omaha #2

i'm so ready to leave this city. this week we had a 'lay off' so in an attempt to spend as little money as possible (and bore myself to death) i've spent the majority of this week hanging around my house working on my cross stitch, watching a variety of things online and listening to the hunger games on my iphone.
I have re-affirmed my love for the office. I have also disappointed myself as I continue to watch pretty little liars against my better judgement ( i just need to know what happens! I need to see things all the way through otherwise it actually bugs me more then i'd care to admit. this fact is one of the reasons I steer clear of horror/gore movies; my first instinct is always to close my eyes, but when i inevitably do my brain pounces on the possibilities like a hungry animal and generally my brain is way better at coming up with scary shit then most directors- so i pretty much don't watch things that scare me)
The things worth watching (besides the office) that I watched were 2 documentaries, one called "Tapped"

It was really good. Really interesting and added to my resolution to be plastic water bottle free for the whole of 2011. If you're one of those people that buy bottled water (1 you're an idiot) and (2) you should definitely watch this. I really disliked plastic water bottles before, but now my hatred has grown substantially. And i know I'm a big ass hippie who believes in things like recycling and all that other hippie nonsense, but really I think even the biggest skeptic and uptight anti-hippie could find truth in what they say here. I guess if you don't believe in things like making sure our oceans don't die out or that certain chemicals are carcinogens then maybe i stand corrected. but in all honesty. WATCH THIS MOVIE.

the second documentary I watched is a little more up the "yeah right hippie nonsense grumble grumble conspiracy theorist liberal propaganda grumble grumble" road. It's called "Collapse" It's pretty much a long ass interview with this guy Michael Ruppert and it deals with the concept of peak oil. It kind of depressed me because I feel kind of at a loss as to what to do in order to prevent our world from just plain old going to shit. I wish I had an interest in being a politician or a spokesperson or someone who can really make some change- but I'm bad at that sort of thing. I just with people with money and power would wake up and realize that being alive involves more then themselves and think about the health and welfare of the people and planet around them instead of pursuing self- serving interests. It also tied into some of the things mentioned in "Tapped". It doesn't help that I've been listening to "The Hunger Games" trilogy that describes an America that I think could be a reality (which i'm finding difficult to describe here for some reason, but the books are really really really good and I highly recommend them)

so. long story short, I'm excited to finally be getting out on the road. I'm nervous, but I'm sure it will be great. so far it seems that there is a gym at every hotel at least for the first week- so that's a nice thing. hopefully it isn't too crowded with the other people on my tour all the time. Who knows. maybe i'll become a morning work out sort of a person (yeah freaking right - i wish)

Now that i've effectively procrastinated a little bit more of compiling an address list (ie my job) I hope you enjoyed this little rant of a post and I should go do work now.

omaha

So. one of my new years resolutions is to write more, and I think that includes this blog. I want to blog more. whatever that means. I'm also hoping to resume my 365 day picture project (i've kind of already started) so yeah. My iphone makes the picture project easier, also because I love the way things look in the hipstamatic app. I'm such a hipster faker, but I'm ok with it. I like the way the pictures come out. I can't believe the quality either, it's crazy.

I am currently working at The Rose Theater Omaha, Nebraska. I'm working on a production called "There's An Alligator Under My Bed" Based on books by Mercer Mayer. You may have read it as a child (or a teacher) . We are currently in rehearsals and they are going really well. We go into tech next week.

I've also been taking Bikram Yoga classes while stationed here in Omaha. It's been really nice. Hot hot hot yoga done (theoretically) in the same way no matter where you are or what studio you go to. It's a yoga style that was designed to cleanse the modern person. It's a little choppy in terms of the flow of the poses, but man is it challenging. The studio we're going to is great. I really enjoy the teachers and how welcome they've made me and my co-worker feel. I've had a negative experience with Bikram in the past. I'm not very flexible, so the last time I went (different city, different studio) the teacher just discounted me as a participant, which is totally unfair. Yoga is about doing the best for yourself, not being the best; at least in my opinion.

Well. That's my first tour update. Hopefully more to come. Today our director is doing what he calls 'drama club' - where he brings in drinks and food for the whole cast from starbucks. Seeing as I gave up coffee when I came to Omaha, I have been desperate for that aromatic goodness for 2 weeks. Don't worry I got decaf, but you have no idea how excited I am for a pumpkin spice latte and even a scone! I feel very spoiled.

