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New posts below. Keep reading. Also, lot's more photos and posts to come, Star Wars: The Concert. Babysitting Henry, play pictures.

Self Portrait Practice.

Aren't we a handsome couple? I've been trying to improve my self-portrait photo taking skills. This is one of my recent attempts.

Shane's company took us to the Season Opener for the OKC Thunder. It was fun. The best part of the game was watching the Thunder girls in the bleachers. So, there is no room on the sidelines (are they called sidelines in basketball?) under the basket for them to congregate so they sit in the bleachers behind the basket. Each girl has a stool on a separate row and they sit up there and chair dance. Now I don't mean to be rude or offensive but, have you ever seen an aerobics class at a nursing home or a senior center? The kind where everyone sits in a chair and moves their arms all around or bends and straightens their legs out in front of them. Well, that's what the Thunder girls looked like, they look like their are doing chair aerobics. It was classic and hilarious.

This what Shane and his roommate did to solve the what game to watch dilemma last night. OSU Texas was on the bigger TV with audio. The OU game was on the smaller TV with no sound. Course, the OSU wasn't much to watch, we turned it off midway through the fourth quarter. Something about seeing hopes and dreams crushed on a 50 inch TV makes it so much more painful.

Going Gray

Here's a question for the ages, How many gray hairs do you have to have before it's time to start coloring your hair?

I find new ones every day and some of them are getting pretty long, so I know they've been there for a while. I do not want to be going gray at 30. My mother who is almost 60 only started to gray in the last two years or so. Apparently I take after my father who has been gray or going gray as far back as I can remember.

I do not feel like a real adult, but it seems like the gray serves to remind me that yes, I am getting older. Of course then there is the inevitable voice that always pipes up in the back of my mind, tick tock, tick tock, running out of time on the old biological ticker. Then again, lately everything reminds me of how much I want to start a family, so this is just one more.

Ugh, what's a girl to do? I refuse to grow old gracefully this early, but I don't know if my gray hairs require drastic measures just yet. What would you do?

In other news, what happened to the cowboys last night? That was brutal.

Loved the extra hour of sleep this morning, also love that it will be lighter outside when I wake up. These past few weeks of getting up in complete darkness is really kicking my butt. I've been rolling out of bed later and later. Luckily, I still manage to make it to work on time, just not looking my best. The days when I have the time to apply my face, the kids are so complimentary. It makes me wonder how terrible I look when I'm not fixed up, must be pretty scary.

 

This is a picture I took of my nieces and nephews at Lake Arcadia on my 30th birthday. Pretty cool, huh?

Okay, so it's been far too long since I posted anything. Not much new on the horizon. It's fall break today and tomorrow, so that's good. I'm watching Ellen on the DVR this morning and Taye Diggs is her guest. He is so awesome! I think it's unfair for people to be that attractive. It makes all us average looking people look so much worse.
I'm in the middle of directing a play right now at school. It's called All the Bases. It's about a group of students who decide to put on a play, but before doing that they send out a survey to their audience asking them what they would or wouldn't like to see in the play. Then they spend so much time trying to fulfill the audience's wishes that they never get around to the play. I'm trying a very interesting concept, because I want the kids to understand the play within the play that we're doing, I'm really pushing the idea that it needs to be student centered and focused. Our rehearsals this week were all student led. I observed, but let them run the rehearsal. They helped one another with lines and blocking, helped each other stay on task, discussed the set and costumes. The rehearsals were so productive and smooth, it made me feel totally disposable. However, I'm sure that they work we've been putting in the past few weeks had a lot to do with how smooth the student run rehearsals went.
It's been hard for me to relinquish control over some of the aspects of this show to allow the students to experience the theme and idea of this play. I wanted them to feel as the students in the play do that they have created this production, I want to give them ownership of it. That means though, that I have very little control over the set design or costume choices, which is hard for me because I have very specific ideas about what the set and costumes should be. I don't want to take that privilege away from the cast.
In addition to the play, I'm busy with yearbook stuff. I'm the yearbook adviser this year, I wish I could say that it's going smoothly, but it is definitely a learning process for me. I'm trying to remain positive about it and know that each year will get easier. Once again, I run into my control issues, I want to design every page, but it's important for the staff to do that. So basically, I'm a control freak.