a random photo journey

greetings on this lovely tuesday! :) why is it so lovely, you may ask? because today I finally kicked a circus nemesis of mine in the ass. and after i kicked its ass once, i kicked it 4 more times. i am talking about a sweet little circus item called "skin the cat". it was the ONLY nemesis I had left (except for fear of heights and that's never going away), as I have wiped out many many many nemesii (?) through the years, but this one just never clicked. until today. and i had to keep doing it to prove to myself it really happened, so before i knew it, i had done FIVE. I will try to find a video of one, so that you can know what the hell I'm talking about. but basically, for me, this was a big ass deal and now I can finally feel like a real teacher. ;) (more on that later - I have lots of news...but it deserves its own post...)

as for the show.... my darling show, "Current Nobody".... i'm actually really excited to start TECH tonight. I'm a really strange actor in that I generally LOVE TECH. :) Did I mention that this is a really cool show. Ok, good. If you want info, just look at the previous post. :)

now for something completely different...

i feel lazy, so here is a pictorial of some of the things that have been going on in the lives of the tarts....

I went back east in late September to visit family and friends... twas also my mom's birthday. she and I went into NYC and walked through Central Park, went to the Museum of Natural History (one of my favorites since childhood) and had dinner and saw 'Spring Awakening', which was fine, but not great.

Here is mutti in the Museum with the Stegosaurus:



I also went on a day trip with my father to the massively huge original Cabelas store (they are an outdoor recreation and hunting superstore). People actually TRAVEL to come to this store. They sell postcards of their store. It was something else. I learned a lot about trophy deer and the way antlers are judged. As you can see from this picture, they have every horned/antlered animal that you can hunt along the wall:



they also have a really cool aquarium where the fish, thankfully, are alive... AND they have this crazy super mountain structure in the middle of the store with ALL sorts of stuffed things. Here's my dad with the Polar Bears:



in continuing to try to follow a good number of Michael Pollen's food rules in his awesome book, "In Defense of Food", I have been learning all sorts of new things about cooking and spices and the amazingness of the shallot and on and on and on, but one of the most fun new things has been cooking beets. Here dave and I demonstrate how fun Beets can be:





I was a fairy for Halloween. I had a gig that was supposed to be a trapeze gig for a big fancyrichpeople halloween party where I needed to be a fairy, so I just went as a fairy to Halloween as well. Dave was, um... something, no one really know what it was and sadly I do not have a picture. But we went to Carrie Paff and her husband Jeremy's party and had a grand ole time. We won comic books. it was pleasing. :)



and finally - I wanted to show off Sorsha's new tires. honestly, she and I are not sure if maybe it's too much... does it make her look like a hipster? or like she's wearing a matching leisure suit? we are not sure. but we went riding in the headlands with Elizabeth yesterday and had a grand ole time, so maybe they are stylish and functional, which is something I appreciate. ;)