color orange.  And anyone who gets to know me would figure it out right quick.  I own more orange clothing and accessories than most people and tend to decorate with the color a lot too.  I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes... it's beyond me.  Anyway... so madhatternalice has this lamp that I put in the living room.  It looks like anal beads.  I'm not lying.  I'm not even eggagerating.  But it's also kinda awesome... anyway, so I was looking for a lampshade for it and found this, which I fall instantly in love with, then I find this... the whole while I am sharing this information via gchat with Jon.  He answers:

I laughed so hard I had tears streaming from my face.   But it's true.  I mother-fucking LOVE orange.

I've been informed that even if I chose to do them non consecutively, I still need to do thirty days, so this is officially:

Day 10

I work in Guardianships, specifically the Guardianship of Property for incapacitated adults.  It's SUPER interesting, and I think I'm good at it.  I hope I am.  I really don't know how I fell into this line of work.  It's kinda surreal.  Anyway... I get to do some neat things sometimes.  I draft a lot of pleadings and manage the finances, but sometimes I get to go to hearings and meet with the Wards (the incapacitated adult).  I have one guy who really really really likes the company of attractive young women.  Cough cough.  There is a young lady who visits him regularly whom he gifts money to.  He's adorable.  And frankly I don't fault him.  Hell, I admire him!  He's 85 and he's having a good time.  Good for him.  This afternoon I went to visit the home of another Ward.  Oh my god I love this woman!  She has never worked a day in her life, so there is NO money.  Medicaid here we come.  This woman was GORGEOUS.  I believe she may have been a high priced escort or something.  She had no income per the IRS... so.... use your imagination.  Anyway, so we are combing the place looking for bills and assets when I open a box by the bed.  Inside I find this 87 year old woman's vibrator.  Oh.My.God.  Simultaneously amazing and disgusting.  I also found a stash of playboy/playgirl magazines from the 70's and 80's.  AWESOME.  I really think I would have loved this woman had I known her before she fell prey to dementia.  What a hoot!  Yeah.  It's a neat job sometimes.  And I've learned SO MUCH about this stuff.