OT Weekend Natter thread, anyone?

[crispini]

Ya'll check in! What are you up to where you're at?

I had a lovely lie-in. Just got up. I have decided to give myself a pass from exercise today since I went to hot yoga for three days in a row! :) And I'm feeling it a little bit in my knees, so a break would probably not go amiss.

I saw a GREAT movie last night -- "Thumbsucker" -- it's one of those kind of sweet, slightly oddball movies about "life." Coming of age movie. AND, soundtrack by --- THE POLYPHONIC SPREE! It was really cool, it was their Dallas "premiere" of the movie so they came and performed a live song for us and did Q&A about the soundtrack and so on. And a wonderful soundtrack (of course).

Anyhoo -- well, now I'm off to do chores before the DCDP Executive Committee meeting. :boring:

[WolverineDG]

1. not much going on here

:)

went to corpus yesterday to get some stuff done. i found myself wishing we'd get an opening in CC so i could move back there. i also found out that i can pick up the CC AAR station all the way back to laredo :evilgrin: and can listen to it in the car as i drive around town.

i slept in today, went & got some more stuff done & am now bumming on the computer. i'll probably knock off another couple of chapters in Don Quixote. i found out there's a book club meeting on tuesday night & the local university president (resident expert in this novel) will be there to lead the discussion. i need to read chs. 1-14 & 33-35 before then. erk. :)

dg

[crispini]

4. Corpus is SO nice.

When I'm down there, though, I usually go all the way to Port A. I love to camp on the beach at the national park. Damn, I didn't get down there this year. Definitely next summer! :D

[Gogi]

8. Visited that area in my fast receding teenage years...

loved the Corpus area.

[WolverineDG]

10. you should do what the locals do

to avoid buying the annual beach parking permit, go to bob hall pier on north padre, then drive on the hard sand until you see a small sign that says "kleberg county." park on the beach, pitch your tent, build your fire & enjoy. :party:

good times, good times.
dg

[WolverineDG]

11. i should also point out

that "nueces" is an aptly named county & most of the nuts live in port a.... :evilgrin:

dg

[crispini]

12. Now that's a good idea about the permit!

Although last time I went it was like 15 bucks a day -- not exactly going to break me.

Nuts, heh? Sounds like my kinda town. I do like all of those shabby little bars on Port A. It's exactly like a small country town -- on the beach! :D

[WolverineDG]

14. yes, but you don't live in the area

so $15 here & there isn't going to hurt. :) besides, it's an old tradition there to skirt authority....nyah nyah nyah, we're using the beach & not paying you nyah nyah nyah. ;)

dg

[crispini]

15. Exactly. May as well support the state park.

I'd like it to continue to be there for me. :)

[WolverineDG]

16. good point :)

although with the current idiots in charge of our state, nothing's for sure. :(

dg

[Gogi]

2. Stayed in bed till one o'clock, washed my hair but most important of all..

I FED THE CAT! Yesiree bob, most important activity of the day, feeding the cat!

[crispini]

5. Hey....

:applause: ya gotta do what ya gotta do! :P

[Gogi]

7. Yeah, don't want the cat firing the help...

I like my house too much!


This one's for you KO :hi:

[Muffstser]

17. Darn tootin' it's the most important thing!

And I get a reminder of how important it is at 5:00 a.m. every day.

[gkhouston]

3. went to an awards luncheon

for the opera guild for Houston Grand Opera. My friend Mary is a volunteer in the guild and a friend of hers (and acquaintance of mine) was getting the volunteer of the year award so we went to clap indiscriminately. The food was delicious and the centerpieces on the tables were the most godawful things I have ever seen in my life -- pink and blue flowers with plastic lawn flamingos in them. I kid you not.

After the luncheon, Mary and I decided on the spur of the moment to go to the Astros game even though we didn't have tickets yet, so it was a matter of how fast could I trade in the thigh-highs and heels for some tennis shoes and sensible clothes because (as we suspected) it was standing room only. The Astros won, so I'm a pretty happy camper. Oh, and we got the car back from the garage yesterday so I'm happy about that, too.

[crispini]

6. Very nice, were there any performances involved?

I used to have season tickets to the Dallas Opera and really enjoy it. Sounds like you had a fun day!

Our county party meeting was pretty amicable. It was fun to see everyone and get caught up. It certainly is a change from early in the year, when county party meetings were something akin to a bullbaiting. That said, I'm surprised we had a quorum -- bullbaitings usually have much higher attendance than nice sedate factual meetings. :P

[gkhouston]

9. "were there any performances involved?"

they had a soprano and tenor from the Young Artist's Studio sing a few arias and a duet, quite good. And then Mary began regaling some of the folks at the table with some of the things she's done in the name of opera... like the time she volunteered to take over an opera lecture for a friend. The intended audience was folks at the Jewish Community Center, mostly elderly folk. The friend's instructions: "make it fun". Hoo boy, not something you should say to Mary...

To make a long story long, Mary arm-twisted me into helping her with "making it fun" which is how I ended up as one of the contestants in an operatic version of "American Vocal Gladiators". Mary was the referee in her uniform (she was an actual football referee in those days). My character was Tessie Tura, winner of the Dow Corning Professional Advancement Endowment and I made this ridiculous costume -- a fairly credible imitation of a shirred-front evening gown constructed from a bedsheet, stuffed with every pair of pantyhose I owned at the time. Huge fake boobs as an integral part of the dress. My opponent's shtick was that she'd been in opera forever and had slept her way to the top. The woman playing that role didn't have the world's best memory and when she was supposed to sing, "I have slept with every sleazy opera bigwig so I deserve to win" she simply said, "I have slept with... everybody" with such ennui that it brought the house down. When we first went out on the little stage the little old ladies were sort of slack-jawed, but they loved the skit. Add it to the list of bizarro things I have done because of Mary. And the kicker? The house we live in is half a mile from the community center. It's a good thing I wasn't at the closing -- the owner might have been in the audience that day and recognized me!

[crispini]

13. Now THAT's funny!

Sounds like a great time was had by all!