My own Becoming Austen

Heidi did a Jane Austen quiz and I decided to take it myself. It turned out I would be Marianne Dashwood. Here is the description:
You are Marianne Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are impulsive, romantic, impatient, and perhaps a bit too brutally honest. You enjoy romantic poetry and novels, and play the pianoforte beautifully. To boot, your singing voice is captivating. You feel deeply, and love passionately.
What do you know?

SPRING AHEAD!

Wow - I got to go to LA this weekend and be with all my kids AND be with the SUN!! It was so nice to walk around and not have to have a gillion layers on. Saw Whit with his Improv group, The Universe, and that was way fun. Got to play my favorite game, PIT! Grant agreed to play and he had fun - of course. Was so great to stay one night at Whit and Heidi's (fun lunch in Hollywood) and with Chelsea and Grant (got to see Chels in action as the Professor as she is subbing for one of her professors for two weeks.) Also went on tour at Claremont College and ate in a cafeteria that resembles Hogwarts! Yes! It was fast and I lost my glasses somewhere (they were scratched anyhow). Now I have to buckle down and get ready for "On Golden Pond" - only 2 1/2 weeks to go! Ahhh! The only good thing about coming back is Eric didn't go down with me - Mistake!! I am waiting for this stupid white stuff called snow to get outta town!

BACK TO THE FOOTLIGHTS

So my good friend, Dennis Purdie, called me a month ago and asked, or encouraged, or maybe even slightly pleaded with me to come audition for "On Golden Pond" for the role of Ethel opposite his Norman. I knocked it around in my head for a few days because 1)did I really want to give up all my evenings to rehearsal, 2) did I think I could play 69 and 3) how rusty am I really! Short story - I decided to force myself to do it. It's only the Pleasant Grove Players operating in a small theatre in the library building but I am glad I did it and I'm actually having a great experience. Dennis and I go way back to the days of "Harvey" so it's really comfortable and amazingly enough I am actually coming along with my lines - which Ethel has Tons! That never used to be an issue, but it has become one in this chapter of livin' So now I am trying to discover how I want to create Ethel's physical look. Saw Meryl, my idol, in "Evening" the other night and I think I have a base to work from now!! Maybe I have re-discovered I still have some greasepaint in my veins and not just Mountain Dew!!

Recap on Christmas

Christmas 2007 was great!!! Actually, let's just say the holiday season because at Thanksgiving we had all the kids and Mom and Dad with us for turkey day. Chelsea and Grant went to Oklahoma for Christmas, but we got to see them on the way back from OK when they had a layover. Also at Thanksgiving we enjoyed movies, food, laughter and seeing Brighton in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (at which she was stupendous)! Whit was involved in filming one of his new videos for his site "The Attack" and couldn't find a courthouse in LA. Solved the problem up here and on Friday we filmed the courthouse scene with Eric as the Judge, Brighton in the jury box, Grant as cinematographer, me as Court Reporter and Whit as his new character, "R. Stiltskin, Attorney-At-Law" which should be online in a week. What I like most about Christmas is the 3 weeks before with the music, cards, shopping, parties and the whole shebang. Actually, Christmas Day is sad for me cause everything gets opened and then it's clean up time. This year I was excited to give Eric his U.S. Open-Golf trip but he topped me by giving me a trip to London!!!! If you don't know I LOVE LONDON and pretty much everything British. We are going to May and I am sooooo excited!!!

Christmas card

This year's Christmas card was my favorite. Here's the fam - at Jackson Hole this summer