inspiration

Well, I'm feeling newly inspired to write in my dear blog right now, because Eric actually asked me about my blog tonight. Told me he'd read it a few weeks ago and there wasn't anything new. So someone actually reads it!!! And I had comments from both Katie and Erin on my last entry!! Whoa.

My teeth still hurt. Have you heard of Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs? I was explaining it to the cast at my rehearsal tonight (yes, I know I'm supposed to be teaching them music, but, well, true to the heirarchy, I had to talk about my hurting teeth.). It's so hard to focus on anything when you are in pain. Some people live with constant chronic pain. I can't imagine it. Even though I used to have almost chronic pain before that hysterectomy. But that feels like another life. Now just something as little as dry sockets in my mouth (whatever that is) consumes all my extra brain attention.

I went to the Wild Goose tonight after my rehearsal with Eric and some of his friends that I don't know at all, and actually he doesn't know at all, either. Hmmm. That was confusing. But it was fun. Yay for karaoke. Apparently they're regulars there now. I'd like to be a regular at a karaoke bar. That'd be fun.

That's the end of my exciting post. It's 2:18 a.m. and I have rehearsal tomorrow at 9:30. I guess I'd better sleep.

I miss Katie.

love Meagan

wisdom

I had my wisdom teeth removed today. Ick. That's all I have to say about that right now.

love Meagan

soon

I know it's time to post a new entry to my blog. I will soon. And I do have things to say. Really, I do. Just not the time to write about it. Well, I do have time today. But I'm too busy relaxing right now. And I have hiccups.

love Meagan

mundaneness

Well here's something exciting I received in my email today. From Katie. So I filled it out and sent it back to her. I don't really know how these silly little questionairres get passed around, but look, here I am continuing the mysterious madness! Read on, if you just can't go another moment without knowing these facts of my life...

Welcome to the spring 2004 edition of getting to know your friends.
What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail
and paste it onto a new e-mail that you'll send. Change all the answers
so that they apply to you, and then send this to a group of your friends
(including the person who sent it to you). The theory is that you will
learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you don't know them already!

Maybe you'll post me a comment and copy and paste with your answers! Maybe a random stranger will read my blog and post a comment with their answers. That'd be weird. But it could happen. I sometimes read random strangers' blogs. Blogs of people I've never heard of. Not enough to actually get caught up in their life. That would freak me out. But it's entertaining at times.

love Meagan


1. What time do you get up? Oh gosh it totally varies. Between 6 and 9, depending on what I'm doing that day and/or what I did the night before.

3. Any nicknames? Maggie, Magn

4. If you could eat lunch with one person, who would it be? Katie!

5. Gold or silver? Silver definitely, Platinum if you want a specific metal!

6. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Man on Fire

7. What is your favorite TV show? Dharma & Greg

8. What's your favorite book? It changes all the time, but usually I say "Hinds Feet on High Places" even though I haven't read that book for like ten years. I remember it was a cool allegory. I should read it aain.

9. What do you have for breakfast? Sometimes a banana or grapefruit or V8 Splash or McD's plain biscuits. Today I had a peach but it made my throat do weird things (I really need to stop trying to eat peaches, they always screw up my throat) so then I was really hungry when I got to the church so I ate a ton of goldfish crackers out o f the children's church supplies!

10. Who would you hate to be stuck in a room with? a Hyena. That would suck.

11. What/Who inspires you? People with passion.

12. Beach, City or Country? City. Even though I don't actually live in a city. I'd like to.

13. Favorite ice cream? Umpqua Chocolate Peanut Butter or BaskinRobbins Chocolate Fudge

14. Favorite Color? I like certain shades of green

15. What kind of car do you drive? VW New Beetle

16. Favorite sandwich? Grilled Cheese

17. What characteristics do you despise? Limpness. And I don't mean in a physical sense. :-) I just mean people who's personalities come off as...limp. Do you know what I mean?

18. Favorite flower? Alstromeria

19. If you could go anywhere in the world on a vacation, where would you go? Ireland

20. What is your Favorite brand of clothing? Do you really think I'm stylish enough to have a Favorite brand of clothing?!

21. Where would you like to retire? Retire!!?? What the hell!! I'm only 25!! I don't think about retiring!!

22. Favorite day of the week? with my schedule, every day is pretty different and every day has great potential to be busy or relaxing. So it's not like I have specifically weekends off to be a favorite. So I don't know. My favorite day is a day that I get to spend a lot of time making music and being efficient and not much time doing busy-work.

