today is opening. literally, just now, as i wrote that, i put my face in my hands. not cause im fearful of (the woods at night) opening, simply because i really just cant believe that its already here. this day has been a long time coming, folks, and im not just talking about the rehearsal process. i'd say ive been dreaming bout this for a good solid two years. shivers.
this is not going to be my usual witty banter-esque blog post, because im too jittery to be amusing. sorry.
i'm attached to little red like i've never been attached to any other character before. usually its easy for me to draw the line between myself and my character. but she is so different; she is literally an 12year old, caped extension of myself.
i'm excited and scared for tonight... but all thats left to do now is say a little prayer and kick some INTO THE WOODS butt!
i love you, my cast! WE GOT THIS!
Thursday, July 22
Sunday, July 18
silly bandz.
let me just get this straight before i begin this blog post. i am not, repeat, NOT a fan of silly bandz.
silly bandz (i am adding the z because i like it, i dont actually know for sure if the correct term for these ridiculous wrist adornments contains a 'z' or not) are, as i stated in my aside just then, ridiculous wrist adornments.
you wear them around your wrist until someone asks you what it is. because someone WILL ask you what it is. and then you remove said silly band with pride and tug at it for a certain period of time until it resembles an unidentifiable blob, then tug at it some more until it becomes the silhouette of a random animal, vegetable, mineral or unknown.
kids these days barter silly bandz as if they were actually valuable. but keep in mind, one silly band is not equal to the next. silly bandz that glow in the dark, are tye dye, or resemble the shape of toy story characters are considered to be the most precious. as in, YOU BETTER HAVE SOME COLD HARD CASH IF YOU WANT MY BUZZ LIGHTYEAR SILLY BAND.
why have i gone on this rant about silly bandz, you may ask? because i myself have recently had a revelation, a change of heart, if you will, about silly bandz.
im a really good person. and wasting things just irks me. thats why when i noticed there was a water bottle in jessie's bathroom trashcan with a hair elastic around it, i was going to inform jessie. because i was either going to be a good person and let jessie know that she was accidentally going to throw away a hair elastic, or, if this did not alarm jessie (AS IT SHOULD) i was going to be nonwasteful and save that hair elastic from a premature fate.
i informed jessie. she reacted as i feared, and was not concerned about the hair elastic. but eureka, jessie spotted something ELSE on this water bottle which she decided she DID want to retrieve. choosy little bugger.
this much smaller and less prominent object turned out to be.... a silly band. i was not interested, because, as i have already told you, silly bandz are not liked by allison.
i climbed into my adopted jennison bed and was snuggling in, ready to catch a good solid 5 hours of sleep before a day of stage explorers and into the woods-ing.
and then i saw it. a glowing beacon of light slowing floating towards me across the room. i was instantly mesmerized. my eyes followed its every move, watching in awe of its simple but stunning beauty.
TO JOANN.
needless to say i was alarmed when the mysterious object floated upwards towards the blinds and then two legs plopped beside me in the bed. it was jessie closing the blinds. not exciting. but what was exciting was that the beacon of light was clinging to her wrist.
jessie dropped the beacon on my face. for a few minutes, i was fearful to touch it. then i gathered my courage and grabbed it, then held it up in the air. it was a glow in the dark unicorn silly band, and i was in love.
if you put it on your wrist and then madly wave your arm, the people across the room can see what your arm is doing! and if you put it on your nose and then sit up, the people across the room can see your nose! and if you put it around your eye, the people across the room can (so they tell me) SEE YOUR EYE!
i put on quite the show for meg, jessie and kaki.
this unicorn silly band that i have named fernando is still on my wrist and i never plan to take it off. we'll see how this goes with the run of into the woods. i think that little red would be the trendsetter of the show, the first character to wear silly bandz. ITS A CHARACTER CHOICE OKAY.
a kid at stage explorers asked if she could have it. i said no.
i also saved that hair elastic.
silly bandz (i am adding the z because i like it, i dont actually know for sure if the correct term for these ridiculous wrist adornments contains a 'z' or not) are, as i stated in my aside just then, ridiculous wrist adornments.
you wear them around your wrist until someone asks you what it is. because someone WILL ask you what it is. and then you remove said silly band with pride and tug at it for a certain period of time until it resembles an unidentifiable blob, then tug at it some more until it becomes the silhouette of a random animal, vegetable, mineral or unknown.
kids these days barter silly bandz as if they were actually valuable. but keep in mind, one silly band is not equal to the next. silly bandz that glow in the dark, are tye dye, or resemble the shape of toy story characters are considered to be the most precious. as in, YOU BETTER HAVE SOME COLD HARD CASH IF YOU WANT MY BUZZ LIGHTYEAR SILLY BAND.
