October 29th - Nov 3rd: Happy Side

This week I have not done my blog and I'm sorry for that, but as I get closer to the show opening it seems to be getting harder for me to write blogs.  This week has been an up and down kind of week that is for sure.  To properly explain the week I'll break it up into two blogs.  The happy side of the week will be in this one and you can find the sad side of the week here.

Happy Side

After struggling to figure out what was wrong with me last week I finally found an explanation   There is just a tightness in my jaw in the TMJ area and that can be fairly common.  I was going to go into the dentist to talk about it, but after looking into the issue the sites recommended you don't do anything drastic to your mouth and that with some TLC the pain can go away.  Now after avoiding hard crunchy foods and putting a hot pack on it for few days it has already improved. I've been eating normal foods and the pain is far less often, and not even close to as painful.  I just have to remember to massage it now and again and that seems to help.  I'm just happy I didn't waste money on that Dentist again.

This week was also the week of Halloween.  It didn't really feel like Halloween for me though because we were putting up Christmas stuff at work.  I never really feel in the mood for Holidays when they are actually happening anymore.  I think retail might be to blame.  I did wear a 'costume' that I guess complied with the all the rules with wearing one to work.  I was a Concordia Cobber, Concordia sweat pants and a fear the ear shirt. They had so many stupid rules that they should have just said we can't wear them, because no one really did anyway.  There is a bright side to this story though.  I bought Charli a Halloween costume the day after so it was 50% off.

She is an astronaut if you couldn't tell.  The size I got for her was a little large, but she can deal.  Well she can't really deal. The moment I put it on her she just froze in place and felt like she couldn't move, or when she would try to move she some how thought she could only move backwards.  I tried to get it on my camera but by the time I got it ready she stopped moving completely.  So you will just have to take my word for it.  She would also not look at me when I asked.  I think she was embarrassed.

Charli has had a pretty interesting week.  She also got a hair cut.  She tends to look more on the boyish side for a girl doggy but after this hair cut I think she looks extra boyish.

It's hard to tell in this picture but the way they rounded her ears she kind of looks like a Friar.  So her nickname this week has been Friar Tuck.

Lastly this week I took a video of us going for a walk and you can feel free to watch it, or not.  This video is the day before she gets a hair cut. So you can see how poofy she was.

October 29th - Nov 3rd: Sad Side

This week I have not done my blog and I'm sorry for that, but as I get closer to the show opening it seems to be getting harder for me to write blogs.  This week has been an up and down kind of week that is for sure.  To properly explain the week I'll break it up into two blogs.  The sad side of the week is in this blog and you can find the happy side here.

Sad Side

The part of my week that makes it sad is what I discovered Thursday before going to work.  My gerbil Falkor hadn't been coming out to see me when I come home and I thought that was a little suspicious. He will usually come out if I talk to him or open his cage door, but no such response.  I lifted his house slightly to see just his feet sprawled out beside him and immediately dropped it closed.

Falkor has passed away.  He is no longer gracing the world with his tube chewing antics or urge to dig to China through his bedding.  Despite the fact that he was a little over 3 years old and lived a long life I still think he would have lived longer under some different circumstances.

See here is the deal.  His old water bottle broke earlier this year and I had bought him a new one.  This new one was not high quality and I discovered this was the case when I would walk in the door and just the vibrations of the floor would cause water to come out of it.  When I inspected closer (after Falkor's passing) I saw the bedding was starting to mold because of the water that kept coming out.  I feel like Falkor was made sick by the water bottle not doing it's job properly.  Needless to say I threw out that water bottle and his cage because of the mold.

I'm still a bit sad and upset about loosing my luck gerbil, but he won't be forgotten.  Chad and I buried him in the back yard and put his wooden house over his grave as a marker.  That house was his and I wouldn't want any other gerbil using it.  I'm going to miss that little guy.

He kept me company when I was new and lonely in Minnesota.  He annoyed the crap out of me some nights with his chewing and digging that I had to keep him in the bathroom to block the sound.  He gave me endless hours of free entertainment and had some dastardly plans to escape and rule the world, I'm sure.  In the end I don't regret one minute of it and hope he likes his new home, in my heart.

October 26th-28th, 2012: Send it up!

I was just working on writing a blog about something I thought was clever, but then I started doing some research to help my point and I was hit in the face with a completely obvious element to prove myself wrong.  It was something that I should have thought of because I'm slightly obsessed with it.

That is why I erased that silly stuff and I am going to write something else...  If I can think of something else to write about.  Man.  I thought I was being so clever too.  How silly of me.  I might share if you ask, but you'll only know if you ask.

