Casting Call
PA Renaissance Faire 2008 Auditions

WHO:
Full-time professional actors and part-time semiprofessional actors. See the auditions
page for descriptions of the two acting companies.

www.parenfaire.com

WHEN:
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16th & 17th, 10AM-4PM each day.

WHERE:
Mount Hope Mansion on the grounds of the Renaissance Faire
2775 Lebanon Road
Manheim, PA 17545
14 miles east of Hershey and 15 miles north of Lancaster, Route 72, 1/4 mile south
of PA Turnpike Exit 266.

WHAT:
Perform at a 35 acre recreation of a rollicking 16th Century Elizabethan country
 festival complete with 13 stages.

WHY:
Full-time and part-time actors receive extensive workshop training in acting, dialect,
voice, movement, history, improvisation and interaction. They also have the chance
to perform in a variety of theatrical styles such as Shakespeare, farce, children's
theatre, commedia, street theatre, improv, stunt & stage combat shows, music,
song and dance.

Battling a cold but just popping in to say howdy.

Howdy.

That is all!

Thanks for the hugs and well wishes! 

Ernie has applied online for a job at ********* **** ***** as a production planner.  I hope he gets it!  I really would love to take a little time off.  I think that it will do him some good to feel as if he is contributing more financially.  If it gets to the point where we actually have to put FIL in a nursing home, then I will have to return to work to be sure. 

I have been cooking, cleaning and taking time to realize that I no longer have to put up with the crap I was putting up with in order to bring home a paycheck.  It's been nice and relaxing, I did giggle when I realized with all the ice and snow that I didn't have to worry one bit about getting in on time or getting mandated.   heh.  I got a call from one of the aides that I worked with that is still working there.  She told me that the two nurses that seemed to have nothing better to do than harass me were on my side that I shouldn't have gotten fired.  WTF? 

In the meantime...

My Mother is now living up in New England.  I'd love to take a few days and head up there.  I'm going to talk it over with Ernie and see if he thinks that the Durango will let me do that.  We'll see, I'd like to take Chase and George up and maybe Emma depending on her work schedule.  I'd love to see my cousins, the curmudgeons.  lol  Visiting the beach in the winter is still better than not getting to visit it at all. 

Hugs and kisses my dah-lings!

I was told that it 'shouldn't affect me getting another job elsewhere, we only verify dates of employment and nothing else."  Of course who knows, right?

I have to start on Monday by getting all of my paperwork together, update my resume and start searching.  Just to cover all bases I filled out an online application at ********.  Better some income than no income, kwim?

To top off our day yesterday...

Chase is suspended until next THURSDAY for hitting a kid in the back of the head with a book because he 'thought' the kid was saying he stunk.  Chases hygiene has been monitored daily, he has gotten a bit paranoid.  But when Ernie and I do laundry and need to soak feces coved underwear, enough is enough!  The poor kid though, when I told him I was fired, he looked like I literally punched him in the face and immediately began to sob.  Then he hugged me and told me it was ok, he didn't want anything for Christmas.  *sigh*

Then Ernie goes to use his tractor, before the biggest snowstorm of the year is expected, and guess what?  A flat fucking tire!

*sigh*

I am, along with the 2 other people that got fired, appealing this decision.  At least to force them to pay for my CPR classes, they let all of the employees credentials lapse when they hired an educational specialist NOT certified to teach CPR.  That's going to cost near 75.00. 

Ernie has continued to be supportive and amazing.  Luckily we have savings and we have his Dad's annuities to pay for his Dad's meds and stuff.

I'm not sure if I want to even stay in nursing at this point.  We'll see.  If I do, I am definitely heading towards non-profit.  They treat thier patients MUCH better than the mega-corps do.

 I must be bored if I'm recording a blog that I just got done typing.  Actually I felt like trying out my new notebook headset.

Well, what's new?  My Mom has gotten to leave the nursing and rehab place and gone to Massachusetts for a while.  My brother has arranged for an aide to come in twice a day to make sure that she hasn't fallen when my brother isn't able to go and see her.  She really did great  job getting back on her feet and for that I'm really grateful.

Work is a fucking madhouse, all types of crap going on.  Of course I can't go into it on here because you never know who's going to come across this and I really don't feel like getting screwed all over again for my freaking blog.

Things are ok a home for the most part.  Girlchild is doing very well at work and has gotten a couple of raises and lot of praise from her boss, and us too!  God almighty I hope I've dealt with the worst this child will be flinging our way. KWIM?

