Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall are in Austin! I'm so excited. William and I are going to see them at the Paramount tomorrow night. We'll be in the upper upper balcony, all that was left, but I don't care. The Paramount is small enough it will be fine. I was in Los Angeles when they came through there but didn't get to see them and always regretted it. Then I heard another time they had been in Austin and I didn't find out until afterwards. So it is serendipitous that we'll get to see them this time.

I went to a DBSA meeting last night. It was only moderately depressing. No, really, it was pretty good compared to some I've been to before. Most people got a chance to talk (no thanks to the facilitator) and some people were there who just moved from New Orleans. She pronounced it New OR-le-ans and had an interesting accent. It reminded me of the movie The Big Easy with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. I love that movie.

It was major allergiosis (okay, I coined a word) last night. All the yard work and having the cats in our room all day made it very hard to go to sleep with itchy ears and palate. I took Benadryl but it was already too late. When I got some Chloroseptic and sprayed that I was able to get to sleep.

We haven't found out yet about the Renaissance Magazine photo contest. It could be another month. Maybe we'll only find out when the magazine comes out! It's the May issue, so it's getting down to the wire.

I'm still working on the kernel of an idea for a novel. I've written about a page-and-a-half. I really don't know if I can make something of this or not. Scenes aren't springing into my head as they usually are when I have an idea. I don't know what to do at this point. Keep brainstorming, I guess. Maybe I should keep working on the short story idea about stories based on songs. My third book, a novella, is called IF I COULD BE WHERE YOU ARE, also based on a song title, so maybe it could be part of the collection. That one is by Enya. So far I have "Col" by Morcheeba, "Love for Real" by Everlast, and the Enya one.