Chicken Fried

Have you heard that song? Its country so those who don’t listen to that genre….you’re out of luck. It has been all over the radio in the last few months, and I love it. While at work on a Saturday about a month ago, my co-worker, Jena and I were singing along. Needless to say, we check out the tour locations for the Zac Brown Band and sure enough, Denver CO on March 31st. We were so excited.

We bought tickets and last night was so much fun. The concert was at a small, intimate theater, The Ogden. The opening band is a new act, Gloriana and they were really good, I need the CD. I, surprisingly, didn’t know anything about the Zac Brown Band outside of the one song. They were really good, a must have new CD and I can’t wait to see if they win “best new artist” at the ACMs on Sunday. They have a different tone and vibe than most of the new bands, and to quote Zac, “it’s lake music”. A perfect description

Typical Colorado Weather

After our March blizzard that dropped about 12 inches of snow, Friday was a sunny beautiful day melting nearly half the snow. The weekend was warm and sunny and today…..snowing again. It is wet, slushy and sloppy. What is with the crazy weather all over the country? The news last night said we would get “a couple inches of snow” today and I scrapped off a good 3 inches and it is still coming down like blizzard….tomorrow is supposed to be sunny, later this week, more snow!

A hopeful update on Fargo…..We are hoping the Red River in Fargo stays where it is, so my in-laws house isn’t in danger. They don’t live on the River, but there is the danger of ground water which would flood their house. Keeping our fingers crossed. Frank flew up from Florida to make sure everything is okay and will be there all week just making sure things hold. . Mother nature, please…..

Just when I was going to change my background....more flakes

Blizzard update #2

Kyle made it home safe and sound and pretty close to his normal commute. The snow is coming down at a much slower pace and is hopefully on its way out! The "Blizzard Warning" is through Friday at 6:00am, so we'll see what happens between now and then. A nice Thursday afternoon of house projects....fun

Blizzard update...

Thankfully I am home and Kyle is on his way. It really is bad out there. A normal compute for me is 10 minutes and it took about 40 minutes. The "official" measurement from the grill out back is 8 inches and it doesn't look like it is going to stop anytime soon. Until Kyle gets home.....

Blizzard 2009

It has been a pretty mild winter in Colorado and especially Denver! We haven’t had a good snow fall all winter. March is our snowiest month and here it comes!!! We are supposed to get 8-16 inches in the city and up to two feet in the foothills by tomorrow morning. For the first time in my life, every school district in the state, including universities have closed today in anticipation of the snow. You’d think this was Miami getting snow, seriously never happened before.

We woke to a dusting and a dry drive to work and now, it is nearly white out conditions. I really do hope we get 16 inches of snow, for the sake of moisture that we so desperately need and because I love a snow day….tomorrow!! A snow update to come….

Ballet

I have been a theater junkie lately. Last night was the finale to three nights at the theater in a week. Last week went to the Colorado Ballet’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A classic Shakespeare tale of love-triangles, relationships and lovers in an enchanted forest. The performance last night was incredible and unique. It is called The Repertory Series which consists of three different ballets. The first two were fairly traditional in the ballet sense, elegant and graceful in toe shoes and ballet slippers. The third and longest was very contemporary, fast paced and high energy. It was a mix between Stomp and ballet. The costumes were what looked like, black and white striped baggy scrubs, red Pointe shoes and white tennis shoes. The stage was filled with fog and the dancers would just appear. It took ballet to a totally different level. Brilliant!

I had never been to the ballet before last year when my mom asked me to go with her last minute. We went to The Repertory Series, I decided I liked ballet. The production was the same set up, three ballets that went from traditional to contemporary. I wouldn’t say ballet is a dying art, but there aren’t huge crowds of people buying tickets. What I determined last year is this contemporary side of ballet is what is going to bring it to the masses. It is like what RENT, the musical, did for musicals. Its rock opera style with controversial liberal topics typically attended by a conservative audience has created a following from a generation where musicals were nearly dead. RENT brought a young, diverse and virgin crowd to the theater. This same concept is what The Repertory Series is going to do for ballet. Who knew I’d like ballet so much….you just need that one experience and then you’re hooked.

Phantom...

You don’t even need the entire title of the musical to know what I’m talking about. It is that known, loved and simply amazing!!! As the final celebration of my birthday I went to Phantom of The Opera. I loved it!!! This is about the only classic musical I hadn’t seen, and have been wanting to for a few years. I’ve even had the soundtrack since high school, but I’d never seen the show.

Last night I finally saw it with a great theater date…my mom! What a beautiful score, famous and delightful to listen to. The sets were extravagant and the costumes were beautiful! I have to admit after all of these years of singing along to the soundtrack I didn’t know the story of the musical. Regardless, it was amazing, amazing! Thanks Mom!!!