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OMG is my brother not fabulous??
That's no publicity photo; that is just John being John outside of the new Cirque Du Soleil show at the Mirage. Beatles: LOVE. He's with my cousin Alex (on the right) who was just Charlotte's age last time I saw her I think! Holy monkey, she's 18 now & so pretty! She & her friend went to visit John at Casa De Awesome last week & I guess they had a blast. :-) Our family is freaking gorgeous...I just have to put that out there.
Today is another call-back day. I sent a bunch of info packets out over the weekend & they've probably arrived by now. Wish me luck!
That's no publicity photo; that is just John being John outside of the new Cirque Du Soleil show at the Mirage. Beatles: LOVE. He's with my cousin Alex (on the right) who was just Charlotte's age last time I saw her I think! Holy monkey, she's 18 now & so pretty! She & her friend went to visit John at Casa De Awesome last week & I guess they had a blast. :-) Our family is freaking gorgeous...I just have to put that out there.
Hilariously, he used her "baby" name (we used to call her Aggie Rose because her sister said "Alexandra Rose" that way when they were all small) in the email when he sent this pic...and I almost expected to see little Aggie and suddenly there are these GLAMOROUS MODELS and I'm thinking "no way is that Aggie!" Tempus fugit, man. I am OLD.
Also, that poor girl is going to hate us all forever because we keep calling her Aggie Rose. How's THAT for an embarrassing nickname?
To be fair, we all had embarrassing nicknames due to childhood mispronunciations or parental whims. My Dad was notoriously creative in that department.
My little sister Nancy was always "Nanki-poo" who was a character from Gilbert & Sullivan's musical "The Mikado". Dad would call her Nanki Poo and then he'd belt out a song or two in a deep booming voice "....if you want to know who we aaaaaare...we are gentlemen from Japaaaan!" and nine times out of ten Nancy would cry 'cause she was just a little kid & had no idea what he was going on about.
John had a variety of names...some of them I'm pretty sure would get me killed if I mentioned them here. He's probably connected now. He could do that. His most benign name was just "John-Oh" (another Dad-ism) and I still call him John-Oh from time to time (bet he loves that).
I was "Ann-a-ray" (and still am, dammit) 'cause some little kid who was NOT part of my family used to call me that and my Mom thought it was cute. Ann-A-Ray = Andrea...but only if you're a three-year-old with a speech impediment.
So there you go. Humiliation all around.
Also, that poor girl is going to hate us all forever because we keep calling her Aggie Rose. How's THAT for an embarrassing nickname?
To be fair, we all had embarrassing nicknames due to childhood mispronunciations or parental whims. My Dad was notoriously creative in that department.
My little sister Nancy was always "Nanki-poo" who was a character from Gilbert & Sullivan's musical "The Mikado". Dad would call her Nanki Poo and then he'd belt out a song or two in a deep booming voice "....if you want to know who we aaaaaare...we are gentlemen from Japaaaan!" and nine times out of ten Nancy would cry 'cause she was just a little kid & had no idea what he was going on about.
John had a variety of names...some of them I'm pretty sure would get me killed if I mentioned them here. He's probably connected now. He could do that. His most benign name was just "John-Oh" (another Dad-ism) and I still call him John-Oh from time to time (bet he loves that).
I was "Ann-a-ray" (and still am, dammit) 'cause some little kid who was NOT part of my family used to call me that and my Mom thought it was cute. Ann-A-Ray = Andrea...but only if you're a three-year-old with a speech impediment.
So there you go. Humiliation all around.
Damn, it is humid as hell here. I just woke up & I feel like there's a film on my face...I HATE that. It's supposed to rain & there are Wrath Of God thunderstorms forecast from noon onward through midnight OR SO THE WEATHER CHANNEL SAYS. I don't entirely believe them. This has been a very weird year here. For some reason I don't fully understand, we live in something called "the shadow of Lake Erie". It sounds beautiful, but what it means is that every storm (or indeed raincloud) that passes over the lake gets all the energy sucked out of it...but only in a narrow strip which passes right over my house. This means there have been huge torrential storms just North and just South of us, but our lawn is dry & crunchy. It SUCKS 'cause you can watch it happen live on the Weather Channel doppler radar thingy...it's a lovely green and yellow blob moving towards me and then it just fizzles out over the lake. SO frustrating. I'm missing my summer thunderstorms! Poop!
For fun I was up late (work avoidance) reading all my old entries from last year. Last year we had wonderful beautiful thunderstorms, apparently. Not so this year. I been robbed I tells you. Robbed!
Also I discovered that the good old LJ archives are a great tool for me to use in my business. I was on the fence about doing a benefit event for a wildlife preserve this year (because I do NOT want to do another local event that bombs), but according to this entry, it went well. So I guess I'll do it. Actually, if I do it with charity in my heart...it'll be a success no matter what. Right? Right??
Fuck charity. I have BILLS, my friends. ;-)
For fun I was up late (work avoidance) reading all my old entries from last year. Last year we had wonderful beautiful thunderstorms, apparently. Not so this year. I been robbed I tells you. Robbed!
Also I discovered that the good old LJ archives are a great tool for me to use in my business. I was on the fence about doing a benefit event for a wildlife preserve this year (because I do NOT want to do another local event that bombs), but according to this entry, it went well. So I guess I'll do it. Actually, if I do it with charity in my heart...it'll be a success no matter what. Right? Right??
Fuck charity. I have BILLS, my friends. ;-)
Today is another call-back day. I sent a bunch of info packets out over the weekend & they've probably arrived by now. Wish me luck!
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We got your wrath-of-God storms yesterday. AND I got to crawl through them on I-84 on the way back from my doctor's appointment. The radio actually made the beeping noise and announced a tornado warning and told us to take shelter in the basement under heavy furniture. Luckily that all failed to materialize, but it was a nervous few hours down here!