Another Day, Another Photo

Day 365/365 (August 18, 2009)

2009-08-15T22:25:00.020-04:00

WE HAS COMPLETION!!!!

It was a roller coaster of a day for me, kinda fitting since i saw next to normal i guess!

the day "began" with my attempting to get some sleep before rushing. i got about an hour before i woke up all alert and stuff. BAD NEWS instead of going right then i tried my best to pass time and finally got to rush at 4 which is when i was planning and had refused getting there any earlier. yea i was 5th in line! PISSED OFF!!!! i called sasha and finally she came down and joined and we were able to get the last set of front row orchestra seats thankfully. lack of sleep isnt good for tamra but the time passed we made friends i made a stop talking drunky mcwasted acquaintance (though his friend that had been with him earlier was most awesome). i took a little nap towards the end at one point and all was good.

got back to sasha's and watched a tiny bit of big brother after dark before getting ready and heading to my crumbs interview. the interview went well and then back to sasha's. it was nappy time. i basically only ended up getting about an hour of sleep before i was woken up by a phone call. (before i fell asleep though fred came over and nuzzled with me for a while and although it made me sneezy it made me really happy.) and pip even slept on me at one point during the day. Then i got in a long 45 minute phone call with apple because all of a sudden my phone was having some serious problems with syncing my music that i purchased and i have a temporary fix at the moment but it needs to become a temporary one so i will likely battle it out with them tomorrow.

anywho so this phone call caused me such incredible stress and part of it meant i had to call my mm which resulted in more stress and tears and well i just do not handle that well so i shoved my emotions down my throat and have been doing my best to ignore them. well sasha and i hung some more and she worked and then we gots ready to go. we went over to blockheads and met our theatre buddies there and had a yummy and delightful dinner. then to the theatre we went and the overpowering AC was most welcomed!

the show was unbelievably good and definitely worth the time spent rushing. i cant believe it had been over a month since i had seen it and am impressed with my self control (i guess the show is rubbing off on me as far as obsessiveness is concerned, j/k but lol).

after i began taking my final 365 pictures with my special 365 project. basically i took every picture that i posted in my blog and it is all on one sheet of paper with a 365 on it. and the first one was taken with sasha who is the highest tagged human! then i took one with kyle dean who seemed to enjoy my collage work since he was the first 365 picture and i hadnt intended it to happen full circle but i loved that it had. and while i was chatting with KDM chylar (pronounced skylar, tho i feel i missed a letter in there from when he told us how it was spelled.) also i dont usually "geek" out about interesting next to normal things however there were three moments this evening that had me in serious LIH (laughing in head). during why stay at one point when alice sang why stay she drew a question mark in the air and well i just found it hilarious because it was so not a her seeming thing to do and i do that all the time. also when she was taking the pills out of the medicine cabinet you could hear that some of them fell whilst she was doing so. ( i am sure others could see but not from our beautiful front row). the third was during better than before bobby accidentally messed up a lyric and instead of saying you've got it DI hooray, he said youve got it yay hooray, so then a second later when jenn sng that they both looked at each other and turned giggling as they did what they had to and when they turned back around they were still smiling and although it isnt supposed to be all giggly like that it was kind of a nice shared father daughter moment so i enjoyed that. and in general any time i see tears from people onstage i am just floored and there were some tears by kyle dean, bobby, and alice... good times! (I know i am crazy)

then sasha and i headed back and saw some lightening, by the time we got inside it was hardcore lightening and fierce rain so sasha, marty, and myself ran up to the roof to look at the sky and it was so rainy and hard and there was one especially breathtaking bolt that illuminated the whole sky and was positioned just right that we got a clear view of its bolitness!!!! then we came downstairs and watched the most oh snapish episode of big brother and i got a text from krysta saying the super had seen emma hanging around so he will keep an extra special look out for her and let us know as soon as he sees her. i hope she was okay during the storm because i miss her so very much. i also took a picture with marty and then this one with pip and fred because they are all important people in my life/blog and i was fortunate to see them today. i personally love how pip looks like he was flying and fred was nice enough to stop licking himself for a second to look at the camera for the picture!

i added this so you can see it close up if you want :D (can you find the mistake?)

as far as things go i doubt i will do a photo every day but i will try to post an entry everyday we will see how that goes and i will probably create a new blog for that since this one has run its course and i am proud of myself for keeping it up!

Day 364/365 (August 17, 2009)

2009-08-15T22:24:00.017-04:00

What an exhausting and hot morning! i got up and headed to the cake store to buy the outrageously overpriced chocolate i need to make satan's balls. the customer service at that store is so bad. i asked a simple question and when they finally answered it they did so in a way that gave off a "why are you asking me this question you stupid moron" type of vibe. then i came back tot he apartment and grabbed my laundry. i brought it home and put it away, helped unsuccessfully to find emma and got milk up and through my nose. emma is missing from our apartment. this means she left through one of the open (barred) windows. there is thankfully no kitty splat on the ground under any of the windows but i am extremely worried because she isnt exactly an adventurous cat and she must be terrified right now because she is missing us and has no way of getting back home. krysta has gone to check with the shelters to see if she is there, so i emailed her pictures of emma. good thing i take obsessive amounts of pictures of the animals in my life!

i am also just hanging with the puppy for a little while before i eventually end up at sashas before i get up early tomorrow morning.

the next errand i ran was to sashas to drop off as much of my stuff as possible and then after cooling down for a bit with the help of her AC and chatting i finally headed back to kims. i am now finishing up laundry and got a phone call from "my" temp agency. it seems they avent forgotten about me and are trying to set up an interview for me.

Even though i wanted nothing more than to be done with my 365 project when i was one picture away (this one) from completing it i waited until after midnight to snap a picture of the glorious washer and drier that has been so good to me! (seriously i spent close to 6 hours (or maybe even more) working on this project and i cant wait for everyone to see it! this picture may not be the highest quality it could have been but i needed it to fit the project just right, and this will do it! This also means that even though i had a full day of busy activities and would like to add another picture i cannot do that, so we will live with this! i am also very saddened because when i printed my 365 project i found a mistake i made on it and one picture is covering me :( on the first picture in my 365 blog! but i mean when you look at it the liklihood of anyone noticing this problem is very slim unless you are me and know about it (and well you just read this though i still suspect you might have a hard time spotting the mistake... i am just so infuriated by it and i could have fixed it and printed again but for such a tiny thing it would have been a waste of ink and photo paper although now that i think about it maybe it would not have been because i could have framed it because the mre i think about it the more i think that would be cool to do... hmm... but i cant reprint it in time now and if i am sure i wont allow myself to reprint another one that is fixed because it would not be the same one that was used in the end... DARN MY OCD!!!!

Day 363/365 (August 16, 2009)

2009-08-15T22:24:00.006-04:00

i headed over to kim's place since i am puppy sitting for her and boy was the puppy happy to see me! she is just so friendly and lovable and at one point decided my arm was THE place to sleep. She must have been on there for about 15 minutes. I have been working on how i am going to make my final 365 picture a little bit special but dont wanna ruin it, because either it will be awesome and have the big reveal or it will turn out no where near as i was hoping and i wont use it.

laundry is also the key of what i am doing today. i have a few local errands i need to be running but dont feel like doing them so chances are good i will just do them tomorrow.

i also havent seen sasha since thursday and even though it isnt that long ago i kinda miss seeing her! that will change tomorrow though :D

Day 362/365 (August 15, 2009)

2009-08-15T12:44:00.010-04:00

the mac and cheese i made... i know it looks SO good!!!!

where i spent most of my day sleeping

The day was thoroughly unproductive for the most part except for the dishes i did and the hardcore cleaning of my bedroom floor getting all of the yucky pee residue of it and making it smell like lysol now! i also did some major reorganization of and deletion of some stuff on my PC computer, so i guess the day wasnt as unproductive as i once thought.

i ended up napping for about 4 hours which will bite me in the rear later i am sure, all i know is i need to get over this cray sleep thing i have had going on for a while! i also watched parts of aladdin and all of hercules today since it was on ABC Family. i own them but i always like to watch them better when i dont have to put the movie on. (though hercules is on VHS so i cant actually watch it whenever i want). emma and i spent quality time together which always makes her and me very happy.

Since i had done all the prep work for dinner the night before all i had to do was pop it in the oven and i had some scrumptious mac and cheese for a real dinner, it looked real good!

anywho after i posted this motivation struck and i finally labeled and organized my playbills and tickets from april until now. this means i also updated my spreadsheet so yay for actually being productive! i am going to organize my life for going to kim's tomorrow then BED.

