1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn't have breakfast, why not?
i am having brunch today, and it's mac and cheese.. with an extra slice of american cheese just like jessie taught me.

2. What's your favorite cereal?
that's a tough call... sometimes it's lucky charms, sometimes it's cap'n crunch w/ crunch berries and sometimes it's cracklin' oat bran....

3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change?
it depends on the calendar. if it's tech, like right now, i eat out almost all the time. when i'm not in tech, i'm pretty good about eating at home... i would like to eat at home more during tech, but i never remember to stock up on crock pot stuff before hand.

4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that?
my dinner will prolly come with a medium fry and a coke. i got nuthin'.

5. What's your favorite restaurant? Why?
famous dave's at the moment........... buffalo wings... hoo daddy!!!!!!!!!!!

You are red. You are impure, but noble. You are precious and true to yourself and others. When you love, you love entirely, and will do anything to make your love happy. You are sure of your identity, therefore, you cannot change others or be changed. You are a true prince, you may be forgotten, but without you, none of us could go on.

What inner color are you?

and then, i tried the random slogan generator; i entered 'janine' as the word to 'sloganize':

we'll leave the janine on for you.
australians wouldn't give a janine for anything else.
gives a meal janine-appeal!

what would you classify as 'janine-appeal'?

i painted all day today. i got home at 10:30. pm. 30 seconds after i walked in the door at work this morning, two of my three flying buttresses fell over and broke in half. how was your day?

more painting today, but still not sick! fish are all alive, cat is fine. i updated my webpage tonight, you should go check it out if you haven't already.. it's more of a pain to update than blogger so i don't do it as often..

we're about to go into tech this weekend, and for anyone of you who's wondering "janine, does tech get any easier once i get out of school and into the 'real world'?" the answer is.....yes. even on the stressful shows, the atmosphere is a little more laid back.
i certainly think some of it can be attributed to the fact that we don't have other classwork and projects to attend to. i think mostly though, it's the sense that because we're all professionals, we all trust that the other person is doing their job. and the idea that we're all working to make whatever show it is be the best one it can be is just assumed. it's nice. we're all responsible grownups, and we act like it. i have a lot of work left to do on 3M, but we all know it will get done, and that it will kick major ass when it's finished. so we carry on. happy teching to anyone involved in pentecost; i know that's coming up soon.

and.....i'm spent.

didn't blog yesterday, kinda busy.. started junk painting.. so now the pieces that are up are a lovely shade of lavendar. it makes me think of the musketeers in a whole new way ;).

today should see some major additions to the set, i'm hoping to see most of it up, 'cause some of it i can't paint 'til it's up.
i really don't have anything else to say.. half of rockford (this includes our theater staff) has the flu, and i'm trying really hard not to catch it; it took bob out for 4 days. i'm trying to think of some witty closer here, but am currently wit free. so, later.

well, we struck arsenic and old lace tonight. it was a good show, but i'm ready to move on. three musketeers is next, and it is gonna rock. i watched a run through tonight, and am very glad i did for several reasons:

now i'm excited about the show, and want to work on it even more than i already did.. i got re-energized.

there is an upper level that's held up by legs, surrounded by these pillar lookin' things of sonotube (a giant toilet paper roll) and tonight i discovered, much to my dismay, that people get head-butted into them, and shoved into them. this is not good.

cool swordfighting!!!!!!!!

if you can, you should come see this show. it promises to be a good one. i may or may not be alive when you get here, but i'll be with you in spirit. the next two weeks could prove very hazardous to my health, indeed. let's just say that things like materials ordering and prop master responsibilities have not been going according to plan.......

ugh!!

the greedy grim reaper has made yet another stealthy, creeping, visit to my humble box of water. we've lost another, gentle reader. the other silver tipped shark, may he rest in peace (somewhere in the plumbing/sewer mazes of rockford), passed at some point in the night.

fear not, for i am on the case! i have secured a water sample from said box of water and am, at this very moment, readying for the journey to my local petco for a free water test. i will keep you updated on the latest developments as they occur. keep it tuned...

update: turns out it was my bad.....sort of. nobody told me they like salt in their water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. so i got my water tested, and everything is fine there, my nitrates are high but i just need to vacuum and do a water change, so no big deal. no new fish for a while i think...

today was pretty eventful i suppose. of course, there were the events of this morning; very sad. after i finally got out of my pajamas, i went to work and painted for a little bit. then i went and saw chicago which i loved. when i got home, i found that one of my new fish had died. i'm not sure why, but one of the silver tipped sharks was floating at the top, stiff as a board. it was kinda bizarre, as everyone seemed fine when i left the house and also, aren't dead fish usually floppy? so i flushed him, and plan to take a water sample in for testing tomorrow to make sure i didn't kill him with bad water in the box. two of my other fish have been acting wierd for quite some time now, so i fully expected one of them to be the floater.. sadly, not so. hopefully it was a fluke - in which case i plan to get another one tomorrow. poor fish.... poor fish...........