Its officially the beginning of the summer today. Well, I know technically it is June 21st, but to everyone in the Midwest, this is officially summer: Memorial Day Weekend. A weekend of being on the boat, camping, cooking out and spending time with family and friends. Being around so many loved ones this weekend got me realizing that I'm not the only one in this spot of "What next?". Many people are back there again. Again! Really? Well follow me this next two weeks through a journey of me looking hi and low for new options. I'm going to get rested tonight and after work tomorrow, begin looking for options,answers and clues to what I want to be doing. I am not completely sure where this will be going, but I know it will be interesting. Keep up with me for two days and if you're no into it, let me know. If you are into it, let me know. I think we can make this a group effort. I know I could use the help.
Along with a great good nights sleep, I'm going to read this article that was introduced to me quite some time ago. It puts a lot of great ideas out there and it continues to remind you to be honest with yourself. Read it and we will get started.
Have a great night everyone!!!
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/66/mylife.html?page=0%2C0
Find out what's on my mind and what is going on my life. Or, maybe just drop a note and tell me what you think.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Its Wednesday
I'm in the middle of a fast week and just wanted to take a moment to say a couple words before I am in San Diego running around for Christine's wedding. AAAHHHHHH, I can't wait. It will be the first time that Christine, April, Beth and I have been in the same place at the same time in years. This is the closest we got and it was at April's wedding in Mexico in January. I love this picture though.
This got me thinking though how I haven't seen Beth in a year, and before that, it was about a year too. My friends are important to me and it frightens me how plaicant we all become with not seeing each other. I understand circumstances happen and that is the way it is, but it sucks. As adults, we have to become immune to it and it just kills me that these amazing people aren't in my life every day. My hope though, is that eventually, and that is a soon eventually, I will be in a location, with my husband and kids, where many of these people are in the same vicinity. I trust in this....
Well, until my next post. Here is a bit of good news. This bill stll has a lot to get passed still, but at least we have the backing of the commmittee. It'll add some brightness to your day. http://http//www.365gay.com/news/supporters-senate-panel-has-votes-to-end-gay-ban/
Now here's a little song. Have a great rest of your day!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
This is going to be a long post
So, I haven't posted in a week. I've got some things to talk about. Lets start with Pride in Long Beach last weekend. Thank you to everyone in Long Beach for showing us a great time. We were able to meet a ton of great new people. We also ran into some of our friends there too. Here are some of the pictures that we took. For 
all of them, check out my facebook page.
We brought up a couple things up in the show for tomorrow. I just wanted to give the websites to them so everyone can get a little knowledge on what we were talking about. Like always, we never get enough time.
all of them, check out my facebook page.
We really did have such a great time and loved every moment. Lets see if we can match it at L.A. Pride June 11-13th. Hottalk LA will be broadcasting live for the whole weekend.
Now, as some of you know, yesterday was Harvey Milk Day. Harvey Milk contributed, not only to that GLBT community, but he had a unique way of opening up every one's eyes to remind us that we are all human, and we all deserve the respect of each other. Please, this next week, take a moment to look and see the live of someone else you wouldn't normally encounter and dwell for a moment on how their life might be.
Happy Harvey Milk Day everyone!!!
We brought up a couple things up in the show for tomorrow. I just wanted to give the websites to them so everyone can get a little knowledge on what we were talking about. Like always, we never get enough time.
The 1st is is 365.com weekend watercooler. There was so much there this week I want to point out the DADT new. Especially the stuff with Nancy Pelosi Al Franken
Now, unfortunately the BP oil spill has lost its splash in the news which is not good. So much oil is still leaking that Florida Marshes not to mention all life in the Gulf of Mexico that is dieing. The first article is on Kevin Costner donating 'Ocean Therapy' technology to help out. How is it that this movie actor/producer has this and BP doesn't?
