Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving! While you are gathered around your roasted dead bird and pureed root vegetables today, remember to give thanks for all the blessings in your life. This year I have a particularly exciting blessing for which to be thankful:

Eve's Secret has been accepted to the Prague Fringe Festival!!

I am so FREAKING excited, not just for being selected, but for the opportunity to perform my show, my labor of love, for international audiences! I can't use too many exclamation points!!!!!!

I am also so FREAKING needing to finish the script. This is the show that I had nearly finished, then tossed the entire first draft because it sucked big fat hairy balls. When I returned to the script after some time away and reread what was there, I was appalled at the self-indulgent, completely predictable, not-at-all inspiring or insightful load of dreck I had produced. So I started over. And if my February 6th premier wasn't enough to light a fire under me, then needing to focus on fund-raising for the trip to the Czech Republic instead of languishing in editing purgatory has certainly motivated me.

For today, though, I am enjoying some precious togetherness with my family. On our Thanksgiving table, a grilled breast of turkey (for the boys), butternut squash soup, requisite dressing, cranberry sauce and green bean casserole, some homemade rolls, and pumpkin pie. Tomorrow, I have to be at the mall bright and early, 5 AM, for all you crazies who like fighting crowds for shopping deals. If you are at Oxmoor Mall in Louisville, stop by Soma and say hello. I'll be the bleary-eyed, coffee-breath lady asking if you would like to add a gift card to your purchase for last minute gifts, stocking stuffers, or...you get the idea.