why have i gone on this rant about silly bandz, you may ask? because i myself have recently had a revelation, a change of heart, if you will, about silly bandz.
im a really good person. and wasting things just irks me. thats why when i noticed there was a water bottle in jessie's bathroom trashcan with a hair elastic around it, i was going to inform jessie. because i was either going to be a good person and let jessie know that she was accidentally going to throw away a hair elastic, or, if this did not alarm jessie (AS IT SHOULD) i was going to be nonwasteful and save that hair elastic from a premature fate.
i informed jessie. she reacted as i feared, and was not concerned about the hair elastic. but eureka, jessie spotted something ELSE on this water bottle which she decided she DID want to retrieve. choosy little bugger.
this much smaller and less prominent object turned out to be.... a silly band. i was not interested, because, as i have already told you, silly bandz are not liked by allison.
i climbed into my adopted jennison bed and was snuggling in, ready to catch a good solid 5 hours of sleep before a day of stage explorers and into the woods-ing.
and then i saw it. a glowing beacon of light slowing floating towards me across the room. i was instantly mesmerized. my eyes followed its every move, watching in awe of its simple but stunning beauty.
TO JOANN.
needless to say i was alarmed when the mysterious object floated upwards towards the blinds and then two legs plopped beside me in the bed. it was jessie closing the blinds. not exciting. but what was exciting was that the beacon of light was clinging to her wrist.
jessie dropped the beacon on my face. for a few minutes, i was fearful to touch it. then i gathered my courage and grabbed it, then held it up in the air. it was a glow in the dark unicorn silly band, and i was in love.
if you put it on your wrist and then madly wave your arm, the people across the room can see what your arm is doing! and if you put it on your nose and then sit up, the people across the room can see your nose! and if you put it around your eye, the people across the room can (so they tell me) SEE YOUR EYE!
i put on quite the show for meg, jessie and kaki.
this unicorn silly band that i have named fernando is still on my wrist and i never plan to take it off. we'll see how this goes with the run of into the woods. i think that little red would be the trendsetter of the show, the first character to wear silly bandz. ITS A CHARACTER CHOICE OKAY.
a kid at stage explorers asked if she could have it. i said no.
i also saved that hair elastic.
Saturday, July 17
plastic daggers.
hi there. ha that's funny because that's the name of my blog but really i was just greeting everybodies.
i haven't blogged in quite some time, and i'm gonna be honest here, i actually forgot that this blog existed for a good solid month or so. pity. cause when i used to blog daily, i liked it.
to say that i am gonna start blogging daily again would be the equivalent of flat lying to your faces. but thats what audra honaker did with stage explorers kids so im guessing that since audra's done it, its now socially acceptable.
into the woods is pretty much in crunch time now. which is symbolic because in into the woods, people get crunched by giants. not i. i survive. which is why the show is totes def worth seeing. www.sparconline.org ORDER TICKETS RIGHT NOW. STOP READING THIS BLOG RIGHT NOW. YES YOU. STOP READING. ORDER TICKTETS. NOPE, DONT EVEN PRETEND YOU FORGOT THE WEBSITE NAME. HERE IT IS AGAIN, FOR YOU IGNORANT SOULS. www.sparconline.org NOW THERES NO EXCUSE.
i enjoy into the woods because i get to talk really fast and snap at people who, under any other circumstances, i would not mess with. like t'arahhh juuuulietaaaa. i also get to wear a cloak made of wolf skins and brandish a small dagger made of plastic that lives in my pants when im not using it.
other things i like about into the woods. i dont have to wear heels. i do have to wear an apron. i get to toss a baby around in my arms like nobodys business. i get to crush john mincks foot. (not really, but he doesnt know about my opening night blocking alterations as of yet.) eric switches back and forth from being a cow to a munchkin from the merry old land of oz. i get to swing fake birds around on floating branches. meg and daniel kiss for an extended period of time. as do julia and daniel, and julia and john. and i am allowed to eat muffins onstage. dream role: check.
i haven't blogged in quite some time, and i'm gonna be honest here, i actually forgot that this blog existed for a good solid month or so. pity. cause when i used to blog daily, i liked it.
to say that i am gonna start blogging daily again would be the equivalent of flat lying to your faces. but thats what audra honaker did with stage explorers kids so im guessing that since audra's done it, its now socially acceptable.
into the woods is pretty much in crunch time now. which is symbolic because in into the woods, people get crunched by giants. not i. i survive. which is why the show is totes def worth seeing. www.sparconline.org ORDER TICKETS RIGHT NOW. STOP READING THIS BLOG RIGHT NOW. YES YOU. STOP READING. ORDER TICKTETS. NOPE, DONT EVEN PRETEND YOU FORGOT THE WEBSITE NAME. HERE IT IS AGAIN, FOR YOU IGNORANT SOULS. www.sparconline.org NOW THERES NO EXCUSE.
