March 6th, 2011

Just another manic sunday.  Or something like that.  It wasn't really all that bad.  I had a show in the afternoon and work.  Not too terribly exciting.

I was looking through some pictures I took while I was not posting and I forgot that I had taken some pictures of  graffiti scratched into the bathrooms of the train.  Some of the stuff was kind of cryptic and couldn't really figure out what they meant.  You might as well give it a go.

I think those are buildings on the top and I think the words say "Dorm war".  At least war i'm sure about, but not too sure about the top word.

No idea. lol  Maybe spanish?

This one was also wrote on the mirror.  Not too sure what all the symbols mean.  Kinda funky.

"Love is painful" True, isn't it?

This one was my favorite one.

Feb 15-28, Mar 1-5

(A towel at target, sounded fitting)

I have definitely let this blog go to the wayside.  I kind of lost the urge to keep writing it after my grandfather passed away.  While I was trying to figure out how to get home for the funeral I didn't really want to have to worry about posting on here, but now I have decided to try to come back to it.  I keep finding myself thinking of what I could put on here still...so I think I'll give it a go and try to come back.

But first I feel like I should attempt some sort of a catch up post for the couple of weeks I didn't write anything about.

I suppose I can start with the funeral.  I managed to get some train tickets to go home for the weekend.  If I had done more research before hand I could have taken a few more days off from work to spend with my family but the few days I had were nice.

The funeral went really well.  The pastor did a great job with the service.  Everyone I talked to seemed to agree that he did a great job.  He wasn't the type that was trying to use that experience to convert people but more to help people remember and celebrate how wonderful our Grandfather was.  He made connections to my Grandfather's hard working attitude and how much he cared for other people to how Jesus was a hard working carpenter and really cared for people.  Also, my grandfather was really into building things with wood.  So he also connected to the carpenter thing too.  It was a well done funeral.

However my train rides were a bit more interesting. The ride home was fine, only a few hours late, but that is to be expected from winter train travel.  The ride back to MN was a bit more interesting.  How so, you say?  Well it all started with an automated phone call from amtrak saying there was a service disruption with my train.  So we called amtrak to ask what was up and found out a freight train had derailed somewhere and I had to wait for a bus to come pick me up and take me to Minot, ND where I would take the train from there.

They were not able to tell me when the bus was going to come for me exactly so my family and I sat at the depot watching cars drive by until we finally saw a bus...which soon passed us by.  Apparently they forgot to mention that they would have multiple buses and not necessarily the first would stop for me.  So after a few hours of waiting and seeing two more buses pass by, a fourth one finally showed up and picked me up.

My bus had apparently waited for the bus after mine because it was having mechanical issues, so it that was why it was much later than the rest.  Luckily I some how found myself with two seats to myself and was able to sleep off an on during the trip.  I was on the pick up and drop off bus and not a straight through one though.  I'm actually glad I was because then I didn't have to wait so long at the train station in minot, wondering why we weren't moving.

In the end I got on my train and arrived roughly 7 hours later than I should have.  I got a 40 dollar voucher out of it though.  So I can take a train again but for 40 dollars less, woo? lol

Now that I have been back I spent the next few weeks getting back into the swing of things.  I think the amount of days I have missed kind of put me off starting back up, but I miss doing this so I decided to catch myself up.

I'm almost done with the show I'm working on.  We have one more weekend left after this one.  It was a fun run but I have already planned to try to clean up my living space after the show is over.  It'll be nice to have a break from the show, but I hope I keep getting work at places.  I'll need to start applying to places again.  I haven't done that in awhile either.  Gotta get my "poop in a group", or whatever it is they say.

Oh and just yesterday I raided a closing blockbuster for some movies.  Can't really pass up four dollar movies can you?  I also bought my first ever LBD (Little black dress) the other day.  It was on clearance but it is super cute.  I wore it yesterday for my double show day.

I just keep remembering random things that have happened so this post just keeps getting longer and longer!  I had issues with my power windows not working in the back passenger side of my car.  So I went to get those fixed and lo and behold they find the issue in my brakes they should have found when I took it in over a month ago.  I was not too pleased to add 850 more dollars to my already stupid car bills.  My car better not break anymore or Ima have to kick it or something.

I think that is all that has happened to me since I stopped posting.  I'm sure there is other things but I can't think of anything.  I'm going to attempt to keep up with this again.  Wish me luck. : )

February 14th, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day!!! (Yes I am aware that this post is late for the day)

I hope everyone spent the day with people they love, from your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, friends and family (maybe even pets).  You don't have to just spend the day being all mushy with someone.  You can spread the love to everyone.