Day 361/365 (August 14, 2009)

2009-08-15T00:31:00.012-04:00

ok so the bulk of my day began after i uploaded a bunch of my pictures to facebook. I headed to the first apple store (14th st) and picked up my computer that thankfully didnt lose any data, then i began walking hardcore! i was looking for a particular place and despite having my phone that started to not cooperate just for this the should have been 10 minute walk took close to an hour and by the end i no longer cared about why i was trying to get there and i just wanted to find it!

after i realized i had lots of time to kill and it would make no sense to go home because by the time i got there i would just have to turn back around basically to get to the theater i was going to. so instead i walked to find where i was going later since i am so directionally challenged but it turns out it didnt help. then i headed up to the second apple store (59th and 5th) and picked up the headphones. then i chatted with jordan on the phone for a while to plan for her arrival here soon and boy oh boy i was so very hot in my jeans at this point.

i took the subway back to where the theater was and when i got off of it even though i had been there not long before i couldnt find where i was going without major help (yay phone finally kicking in to work) but until then i was once again reminded of my theory that i should figure out what my gut instinct is and then go in the opposite direction because 98% of the time my gut instinct is wrong!

i was unnerved to see how many people were already waiting in line for Vote! The Musical when i got there which was pretty early in general though late for me, but very excited and pleased to find jennifer and jo ann in line so that meant i didnt have to see the show by myself and we were able to talk and catch up :D

we also spotted joe (whom i met in the n2n rush line back in june) rushing down the street and i texted him to see if it was him and he came back and i went back outside at the point to say hi and see how he was.

my thoughts on Vote! The musical:

i had gone to see it for two reasons (i had seen some of the songs performed when i went to vote or die a while back and i thought they were just fabulous and catchy, and landon (and morgan k.) were in it. the people in it were all really good for the most part but unfortunately there were some really bad sound issues like the mics just not working or my favorite the loud and lengthy JKLDK noise that lasted enough in the beginning to not be able to hear quite a bit of the song that was going on.i really liked most of the songs and they were quite catchy and there were a few things from the book that i liked. one in particular but sadly i couldnt remember it by the end of the show (why does my memory not retain things so easily). i laughed a bit with a few snorts and it was nice to see landon on stage again! bailey hanks was perfectly spunky and morgan k. was delightful in his crazy presidential aspiration way! i thought the person who played the other candidate and the teacher were quite fab. i do have some criticisms of the show but i enjoyed myself quite a bit and knew that it was a Fringe Festival show going in so that gave it some wiggle room in the place it was at. so congrats!

on my way home i stopped in path mark to buy some groceries and well every line was practically half way up every aisle! well it would seem the people in the express line with me were very angry shoppers! i understand it sucks that the lines are always like that and you want to bond over your unhappiness while waiting in line to pass the time but you shouldnt take it out on management with anger. you need to do it in a more constructive way! anywho i came home and was very happy to put my PJs on and get the internet i pay for to actually work for a change.

i am also annoyed by the child outside who is growling like a crazy person nonstop!

this picture is from the 59th and 5th apple store while emerging up the elevator and i need an idea for what my last picture will be and that is wicked soon!!!! and the other is from the inside of the "playbill"

Day 360/365 (August 13, 2009)

2009-08-14T12:50:00.011-04:00

i barely had gotten any sleep when i had to wake up to get ready to go to bryant park to save seats for a bunch of people. when i got out of bed i stepped in a big puddle of tucker pee!!!! the weather was pretty fab and slightly chilly actually! (except the impending threat of rain). anywho i got there and was ticked to find suze already there i mean i got there at 7:30 in the morning what time did she get there and she had taken the spot i like to sit in but we still had really fabulous seats (just as great as hers) and i learned how much i really and truly despise that beyond evil and wretched woman! the lawn was sort of swampy because it had rained slightly and because of it i ended up slipping on the library escape hatch at some point well that evil wench couldnt even be bothered to ask if i was alright and even though i know she isnt nice i asked if there was anything on the back of my pants because i had fallen and she didnt even flinch just flat out ignored me. i thought that was the most upsetting thing of the day little had i known. anywho eventually chris and lon showed up to help save seats and keep company. i went and picked up sasha's camera and awaited everyone to show up i was saving seats for. it was nice having lynette, nicholas, mark, his nephew zachary, diane, annemarie, and jean there. it was like a mini altarholic reunion! anywho when diane had arrived she too had slipped and fell but here is the thing before i realized that someone had fallen i heard suze laughing and saying someone had just fallen and she was so pleased with it then i saw the person stand up and it was diane! i was like it is wrong that you laugh at someone like that in general but especially wrong when you used to be friends. so i have never hated anyone as much as i have hated her in my life and that is actually a pretty strong statement for me to make because it surprises me that that is true. she is the most foul and horrible person i have ever encountered and i wish that she would just stay far far away from me and those i like/love. ( i dont wish her any harm but karma is a bitch baby so you better watch out because the world will turn against you at some point). end rant.

the performances were blah! boyz were fun, billy was stupid and only performed one song because they couldnt dance in the rain, but they still could have sung them! matthew morrison performed a song and i got glee pins. mamma mia lip synched to a song (trecherous), south pacific was boring but well down. it rained during the show at one point and john stamos came to promote bye bye birdie. he wa on stage far too long saying the same thing but whatever it was still amusing and well i took a bazillion pictures. i felt as though i was pleasing the inner fan girl of my sister who used to have a crush on him quite a long time ago. i have no idea if she ever had a fan girl side but i suspect she had because i remember finding clippings of photos of him once when i was looking through some of her old stuff. so basically those pictures are for you! (also when i went to go get the camera pip was so excited to see me and when he flipped so i could rub his belly he was so excited that he ended up PEEing! on me, i was like dogs 2, tamra 0... it was not a good moment for me)

then i dropped stuff off with sasha and met mark and zachary at dave and busters. yummy food and a good time and lots of tickets later we headed out. i hung in the courtyard for a while charging my phone and fell asleep at one point. then i met chris and lon at avenue q lotto to thelp them. they lost, then i went to 9 to 5 lotto to help sasha and marty. sasha won!. then sasha, marty, matthew, zuri, and myself headed off and got some most yummy thai food.

they all rushed off to their shows, then i went to pick up the other camera from sasha and i gave some love to fred and pip. then i went to TOL for what i thought would be a few minutes of karaoke until i had to go to brooklyn. well karaoke was cancelled but that was ok because it gave me some time to catch up with michael (box office guy) who i havent seen in ages! then i headed to the public assembly in brooklyn and got there way too early despite my best efforts and met up eventually with megan, laura, and emily. the show started an hour late and i didnt get home in bed until 4 am. but the time spent with those girls and seeing the band perform was beyond worth it because it had been so long and well i missed them! the show started after midnight so i cant post pictures here, but i hadnt fallen asleep so that is why i wrote about it here. i even had a lovely "dance" with someone at the end of the night.

Day 359/365 (August 12, 2009)

2009-08-14T12:34:00.011-04:00

my day began by meeting sasha at the apple store and having her phone "looked at" so she could get new headphones for me since mine broke. i just have to go pick up the headphones today (so behind in writing so friday) now they have come in. then pip, her, and i walked to find a post office and then she went off to her voice lesson and i headed down to crumbs for a job interview. i got there wicked early of course but that is ok. the interview was really fabulous actually and well i love crumbs and after it was over i got to have a cupcake! hello raspberry swirl my favorite: how i have missed you soooooo much!

then i went back and met up with sasha and we hung and watched tv and stuff until i left to go help out kate (katlyn) with hair lotto. while there i ran into lots of people again, i helped pass out pencils to people signing up, and i ran into AnneMarie and Jean who i have not seen in a while. so we chatted and caught up a bit and i told them i would save them a seat for broadway in bryant park the next day. sadly we lost and then i went back to sasha's. when marty got home we begun the process of moving the furniture around in the living room and all that jazz. it looks completely different and its kind of fabulous! anywho then i left and swung by NWS for a bit because i wanted to finally check out jam sessions and was surprised at how hopping it was and i ran into Jo there... rather creepily if i do so myself :D

when i got home i found a swimming pool of dog pee on my floor courtesy of tucker i was so beyond mad and krysta cleaned it up though i feel like it isnt compltely clean still but that could be because he keeps peeing on my floor anywho it took a long time to clean up and i ended up going to be REALLY late.

Day 358/365 (August 11, 2009)

2009-08-14T12:20:00.007-04:00

i dont remember the first parts of the day but i know i went to apple to drop off my computer for them to fix it. it was supposed to be a quick drop but instead it was a i had to wait twenty minutes to drop it off drop. Then i headed over to Hair Lotto to help Morgan K. with it since he tweeted asking for help. Sadly we all lost for him and everyone else i knew there that i randomly bumped into. After sasha and i got some subway for dinner and went back to her place.

we watched tv and hung out and eventually marty came home and we continued doing the same, i think this was the night we watched the emperor's new groove or i should say they watched it since i was busy applying to jobs. but the parts i paid attention to were quite funny!

then i headed over to The Irish Rogue for Shoshana's birthday party and i was a little worried at first since i knew the only person i was going to know there was actually Shoshana and contrary to what people might think i am actually quite shy and not always up to breaking the ice to make nice nice with new people and become their friends. well i was proud of myself because i forced myself to become a chatty person and had a most fabulous night and the shirley temples at place were laced with so much grenadine it made my taste buds happy! it was hot inside because the AC wasnt really working but that didnt stop us from having fun and taking about a bazillion pictures, true stalkerazzi! eventually we left and spent 40 + minutes just talking on the corner of 42nd and 7th ave until we finally went home. i had forgotten to take a picture until about 11:40 that night and it was so dark in there which isnt good for my iphone camera so this was the best i could do with the use of using a candle for light which was our second candle since i breathed on the first one to blow it out and we had to use all the napkins to hold the candle because it was very hot!