i enjoy into the woods because i get to talk really fast and snap at people who, under any other circumstances, i would not mess with. like t'arahhh juuuulietaaaa. i also get to wear a cloak made of wolf skins and brandish a small dagger made of plastic that lives in my pants when im not using it.
other things i like about into the woods. i dont have to wear heels. i do have to wear an apron. i get to toss a baby around in my arms like nobodys business. i get to crush john mincks foot. (not really, but he doesnt know about my opening night blocking alterations as of yet.) eric switches back and forth from being a cow to a munchkin from the merry old land of oz. i get to swing fake birds around on floating branches. meg and daniel kiss for an extended period of time. as do julia and daniel, and julia and john. and i am allowed to eat muffins onstage. dream role: check.
Tuesday, May 18
oral surgeon.
i have received a special request to blog. to misquote captain barbossa from pirates of the caribbean "I'm inclined to acquiesce to your request. Means 'yes'." the actual line has something to do with being disinclined and meaning no but thats really not applicable here at all.
current events. lets see. i visited the oral surgeon today because my wisdom teeth are being all wisdom-teeth-like and really wanna be removed from my gums. keeumm dropped me off at this more developmental looking area behind henrico doctors.
she told me to go into this building. this building had a sign on it that said 'orthopaedics' on a sign by the entrance. i pointed to said sign and asked keeumm 'orthopaedics?'. keeumm nodded fervently.
i said to keeumm, 'but orthopaedics is like arms and legs related...'. but keeumm insisted. and if you know keeumm then you know, what she says, goes.
so i went in, feeling like a fool with my tooth xrays in hand as i passed by multiple patients with crutches and ace bandages. i asked the lady at the front desk where i could sign in to have my mouth examined. she seemed to be pretty peeved. i dont know why, seems like lots of educated people like my mother would confuse the words 'orthopaedic' and 'oral'.
my prayers are with the jennison family!
current events. lets see. i visited the oral surgeon today because my wisdom teeth are being all wisdom-teeth-like and really wanna be removed from my gums. keeumm dropped me off at this more developmental looking area behind henrico doctors.
she told me to go into this building. this building had a sign on it that said 'orthopaedics' on a sign by the entrance. i pointed to said sign and asked keeumm 'orthopaedics?'. keeumm nodded fervently.
i said to keeumm, 'but orthopaedics is like arms and legs related...'. but keeumm insisted. and if you know keeumm then you know, what she says, goes.
so i went in, feeling like a fool with my tooth xrays in hand as i passed by multiple patients with crutches and ace bandages. i asked the lady at the front desk where i could sign in to have my mouth examined. she seemed to be pretty peeved. i dont know why, seems like lots of educated people like my mother would confuse the words 'orthopaedic' and 'oral'.
my prayers are with the jennison family!
Monday, May 10
Wednesday, April 28
CIABATTA!
this blogpost is being written by a human being who has the legal ability, perhaps not permission but thats a tale for a different day, to drive themself anywhere they please. score.
behind the wheel yesterday was the most fun of all because at this point i had already passed the exam and pretty much had to do something insanely terrible like hit a pedestrian to get that revoked. so i considered it free reign.
amanda drove first and she passed with flying colors of course so then it was my turn to take a spin. i was driving along when i came to the conclusion that we were remarkably near my house. what a crazy coincidence that was, too crazy a happening to pass up thats for sure.
im pretty sure mr. hudak wanted me to get on an interstate for some fast mileage, but that was not in MY plan, and seeing how ALLISON was the one with the steering wheel and not mr. hudak, i was in charge. and i took advantage of this.
we took a "detour". mr. hudak didn't have a clue where we were which put me in total control. he was a tad freaked. i believe he muttered something about being kidnapped by teenagers or something like that but i just disregarded everything he said from there on out.
amanda and i established that we lived really close to each other, which was a perfect oppurtunity to drive by each others houses, check em out. lucky mr. hudak also came along for the ride. certainly not by choice.
we changed our route multiple times in order to make it the most scenic/difficult for mr. hudak to figure out where he was. we succeeded. at one point he asked me 'could you tell me where we're headed?' and i said 'actually i dont really know road names i just pretty much know where im supposed to turn'. this reassured him.
occasionally he would mistakenly believe that i was going to run off the road, and he would exclaim things like 'CIABATTA!'. i dont know why the name of an artisan bread was the first thing that came to his mind when he thought he was going to die, but to each his own.
when i eventually in the most roundabout way possible returned him to the main road, he breathed for the first time in a solid 30 minutes. amanda and i laughed gaily, but now that we were back in his neck of the woods, we were reprimanded.
it was fun while it lasted.
behind the wheel yesterday was the most fun of all because at this point i had already passed the exam and pretty much had to do something insanely terrible like hit a pedestrian to get that revoked. so i considered it free reign.
