A Mixed Bag....

....kind of weekend.  I was involved in a wonderful reading of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike with my Zoom theater company.  I'm on the fence about that script.  It's written by Christopher Durang (sorry if y'all already knew that), who's famous for his absurd and hilarious and whip-smart dialogue and very dark humor.  Years ago, I was in one of his plays called The Marriage of Bette and Boo, kind of sad, kind of hilarious, and a great experience for me.  Although it was an odd production for me in the sense that everyone treated me as if I were the character I was playing, noted by the character playing my husband that I was "the dumbest white woman in America."  Dumb I am not, but for some reason, most of the cast treated me as if I was Soot, the character I was playing.  It made for an interesting dressing room, to say the least.  Oh, my gosh, now thinking about that production, I had awesome costumes!!  The lovely gentleman doing wardrobe especially loved my character and gave me THE BEST outfits and accoutrements to wear!  He had so much fun dressing me, like I was a doll or something....all in all, a wonderful albeit strange experience with that show.

The mixed bag part of my weekend....still reeling from my friend's death and can't stop thinking about him.  I hope to have closure next weekend when the memorial is scheduled to take place.  Gee, we've lost so many people in the last few years.....from the very young to the very old and everything in between.  I know that's life....but it's probably the hardest part of life, isn't it?  Losing people you've known forever, not having them in this world when it seems like they've always been there, even if you haven't seen them in a while.  Feels kind of like that with celebrity deaths or famous people deaths as well.  I'm not sure why it saddened me so to hear of Raquel Welch's passing.  My partner and I watched Kansas City Bomber in her honor :-)  She was really terrific in that!  And, oh, my goodness, what a stunning woman....

Can't close on that note.  I did manage to get two lovely walks in, have fabulous conversations with my sister, my niece, and one of my BFFs, finished a wonderful Henning Mankell Wallander book (I just started the series - love!!!), did yoga, and ate amazing food that my partner created (he's magic in the kitchen....and in life in general :-)  So my mixed bag kind of weekend was overall wonderful.  Life is short.  Enjoy the hell out of it.

This lily in this picture (my artsy fartsy picture :-) was closed tighter than a drum when my partner brought it home (he brings me flowers most every Friday!), and when it finally opened, it was HUGE and stunk up the whole cottage!