23. What did you do for last birthday? On my birthday I was at a rehearsal for Grease. I didn't tell anyone it was my birthday.

24. Where were you born? Portland Oregon. Yep, I'm a native

25. Favorite sport to watch? Well, if I actually were to watch a sport, I think I would enjoy basketball..

28. What fabric detergent do you use? Fabric Detergent? Does anyone really care about this? Well, just so you know, I don't use any fabric detergent because my dear Mike is such a sensitive man that is bothers his skin.

29. Coke or Pepsi? diet coke

30. Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Sapphire Martini up with a twist

31. Are you a morning person or a night owl? It really varies for me. Once again, totally depends on my current schedule. I am not, however, an afternoon person. I would have a siesta every single day if I could.

32. What is your shoe size? 8-1/2

33. Do you have any pets? Madeline--the most mature goldfish in the world and Poco--the baby turtle who is actually a girl even though we've been saying he for the last two years.

34. Favorite restaurant? I love Amuse, in Ashland, but I've only been there once, but I'd like to go again. I also love the Hong Kong Bar because of their lettuce wraps that lllllllooooooooove.

35. Last person you went out to dinner with? Jacob Fatooh at Olive Garden. I think. I go out to dinner a lot. Too much.

36. What would be your ideal birthday cake? Baskin & Robins Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream Cake. I llllllloooove their combination of ice cream and frosting and cookie chunks!

37. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Pottery Barn, maybe. or some cool furniture store. Really, a store like Target would also be quite easy to max out.

forgetful

Hi. So I came into my office, turned out the light (because it makes Madeline jump), sat down at my computer, opened Internet Explorer, logged on to magn.blogspot.com, clicked on "create new post", clicked in the title field, and immediately forgot what I came in here to write about.

Grrrrrr!

Where is my memory?! Maybe it's because I forgot to take my estrogen medicine today. Yes, I know I'm only 25. Don't ask.

Hmmmm...

Well, I still don't remember. I'm sure it was funny. Hilarious even. Falling out of your computer chair with laughter funny. I'm sure of it.

The Fantasticks opens in one week. Shit.

I don't know why I said that. Random profanity. This show will be good. (I don't know about 45 dollars good, but at least that includes a fantastic dinner {hee hee, notice the play on words} ) We've got a great cast. They'll get it together. We've got a great set designer, Susan. When I first met her over two years ago I couldn't stand being in the same room as her. Now she is one of my favorite people. Funny how that works. Our costumer is weird though. Just overly... rambunctions. Rambunctious. I have no clue how to spell that word.
(Mike just came in and scared me. Yay for both being home!)
Originally I thought the vision was for this show to be very artistic, very imaginative, earthy. Now it's become more cartoony. Example: The mutes are wearing rainbow suspenders (and, if she gets her way, beanie hats). Ridiculous. Oh well. I just make the music. And do whatever possible to help them sound good.

Now that Little Shop of Horrors is over it's time for a new title for my blog. I used "The Plant Just said The Strangest Thing" because that was the funniest line from Little Shop. Audrey says it right after Seymour saves her from being eaten. It's funny because (in case you can't figure it out yourself) Audrey doesn't thing it's strange that the plant is talking, just that the thing the plan said is strange. Yeah. Funny. My last blog title was "Watch 'em run amuck" which is a line from Les Miserables. Amuck is just a comical word. Hmmm. So a new title. How about "Gin and Tonic", since that's what I'm drinking right now? Actually I'm drinking cheap-ass gin and walmart-brand club soda. But who's being particular? When out I treat myself to Sapphire. At home it's Monarch or Potter's *!#@)!!#$*#. I need to get out of theatre and make more money. Get out of theatre, get out of music, get out of church office-ing. I'm smart enough, responsible enough, I could have a lucrative career. I know it. But I know I'd be miserable. The artistic side of me (which always prevails) would be squashed. I cannot abandon music. I've tried that before. A couple times. I guess it's part of me. I am so unbelievably grateful, lucky, priveleged, indebted, blessed, and any other word my online thesaurus can look up to have such an amazing husband. Mike knows how I need to be a musician and leads me in that direction even when I get down on myself and feel so insufficient compared to all the talented people around me.

See, I told you I could be serious in this blog. But I'm done now.

love Meagan