Happy New Year Musings

Well its Rosh Hashannah and its the beginning of the New Year for us Jews.  Its been pretty amazing when you look back at the last year or so and see what we collectively have gone through as a family and what I have been able to achieve professionally.  Our amazing little guy will be 5 soon and I am inspired daily by his ability to make me laugh and his plain old loveyness that he shares in heaps and piles with everyone he meets.  I got so lucky to have such a great kid considering all the history involved with my life in general. I am even more fortunate to share all this with the coolest guy i know.  if you have met him you know what i mean. Adam went from being laid off from a job he had for almost 5 years to not having one for months and months to having a crazy-busy job at the one place I spend the most time when I am producing theatre.  The irony of that is even though we are at the same facility we do not get to see each other much while im in production...even less now i think.  i have been so fortunate to have some pretty huge professional goals accomplished and know now more than ever that my dream of being in the theatre that started as a 6-year old girl in brooklyn at rabbbi halpern hebrew day school has finally become something that is undeniably real and worth while.  i have produced the largest and most successful show of my producing career, get to work with the most amazingly wonderful people on a regular basis and am able to help them accomplish their dreams of doing the amazing work that heps sustain them in ways i can only imagine since we arent raking in the bucks...haha. I have so many people that have helped support me this year through everything and can truly say that the challenges that are on the horizon for me this year are only matched by the amazing love and support that i am lucky enough to have in my life.  I wish happiness and love to all I meet and cross paths with...I wish it even more so for those people who feel the need to surround themselves with negative thoughts and actions.  Those ideas and actions only serve to demean the true purpose of living...and that is to truly love and support and raise each other up and find the grace in each other we sometimes lack in ourselves.  If we havent gotten along this year, I am sorry if its something I did....its truly not intentional...if you have slighted me, its cool...things happen the way they are supposed to and i truly believe that every opportunity we are presented daily is a chance to honor the goodness and love in each other...even if you piss me right the hell off.  Happy New Year.  May it be filled with love , health and blessings and if we cant all get along, then just try not to fuck it up for the rest of us...ummmmmmmkay?

its friday up in here...

ok so heres the thing...julian has been a huge fan and creator of knock knock jokes lately...from the esoteric and philosophical to the down right weird and hilarious....here are the most recent examples using michael jackson as his template:

j: knock knock

me: whos there?

j: interrupting michael jackson

me: interrupting micha......

j: HEEEHEEE

j:knock knock

me: whos there?

j: interrupting michael jackson

me: interrupt....

j: JAMON!

j: knock knock

me: whos there?

j: interrupting michael jackson

me: interrupt...

j: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

so there you have it...the latest installment in the knock knock saga...hes made these up...on his own and i can tell you he is mighty pleased with himself.

in other news tonight i return to the theatre for the second week of evil dead the musical. jules is heading up with me and has already asked if we need to mix more blood today. while we were in tech he was out of school THE ENTIRE WEEK so he was "working" at the theatre daily. i have yet to decide if this is a good or a bad thing. on the one hand he is getting tons of attention and the ability to use the set and shop areas to paint and play...on the other, he thinks this theatre thing is pretty cool, and loves being in the cat walk. the saving grace in all this is that he keeps saying he wants to be a drummer and a fish expert so his delight you see in the following pictures below should have no real effect on his future in the theatre....right?

in the beginning...

so i have decided to blog...this could be a great thing or a mostly narcissistic and boring undertaking...maybe its all of the above. either way i think it is a great way for me to be able to write on a regular basis and maybe even expand or expound on the daily musings of living with an almost five-year old, running a teeny tiny theatre company and being a wife and working mom...we will see what this brings...either way it should be good for a laugh or two (either at me or with me)...or is it?