Feel Me Don't You

… comes the cleaning. And the divorce.
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It’s been bothering me for years and I finally did it – I divorced myself from the WASP wife beige (you can find it at your local Lowes or Home Depot) that adorned the walls of my bedroom. This was the paint selected by the original owners circa the Reagan administration. It had cracked and was peeling from the walls. Yes, you read that right, an interior paint was cracked and peeling. Even the helpful folks at Lowes were stumped by that little nugget o’ info. So, with mom in town for a little early Mother’s Day time, we began the task of scraping paint, placing putty in the resultant holes, taping, priming, and finally painting. A job that should have taken only three to four hours took well over three times longer.

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So, out with the old WASP wife beige and in the with new Pirate Coast. During the bright day or with the light on, it’s a very pale green. When the sun isn’t beaming directly into the room, it’s a very serene coastal green. I’m not sure my phone really captured the color well, sorry. With that project done, we set upon cleaning all the curtains and windows. I also lined the terraced areas with solar powered lighting to highlight the plant life and give a little more light to the stairway. We will be knocking out the remaining rooms before mom has to take off Thursday. It feels so odd to have help after having to do spring cleaning on my own for years, but it’s certainly appreciated. Nick, Kelly, and I took both my mom and Kelly’s to Jack Stack BBQ as an early Mother’s Day treat. Needless to say, after Jack Stack on Sunday, homemade spaghetti last night, and steaks grilled tonight, I feel like I have a food baby growing inside me.

Sorry for the quickie…

In this past week there has been good news and bad; there’s been insomnia and exhaustion and the effects have taken their toll, but I’ll be okay. Between everything going on and what’s coming up, I’ve been completely out of sorts. I have every confidence, however, that things will be back on track soon. Thankfully through all this I’ve at least been able to knock out a script and with any luck we’ll be storyboarding it in the next week or so with filming close on its heels. It’s also pretty likely that there will be another piece of flash fiction soon.

Ok, for those of you who’ve been reading through the comments lately, you’ve likely noticed that I mentioned a new project. Specifically, a musical. I have never written a musical before, so this is an enormous undertaking that I hope will pan out. Ultimately, once it’s completed, I would like to stage it here for a limited run and then utilize some of my contacts to shop it around. I’m getting ahead of myself here as there are numerous hurdles to overcome before I can even think of it hitting the stage: getting permission to use specific music is going to be the most difficult hurdle I fear and staying motivated through the writing and re-writing process just to name a few. I have my title, premise, and main characters already complete. Next up: my outline, scene breakdowns, and songs.

Here goes nothing… wish me luck?