Never. Eating. Again.
Went out to dinner with family people at my favorite place, La Fondue. Sadly, I always eating up way too much while there, and my stomach hurts like hell now. Uuuuuuuuurhg. And to think, just the other day I'd noted how I haven't eaten nearly as much as I usually do and have visibly lost weight this summer. :P
It was good to see family people. I miss my brother and his wife lots and lots since they don't live nearby (about a 2 hour drive away, so not TOO far, but still). Got lots of fun stuff for "loot" too.
- Roller Blades with ABT breaks & safety pads
- Dance apparel for rehearsals and exercise and stuff
- "Monk" soundtrack
- Pair of socks & $50 of Best Buy gift cards
- AM/FM adapter for my iPod and portable speakers as well
- A new watch (Which is GOOD since my old one was starting to smell)
Though my favorite memory from today, is from rehearsal. I was talking to the King and Queen from my cast (their real life son also plays my prince....they're a VERY sweet British family) about the fact that I was going out to La Fondue tonight.
Me: Yeah, it's expensive, so I usually only go once in awhile like on my birthday.
Queen: When's your birthday?
Me: Today.
King, Queen, Prince: Today!? Right this very day!? ::Start singing happy birthday! Prince tosses in "Cindy" as a Cinderella reference!::
Me: ::Giggles!::
After awhile, the King and Queen disappeared from the rehearsal, but I didn't worry too much since they're grown ups and had told my mom they'd be right back. About, hmm....30 minutes later, they return with some packages of mini-cupcakes to share with the folk who were there, and a bouquet of peach/pink roses for me. It was SO sweet that I felt like crying. I love that family sooooooo much.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Life? What life?
YahahaHA......I have no life until the show starts. Check out my weekly rehearsal schedule!
Sunday: 2pm - 5pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Monday: 7pm - 9pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Tuesday: 6pm - 9pm (Dance Rehearsal - 1 hour tap, 2 hours waltz)
Wednesday: 7pm - 9pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Thursday: 7pm - 9pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Friday: FREEDOM!!!
Saturday: 9am - Noon (Dance Rehearsal - 3 hours waltz)
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Woo....I'm all dizzy.
Sunday: 2pm - 5pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Monday: 7pm - 9pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Tuesday: 6pm - 9pm (Dance Rehearsal - 1 hour tap, 2 hours waltz)
Wednesday: 7pm - 9pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Thursday: 7pm - 9pm (Stage Rehearsal)
Friday: FREEDOM!!!
Saturday: 9am - Noon (Dance Rehearsal - 3 hours waltz)
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Woo....I'm all dizzy.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Cinderella Update
Haven't typed much, since our summer show is keeping me inCREDIBLY busy.
But.... ::ahem::
I CHOREOGRAPHED THE WALTZ!!!
Eeeeehehehe! Our show has a FOUR MINUTE WALTZ, and I finished coming up with choreography for it today. It's done done DONE...and it's the first dance I've ever put together completely on my lonesome! Normally, I have about 90% input from my good friend Kyrie, or videos, or other stage shows. I came up with this stuff aaaaaaall by myself.
......
I hope it ends up looking good on stage.
But.... ::ahem::
I CHOREOGRAPHED THE WALTZ!!!
Eeeeehehehe! Our show has a FOUR MINUTE WALTZ, and I finished coming up with choreography for it today. It's done done DONE...and it's the first dance I've ever put together completely on my lonesome! Normally, I have about 90% input from my good friend Kyrie, or videos, or other stage shows. I came up with this stuff aaaaaaall by myself.
......
I hope it ends up looking good on stage.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Yo-ho!
Yarr. I'm a PIRATE. Hehe.
