Dedicated to Mi Amor...

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own
More than you will ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you

Tonight I am flying down to Tennessee to go to my sister's house for Christmas. My parents are planning on getting there today as well (they left Maine by car Wednesday morning). But even though I'll be with family for Christmas, I won't be with mi amor. :( Hopefully in the not too far future we can be together everyday and I won't have to go weeks with out seeing her. And, at least I get to have her for New Years. Woo!! :)

On another note, one month from today is Dana's surgery!! Congrats baby!! :)

Happy Chrismakwanzakah everyone!!

New Favorite Song

This is a lovely song by Christine Havrilla (me and Dana saw her in Albany on Saturday) about long distance relationships.

I can hear your smile through the telephone
I can feel your warmth through the wire
I can almost taste your moving lips
I feel alive, I feel alive, I feel alive

Though the miles are keeping us limited
And our lives keep moving like a wildfire
There's a sense of freedom & a sense of peace
Cause I know you're standing there right behind me
Cause I know you're standing there right behind me
Yeah I know you're standing there for me

I have to ask is this a never ending cycle
Or the way I'm supposed to live & love
Cause once again it's an empty bed, empty bottle, empty head
But your words echo, remind me I'm not dead

I can hear you tire as the hours grow late
Words fading thru the static in the void
Let you drift away & dream with me
Until awakened by the power of a voice
Until awakened by the power of a voice
Yeah I'm awakened by the power of your voice

I have to ask is this a never ending cycle
Or the way that I'm supposed to live & love
Cause once again it's an empty bed, empty bottle, empty head
But your words echo, remind me I'm not dead
No your words echo, remind me I'm not dead...

No your words echo, remind me I'm not

Thursday Afternoon Larfs....

I found this pretty amusing...

Yitzhak Times Two

Mi amor and myself as Drag Yitzhak and Boy Yitzhak (no relation to Boy George) respectively at the last Hedwig shadowcast this past weekend. :)

The Ketchup Series

I really like ketchup...

Thanks for the stuffing and 80's flashback

This past week, I made the trek up north to spend Thanksgiving with mi amor.

First item to do was karaoke Wednesday night. After a bit of cajoling, I got Dana to go up and belt out Pat Benetar's "Love Is A Battlefield". Then there was our stalker for the evening, I prefer to call him Skeezy McSketch-a-lot who just kept sitting by us for a good part of the evening.



Thursday we went to Dana's parents house to have dinner with them and her grandmother and her friend Jess. That was really fun. It was nice having someplace to go on Thanksgiving. Lord knows I've resorted to the Swanson Thanksgiving more than a couple times in the past couple of years.



Friday was spent trying to find an outfit suitable for that evening shenanigans.....wait for it....JOAN JETT!!! Woooooo!! We went to Clifton Park, NY and saw her perform with The Blackhearts. It was super cool, and she played a good combination of her old stuff that everyone knows and some of the newer songs like "Fetish" and "A.C.D.C."



Saturday and Sunday we just laying around days, doing a whole lotta nuthin', which is just the way I like it sometimes!! It's nice to get a break from the "big city" once in a while and return to a bit of country living. Although, any place with my soulmate is just fine in my book. :)

One Day More!!!

So goes the triumphant battle song that ends Act I of "Les Miserables". But this post is not about the French Revolution (Dry your eyes, it'll be OK. There's a time and a place for a French Revolution blog and this is neither the time nor the place).

This post is about the fact that in one more day I will be heading up to the Northern climes of upstate NY to see Miss D after an almost 3 week hiatus!! YAY!!! :)

Until next time, faithful reader(s), control the pet population, have your pet spayed or neutered.

Meh. 6 more days.

And in the immortal words of 80's powerband Loverboy:

Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go



Mmmm, yeah. Sexy tight leather pants. Rawr!!!

Update!!!

Yes, faithful reader(s)...Seriously what do I have, 1 maybe 2 readers?! ;) Blah, whateva. Time for an update from the crazy life of Mademoiselle Jenn.

Last, last weekend was Halloween time so mi amor came down and fun times ensued.

Saturday we went to see Evil Dead: The Musical...entertaining yes, silly yes and according to the boards it's pretty darn popular so get your tickets if you like campy horror movie spoofs.



Sunday we went to Cabaret Macabre and despite having crappy seats and only being able to see the dancers from their torsos up, it was pretty cool.



Then there was some asshole on the train, but we won't get into that. As I was saying to my boss at lunch today, NYC seems to have it's very own breed of asshole that I seem to run into at least every other day here!



On Monday we went to go see David Colbert and Petra DeLuca in the stage production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". Dana had never seen the stage production, and this was only the second time for me and it was fabulous!! David was actually one of our first Hedwig's at the first shadowcast of the movie that we did way back last December (I can't believe our anniversary show is fast approaching!!).



After that, we raced to Grand Central Station to get Dana on the train home so we wouldn't have to wait for another hour for the next train to come. We made it with 5 minutes to spare!!

