Cute Shoes

Everyone keeps telling me they like my shoes so I thought I'd share. I could pay more, but why? Here are some other fun photos that are on my computer. I wish this were my fence!

Here's the Cubs tarp pictures that I was telling Amber about. (July 3, 2004) They called the game on account of rain just after Sammy hit a homer (we won).

Stealing Kerri's Blog Entry

I liked Kerri's blog entry of random pictures on her computer. Here's a few I have:

Watermelon Art



Ah...baseball season is upon us:

















Being a Pepsi drinker this just amused me:























And of course the photo everyone must have on their computer. I'm thinking this needs to be turned into wallpaper. :D

December 23rd, 5:30 a.m....central standard time...

(Hopefully Mike will get the RENT reference there! :) ) I called Mike to wake him up at what at the time really seemed to be an ungodly time! Usually I'm up that early...this day I was groggy.

But I really needed to unwind. And we wanted to pay our respects to our Chicago institution which will soon be taken over by a company orginating in the "first" city. Marshall Field's has been purchased by Macy's. This is a big deal here in Chicago! "They can take away my Walnut Room but they can't make me shop at Macy's!" Don't get me wrong. I like the Thanksgiving Day parade; long tradition there, I get it. When I went to Macy's in NY, I was very underwhelmed. I really think Field's does it better. But that isn't the point.

The point is this store has a long history here in Chicago. My dad and my aunt both worked for Fields when they were young. People have been going to the State Street store all their lives. Why can't the Macy's people run it as Field's?

Anyway....here are pictures from our big adventure.

I think we got there about 7:45 a.m. and had an hour wait before we were at the front of the line and got this view:


This is just about thirty seconds before you hit the front of the line and hostess hurries you through.










We finally were seated and decided to act like tourists and take pictures. Oooooo....pretty tree.





What was this lady thinking...walking through my photo. No doubt I was complaining about the people in the background because Mike is laughing at me!





Here we are looking old and married....as we were joking around that we were. We may be the earlier and are not the later. (Before you ask...we're just friends.)











Here is the official Chicago Christmas tree in Daley Plaza. It's actually a lot cooler looking at night in the dark.




Next we headed to Millenium Park to Skate, Play and Eat. Really we just wanted to watch the skaters. And since the weather was beautiful...40 degrees, we didn't mind the walk.




Next we headed to the Bean
aka the Cloud Gate. To see the full perspective of what it is, go to the link. This photo is of me, on the left, with the long coat, standing in front of it and taking a photo of the skyline. You can see Mike walking by behind me.








Here we are taking pictures of the bean close up.

That about does it for our grand last adventure to the Walnut Room for Christmas. Here's hoping Macy's doesn't screw it up too much!

Green Felt Sofa

Why do I always feel like the Swedish Chef (of the Muppets) when I go to an Oktoberfest? Perhaps because the German language makes no sense to me. Green felt sofa is a reference to some beer song. Sharon and a bunch of us were singing it once and just butchering the words. Of course, Sharon in her brillance came up with "green felt sofa". It's one of those "ya had to be there" moments. If you weren't, well, suffice it to say we were very silly. And this from most of us having NO beer.

So, I thought you'd enjoy a look at this year's trip. The place definitely wasn't as fun as Hans Bavarian Lodge where we used to go (now closed). But Terri made a great attempt and of course, it's all about being together anyway. (That's Mark (right?), Bev, Terry and Leo).

Here Leo and Terry polka...polka...polka. Note the authentic German band in the background.

We also, unfortunately did the chicken dance, which Terry and Leo demonstrate so well here. There are pictures of me doing the chicken dance but I paid Terry very well to keep them to herself. However, she may change her mind after seeing these. Other bizarre dances like the electric slide (yes I'm a dork) were done as well.


Once the night turned to country, as if on cue, Sharon showed up! I'm positively annoyed ;-) with her because she has two small children and still manages to look great! There were many rude photos taken with this German beef jerky. Unfortunately for all of you, those are on Terry's camera too. In this photo, it sort of reminds of the Christmas poo from South Park.

Homecoming 2005

So because Brian and Cathie decided to bail on me, I ended up heading to NIU by myself for homecoming. My first stop, Stevens for a blast from the past...















It was good to see that Chrissy and Bill still grace the walls of Stevens. This show, a full length ballet, (Sleeping Beauty) was a very big deal at the time for us to do. I don't think it had ever been done. I wanted like crazy to design the lights but Betsy wanted to do it herself. I think I was Assistant to the LD for this or maybe ME. I'm old; I don't remember now.
















Apparently someone got smart and thought, oh perhaps some seating for our patrons might be nice. Here's the redecorated lobby. I'm not sure how long ago that happened but it was a brilliant idea, doncha think?

















Spiffy new sign in front of the main office. Wonder how much of the annual budget that puppy sucked up.

















Ah, I remember it well. This was the crappy two scene preset board that we ran every Player's Theatre show off. I remember some interesting tricks I had to pull off especially during "Alice". This board is now in Corner theatre (which is the student studio) along with another board. By the way, Player's has been hard wired. Those students will never know the joy of a running a 30 piece cable bundle 15 feet in the air. How will they ever learn to color code their master plot so they can trace everything back to the dimmer rack? To think, I slaved to put up "permanent" cable bundles with numbering...all in vain.
















So here's the board that's currently in Player's. Which, by the way, was COMPLETELY unlocked, as was Corner. Good thing I'm an honest girl. I could have had three light boards for sale. :)

I remember looking at this board and thinking, decent. Although I can't remember what kind of board it is now. Please comment at the end if you know. Am I the only idiot who takes photos of light boards? If I'm not also comment so I know I'm not alone.
















So now Corner has the old Player's board PLUS an Insight! What a rip, huh? I remember torturing my poor board op during my Take 5 (my directorial debut) with all the cues on the piece of crapola autotrans. (hi Brian!!!)

















Oh, okay....I did go to the game. Here are some goofy tailgaters. Gotta love the bus with the doghouse on top. Ah....to be in college. :)
















Because Chris was working, he had some la dee dah privileges. Not only did he get to be on the field, but he got to eat up at the skybox. In this photo, he's on the phone with me, telling me "you're not right" because I was talking to him and taking a photo. I thought it was amusing. I had to zoom like crazy cause I was WAY up.

















Here, Victor E Huskie gives a firm talking to to lame-o mascot-in-training Spirit on the dangers of drinking and cheering.
















Loyal student section of the stand empties for a beer run ;) as the half time show takes place.
















Homely Stupid Center with a cool moon.

So that was the end of my day. My intention was to stay for that evening's Dance Concert but I was tired and my butt was frozen. Thanks to those who wished my butt well or lost sleep worrying about if my butt would unfreeze. I am happy to report that all is defrosted; unfortunately it didn't fall off as I hoped. ;)

Because Snapfish requires membership....

I "host" a lot of my photos on Snapfish but annoyingly they do require membership. Some members of family don't like to "join". So I thought I'd put some pictures up here so I can share with the class.