Picture
Where has the time gone since I last posted?! Oh, I know... my son started first grade and my daughter started kindergarten.

I started up a new Tourettes support group called Twitch and Bitch 2.

I've been in touch with Sesame Street who is considering doing a piece for their website or show on TS. (This is a big "maybe"... but it's still fun none the less)

I've gone back and forth with my anxiety, but am continuing on my God path to find my purpose, soothing my spinning pea brain. Less Diet Coke and less Yuban might be a good plan but I haven't won the battle. But I'm jogging and praying and that's about where it is for now.

Some might suggest that I do less. Apparently you can'f find your reflection in running waters. Instead you see clarity and vision in the mirrored stillness of a quiet lake.

I, however, have come to the conclusion that I'm not a serene, passive person by nature. I'm the most happy when I'm busy, active and passionate. This means blogging and volunteering at my kids' school.

This means going to church on Sundays even if Rex doesn't want to go.

This means pushing past my comfort level and going to a Hollywood Bowl Rodgers and Hammerstein tribute with live orchestra playing to wide screen movies above our heads under a starry night sky with a good girlfriend.

It means taking advantage of the housing market and buying a little cabin in the woods that Rex and I will rent out most of the winter but hopefully make some memories in over the summers.

And it means getting off my duff and writing that musical with my ex-TV partner like I've always wanted to. We started today thanks to the power of Skype and two wacky minds that laugh about everything from sex to marriage to kids to politics. I'm not saying it's going to win any Broadway awards (Though doesn't a song like "Vasectomy" just have TONY written all over it?) but it's going to be silly and racaous and... God forbid... FUN.

And I can promise you this: It won't have anything to do with silence. And that just makes me so happy I can't stand it.

Happy Monday!

* Photo courtesy of that same nutty mama who forces me to get off the computer and attend live cultural events. I mean, really, she's just crazy.
 


Comments

Sprite's Keeper link
09/09/2009 05:38

Opening line of title song for your musical:
"I have to get a vascetomy."
"Of course it means it may hurt when I pee."
I'm gonna be thinking of possible rhymes for vascetomy ALL DAY now. :-)

Reply
Arwen link
09/09/2009 08:58

On the other hand, some people might argue that you can only find yourself by working hard and serving others. Who knows?

The Sesame Street thing would be really cool.

Reply
gretchen link
09/09/2009 16:54

This whole post makes me giddy, giddy, gumdrops, Andrea. Lurve the name of your support group. Happy 1st grade and kindergarten to you, my friend. And happy, happy vasectomy.

Reply
Wally T. Walopur
09/10/2009 16:40

Why not a givaway contest for the best opening lyrics for the song, Vasectomy?

Reply
His Girl Amber link
09/10/2009 17:04

Oh, chica, I think this post is just full of goodness! Yay for school starting and yay for Sesame Street and yay for a new cabin and yay for going to church and yay for a musical!

Andrea, you are one cool chick.

Reply
andrea frazer link
09/10/2009 18:00

What I really want to know
Besides why L.A. can't have snow
Is who our friend Wally Walopur is
And what you all think of this giveaway biz

Is it shmaltzy or do you enjoy
What is okay and wat's a ploy
And while this poem does suck ass
My musical will be fab-u-lass!

Reply
Wally T. Walopur
09/12/2009 07:09

Okay. Okay, Okay. Since you won't have a giveaway, I'll give you the lyrics anyway;

Before my vasectomy,
Women had no respect for me.
Ah, but now that things don't connect for me,
There are giggles, smiles and intermitent ectasy.

No more upstream swimming for me,
Doctor, doctor what have you done to me?
So many thanks,
Cause now I'm only shootin' blanks.

Reply



Leave a Reply