Now I unfortunately have to wait 10 more days to see my love. :( Until the next time I decide to update this thing.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Morbid Madness

This past weekend, with my best gal by my side, I ventured out to the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

A couple days prior I had seen a show on PBS about different areas and cool places to go in Brooklyn, and this place looked pretty intriguing. To give a bit of history on the cemetery, it was built in the1838, during Victorian times. Back then, death was a prevalent part of their society so they wanted a cemetery that wasn’t so “doom and gloomy”. When it was being built, it was meant to be a cemetery-cum-park, and indeed, when it did open, it became quite a popular place to visit and have picnics.

It’s still pretty popular to this day, when we went there were a couple groups of people there wandering around like us. It was a pretty cool place, considering it was a big ol’ cemetery. There were some really creepy (but cool) mausoleums, even one that was a pyramid.



I was searching for the legendary Leonard Bernstein’s grave, but never found it. We did find Aaron Burr’s grave though, and also found the Minerva statue that they had featured in the PBS program. Minerva stands at the summit of the cemetery, marking the area of a famous battle and saluting her sister The Statue of Liberty in the harbor below.



Overall, it was a pretty cool place. If you ever find yourself down by 25th & 5th in Brooklyn, go and visit it.

Sometimes I cry
'Cause it makes my eyes look bluer
Sometimes I bleed
'Cause red is a good color for me

--Best lyrics ever!!! :)

Maine Mayhem

This past weekend me and Miss D went up to Maine to visit with my parents. Despite the 5.5hr drive each way I think it was pretty fun.

We drove up on Saturday, went for a hike on Sunday, got Dana some authentic Maine lobster, played a riviting couple of games of Uno then watched "RV" with Robin Williams. We drove back to Dana's on Monday.

I had never brought anyone home to meet my parents, so it was a bit nerve wracking for me, but my parents really liked Dana and I hope the feeling was likewise.

Below are some pics of our exciting hiking adventure.

My demons come out to play
When you ask me how I feel
When you beg me to tell you my thoughts
They come with unmitigated zeal

These thoughts and feelings
That have laid dormant for so long
Come to the forefront
And the feeling is so strong

I’m scared to tell their secrets
Afraid of what, I’m not sure
Maybe I’m afraid that if I tell them
Then of them, I’ll be cured

These secrets have become my life
A part of my reality
It seems like they’ve always been with me
Like a congenital abnormality

But now it’s all out there
All the cards are on the table
And I feel a strange emptiness
Like someone has cut the cable

A tie severed from my former life
Freeing me into the new
The demons that once haunted me
Are now defeated and through

Weekend Shenanigans

Whooo!!! This weekend was fun times, lemme tell ya!!

Friday and Saturday night doing Hedwig with my best gal by my side. Good times. :)

Went to go see Jackass 2 on Sunday. Quite possibly the stupidest movie ever (I don't know, I didn't see the first Jackass movie), but it was amusing. Though I did have to draw the line at the "leach on the eye" thing.

And I was late to work this morning. Fortunately my boss knew about my fun filled weekend coming up and she wasn't surprised by my late entry at 8:40am this morning (supposed to be there at 8am).

All in all, it was a pretty eventful weekend. And I got to see mi amor for the first time in three weeks!! Next weekend we're making the trek up to Maine to visit my parents...that should be exciting. ;) Anywho, at least I'll get to spend a little more time with my love and not have to be rushing around doing Hedwig crap. ;)

I'll post pics once I get 'em!! :)

The best band....EVER!!!

Greetings kiddies:

The past couple of Saturdays I have ventured into the city to see Semi Precious Weapons at Ars Nova. They have had a residency at Ars Nova all this month, and will also be there next Saturday, which I cannot attend due to Hedwig.

But I wanted to share some beautiful pictures that I took of the glamiful (a word of my own concoction - a combination of "glamorous" and "beautiful") Justin "Precious" Tranter and the rest of the band. Shield your eyes from their gorgeousness!!

The stupidity of my relatives astounds me...

I just got this email today from one of my cousins up in Maine. There have been numerous faux-patriotic, hooray America emails from this person and normally I just delete them and not say anything. But I had to say something about this one. Here is a snipet of said email:


"How ironic is this??!! They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, but don't dream of posting the ten commandments on federal property?

USPS New Stamp This one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text. If there is only one thing you forward today.....let it be this!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001!

REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!

Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp.

REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.

REMEMBER to pass this along to every patriotic AMERICAN you know"

Wow, way to stereotype an entire group of people based on the actions of a few radical extremists. I had to reply to my cousin and give her a piece of my mind about this email. I mentioned that it was emails like this that fuel the hatred in America...and other countries...against Muslims and Arab Americans. I told her that maybe if she did a little bit of research before just sending out more hate, that she would find that most Muslims were ashamed and horrified by the actions of the people who committed these attacks.

I am way off base on this one? I'd like to think not. I just get so tired of all this hatred floating around in the universe and all this stereotyping of huge groups of people.

Hopping on the blogging bandwagon

Well, I suppose it was inevitable that I would one day start my own blog on this interweb thingy and it was only a matter of time.

I don't know who, or how many people will take the time to decipher my mad ramblings but at least it will be a place for me to spew my stuff out into the universe (is it just me, or does that sound obscene?)

So, here it is. Have fun finding out what goes on inside this crazy little head of mine.