I will be on a plane to Nebraska in less than 24 hours. I'm heading back for the Greeley Irish Festival. It's a big deal for the village in the middle of the state. This is the 5th Annual Irish Festival - so it's an even bigger deal. 

I'm excited to see my family - and meet my newest little nephew. I'm also excited to go golfing. I may not be very good - but I love going golfing. 

I'll be sure to take pictures - it's time I updated the photo gallery anyway.

I talked to my sister on the phone tonight - and we started talking about her oldest son (who is 5 years old). And apparently, he's a huge Star Wars fan now. And I wanted so badly to rub it in her face how much she made fun of me for being a huge nerd when we were younger - and now she has to research all the aspects of nerddom to foster this new phase in her son's life. I find it very funny.

Anyway - to celebrate I watched four episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise tonight. (SUCH an exciting life I lead...) 

So today is the first of May. (Quick Side Note: Did anyone else make May Baskets as a child and hand them out to your friends on May Day? Was that just a Nebraska thing?) 

Anyway, today is May 1st - so I'm no longer the Sally on my friend's website (www.12goals12months.com).  April was a great month. One of the biggest and best – but now that I'm in my post-Sally days, I have to keep looking and moving forward. 

That’s all we can do, right? 

And because that felt a bit too deep for this blog – here’s a song called "First Of May" by Jonathan Coulton which is awesome (CAUTION: Contains Adult Language - NOT suitable for work):

Today was colder than it has been lately in LA. It would have been the perfect day to wear my new Nebraska hoody, but I left it at home like a schmuck. 

In this picture, I can't tell if I'm trying to block a tackle or performing my favorite Diana Ross song. 

In any case, that is my football. I actually own a football - for real. Does that give a me a few points for masculinity? 

(Also - if you're wondering, that is a poster calling for mechanics to work on Vipers. Oh BSG, I miss you dearly.) 

I was thinking this morning that it had been quite some time since I did anything really awkward - and then I remembered my trip back home. I had gone out with a group of people - some friends, some people I'd never met before - and we were talking about random things. 

I'm not sure how the subjects came up - but, I decided I should share with the group my disdain for both Texas and Nicki Minaj. And wouldn't you know it - two of the guys were not only FROM Texas - but thought that Nicki Minaj was the best thing to happen to music since the invention of the MiniDisc player.

Gauche!

Alright - one more quick thing about my doctor's visit last Friday.

I thought the funniest part was this quick little interaction we had after he learned I had an ulcer when I was 17 (which I still say was the best diet ever): 

Doctor: What could have possibly caused you to have an ulcer at such an early age?
Me: I was gay and growing up in central Nebraska.
Doctor: Yep, that'll do it. 

Alright, so I'm leaving for Nebraska today. I'm excited - but nervous. I'm always nervous to go back home. 

Regardless - I'm not sure how often I will be able to update the blog while I'm there. But I will try to do it at least once a day.

IN THE MEANTIME! I will still be able to get emails from this site (from the Contact Steve page) - so feel free to email me questions and I'll answer them as soon as I can.

And keep spreading the word!

I'm heading to Nebraska on Wednesday. I just feel like I have so much to do before then (laundry, work stuff, etc.). But it will be nice to go home and just relax - hopefully. 

In other news, I went to an event yesterday for a charity my friend feels passionate about - and it was great. Once you paid to get in, you could sign up for all these healing services like massage, hypnosis therapy, hypnosis therapy with art, acupressure, etc. It was really interesting and I felt extremely relaxed afterwards. 

I keep thinking back to the hypnosis therapy with art workshop - I am not the most artistic person. Give me a song, I will sing it - you wanna dance, let's do this. But give me a paintbrush, and I'll look at you like you've gone crazy. But the point of this workshop was to just paint without judging yourself - and just let yourself be creative without worrying about it. And while I type that - I realize how crazy that makes it sound - and very hippie-esque. But the weird thing is that while I was painting, I didn't care what my painting looked like. And thinking back on it - my painting SUCKED. (I tossed it shortly after leaving the event). But while I was working on it - I was just simply painting just to paint. It was pretty cool. I'm not sure if that's the hypnosis at work - or if I just didn't care what the other strangers in the room thought of my painting skills. Either way, it was a nice feeling. 

I had dinner tonight with some friends at Doughboys (which is awesome, btw) and ate jambalaya - it was so good. But I'm totally going into a food coma - so I'm glad I'm home and getting ready for bed. 

I'm also exhausted because we had rehearsal last night - the concert is this weekend, and I'm really excited and very nervous for it. It will be nice to perform again - and it will also be nice to have this concert over so we can start learning new music. 

Every rehearsal we have, I find myself daydreaming about becoming a music teacher. It was what I was going to go to college for before I got accepted into Emerson. Anyway, I just wonder how different my life would be if I was a music teacher - still most likely living in Central Nebraska. It would just be so different. First - my numbers wouldn't be 122, they would be like 7 (if even) - so I should be thankful for that. Second - I would be closer to family which can be both good and bad (especially with how cranky I would be only having 7 potential matches in a search area roughly 77,400 square miles).

Alright - enough about that. Let's talk about the site! It's up - and I'm actively promoting it. I'm both extremely nervous and extremely excited about that. I need to get the business cards to hand out now. 

Also, I sent an email to the folks at Weebly because the text on the home page isn't doing what I want it to do. So we'll see if that gets sorted out. 

Other than that text issue and me needing to update the blog more, I think the site is seriously ready to go. I mean, sure, I wish the Twitter feed immediately to the right of this post was the correct size, but I don't know how to fix that either. 

I'll learn. I will. 

In the meantime - I'm excited for the "Game of Thrones" miniseries. I need to finish the book first though. Your Steve Scott fact of the day is that I like Sci-Fi books and I like to finish them before watching the movie or TV show. If this sounds like something you would enjoy hearing about over coffee - send me a message on the Contact Steve page!