Day 357/365 (August 10, 2009)

2009-08-11T18:07:00.008-04:00

i got up crazy early to do the rush for the bye bye birdie first preview performance tickets, they were for $10 each! i got a great lunchbox since i was one of the first 50 people in line and it had a tee shirt and pin in it. sadly i was not the one who won the opening night tickets/party passes. i slept a little and did a lot of talking with jennifer and her mom who was in line too behind me. i witnessed some of the bye bye birdie load in and witnessed one of the funniest things i have seen all year as the BBB ensemble did the fan club thing and spazzed over "conrad" and then "chased" him down the street. they did a real good job of pretending to be all fan crazy.

then i went to sasha's and changed and stuff and made my way to meet karolina. we begun our day of looking at bridal dresses and her mom even joined us. we made some amazing progress and it excited me and her een if i ended up feeling like it was a bridal sweat shop because i hadnt eaten since the day before and i had said i needed food. well we didnt get it after the first store and just kept going. eventually we made our way to ollie's and met up with david and his best man (i forget his name). food was appreciated and prevented me from dying. i also had the opportunity to meet the best man and he was a really great person and i can see why david chose him and we had some pretty adult conversations actually talking about the wedding... its weird to be adult like sometimes!

after we did some more shopping then i made my way back to sasha and martys and hung out with them for a long while before finally going home.

ps my picture is not upside down, they pulled that out upside down.

Day 356/365 (August 9, 2009)

2009-08-09T22:44:00.008-04:00

so today i woke up and headed with Pip to wicked lotto to help chris and friends out. Luckily one of his friends won and then i took Pip back home to sasha's. he was so happy to be back and once we got around the wicked area he knew where we were and basically ran the whole way home. i then spent a lot of the day there chatting and catching up and beginning the renaming of my picture folders before i back them up. i started with may of last year and have to go through july of this year... a MAJOR undertaking to say the least. i am not renaming every picture but instead each day folder will get certain key words so when i want a picture i can search the word and find it easier. Pip still stayed cuddled with me a great portion of the day and at one point sasha made marty and i some extremely yummy turkey!

i also left with krysta at one point to get an 8 cent cupcake on 72nd st. it was ok but not fabulous! but it was exciting because when we got there there was an extremely long line and we were like oh well but we found out the line was for people who had just found out about the deal and were waiting for the text to get sent to them... since we already had the text we got to go straight in and not wait in line to get our cupcake... i paid with a dime and let them keep the change LOL!

anywho finally the time came and i headed home and i of course watched big brother and laughed so hard when jeremy piven made a guest appearance. everyone was so excited and i just kept thinking mercury poisoning and that if i were a contestant i would have said mercury poisoning? then sat down. i also thought it was so cute because one of the people was like i just met jeremy piven and he is a celebrity and i can say i met him... and i thought back to the days when i cared about that and how excited i would have been (joey fatone the first time i saw him in rent anyone, especially carol?) but now these days i just dont care. i mean clay aiken is someone i used to be batty about and he almost bumped into me when leaving billy elliot and i saw him an i was like o clay aiken just passed me what were you saying?

anywho i also got celery and carrot sticks ready to keep my tummy satisfied while waiting in line for the opening of the box office for bye bye birdie. i am pretty excited to see the show and you cant go wrong with $10 tickets, thanks bank of america for the help!

emma also kept going on my lap because she missed me so, it was cute but really annoying because it was hard to type.

the countdown has begun!!!! this is DAY 10

Day 355/365 (August 8, 2009)

2009-08-08T22:10:00.006-04:00

looking at my blog trying to work up motivation to write about today with my sad headphones

i went to bed so late and had to get up so early for my apple genius appointment. i basically got a little over three hours sleep and i was NOT a happy person. i made my way to the apple store on 14th street. just before i got there the right ear bud of my headphones decided to stop working which would have been fine if my phone was under a warranty but alas it is not so no replacement of headphones would happen for me and i will now have to suffer :(

anywho i really thought there was nothing wrong with my computer but it turns out they have to fix the back light and replace something on the mother board! so i have a couple of days to organize everything and back it up before the parts come in and i have to drop it off for them to fix it. The apple guy loved me though and it paid to be nice to him because even though my headphones werent under warranty he tried looking around to see if there was a pair he could just give away. sadly there was not so that was a fail but at least he tried :D

i came home and ended up beginning to watch a lot of tv and krysta eventually left and i instead of getting my act together to go work on my computer i ended up falling asleep and getting a nap that helped me but i will regret since it is almost midnight as i type this and i am not tired.

anyway i finally woke up because krysta had come home and discovered that Pip had Peed on her clothes and ironing board (should have closed her door before she left like i have been trying to do but i guess not everyone gets the point). so i worked on cleaning that all up by washing everything by hand so the pee wont settle in until it gets put through a washing machine. eventually she ended up making cookies and i ate a bunch of those.

i am really hoping i get some sleep before i head out for my plans tomorrow... and tomorrow begins the 10 day countdown to my final 365!

Day 354/365 (August 7, 2009)

2009-08-08T22:08:00.008-04:00

going to try to talk only about the fun stuff for the last few days (we will see if that happens).

so i knew i was meeting Mary at Joe's Pub to see Sam Bradley in concert. I had no idea who he was or what kind of music he played but no one else would go with her so i said i would accompany her. i was looking forward to seeing Mary since it had been a while and not so much the actual show. All i knew was he was a solo artist and that it was just him and a guitar. which meant i figured it might not be the most fun since usually even the most talented of musicians if they are solo when they perform by his/her self are dull and boring because they are awkward up on stage and not engaging. I am so glad i could not have been more wrong! not only was he super talented but he was incredibly funny and engaging. he kept saying we were too polite and he worked the room and told funny stories/anecdotes and even had a funny choice of words when encouraging everyone to stay after to meet him. i will meet you in a room in the back (haha) but yea it was just good music and a good time with a good friend. i even took some videos for mary. we were a little thrown though since they are doing construction on the entrance to joe's pub so we had to go in through the public theater entrance. and i ended up there early so i did my favorite pre-joes pub wait time ritual which was go to walgreens and sit in the massaging chair for a while. it always makes my back so happy and it did wonders this time!

we stayed after and chatted with him for a bit and got a picture and he practically doubled over in laughter when i told him i was the one who kept snorting and he even remembered Mary from Texas! And his EP was the niftiest idea! instead of having a CD it was sold as a keychain that had a link and code etched on the back to download it!

Then mary and i said our goodbyes and i walked over to The duplex for mostly sondheim. (it was a pretty quick and straight forward walk. i was very excited when i got there since Colleen was there so she was my buddy for the night. It was so nice/exciting having Brian and Kate back too! (we think it was the first MS of the summer with all three of them present.) There were a lot of people and lots of singing and there was a word/theme of the night i am going to wipe from memory. i finally sang screw loose and after lots of practicing i actually remembered the words on my own and followed the music! HOWEVER i know for a fact i sounded beyond horrible and i guess i am ok with that, because it was fun to sing a different song :D

anywho i came home and after dealing with the insane mess that pip had made on his wee pad/my floor and a few other things i finally fell asleep about 5:30!!!!

Day 353/365 (August 6, 2009)

2009-08-07T14:12:00.008-04:00

after getting about three, maybe three and a half hours, of sleep i woke up and got myself ready to go to bryant park to save a total of 19 seats for broadway in bryant park. Having a lack of sleep led for a really crazy unhinged hyper tamra until about 4 when i crashed. basically i got there wicked early and set up a bunch of seats and eventually chris and lon showed up and helped save them until slowly everyone else came. I had been eating rice krispies from the bag before anyone else showed up and the powderiness was getting all over me and by the time i finished chris was already there and i decided i had a photo op and dumped the remaining powdery crumbs all over me resulting in that picture! it was the beginning of my craziness and hyper activity and even though it was the longest i had waited this year for any BBP the time went by super quickly. There were many snorts of laughter on my part too! anywho eventually michelle even came which turned out to be a nice surprise! (way too many friends to tag in my labels for this post).

the shows that performed were the marvelous wonderettes (i love that music and the performers were talented and all but it just reaffirmed that i have NO desire to see it), the lion king (i love the movie but i really dont think i care to see the musical even if it is disney and i love me some disney), burn the floor (i was surprised they actually at least have someone doing live singing and the dancing was pretty intense but i found it boring and after seeing sound check i couldnt bring myself to watch the performance again during the actual event), and next to normal (such a great show and i was very excited that kyle dean massey was performing and even more elated that jessica was there instead of alice and she got to sing i miss the mountains. i really love jessica as Di way more than alice and it was nice to be able to see her sing it in the park and now have some audio) Thankfully the morning was a little chilly and just really nice weather and it only rained the tiniest of bits during sound check.

anywho so michelle and i left during burn the floor and we headed up tot he disney store so she could get a few ideas of what she was going to buy next week and to trade some pins she has collected that she had doubles of. after we walked back over towards next to normal so i could drop off some brownies at the stage door, then michelle and i parted ways. i went to the marriot marquis atrium and met up with chris, carina, steph, jerri, vicki, and lon. we stayed there for ages talking and looking at jerri's pictures and i ended up crashing from my hyper activity and was basically a lazy poop.

