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Clothes, home and a theater queen.

It's time again for Random Thought Thursdays:

On clothes: More to the point, clothes on me. I lost two pounds last week, my first full week doing Weight Watchers. I'm really getting into it. I feel like I've lost another pound already this week. Today when I put on my suit I noticed that the pants seemed to be a little looser. It's one of the reasons I'm doing this. I could open my own Banana Republic store with what I have in my closet. Much of it hasn't been fitting too well.

On home: I'll write more about this later, but my ex has left his job and will be moving out of his apartment at the end of May -- and back into the house we still own together. Like I said, more later.

On being a theater queen: I've scheduled my second annual NYC theater weekend. My friend Gene is going and asked me to share his hotel room, which is very low priced to begin with. Then I got a round trip, non-stop ticket on Continental for $138. That's outragious.  Plus I did my taxes the other night. Add it all up and you get a weekend in NYC. I already have tickets to see Deuce, the new Terrence McNally play with Angela Landsbury and Marion Seldes. I think I will add Grey Gardens and Company to the list.

Creeps, criminals and Google.

It's time once again for Random Thought Thursdays.

Creeps:  Well, it seems that the New Life Church in Colorado Springs is losing money, big time, since the outster of its former asshole pastor, The Rev. Ted Haggard. You remember him; I've written about him before. The guy who got caught with a male hooker. The poor church. Attendance is down and so are donations. They've had to lay off 44 of its 350 workers. Of course I'm sorry that people lost their jobs, but what the hell does that church do that it needs 350 employees???  Give the money away to people who need it, you creeps!

Criminals:  The Bushies are in trouble again, this time due to the political nature of the firing of all those prosecutors. That moron Rove is back in the headlines and it looks like AG Gonzalez may get the boot. Aaaahhh...just desserts for that band of sanctimonious crooks. I'm so glad the Dems have come into power. It's time to pay the Republicans back for the Clinton-era witch hunts.

Google: I'm still thinking about hearing from actress Clarissa Grace after I posted that piece last Thursday about not getting an email from her. It's amazing, the power of the Internet, and to a much lesser extent, this blog. She said a castmate read my blog. How?, I wondered. Of course...the magic of Google. Her co-worker must have Googled her and up on the second page of search results came Pen and Ink.  You just never know who's gonna read this stuff. If I end up in jail for writing mean things about the White House, please send fudgie chocolate cake.

A witch, a bitch, and a sweetheart.

I've created a new little featurette here at Pen and Ink. It's called Random Thought Thursdays (RTT). The name should tell you what it's about.

For our inaugural RTT, I offer you three snippets, all about women. That they are all about women wasn't intentional; it just happened that way.

The Witch: I'm going to see Wicked tonight at the Carnival Center in Miami. No, I haven't seen it before, so I'm very excited. Excited not just because of the show, but that I'm going with my friend Jessica. We have season tickets to the Broadway in Miami series; Wicked is the fourth of five offerings this season. Yet it's the first that Jessica and I have actually been able to attend together.

The Bitch: THIS SECTION WAS EDITED OUT AFTER THE FACT. SEE MY POST ON MARCH 20.

The Sweetheart: I was driving to work yesterday and thought about my friend Tamara, who moved to North Carolina in November. So I called. She answered the phone with, "Oh my God! I can't believe it." It was so great to hear her voice. I really miss her a lot. But she sounds really happy with her job. She's also bought a house and going out on more dates than she was able to find in Miami. So I'm very happy that she's settling in nicely there.