"Man Who Came to Dinner"--last weekend, Sept. 21, 22, 23. Best 30 seconds of "Silent Night" you'll ever hear!

"Nunsense"--in production. Opening in November. "The nuns are coming..."

"Bus Stop" @ TCC in November. Same as Nunsense. See Nunsense first, please.

"Ashley & Patrick's Wedding" in December. NOT A SHOW! My baby's getting married! 

Anyone have any good Harvestfest ideas?

I'm surrounded by fairies!Today, happiness is being surrounded by flimsy fabric and butterfly wings. And some crazy wigs!  

Yay, it's finally 'yes-it's-gonna-stay-warm' warm outside!

Yay, the kitchen is useable. Not done, but usable. What was supposed to take a few days has turned into a marathon kitchen re-do and, thanks to a decent sale at Lowe's last weekend, we got the tile for the floor sooner than we expected so hopefully I can take the 'after' pics sooner than I thought!

Yay, the boy who refused to get a haircut asked me for a haircut yesterday. Never did I get the kids into the van so fast...

Today I hate Chick-fil-A. I will boycott. For awhile. So I made my own iced tea this morning.

I loved "Biloxi Blues".  I want to do a lil' acting again. I might even eat a Twinkie if it'd get me back onstage...

How can I be sick of the election already if we haven't even selected the candidates yet?

I vote for the washer and dryer as the greatest inventions of the last century. Because...yes.

Shakespeare in the Grove--A Midsummer Night's Dream--June27-30-FREE

In reference to the previous post:

I will not see the gold glory marching forward. "Chorus Line" is dark. I'm sad but I knew there was a reason God was whispering in my ear not to cut into the 50 yards of gold lame yet. I don't know how to ease the hurt the actors are feeling though. I want to cry with them. They've worked so hard and they. look. good. It's not their fault.  I want to feel relieved that the decision is made but I don't. I don't want to be angry, but I am. I am disappointed. I spent the night tossing and trying to think of some way to still make it happen, but it's not in my hands. When we started "Into the Woods" I remember Jimmy was upset and I told him something along the lines of taking the disappointment and making it a learning experience. Even more than "Into the Woods",  I hope ACL will be a learning experience. I hope we can fulfill this dream show one day. If not with FRT, I hope the actors will one day get to do this show and better than it would have been had we gone through. Sometimes theatre sucks. This is one of those times. It will not always. Look for a new curtain to rise.

...Mary says I have to do this more often. And I was seriously considering getting rid of this thing altogether. Okay, updates from me:

- I am semi-pleased with the costuming on "Into the Woods". Once again, sing the chorus with me, " Oh, if I only had the money to do what I wanted to do...". Yeah. I've been saying that since "My Fair Lady".

- I am worried about funding "A Chorus Line". A note to my "friends" JC Chazez, Lance Bass, and Chris Kirkpatrick---y'all are rich and I know you want to help struggling artists as you yourselves were. Quit taking time from your successful careers to read this blog and write FRT a wittle checky, pwease?

-^^Riggght.

- (If and) When I see those dancers march forward in all their gold glory I. Will. Cry. Be forewarned.

- I hate headcolds, but hate colds with coughs even more. So far, the cough is at a minimum. Let's pray it stays that way.

- Shane has gone to Iraq for his second tour. Please pray for his and all our servicemen's safety.

- I am going to the gym and watching the calorie intake. That needs prayer too.

- I think it took a year for me to stop being afraid of Jane and just enjoy our work together and the friendship that followed. I am not sure I will ever stop being afraid of J...

- Our weather guy is obsessed with snow. Hey, Jon Cash, I moved here to avoid snow. You want to have snow--move!

- Sometimes those stupid survey things will surprise me. From "3 things" I learned my sister had a timeshare in Mexico. I never knew she'd been to Mexico. And she thinks I'm nutty because I want to go to Kansas. Well, sure, I guess when you've been to Mexico, Kansas is a little, well, Kansas. But I love some people in Kansas. And if you keep typing 'Kansas' over and over it starts to look really weird.

-And why the heck do we say "Can-zas" for "Kansas" but we saw "Ar-can-saw" for "Arkansas"? This bothers me. But not enough to lose sleep.

-I haven't lost any sleep lately since I've been sleeping since practically Sunday afternoon. Stupid head cold.

 - I have alot of stuff to do. I best go do it. While I'm awake.

Having a bad day? Having doubts abou the show? Go here and save this for when you need a boost. Heck, anyone who's discouraged should go here when they need a boost:http://www.austin360.com/events/content/events/stories/2006/04/9blindplay.html

I am boosted!

The Virginia Pilot chooses people from the obits to feature in a little "mini article" every few days. I wanted to suggest Miss Jane to them. I didn't. But they found her anyway!

Nice feature in the Hamton Roads section of a very deserving and dear lady!

...I am ironing B's work shirts and from upstairs I hear C playing his guitar. It was broken for many moons, now fixed and I love to hear him playing again.

Bonus! Ash is making toast so on top of the guitar my Mickey Mouse toaster is happily playing M-i-c-k-e-y-M-o-u-s-e when the toast pops up!

I have a noisy house.

I guess I'm supposed to write more to keep in touch with all these nice people who want to be my "friends"! LOL!! I'm too old for this! You know how long it took me to get a picture on here?!

So the update since the last time I posted is "Boyfriend" is done, it went very well and lots of people said lots of nice things.  (nice. Not Nice.) And Jane died. May 2, 2006. And I feel weird. Because I knew it was gonna happen and I was ready and I hated seeing her in so much pain. So why am I acting so weird about it? I dunno. And I've 'signed' on to costume "Into the Woods" for Free Reign Theatre and I'm helping costume "Romeo and Juliet" for TCC and those projects are very exciting for me. But Jane died and I really haven't been thinking of too much else. And don't let this depress you, my younger friends, but getting old really doesn't answer alot of life's questions. It only presents new ones.