Then we went off and tried helping some of us out with lottos. half went to avenue q and the other half of us went to hair. Krysta and tucker came and met too... well we lost and it was my first time seeing tucker since he left last friday. he was slightly nice to me but did try to start biting me when i would attempt to pet him. basically i learned i am still very upset with him and dont really like him despite my continual trying to like him since the sight of him made me angry and well yea. after we failed hair, and the others failed avenue q we all met up to help out at rock of ages. everyone luckily got tickets who wanted to see it there and we even were able to get a ticket for ronald's brother to see the show. (Ronald works at RoA and he used to wor at NWS so when i saw him i offered the help.) i think my favorite moment of the RoA lotto (besides seeing the old spelling bee lotto lady who still remembers me) was when a youngish girl (probably 13/14ish) came up to him and asked him if he worked there and when he said that he seres the drinks she was like oh good i am going to buy a drink from you and he looked at her and said are you going to show me id and she was all well no i um left it at home... i just about wanted to die of internal laughter.

anywho then i said my goodbyes and headed home and ate some dinner and rested for a bit (though i didnt sleep) before i made my way back out to go to TOL for karaoke. I met up with Joey and it started off pretty bad since the system was not cooperating but luckily they worked it out and it was one of the more fun karaoke nights. Shoshana even showed up which was another pleasant surprise. i really enjoy my karaoke times every week, something to always look forward to and Patrick is always a fabulous person to see :)

then i came home and even though it was wicked late i had to tend to a few things and then i finally got to go to bed!!!!!!!!!

Day 352/365 (August 5, 2009)

2009-08-05T23:06:00.004-04:00

Meet Fanny Gabor my best friend as of late! She has been keeping me cool without the need for putting on AC Slater (yes Krysta i just admitted to the names of my fan and our AC publicly!)

eventful moments of the day:

the TWC technician came at like 9 am to fix my internet. he didnt fix it, he claims my computer has a software issue so i made an appointment at Apple. however i dont believe him since his supervisor had to talk him through what to do and he was having troubles following along the directions because he was not familiar with Macs and he offended e early on when i was detailing how the last person came and what she did. and as soon as i said she he said something like she in a not nice tone and then he laughed. and yea so i was just unhappy and i have to wait until saturday because that was the first availability they had, and then call them back when they tell me my computer is fine. i also dont think it is my computer because it used to work just fine months ago but still

pip and i went for a walk and chilled at the dog run by us for a bit. it isnt as big and not as many other dogs come to it so it isnt much fun

on our way back we went hunting for a fruit cart guy... i thought i bought yummy fruit, turns out i bought once yummy fruit that is now practically all rotted so i was miffed to say the least!

i did a few dishes from what i have eaten today

i prepped snacks to have with me for tomorrow's marathon wait of broadway in bryant park

i also got out my very old camcorder and got it ready to use i just cant upload the footage anywhere because it isnt compatible with any of my computers.

i feel really bad because i have been wondering where emma was all day and why she didnt even say hi until i realized i shut her in krysta's room almost as soon as i woke up because i didnt know she was in there and didnt want pip to go in there: basically i cut her off from her litter box, food, and water on a humid day for several hours so i spent sometime graveling at her feet for forgiveness, i think it worked!

Day 351/365 (August 4, 2009)

2009-08-04T00:34:00.008-04:00

POOPed is the word of the day!

I did a bunch of stuff that doesnt really matter but then Pip and I headed out to the dog run on 72nd. We were there for well over an hour and he had lots of fun running around and trying to play with all the little dogs and trying real hard to play with the big dogs on the other side of the fence. While i was there my "friend" that i made was totally gorgeous and he had the cutest little yorkie named Dylan. I got pooped on by a bird and i went and cleaned it off with the hose, then when i went back over to get my stuff and move i got pooped on again! this time i moved my stuff before cleaning... thank god for that hose. There were also dangerous crab apples falling.

Eventually we left and walked to 9 to 5 to help sami with lotto but we all lost so Pip and i made our way back home. first we made a pit stop at path mark to buy some groceries. (i had pip in a travel dog bag the whole time). then we came home and enjoyed a lovely peach before i began cooking dinner. i also did a bunch of dishes throughout the day so i could have a clean sink.

dinner was yummy chicken and yellow rice with carrots, celery, and onions. i also enjoyed two large glasses of milk because i love milk so much! we did so much walking and standing and i was so tired (pooped for the word of the day)

emma has also discovered a new favorite spot to sleep... on top of pip's crate and i find it extremely funny since she spends so much time trying to get away from him!

and then i found out michael buchanan is the guest for this weeks broadway sessions at therapy, so i wont be going to bed early. it was a great deal of fun! Rachel Potter and some girl from the marvelous wonderettes were also there and besides rachel having just an incredible voice that is mind blowing the other girl (feels bad i dont know her name) was also wonderful and sang the funniest song!

they played a matching game and i participated... yay for Michael and i sort of "matching" on our answer! After it was over joey, myself, mike, and his friend stayed for quite some time and it turned into a wonderful dance party of sorts to all the show tunes, really my kind of thing! Patrick was also there so that was a pleasant surprise, then i came home and went to bed super duper late!

Day 350/365 (August 3, 2009)

2009-08-04T00:04:00.005-04:00

since i had gone to bed so late the night before i woke up a little later than planned but still on the early side. i couldnt bring myself to get out of bed though so for about an hour i stayed there playing on my phone and being attentive to emma and pip. eventually i did get out of bed and my right ankle hurt to walk on but luckily that only lasted like an hour or so. no clue why that had happened though!

any way span some time and i decided i was going to a reading of a musical at York Theater... it was called 999 B.C. the people in it were good and the music was gone but the show and actual songs not so much. i kinda just wanted it to end, but at least the actors were good and that made the whole thing bareable. the woman next to me had fallen asleep long before the show had even started and only woke up when people were clapping. with the exception of like 3 people everyone in the room was old and graying... always awkward but eh whatevs. Todd was in it and that was the reason i had decided to go see it. afterwards i walked from york (on 54th and lex) to the 2/3 on 72nd... it was a lovely walk and i bought some yummy fruit. also on my walk to 72nd st i passed (as always) this weird bench with the creepy statue on it. i read who he was once before but i never remember it and all i know is whenever i walk by it it always creeps me out because i am like why is there a guy sitting on a bench so still when it is dark out then i remember it is the statue but still i always get the hebejebes for a split second!

now i am home and watching the episode of The Closer that Michael Arden is on and WHOA BABY! his acting in it is absolutely phenomenal! just wow! and when he speaks in french (as when any one does) my heart was melting a little but here is the kicker despite my lack of retaining french after taking it for so many years i was actually able to translate most of what he was saying and i feel quite proud of myself!

ps i cant believe i only have 15 days left for this to be a completed project! wow just wow! with any luck i will continue updating every day as i have been pretty much for the last month or so with like 1 or 2 exceptions!

Day 349/365 (August 2, 2009)

2009-08-02T20:51:00.008-04:00

today it rained a lot and since i didnt have anything major i needed done i opted to stay inside. even though i went to bed about 3 i woke up on my own around 11 which meant i slept for 8 hours which is pretty fab so i thought i was fine... nope i ended up falling asleep for about 3 hours. this will not be good later on.

anywho today i watched a lot of tv and saw legally blondes on abc family, legally blonde 2: red white and blonde, and confessions of a teenage drama queen amongst other things. um i forgot about the song at the end of drama queen that i love and lost when my first ipod died and couldnt replace the music since it is part of the thousands of songs that went missing when my mother lost my CD case :(

pip is super duper cuddly and i keep finding him curled up in different places next/on me when i wake up... this morning he was nestled there, and later in the day he was sleeping with his paws crossed and well i couldnt help but think god put the rhythm in him (a la altar boyz)

and emma also came by recently for a petting session and poor pip was crazy beside himself because i dare to give her attention and not him, but he handled it well and kept eating a bone when he realized i was not going to pet him, but 'tis ok because he gets a good amount of petting from me during the day.

also it has been pretty awesome the last two nights because tucker has been sleeping at josh's. in fact krysta came back earlier and packed up his crate because tucker is spending the whole week there. i should feel bad but i dont since i am sort of done dealing with him for a little while. i just cant understand why he is so mean to me even though all i have ever done is be nice to him. i am confused at how he can be so sweet and then so vicious. i mean the other day he was jealous of pip and came over and plopped himself on top of me to show pip that i belonged to him essentially and i was like oh he really does like me, but then he turns around and tries his best to hurt me, so i am going to look forward to a few days without fear and without having to pick up his poo or worrying about stepping in his pee if i dont see it first.

