Well, dear readers, will whoever invented the allergy please stand up so I can bludgeon you with a hard salami? I’ve been through bad allergy seasons before (last year comes to mind), but nothing like what’s going on now. I have sneezed, I have coughed, I have rubbed my eyes, and it just never stops, no matter what pill I am taking. Ever since they took the oomph out of Actifed it hasn’t worked as well as it usually does. So, late last night I finally bought a behind the counter allergy pill with the oomph. Hopefully, that will work better and these damnable allergies will take a hike. Until that time, my nose keeps running, I keep sneezing, and the snot flies like the cock of the walk. The cock of the walk? What in tarnation does that mean? Where was I? Oh, yes, the flying of the snot. I haven’t seen this much snot since 1958. That was a great year for snot, but this one is topping it. I do realize it is unseemly to keep on about snot, but, you know, blame it on Rio, blame it on the bossa nova, blame it on Canada or Jose, put the blame on Mame, but whatever you do, don’t blame me. I haven’t sneezed for fifteen minutes – maybe this new pill with the oomph is working. Speaking of oomph, yesterday was a day in which there was a lot of snot. For example, I woke up. There was snot. I then went to storage to pull a bunch of music. There was so much dust there that the snot multiplied. I then came home and did quite a few things around the home environment, before toddling off to sup at the French Market Café. People either love or hate this place, but I’ve always had good food there. I had their version of a Reuben, which is the way I like it – without sauerkraut, and with ham and turkey and swiss cheese and cole slaw and Thousand Island dressing. Whilst dining, my allergies got the best of me, and I was just miserable, running to the bathroom to blow my nose so as not to disturb fellow diners with the flying of the snot. After that, I toddled off to LACC to see the new play their doing – not exactly a play, a theater piece entitled Within Us, conceived and directed by my pal Leslie Ferreira, and his co-director, Tina Kronis. I don’t usually enjoy this sort of theater piece, but Les and Tina did a very good and professional job with the dance and movement – it’s all based on the seven deadly sins. I thought some of it really achieved what they were going after, and some of it a little less so. But, I think the piece is still evolving and I think they have something interesting. The kids (many from The Brain) gave it their all and did a great job. And it’s great to see original work being done. The set was terrific, as was the lighting and, best of all, Les knows how to keep the evening moving along and short – the show runs an intermissionless ninety minutes.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m feeling that I should go to bed very quickly whilst I have some respite from sneezing and snot.
Today, I shall relax for the first part o’ the day, and then I have a three o’clock meeting with The Party Animals folks, to discuss the next stage of the show, which will be happening in late June, I think. After that, I shall watch DVDs all the livelong night.
This coming week will be quite filled with various and sundried meetings and whatnot, at least one every day, and frequently more. Also rehearsals with Miss Joan Ryan, and a few meals to boot.
Did all you mothers out there think I had forgotten you? Well, I haven’t! It’s your day, you mothers out there, and so I wish all you mothers out there the happiest of Mother’s Days, from the biggest mother of them all.
And let’s also wish our very own dear reader Pogue’s ever-lovin’ Julieanne a happy haineshisway.com birthday. I believe she’ll be visiting Los Angeles, California, USA shortly.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, jog, relax, meet, eat, and watch DVDs. What I hope I will not do is sneeze. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, and let us hope that we don’t have is loads of lovely snot.