Yes, I saw the Pirates movie at the midnight showing and thought it was INSANELY AWESOME. I have so much love for Captain Jack. I wish he was reeeeeeeeeeeal.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
home again
...and bloody tired. Gonna take a nap before going off to Celtic Night and (hopefully) to a midnight viewing of Pirates.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Out. Again.
going to Napa Valley with the parentals and my niece. hopefully i'll feel better when i come back. might get some internet access while at my brother's on the 4th.
be back thursday.
be back thursday.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Some general updatage
1. Disneyland was VERY fun. I got to hang out with my buddy who works there YAY and go on a bunch of the rides. Space Mountain is SO FLIPPING AWESOME now that it's been revamped. The Disney folk are really great at making things pitch black. Um....the 50 year anniversary fireworks are incredible. If you get the chance to go before the 50 year celebration ends DO IT. Also, Pirates was closed because they're adding Captain Jack and all that jazz. I reeeeeeally wanna go back and see the ride when it reopens. Deeeeerrick, can you get me in for freee? ::bats lashes::
Kidding! I'll try to save up my own cash to make the trip, even for one day. Hm...maybe 2, so I can spend the day in Frontierland and swoon over the Laughing Stock Co. boys and The Billys.
2. WoW is FINALLY installed. But I think my 10 day trial is almost up. I don't think I'll be forking over the money to play it constantly. While it's a good game, and oddly addictive, it slugs my already chugging along computer to a crawl. Heh.
3. Umm...the Highland Games were recently. That was kinda fun. There was also a party afterwards where this guy touring from Scotland, Gary Ines, was playing at The Dell. He's SO CUTE and has a reeeeally thick accent. I should've introduced myself, but he's going back to Scotland. Bah. :P
Guess that's about all.
Oh, and here are the fireworks I was talking about. Can't really capture the 360 thing that happens a few times, but it's still very VERY cool.
Kidding! I'll try to save up my own cash to make the trip, even for one day. Hm...maybe 2, so I can spend the day in Frontierland and swoon over the Laughing Stock Co. boys and The Billys.
2. WoW is FINALLY installed. But I think my 10 day trial is almost up. I don't think I'll be forking over the money to play it constantly. While it's a good game, and oddly addictive, it slugs my already chugging along computer to a crawl. Heh.
3. Umm...the Highland Games were recently. That was kinda fun. There was also a party afterwards where this guy touring from Scotland, Gary Ines, was playing at The Dell. He's SO CUTE and has a reeeeally thick accent. I should've introduced myself, but he's going back to Scotland. Bah. :P
Guess that's about all.
Oh, and here are the fireworks I was talking about. Can't really capture the 360 thing that happens a few times, but it's still very VERY cool.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Some more on Gaslighter Closing
Mutlimedia Photo Slide Show: This got to me and made me cry.
Article written about the closing: Very insightful and the most truthful one I've read about it.
Article written about the closing: Very insightful and the most truthful one I've read about it.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
The Big Closeout
So, the Gaslighter show closed last night, and with it the melodramas to be performed on that stage. I'm not exactly going to miss that particular show, but I will definitely miss the Gaslighter being there and being able to go see shows there.
Some highlights from the show:
-Joey showed up! It was really nice to see him again after 5 months. He has a new haircut and looks really good. Heh. He brought me a Red vs. Blue shirt, too. It says "I Like Me" on it.
-The guy who played the "villian" didn't show, so we had another cast member's boyfriend fill in. Thankfully, the 70's costume fit him.
-"Joanie" getting the entire audience to say the word "Bitch!" about 6 times in one scene.
-Using party poppers during Hand Jive.
-Using the party poppers while reinacting the death scene each time one of us did something that could've killed off the prom queen.
-"Corkey" Running out during the death scene reinactment with the biggest damn super soaker water gun I've ever seen and dousing the entire cast with water.
-Picking on random cast members at the end of the show to get a confession out of them...ending with the character "Jimmy" who was the detective of the show, having done it.
-The entire improvised bit about cyanide not really being poisonous, how it was a cover up by "The Man" and that it was really a common ingredient in pancake batter.
-Scrounging through boxes of crap during intermission with my friend from the Kid's Show, "Sterling," and finding some kick ass necklaces.
