Tomorrow I will be heading off for my first road trip in my new little pontiac vibe, i will be driving up to visit my cousin Travis, his wife Teresa and my Uncle Dan and Jane will be there as well so it will be a little family style reunion of sorts for the 4th of July. I am excited to get on the road with the car, and to be honest I am packed and ready to go right now...i would like to get moving right now but will leave tomorrow morning since that was my original plan.

The weather here has been miserable for the past month, it has been so rainy and dreary it is just dismal. June is normally my favorite month in Maine and it was just a big dogpile of rain.

I am not here to write about the death of Michael Jackson. I don't own a single album of the late King of Pop, I do have one of Janet's albums-I think maybe two of hers. Anyway, I wanted to put a few notes here about my recent visit home to Minnesota, haven't been home since 2007 and the family is doing really well, growing and growing, lots of new babies everywhere. Grandma and Grandpa are slowing down, my Uncle Kenneth who has ALS is still fighting the good fight, he has been writing letters to the editor of the Sauk Centre Herald some of which I got to read and was quite impressed with his ideas and his fervor.

Recently viewed via instant viewing on NETFLIX:

Sex and Lucia, very sexy but confusing Spanish foreign film. I finally figured out who everyone was and then decided I didn't care. Kudos for full male frontals. Whee!

Domino, the semi-true story of Domino Harvey, a female bounty hunter, starring Kiera Knightley, this one was worth seeing, the sound was patchy for some reason on my computer, we had to crank it all the way up just to hear it partially. Violent, sexyish (lap dance scene was interesting) and with a great soundtrack it was fun.

Righteous Kill with De Niro and Pacino, good guy movie, for sure worth seeing once not sure I would want to see this ever again.

Mr. Untouchable, the story of drug king pin Nicky Barnes was well made and interesting.

I am still picking away at When You're Falling Dive. I am also starting a Sidney Sheldon book called The Other Side of Midnight.

Recently saw Unforgiven, the Clint Eastwood western, thought it was good, not great but worth watching. Gonzo, the documentary about Hunter S. Thompson entertained and enlightened.

Right now I am excited about my new car, a 2005 Pontiac Vibe, cute, very sweet little car that I will have a good time with for the next few years. It is rather an expensive venture, getting a vehicle but I was ready for it. After registering the damn thing I am rather poor. Make that super poor, but I will survive...

I am trying to read a self-helpish sort of book right now called When You're Falling, Dive.

Found out last night that I did not make it into the salt program. I am going to be looking for a car and a new place to live now.

Our rental dispute has not only made it onto the nightly news but also onto the radio waves, see and listen to my interview here:

http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNews/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/1858/ItemId/10515/Default.aspx

Hi-diddly-dee, an actors life for meee! No, really. Perhaps it would have been better if I had tried to be an actress rather than a Stage Manager. Who knows. As of right now I am befuddled with career goals and plans.

The most important thing is that our building is being foreclosed on, or the landlords are going into bankruptcy, I think it is that, not foreclosure yet. We have been given notices by both our former landlord and the person who I thought was our current landlord telling us that we need to pay our rent to them, not the other. Not knowing who to believe or what to do I stupidly paid rent to the old landlord, and now it looks like that was a mistake...it is all a muddle and a mess. Our slumlord landlord is possibly on the way out.

It has been a busy month, I have a new case worker, I have been putting together my application for salt.edu which I have mailed in and will hopefully be hearing about by May 6th. I am looking into moving because I am sick of living in my "hood", but if I get into salt I will probably rethink that because it is right around the corner from where I live right now. I live right downtown almost, about a block or so away from everything it seems, right around the corner from the Preble Street Shelter, a block or two from Monument Square, it is a convenient location however I am sick of the drunken tomfoolery that goes on down here, and the building that I live in is owned by someone who was recently described to me as being a slumlord. While I love my own apartment I am coming to think that moving to a better neighborhood might make my life a little bit easier, we shall see what we shall see.

In other news my camera is broken, still in for repairs, and someone stole my recycling bin or the wind blew it away or something, it is gone. It had my address on it and everything too.

I have been listening to Beck's Sea Change album again and am loving every minute of it.