Yes, the icon is Buster from the fantastically funny show Arrested Development.

After the Friday night opening of Take Me Out I drove for about 4 hours to go on a “Guy’s Weekend” with my brother Dominic, brother in-law Bill, father, and 3 other guys; Jim (Dominic’s father-in-law), and Dominic’s friends Bill and Scott. It’s been scheduled for months, but when Take Me Out came up I had to miss the first day of the weekend because of Opening Night for the show.

Still, we had a blast. Riding the Quad/4 wheelers, (which I’ve only done a couple of times before), golfing, sitting around the campfire. A ridiculous amount of fun to cram into 2 days. (Now, thanks to several hours of zipping thru the woodland trails on a 4 wheeler and 9 holes of golf, my out of shape bones are stiff and sore! But it was worth it!) Now I’m back home, just got the kids tucked into bed, and Jeanne is falling asleep as I type!

When I got back, the kids were very excited about giving me ‘a present!’. Jeanne said that they had gotten me something for Christmas, but the kids now couldn’t wait and wanted to give it to me now. Well, the number of times I’ve refused presents is…let me think…yep, I think it’s zero. SO, the kids made me sit on the couch with my eyes closed, and Jeanne brought in the gift. When I opened my eyes, I found one of the cutest, best presents ever: A cartoonists version of my kids! You know at street fairs, they have people draw you as cartoons? Jeanne had one done of the kids, and it’s just beautiful. The artist really captured their smiles, their energy! So now, lucky me, I have a wonderful new piece to hang in a place of importance! Jealous?

Also, in case you haven’t kept up on your Williamston Theatre Project info, we have a reading this Saturday, in Williamston.

And, lastly, since I’m exhausted and going to go to sleep, I have to report that my Tigers have again dropped to 4 games below .500, after a DISMAL 1 and 5 road trip. *sigh* Still, better than last year.