On Gardening and Auditioning

Well, I bought a begonia today. There are only so many times I can walk by my local garden center eyeing a bring orange/pink/white begonia before i give in and buy buy buy! I planted it and it looks lovely. I have a shitload of veggies and fruits, but not too many flowers. Well, one lavender plant in bloom and the dahlias and peonies (drool) are not growing yet. Altho i did see a hint of a peony coming up in one of the pots... hurrah!

My point is this: Do not buy terra cotta pots for plants. I have a few terra cotta pots, strawberry pots (3) and herb trenches (my wording, 2). Other veggies are in plastic pots because they are huge and pretty flowers are in glazed ceramic pots. Glazed ceramic is the way to go if you have something that won't expand rapidly at the root. It keeps the plant more moist (terra cotta absorbs water so you have to water the plant more frequently) and looks much nicer. Plastic pots work well if you are planting something like tomatoes or zucchini - i.e., something that will grow rapidly and not be a showpiece.

Today I auditioned for a play in Manhattan. I did a cold reading and LOVED the character. I saw her clearly in my head and had a fun time reading the script with the woman who was cast in the lead protagonist role. Then the director asked me to read it again in a totally different direction and I don't think I did very well. It was so hard for me to switch my mental image of this person, I couldn't erase all of the characteristics I had planted (tie in!) in my brain. Sigh. Oh well. I promised myself I would be proud no matter what the outcome - and I am. I risked something and put myself out there for criticism and rejection, always a hard thing to do. And I did have some fun... that was my goal.

Now I get to vacuum, do a yoga video and do paperwork before cooking turkey burgers for dinner (along with a goat cheese salad). Hurray for the domestic life.

At least I have my already-blooming, brightly colored begonia in a pot so every time I look out my window I can admire the gorgeous flowers and feel a sense of pride in accomplishing something today.

Sleepy time

in pjs. Man, there is nothing as comforting as coming home when I'm exhausted, putting on my comfy pajamas and snuggling in with a good book or movie.

I can be pretty adventurous and wild, but there is nowhere like home. And home can change, but you know it when you're there.

G'night.

My therapist curtsied today.

My therapist made a particularly astute observation about a nightmare I had this morning. I gaped at her in amazement and revelation while I stood, ready to leave her office, and said, "Ohhhhh. Right." She looked at me smiled, curtsied and said, "See you next week."

That's all.

New travel site

There's this article in the Times about frugal travel and how difficult it can be to find the right site, nevermind the right price/ticket, for your trip.

The one I had not heard of before is ITASoftware.com which sounds interesting.

Other notables are:

SeatExpert.com
Kayak.com
cFares.com has rebates with a low annual membership
Vayama.com specializes in international flights

Good luck with all of that.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

If you are looking for a page-turner, start this series. I couldn't put it down - read till 4:30am one night to get to figure something out. My brother just read the next one in the trilogy and said it was good too.

Also just read The Piano Teacher. I liked it. I couldn't put that one down too. Which is unusual for me - I'm often bored by books and don't finish them. Just been lucky, I guess.

Crazy Town

is where I'm residing today.

Don't want to get into it, but suffice to say, today I've been horribly grumpy.

And my friend and I just watched "Up" by Pixar - and it's wonderful! Reminded me what's important.

If you need (or if you don't!), I recommend it.

PS

I really like it when the parents of the young child upstairs get up before I go to sleep. That doesn't make me feel like a total loser or anything.

I can't help it that I can't sleep! I even exercised today and it didn't matter!

Ugh. Valium might be in my near future.