After the show, the lobby was PACKED with Gaslighter Alumni. Tamborines were passed out to anyone who could get one and we all sang the lobby songs one last time. After all of the audience had left - and the people from the show changed back into our civies - the owners introduced Mrs. Cupp....who was the ORIGINAL owner of the Gaslighter and had come out to see us off. We all sang the Gaslighter Rag then, too, and some of us even did the choreography that we'd learned. I tell you, there's a very cool kind of feeling when you get that many people together (at least 50) most of which might not know some of the others, and singing things that almost ALL of them know.
After that, and some milling around drinking/eating/chatting with people (I mostly hung around with "Sterling" because he was one of the few I knew), some of the Alumni got on stage and performed sketches that they had been in. When "The Doctor Sketch" started, someone I didn't know said "Hey, do you want the music?" and started singing the background music for that skit. I'd been doing that particular sketch for a year, so I started in too until our DJ turned on the CD with that song on it. It was surreal for "Sterling" and I to watch that sketch when we'd performed in it for so long...but very VERY cool.
And, of course, obligatory posting of a link to my MoBlog where I have posted 6 pictures from the evening (including one of the necklaces that "Sterling" and I found....titled "Found Bling"): Take a gander!
Well, long story short, I stuck around for 2 hours before I finally left due to the fact that very few people I knew were still there. I hugged everyone I knew, poked fun at the owner one last time, and left. I've been pretty much a rock through the entire thing, but I think it's finally starting to get to me. I'm never going to get to see a show at The Gaslighter again....or even do a show there. Granted, I was planning on taking a break after this one, but that doesn't mean I don't want it around.
Sigh. I'm being all nostalgic about something that isn't even technically completely gone yet.
Some highlights from the show:
-Joey showed up! It was really nice to see him again after 5 months. He has a new haircut and looks really good. Heh. He brought me a Red vs. Blue shirt, too. It says "I Like Me" on it.
-The guy who played the "villian" didn't show, so we had another cast member's boyfriend fill in. Thankfully, the 70's costume fit him.
-"Joanie" getting the entire audience to say the word "Bitch!" about 6 times in one scene.
-Using party poppers during Hand Jive.
-Using the party poppers while reinacting the death scene each time one of us did something that could've killed off the prom queen.
-"Corkey" Running out during the death scene reinactment with the biggest damn super soaker water gun I've ever seen and dousing the entire cast with water.
-Picking on random cast members at the end of the show to get a confession out of them...ending with the character "Jimmy" who was the detective of the show, having done it.
-The entire improvised bit about cyanide not really being poisonous, how it was a cover up by "The Man" and that it was really a common ingredient in pancake batter.
-Scrounging through boxes of crap during intermission with my friend from the Kid's Show, "Sterling," and finding some kick ass necklaces.
After the show, the lobby was PACKED with Gaslighter Alumni. Tamborines were passed out to anyone who could get one and we all sang the lobby songs one last time. After all of the audience had left - and the people from the show changed back into our civies - the owners introduced Mrs. Cupp....who was the ORIGINAL owner of the Gaslighter and had come out to see us off. We all sang the Gaslighter Rag then, too, and some of us even did the choreography that we'd learned. I tell you, there's a very cool kind of feeling when you get that many people together (at least 50) most of which might not know some of the others, and singing things that almost ALL of them know.
After that, and some milling around drinking/eating/chatting with people (I mostly hung around with "Sterling" because he was one of the few I knew), some of the Alumni got on stage and performed sketches that they had been in. When "The Doctor Sketch" started, someone I didn't know said "Hey, do you want the music?" and started singing the background music for that skit. I'd been doing that particular sketch for a year, so I started in too until our DJ turned on the CD with that song on it. It was surreal for "Sterling" and I to watch that sketch when we'd performed in it for so long...but very VERY cool.
And, of course, obligatory posting of a link to my MoBlog where I have posted 6 pictures from the evening (including one of the necklaces that "Sterling" and I found....titled "Found Bling"): Take a gander!
