As you may have figured out, I am a big fan of costumes and dressing up. It's one reason I love acting so much. One of the biggest venues for this kind of passion is cosplay. I haven't gotten into this world yet but I have lots of friends who have, and they have definitely made me excited about starting. Well today I found this contest that ( Read more... )

On Father's Day a (semi) family member suffered a great loss. She lives in Alaska w/ her husband and 2 sons (7 & 5), and they were landscaping w/ a tractor they had rented. The boys weren't allowed near it while it worked but they had finished so her husband let the boys ride back w/ him. On the way they hit a bump and the 3 were thrown off. ( Read more... )

This time of year thoughts turn to costumes and masquerade fun. So the time to pick a Halloween costume has come. I'm rather picky about what I dress as. It has to be unique, flattering, not overly sexy and easy to move in as I like to wear it when we go to the Harvest Party at our church. So that makes picking my costume a bit trickier ( Read more... )

I made this Christmas card w/ Shutterfly and I love how it turned out! The colors were perfect for this picture (one of my favs) and it was oh so easy to make! Plus you can share it easily online.


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Well I've been winning more prizes in the past couple weeks. Yesterday I found an envelope from K102 FM in a pile of mail and it was a $50 gc for Panera Bread. I do recall entering an online drawing for that one :) Otherwise there were the 2 movie previews (though I could only go to one), and a WI trip that sadly didn't work timewise. So here's ( Read more... )

Umm it appears that I may have just won a trip to NY ( Read more... )

Fun quiz - 3 answers to each question, unofficially tagged by frogsandtoads

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I have done non theatrical things in the past weeks too. Saturday morning I went to the Eagan location of Feed My Starving Children for a work event. 35 of us volunteered there for 2 hours, packing meals for third world countries. I really enjoyed myself a lot and it was very self-fulfilling. I also love that it is a Christian organization and ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write about a few things that have happened the past couple weeks and so when I opened my Gmail and saw an email from Shutterfly saying that since I'm such a loyal customer they are giving me a free 8 x 8 book, I decided that's a good of a reason to update as anything else ( Read more... )

I am slowly going insane! Something supposedly to do with the humidity and turning the air on at work is cause the building to creak non-stop! I'm sitting and my desk listening to the ceiling creak and groan. I feel like I'm in an old merchant ship or something. I'm surprised I'm not sea-sick. I hope the next couple hours go quick or that this ( Read more... )