Day 348/365 (August 1, 2009)

2009-08-02T12:48:00.009-04:00

this is how i woke up with them cuddled next to me and i am not sure how i pulled off getting this picture. the day started off slow but then things picked up. Mark called because he had found out Jessica was going to be going on as diana and since he is CT he asked if i could go see about if they had any standing room tickets available. i was going out anyway because i wanted to take pip to the dog run so i said of course.

i got myself ready then pip and i headed to the next to normal box office and inquired about the tickets, we failed as i had suspected but it was worth a shot, then i went to the TKTS booth to find out what they had to tell mark. Even though it wasnt good news he had still decided he was coming in. So Pip and i headed to the 72nd St dog run and hung there for a while. he took a liking to this pretty dog and kept following him around and chasing a thrown tennis ball with these other tow dogs. there was this tiny fluff ball that was my favorite of all the other dogs named riley, he was only a couple weeks old and he was a yorkie/maltese mix and i wanted Pip to be friends with him so i could play with him... didnt work out for me lol. eventually i decided we need to leave the park because pip spent too much time trying to hump another dog so we headed home.

i showered (from being sweaty) and put on some new clothes and headed back out to meet mark by next to normal. He asked again about standing room since they had said to check back later and failed, so we went to TKTS and the seat they had to offer was partial view so he decided against it and we went and grabbed some chinese food and brought it to the courtyard to eat so we werent inside on a beautiful day. he walks really fast! anywho there was only one table open in the courtyard and of course it was right next to some of the boyz. i dont know why i always feel so awkward about situations like that i dont ever want to seem like i am annoying or stalking... i should get over that, but eh. anywho we ate and chatted and killed some time before going back over to the box office and he ended up buying a third row center seat that the people in front of him had just returned since alice wasnt in the show. (their loss and his gain). i stayed with him until the doors opened and then because it was so nice out i just didnt want to go home so i went to the courtyard and started to reread harry potter and the sorcerer's stone. however i was really sleepy and kept dozing off so i was literally in the middle of getting ready to tweet i was leaving when liz w. texted asking if i was still there to hang out a bit. so i said i was and she and lizzy k. came and we chatted for quite some time before they had a ride come pick them up. i still didnt want to go to the subway yet so i walked to 72nd st and finally made my way home. i ended up staying up way later than i should have but what can ya do?

Day 347/365 (July 31, 2009)

2009-07-31T14:42:00.008-04:00

I have no idea what i did the first part of the day any more or what prevented me from updating then, but i do know towards the later part in the day i received this horrible wound that looked worse in person from Tucker and i reached my breaking point with him. He wont play nice with me i just wont go anywhere near him. This is the day i meant to delete a song from a playlist and accidentally deleted the whole playlist! so i cant connect phone to computer until i use my phone to recreate the playlist as was because i have that list set to automatically synch when connected and i would be sad if i was missing it since its one of my most used playlists

i feel like i made an outing of some sort before coming home and getting ready but can't be too sure. Anywho i made my way to mostly sondheim and was surprised to find Austin there as well, and of course dom. it took forever until they let us in but once they did it was one of the funnier nights for sure. i was brought to tears at one point by quite a funny discussion. Marty Thomas and Emily McNamara were the hosts and once again John Bronson was taking care of the piano (with a few hours notice this time!) They had a completely new staff and the waiter was a little too attentive for my liking but it was his first night. there was a guy who sang Part of Your World in Hebrew and a couple of boys tried and failed beyond all misery to sing Totally Fucked. There were quite the amount of single straight men that also sang... an often novelty there... haha. i even ended up signing the bitch of living (what?) by the end of the night (including all of our hosts) there were like only 8 or 9 people in the room which made for unusual fun... and i was requested to make satan's balls for another birthday party (i must get supplies). i also got complimented on my outfit twice which i always appreciate :D it was my AB jeans and the purple shirt i had bought before i went to TX. Also how did i almost forget the ongoing bump-it. you know that stupid hair thing well emily kept putting all sorts of things in her hair to pretend it was a bump-it such as a CD display case, a red bull can, and a tamborine to name a few!

i would also like to say it is nice coming home to pip because he is so excited to see you that he is a little ball of energy running around because he just cant contain that much excitement in his little body.

Day 346/365 (July 30, 2009)

2009-07-31T14:36:00.005-04:00

it was quite a morning with emma curled up on one side of me and pip on the other side of me. pip loves attention and is not afraid of plopping himself in front of you for some belly rubs... but unfortunately for him i am cranky in the morning if i dont get to do some quality cuddly petting time with emma so after a few moments of moving him to my other side he learned :D my atomic clock decided it was going to be thirty minutes behind when it was supposed to so i ended up being very late to meet up with chris in bryant par.

at the subway entrance i ran into mike and we headed down together and found chris holding lovely seats for us even though bryant park was a swamp because of the rainfall that had happened yesterday! my new flip flops ended up looking ancient and i got a sunburn on my face that looks like i applied to much red blush! broadway in bryant park this week was by far the worst of the weeks i have seen. the shows were naked boys singing (which i have never had a desire to see and after seeing this i know for sure i wont ever see it... LAME!) chicago (which was just dull and lackluster which is unfortunate) jersey boys (yea i love the mucis but it was just eh to see everyone sing it and i dont understand why every ensemble members name was read and they dont do that for the other shows such as shrek or the other ones i have seen this year, not fair!) and shrek. shrek had the potential to be awesome but not so much. the best part of the day by far was haven getting to sing for Fiona in I Know It's Today. she sounded amazing and was rocking some shrek ears with a tiara. (hard to see but that is her on the far left). unfrtunately having that be the first song that was sung made the rest of the day torture since ya know it was just bad. i mean Freak Flag had the potential to be awesome the song is great and the choreography they di was fun and funky but this is BROADWAY in bryant park not lip synch in bryant park. even though i know they had at least 7 hand held mics since that is how many naked boys had, only 3 people had mics to use.so john tartaglia and two others actually sang their parts live but the others were forced to li[ synch over themselves and well i felt it totally detracted from the enjoyment of the performance because part of the magic of broadway is the live singing part!

anywho after i headed home and made a pitstop at the store to pick up a few food items and came home and tucker and pip were playing along so nicely it was amazing!

eventually i went out to meet joey and we went to composer exposure part of the SPF festival (it was free) and they had cocktails for us also i ended up with a yummy prickly pear something or other... and we ran into Lil and Emily!

we got lovely seats and it was an enjoyable show even if the host was just terrible! i wish i had a recorder for all of the songs! one notable cute one was by the composers of taylor the latte boy. it was a song about "love" in the big city but it was so funny, omg! and my favorite was this song about two people trying to talk to each other on cell phones about their relationship but due to a bad signal it resulted in ther break up, really i wish i had a copy of that!

then after joey and i went to karaoke at the lounge and when we got there i discovered the escalator was working... for the first time in several months! i was really shocked! we headed downstairs and it was pretty much dead. i sang walk away thou and we stayed for a tiny bit before heading ut. however chris was back so it was nice to say hello.

i had thought i was just going to walk to 72nd street instead of having to transfer from the local to express since it was nice out, but right before i got to 59th st i was so overcome with exhaustion that i felt like iw as going to fall asleep where i stood so i just hopped on the subway there.

at some point during the day i finished reading harry potter and the deathly hallows and was quite pleased with this. i cant believe how much i had forgotten had happened in it, and all the stuff i did remember.

when i got home watched tv for a bit and went to go to sleep... however i would discover that it would not be so easy. i walked in and saw lots of poo on my floor! some was pip's knocked off from the wee pad and a big pile that was clearEly from tucker. so i cleaned up the yuck and thought i was done until i discovered emma had puked on my floor by the bed. so i cleaned that up and as i was leaving the room to throw that stuff out i stepped in dried tucker pee! so i cleaned that i was so furious because i was so tired and it seemed like every time i thought i had finished i had found more! but then i was finally done and the room didnt smeel anymore once i got rid of all that yuck and i was able to go to sleep!