The second article is just an FYI on how much BP is spending per day vs how much they make per day. Peanuts I tell you, Peanuts on what they are spending.
http://http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-economy/2010/0503/BP-oil-spill-2010-How-much-will-it-cost
I can't remind everyone enough to pay attention. So much is happening and if we don't pay attention, we don't have a voice.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Its Saturday
So, Dina and I are about to go to Long Beach for Pride down there. My next blog will hopefully be full of the stories from the weekend but until then, here's Jodi with a little assistance for drinking by the pool Long Beach, here we come.
And this is just a preview to what the next Dina and Gregg Show will intail.
Get ready.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Some new things going on with Dina and Gregg
So here's some things happening with The Dina and Gregg Show
Keep checking out dinaandgreggshow.com so you can keep up with all of our latest antics
http://http//hottalkla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=137&Itemid=211
Keep checking out dinaandgreggshow.com so you can keep up with all of our latest antics
http://http//hottalkla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=137&Itemid=211
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
I have a longer post from today that needs to be edited so that will be up tomorrow. However, I wanted to at least leave you with a little entertainment for taking time to check out the site today.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
and to the rest of
HAPPY MONDAY TOMORROW
(oh, and keep in mind, the serial mom clips use dirty words. But they're hilarious)
My Mother, and Her Mother
I have these pictures of my mother and me from when I was young. I was maybe two years old in these pictures and these pictures are of the two of us in a photo booth. I cry any time I look at these pictures because I see the happiness in my mothers eyes. It's a happiness that I don't get to see out of her nearly enough. Its a happiness that only comes when life isn't sitting right there on our shoulders aggravating us, forcing us to get involved with a billion other things that really don't matter. In these pictures, I get to see my mother in that happiness.
My mother was home with me through early childhood and I am so lucky that she was. All the good in her heart, how she reads people, how she talks to people all was digested in those early years. Some of my best qualities came out of those years. My amazing patience came out of those years. A patience that is so trained, it is aggravating sometimes to the people around me. These things I got from my mother.
Of course, this doesn't even include my manners, my behaviors that now, as I grow older, I see coming out more and more every day. One of these behaviors is how I can force the people around me to move quicker without even saying a word. All they know is that there doing a particular task more quickly and are shocked.
I also was educated those years at home with mom. She had the time to teach me and direct my curiosity so that it bloomed into intelligence and personality. Now, today in my 30th year on this planet, my mom is one of my best friends. She knows me best and is the first person I call when something really amazing happens or I need to be talked down off of a cliff.
After my brother was born, my mother had her hands full. From the point of my brother taking his first step, he hasn't stopped. He was a full time job and about the time he started school, she went back to work. I was self propelled by that time so she was less hands on with me. Please don't get this confused with bad parenting, she was still very active in my life, she just had some other major obstacles such as raising my brother, parenting my stepfather sometimes and working to help support our family.
About that time, my grandfather, Took Potter, passed away. Him and I were close. He was the main male role model in my life until this point. Well, this was the era where my grandmother and I really formed our bond. Despite my mothers intelligence and superior witt, my grandma is socially adept, has not only her degree but has been very successful in graduate school and is a sought out person in her field among her colleagues. While my mother was busy with the household, I began learning from my grandma. My grandmother influenced my young adulthood on formed how I treat people, respect people, and find hope in people.
While I was going through my adolescence, so was my grandmother. She had to redefine herself, not only as a widow, but as an independent woman in the prime of her life. The years that followed her husbands death, she bloomed into an independent, professional, nonstop power house whom repeatedly conquered goals, taught people around her, and showed people that there is so much that they can do for themselves and others all the while developing herself into the next phase in her life. I got a ring side seat for all of this and because of it, there is a language that my grandmother and I speak that is in and of itself. She has been my touchstone and I am excelling so much further in my life because of the influence she had on me.
I was home from college the summer of 2003 and I stayed with her at her house. Grandma still to this day is the best roommate I've ever had. She sometimes didn't stay at the house because she had her boyfriend, but when we were together at night,it was always a party. We had the warm summer nights, wine and candles on the deck, and conversation for hours.
