What's tan and white and red all over?

Tomato Show, originally uploaded by Bearded Jon.

Me in the Tomato Show!!!

The 3 Barons Renaissance Fair continues this weekend, Saturday and Sunday from noon till 8:30p. Come by and throw tomatoes at me :-D

Mimi - Freshly shaved

Mimi - Freshly shaved, originally uploaded by Bearded Jon.

I Wake Up Every Day With a Song In My Head

Today it was U2, Beautiful Day. Today is the 41st anniversary of my birth.

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

Giving - Sharing - Art-esque

I am playing along in a fun little swap idea I was turned on to by my Flickr friend HIGHLANDGHILLIE.

The first 5 people who respond to this post will get something made by me: it will be my choice, but will, hopefully, be something you can use or enjoy for its aesthetic merits. This offer does have some restrictions & limitations...

*I make no guarantees that you will like it!
*You will receive this item before the end of the year (December 31, 2009) or sooner.
*You will have no idea what the item will be, or when you will receive it.
*To participate, you must re-post this on your blog and put together something to be sent out as 5 surprises of your own. These surprises can be anything....a piece of art, a photo, a poem...whatever you choose.

Lunch

Lunch, originally uploaded by Bearded Jon.

Yesterday Jamie made Panini bread. I helped (aka I read the recipe to her while she did all the dirty work and heckled when she had to get her hands all oily and sticky with dough). Its super yummy. She's a much better baker than she gives herself credit for.

Here's the ingredients: fresh baked panini bread, yellow mustard, deli cut turkey, colby-jack cheese and a few greens thrown on for color and texture (probably spinach and kale and I'm not sure what else; the box in the fridge didn't say).

Resemblance?

Resemblance?, originally uploaded by Bearded Jon.

Lee Post is a scoundrel who has stolen my persona, given it youth and is shamelessly marketing it HERE!

More of Lee's villainous work can be seen HERE!

The Boy Friend and The Ladies

It's been an exhausting run of weeks with a few hours break here and there.

Rehearsals and now performances for The Boy Friend, late nights working on sets and costumes, teaching Boundary Law I and the associated reading and grading and test making and lecturing, the day job, the radio show and then, the afterthought: family.

I've missed my girls. This week I haven't been getting up and going in to be at the office by 6:30a but have been lounging in bed until, GASP, 7:30-ish. This has afforded me some moments cuddling in bed with Genevieve and at least saying "Hi" and getting a hug and a kiss from Madeleine. Mad calls or texts me every morning to let me know she's on her way to catch the bus. It isn't much but it keeps her close to my heart.

Last night was the "pay what you can" preview of The Boyfriend and unlike every night for the past week I was home before 11p. This afforded Jamie and I some couch time with wine and smalltalk. I loath the band Journey but those moments together last night brought their lyric back to me, "I get the joy of rediscovering you." Those moments, the ones where the kids are in bed and we can talk for hours about nothing are what keep us together. Another lyric, "that peaceful easy feeling."

I'm drowning in sentimentality and this post was meant to "Pimp My Show!!!"

The Boy Friend, on stage at Cyrano's Off Center Playhouse Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7p and Sundays at 3p through December 21st with extra special holiday shows at 7p Monday, December 22nd and Tuesday, December 23rd. Visit www.cyranos.org for ticket prices and ordering.

To see more images from The Boy Friend visit Jamie's website: http://jamielangphotography.smugmug.com/