I'm fresh out of ideas of what to write about so I went to youtube to watch videos.  I found the video above which made my little fan girl heart squee a bit having three Doctor's at the same time talk about Doctor Who.

The video also made me look up the phrase "Send it up".  Apparently that means to mock someone in a humorous way.  I think I might make this a goal to use that in regular day to day use.  It's always fun to find new phrases to try to use.

Speaking of Doctor Who, I got to watch a bit more of the Second Doctor's stuff.  Watched The Mind Robber this weekend.  For some reason my memory at first thought it was Mind "Blogger" which would make for a completely different episode...or maybe not.  Considering how it is mainly about fiction writing.  It would just have to be slightly different because blogging doesn't tend to be fiction.  Usually, but it could be I suppose.

I've been thinking of writing some fiction.  Nothing fancy or anything, but I have some cute ideas for stories.  They probably won't be seen by anyone's eyes but me, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't write them, right?

However, the writing will have to wait until after I clean my house.  Three weeks just passes by too fast for my cleaning abilities.  I should probably be cleaning something instead of blogging. Alright, here I go. To clean something! (Or most likely to the post office to mail something I'd rather not mail.)

October 24th, 25th, 2012: Good Doctors?

All the feels I have are being converted into pain in my ears.  I have never had an earache this bad where it radiates throughout my face.  There might also be a chance that the pain in my face is sinus congestion from the evil allergies this year.  I've been trying a few different things this week but if Monday rolls around and I don't feel any type of improvement then I'll have to give in and go someplace to have them take a look at it.

Speaking of those types of places, does anyone have any experience going to a minute clinic at a CVS? This is where I'm considering going instead of paying a huge doctor visit bill at a hospital.  I've just never been to one of those before and don't even know if they'd be worth it either.

I'm slightly jaded when it comes to doctors.  It seems like every time I get the courage to go see one when something is wrong, they never find anything wrong or tell me anything useful. It's also hard since I moved here to Minnesota to find a primary Doctor I can trust and would like to continue to see.  The only positive experience I have had medically related was with the lady doctor at planned parenthood when I went in for my yearly check up.  She was super nice and I felt very comfortable around her.  She didn't make me feel like an idiot or say strange things about the size of my uterus like another lady doctor had said.

I don't know what it is about some doctors but I just feel like they are judging me.  Sure they are trying to figure out what ales me but do they have to make me feel like a terrible person for getting sick in the first place?  Maybe I'm just jaded from the doctor that literally made me feel like an idiot for not coming in sooner, and then he didn't even find anything wrong with me.  "Oh why didn't you come in sooner?" (Insert judging glare here) So you can decide that nothing is wrong with me? Gee thanks Mister.  That sounds like a great idea.  I should pay you lots of money for something that I'm pretty sure now was mental, or in a completely different organ than where they looked.

So what I ask, from those of you who might read this in the twin cities area, where are all the good doctors at and I don't mean the one with the blue box (although I'll take that too).

October 22nd, 23rd, 2012: I prefer Magic over Politics.

Watch this video.  The rapping isn't all that great but the ending is pretty funny. Plus It's about time I put something political in this blog right?



I'm pretty sure Abraham Lincoln wins this epic rap battle. Just saying.

I don't really like putting my political opinion out there because so many people get up in arms about things but I think Obama should be able to do four more years as president because there is so much to do as President that four years it is impossible to fix everything you want to fix.  That's why I personally dislike the limit on how long the President can serve.  We as people have a power to impeach and if we really didn't want someone ruling the country then I'm sure we could make them stop when it was time for them to move on.

And now for something completely different.


I think I actually remember seeing some of this on tv.  Either way this guy has some sweet magic skills. I think I'm going to go get lost in the rabbit hole of youtube and find more of these videos while I  fend off Charli and her random urge to lick me today.  Seriously she is a lick monster today.

October 20th, 21st, 2012: Time flies, and Time Lords

I intended to write this blog yesterday but I realized that I had to wake up an hour or so earlier than usual for a production meeting and that meant I wanted to get to sleep sooner.  That means I went to bed instead of staying up and typing my blog, but now I'm annoyed I'm behind on my blog again. Meh.

Since the show I'm working on is the reason for the delay in my posting a blog I will take this as an opportunity to update about how it is going.

There is something about time flying by so much faster for this show that I haven't really experienced before.  I think we are in a great place for where we are time wise but it just is hard to believe that we open the show in less than a month.  I'm looking forward finally seeing a full run through piece.  With any show in the theatre business it is always hard to get everyone together at first for rehearsals.

