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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries August 12th, 2009: As per request: Please, if you are ever anywhere near Golden, or heading up to the mountains on either Hwy 6 or I-70, stop by Golden Grounds Coffee 2421 Ford Street. We are on the roundabout across from Golden High School where South Golden Road meets Ford. www.goldengroundscoffee.com MWAH! January 28th, 2009: TV Meme Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever: 1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch. 2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of. 3. Strikeout the shows you've never seen. 4. Post your answers 50. Quantum Leap 49. 48. Veronica Mars 47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 46. Sex & The City 45. Farscape 44. Cracker 43. Star Trek 42. 41. 40. Life on Mars (both the UK and US series) Okay, I haven't watched any of the US series. I'm mad they replaced Colm Meaney 39. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 38. Curb Your Enthusiasm 37. Star Trek: The Next Generation 36. Father Ted 35. Alias 34. Frasier 33. CSI: Las Vegas 32. Babylon 5 31. 30. 29. ER 28. Fawlty Towers 27. Six Feet Under 26. Red Dwarf 25. Futurama 24. Twin Peaks 23. The Office - Hey, how come they mentioned Life on Mars was originally a british series, but not The Office? 22. 21. Angel 20. Blackadder 19. Scrubs 18. Arrested Development 17. South Park 16. Doctor Who 15. Heroes 14. Firefly 13. Battlestar Galactica Old or new? I've seen the old series a gazillion times. I'm told that I need to give the new series another chance... 12. Family Guy 11. Seinfeld 10. 09. The X-Files 08. 07. Friends 06. 24 05. Lost 04. The West Wing 03. The Sopranos 02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 01. The Simpsons December 4th, 2008November 25th, 2008: Why no... I'm not getting a damn thing done again today. Why? <div style="width:300px; background:white; color:black; padding: 10px;text-align:center; border: 1px solid #333333;">Your rainbow is shaded<b> blue and orange.</b><br><br><div style="background: #bf5140"> </div><div style="background: #bfa640"> </div><div style="background: #bfd040"> </div><div style="background: #40bf40"> </div><div style="background: #409dbf"> </div><div style="background: #4051bf"> </div><div style="background: #9551bf"> </div><br>What is says about you: You are a strong person. You appreciate friends who get along with one another. Others are amazed at how you don't give up. You share hobbies with friends and like trying to fit into their routines.<br><br><a href="http://spacefem.com/quizzes/rainbow">Fin November 23rd, 2008: Fun Memage Gakked from gypsylady:01. What's the last DVD you watched? Parts of "Kung Fu Panda." Last thing I watched all the way through was "The Tinkerbell Movie." 02. What are you wearing at the moment? A grey bag that I like to call a nightgown. 03. Who is your favorite writer? Er, um...jeez. I can't say I really have one. I'm such a literature whore that I love so much of it I can't say. I'm damn fond of Suzannah Clarke, though... 04. What is your favorite scent? Many moons ago there was a gal who sold scents here at the Larkspur RenFaire. She had a mix called "Gypsy Gold" that I loved. It was amber and sandalwood and rose and something else I've never been able to identify. 05. What's that one movie you can watch over and over again and never get tired of? The closest I come is "The Princess Bride." 06. What do you drink the most? Water. 07. Is there a useless thing that you cannot brace yourself to throw out? That is such a loaded question... All the poetry I wrote as an angsty teen. 08. What is your occupation? What do you do there? I am a student of Music Education at Metropolitan State College of Denver. I learn that being wicked smart does not make things that take physical talent any easier. 09. What did you want to be when you grew up? A ballet dancer, a singer, and a teacher. I think I missed out on the first one... 10. What are your favorite song(s) of the moment? "When October Goes" written by the incomparable Barry Manilow. The interpretation I love is by Nancy LaMott. 11. Which characters are overrated? Characters? How can a character be over-rated? Actors can be over-rated (people thinking they are better than they are) but I don't get how a character can be over-rated. 12. What 3 people would you invite to dinner? Ann, Paul, and Chuck. 13. What is your current desktop? Er, um... sadly I have to look... Hang on... Ah, right! A picture of the kids that was taken about 8 years ago. 14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is? Well the person I gakked this from is wonderful and giving. And wicked funny to boot! 15. What are you afraid of? That I will never get freaking ear training down. 16. Where would you love to go in your next holidays? Ireland or Italy. 17. What are you into right now? Literature. I plan to spend my winter break reading what we didn't get assigned for class out of the American Literature anthology we used. 18. What did you do today? Cleaned house, went to Target, avoided vomiting... 19. What do you want? Answers. 20. What should you be doing right now? Getting to sleep. 21. What's the meaning behind your LJ username/name/nicknames you go by? I love Pirates and Fairies. Go figure. November 3rd, 2008: This was fun... Gakked from all sorts 'o folks: Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test... Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.10 Impressionist, 0 Islamic, 0 Ukiyo-e, -17 Cubist, -4 Abstract and -8 Renaissance!
Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects. Impressionist paintings are balanced, use colored shadows, use pure color, broken brushstrokes, thick paint, and scenes from everyday life or nature. People that like Impressionist paintings may not alway be what is deemed socially acceptable. They tend to move on their own path without always worrying that it may be offensive to others. They value friendships but because they also value honesty tend to have a few really good friends. They do not, however, like people that are rude and do not appreciate the ideas of others. They are secure enough in themselves that they can listen to the ideas of other people without it affecting their own final decisions. The world for them is not black and white but more in shades of grey and muted colors. They like things to be aestically pleasing, not stark and sharp. There are many ways to view things, and the impresssionist personality views the world from many different aspects. They enjoy life and try to keep a realistic viewpoint of things, but are not very open to new experiences. If they are content in their live they will be more than likely pleased to keep things just the way they are. Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy Now I want to go to the art museum! October 19th, 2008September 15th, 2008: Coolness!! Got this one from Your result for Reincarnation Placement Exam... Gypsy Camp57% Intrigue, 39% Civilization, 79% Humanity, 58% Crowded, 42% Busy.
You sing! You dance! You flee from the authorities! You were a bit difficult to place, because you like civilization and humanity -- but when it comes to work, you don't really fit into the system, the ruts and the rituals, that modern civilization embraces. You like your own ways... your old ways. We've placed you among a hardy Gypsy family. They'll have you plucking a violin before you can talk, and dancing before you can walk. The road is your home, and your horses are members of your family. You get to wear lots of shiny things. We expect that you'll have a good life. Even if your people are surrounded by a world where they don't really fit in, they have each other, an oasis of compatibility in an unbalanced world. We know you'll make the most of it! Take Reincarnation Placement Exam at HelloQuizzy : Friday Five on Monday Gakked from gypsylady, 'cause they interested me...1. If you were to die today, what would your last words be? Well doesn't *that* just figure? 2. What would you want your epitaph to say? She followed her heart and her principles. 3. What song would you want played at your funeral? I want Ben Riggs to sing "It's Not Easy Being Green." 4. In lieu of flowers, what should loved ones do in your honor? Donate to Metro, or the Botanical Gardens, or Legacy Bands. 5. What unfinished business would you wrap up? I guess they mean if you knew it was coming... I would write letters to the people I love, telling them all the things that I never say or don't say enough. August 21st, 2008: Updatey School is eating my brains. I am taking 14 credit hours this semester, 11 of them in music. That means practice, practice, practice. At least I don't have to practice theory, though the lab is kicking my butt already. Lessee... This is for posterity so please, be honest... Music Theory II - No practice, but homework... at least occasionally. Awesome professor. I read the chapter and it's Greek. Hoyt explains and it all makes sense! Yay Hoyt! Class Piano II - Between half an hour and an hour practice daily. Still can't play hands together for poo. Voice Performance - I don't have to perform this semester, though I can choose to. I do get to watch people I care about sing beautiful music twice a week! Music Technology for Educators - No practice, but I get to begin my online teaching portfolio! And learn to use cool music software! And my prof does things like attribute the sample grading program to "Jean-Luc Picard!" American Lit, Civil War to the Present - My one non-music course. Great professor and good class... Yesterday the professor apologized for the amount of reading we're doing. Mrf? It's a 2000 level lit class! Of *course* ther's a lot of reading! Prolly half an