Hope you are all well.

k im a whore. i don't update enough. i've been taking pictures almost every day. but not putting them up here. i've been a little apprehensive about caring because of how quickly my computer died last month. but i bought a 1tb hard drive ( to supplement my full 250 external and my comp itself) so hopefully that will help and i'll clear most of my computer and all of my stuff will be all nice and backed up.

i leave seattle in a week. i'm glad to be leaving- because I'm really excited about camp- and the current weather isn't making it any harder- but i'm still bummed. I don't really know what to think of my time here yet. A lot of emotional stuff surfaced while I was here and in a way that's good and in another I think i need to tend to those things more, which is tiring and daunting. i like seattle as a city alot, but if i moved back here i would do things very differently. I love saving the environment by using public transit all the time and all but I think i need a vehicle- especially if i move back to seattle. (unless i worked closer to home, but even then, a vehicle of some sort would be nice). so yeah. leaving seattle also means that im even closer to having no idea what i'm doing with my life. also daunting.

a week from today I will be getting on an amtrak train and cruise along the top of the us all the way to the other coast. crazy. then I'm spending a week getting rid of all of my stuff then I go to camp for the summer. I am very excited. between leaving and today I'm also going to get to see a good friend from college and hopefully hang out with my friends here. we will see.

so here's some of my favorite pictures from the last few weeks or so. i hope you enjoy them.

mount rainier. from the water.

bo climbing a tree on our trip to blake island

every time we go to the park clover likes to put here hand on these little hands that have been mounted on the wall at the far edge of the playground.

ki swear i think i saw the sun maybe 50 times living here. the other day was one of them. we all sat outside and did stuff. angel joined.

self portrait in shadow at the bus stop. laden with bags as per usual.

angel wearing her shades.

k. that's it for now.

picture-less update.

ok. so small update. i've been pretty good about taking pictures every day, though my computer keeps crashing. I brought my computer in april 2nd and by april 20th it had shit our again. ( i swear I have magnetic energy that keeps destroying my hard drives) so i've been annoyed about the fact that my pictures keep disappearing (partially bc who would think that you need to back up 18 days worth of stuff on a brand new hard drive?). so I had all of these great pictures of this awesome trip to the tacoma zoo with rachael and matt but no dice. grrr...

things are well here in seattle. it's still not warm out. it hasn't breached 70 degrees and to be honest I'm going to be sad if I leave seattle before I get to go outside without some kind of warm item on. at least the flowers are blooming. and while I shouldn't really be complaining bc of the snow in new england, but really. how has it gotten to almost 90 degrees in vermont and it's still 55 here every day. sad times.

I have a little under 30 days here before I go back to mass then up to maine for camp. It's weird how the time went. I can't believe how close it is. I'm glad to be leaving, but I'm also sad. I've been a hot mess while living here, so I hope it'll be good for me to leave, but I do really like this city and I am going to miss bo and everyone else (and the dogs!) and the baby. oh dear i will miss that baby. if i come back to seattle it will be very different. first off i would need a job that pays all of my bills. that would be nice. even two jobs that would pay all of my bills. sometimes I wonder why I work because I would make more money on unemployment and then I could afford all of my bills. sad days we live in people. I could see myself coming back here it's just hard being so far away from everyone I know in a city where everyone else has someone or a group of someone's. I haven't encountered the "seattle freeze" that is supposedly famous, people are really friendly with me wherever I go but I haven't really made any friends except rachael. if wasn't stuck in the dish pit all day i might know my cafe co workers better, but it's hard when im stuck in the corner. surrounded by a sea of dishes. oh well. it was a good stint here. no regrets.

I'm looking forward to camp this summer. it's going to freaking kick some serious ass!

so expect pictures soon!

so i have been having a really tough week since friday. i did something to my back and i have been having back spasms and I am in a lot of pain. so. not so many pictures this week. i haven't been doing one of my pt jobs bc it hurts too much to be on my feet for more then a few minutes at a time and I don't want to strain myself. I have no idea what to do except wait it out and if it's still a problem on monday i'll go to a doctor.

catch up minus my bday.

4/4 bomo and angel.

4/4 yummm... vegan biscuits and gravy, oranges and a mimosa for breakfast on easter with bomo. so good.

4/1

3/31. this s one of my favorite pictures i've taken.

3/30

3/29

3/27

3/26 clover has this new thing where she always wears her families shoes and walks around. super cute

3/25

3/25

the beginning of catching up.

so theyre in backwards order, but this is a flower i really loved so i decided to take a series of pictures of it. woot

3/30

3/29

3/26

3/25 this flower is so pretty. i saw it on my walk to babysitting one day and decided to take a pic of it every day. so that's this post!