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Monday the 24th \u2013 DIRTY DOG DAYS! \u2013<\/span> Today was the day Roxy\u2019s groomer was supposed to come, but I got a text that the groomer was under the weather, so they would try to reschedule later. Rats. One more day with a dirty dog. I did some work around the house, then drove to my mailbox to pick up my packages. I had a delicious salad and a nice relaxing time on the patio at Paty\u2019s, and then headed home. My pal Jasmine stopped over on her way to pick up a friend at the airport. I sat down at the computer and did some more photo cataloging; listing the contents of about 4,000 scans of my photo album pages into a reference document. I made it past the first 1,000 images! Only about 3,000 more to go! I typed out Wally\u2019s Week, then made some lasagna and watched a few more episodes of \u201cThe Lone Ranger\u201d before bed.<\/p>\nTuesday the 25th \u2013 TCB TUESDAY! \u2013<\/span> It was another perfect \u201cTCB\u201d day (takin\u2019 care of business, as Elvis would say), so I worked around the house all day getting things fixed, tidied, moved, and settled. I recorded a bunch of auditions, and later my pal Emily came over so we could drive to Lancers and get dinner (it was beef barley soup day!). When I got home I recorded some more auditions, and then spent the rest of the evening cataloging photos.<\/p>\nWednesday the 26th \u2013 LIKE BRAND SPANKIN\u2019 NEW! \u2013<\/span> To kill a few hours before my lunch meeting, I sat down and cataloged some more scans. Then I drove to Paty\u2019s to meet with my pal Tuesday Knight, her mom, her friend Jeff, and my pal Edi. But I couldn\u2019t stay long because Roxy\u2019s groomer called and said they could send out another groomer later that afternoon to make-up for the missed day on Monday. Before I went home I picked up my packages at my mailbox. I got in a pair of vintage Laurel and Hardy figures by Dakin that looked BRAND NEW! These figures were still in their original bags and were flawless! I also stopped for some ice cream at Baskin-Robbins and then headed home to meet the groomer. As always, Roxy turned out BEAUTIFUL! I recorded a bunch of auditions, and later I did more photo cataloging. I had to do some on-line research to study up on a character I performed in a series about 10 years ago. There is a project coming up this week that will revisit that character so I needed to freshen up on the voice and personality. I\u2019ll be doing a four hour session on Thursday which should be fun!<\/p>\nThursday the 27th \u2013 AN OLD FRIEND! \u2013<\/span> Craving a tuna sub, I walked to Subway to get a sandwich, and then I walked to Roxy\u2019s vet to pick up a prescription for her mobility medication. Then I walked over to the studio to do a four hour session for a new cartoon series. I will tell you ALL about it when I\u2019m able, but for now it has to remain hush-hush until the network releases the information. With all of the craziness over the past two years, I\u2019ve gotten out of the pattern of doing four hour sessions, and they are now quite exhausting! So when I got home I was pretty beat. But the session was very fun, AND funny! I grabbed a short nap, and then did a bunch of auditions. I made a giant salad (which was DELICIOUS!) and watched a few more episodes of \u201cThe Lone Ranger.\u201d<\/p>\nFriday the 28th \u2013 NEW PUPPET COMIN\u2019! –<\/span> It\u2019s always a treat to drive into an area where there\u2019s a KFC nearby. On my way to my pal Alex In Wonderland\u2019s studio, I got some food at KFC. I needed Alex to do a little fix on my Robin the Frog puppet, and I also dropped off the components I put together for my new Roosevelt Franklin Muppet replica. I built the head, body, arms, hands, and \u201cskeleton\u201d hand inserts. I need Alex to do all the sewing and hand-stitching on the fabrics. When she\u2019s finished we can put everything together. We\u2019ll stuff the arms, put the \u201cskeleton\u201d pieces into the hands, stuff them, attach them, and then I can trim the area around the mouth that overlaps into the mouth plate. While I was there, I also chatted with her husband Mike about creating the four foot tall Popeye cutout, similar to the one that adorned the wall of the kid\u2019s show I watched as a kid. Mike got the artwork downloaded. He\u2019ll make a vector file of it and give it to a precision cutter