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"It's gonna be a happy new year . . ."
12/29/99



Before anyone rags me for not updating in six weeks, let me explain.

I’ve been busy.

I suppose you want more than that. Ok. I guess you’re entitled to a full explanation.

Since my last entry, I have:
  • Stayed late and worked through lunches
  • Endured the horror that is non-cornbread-based dressing
  • Kept busy as hell
  • Helped my new in-laws move
  • Braved malls full of last minute shoppers
  • Missed more than a few hours sleep
  • Written, cast, re-cast, directed, and produced a Christmas show
  • Lost a friend to a sudden heart attack
  • Attended the classiest memorial service of all time
  • Still not done my laundry
  • Been tempted to bitch-slap a rude relative who has no respect for others in the family
  • Purchased a DVD player
  • Gotten lots of new toys
  • And had the first/best Christmas ever with my new husband.

    I have wanted to write about all of these things, but it just didn’t happen. I’m sure that I will revisit them all at some point for your reading pleasure and my therapy. For now, you’ll have to settle for a list. I stole the idea from Harold. I’m sure he’ll forgive me.

    Things that I love about 1999:

    Marriage: October 16, 1999 – a day which shall live in infamy

    Tim Burton: Have you seen Sleepy Hollow?!?!

    Cake: If you don’t get this, you haven’t seen Dress to Kill.

    Disney World: It really is the happiest place on Earth!

    Best Friends: You really learn who your friends are when you get married.

    Hallucinating Elvis: You’ll know what I mean when you hear it. Release date 3/00

    The Blair Witch Project: Before it’s machine took over – “Scary as Hell!”

    Nephews: You get to spoil them and then give ‘em back.

    Let it Flow: Three nights, three shows, backstage passes.

    The West Wing: The best new show on television.

    American Pie: Guilty pleasure. I’ll never look at a flute the same way again.

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I’m becoming addicted. If Oz comes back, I’ll be a junkie by mid-season.

    Paid health insurance: ‘Cause paying COBRA sucks!

    Goth: It’s fun to revisit your youth.

    Things that I’m not so keen on:

    Hype: The millennium is not until next year

    The plague: I suffer.

    Death: They say it comes in cycles and I hope this one is over. This year gave me too many absent friends.

    Security Guards: Especially ones that shove you and make you tear cartilage in your knee.

    Jar Jar Binks: Damn, that guy is annoying!

    Wrecking Balls: I’m still a little bitter about Auditorium North Hall

    Hip Urban Youth: These l’il gangst’a wan’a be’s are trashin’ the crib, man.

    Kenwood Customer Service: Because my car stereo is still not fixed.

    Format Radio: Now that the Phantom’s in town, I’ll never switch back!

    Non-Profit Volunteers: The things I do for the love of theatre . . .

    Cat fights:More specifically cat piss . . . on my clothes.

    Ignorance: Hello!! Did you people sleep through school?? Do you care??

    Re-Action News Five: Big Dave is hurting up there.

    Puff Daddy: No-No-Not Duran Duran you don’t!


    And that’s my take on the last year, of the last century of the millennium.

    If the power is still on and the ya-hoo’s haven’t blown up the planet, I’ll update more frequently in the New Year. Our new computer gets here on the 17th – I’ll have no more excuses.


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