hour to an hour a day. Get to write a 7 page paper on any author from the period whether we read them in class or not. The world is my freaking oyster!! :-) Theory Lab - Minimum practice time15 minutes a day (each) on sight reading, rhythm, keyboarding (yes...different than piano), and ear training. Ear training sucks! Private Voice - Half an hour a day, minimum. Plus some written assignments and a rehearsal journal. Awesome voice coach! For those of you who know/care... he is a friend of Voice Master Robbie G! Women's Choir - Half an hour a day practicing. But MB picks the most awesome music so that makes it easy! ;-) Diction for Singers - Minimal homework and I get to spend 110 minutes a week with Dr. Nam... Can't beat that. So there it is... My insanity... ;-) Somewhere in there I get half an hour with a professional accompanist who works for the department. Which is a bit of a coup. This semester there are more music students than the accompanists can accomodate, so about 1/4 of us have to work with peers in the piano department. I did this last semester with one fantastic accompanist and one who, well, wasn't. I am also working on-campus for the tutoring center. I am Peer Advocate for a cohort of 20 people with an awesome Supplemental Instructor through the "Freshman Achievement Program." The idea here is to help traditional students successfully make the transition from High School to College. So far only one student has consistently taken advantage of peer study time. Hopefully as things get really swinging after the DNC, that will change. I also have one private tutoring student who I meet with for the first time tomorrow. AND we just started rehearsals for Blithe Spirit for Gaslight Theatre Company. We will be running Fridays and Saturdays in October. Come see! Come see! Oh, AND... DWC starts rehearsing in a couple of weeks. I wonder if anyone will remember what I look like come December? ;-) August 12th, 2008July 29th, 2008: It's a Game! Goodness I'm bored. This stuck on my butt thing is not working for me. Yay extensive bi-lateral pneumonia! July 10th, 2008: Meme Gakked from questaree...My Personality
July 9th, 2008: Request... Does anyone have a kennel that we can borrow for Abby while we're in Florida? She'll need to be kenneled if the house I'm hoping she'll stay at has a showing. July 7th, 2008: Epic Project I have taken on the project of scanning in the two suitcases full of letters that my parents left behind. It's taking forever, because I feel the need to read as I go. :-) Initially I read mostly my father's infatuated letters to my mother from 1954. I was almost dreading reading my mother's letters to him. At the point I "met" them, they had been married for 15 years and my mother was planning to divorce my father when she found out she was pregnant with me. Had I been another miscarriage, she would have followed through. My mother was unhappy with her life and never failed to let my father (and me) know it. She felt she had frittered away her youth and my father had held her back. She told me that she married my father because he could get her out of New York. She never talked of them being in love. I finally picked up one of her letters to scan and, with great trepidation, read it. I was fantastically pleased to note that she sounded just as ridiculously infatuated with him as he did with her. In one letter, she told him that if her orders to ship to where he was stationed in France didn't come soon she'd "die." Not kidding! :-) Of course, she was 19 years old... It was just good to see that at some point, she must have either really loved him or faked it really well early on. When she died, my father sat on the edge of his bed and asked me, "We loved each other, didn't we?" At the time I said, "Of course you did!"