Hello , all you,

It’s been a while since our last post, very sorry for that! Sometimes, in the wacky world of music, entertainment, acting , and so on and so forth, things get a LITTLE hectic…Who knew, hee-hee?

These days I am beginning to feel like a) Prey ( for Freaky Venus Seaweed, I am sure I will wake one night and find a limb gone ) or b) Some sort of Princess in a Fairytale being held captive in a dungeon or tower ( the basement or attic , sorting thru mountains of, well, STUFF ) or c) a live in Nanny ( for the best dog that ever lived tho )

House is just fine, but Street is NOT. Half my yard seems to be gone and all of my sidewalk. When I came out today , there was a huge mound of some sort of piping piled in it. It has also been raining for a week, which makes it hard to GET to the house, no cars mind you, small boats , possibly. I am taking the optimistic view and thinking ” well, I always did kind of want a moat…”

Here’s one very, very nice things tho….This just came in the mail today. Yes, it is what you think it is. Mormo the Witch from Stardust’s Costume! I can’t believe it’s so lovely, and I fell so happy to own something from such a wonderfully lovely movie. I went back and saw it AGAIN, just to see MY dress!

I got lucky when a friend told me they were up for sale, pre-Ebay , and snapped it up. Very lucky, as it turns out, all the costumes and props went WAY higher than I could afford once they hit Ebay.

( A friend of mine told me to immediately try it on , and I said, uh…And she said, but wasn’t this the LARGER witch???? I had to gently tell her what size ” larger ” is in the movies . Might be a 10. I am sure we will hear from Malena on this )

But I love it! Every detail is Perfect, and there is dried grass from the Isle of Skye in the skirts even! I am going to buy a dressmakers dummy ( where ever one does that ) and put it in my dinning room.

And who knows..One day ,might get to wear it. ( where ,one wonders? The grocery store? Bee tending? )

Ok, that’s it for now, I’ve missed you all so! But the Princess is going back to the Dungeon….

Love, Witches and Spiders,
Lorraine

The gig tonight with Paul was beyond and beyond the best show we have ever done. The place was packed with our sort of people and they made the night. I had SO much fun, and if I may say so, I am generally pretty entertaining, but tonight was ON. It wasn’t just comedy, it was ELLEN leval comedy…And the music wasn’t half bad either.

I love it when this happens.

( Malena, I sure did miss you!!!! )

( Malena is BEYOND busy this week, and so hasn’t been around much , our talks tend to be variations on ” I AM SO BUSY I ONLY HAVE A SECOND , SURE DO MISS YOU WHEN ARE YOU COMING OUT TO LA ??? ” )

( Answer: After Beowulf comes out…I will be all about sitting on the beach, the couch or webcamming for you FROM my bed in her little crypt )

My camera is truly dead in the water, due to a bizarre hairspray accident and generally melting down, so I can’t take pictures of the Freaky Venus Seaweed until I get a new one. But I did come across this picture, which is freaky in it’s own right and our Hera from Iceland has a one of these truly freaky cats, so it had the added bonus of reminding me of her.

( Hera, we need an update on you! You should come back soon! Yes, we can go once again to the trout farm….)

Now I know you lot are basically Evil, so let’s have some Evil Captions on this Freaky Shot… ( Paul you’re not all THAT busy…)

Love and beyond busy and Freaky Kitties,
Lorraine

Well, there isn’t a lot of exciting wonderful things to tell you about today. All the power is back on, which is pretty exciting in my book, actually. Malena is beyond busy this week, but I am sure once she gets a moment to breath she will post something fun about what she is up to. And, I am sorry to tease you, but I did have one really cool thing happen today, but I have to wait a few days to tell you about it. ( it’s not something to do with my Job or Boss, so settle down…)

I have been working hard these days, and I will say when ones Boss is going on a trip, that includes visits to China, Italy, Hungary, UK, Sweden, and Japan, there is a fair amount of work for the Assistant settling up all the travel and schedules. One tends to work at really weird hours…Our Kitty is helping from the road, but she is halfway around the world these days. ( and we SURE do miss her!!!! Maybe she will post a little something…)

On the video front, the Stellar Kimberly and the Amazing Byrdie are hard at work editing You all will be the first to know when it is done and ready to see. From the raw footage I have seen, it looks to be magic! Malena is truly amazingly wonderful in front of a camera. A mermaid, a fairy and a princess she is. I feel a little like a bull in a china shop in front of the camera myself, hee-hee, but she was born to it. I feel so lucky to get to work with people like her and Kimberly and Byrdie, ( and not to forget Ashley! ) they made the shoot SO fun, and made me feel SO comfortable.

Ok, so I am beyond tired tonight and have no brain left. I will leave you with this photo I found today and your mission, should you chooses to accept it is :

Caption…….Let’s have them, my dears!

Love and Kitties, Lorraine

What a time it has been, lost power last night and only now just got it back. It was a bit weird ( no, of course I was not frightened being alone in a dark house with no one around and severe storms raging ) Simply called Malena on my cell and told her she was going to talk to me till I went to sleep, whenever that happened, and of course, it being two hours earlier there, and her being a LITTLE Nocturnal, this was not a problem.

One might think that the loss of power in an entire town and the street turning into a sea of mud might halt the DEStruction going on outside my house, but NO, those loyal devoted men were out at 6:00 AM , right on schedule.

I always wondered ( well, no not really ) how one would go about taking out a concrete sidewalk, and now I know. Clears up a lot of nagging questions ( well, no not really ) but in case you are curious, they take a steam shovel, huge THING with the scooping action and BANG it on the sidewalk until it gives up the ghost. This is not quiet. Not at all.

