Zania Fever

I'm listening to "Young Frankenstein" - the musical - on Sirius. I'm at the "Transylvania Mania" song right now. I've never heard this before. Seen the movie, didn't know there was a play. Makes me want to join a chorus line somewhere.... At the very least, I may have to see what's available CD-wise for this. How can you get better than this? Broadway music...gotta love it...(I'm a woman so I can say that without fear)

The other writing workshop we were going to go to was cancelled. The author of "God of War" was going to present it. The topic was "setting". That's something I have a hard time with. I can do conversations just fine, but I hate writing narrative. But, it was cancelled so I'll just have to struggle with this some more.

We bought an ice tea maker. This is like my 5th one in my lifetime. This one I finally noticed that they tell you up-front that the pitcher is not dishwasher-safe. You'd think I would have learned after the first time I disfigured one. I kept forgetting to wash by hand. So anyway, this one is pretty cool. The maker uses either bags or loose tea and you put it in a basket INSIDE the tea maker! Whoa! It was such a pain putting the tea in that little basket over the pitcher. Now I get to put it in the maker. Out of sight is out of mind. Now I don't have to worry about it until the next time I make tea. Plus now the pitcher fits really neatly into the maker. You don't have to slide it next to it anymore.

The added benefit is that my Siamese cat, Kynan, loves to watch the water drip into the pitcher. Instant Cat Entertainment!

If there is anyone out there reading this, leave me a comment or two... would love feedback. But keep it positive and with extremely gratuitous complements. (In the words of the great Randy Jackson.... "just keepin' it real, dawg!"....)