I generally give myself a break over the holidays and just relax and enjoy time with my new toys.  And I did enjoy a couple of "checked out" days, but I also had to get some stuff done.

 

I've been talking with some friends about doing the stand up thing and EVERYONE said I had to join Facebook.  Really? I HAVE to? Oh yeah it's "fun".  But I thought it just for high school and college people, this "fun" thing.  Nope, and I joined because oddly almost everyone I know and have known can be found on Facebook.  A lot of these people I speak to on a regular basis and no one ever mentioned the fact they were having this "fun" without me. I find this highly suspicious. It's true, I'm generally not a joiner, but I do have the reputation for being a "fun" lovin' gal.  Now here's my theory, I think we're (as a general population) having two lives, an online life and a person to person life. I was generally a person to person...person and now I have an online life too.  And that's a lot like performing, having a stage persona and you in life.  Okay, it's not really a theory it's my justification for learning a new procrastination tool.  Thank you Facebook! I'm no longer procrastinating, I'm marketing myself!

 

I finished planning the new episode of Townies and tried to memorize some new material for my four minutes and thirty seconds. Here's the rub on that, I'm one of those people who can forget something at the drop of a hat so I don't really know if something is memorized or not till I perform it.  It's why you should ALWAYS go on stage with your notepad or note cards or write it on the back of your eyelids.

 

Generally at the end of the year I write out all my failures and decide to fail better in the coming year.  It can actually be very helpful and inspiring.  At least I tried certain things and learned from my failures. But this year I decided to try something different, I wrote my own obituary and after I read it back to myself I almost committed suicide.  This is not an exercise for the faint of heart.  So I wrote an obituary that was filled with complete lies.  And here's what I'll do:  Create an online personality and then kill her off and post the obituary.  I'm kidding, maybe.