I am grumpy...so here...

I think Jennifer Hudson is gorgeous and has an incredible voice.

Photobucket meme

I was reading a random blog and came across this...It was fun, except for the last question...

Here I go.

The rules are:

1. Go to http://photobucket.com
2. Type in your answer to each question in the search box.
3. Use only the first page
4. Copy the html and paste for the answer.



1. What is your relationship status?







2. Who is your celebrity crush?











3. Who is your favourite band?










4. What is your favourite movie?

























5. What kind of pet do you have?










6. Where do you live?









7. Where do you work?










8. What do you look like?











9. What do you drive?
















10. What is your favourite TV show?























11. Describe yourself.

12. What’s your name?







13. What’s your favourite candy?




















14. Do we have anything in common?

Tap Project - Help Unicef Provide Clean Drinking Water

INDIA: A woman and a girl draw water from a pump set up in a tent camp for people displaced by the tsunami in the seaside village of Mudtukadu. UNICEF/ HQ05-0491/Ami Vital

I posted this on my other blog, but on the off chance that someone might read about this and participate in the Tap Project this week, I decided to put it in both places....

I heard about this on the radio (KPOJ 620 AM) on Air America. The Tap Project was in NYC last year for one night and raised $100,000 by charging patrons of restaurants $1 for a glass of tap water. The money goes to help provide clean drinking water to children and impoverished people all over the world. On the website, it says for every $1 earned, a child will have clean drinking water for 40 days.
On the radio this morning, they said the number of children who die each year because they do not have access to clean drinking water. It is the second leading cause of death for children under age 5 worldwide.
To find out more or to find out how to participate THIS WEEK, go to Tap Project.
I know that we take our water for granted in the United States and, I think, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. We consider our water to be pristine for the most part. And we are lucky. Since I started my 101 in 1001 project, I have been making sure I drink at least 64 ounces of water per day. I guess it has become such an important part of my commitment to myself recently that this really caught my ear.
Here is more information about water taken from the Tap Project website:
Tap Water FactsThe Situation· More than 5,000 children are dying every day as a result of water-borne diseases· For each dollar spent on water and sanitation projects, the projected return on investment is from $3 to $34How UNICEF Helps· UNICEF works to improve access to safe water and sanitation facilities in schools and communities, while promoting safe hygiene practices in more than 90 countries around the world· More than 1.2 billion people gained access to improved drinking water between 1990 and 2004 through UNICEF's efforts, and about 1.2 billion gained access to improved sanitation facilities· UNICEF's goal is to cut the number of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation in half by 2015
Another website Water for Life talks about a decade of work on the issue. Just remember, $1 for 40 days of clean water. Small price to pay.

SignPlay.com

I just spent the morning updating SignPlay.com and I re-did my bio. I want to change it all soon, but I don't have the expertise in HTML to do the whole site myself. I am trying to figure out what I want it to look like. I got a sitemeter up there so that I don't lose the stats everytime I make a new main page...As of today (right before I made this dumb error), SignPlay.com had had 4,482 visitors. Not bad for a rinky-dink operation in a rural state serving a teeny-tiny population of people.

Aside from all of that, I got all the 2008-2009 season information up that I had access to and I updated the Yahoogroup calendar so that email reminders will go out a few days before the shows.

I feel a sense of relief. Even though this is purely a volunteer effort, people feel like they can get nasty about things not being updated. :(

So, check it out - www.signplay.com

Enjoy.

Another lazy Saturday

One of the things I hate the most about this job is the affect it has had on my weekends. I don't hate my job, but it is utterly exhausting - emotionally, mentally. The constant level of chaos just makes it hard to want to do anything on the weekends.

Most weekends, as I approach them, consists of broken plans. Mostly I think about cleaning and doing a bunch of errands - clean my car out, wash it, clean my bedroom, do a project.

Usually, I end up waking up really early and watching a movie or something and then I fall asleep again around 10:30am and then the rest of the day is spent avoiding whatever plan I had.

I think I need to write my weekend plans down. Make them as important as the blog or the movies or whatever. Maybe writing here will be my reward for getting a task done.

Hmmm. I like that idea. Let me think about it some more.

Word Cloud

List of 101 things - addendum

Here are things I need to add to my list, but haven't taken the time to do it or don't know what the priority is or it is on the list but I need to change it (in no particular order, but numbered here for clarity and ease of reading):

1. scan all photos and slides of the family
2. change: drink 8 glasses of water per day all 1001 days (too stringent). Change to 5 days out of 7, drink 8 glasses of water per day (goal is always daily, but not always possible). That is 70% of the time or 700/1001 (260/365 X 3). Since I started this, I have succeeded in the 70% mark every week.
3. Set up a rehearsal calendar for shows.
4. Set up rehearsal/show dates on Calendar and request PTO for all appropriate days.
5. get my bedroom cleaned up
6. prepare the subaru for sale
7. get transcript eval done for bachelor's degree
8. take a class summer 2008
9. Take a class every term until I complete my degree


That's it for now. I'm sure there are more.