Day 345/365 (July 29, 2009)

2009-07-31T14:35:00.005-04:00

i ran a few errands using ted's car... so nice to drive sometimes. i also discovered the amazingness of WHITE balsamic vinegar... mixed with a little salt and avocados was just like a burst of sunshine in my mouth!

i went to the SPF show departed lounge and it was pretty good. It shared similar elements with another show though and i was like hmm... interesting! i had only known one person who was going to be in it (nick Blaemire) and was shocked when it began and i doscovered two other people i have seen in other shows (doug kreeger from rooms and Johnathon b. wright from spring awakening).

after it was over i met up with sasha again and picked up pip to bring him home for the puppy sitting adventure to begin. after the mishap that took place the last time pip ws here we knew that tucker and pip couldnt ee each other until the morning or we would get no sleep. our plan worked for the most part... and well pip learned how to get up on my ginourmous bed pretty quickly and i made him a cute little bed... he has his little bed at sasha's which is her dirty laundry pile and since all my laundry was clean (oh yea did laundry at paula's) i took my laundry bag and placed a big bag filled with squishy stuff in it, then put a clean towel over the top so he wasnt directly on the bag... and he likes to lie in it when he isnt cuddling up with me.

i also read more of harry potter and woke up in the morning after having a crazy dream!

so i realize that the facts of my dream are wrong but it is a dream so basically i was in this really tall building (basic rectangular shape) on one of the top floors and something happened and the building started to tip over! well as it did it fell against the steeple of st. patricks cathedral and the top part fell off and spun slowly to the ground... it landed and every climbed out safely through the window and we saw the rest of the building propped up against the steeple and the officils decided the only way to fix the problem was to push down the steeple so the rest of the building could fall... well they didnt push it in the right direction and all of a sudden all of the buildings in manhattan were falling down like dominoes and they said every had three minutes to get off the island or else a building would fall on them, well miraculously i got to the bottom of our island (which instead of SI ferry there was a foot bridge for us to all cross) and well everyone was rushing to get off the island i looked down and saw on the beach a dead lobster so i went to go look and saw another live lobster and went to pick it up and it clung to my hand and as i was waiving to get it off i noticed a dog being chased by a shark in the water. and i was frightened for the dog but he got up on the beach safely and the shark followed trying to get him but then he got stuck on the beach and i woke up... weird huh?

Day 344/365 (July 28, 2009)

2009-07-31T14:34:00.005-04:00

clare made this... it is my guestimation that i am correct in it having it consist of 631 of those little plastic thingies that make these. it was a group effort clare designed it and placed them, and then myself, winnie, and dennis acted as her minions and picked the colors out of the big sorted pile for her. once again i dont remember the specifics of the day but there was once again alot of reading harry potter. i do enjoy my time in new rochelle.

Day 343/365 (July 27, 2009)

2009-07-31T14:32:00.003-04:00

once again i should have updated sooner! i dont remember much of what i did in the orning but decided last minute i was gonna go to paula's and i knew i had to go over to sasha's beforehand... after emergency rush packing and several phone calls i decided to go out to new rochelle on the later side so i could visit sasha and be stress free.

so i grabbed my heavy suitcase (full of laundry) and made my way there and was pleasantly surpirsed to find matthew, mackenzie, and penski there too! we had a lovely time eating sasha's cookies and yummy cheesecake (see above) and helping the other 3 decided which headshots to use of what sasha took... then we overcame the burning on a cd issue using my computer... then sasha figured out how to do it on her own!

anywho sasha packed me up a cookie goodie bag and made my way to new rochelle. i also continued reading harry potter and the deathly hallows like crazy before i went to bed.

Day 342/365 (July 26, 2009)

2009-07-26T21:05:00.009-04:00

didnt do much today. i made pancakes and then krysta and i headed to the dog run with tucker on 72nd. right before we got there this random old lady was screaming "bitch bitch bitch" at this little kid... hilarious! anywho we got there and it was much nicer than the one on 137th... and of all the dogs there was this tiny little yorkie who was my favorite and he spent some good time with me while i was petting him. then there was this cute little fluffy poofball of a dog that kept hopping up on my lap for me to pet her. eventually i got bored and tired and headed home.

i was so very tired and after a little lunch i ended up passing out for an almost 3 hour nap.. though it was of the keep waking up and falling asleep... while napping i had a really funny dream. Xanadu had opened again but it wasnt the same production we all know and love... oh no it was redone and the songs were different at times... anyway me and a few friends were watching from the back row, and stupid suze and not stupid jesse, were sitting with us. i kept changing my seat to sit next to her and annoy her and then at one point (because of audience participation) they handed suze a microphone and as a song played she got up and made her way to the stage singing a bunch of heys and ohs... and jesse leaned over and was all "this is weird huh?" and that was the basic extent of my dream... i just was baffled. i eventually woke up completely and felt wicked groggy and was very aware of the fact that sleep tonight will be hard and tomorrow will be a not good day.

i began watching harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban when i turned on the tv and am now watching harry potter and the goblet of fire. i also did a bunch of dishes and had left over shepard's pie for dinner and well lunch too, yum!

at one point there was a fierce terrential downpour of rain... i had to shut krysta's window and put a towel in our living room window because it was coming in all the way past where the heater is and onto the floor but i wasnt going to shut the window of the room i was in. luckily my room was fine in the rain coming in department because of the angle it was coming from.

watching those movies inspired me to start re-reading deathly hallows again... i began after i finished rereading book 6 but hadnt progressed past chapter 1... now i am hooked once again, it just takes the right mood!

Day 341/365 (July 25, 2009)

2009-07-25T22:31:00.004-04:00

i woke up and paid some bills. i went for a walk with tucker to the post office where he caused me to bleed pretty badly from a small painful wound, then later he got me again and that slice above HURTS. emma and i cuddled up on the couch and i ended up taking a nap that i didnt want to take. after i woke up i went to the grocery store and bought some stuff and i made a yummy shepard's pie for a real dinner. krysta also made some yummy vegtables and cous cous.

kinda hot right now so i suppose i should grab the fan but dont care that much

i also finally cleared all the annoying bubbles off my iPhone because i have no new voice messages anymore and no new emails!!!! that is exciting :D NO BUBBLES!!!!

Day 340/365 (July 24, 2009)

2009-07-24T21:23:00.010-04:00

tucker was nice to me, and even slept next to me while i was busy on the couch. it was pretty good. i even used the software i downloaded and it RECOVERED my deleted pictures and i was so relieved! i met with karolina to give her back her camcorder and i went to mostly sondheim.

i ate a ton of cookies since krysta left them here, how rude! there was this cute kid on the subway and he was eating chips... after he finished he stood up, brushed himself off, then asked his mom for a wipe to clean himself up... OMG it was so precious since he was about two feet tall!

i also took the bus at one point because i was too lazy to walk to the subway and well i got one of the long ones with the circle center that sways and rocks up and down.. i love them! (see above)

mostly sondheim was interesting! Mark and Joey joined me and this week danny calvert and michael buchanan were the hosts... it started wicked late because the fill in pianist never showed up! so they called john bronson who was actually not working that night and he came from home (the bronx) via a cab to rescue the night and play piano! right before he got there danny played piano for a song he sang and then one michael sang and he did a pretty good job, then john arrived and the night really began. lots of fun, i sang i can hear the bells... and michael sang the song i have been getting ready to sing (when brian gets back and i have more confidence) screw loose... it was cute though because michael actually asked me of it was ok if he sang it... lots of fun and i think michael is super sweet and a welcomed guest host as well.

eventually the night ended and joey and i walked with mark from the duplex to 42nd st (well they kept walking i got on the subway). I was so very tired at this point it must have looked like i was beyond drunk even though i wasnt drinking at all because i couldnt walk in a straight line and kept swaying... the walk from 135th to home was a trip to say the least and seemed to have taken an eternity! the sky was already staring to turn a pale shade of blue from the sun creeping up... i brushed my teeth and passed out!

Day 339/365 (July 23, 2009)

2009-07-24T20:48:00.007-04:00

broadway in bryant park... i was going to get there really early with chris to save seats but i found out the night before that next to normal and wicked had switched places... i was supremely ticked off because the line-up was AMAZING and then stupid wicked came in and ruined it... why does wicked plague my existence?

anyway i finally got there and had a lovely time with everyone (like 16 of us) and chris was the list checkeroffer when people arrived... pretty funny! the show was decent. vanities i have no interest in and it was a shame that annaleise is a jaded former disney star and seemed to be bothered to be there. rock of ages was amazing and the understudy for drew was hot! (and talented to boot)

mary poppins was delightful but chooisng to sing practically perfect was a poor choice since it is a downer of a song... they did end with super...docious! (not attempting to spell) which i love that song. then wicked closed it out... grrrr! i took a ton of pictures during the sound check and recorded during the actual performance with karolina's camera however i didnt check to see if i had my adapter so i couldnt use my tripod... and well the videos i took were really shaky :(

i went home and ended up napping at one point and then uploading the pictures... only i stupidly didnt transfer the pictures to my computer before toying with them and make a big mistake and deleted more than 100 of the pictures i had taken, the ones i most cared about (rock of ages)... i was so pissed with myself!

then i went and helped chris with wicked lotto, and went to visit Sasha and Marty again... we hung, we remade Sasha's bedroom with her new set, and watched big brother, fun times!