amanda drove first and she passed with flying colors of course so then it was my turn to take a spin. i was driving along when i came to the conclusion that we were remarkably near my house. what a crazy coincidence that was, too crazy a happening to pass up thats for sure.
im pretty sure mr. hudak wanted me to get on an interstate for some fast mileage, but that was not in MY plan, and seeing how ALLISON was the one with the steering wheel and not mr. hudak, i was in charge. and i took advantage of this.
we took a "detour". mr. hudak didn't have a clue where we were which put me in total control. he was a tad freaked. i believe he muttered something about being kidnapped by teenagers or something like that but i just disregarded everything he said from there on out.
amanda and i established that we lived really close to each other, which was a perfect oppurtunity to drive by each others houses, check em out. lucky mr. hudak also came along for the ride. certainly not by choice.
we changed our route multiple times in order to make it the most scenic/difficult for mr. hudak to figure out where he was. we succeeded. at one point he asked me 'could you tell me where we're headed?' and i said 'actually i dont really know road names i just pretty much know where im supposed to turn'. this reassured him.
occasionally he would mistakenly believe that i was going to run off the road, and he would exclaim things like 'CIABATTA!'. i dont know why the name of an artisan bread was the first thing that came to his mind when he thought he was going to die, but to each his own.
when i eventually in the most roundabout way possible returned him to the main road, he breathed for the first time in a solid 30 minutes. amanda and i laughed gaily, but now that we were back in his neck of the woods, we were reprimanded.
it was fun while it lasted.
Monday, April 26
scratch off gently with a coin.
i am under the impression that a good collared shirt is timeless. i was also under the impression that pigtails were timeless, but the director of grapes was adamant that i was incorrect. that was a devastating blow.
lately i have seen a lot of shows. some have been really good, and some have been really bad. you truly can get the best of both worlds here in richmond.
saw 'children of eden' yesterday. there was one actor who i think may be completely tone deaf, and yet he had a lead in a musical. this bodes ill for the rest of the musical in my opinion, especially when this dude returns in the second act to play another singing role. why. just... why.
one of my favorite past times is to look for awkward couples. i really dont have any guidelines as to what is and is not an awkward couple, but i can feel it in my bones. couples whose height difference is staggering and therefore have to use stairs so they can kiss. couples who are really self conscious and are always looking over their shoulder when talking to their significant other to ensure that no one will know that they are actually a unit. couples who walk down the hall very close to each other but are certain to never make any legitimate physical contact. when i see air quote relationships air quote like this, i am glad i have no time for boys.
the staff of bath and body works is infamous for being the most pushy salespeople in the history of EVER. i think being overly satisfied with any and all bath and body works products is the leading factor that comes into play when hiring. word to the wise: dont attempt to look at their wackadoodle "scenteggs". it will only end in a perpetually confusing conversation that can never come to any gain of knowledge.
i have come to the conclusion that the little bar on lottery scratchers and the back of gift cards that says 'scratch off gently with a coin' is really more trouble than its worth. it should be made so it can say 'scratch off gently with long fingernails' or something like that. i always find that i can never locate a coin when i need one for those suckers. and nickels are apparently not included in the 'coin' department because they require much more scratching fervor to remove all the junk than say, a penny.
lately i have seen a lot of shows. some have been really good, and some have been really bad. you truly can get the best of both worlds here in richmond.
saw 'children of eden' yesterday. there was one actor who i think may be completely tone deaf, and yet he had a lead in a musical. this bodes ill for the rest of the musical in my opinion, especially when this dude returns in the second act to play another singing role. why. just... why.
one of my favorite past times is to look for awkward couples. i really dont have any guidelines as to what is and is not an awkward couple, but i can feel it in my bones. couples whose height difference is staggering and therefore have to use stairs so they can kiss. couples who are really self conscious and are always looking over their shoulder when talking to their significant other to ensure that no one will know that they are actually a unit. couples who walk down the hall very close to each other but are certain to never make any legitimate physical contact. when i see air quote relationships air quote like this, i am glad i have no time for boys.
the staff of bath and body works is infamous for being the most pushy salespeople in the history of EVER. i think being overly satisfied with any and all bath and body works products is the leading factor that comes into play when hiring. word to the wise: dont attempt to look at their wackadoodle "scenteggs". it will only end in a perpetually confusing conversation that can never come to any gain of knowledge.
i have come to the conclusion that the little bar on lottery scratchers and the back of gift cards that says 'scratch off gently with a coin' is really more trouble than its worth. it should be made so it can say 'scratch off gently with long fingernails' or something like that. i always find that i can never locate a coin when i need one for those suckers. and nickels are apparently not included in the 'coin' department because they require much more scratching fervor to remove all the junk than say, a penny.
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