happy happy joy joy

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!

OK, I am so very excited about something that my friend Andrea has arranged for the hockey mad Muffy and myself. It's EVEN BETTER than I originally thought!!

VERY!
EXCITED!

I predict this carries me through an entire month until it actually happens and then the afterglow is probably going to last until Christmas.

SO!
VERY!
EXCITED!

No, I can't tell you here. If you know me ask me in person - it's funnier anyway, to see me jump around!

Another installment of the continuing saga...

..of the surreal world of bingo fundraisers.

Last night I had to chair another bingo to raise money for my theatre. It is part of my job that often conflicts with things I'd actually like to be doing like for instance - watching the first hockey game of the season against the Ducks.

Luckily the bingo ladies now have a TV in the back office and kindly let me watch the game when it wasn't too busy.

So I'm watching and we score (woohooo!) and I'm all happy and then head back to the counter to wait on a young, reasonably hip looking (for bingo) couple. They see that I am happy/excited and look at me questioningly. I say "The Oilers just scored! It's one nothing!"

And they say....

Him: "Who are the Oilers?" Sarcastic
Her: "What do they have to do with bingo?" snarkily

To which I have no response.

I think this may be one of the funniest things ever to happen to me at bingo.



Which is good - because the game ended up being the opposite of funny.
boo.

music to soothe the soul....

Every once in awhile I buy a CD that speaks to me in a way that is very profound. A disc that somehow underscores where I am in a given moment. Music that lives and breathes as though it is a part of me. It doesn't happen very often.

Dan Bern's Breathe is one such CD.

All I'm gonna do is watch the rain today
Bubble down the hill
Maybe it'll tell me something I don't know
Lord knows nothing else will
And I can't complain, no one's died
And all the pain is inside
As I watch the rain fall down from the sky

~from "Rain"

It is helpful to be given the words for how I feel in this moment. Wonderfully comforting to have them already put together for me.

Stop...
Stop what you're doing...
Stop what you're doing and breathe
Stop what you're doing and breathe

~ from "Breathe"

So good. So exactly what I needed.

Thanks Dan.