to cut it out of a durable piece of wood that is commonly used for projects like this. Then Mike will project the image onto the cutout, and paint in the details. Marvelous! I drove home and fed the pets. Later I met a new friend for dinner at Miceli\u2019s. She loved hearing the servers singing Broadway songs between serving people\u2019s orders. She had never been to a place like this before. I started talking to a table of young adults at the table next to us, and found out that one of the guys played piano. He said he only started playing in early 2020, but he was VERY good. It seemed like he had been playing since he was a kid. He asked if I wanted to sing with him, so after the staff piano player left, he sat down at the piano and started cranking out the tunes. We sang \u201cPiano Man,\u201d \u201cLet It Be\u201d and others. It was great! The kid was REALLY good! It was so much fun to be back at Miceli\u2019s. I had missed it. I got home and did some work around the house for the rest of the night.<\/p>\nSaturday the 29th \u2013 IT\u2019S BEEN GREAT FOOD WEEK! \u2013<\/span> In addition to having not been at Miceli\u2019s in a while, I also haven\u2019t been to the Smokehouse in a while. I was supposed to meet friends for Christmas dinner, but that was the day I got sick and had to cancel. I\u2019ve been craving it for over a month! Today was the day. I met with my pals Edi and Officer Mark about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the #1 hit song \u201cBrandy (You\u2019re a Fine Girl)\u201d (which Edi\u2019s husband wrote and sang). Officer Mark calls it the \u201cBrandyversary! We came up with some really great ideas that Edi is going to run by her husband Elliot Lurie. Though my tummy was full of really great food and I was looking forward to a nap, I needed to trudge over to the grocery store and get some supplies. When I got home I put everything away, fed the pets, and relaxed. An evening full of working around the house culminated in the creation of another legendary Saturday Night Super Saint Salad, and an episode of \u201cThe Saint\u201d before bed.<\/p>\nSunday the 30th \u2013 PUPPET ROOM PERK-UPS! \u2013<\/span> Sunday is my usual \u201cveg out day,\u201d so I normally sleep most of the day. Luckily I happened to get up mid-afternoon and saw a text message from my pharmacy telling me that it was the last day to pick up my prescription before it canceled. Odd. My doctor issued the prescription on the 17th, but it took the pharmacy a week and a half to fill it because they couldn\u2019t get the medication in stock, due to shortages. But my pharmacist (whom I\u2019ve known for years) called a few days ago to let me know she had a smaller quantity of the medicine on hand. It wasn\u2019t the quantity the doctor prescribed, but she offered me the smaller quantity if I wanted it because she knows I need it. I told her I\u2019d take it and thanked her for her kindness. So I drove over to CVS and picked up the prescription with a few other items. I had planned to stop by Taco Bell to get some food, but when I got to my car I flashed on an idea of getting a Domino\u2019s delivered, since it\u2019s been a while. And that\u2019s what I did. I enjoyed it while working on the computer. Later I turned my attentions to one specific display case in the Puppet Room. I needed to affix some specific types of hooks on the glass walls so certain items would display properly. I also noticed that my \u201cWizard of Oz\u201d clock was very difficult to read. (My Puppet Room features a combo Oz\/Muppet design scheme) I opened the clock up to gain access to the actual clock face. I mixed up some light green acrylic paint and painted the hands of the clock so it would read better from a distance. The black hands of the clock were blending into the busy design of the clock face too much. But not anymore! I spent the rest of the night cataloging photos. I got past 1,500 photos, so I\u2019m ALMOST halfway done!<\/p>\nAnd how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n
PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n
A Christoween fan and Voice Over Artist sent me this photo recently, of his Frankie ornament keeping him company in his studio!<\/p><\/div>\n
Officer Mark, Edi and I at our “Brandyversary” brainstorming session.<\/p><\/div>\n
I think I feel an idea hatching!<\/p><\/div>\n
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