My New Year's Resolution is HAPPINESS!

Terrie goes BOOM!

I have never witnessed anything like it. Terrie has a dance piece in Familiar Strangers in which she dances with her eyes closed. In her mind she was skittering stage left, when in reality she was skittering towards the edge of the stage. She went right over the lights and somehow landed on her feet.

She immediately shouts, "I'm ok!" We are all standing there looking anxious because the fall was really harsh. To just fall off the stage is one thing, but to fall onto lights, and THEN off the stage? Yeah. Not good.

She gets on the stage and she keeps saying to everyone who is hyperventilating around her, I'm ok! I'm ok, I swear! No. She wasn't. She lifted her foot to show everyone she was fine and the blood was a-pourin'. She had sliced a nice gash on the bottom of her right foot across her callous, and never felt it because of how calloused her foot was.

We all jumped into action getting peroxide, gauze, bandaids... We are a well oiled machine!! Dr. Katie was there to bandage her all up, thank goodness.

I couldn't decide what was funnier. Watching people come up to see if she was ok, then recoiling at all of the blood (which was SUCH a pretty color against the black marley) or while we were bandaging Terrie and trying to stop the bleeding, Terrie never stopped saying, I'm ok! I'm ok!

The best news of all? It was all caught on tape.

Lost a tit mouse.

I went down 0.4 lbs this week. Not great, but not horrible. I could have gained.

In other news, bring on the egg nog and the buckets full of Christmas cookies!! This weekend will be a GORGE FEST!

My OTHER soundtrack!

Opening Credits:

"Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Waking Up:
"Funkytown" - Lipps, Inc.

First Day of School:
"Two Lost Souls" - Damn Yankees

Falling in Love:
"Shade of a Shadow" - Teitur

Fight Song:
"T-E-A-M" - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Breaking Up:
"Amazing Grace" - Charlotte Church

Prom:
"The Big Dollhouse" - Hairspray

Life:
"Feeling Good" - Nina Simone

Mental Breakdown:
"There's a Lull in my Life" - Natalie Cole

Driving:
"Pretty Little Picture" - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Flashback:
"Next Time" - Louis Prima

Getting Back Together:
"A Boy Like That" - West Side Story (OH MY GOD!!!)

Wedding:
"I Speak 6 Languages" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Birth of a Child:
"I Don't Want to Say Goodbye" - Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack

Final Battle:
"War is a Science" - Pippin (SHUT UP!!)

Death Scene:
"My Unfortunate Erection" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Funeral Song:
"Edge of Seventeen" - Stevie Nicks

End Credits:
"Oh Happy Day" - Sister Act 2 - Back in the Habit

I love me some SECRETS!

Ok, so this is not MY posted secret, but if you picture yourself doing this, it kind of cracks you up!!

The Michele Roberts Soundtrack

Thank you LOU!

Here's how it works:

1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Opening Credits:

"The Kids are Alright" - The Who

Waking Up:

"A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" - The Monkeys

First Day of School:

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" - Strontium 90 (acoustic demo)

Falling in Love:

"General Grievous" - Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith

Fight Song:

"Glittering Girl" - The Who

Breaking Up:

"Sensation" - The Who

Prom:

"Who Dat?" - The Jury

Life:

"No Time this Time" - The Police

Mental Breakdown:

"Visions of the Night" - The Police

Driving:

"Soon" - Yes

Flashback:

"Mornay's Dream" - Braveheart

Getting Back Together:

"Watch Yourself" - Eric Clapton

Wedding:

"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" - The Beatles

Birth of a Child:

"(This Could Be) The Last Time" - The Who

Final Battle:

"You Can't Do That" - The Beatles

Death Scene:

"How Insensitive" - Stan Getz

Funeral Song:

"I Love Music" - The O'Jays

End Credits:

"Friendship" - Tenacious D

**As I am SURE you all know, I used Todd's iTunes for this experiment. I will try it with mine later, but it will be all showtunes. Just a warning**

GOOOAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!

I lost 2.6 pounds this week!! I am OFFICIALLY at goal. WOOHOO!

Now, let's try for that secondary goal. Which means.... 5 more pounds baby!

Goodbye Peter Boyle!

One of my favorite Peter Boyle moments ever.

Ok, I am CRYING!

SO mean, but SO funny!

Gross.

During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool, you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine.

In an average day, your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles, etc.)

An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

Annually, you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.


Annually, you will shake hands with six men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.

COME ON BESSIE!

Bad back and all, I lost 0.8 this week!! (0.4 to go!!)

I got a crown and my picture taken after I weighed in:

SeaWorld's Punishment For Shamu

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Thursday morning, I am at the gym doing my third set of heavy squats. In fact, I was on my LAST SQUAT when I realized my legs were not helping me anymore. So, I lifted with my back and SNAP CRACKLE POP, I see stars. I knew immediately what I had done. It had happened during Urinetown when I wasn't supporting my lower back while jumping. It just went out.

I went to the Chiropractor Thursday afternoon and he was able to stretch me out, and crack me pretty good but doing the show wasn't fun. Marc said I looked like I was Mama in Mama's House. The second I got off stage and the adrenaline wore off, my muscles hardened on me. I went back to the Chiropractor on Friday and he took x-rays. First of all, because of the muscle spasms, my lower back spinal column is no longer in the shape of a "C". It is now straight which is causing my body to pitch forward while walking.

I also found out that I am in Phase 1 of Disc Degeneration Disease. It sounds worse that it is. Actually, it is not a disease at all. This is something I read on a website: "Despite its rather dramatic label, degenerative disc disease is fairly common, and it is estimated that at least 30% of people aged 30-50 years old will have some degree of disc space degeneration, although not all will have pain or ever receive a formal diagnosis. In fact, after a patient reaches 60, some level of disc degeneration is deemed to be a normal finding, not the exception."

We have spaces between every disc that act as a cushion. If you have repetitive injuries, these cushions begin to calcify and harden. Eventually, without treatment the vertebrae will fuse together. Not good. It is not something that can be stopped, but it can be slowed down by stretching everyday. I CAN DO THAT! For those of you who want to know what it looks like on an x-ray, here you go!!




Basically, the spaces between the discs are getting thinner which could possibly be why I have lost an inch of height since college!! Interesting! By the time I am 60, I could be shorter than my Aunt Judy!! Todd and I could go to a Halloween party as Chewbacca and Yoda and be proud of the fact that we are "Life SIZED" versions of the characters! SWEET.