No matter what the show is or anything like that there will always be people missing for awhile.  I think I might be looking forward to when we will always have everyone more than anything.

Despite having rehearsals Saturday and Sunday I still manage to see some Doctor Who with Chad.  We have moved on to watching some episodes that include Susan; the Doctor's grand daughter, because she is going to be a guest at the convention we are going to in February.

Seeing Susan in The Daleks story I was less bothered than when I watched her in An Unearthly Child.  She was still overreacting and a bit of a dolt, but I wasn't left as displeased with her as the first time I saw her.  Maybe it is because the Doctor wasn't as 'mean' in this episode.  He did make some terrible choices for selfish reasons, but he is just a youngster for a Time Lord and has yet to age to what he is now.

The older regenerations of the Doctor have way more on their minds and hearts that they are more concerned with are around them.  I think as the Doctor ages he gets more and more attached and aware of his companions and starts to realize he doesn't like losing them.

Matt Smith's Doctor would most likely not endanger his companions by faking the ship is broken just to see some buildings. However, I wouldn't put it past his companions to be the one to want to go check them out.  That is another way the Doctor has changed.  He has went from seeking adventure and trouble, and having worrisome companions; to being worrisome and protective, and having adventurous trouble seeking companions.

The balance of those relationships is key to what makes Doctor Who so interesting.  If everyone was worried and didn't want to explore at all then nothing would happen, and if everyone was adventurous and haphazard more people wouldn't be around anymore.

Now, now.  I am not saying that the Doctor is not adventurous and doesn't seek out trouble sometimes, but it's rarely on purpose that he finds himself in these situations.  Let's just say that I agree with Amy and that the Doctor should never travel alone.  He needs someone there to balance out the other side.  The ying to his yang, or something like that.

My goal this week is to work on my dress for Gally and go to the Doctor (and I wish I meant the time lord kind).

October 18th, 19th, 2012: I believe in Pit Bulls

After watching a few episodes from The Twilight Zone with Chad I began to wonder why it took me so long to watch this show.  I have only seen one episode before and that was for a film class I took in college.  The main reason I don't think I have watched the show is for the simple fact I didn't really know what it was about.  I thought it was some kind of cheesy sci-fi show (don't get me wrong, I love cheesy sci-fi too).

Three episodes into it, there is much more to the show than I thought.  There are more physiological themes than I was expecting.  I actually have yet to see an episode that I would consider sci-fi.  Maybe the first episode is sort of sci-fi but barely.  I suppose for the late 50s it would be considered sci-fi.  I think it would be more along the lines of supernatural, maybe?

I've looked into the show a bit more on the internet and found that Ray Bradbury wrote for the show.  I'm looking forward to finding those episodes and seeing what they have in store.  Let me just say I plan on watching as many of the 138 episodes on Netflix as I possibly can and you should give the show a try too.

In completely unrelated news, there has been some recent flack in the news from some news lady, whose name I can't recall at the moment, about pit bulls.  She said something about them being vicious dogs, and basically feeding the terrible stereotype around the dog.

I'm a firm believer that the dog is never the one responsible for how it acts.  The owner is the one who trains and raises their dog, and teaches them what is right and wrong.  So to show how pit bulls are not mean vicious dogs I'm going to post videos of cute pit bulls for cute animal video Friday.

The video below the sound is just lots of buzzing for some reason, but it's still cute to watch.

This dog is so 'vicious' it can't even walk around a kitty.



Pitbulls also are so "mean" and "ruthless" they hate baths.

I don't really care for posting videos of babies and what not, but in order to show how "vicious" and "mean" pitbulls are I will show you this one video.  Dog has some serious patience but the owner is also being a good owner by making sure her baby doesn't hurt the dog either.  I don't know if you remember this from experiences with babies, but they have some sharp as hell nails.  Keeping the dog from getting hurt by the baby will allow the dog to care for the child and not build up any fear around getting hurt.



Lastly I will leave you with a video of Wil Wheaton's super "vicious" "evil-doing" lick monster, Marlowe.



She is a recent rescue stray pit bull puppy and I dare you to not find her adorable.

I hope these videos helped open a few peoples eyes to see how we need to stop feeding the stereotype for pit bulls and start making sure that people train and teach their dogs correctly.  There needs to be more stories about successful pit bulls and less of these stories about how a pit bull did something wrong (with no focus on how the owner was bad).

Every dog owner has the responsibility to adapt it to human interaction and bring them up right no matter what the breed is.  I wouldn't want my dog being mean or bad to people so I never let her be.  Luckily Charli is too sweet and dense to ever want to harm anyone.

So all I have to say is, be good to your pets and they will be good to everyone else.