Oh Jimmy....

Wow, that *is* a horrid photo of me. Oh well. Saint, Sommer and Jacci look great! During school today I had a lunch rehearsal between classes. Do you know how hard it is to pretend to drive a car while actually eating? I don't know how people who eat behind the wheel while they are really driving can do it! Either way it was fun and I got to practice my audition monologue with them as well! The auditions tonight went okay...I don't expect a callback, though. The show is Richard III for the late Spring, and the department is totally top notch when it comes to all things Shakesperian, so I know they were looking for correct iambic pentameter and whatnot. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

A Team, but not THE A-team.

We unloaded the trailer with Tiffany's worldly possessions today. I showed up and it was just Tif and her dad for a bit, then Matt Y showed up as well as one of Tiffany's dad's friends. We had a grand time pretending that the lightest objects were terrifically heavy. My favorite was the small makeup case that I needed two people to help me with as we made a big show of dragging it, taking breaks, and culminating in three imaginary hernias. When it was over Tiffany thanked us by taking us out for pizza, then (since Jason went to a party to watch some TV and the girls went along to play with friends) Tiffany and I went back to put some boxes into their proper rooms, set up her bed, and watched a movie. Olivia (her boston terrier) curled up between us and was snoring LOUDLY the whole time. That's about how we felt.

How Cats go Bowling.

So busy today I didn't even take a picture until late-ish. I had a great rehearsal today for the SET play at school. I'm excited to breathe life into this role, there's so much satisfaction in taking facets of your personality and incorporating them into a character, making words come to life and creating subtext out of thin air. I drove up to Tiffany's after, to help her fix up her place in preparation for her to live there! That's right, she's finally back in town and it was so good to see her back home where she has been desperate to return for two years now! I know that feeling like an old friend. We happily scrubbed her baseboards to showtunes and danced to numbers from Hairspray and Glee as we rid the house of grime from the previous renters. I returned home this evening to find Bri up to mischief, Leigha spending the night at a friend's house, and Jason being awesome and taking care of things. They were going to come out and help at Tif's, but the carpets had just been cleaned and her dad (he helped her drive out and he's sticking around to help move her in) said, "Yeah....we probably don't want kids to be underfoot here just yet." So I decided to try and wear out the hamster a bit so he didn't run on his wheel all night and keep me and Bri awake. (Sounds like a freakin' pencil sharpener.) Spartacus was INCREDIBLY interested in the ball, but whenever Rocky ran toward him he would flip out and back off, it was hilarious. "Oh, wait, I just wanted to LOOK at it, not DO anything with it! Shoot, get it away!!!"

Wonderful, wonderful day!

Jason and I went out to lunch during my school day today. There's a place nearby called 'Firehouse Subs' and holy moly, it is SO good! They cater to all things manly, for the most part (20 different kinds of hot sauce? What?) so I couldn't help but be drawn to the over-the-topness of this mural on the wall. Jason said, "That's probably how Spartacus sees himself." He's right, you know. This evening I went with a few friends from school to see a show at the Living Room for some extra credit for our various theater classes. It was really good, that space puts on some seriously high-quality productions! We went to a restaurant afterward and amused the waitstaff with our normal, every day theater kid antics. I honestly wonder if my type are their favorite customers, or if they dread our comings and welcome our leave-takings?

Something fuzzy this way comes

Oh, Leigha...those bangs need to be tamed. I had a great day today. Had a quick coffee/hot chocolate chat with Austin this afternoon. She hasn't quite figured out how to piece together her day so that it includes an affordable lunch option just yet, so today she improvised with a piece of bread and free condiments (PB&J) generously provided by the food court. Very Tom Hanks of you, dear. This evening Jason and I took the girls to spend some gift cards/birthday money they had burning holes into their pockets. Brianna excitedly bought three princess books while Leigha opted on a real-live, parent approved hamster named Rocky. So CUTE! But his wheel sounds like a pencil sharpener. Yuk. However, hamsters are nocturnal escape artists by nature and we have a cat. Leigha has decided it would be a good idea to start sleeping with the door all the way shut because of this. Thanks, Rocky!

How much ground would a groundhog hog?

Since it was a snow day, we decided the best thing to do was drive on the nicely cleared streets to the Guitar Center 15 miles away to welcome the new addition to the family. Brianna touched the wood of Jason's new bass and declared that 'it feels like a lobster claw.' That means quality, folks. Tomorrow is a snow day for the girls, but not me. The good news is it's also Jason's day off, so he can drown them out with the sound of his new bass. Either way, our district has serious issues if they keep calling school on account of road conditions when even the neighborhood streets have been plowed. Hope the girls have always been curious to know what it's like to have school in June!

Colder than Fever

This is a cat's eye view of my back deck in the midst of our 'great Midwestern blizzard.' *cough* I know 'blizzard' has more to do with visibility than snowfall (you can get a bunch blowing around, collect 1/2 and inch and it's a blizzard, technically) but the freak out was blown out of proportion in my mind, unless perhaps you were in southeastern Missouri. Either way we had a snow day and we will have one tomorrow as well. The girls spent the day constructing elaborate forts that they are now sleeping in (in Leigha's room. Fun!) and Jason shoveled the driveway so he could get to work. (He made it safely doing 35mph at best the whole way there. 4 wheel drive FTW!) I caught up on my online class and finished a small painting. As for the cat's eye view...I caught him staring at the birds in the backyard and making 'I wanna get 'em!' sounds so I sat on the floor with him by the sliding glass door and put him on my lap so he could enjoy the view from a warm seat. He purred like crazy until one jumped on the deck right by the window and stayed for a while. He cut off the purr immediately and whipped his head around to stare at it until it flew away, then turned back and resumed his 'I'll love you forever!' purring. Good day to be an indoor kitty.