On the Stage

Yeah, I suck at this Blogging thing now. I should just abandon ship :-)

Everything is going ok here.

Last night I had some things to mention...tonight, I can't remember any of them. My triumphant return to blogging ruined because I can't remember what I was going to mention! Well, probably my triumphant return to blogging for one day and then...not again. Hey!! Sitting here at my desk I just found where I put my box of empty envelopes! Tis a good day for me :-D

I got stressed at work today, I don't ever get stressed, but today I got a tad stressed. It was just super busy and I was just left by the other tech and the fill-in pharmacist while they were at lunch, and you can bet your ass as soon as I'm left alone the shit just hits the fan. Everyone and their mom comes in with problems and I can't solve them all, and they all want it now and usually it is ok, but today it was just a little nuts. There's always a pharmacist on hand in the back (there's a long-term cate facility in the back) so when I have people there and I need the prescriptions check I can just call that pharmacist, so it's not like I'm on my own for good, eh, long explanation of my job and how it works that would just be boring..so nevermind :-) Anywho, I got stressed! I don't like getting stressed, I feel dumb, and it went away when people came back and things got back to control again and then I got to leave for lunch, which is an hour, so that's a great unwind in the middle of the day time.

I'm singing in a concert this Sunday night. I'm singing in a mized quartet with my sister and two friends. We're singing an acapella "Ukrainian Bell Carol" and an accompanied "Angel's Carol" both are very pretty. I'm also singing a duet with my sister, "A Strange Way to Save the World" very nice song.

Christmas eve I'm singing at church for the vesper service, it's basically a service of singing and other talents, it's fun. We're singing the duet from above and I might be roped into "O Holy Night" again -- but I vowed no solos for a while since I get SO nervous I almost just can't stand it and the last time I sang a solo (which was in church this past August) I cracked under the nervousness and the fact that it was early in the morning and I did very shitty and it made me feel like shit so I just want to not worry for a while...but I might be doing a solo after all, I can't decide...

I'm SO excited because for Christmas presents I'm going to see Doubt, The Light in the Piazza, AND The Phantom of the Opera!!! Doubt in December (not too far from now!) LitP in January, and Phantom in February!! Doubt with freakin Tony Winner Cherry Jones! She wont the Tony for her character in Doubt when it was on Broadway last year. The play itself won a Tony, the playwright won a tony and the two other actors in it also won Tony's! It was nominated for every Tony it could be and it won them all too! Needless to say it's a phenomenal show and I'm very excited to see it (and I hope to meet Cherry Jones afterward). I'm equally excited for The Light in the Piazza (LitP for short). It was broadcast on live from Broadway on PBS a few months back, I still have it saved on my TiVo, maybe some of you saw it. It is some of the most beautiful music written for musical theatre. Such a good show, with phenomenal voices. And of course, The Phantom of the Opera! This will be my 3rd time (I think!) to see it, it might be 4th but I'm pretty sure it's 3rd. I saw it back in high school with Brad Little as Phantom then I saw it a good 4 years later and Brad was Phantom AGAIN, which was alright because he's good, but I wanted to see someone else, and I know I will this time so that's good. Plus the show is just so breathtakingly good that I see it any chance I get! No word yet on Spamalot or Mamma Mia! yet but SOMEHOW I will get tickets to those too :-)

Some damn good shows on TV right now: How I Met Your Mother, The Class, Heroes, Scrubs, ER, My Name is Earl, Las Vegas, Jericho, etc. etc. I could go on and on.

I hear Greg Wiggle (The Yellow one) has some horrible debilitating disease (I forget the name) and can't perform anymore :-( How sad is that!!!

Well it's been months since I've posted anything of worth so I'm sure SOMETHING has happened in my life, but I'm not sure what right now, so I just don't try to remember so I can tell you. I told you about my daughter's birthday, it was great, I planned it all, got it all going, cleaned the whole house for it, and we had so much fun! I told I was in a show at the Iowa State Fair, that went very well, was a ton of fun. The choir I was in last year I can't be in this year because rehearsals start at 5:30 and I don't get off work till 6 and that's not in the same town either :-( :-( So that makes me very sad. Also because the woman who played my wife in Into the Woods who I got to be good friends with joined it this year so I can't be in it with her some other fellow ITW people so I'm SUPER bummed about that!!

I really wish we had money to take a fancy, huge, splendid honeymoon to NYC to stay in a nice hotel and go see TONS of shows...I can't WAIT for the day when we can actually do that!

Ok, I'll stop now. If nothing else, hopefully I can find some time late at night to blog here and there, at least one day on the weekend maybe if not more! I'll try, I really will! :-) But I'm not going to let it get to me if I can't blog that much or I don't get any comments, no stressing over blogging anymore :-)