A Sea of Randomness
I'd post an official Review for Week 4, but I'm afraid nothing in particular stood out. It was an excellent weekend overall, but no noticeable Highs or Lows worth trying to recall. But here are some random thoughts I've had as we prepare for the halfway point of the season:
On Dialing It Back: Not as traumatic as I feared it might be, but I was slightly disappointed that The Demise of Foster couldn't be performed for the masses anymore. We watched our volume and content around children, but we really didn't change much in terms of our act. The audience for Week 4 didn't seem as conservative as the audience in Week 3, although I did have one of those, "Oh s***, we've transgressed the envelope again!" moments when we started to sing a song I thought was relatively clean and harmless - until I caught the look on the face of a mother with her two young daughters. Oops! Chalk it up to a learning experience, I guess. I've had some time to re-evaluate our material and I think I've come up with some fun stuff that won't have us sailing into the Blue, as it were. I still think we're pretty clean considering the nature of our characters. I'm going to assume that unless I get another note, we're OK to proceed as we did last weekend.
On Having the Week Off: Part of me feels really guilty about not getting more done, and part of me has been too tired to care. Of course, I don't get paid for not going in to work this week, but the whole place has been crawling with kids for Vacation Bible School all week long, and none of the office staff goes in during VBS because you can't get anything done with that much chaos going on. At least I'm feeling a little more rested, although my mind keeps swimming with ideas; I just can't seem to turn it off. Alas, such is life when you're ADD. I finally went back to the gym, though. I was so tired last week, the very thought of working out made me feel utterly exhausted. No doubt I'll have plenty to keep me busy when I go back next week, but for now, I'm enjoying my absence wholeheartedly. I SO need a new job!
On My Serger: That d*#% machine is driving me nuts! Unless I can find a class somewhere to teach me how to adjust it properly, I'm going to get rid of it! Using it when it's been properly set up and adjusted is a dream. Unfortunately, I seem to be utterly incapable of changing anything on the machine without f#$%ing the whole thing up! The manual is completely useless and the old trial-and-error method leaves me screaming at the machine in a mess of tangled threads and ruined sewing projects. If I can't figure out how to use it without someone sitting next to me to fix things at every turn, then clearly it's not a machine I need in the house taking up air and space. I feel bad that my parents spent so much money on it (it was a Christmas/birthday present a few years back) since it spends most of its time sitting in the case because I can't get it to work properly. I don't think I'd have too hard a time unloading it, but I'm going to give it one last chance before I ditch it entirely since it is a fairly good machine. But I'm not going to use it any time soon unless I can get some one-on-one training with it; I've ruined too many projects already to risk using it again right now. Stupid serger!
On BDB Drama: I know we had a full moon last weekend, but WTF? As much as I value the Board and all its members (especially our tireless Admins), frankly, I just can't read it anymore. Maybe things will calm down and go back to normal in a few months. Maybe not. I'll keep checking in, but I have too much going on to get dragged into discussions full of drama and conflict that don't have anything to do with me. I can't take all that on myself. I won't. I'm just gonna let it all go and wait for it all to blow over. I have nothing to add to any of the current threads that anyone will listen to anyway.
That's all for now. Gotta go work on my Fools Ruff so that I will (hopefully) get it done before the end of the Feaste of Fooles.
On Dialing It Back: Not as traumatic as I feared it might be, but I was slightly disappointed that The Demise of Foster couldn't be performed for the masses anymore. We watched our volume and content around children, but we really didn't change much in terms of our act. The audience for Week 4 didn't seem as conservative as the audience in Week 3, although I did have one of those, "Oh s***, we've transgressed the envelope again!" moments when we started to sing a song I thought was relatively clean and harmless - until I caught the look on the face of a mother with her two young daughters. Oops! Chalk it up to a learning experience, I guess. I've had some time to re-evaluate our material and I think I've come up with some fun stuff that won't have us sailing into the Blue, as it were. I still think we're pretty clean considering the nature of our characters. I'm going to assume that unless I get another note, we're OK to proceed as we did last weekend.
On Having the Week Off: Part of me feels really guilty about not getting more done, and part of me has been too tired to care. Of course, I don't get paid for not going in to work this week, but the whole place has been crawling with kids for Vacation Bible School all week long, and none of the office staff goes in during VBS because you can't get anything done with that much chaos going on. At least I'm feeling a little more rested, although my mind keeps swimming with ideas; I just can't seem to turn it off. Alas, such is life when you're ADD. I finally went back to the gym, though. I was so tired last week, the very thought of working out made me feel utterly exhausted. No doubt I'll have plenty to keep me busy when I go back next week, but for now, I'm enjoying my absence wholeheartedly. I SO need a new job!
On My Serger: That d*#% machine is driving me nuts! Unless I can find a class somewhere to teach me how to adjust it properly, I'm going to get rid of it! Using it when it's been properly set up and adjusted is a dream. Unfortunately, I seem to be utterly incapable of changing anything on the machine without f#$%ing the whole thing up! The manual is completely useless and the old trial-and-error method leaves me screaming at the machine in a mess of tangled threads and ruined sewing projects. If I can't figure out how to use it without someone sitting next to me to fix things at every turn, then clearly it's not a machine I need in the house taking up air and space. I feel bad that my parents spent so much money on it (it was a Christmas/birthday present a few years back) since it spends most of its time sitting in the case because I can't get it to work properly. I don't think I'd have too hard a time unloading it, but I'm going to give it one last chance before I ditch it entirely since it is a fairly good machine. But I'm not going to use it any time soon unless I can get some one-on-one training with it; I've ruined too many projects already to risk using it again right now. Stupid serger!
On BDB Drama: I know we had a full moon last weekend, but WTF? As much as I value the Board and all its members (especially our tireless Admins), frankly, I just can't read it anymore. Maybe things will calm down and go back to normal in a few months. Maybe not. I'll keep checking in, but I have too much going on to get dragged into discussions full of drama and conflict that don't have anything to do with me. I can't take all that on myself. I won't. I'm just gonna let it all go and wait for it all to blow over. I have nothing to add to any of the current threads that anyone will listen to anyway.
That's all for now. Gotta go work on my Fools Ruff so that I will (hopefully) get it done before the end of the Feaste of Fooles.