I'm house managing tonight which sucks because A. It's the longest of the 4 shows AND there is a talk back and B. I am going to have to watch the late episode of Project Runway. I'm also going to be totally alone in this lobby for the better part of 2.5 hours.
My throat is starting to feel swelly. I hope I'm not getting sick. It wouldn't really matter if I was but no one WANTS to be sick. My body hurt all last night for no reason but I attributed that to paper-cutting fatigue (which is what I did ALL DAY at work yesterday, making invitations to the Halloween party). I have been doing a lot of physical work today.... so much so that I didn't sit down until I had been here for over an hour and a half and then I forgot to print the will call until 10 minutes before the lobby re-opened.
On Monday Chris and I went to Charlottesville to go to the Halloween store. It was great. I twittered about this but I did a search for Halloween stores in Virginia and there are only 15. In Ohio there are over 60! That's ridiculous. There's also about 7 times the amount of Haunted Houses in Ohio. Why does Viriginia HATE FUN? I'll tell you what Virginia does not hate... potato donuts. We finally made it to Spudnut in time (they close at 2pm) and got to try a potato flour donut. Man are they good. And it was only $1.80 for two. PLUS... you know... I'm sure there's more of a nutritional value because it's made from a POTATO. Yes... that's how I justified it to myself.
I got to sing for the old folks again today in a workshop (PS- "old" is not someone is his mid-30s as a certain anonymous jackass commentor likes to think. "Old" is 70-80.). I like singing. I especially like singing Johnston's version of the "lullaby" from Midsummer. We sound GREAT and that song is awesome. I was so proud of myself for coming up with my harmonies on the spot because they are... very contemporary and complex. I am really good at coming up with contemporary melody lines, though. If I could use someone else's words and someone else's chord progressions I could be a killer melody-line song writer. I don't think that job exists, though. I think too many people can already do all three a lot better.
Sometimes I think about writing a book about how much working at the OG sucked. I mean, yeah, most jobs suck... but that job REALLY sucked. Especially when I moved back to Ohio. In California I didn't get tipped more than 15% but at least I wasn't completely freaked out by all the customers AND my coworkers. I was like the only person who worked there who wasn't drunk and on drugs all the time. I still really like that restaurant, though. If there was one closer than Roanoke I might actually go once in a while. I haven't been to the OG since Duluth in March!
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Hi Alisa! Did you change the blog colors in honor of Halloween? I love Halloween! I know you do, too. ;)
Anyway, I would like to know your opinion on the Duggar family. They are so fascinating to watch. Please tell me you have heard of them and their baby-making ways? They are a family with 18 natural-born children on TLC. They have had several tv specials and now have a series. Something about them is just so wrong. So, since I do value your opinion, and if you are taking requests for blog topics, what do you think of these people??!!! I would also accept Jon & Kate Plus 8 as an entry.
I HATE the Dugger family!!! I refuse to watch that show. In fact, the first thing I did this morning when I got online (before I even saw this comment) was to go to TLC.com and try to find a comment section so I could say, "Please take this show off the air. Jon and Kate are one thing but 18 kids by CHOICE?? Irresponsible!" (they took that horrible show about Ashley Brown off the air. They can take this one off too.) They're just not using any form of birth control because they are CRAZY. They're one of those families that say they'll have as many kids as God wants them to have. I bet they'll have more and more kids until she goes through menopause and that is just disgusting. THIS is another great example of why abstinence-only education does not work: once you get married, then what?? 25 kids??
Now, "Jon and Kate Plus 8" is completely different. Jon and Kate did not WANT to have 8 children, they weren't trying (and I am SURE they are using birth control of some kind now). They couldn't get pregnant on their own so she used fertility drugs. They say right on the opening of that show that they were trying to have just one more child after the twins. Every time Kate talks about the day they found out they were having sextuplets she says her reaction (or Jon's reaction) was "as anyone's would have been in that situation. [He] nearly fell down dead." I think it was risky that they kept all of them but I mean, they stood by what they believed in and it worked out fine. I actually love "Jon and Kate Plus 8." They basically do the show so that Kate doesn't have to work and can stay home with them. The only reason they can afford to do ANYTHING is because people give them things and people pay for them to speak at events. Kate has also taught me that it is normal to punish your children when they're bad and that it doesn't make you mean or a bad parent or anything.
So, in conclusion, "Jon and Kate Plus 8" is great. "17 and counting, the Dugger family is a bunch of maniacs who won't use birth control even though they're married" or whatever it's called is just... gross.
Thanks for asking. :)
Alisa, I totally agree with you. I watched something like that once with my parents and I think I offended them with all my huffing about how irresponsible it was.
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