Happy Halloween and Twin Cities shows including 'A (Virtual) Christmas Vacation with The Griswolds' (Hennepin Trust)

           LOOKING FORWARD TO OCTOBER

Where there's a will, there's a way-English Proverb

This week I read an article about how NASA has taken an interest in Venus as a possible planet for us to colonize vs Mars.  The article talked about the possibility of floating blimps above the acid rain. 

I also drive for ride-share. A lot of the homeless are being shuttled to hotels in Bloomington. Thank God! It’s too cold to be homeless in the Twin Cities.

I also learned about the winter carnival this year and how patrons will be able to see the ice sculptures and so forth from their car. I've been writing more than ever and doing my best to post to Medium.com I also did improv this week.

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LOOKING FORWARD to February

This week I went to the recording studio in Brooklyn Center to make episode one of Dark Shadows, you may remember this show from the 60's. We have decided to create an improv version of this show and I play sister Cullen.

On Thursday morning It snowed a couple more inches in Minnesota, and I tried to get out of the driveway of my work place and got stuck and then rang AAA and they didn't say what time they'd tow me out, 

but I'm glad I didn't wait, because I got a call back three hours later.

It was treacherous and there were no cars on the highway at 7AM on a weekday. I scrambled to get the last parking spot near my building and didn't leave till the next day.

Recording Dark Shadows

By the way, I had this thing happen on my chromebook where it changed my email login completely  to another one, and it's made it hard to locate fellow bloggers. Before I could just type one or two letters of a familiar blog name and it would pop up in the search but now it does not. If anyone has a strategy for keeping track of all of their blog readers let me know in the comments below.

 

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Charley Rhodes works at Bold Brew Coffeehouse and has a penchant for matchmaking. Some even say she’s an actual love match charmer, but Charley simply maintains it’s the magic of living in Valentine, Vermont, and the maple cinnamon lattes that inspire her gift of helping others find love. The problem is she’s just as bad at finding love for herself as she is good at finding it for others. With an angelic voice that could melt the coldest of hearts, her single status is even more difficult to grasp. Too bad making whipped cream and chocolate drizzled beverages are the only plans she's had for Valentine's Day since having her heart tossed out like a box of outdated candy hearts three years ago.

I liked this novel so-so. I liked the idea that one of the characters reviews Inns and another is a matchmaker. The novel was kinda Cheesy and the author could have delved deeper into characterization and tone, but it was cute.

Shondaland.com Relationships, no matter their nature, always require hard work. But what happens when, despite the hours put into your relationship, your writing partner and close friend becomes your enemy? This is the reality for Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen in The Roughest Draft.

The duo were once considered the hottest new voices in the literary scene, but their friendship quickly deteriorates after their wildly successful co-written novel is released. Nathan is accused of having an extramarital affair, then each one takes jabs at the other in unflattering interviews. Thanks to a few other fascinating developments that dominate the news cycle, Nathan and Katrina end up not speaking to each other for four years after their messy demise.

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LOOKING FORWARD to February

Happy Valentines Week everyone

Last Saturday I went to learn line dancing at a Hmong dance hall.  By the end of the night ,the hall was filled with people, and everyone was dancing to hip hop.  It was nice to see the comradery among the asian elders, and some of the dancing reminded me a mix between country line dance and Hawaiian dance.

Vietnamese pho

a picture from the disability improv jam

On Wednesday, a friend stopped by my place to give my son this pickachu hat, whose ears flap with each tug of its handle.

I was reading quora and found these fun psychological tricks.

1.On an airplane, if your seatmate is hogging the armrest or being too chatty, just grab the barf bag. Works every time.

2. When you're in an argument, find something to agree on, then push your main point.

3. Be direct and personal when you need things. Instead of asking IF anyone has an EpiPen, ask WHO has an EpiPen.

4. Want to make people instantly like you? Spill you coffee.

Seem weird? But a lot of studies confirm that pointing out our vulnerability actually increases our attractiveness and trustworthiness. BUT you have to make sure they already know you’re credible.

5. When you need to find out a name eg for a lead, you say ‘Oh is John still managing up there?’ They go ‘no it’s Mark now.’ Works with anything, just use a fake.

6. If you look happy to see someone every time you see them, they will eventually be happy to see you.

 

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On Monday, I went to a Yoga class at the Y .  I got locked out of the the class so instead of knocking I go to the front desk and ask them to unlock the door, which is very telling about my personality.

 This week I sat in on a sketch comedy website. We made an inventory list of objects which I later found out was supposed to be in a chosen setting. 

We talked about how the ad companies seem to know all about us online and how they have found ways to send us advertisements based on our interest to our emails and social media sites. Here is an interesting article about a woman who was stalked by an advertising shoe company. https://www.theonion.com/woman-stalked-across-8-websites-by-obsessed-shoe-advert-1819578313

This is a sketch comedy exercise we did this week.

1.Write a list of settings 

2. Then choose a setting and write a list of objects, 

3.Then write a list of objects, then choose an object and write a paragraph from the objects perspective in one of the chosen settings.

Here are some funny things that I heard on the radio this week.

I can’t go to your work party because I have a avocado 🥑 at home that just riped.

Netflix embarrasses me: ‘Are you still watching?'

Whenever the jury wants to solve a murder, they write and say "We need you, here is 15 bucks."

My kids said being a dirty adult must be awesome. I didn’t wanna ruin it for them by saying "honey you are describing depression…, that’s an adult who hasn’t gotten into adulthood"

I picked up a rubber band that has been in the same spot for three years. You see what I’m capable of when I give it my all-when something has been there for longer than three days, it becomes a part of the landscape.

When I want to let people know that I’m done with a conversation, but don’t wanna be rude about it, I comment with a smiley on my last text.

Upcoming Events

To Kill a Mockingbird presented by Hennepin Trust

All rise for Academy Award®-winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork.

Feb 14-19

 

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