Gouls & Gals

Lily, you rock...the New York Marathon and a promotion in a depressed economy, wow! Yes, 2008 is certainly your year! It was so much fun having the chicks back together again, but I must admit we were a little bereft without our Rooster! Roh, (as Lily said) we talked about you a lot and we even tried to catch you on Skype one evening. Where were you... the cafe or the pub?

Here are some photos from Halloween. The cast from Harry Potter was spotted in our neighborhood!

Hurrah!

Outstanding performance Lily. Fantastic news. Well done indeed. I think we will call 2008 the Year of Obama and Lily Love Shaw.

Promotion

I did it! I have been given a promotion at the Guthrie - in only 7 months - not bad huh?! As of December first my title will be Education Manager and my direct report will be my boss Louise who has been made Director of Education. I am NO longer a F---ing Assistant!!!! Oh my god -I am VERY pleased. OH - AND I will get a raise! Pretty crazy, especially in this economic market. It is not even so much that my duties are going to change I have pretty much been managing since I started, but I am now actually getting the permission to fully do it. There will be more work - but I am up for it. Things are so much better in the department since the nasty woman left and since they decided to move the 77 year old director to another area of the Theater - an area where she will actually have more of an opportunity to do what she loves (you should have that opportunity by the time your 77 - don't you think?!). So all is well!

I have to say I have been looking over my shoulder when I write since reading Roh's last blog entry...hmm...I certainly miss all of you!

I get to see my little niece this weekend! yeah! I will have a ton of pictures to post I am sure.

We are performers

This is weird. I plugged our blog into Typealyzer and it said that we are Meyer-Briggs ESFP - The Performers. Collectively Red Rooster and His Chicks are:

"The entertaining and friendly type. Especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don't like to plan ahead - they are always at risk of exhausting themselves. They enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions."

The drawing that accompanies the ESFP type shows an attractive young woman at a bar with a cocktail in her hand. Spooky. It's like they have been following us around.

Yeah Friends!!

WHEW!!

What a week! I could not have been with better people... in a better place then NYC last week. It was buzzing with Halloween parades, a HUGE Marathon and one of the most historical Elections ever. It was fantastic!

It was so wonderful to see you Kathy and Kristen! I already miss you a ton. Roh we talked about you often - wishing you were there with us - wondering what you are up to - and deciding we need to do a skype conversation...how would that work?

I had a good time seeing other friends to - all gatherings were brief but fulfilling. I swear I leave and people have babies, move, get pregnant, fall in love - man o man - change is good.

I have decided that the best thing to do before any vacation (at least for me) is an extreme sport...maybe I am a masochist...but I have to say I felt fully deserving of the rest of my vacation after running 26.2 miles. So Roh start training because in 2010 we need to run an Australian marathon...do they do those there? is there a beer every mile:)?!

Below are a few marathon photo highlights ...I have to say it was an absolutely amazing experience - I think I had a smile on my face the entire time...I really honestly am surprised I was able to do it. I believe I now have a new found confidence in myself - it really hit something in me! I will say...I am proud. Oh I will say in addition to the photo's below Brightroom got a few goodies during the race...http://www.brightroom.com/estf.asp?EVENTID=34924&PWD=&BIB=47516 (you might have to cut and past it into your browser to get to them).

Here are more:

coming into 8 mile pit stop #1


yeah, friends!!!


A quick change -- gotta get rid of a couple items to avoid "chaffing"


Off we go Kathy in tow!


Pit stop #2 -- 22 mile mark


I think this is the moment I realized that this marathon was changing something in me...


Whew!!! 26.2 miles


The end!!! where else can you have a better Manhattan then...in Brooklyn!!!!



I will post more pictures of the chicks and I later...just wanted to get this post up before you thought I had forgotten!!!

miss you all!!!

Now what?

I think this blog could be up for some kind of award. We have gone from Sarah Palin's vagina to a beautiful poem by Maya Angelou in just two posts. Amazing.

The election is over and I don't know what I am going to do with the rest of my life. For months I have been watching polls, looking at electoral maps, fretting when Obama's lead dropped below 5%, out of my mind with joy when it went above 7%, reading blogs and pundits and now...nothing. Sure, Rahm Emanuel is a fun guy, but it's just not the same thing. I watched the election on four different channels and a dozen websites, and I was still worried until the last minute that somehow California was going to go Republican. Maybe I'm just going to have to watch the West Wing yet again.