well, that was fun....

 went to see the Book of Mormon with friends. we laughed our butts off.  it was pretty funny, a bit too off color at times, but a fun night with friends.  irreverent, crass, but that was what was expected of the thing.  it's a hit on Broadway.  of course, i paid for it today...not how you would have thought, i only had one glass of wine.  i got pretty taken to task for even attending this. so that was a chunk of the day today, trying to figure out why that had just happened.

 still not clear how i became the fall guy for this play.   religions want to be protected under the very politically correct clause that they claim to hate.  I'd say specific religions because people have been slamming many religions in a satirical way for generations.  politics is also a very popular topic of satire...and well, just watch a few South Park episodes to see that there are no survivors...everyone gets slammed in satire. this play is offensive at times, but not really in the way you would think due to the title.  Africans/Ugandans...clitoris, maggot balls, having sex with frogs and children...none of these offensive bits had anything to do with the religious element of the play.

 there were some really cute numbers especially in the first half that i think many would find fun and not offensive.  you pay for the whole show so you just relax and allow yourself to be entertained...we were.  i am not personally responsible for the content of the play, nor should i be made to feel shame for attending it i think.  that doesn't make me small minded or mean i lack tolerance. it just means that there was a play in town, I'd heard it was fun and funny so i went.

 by the end of the day I'd gotten pretty ticked and i threw down a bit...hopefully, all is chilled out now. hate stuff like that.  feeling attacked when you really don't feel you deserve to be attacked...kind of like when i was attacked for buying tickets to a game and made to feel it was some plot I'd hatched up.  i really don't hatch up plots.  I'm not that smart. anyway....totally unexpected and i am trying to refocus on the fun night i had with my friends, dining and laughing together.  in the current politics, laughter is all we have some days.  gotta make it count.

 debated mentioning this at all, but it took up a lot of mental energy through my day, the blog is how i clear my head and move forward. besides, i deleted my post on facebook about the play, felt i deserved to write about it somewhere...the narrative would have been different if i hadn't had the other bit. so there it is.  i survived the play and the after play. several relatives have enjoyed the play, my niece had told me i must attend it, that i would love it.  i knew there was lots of swearing, otherwise i really wasn't sure except it was satire.  the Mormons took out full page ads, which seems like a spendy deal, my other brother said there were elders greeting them either as they came or went....I'm guessing when they came as i think they have a curfew? so i figure the Mormons were making the best of the play and had found a way to use it to their advantage.  I've never worried about the Mormons, they are survivors.

 spent much of the day as well with my friends daughter.  we went walking with LS, ate lunch together and then she began working on the mural on the back fence she had started earlier in the summer.  great to see  her happy self.  the back fence is looking pretty cool!!  perhaps when my niece and her family come up we can find a fun art project for her ultra talented daughter if she desires.

 the latest stencil on the exposed beam.  chatted with friends this evening.  texted with others and then at some point i got a message from my cousin...she was going to unfriend my brother.  guess he was posting that these bombs that were sent in an attempt to assassinate two former Presidents, several other prominent Democrats and  attack CNN, he claimed the report of these was a hoax and that this really was a plot by the Democrats.  they are on this everyone is against them, they are the victims....hard to be the victim when you hold ALL the power in the nation, including the Supreme Court, but there it is, playing the victim card, blaming the Democrats for everything that upsets them...so easy, and so easy for the iitoo and crew to manipulate.  we do not know who is behind it, hopefully, they are flushed out.  the iitoo read a prepared statement, which means he said the right words for that brief moment.  he held a rally later where he quickly went back to his usual crap of lock her up, praise for those who would threaten the press, and making his crowd feel like they are the victims and the Dems and liberals are out to squash them all and destroy America.  so life goes on.  a few weeks to midterms, no idea what that outcome will be or how they will react if they lose...if they win it's clear, say goodbye to health care, say goodbye to protections for folks with pre-existing conditions, say goodbye to protections for Social Security and Medicare.  if they lose....will they even believe the results or will the iitoo incite them to violence...or more violence if these bombs today that were intercepted thankfully, are attempted again. 

 the stage is set.  no photo's during, not that i would have taken any.  there was a lot of dancing which was fun, and some stand out voices.  there were two main elders that were sent to Uganda for their mission.  Cunningham was the slacker elder, Davis i think it was, he was the over achiever. 

 other actions for today, more slamming on the kitchen subfloor. almost done.  also i dragged the stove out to the front deck.  figure it would be easier to give away that way so i wouldn't have to have anyone in the house.  it's also closer to the street if i need to haul it off to the dump...which i fear i may be doing. in preparation for another dump run i also took the hammer and tore up the last few lower cabinets.  good energy release for any residual frustration i felt from the day.

 so overall a lovely day, some confusion and frustration and anger but that is life i guess.  to avoid any of that you'd have to totally avoid the other humans and I'm not ready to be a total hermit yet...it does sound like a good idea some days though.

 back to work tomorrow night.  i think i will enjoy all my pretty flowers after it snows and it's cold and dark!!  thanks MO!!

grateful for:  A.  choices, they aren't always easy but sometimes you make the right ones B. a good days work C.  artwork to enjoy