THE CHAT IS MAKING WAVES!

Oh me oh my!  how I do love a little controversy!  and I love when you create something and somebody doesn't like it.  It's kinda cute, really.  Like when I was censored at my own Senior art show in  college.   I had a nude painting I had done for the show and someone complained to the president of the college that it was pornography so they had to take it down.  Yep, really.

So because we used words like "Holy crap!", "screw 'em",  and "damn" we were chastised by an old lady.  (and I was the one who said those things) Phew!  I feel like the proverbial Catholic school girl being rapped on the knuckles with a ruler by the head nun.  But I digress….

Read the article here.

Last week we also had our first public event, it was a blast and we got to drink vodka drinks and mix our own.  The competition was tough though.  Our table created the Whipped and Bloody which consisted of Pinnacle whipped key lime flavored vodka, pineapple juice, blood orange flavored liquor and a little cream.  It was Dee-Licious!  But the table that created the "Spring Breeze" (gag me with a spoon) won.

But it was fun none-the-less!  all this for having an opinion and writing it in the paper!

THE CHAT - DANCING FOR THE ARTS

Yep another one.  This time I'm the one with two left feet.  I can do oh so many things, but dancing is not one of them!

The Chat

THE CHAT - THIS TIME I PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE!

Yes, this winter is getting to me.  I wanna punch people in the face!  This statement came outta nowhere in this chat and it's still the funniest thing I've said in years.  I wonder though… is it really funny or is it one of those, "Guess you had to be there?"

Not sure.  Oh well!  Hope you find it amusing at least!  or that you can relate.

The Chat - they've got pet peeves up their sleeves!

THE CHAT

Yep, here I am spouting my stuff…again.  But this time it's all about the love!

THE CHAT WITH JEN KOSKI

The other day we had a photo shoot done at the Post Bulletin so we could really promote the article.  Now there's a Facebook page and all us girls are talking.  Next month we even get to invite the public to CHAT with us at a wine tasting!  Wow, I'm one lucky girl!  I don't know how I can really chat about things that bother me because, well, nothing can bother me with a life like this!

Here's some of the pics from the shoot:

Joy Larson

Jen Koski

Jennifer Rand

Missie Freetly

Pam Whitfield

Tracy McCray

and you know who this crazy lady is

THE CHAT - WITH JEN AND PAM

Another one of our 'Chats' was in the paper Saturday. These are so much fun!  Hope you like this one:

THE CHAT: Eating well 'easier than you think.'

BOB'S IN THE PAPER - AGAIN.

We are so so lucky and blessed to be recognized as much as we are and it 's really neat that someone takes notice to all the great things going on in this town in the last few years AND that we get to be a part of it!  So here Bob is again, doing his thing: music, theatre, etc.

Artists Can Polish Their Work at the Salon

THE CHAT - WITH JEN AND PAM

We did another chat last week, Jen, Pam and I and it was grand fun.  How can you not have fun chatting with two beautiful, witty women talking about the cold barren, Minnesota winter blahs???  The Post Bulletin decided to use my image for the on-line version - IDK why, but they did. So there I am - all aglow, egads!

Having a sunny outlook on winter:

CHATS AND SOCK MONKEYS

So, I have my friend Jen Koski, that is a writer and editor for a couple of Rochester's publications:  The Post Bulletin and Rochester Magazine.  She's about as cute as a bug in a rug.  A while back she asked if I would teach her how to make cheese, and I did.  That was a fun day!

Actually the funny part about how we met Jen was in direct correlation of what a small town Rochester really is and what a small world is.  And the fact that all the cool people end up meeting each other, eventually. And because Jen knows all the cool people in town, and we don't.

So Jen was at a fundraiser for  - I don't know what - and Bob's Theatre Group, Vertigo Theatre Factory, donated for the the silent auction: A CHANCE TO BE AN EXTRA ON A YOU TUBE VIDEO SERIES - THE BARN BAR.

Silly Jen, she bid on it and won. Little did she know what she was getting into.  But that's another story.

So after that, Jen learned to appreciate our craziness and occasionally asks me to do stuff with her as fodder for her articles.  Which I am totally fine with that.  I have  blog, about my life, and I have several Facebook pages:  I'm already really exposed.

So Jen asked me and our dear friend Pam Whitfield to join in on her new column idea for the paper- THE CHAT. The concept was to be a little like The View, on TV, ya know the show, with Barbara, Whoopi, Joy, Elisabeth and  Sherri?

Me either.  I don't watch TV but I have kinds heard of it.  So I was game for a good time!

This is the first article.

Now I searched online at the PB and couldn't find the link.  It disappeared.  well, I'll get Jen on the task.

We did a couple the other night, back to back and I think we did even better.  When I am with a couple of funny, witty women, I can whip out the funny, but I really am not a 'fly by the seat of my pants' humorist.