Then i met with joey and we went to karaoke at NWS. it was quite the night and i had a new song downloaded... too bad the system was being extra slow and the words never actually appeared until about half way through the song... good thing i kinda new them, but boy was it repetitive when you dont know when the song will end (we like to party by the venga boys) someone i did not know helped sing it with me and drew danced with his poms up on stage... fun times.

when it finished i went home and had looked up ways to recover pictures deleted from a memory card, so i downloaded them before falling asleep.

Day 338/365 (July 22, 2009)

2009-07-22T12:45:00.006-04:00

I had a wicked hard time falling asleep last night (as i suspected would happen) and then i was woken up extremely early by the sound of my air mattress inflating and tucker barking at it... he must have been chewing on the cord and accidentally flipped the on switch and it freaked him out. even after i turned it off he just kept barking at it... LOL! i then tried to get emma to come cuddle with me as i fell back asleep but she didnt until i picked up my phone to check twitter... i knew that would get her to come. instead of sleeping (since i couldnt) i chatted with krysta until she left for work then tried for thirty minutes until i could fall asleep again.

the day was a blank until i ended up at Sasha and Marty's... we watched How I Met Your Mother and installed Sasha's air conditioner... we are so pro!

lies i just remembered i traveled to meet karolina to pick up her camcorder and drop off my air mattress

tucker had a good day because i finished my ice cream container and let him lick at it... that was the result!

Day 337/365 (July 21, 2009)

2009-07-21T16:30:00.009-04:00

What the crap? last night i fell asleep on the couch shortly after midnight... close to 2 am i was woken up by emma who called me to bed. it is pitiful to be put to sleep by a cat, but much appreciated since my bed is more comfy than the couch! anywho i basically stumbled to the bathroom then laid down and was out like a light again. when i woke up this morning to emma curled next to my body and head and one paw draped on my arm i thought how cute and i wonder what time it is. it was kinda on the darker side outside and i knew i fell asleep pretty early so i was like i bet it is around 9 am... boy was i wrong! i looked at my phone and it said 2:24! i thought it was wrong since my phone sometimes displays the wrong time... no it was right which means i slept for just about 14 hours! i had no idea i was needing that much sleep, and now my day is wasted!

i did the massive dishes that some how appeared and that was at least productive.

eventually i got ready and headed to the 9 to 5 stage door since they had tweeted about wanting people there to be in a sing along video... so of course i went! "have camera, there is a tamra!" is my camera whore mantra. it wasn't done as i had thought (just everyone singing along) the producer guy was picking people who wanted to be picked, he sung them a line from the song 9 to 5 and then you sang it back in the camera... fun! the stage door guy was also pretty funny and very into making the lion king attendees jealous they werent at 9 to 5!

after i headed over to therapy for broadway sessions because marty thomas was one of the guests and joey was there... and he had a friend josh with him that was just fabulous, and eventually mike showed up. it was an interesting evening with "great" musical trivia... like i would know who the original Boq was... i could care less about wicked, lol! Marty sang his mashup of Single Ladies by Beyonce and Dont Rain On My Parade... and his one man Omigod You Guys from legally blonde. both complete with dancing and spectacular lighting. twas late so i went home.

Day 336/365 (July 20, 2009)

2009-07-21T16:27:00.004-04:00

i took lots of pictures of emma and tucker but was to lazy to upload them, so this was my view of life two minutes before midnight and just before i fell asleep for the night...

i did stuff during the day but all that matters was i ate way too much ice cream

Day 335/365 (July 19, 2009)

2009-07-20T10:54:00.013-04:00

What day was it? Altarholic Appreciation Day for us wonderful fans of Altar Boyz!!!!

the day began by krysta making my hair all curly and fun... too bad between my natural hair defenses (despite strong hairspray) and the weather almost all the curls had fallen out before i got off the subway! then i went and picked up Sasha's camera and headed over to NWS. i dropped off some of the baked goodies to the best box office staff and went downstairs to meet up with michelle and then everyone else when they got there.

It was Michelle. Tim, Devon, Karolina, Mark, Diane, Her Friend, Nicole, and her family, and at the very end Lynette, Michelle, and Nicky. we had such a lovely time chatting we headed into the theater like 3 minutes before showtime! Lympus even came and hung for a bit and we ate the satan's balls i had made... they were a hit!

You know we had a bunch of seats in the front row and werent really sure where each of us was going to sit... i almost didnt sit in B112 because well i like to be more center but i ended up there because everyone else had already picked a seat... good thing i did sit there! The show itself was super fun especially with us holics in the house, and my one accidental loud snort that drew alot of attention... darn inside jokes with michelle! the best part of the show, in my opinion of course, was something about you. i am an altarholic i had made peace with the fact i would never get to be the something about you girl again no matter how much i wanted to for a freaking picture on stage. well the song started and all was normal, and then it gets to the moment that the person who plays matthew starts to walk off the stage towards which ever girl will be pulled... well imagine my surprise when michael was walking towards and looking at me... at first i was convinced that he was just looking at someone behind me, but then he got closer and there was no question and i started shaking my head no in total disbelief! well there should have been no disbelief and i was quite happy and excited... once i got over the my flip flop was slipping off and i almost tripped up the step moment. it was pretty nifty being sung to and hearing my friedns in the audience all excited and stuff... and seeing the guys up onstage singing from that point of view. Travis brushed by my knee when he was walking towards michael, and then when the others had begun standing up to sing too they were all smiles. when travis took out the camera to take the picture my first thought was i hope my hair looks ok, then i thought ooo the camera is pretty and purple and i want it... then travis walked me off stage... happiness was an understatement! i am am super happy the picture was sent so quickly to me, but i won't lie i am more than a little disappointed it is so blurry! but it is something!

after the show we hung in the theater until we were walked over to stage 2 where aa day fun was going down. we hung out, played with a random balloon, learned some sign language and performed it for each other. At one point when Michael DiMartino's friend came to teach us her parts she asked for someone to sing so we could practice and poor lynette had not realized mitch was in our group and had only seen ravi so she was like well we have one professional in our group and we were all like OOOOO poor mitch and she felt bad, it was pretty funny actually! then we all had a tiny bit of time together before we split up. Joey also came and found me to tell me that he loved the cookies... which made me very happy since i spent so much time making those stupid things!

then devon, grace, and i hung in TOL for a tiny bit before krysta came with tucker so devon could meet him... they snuggled, had a photo shoot, then devon rushed off to her bus and the rest of us went to subway and got some yum, then ate it across the way. i was recognized from my back by rob, lizzie, and that other girl... yep makes my head bigger when people spot me, hehe... so they joined us for a bit, then i helped krysta get a cab and i went to the courtyard to kill some time. i checked up on 7 hours worth of tweets, called my mom, and read some harry potter.

then i went to TOL and waited for diane to come out to celebrate her birthday. it was a lovely time chatting with everyone and ryan and jesse even came... after it got pretty late so grace (after joining us when her show finished) and i went home... we watched a dvd and stuff, then finally i went to bed!

i would also like to point out that i have now performed on three out of the five stages at NWS... stage 4 as fog girl, stage 5 for the battery's down, and stage 2 from this aa day... what will it take to get on stages 1 and 3?

Day 334/365 (July 18, 2009)

2009-07-18T23:33:00.009-04:00

I'm tamra!

so i had fallen asleep at 6:30 in the morning like i said yesterday... i woke up about 7:30 when grace got here... just long enough to say hi and fall back asleep! Then i got ready and met up with Kim, Susie, and eventually Jo at Blockheads... then we walked to the highline ballroom and they bought their LFO tickets for the night... then we went to Kim's and ate a bunch of jello... it was good times with everyone and doing something that was so laid back... and i got to see kim's puppy for the first time since i finished puppy sitting in i think May! she had just gotten groomed the day before and she looked like an entirely different breed of dog but she was still as cute and friendly as ever.... i love her so much!

well i was there kim gave me the amazing gifts she had picked up for me in disney: a princess patch, a princess lollipop, a pretty bracelet that has a T charm on it with a mickey mouse head clasp, and Mickey ears that has my name embroidered on the back. well in true tamra form i put them on and wore them the rest of the day because they rocked and i didnt want them to get crushed in my bag... so i went and helped grace try the hair and 9 to 5 lottos (lost both) and then we went to subway to get some much needed grub... yep and i passed kyle dean and tim young... whilst rocking the mickey ears!

then grace and i headed home and i began the long process of the night... baking! OH MY GOD!!!! i can't believe how long it took to make the red velvet cake balls (Satan's Balls) and the carrot cake cookies! I began at 8 and finally finished about 2 o'clock! thatw s six hours of baking and doing dishes so the kitchen remained clean! grace was a super star at making whole cookies from the scraps of cookies that had fallen apart.... they taste so good but they suck to make because they fall apart s easily so you could make 72 cookies (as i had) but only about 38 actually came out ok, and then grace made about 16 cookies from the remains of the other ones, and the rest just had to be thrown out... and since you sandwich the cookies together with cream cheese frosting i ended up with only 27 sandwich's when theoretically i could have ended up with 36 if all the cookies had turned out... basically that sucks! the red velvet balls are really simple in theory but in practice they involve alot of effort but man are they worth it because they taste so good! so anywho afterwards i cleaned the last of the dishes and went to bed!

ps whenever i hear or think july 18 i always think of bad boys II and vice versa because the year it was released Will Smith and Martin Lawrence presented an MTV movie award for something and their whole speech before hand they kept saying bad boys II came out on july 18 to promote it and it became sort of an ongoing joke between judith and myself for a little while, now i suspect i am the only one who still remembers.

