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Except I don't do tequila (Tequilq free since '93!), but daquiriville sounds a little bizarre.

Anyway.

I'm at the beach, updating on an iPad, which is the most trying part of my vacation thus far.

Here's some things I've noticed:

-Dolphins are EVERYwhere down here. People decorate with the foul things. Ugh.
-Vacations elicit more activity than being home does. Swimming, biking, walking on the beach... All good.
-Sandcastles are serious business. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise.
-The Hunger Games trilogy can be read in 36 hours, if you've nothing else pressing on your time. I loved it, apart from the first person-present tense-fragmented sentences nightmare. And who is Suzanne Collins? Real or not real? The fact that it's marketed as a children's book horrified me, a little. Thoughts?

That's it. I have to go make myself presentable for dinner out, and finish a glass of wine. Life is trying, here in paradise.

Current Location: Sanibel Island, FL
Current Music: waves outside the window

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☂ It's the anniversary of the Allies invasion of Normandy, but more to the point of this post, it's my wedding anniversary. Thirteen years ago,

nolankyle and I were married and then proceeded to re-enact storming the beaches of France and a World War II-like battle for the next four years. Fortunately, we achieved peace just shy of nuclear detonation. Good Times.

☂ Summer rocks. I have lain by the pool with a book for the last week, while my kids exhausted themselves playing soccer, basketball, swimming and diving. Life does not get better than that.

☂ There were two wildfires last week; they burned hundreds of acres of land to the north and south of my house, and I can see all of the charred earth when I step outside my front door. We need rain. In a BIG, big way.

☂ The Opening titles of Game of Thrones are mesmerizing. It's like the Sesame Street mini-documentary on making crayons - I can't look away.

☂ I'm still slogging through the Outlander series. Seriously, the woman is wordy to the point of distraction. She uses a hundred words when four would really do - but I still stayed up until 1 am this morning finishing the fourth. So I guess I like them. Really, I like the characters, not the book.

☂ The first six minutes of the new season of True Blood looks... interesting. Here's the link, if you're curious.

☂ My twenty year high school reunion is in October. Twenty. Years. That makes me a little nauseated, frankly, for two reasons. One: Twenty years, and two, twenty damn years. Ugh. I hope I'm at least thin by then.

Current Location: master bedroom

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1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

maureen gave me the letter S:

1. Sara Crewe - If you don't know who she is, you skipped out on a big part of being a little girl (if, indeed, you are a girl). She's the title character in The Francis Hodgson Burnett novel, A Little Princess. Sara has qualities I always wanted as a little girl: benevolence, goodness and an unfailingly kind character, even under adversity. Plus, she was rich. More money than GOD. But, whatever.

2. Sookie Stackhouse - Can I just say that I adore these books? She's just refreshingly real (with the exception of the whole mind reading/dating vampires thing), and she's imperfect. A little trashy. Heart of Gold. Pure love.

3. The Scarecrow - (Hush, Celeste.) My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz, and I adore the scarecrow. He's so paternal and sweet, and Ray Bolger rocks. The cut scene from the movie, The Jitterbug? Pretty fancy footwork in that!

4. Sabina (Lily Sabina Fairweather) - The maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. A fantastically flawed and layered character that I would play again in a heartbeat. Favorite line? When discussing the ice age, she says, "Nobody actually starves – you can always eat grass or something – that ice business – why, it was a long, long time ago” - Sabina, Skin of our Teeth, Act 1

5. Sam Winchester - Oh, my word, how adorable is he? Honestly, I'm more of a Dean!fangirl, but Sam? In the rabbit's foot episode where he loses his shoe? Oh, I just want to cuddle him! And frankly, Jared Padelecki is just pretty to look at. :D

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Location: the bar in the kitchen - I'm having a latte, though.
Current Music: speeders on the forest moon of Endor :P

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( What's in the Stack... )

Crap news: So I didn't get a role in Into the Woods. I'm okay with it. The good thing about acting is that there is ALWAYS another audition. The next one is in September for a TBA show at the Adventure Space. So that's good. When God closes a door, He opens a window. (Trite, but true.) Anyhow, I won't be crazy busy at the beginning of school, so I can devote more time to the boys, both of whom want to play sports (!?).

Great News: 1. Nolan is in Atlanta this week, so I've been able to read all I want.
2. I finished the August Podcast and it will be up whenever

lyndsiefenele has a free moment, I'm sure.
3. Nolan ran into the talent agent that he used to be with on the plane (to Atlanta) and she said that she was interested in representing me. (BIG yay.)
4. I went by the site for our new house (We're building a new house!) and they were moving dirt to get ready to pour the concrete foundation! (ENORMOUS yay!)
5. I spent $300 at Wal-Mart today, but got both boys school supplies, new underwear, socks and tshirts, some jeans & shirts, and groceries for the week. (This is filed under great news because this means I won't have to go back there anytime soon. I deplore Wal-Mart. I get cranky in the parking lot.)
6. I leave in 5 days for NYC! I'm going with my mother and sister for a week. I'm so excited I can't see straight!

So. Life really is fabulous. There's just a little hiccup every now and again. :)

Current Location: home
Current Music: After the Thrill is Gone - The Eagles

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