Well, that is my mother and her mother. The two strong willed, selfless and beautiful women whom raised me. When anybody wonders why I am the way I am, you can thank them. Or blame them. It really depends when you get me....
My mother was home with me through early childhood and I am so lucky that she was. All the good in her heart, how she reads people, how she talks to people all was digested in those early years. Some of my best qualities came out of those years. My amazing patience came out of those years. A patience that is so trained, it is aggravating sometimes to the people around me. These things I got from my mother.
Of course, this doesn't even include my manners, my behaviors that now, as I grow older, I see coming out more and more every day. One of these behaviors is how I can force the people around me to move quicker without even saying a word. All they know is that there doing a particular task more quickly and are shocked.
I also was educated those years at home with mom. She had the time to teach me and direct my curiosity so that it bloomed into intelligence and personality. Now, today in my 30th year on this planet, my mom is one of my best friends. She knows me best and is the first person I call when something really amazing happens or I need to be talked down off of a cliff.
After my brother was born, my mother had her hands full. From the point of my brother taking his first step, he hasn't stopped. He was a full time job and about the time he started school, she went back to work. I was self propelled by that time so she was less hands on with me. Please don't get this confused with bad parenting, she was still very active in my life, she just had some other major obstacles such as raising my brother, parenting my stepfather sometimes and working to help support our family.
About that time, my grandfather, Took Potter, passed away. Him and I were close. He was the main male role model in my life until this point. Well, this was the era where my grandmother and I really formed our bond. Despite my mothers intelligence and superior witt, my grandma is socially adept, has not only her degree but has been very successful in graduate school and is a sought out person in her field among her colleagues. While my mother was busy with the household, I began learning from my grandma. My grandmother influenced my young adulthood on formed how I treat people, respect people, and find hope in people.
While I was going through my adolescence, so was my grandmother. She had to redefine herself, not only as a widow, but as an independent woman in the prime of her life. The years that followed her husbands death, she bloomed into an independent, professional, nonstop power house whom repeatedly conquered goals, taught people around her, and showed people that there is so much that they can do for themselves and others all the while developing herself into the next phase in her life. I got a ring side seat for all of this and because of it, there is a language that my grandmother and I speak that is in and of itself. She has been my touchstone and I am excelling so much further in my life because of the influence she had on me.
I was home from college the summer of 2003 and I stayed with her at her house. Grandma still to this day is the best roommate I've ever had. She sometimes didn't stay at the house because she had her boyfriend, but when we were together at night,it was always a party. We had the warm summer nights, wine and candles on the deck, and conversation for hours.
Well, that is my mother and her mother. The two strong willed, selfless and beautiful women whom raised me. When anybody wonders why I am the way I am, you can thank them. Or blame them. It really depends when you get me....
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Last week in Long Beach
Last week I was in Long Beach for Christine's Bachlorette party. Oh was it a debacle. I got there Saturday morning and from the moment I arrived at Nordstom Rack to do some shopping, it was off. We then had lunch, on to a couple bottles of white wine, and then to pedicures. That night our friends Karen and Mo threw an amazing, impromptu party where we bar hopped, got on a bus with about 50 high school cheerleaders, landed at the best blues bar on the west coast. We then arrived at dueling pianos where all the ladies and the single gay man couldn't put the drunken bachlorette together again.
Finally we ended up at the gay bars where I managed to not only get into a fight, but I took someones trick and brought the cute boy back to Christine's. It was a spectacular evening and here are some of the pictures. Thank you again Karen and Maureen!!!
Finally we ended up at the gay bars where I managed to not only get into a fight, but I took someones trick and brought the cute boy back to Christine's. It was a spectacular evening and here are some of the pictures. Thank you again Karen and Maureen!!!
Below the pictures are the link to Cat Man Blue, the Blues Bar we love.
http://http//www.catmanblu.com/
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