... and I thought I was lying to him. I'm glad to know now that I wasn't. I also just found my father's fee statement from fall semester at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. His tuition and fees for 18 credit hours was $315.75. Tee-hee! Oh! and I also found a letter where a girl (who obviously had quite a thing for my dad) said that he "might just be a wolf" and another from a girl he had been interested in who, in my opinion, let him down pretty easy. He must have taken it okay, because I found letters she wrote him the next year. I think I would have liked Shirley. She was wicked smart. :-) More as I find stuff... July 1st, 2008: Moar memage This one from : Memeage Gakked from gypsylady1. What I was doing 10 years ago: I was living in a <900 square foot, 2 bedroom apartment that we rented with the idea that it would be Chuck, Andrew, Hannah (who was an infant) and myself. By July I was 5 months pregnant with Riley and I think about then we'd found out that Steve was coming to live with us as well. So we were looking at being 6 people in an apartment rented for 5. I was watching friend's kiddos for extra cash. 2. What 5 things are on on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order): Hmmm... Go to the travel agent to pick up luggatge tags for the trip, make dinner, laundry, take Jordan home, Peter Pan rehearsal. 3. Snacks I enjoy: Popcorn, proscutti and cheese, raw veg 4. Things I would do if I was a billionaire: Travel, pay off my friends' debt, buy a house, fund a foundation for kids whose disabilities aren't severe enough for group homes, but are unable to care for themselves. 6. Places I have lived: Massachusets: I dunno where we lived. I was 6 months old. ;-) Colorado: Colorado Springs, Arvada, Aurora, Westminster, Littleton Oregon: Beaverton June 30th, 2008: PSA Courtesey of teal_cuttlefish...Do not, do not, do not allow your daughters, nieces, friends to become enlisted in the public school's Body Works program. This is an insiduious and dangerous anti-obeisity program. The qualifications are based on BMI, which is notoriously deceptive. The program is also deeply misogynistic as it targets girls and not boys as well as promoting other peoples family values. This program recommends dangerously low caloric and fat intakes for young girls. Plus putting the idea in their heads that they have to be thin to be fit, which is patently ridiculous. Fight the man, people! June 18th, 2008: memeage Gakked from both gypsylady and clarsa:1. First name: I've never found the right name. I was Patti Ann, then I tried on a number of deriviates of Patricia. Val was given to me by my first great love, and I still use it. I don't think it fits any more, but I don't have anything to replace it with...yet. 2. Age: 40 3. Location: Westminster, CO 4. Occupation: Student, searcher... I can't say writer until I write... 5. Partner: I didn't think about what a difficult/painful question this was right now until I tried to answer it. zzzzzzboop and tangentier right now.6. Kids: Steve: Still trying to figure out how to have a relationship with him... Andy: The best teenager in the world. He makes me cry just to look at him some days. Hannah: My little baby-bat and feminist. Far wiser than her book-learning conveys. She's an amazing artist. Riley: My challenge and my heart. 7. Brothers/Sisters: Not a one. I was the only live birth out of 14 pregnancies for my mom. 8. Pets: Abby: Pembroke-Welsh Corgi who is getting crotchety in her advancing age (7x7 is 49... mid-life crisis?) Sully: Mongrel-kitty. Almots as bitchy as her owner... ;-) 9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life: Trying to figure out who I am and who I want to be. Coping with change I can't control that profoundly affects me. My little flying monkeys. 10. Where and for what did you go to school? I started my degree program at Community College of Aurora, transferred to Metro State. I am currently a Music Ed major, ruminating on double-majoring in Secondary Ed/Literature Emphasis and minoring in theatre. 11. Parents: Ralph R. Miller - USAF retired and retired computer geek. Died of complications of Alzheimer's 12/13/2006 Geraldine F. Lacetera Miller - Worked odd-jobs to keep the wolves at bay while I was growing up. The quintessential overbearking Italian mother (though not as much so as her own mother). Died of a coronary embalism 03/15/2002. 12. Who are some of your closest friends? tangentier, zzzzzzboop, and HWWNLJ are the most important people in my life. I love them to the ends of the Earth. |
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