So, for all those people out there who get all mopey and obsessed with the fact they are single on Valentine's day, I say let your family know you love'm instead.

In fact even though this post is later than V-day, I say go tell the people you love that you love them right now.  Today.  You don't need a silly day to tell them.  I certainly hope you let them know more than once a year that you love them.

February 13th, 2011

Sundays are always strange when you have a show in the middle of the day.  It was kind of nice to be up for the day, but had to suffer those consequences when I had work that night.

Random thought to put in this bloggety blog.  You know what I hate?  When you get a drink like an Icee or a smoothie and you can't get the drink off the bottom.  Try as you might all you can do is move the straw around and attempt to suck up what you can in tiny bits. It's frustrating, but so worth the effort at the same time.

Anywhos, back to my day.  I decided to do some baking in time for Valentine's Day. And the strangest thing happened when I tried to crack my egg.

I'm really not sure how it didn't break open all the way.  The shell kept flaking off but I had to crack the other side of the egg in order for it to get open.  It was strange.  I have never seen an egg do that in my years of cracking eggs.

I decided to make red velvet cake in honor of the whole red thing with Valentine's day.  When I saw the mix first I was confused about how it was brown.  I didn't understand how it became red...until! I added some liquid and bam! The red became to appear! I'm so easily amused, but I have never made red velvet cake before....

I have also never used one of these silicon pans.  To be honest they kind of scare me.  I'm just unsure how a floppy pan is gonna cook something.  While it was cooking it kind of let off a very weird smell.  I didn't like that smell, to say the least.  I'm just hoping that it doesn't cook into the cake and make it taste strange as well. Also, if I choose to use it again...doesn't make that smell again.

BUT, if the cake tastes funny I used some of the mix to make some beautiful cupcakes!  I haven't used my single cupcake/muffin glasses before, so that was a new experience for me as well.

They loooooook soooooooo perdy!  Yum!

I topped off the cupcakes with some cream cheese frosting that I dyed pink with food coloring.  I wanted them to be dark red but I couldn't get them dark enough.  Oh well!  They taste fantastic.  In case you wanted to know.  I have not tasted the cake yet though.  Soooooo I can't tell you what it tastes like.

I will show you a picture of the cake tomorrow for Valentine's Day. : )

February 12th, 2011

Didn't really feel like writing anything but I didn't want to get super behind again.

I saw this awhile ago but I always forgot to post about it.  One of my goals for my blog was to get a hit from Russia and as you can see I got one! I was extremely excited the day I noticed that I did.  I mean, who doesn't want Russia to be looking at their blog? Haha.  Now all I need is to get more than one and I'm on my way!

Also it is kind of odd to have views from Slovakia. Kind of amusing to see where people are viewing from.  Maybe I'm just easily amused.

February 11th, 2011

Dear Grandpa George,

Where do I even begin?  There is so much to say about you and so much I wish I could have said to you.  I think I'll just have to make it a combination of both.

First off there is no way I could come up with enough words to describe how incredible of a man you really are/were.  I may be a little biased being your granddaughter and all but you really were.  I can't even begin to count the amount of things you have built with your own hands.  For me alone I think you have built a beautiful desk, and headboard.  I can't count out the major hand you had in building my families house.

You are the hardest worker I have ever known. You have never stopped working on something, even as you got older.  Which also is probably connected to how stubborn you could be at times, but hey you passed that down to me through my father (and I wouldn't have it any other way).  I couldn't have asked for a better role model.  I don't think your four children, thirteen grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren (sorry if I got the count wrong) could have had a better influence in their lives.

All I can say is I'm so glad I had you in my life for 23 years and I doubt anyone else would disagree with me.
I hope you are resting in peace and enjoying the good life with Auntie Barb and anyone else who has gone before you.

There is so much more I wish I could say to you, but I'll end this with the most important thing of all.

I love you and will remember you fondly.  Rest in peace Grandpa.

Love,
Erin

February 10th, 2011

In case you didn't know....Joseph is actually Batman, or some sort of moth man.

At the end of the show we have a reveal of the big colorful coat and it got twisted in the pile before it was hung up.  Thus, it got tangled to make this kinda cool looking Bat/moth thing.  As cool as it looked, I really hope it doesn't happen again during the performance.  If we had raised it up higher it could have done some damage to the coat and probably how it was hanging.

Oh live theatre, always there for some interesting happenings.