Light, Life, Love

I love sweets. James and I started taking a bootcamp class at the gym with a goal for him to continue weight loss and me to start some weight loss. We have really worked hard in the last year or so to eat healthier and exercise more. My weakness is sweets which I can thank my mom for. I grew up eating ice cream every night for dessert. Dessert is my favorite meal of the day. Chocolate makes me feel better and helps me destress. With this new attempt to lose weight I have put a limit on myself with the help of James to have one serving of sweets a day. No more cookies or chocolate in the middle of the day randomly. It is amazingly hard. We have girl scout cookies, caramels, and lace cookies in the house right now. I can't stop thinking about them. James put them above eye level to help with the desire. When I got home today from the gym all I wanted was a caramel and James played the good husbandly work out partner to remind me that if I had a caramel that would be my ...

I have been out of theater on a regular basis for too long. I have lost my virtue of being a patient person. At Zoellner Arts Center we were a machine, typically on schedule or ahead of schedule, typically not wasting our own precious time, (sometimes other people wasted our time), typically doing a great job the first time around. I remember in the theater department student designers spending hours and hours tweaking and changing things but that was never me. I run on time or early for everything (sometimes a little late with non important things because of a little munchkin named Talyah) but if it is just me I am always ready. I am in tech right now for a show in Portland called Slap That Bitch and I am trying to remind myself that theater is a collaborative art and not everyone runs on time like me. I am not saying that it is a bad thing, its just a thing that I have to get over. I had my plot in on time, hung in 5 hours, focused in 6, cued in an hour and now we are in t...