B in my Bonnet

Hello! Today in the lovely part of the world known as Southern California, it is quite rainy.

This compliments my mood quite well as I am not feeling so wonderful. But instead of boring you with how tragic I feel about things at the moment, since we all have our own issues and I prefer not to share mine on the web...although I kinda just did....I'm going to give you a couple updates on things that I've been doing.

Well, the webpage is still troubling me a bit with pesky links not working, hopefully when I reload my site today that problem will vanish. A new feature on the website..will be my review for Valley Scene Magazine, but this all goes back to the links-not-working problem so as soon as that's fixed you'll actually get to go to the About Me page, and then click to the Writing page I'll be setting up.

I wasn't able to grab hard copies of VSM with my reviews in them, but found them on the web and am pretty excited you can too!

http://www.valleyscenemagazine.com/archives/mar52010/arts/
http://www.valleyscenemagazine.com/archives/apr22010/music/

Soon they'll be on my website, along with some other reviews I've done from the past. Currently I'm working on a fashion review for a Kitson trunk show I went to this past weekend. I'll keep you posted on this!

I also went to the Santa Monica Beach two weekends ago with my friends Tamra & Rene. It was a bunch of fun and reminded me why California is so great and how close the f-in ocean is! I was craving going to my little look out point by Zuma Beach this weekend to watch the waves crash, but unfortunately my work conflicted with this, so it'll have to be postponed to another date.

Also I recently did some house sitting for a friend. It was alot of fun, but reminded me of how huge of a responsibility it is to have animals, and not something I can devote alot of time to at the moment...I do love the idea of a little dog, and possibly, I'll get one some day, but it might end up being a cat if anything. I've already had those before and i love how they can chill and watch a movie with you, but then be like 'alright that was fun, later!' and you both can do your own thing. With dogs I feel bad not dedicating tons of time to them when I can't, and that's probably how having a dog would go at this point.

other things.....

-merched for Thomas Nicholas Band @ Molly Malones: fun fun fun!
-my lemoncello is done!
-developed some photos ;)
-wrote songs with Camila for band ;)

Tonight I'll be hanging out with my buddy, Chad, @ Sardos. Not sure what the scene's gonna be there as it's an Emerson related affair and I rarely socialize with old college collegues that haven't naturally progressed to the friend stage, but should be a good time. Also an old co-worker might be having some people hang at his place, but that seems up in the air at the moment so i don't know about that, then there's a lovely evening at the gym to clean my head and get some endorphins!

talk laters.
b

The Web Site is Up Up UP!

Working on the website at work today. Got it up no problem this time...only thing is some of the links are being a little sketch and not working properly...maybe i've loaded up too many links? hmmmmm....

I have the link to the page listed under my I Spy section on my blog now for those of you avid readers who simply can't get enough of me from just a blog here and there on occasion!
or

you can just go here: www.marybroadbent.net

Enjoy!

luv B

Soo Happy for the Weekend

Last weekend was Ca-razy! Centerstaging was super busy with lots of shows, booked rooms, and tons of paperwork! On top of all this was the planning for the Showbiz Expo which Danyelle and I handled during the weekend. I think ShowBiz overall was a great experience and we've gotten some success & new cliental from it. Hopefully in the next few weeks we'll get more positive feedback.

In other news I finally had some spare time to make it to Ikea and get these emerald green curtains i've been itching for. Along with this, double curtain rods, and some pictures from Walgreens my kitchen's gonna be all said and done very soon! All that's left is a few more pictures, hanging a spice rack and getting some shelves for my cook books!

Aside from work work work, I've been trying to put together a band with my friend, Camila. it's been a while since I started from the ground up on music, but after seeing my friend, Barry, play last weekend, it reminded me how much I love to be on stage and sing, so i'm really hoping that this will all work out. After touching base with Camila, it looks like we're gonna start back up with practices soon, so that's a good sign we're stepping in the right direction. Also i've enlisted Barry to help possibly with playing live for this act since there's no way we're gonna be able to get things off the ground if i'm the only one playing a guitar. Also if i wanna get super good, i'd have to practice like, 3 hours a day, and I hardly have time for that commitment, it would cut into sleep and then I would be grumpy..that'd a a lose situation.

Tonight i'll be soap peddlin'. was gonna hit the gym, but then I caught up with Tara, Chris, Camila, Barry and my mom. Phew! Hopefully tomorrow the gym and I will be spending some long hours together :) The plan right now is to go hiking with Rene and Tamra, then possibly explore some LA treasure i've discovered from reading LA Bizarro. So in the evening before baking a tomatoe pie, writing music, and watching a movie! i'll probably be able to get in 2 hours at the gym.

Anyways, suppose I'll work on some aforementioned music writing now before I have to get to work.

chow!