Well, long story short, I stuck around for 2 hours before I finally left due to the fact that very few people I knew were still there. I hugged everyone I knew, poked fun at the owner one last time, and left. I've been pretty much a rock through the entire thing, but I think it's finally starting to get to me. I'm never going to get to see a show at The Gaslighter again....or even do a show there. Granted, I was planning on taking a break after this one, but that doesn't mean I don't want it around.
Sigh. I'm being all nostalgic about something that isn't even technically completely gone yet.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Best thing EVAR
So, Children's Musical Theater was doing "The Full Monty" for their alumni benefits show. There were lots of folk there that I recognized from when I did COPA. But that's not the great part.
See, there's a specific trick to how to light the very last bit of the show. It's supposed to be virtually blinding from behind the stripper men, so that no one in the audience sees any...ahhh.....danlgy bits. Well, the lighting wasn't as strong as it could be....and I was in the third row. ::Snerks:: I just about fell out of my chair with giggles.
I'm soooo amused.
See, there's a specific trick to how to light the very last bit of the show. It's supposed to be virtually blinding from behind the stripper men, so that no one in the audience sees any...ahhh.....danlgy bits. Well, the lighting wasn't as strong as it could be....and I was in the third row. ::Snerks:: I just about fell out of my chair with giggles.
I'm soooo amused.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Laptop has RETURNED!
And it's charging wonderfully! Yeah, I had to send it to GeekSquad awhile back because it stopped charging all together. Not only was the DC jack broken, but the adapter wasn't working as well. But now everything is hunky dory!
Monday, April 24, 2006
Let's play "Spot the Source of the Stress Dreams!"
Dream the First:
Stage-Manager and The-Sound-Guy (who is actually a really super nice guy who I have no problems with) accuse me of stealing money from the tip jar. I cry, because it isn't true.
Dream the Second:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut everything except the second act (basically....all of the plot that leads up to the murder).
Dream the Third:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut the murder mystery all together and go back to the previous melodrama they did. For some reason I have to play the part of someone who...is already in our cast. So, I have to print the script off a computer and only manage to get it finished printing in time to go on stage. Oh, and I'm in my street clothes the entire time, because no one thought to get the costumes from the previous show back.
Stage-Manager and The-Sound-Guy (who is actually a really super nice guy who I have no problems with) accuse me of stealing money from the tip jar. I cry, because it isn't true.
Dream the Second:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut everything except the second act (basically....all of the plot that leads up to the murder).
Dream the Third:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut the murder mystery all together and go back to the previous melodrama they did. For some reason I have to play the part of someone who...is already in our cast. So, I have to print the script off a computer and only manage to get it finished printing in time to go on stage. Oh, and I'm in my street clothes the entire time, because no one thought to get the costumes from the previous show back.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
A note to the general populace
Y'all should be glad I'm made of stronger stuff than I was in high school, and it takes more than someone accusing me of having issues with them and purposefully pushing them too harshly to send me into hysterics.
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
A note to the general populace
Y'all should be glad I'm made of stronger stuff than I was in high school, and it takes more than someone accusing me of having issues with them and purposefully pushing them too harshly to send me into hysterics.
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
Monday, April 17, 2006
Gragh....
I hate presentations.
No, really. I. Hate. Presentations. They stress me out so much that I am currently at the point of wishing for something like food poisoning to strike me down for the day so that I can't attend the class I have to do the presentation in.
Gordamm...::Pulls hair:: Gnargh...mnf.
No, really. I. Hate. Presentations. They stress me out so much that I am currently at the point of wishing for something like food poisoning to strike me down for the day so that I can't attend the class I have to do the presentation in.
Gordamm...::Pulls hair:: Gnargh...mnf.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Laptop Suckage
Gaw. Three times in the past two days...my laptop has chaged down to 0% and shut down. While still plugged in. I've replaced the battery and power cord already, so I'm thinking there's...probably a short somewhere? When I finally have the time (read: when I don't have papers and stuff to do and can't afford to be laptop-less) I'm going to take it somewhere to get it checked out.
Any suggestions/thoughts/comments? Help would be appreciated.
Any suggestions/thoughts/comments? Help would be appreciated.
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