A Sad Day

Matt's Maama passed away this morning. Please send a kind thought to his family.

10 Things I Know About San Francisco That I Didn't Know a Week Ago

1. Riding the bus through Chinatown means you will be squished in like a sardine.

2. Fisherman's Wharf is a giant tourist trap. But I'm ok with it.

3. Pier 39 is just ridiculous. I'm not really ok with it.

4. The Golden Gate Bridge is big, and long, and very high up from the ground. It's also pretty.

5. The streets are steep. Really. (I suppose I already knew this, but now I know.)

6. M5 Industries is just a building in a boring industrial area. It's nice to see that my beloved Mythbusters have not yet put in a gift shop.

7. Food is expensive.

8. Fog is cold. (This is more of a general statement, but I never really understood this, as we don't have fog in Denver. There's lots of fog in San Francisco, and it's cold.)

9. Ghirardelli chocolate is very expensive in Ghirardelli Square. It is also delicious in any location.

10. Alcatraz is crazy-creepy-cool.

Pictures and more to come!

We need a vacation.

Matt and I decided we needed to get out of Denver for the weekend.

So we did:

On a plane!

I like pretty new things

While I always loved my cute little dining room set, I knew from the moment we moved into our new house that it didn't quite work in our much larger dining room.

So cute, but too small.

I faked it for a while, but this weekend, it was finally time to move on.

So we bought a new table and chairs!

So pretty.

Now I want to make a big dinner.

I'm very excited for Halloween this year, so I pulled out all my decorations to "deck my halls." The only problem is that my "halls" are a lot bigger than they were last Halloween. So I may need to do some shopping to sufficiently fill this space with Halloween cheer. But for now, I have some pumpkin garland to tide me over.

And yummy Halloween candy:

Yay for Halloween!

So now my house is Halloween-y and full of cool new furniture. So, that's neat.

Matt's Working For a New Company!

Matt has worked for Corona Research since we moved to Denver back in January of 2007. The company was started in 1999, so earlier this week they had a very unique celebration for their 10-year anniversary - they put on a play about Corona's history!

Matt and his friend Dave at the pre-show happy hour.

It seems kind of silly, but there is a semi-professional theater here in town called the Curious Theatre that does this type of thing as a fundraiser, and they actually did a great job!

The set of "Yankee Tavern," Curious's current production. They used the same set for Corona's play.

The play itself was really funny and poked fun at a lot of the quirky things about the company. Then, at the end of the play, the real Principals of the company went on stage and announced that, since the company has always been about more than just research, they were changing their name! So as of Tuesday, Matt now works for Corona Insights.

The actors and Corona's principals revealing the new name and logo.

The new logo and tagline.

Matt's pretty new name badge.

Cupcakes. Yum.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and hopefully the new look will help the company to grow even faster in the future! Congrats, Corona!

Cold Weather Things

Well, my show just ended last weekend, and I've already been out looking for the next one. This week, I auditioned for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown with these nice people:

The directors of the show I auditioned for. Soo nice; I had to take a picture of their crazy happy faces!

I was called back for a second audition, and I was very surprised that they wanted to see me for Lucy. Not Sally, but Lucy. I'm not a Lucy, but I think I could do Sally pretty well. In fact, I've even played Sally before.

Sally Brown. Frightening, I know.

But I tried my best, and I think I did a pretty good job at reading for Lucy. I didn't get cast, but it was fun! On to the next audition, I guess.

My job has not been a lot of fun for me this year, but it has given me at least one good thing: tickets to a Rockies' game! Somehow, our district was given lots of tickets, so I got two for free. We went on Wednesday night, and it was cold!

Bundled up at the game.

It was a good time, though. And it ended up being an important game in clinching the Rockies' spot in the playoffs. So, that's cool.

We were so cold that we ended up leaving in the eighth inning. But we were really far ahead, and we ended up winning the game!

The score when we left. Final was 10-6. Yay Rockies!

The weather was much colder this week, which I generally don't like at all. But cold weather is good crafting weather! So this week, I worked long and hard on making the invitations for our Halloween party. I'm still new at the whole paper-crafting thing, but I had a lot of fun.

My mess of tools and goodies.

The cards I've made so far.

After our Halloween party, I get to start making Christmas cards. Yay!

Where Has September Gone?

Wow. September's almost over. That happened fast.

I feel like all I've done these last few weeks is work! I haven't worked many extra hours, but my job's been pretty exhausting and stressful. By the time I get home, I don't want to do much of anything.

But I guess we've had a couple of moderately interesting things going on. Nothing super exciting, but probably worthy of a post.

A while back (feels like a really long time ago, but I think it was only a couple weeks), we had what may be our final hike of the season. We hiked Mount Sanitas near Boulder. Short and pretty easy, but fun.

View of Boulder from the top.

At the top. It was pretty chilly and rainy. Signs that summer's almost gone.

I was having so much fun!

Pretty.

September means the start of the football season, which is always a very exciting time for Matt. Our teams (Chiefs and Broncos) had their season openers at the same time on the same day. But Matt, with help from our DirecTV Sunday Ticket, solved the problem for us.

We had my family over for the games. Evie has already perfected her football watching pose:


And Pywacket was exhausted after playing with her new "toys" my mom brought her.


My weekends have still been taken up with performances of my current show, Born Yesterday. It's been a long run, but it's always fun to get to do a show with these people.

Getting ready backstage.

Me and Clark Kent.

Me and my drunken attorney.

And finally, Matt's been trying to get into the Colorado fireworks "scene" after years of doing big shows in Kansas. Last weekend, he worked on a moderate-sized show in Frederick, Colorado.

Firework things that I don't really understand. You put the shells inside these things and somehow, they blow up when you tell them to.

This is the thing that tells the shells to blow up... somehow. With really long cords, I guess. I don't really get it.

And now September's almost gone. But I'm ok with that. This month hasn't really done it for me. I'm ready to move on to October.