All Over The Map

It has been a busy few days. I have allowed myself to enjoy it because, let's be honest, I haven't really been BUSY for months and months. At night, after the show, I crawl home exhausted, spend a touch of quality time with my iBook and fall into a drugged sleep. My thought have been scattered and so I thought I might point form address some of the random ponderings that I have been musing about as I flit around my crazy, wonderful life...

-- Did you know that, at a minimum, 25,000 species are going extinct every year? And if us humans weren't around only about 1 species would become extinct naturally about every 5 years?

-- I haven't had sex in a very very very long time. This is tragic and I think I may go mad.

-- In my opinion, it is useless to decorate for Christmas a week before the day. Decorating and playing the music and drinking of the eggnog and being in an overly friendly Christmas cheer mood should start the second Halloween is done. To all of you who don't agree - bah humbug.

-- Did you know that there are about 100 Billion galaxies that we know about?? That's 100,000,000,000 galaxies, not to mention planets or solar systems. Try truely wrapping your brain around that one.

-- There are no single men in Saskatchewan. Even the 8 year olds are betrothed. Seriously. I perform for hundreds of them every night and I'm telling you. Single Saskatchewan men are obviously one the species that has become extinct. Jeeezuz.

-- There is nothing simple about doing a 'simple video audition'. There is no such thing as 'throwing one together' and, most importantly, Macs and Sonys do not like each other. Life lessons.

-- I may be experiencing my very first blind date soon. Being single at 30 is so much different than being single at 20. Some days I hate it and some days I can't imagine ever having to go back to taking into consideration someone else's feelings. If nothing else, being single is wonderfully selfish.

-- Saskatchewan is DRY. My lips are chapped, my nose feels like it might bleed every morning when I wake up and I am going through bottles of lotion like a masseuse at a rub-n-tug.

-- I Hate - and I mean HATE - serving food, taking food orders, carrying food to people, bussing dirty food dishes, scraping food, all of it. I am not a waitress. I will never be a waitress. I can't wait until that part is over.

-- This iBook needs more RAM. And a new battery. And a larger hard drive. Not that I mean to complain about the most loyal friend and lover that I have currently in my life, but my iBook is acting liked a moody geriatric. Time to upgrade.

-- Leanne and I are more concerned with what we shall be WEARING in Europe than we are with how the heck we are going to get from country to country. I figure a train is a train, but if I am going to be wearing the same two pair of pants for 9 weeks that decision needs an awful lot of consideration. Priorities.

-- Did you know that in the Milky Way - which is 1 galaxy out of 100 Billion - there are 200 Billion stars, many with planets? So, really, folks, what makes us think that we could possibly be the only intelligent life form?

-- I love Christmas oranges. I can eat them by the box. Sometimes I will just sit down with the box in front of me and eat and eat and eat. Oh yeah, did I mention I have an excessive personality?

-- Am thinking that it might be nice to bring in the new year sitting on a beach and staring at the 200 billion stars reflected in the Pacific Ocean with a good friend or two. Or maybe even by myself. Or maybe with the new found love of my life. Or maybe I will just stay home and watch TV.

-- Life is good.

-- Surrender if freedom.

-- So far, I like this being 30.