There being not much else I could do today at Work, I spent the day in the garden, ( except for running around trying to find an open store to buy candles, flashlights and ice, nearly jumped the man with the ice truck we did ) weeds , weeds , weeds! How do they grow so fast???? This would have been all very nice, and indeed, I thought, how relaxing, no e-mail, no phones, me and the veggies, ahhhh , Earth Magic, I shall tend the little guys and connect with nature.

At least I thought that for the first 5 minutes. It topped 90 here today.

I came home today to find , well, a HUGE hole in my front yard. My front yard is a very steep hill and this hole took out half the bank. Like if you fell in it, it would be Bad. I asked the workers, something tactful, like ” HEY what the heck???” and they, when they were done laughing, told me, ” well, They said we needed to go in that far”

Who are they and what are they doing??????

( I would have pictures of this Amazing Hole , but I took some HAIRSPRAY to my gig the other night , as I was having a truly bad hair day, and the top was coming off and hairspray gel stuff went all over my purse , coating my camera in goo, which was , apparently the last straw for the already on it’s last legs camera )

The storms went onto 3:00 AM and along about 5:00 Adventure Kitty , Venus Seaweed discovered another wonderful thing about Adventure Land ( which is my bed , hours of fun to be had with a Sleeping Person, mountains to climb, acres to race across, and when Sleeping Person starts , in desperation, to kick out at Adventure Kitty, well, that only adds to the fun ) But Sweet Venus discovered that there is a subterranean facet to Adventure Land. Yes, she can now go UNDER the covers. A Cave of wonder and delight.

I write this to give you a wee look into my day, just in case you thought it was all glamorous video shoots, gigs full of adorning fans and Hollywood movies….And because I am now home, with power, have eaten dinner, SHOWERED and have many episodes of SVU, Top Chef and Gene Simmons Family Jewels ( yes, the secret is out, I LOVE that show, ) to watch until I go to sleep. ( very, very soon..)

And I can laugh abut it.

Love and the Good Life,
Lorraine

I took some time off and went to the Movies. My Boss was all for this and gave me the time very gladly. I have been speaking to a lot of people who had already seen this Movie, despite the fact that it is just out today, and all them said it was good, very, very good, wonderful and a whole lot of fun.

I have read the reviews, the press, the interviews. As a matter of fact, the studio copies me on all of the reviews, the press and interviews. Heck, I arranged a fair amount of it myself. ( And was nearly driven mad in the process )

I have watched this evolve from a novel being written, to published, to optioned, to cast , to being made, and all of the other things ( that I now know WAY more about ) that go along with having a major motion picture launched.

But none of this prepared me for actually seeing it on the screen in the theater.

Yes, it is good, very, very good and a whole lot of fun, a description that could be termed , the tip of the iceberg. It is magic, pure, bloody magic. Brilliant. Fascinating. Hilarious. Astounding. Beautiful. Beyond captivating. The performances by the actors ( and there is some talent there, I tell you ) were as wonderful as the best music I have ever heard. The scenery was breathtaking. The story flowed like, well, the best story my own personal favourite author ever wrote. The script made me want to call Jane Goldman ( whom I have never personally met ) and, well, I can’t think what I would actually SAY. ( doing a Wayne and Garth ” we are not worthy ” loses something on the phone.

I knew it would be good, but guys, ( you who have seen it ) never told me HOW good. Gods, it works. I am not sure I breathed during the entire film. I wanted to cry. ( did, in fact, all the way home )

So many people worked so long and hard to make this. And I am very sure I don’t know the half of it.

They did good. It worked. More than that , it is Magic.

I don’t generally talk about my day job here, but this , I had to talk about.

Go, and see this movie. And see it again, and again.

It will make you happy.

Love and Stars,
Lorraine

It’s been a while since my last House post, so I thought I would put up some pictures of things and throw in some more Kitty Pictures , as they are darn cute. Yes, we have it all here folks! Bees, Small Animals , Movies, beautiful women in Leather!

Ok, I have decided to make a few outdoor repairs lately. For one thing the street in front of my house was boring, outdated and just plain BLAH! So I am having it re-done in yellow brick, to go with my yellow house. ( hey, if I knew how to paint vinal siding this house would NOT be yellow. I will keep the road tho ) Here are a couple pictures I took from the front of my house this morning of the progress….Or lack thereof.

( near as I can figure the way these people work is to start at 6:00am and work until one finally gives up trying to sleep and then they stop for the day )

I think that Gardens are an important part of anyones castle, and I have been working extensively in mine this summer , despite the heat. I am going for a sort of Adams Family motif.

As you can see from the next photo, I have gotten some new furniture and moved away from the old Victorian style. The Cats seem to think it was put there just for them, but I still think it adds something to the sun room. And I found out if you hide cheese all over it, you can then sit and eat your OWN dinner without providing for the entire, uh, pride. ( what is a family of cats anyway??? )

( and yes, Freaky Venus Seaweeds eyes really do glow like lazor beams…)

Here is a shot of Misty-Girl expressing her feelings about some of Freaky Venus Seaweeds antics…..

And here is one of Freaky Venus Seaweed expressing her views on life so far… ” I eat, I sleep , I rend and kill, not necessarily in that order..” ( told you her eyes glowed, this is no Kitty , but an ALIEN from Venus! Note the scratches all over my feet )

Well there you have it. Tomorrow ( Friday ) I am taking some time off work in the afternoon before my ( seriously weird and somewhat daunting gig, ) and going to the Movies.

You should too.

Love, Freaky Kitties and Stardust,
Lorraine

PS Yes, for those of you wondering, it is ENTIRELY possible I have been working too hard….Hee-hee!

So far, so you know, me and mine, Boss , family, and Paul, Big Johnny, Betsy and Adam are all ok…….

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who are still currently out on that bridge…

( Massive bridge collapse in Minneapolis……)

Updates as they occur…

Lorraine