I’m in the kitchen cooking. My husband is on the phone with his friend, Wayne. He says, “Yeah, we did some barrel tasting. They’re really slutty right now.”

I stopped what I was doing. “Did you say ’slutty?’”

He drops the phone long enough to say, “Yeah. Like California wines. Big, cheap, flashy… you know, bimbos.”

And people think the wine business is so glamorous.

I just got off the phone with Carlisle Shipping, the shipping company that lost my Audrey II puppets. They are going to initiate a claims process because they have finally admitted that they can not find the puppets. I though I’d lost hope on this a while ago, but I guess I hadn’t because I am very sad today.

At least they are voluntarily starting the claims process. I wonder what will happen when I talk to the actual claims department and explain that they lost a $10,000 set of puppets.

I guess I’ll be proactive and start assembling my paperwork to prove it.

We got the copy of the new lease and our move in date for the apartment is now June 30, 2007. Of course, this assumes that nothing else goes wrong.

Stop laughing.

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for awhile, but now I have a really, really good reason. Go watch the trailer for Handmade Puppet Deams. This is a collection of short puppet films curated by Heather Henson (Jim Henson’s daughter) and the trailer shows some of the most exciting puppetry I’ve seen. There is gorgeous stuff here. It’s a collection I desperately want to see, but am, alas, not in the right place.

Where is the right place? Atlanta, Georgia. This Friday, April 20th at 8:00 pm. I have two free tickets. Oh, the agony.

Do you want to go?

If you are in the Atlanta area and want to go see Handmade Puppet Dreams, drop a line in the comments and let me know why you should be the one to get them between now and 6:00 pm tomorrow (PST). You have to promise me that you’ll give me a full report.

There are also tickets on sale for $7 and $9. One show. 350 seats. Breath-taking puppetry. Regardless, go watch the trailer.