5 posts tagged “8 days of happiness”
(Pardon me for stealing my title from Trent Reznor's first tweet of today: "trent_reznor: HAPPY!" which I just find so hilarious and adorable.)
First, it started off with great news! Mad King Thomas was chosen for the best dance performance in the Twin Cities! By voters! People who vote! I don't know who they are, as I didn't know the awards were to be given, but whoever you are: what an excellent start to the day! Thank you!
Best Dance Performance in the Past 12 Months
Mad King ThomasIt's good to worry a bit when you go to a Mad King Thomas show—not about whether the artists might get hurt or what the critics will say, but how close you should get to the action onstage. During a Mad King Thomas program, the fourth wall is broken down with a sledgehammer, and everybody in the audience bears witness, at close range, to the glorious mayhem unleashed by the Sage Award-winning trio of Tara King, Theresa Madaus, and Monica Thomas. In January's Love Me, Love My Questionable Art at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, MKT shared the stage with dancers Sally Rousse, Hijack, and Galen Treuer. The evening's high jinks ran the gamut from high art to low, from twisted family stories to a doughnut auction—plus a post-feminist fashion show for good measure. King, Madaus, and Thomas owe their aesthetic to performance art icons like Karen Finley and Dancenoise, but they certainly have their own voices, and right now these women are using them to roar.
YES AWESOME HOORAY DELIGHT
Then...THEN I was in contact improv class and I got to start off with a warm up with KVL and EDL and we all giggled and it turns out I like giggling in the morning. And then some other fantastic dancing and flying and rolling around and sweating (augh, I love the pure, clean sweat of an early morning, post-shower work-out). We did handstands and cartwheels and I accidentally did a backbend but I feel GREAT! And then I meant to take the bus to work, but I accidentally just biked the whole way because the weather is unbelievably perfect!
Also, for yesterday's day of happiness, I saw my first daffodil AND it was Mad King Thomas' anniversary of being official! Even though I didn't see my other two, it was a good day to celebrate and be happy about.
My cell phone has a radio tuner and lately I sit at my desk and listen to the Current, and it thrills me. Yesterday they played the Old 97s and Pulp and I just can't get over how awesome it is. Even though I already knew that, it will be yesterday's Day of Happiness.
Sunday started off dreary and awful, but by about 6 pm, the sun was coming through the clouds and I had the cheesy revelation I always do, which is that the sun is even better after the clouds, when the world is all wet and cool.
I had a little bit of time before I needed to scurry to rehearsal, so I sat myself down for some timed writing. And I thought, Hey, I bought that secretary over there specifically because it seemed well-suited to typing AND hand-writing. (Let us avoid, for now, the subject of having the same job title as a piece of furniture, because it's Monday and I don't have the stamina to survive flying into a rage on a Monday).
Anyway, I sat and wrote a bunch of gibberish, but it was perfect. I have this mental image of a clean desk-space near a window where the sun could shine on me, and I achieved it. Plus, since it's a secretary, I CAN'T cover it with stuff, because it folds away and therefore must remain clean and shining and pure.
Desk love!
When Paul and I arrived home from playing dominoes and chowing down with his family, we found Battlestar Galactica 4.0 in our mailbox, which was thrilling as ever. We were stuck at the end of season 3 until Paul finally re-signed up for Netflix.
OMG BSG! No spoilers plz!
When I wasn't gaping in shock, I was cross-stitching:
Which looks like a crappy dried out lawn, because it is. But peer closer, my friends from warmer climes: Up in the top third of the photo, you may spy some blotchy blue spots. THOSE ARE FLOWERS. THANK THE GOOD LORD ABOVE WINTER HAS ENDED ONCE AGAIN.
(Tagged by the truly amazing Angelar.)