Just wanted to update on my Mom.  I saw her for my brother's surprise birthday party.  I actually went and picked her up at the nursing home and drove to the event.  She was doing so much better!  She didn't use the wheelchair and was fighting the idea of using her walker.  I told her that she had to at least use it to walk to the car, even if she held it up in the air and walked, lol.  Her breathing was WAY better!!  When she's with me though I have to be a water nazi and make her drink.  She does what a lot of nursing home residents do and hold off drinking water so they don't have to pee.  She said in the hospital that they took so long to get to her she was having a problem holding it.  But when the hospital only has ONE tech to umpteen patients that are going to need assistance and maybe 3 or 4 nurses then that's a problem.  So they get dehydrated.  It's a vicious cycle!  I'm going to try and go visit her today and make her drink the evil water. 

The party for my brother was really nice.  It was at a tavern in New Jersey, great food!!  I also got to see relatives and friends I hadn't seen in years.  I got some pictures and will try to post some here.  I'm on my laptop now and it's got different photo editing software than my pc and I'm still figuring it out.

Have a great day everyone!!

Happy 17th Birthday Emma!

It's been a long year my love, but we're so happy that you came to us 17 years ago today!  You have given us much happiness, a few tears and a bit of excitement, but we would never trade you or any of it, EVER!!!

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!

Holy cats, look at this boy!  I can't believe he's 14 already.  He's come such a long, long way too.  We love him so much!

The album below is his absolute favorite, it's good stuff.  Give it a listen!

Gee whiz I've been quiet here. 

Well, things on the dear daughter front are settling down.  She's keeping her nose clean and dealing with being limited in her choices of entertainment.  She turns 17 soon!  Wow.  And it helps that I'll have that week off from work.  whee!!

Tommorow Chase will turn 14!  I'll post then and now pictures if I get a chance tommorow.  He HAS to shave daily, his beard is nearly as heavy as my husbands, lol.  But then again my Dad had a beard that I could brush my hair with at the end of the day.  I remember doing that when I was about seven or so.  lol

There was an electrical fire where I work (on my weekend off so don't start pointing fingers, lol) that required ALL of the residents to be evacuated to other nursing homes and local hospitals.  I read about it the next day on the front page of our local paper.  Yikes!  I went in early to help with settling people back in and doing support stuff.  Holy Moly.

On that same day my Mother had to be taken to the hospital because she had fallen a couple days before and didn't get herself checked and decided that since at that point she wasn't able to even move she might want to kinda get checked out.  Have I mentioned my Mom is well, stubborn?  Turns out that she had double pneumonia, atrial fibrillation and a compression fracture of one of her lumbar vertabrae.  I went to visit her in the hospital on my day off, since I hadn't gotten to with work and all. When I get there she tells me that she is going to be transferred to a local nursing home. I was like What?  She said that she was told that she'll be needing some PT.  Gosh.  She's going to be turning 85 next month.  I stayed with her until the transport came at about five-thirty (seventeen-thirty to us medical folks, lol)  I then drove over with her to the nursing home and helped her get settled in.  I'm glad I was there.  I called my brother and said that she was there.  He knew she was going before I did, but was needing to grab some grub and then head to her house to get some personal stuff and clothing for her.  I stayed until about seven.  I was punchy at that point, lol, I had worked the night before and hadn't had a nap yet.  I did get a shower so I was good to go.  We really don't know how long she's going to be there, but knowing her, probably not the entire 100 medicare stay days.  When she heard that medicare covers 100 days she was like I hope to hell I'm not here that long!  I love my Mommy.  heh.  I do feel bad for her because there are from what I saw a lot of typical nursing home residents there.  Her roomate is a post cva with unilateral loss of movement.  Her daughters found out I'm a nurse and immediatly begin asking me if thier Mom was going to recover and I said each person is different.  but to myself I said uh, no.

Ugh.

On the drive down to the hospital I was listening to college radio and they played a song by Ben Folds Five, it's my new favorite song.  I love it, especially since I know a few people that it fits to a tee.    It's called Kate. Give it a listen and see if it doesn't make you smile. 

Also I'm supposed to writing a sermon now, but I need some ideas regarding imagery and such.  The passages are:

Haggai 1:15b - 2:9

Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21

Luke 20:27-38

If you can think of anything, I appreciate, I'm going to continue on it.  Wish me luck!  I don't know why I volunteer for this stuff, lol.

Today is hard.  Head spinning hard.  I'll just have to keep this bit of advice in mind...

"Don't let your self worth be judged by others. 

Different from others can mean more intense, more caring, more honest, too."