Status 9-25-15* Yesterday Went in for the full GI work up. Despite having to wait due to some technical snafus at the hospital (even THEY aren’t immune from software update woes), everything went smoothly and Angel Doc is positive with no immediate blockages or concerns. Now we wait on the other tests. Was in and out of ...

Status 9-13-15* Yesterday If you’d like an update on my tummy, read my last blog post. I actually hesitated very much over publicly posting that one as I figured it wasn’t really very encouraging and probably TMI. But then I decided to go ahead as it was how I felt. I’m still not even close to 100% ...

Status 9-07-15* Yesterday Well I wrote a blog post Yahoo!. But the topic of it continued to plague me a bit. It’s gotten so that food is no longer pleasurable AT ALL, and everything is about how it feels in my tummy. I’m also surprised that I seem to be putting on fat even though I’m not ...

Status 8-18-15* Yesterday All I did was edit, edit, edit! But don’t get to hopeful for show 120 to be up any time soon. This was just trying to get all of the individual segments that will make up the show done so I can put them in some kind of order and write the transitions. Transitions ...

Status 8-09-15* Yesterday Well I was happy to get some very nice audio good-byes under the wire. Smooches to you BCs who took the time to be in the last show. Not only do I appreciate it (and I admit some of the messages made me cry), but I KNOW the listening BCs will appreciate it too. ...

Status 7-21-15* Yesterday Yikes! It HAS been awhile since I posted a status. Most likely I didn’t feel like revealing my thought process over whether or not to continue the show. As you might know if you read my latest blog post, the podcast is going on permanent hiatus. (Which means I’m taking a break from it ...

Status 7-06-15* Yesterday Hooray! Mark and I cleaned our ENTIRE DOWNSTAIRS this weekend. Wow! We haven’t done such a good clean since we were sick a couple of months back. Man how time flies when you are procrastinating. I feel much better mentally and physically. One, because just the hard work of all that furniture moving and ...

Status 7-05-15* Yesterday I am DOUBLE PROUD of myself because I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and did my BIG CLEAN! That’s where I move the furniture out of the family room and my desk area, vacuum, dust, and scrub the heck out of the tiled floors. It’s the biggest part of our downstairs and takes ...

Status 6-24-15* Yesterday Shortest Status Ever! I was aggravated. BUT it all worked out in the end. Today HOORAY! I finally got show 117 written. Looks like Friday I can schedule an early morning hike and try to get the show recorded and released. Fingers crossed. Writing group tonight. Working with my voice acting coach Thursday. Have a great day ...

Status 6-23-15* Yesterday Fun was on my agenda. I enjoyed my walk down to the park and moving my body after a week or so of riding the sofa. I also had a lot of fun meeting up with some Voice Actor peeps I hadn’t seen for awhile, including Max, who did a great job with our Jack ...

Status 6-19-15* Yesterday I had an interesting day in therapy where we addressed my concerns about HOW UNMOTIVATED I AM! Usually, this is a sign that depression is sneaking up on me. But I feel GREAT! I’m sleeping, I’m upbeat, I’m excited for things, people and activities in my life right now, so what’s the deal with ...

Status 6-17-15* Yesterday I’m combatting a small case of the blahs with learning things. I’ve had the Classroom in a Book series FOREVER, which I purchased long ago to learn my audio editing software better. Sigh. BUT, I have ended up always ‘just getting by’ with the minimum needed to do the show. I’m ‘TOO BUSY’ to ...

Status 6-12-15* Yesterday Therapy was fun — more about learning how to deal with POSITIVE emotions. Wow! Who knew I had to learn THAT? Mark, bless him continued the recording studio project. I remained out of his way except to provide beverage when called, and enjoyed a lazy day petting Tiger and watching season 13 of Project ...

Status 6-11-15* Hi email folk, I’m letting this status report go out to you as there is much cool news in it. xoxoxox Yesterday I had a very exciting and fulfilling day. I had my first professional voice acting audition! Yay me! I’m on the bravery report for that. BC Sandy provided the opportunity and I swallowed my ...

Status 6-7-15* Yesterday First of all, I was going to write about something else yesterday on the blog, but an Ode to my Toast came out instead. This marks the FIRST time I’ve written a poem instead of prose for you all here. And, I think it may in fact be the first poem I’ve written since ...

Status 5-30-15* Yesterday Quick update: Yesterday I had fun walking around my local park and giving Alen Standish our 3rd interview. He also recorded a bit for MY next episode. Yay! Always fun to check in with Alen. Then I practiced more voice acting exercises and continued to try and refine how we will configure the guest room ...

Status 5-28-15* Yesterday Busy, busy day. Mark and I got our butts BACK on the bike and rode along the river in the morning. Prior, I had put together my mic stand and done some practice. Then last night a RECORD number of writers came to the writers’ group. Very interesting to hear all of the different ...

Status 5-27-15* Yesterday Wow! It’s been awhile since I posted my status report. I plead busyness AND some general sneaky lassitude. Monday’s hike and record, wiped me totally out. Due to weather and scheduling, I hadn’t been taking my daily walk for over a week, and man oh man, THAT hike was a killer diller! So yesterday, ...

Status 5-18-15* Yesterday Man oh man! Intensive voice acting class. Four hours of finding your best character types in monologues in the morning, short lunch, four hours with scene partners into the evening, then another hour of discussion after. LONG day. Tough, but productive. I’m moving right along finding out what’s in MY voice that I can ...

Status 5-15-15* Yesterday Despite driving Red Baby to Burbank in the thunder storm, I had a great session with my voice acting coach, David Babich. I’m starting to feel some real progress in my ability. We also worked in the booth, and from the recordings I can HEAR the improvement in the vocal quality itself – let ...