Day 333/365 (July 17, 2009)

2009-07-17T11:08:00.013-04:00

i am so over tucker right now. i woke up to his incessant barking to be let out of his crate, of course i cant let him out if he is barking or whining so he doesn't think he can get his way... well he wouldn't stop for like twenty minutes! i finally let him out and he starts playing with one of his toys which means he keeps thinking he is burying it and then he barks at it forever! i am sick of the barking, and then while i was in the bathroom he got a hold of my hand and and bit and it didn't bleed but the pain from it is still coursing through my hand... i am done done done.

i spent some time today looking through my photo blog's beginnings since i am so close to achieving success! it is kind of crazy... without looking at what i wrote i would say abut 90% of the time as soon as i saw the picture i knew just what had happened that day and what i was about to read! i just didnt realize how nifty it would be to be able to reflect, i know i will continue this after i make it to 365, it might not be an exactly everyday thing, but it will continue because i can't let go of a great way to reflect back on my life!

Success was mine when i finally found red velvet cake mix not at the store by kim like i thought i would, nor at the store closest to The Duplex, but finally at a Gristede's somewhat close to The Duplex... man oh man that took so long! i then went and met up with mark, and then joey to see patrick in a show called As Gay As It Gets at The Duplex... first time i have been there during normal hours and not mostly sondheim. Beforehand Mark and I grabbed some grub at a Qdoba and it was yummy.

The show was super cute and pretty funny and Patrick was fabulous! it ended about 8:10 and then Mark, Joey, and myself met up with Patrick in the main upstairs bar area. Seriously i have never spent any time there except waiting to get into mostly sondheim but it was actually pretty fun and at one point one of the creators of the shw came over and hung with us for a while... we spoke of lots of things and i never once turned red and it was just a good time.

the three of us (mark left sadly) went into mostly sondheim and this week brian and kate were away and it ended up being just Marty Thomas and Jon, who was filling in for Brian. Dom joined us and so did two others (michael alden and greg). a few of the highlights of the night were marty's one man omigod you guys from legally blonde, patrick actually singing a sondheim song, dom singing things are moving too fast and proclaiming that rose's turn has been retired unless someone puts $20 in the bucket, my bashing the harry potter movie, and the super awesome employees. the lowlights would be patrick and i planning on singing suddenly seymour until sydney sun it with someone else, so i decided to sing good morning baltimore and someone else singing it, then deciding on singing out tonight... and well i tried but it didnt go well... lesson learned do not attempt singing unless brian is at the piano since he understands my ineptitude at following along with music and can help me along... yea not that song ever again! also it became like rent night with la vie boheme parts A and B with I should tell you, what you own, and i'll cover you reprise being sung... yea i guess it made me miss rent because i started getting all teary eyed at one point, and i am sad i can't make it to boston to see the tour one last time... even though i thought i had made my peace with it back in New Jersey!

anywho after a fun night it ended at like 3:40, then i headed to path mark and bought the eggs i needed, came home and baked the red velvet cake so it had time to cool. seriously i woke up around 8:15 in the morning and this night i went to bed at 6:30... it was a long long day! but fun all around!

ps today was half evil as far as my blog is concerned since 333 is half of 666

Day 332/365 (July 16, 2009)

2009-07-16T18:16:00.008-04:00

this is my clock, it puts time on the ceiling... the only way to see what time it is at night! In fact i am so used to loking up sometimes when people ask me what time it is my first instinct is to look at the ceiling, no matter where i am.

i got up and headed out to Broadway in Bryant Park... today The Little Mermaid, 9 to 5, Toxic Avenger, and Pure COuntry were performing. IT was a sunny day but i was armed with a bottle of water and a thing of sunscreen. I am so fearful of the sun and burning so i put more on like every thirty minutes and kept asking if my face was turning red! I was excited when i got there and saw Chris saving a bunch of seats so i joined him and he was very good company to have. the morning was lots of fun but really? OK so 9 to 5 was exciting but they only sang two songs (beautifully done) but why didn't they sing 9 to 5? I also think it is awesome allison janey came and did the park since some people are too diva to do it, however i wish her understudy had because i would love to hear the songs sung by three outstading vocalists.... i do love her acting dont get me wrong, but she just cant sing. pure country is supposedly coming to broadway in the spring, i dont like country so it wont be a show i will see (unless casting dictates otherwise) but the guy who performed had an incredible voice and was cute to boot! the girl had to read from the sheet music but sounded great.

Toxic Avenger, this was my first exposure to it and it seemed like it must be the fun musical everyone says it is but two of the songs sounded the same and some of the same lyrics so i was like huh? but the guy who co-wrote it and is part of Bon Jovi was there to introduce them, then joined in the last song towards the end and i was like oh i wish dawn were here. the other show that performed was the little mermaid... once again this year brian d'dario (spelling is wrong there) stole the show, there is no question in my mind that he has a bright career ahead of him i mean how many others are that professional and killer at such a young age? Let's talk Drew Seeley. i was excited to see him perform because um hello CUTIE! and he does have a nice voice... in the end he did sound amazing but i was so dissapointed because he sang the new popified version of her voice. yes it is a fun song, but in the musical Her Voice is one of the most beautiful songs and if that is what i was going to hear i would have wanted to hear the musical version not the pop version... and this is broadway in bryant park after all, not pop concert in bryant park! i understand reasoning behind it... i am sure disney spent a ton of money producing that one song so why not use it, but STILL!!!!

after it was over chris and i took a walk to the times square visitor center because he wanted to pick up a few of the show fliers and stuff and i was able to look in a mirror there and be reassured that i had not gotten sun burnt!

then i headed home and got some lunch, where i cut my gums on a peach pit, and there was blood and it hurt! it was a tame sort of day at this point, though i did a bunch of dishes. WHen krysta came home she cooked us a truly scrumptious dinner and we had a yummy dessert of brownies and ice cream. Eventually i got ready and headed out to TOL for some karaoke.

the nights was lots of fun and it was very exciting to have had some many friends there at one point or another. Kim, Susie, and Jo were there when i arrived and shortly thereafter Joey turned up. Before the night ended Andrew had even popped in! (and a few others). The night was filled with lots of karaoke from me... best part is i made it through the night without singing any britney spears even if there were protests about that. it was just a fun and lovely night :D Kim and i walked to the subway together and then i went home and fell asleep!

Day 331/365 (July 15, 2009)

2009-07-16T16:03:00.011-04:00

oh my it was a busy day! i woke up early and rushed the little mermaid for michelle, i chatted with a very nice girl, unfortunately i didn't realize she was just in high school until it was just about BO open time when i had mentioned something and she was like oh no, i am only in high school, so she waited for nothing! i was surprised at how many people ended in line. i was first but the line went quite far down the theater shortly after i got there! i doubt most were rushing and the others were looking to buy regular tickets based on the demographic not looking very collegiate!

then i rushed home and cleaned myself up a bit and headed out to finally watch a Seth" Sirius XM Broadcast because Emma Hunton was going to perform and promote her Joe's Pub Gig... it was standing room only by the time i got there (boo) but i stuck it out and she played Whispering while playing on the guitar and it was beautifully done! i felt bad not staying through the rest of the show but i had stuff to do, so when she was all done i just left. PS Seth was away on the Rosie Cruise and the person who filled in for him was not very good. she had a lovely voice when she sang, but she just wasnt engaging and that made me sad.

I headed to the cake distributor store emily told me about a while ago that i have used rather frequently for awesomeness. I bought the chocolate i need to make Satan's Balls for Michelle, then i headed back towards home. i went to Path Mark to get a few other needed supplies, most importantly the Red Velvet Cake mix... unfortunately i couldn't find it... which sucks becuase between Path Mark, the grocery store across our street, and the little stores around the neighborhood i have been unable to find it! so i will try a few places in midtown in the hopes of finding later, and then go to 14th street if i have to since i know i saw it in one of the stores around there when i was puppy sitting for kim! While i waited in the longest line ever! (my wort line experience there by far... i mean i listened to the entire tarzan cast album while in the store and i didnt listen to it for that long before i got in line! anywho in front of me was this 6 month old little boy and he took a liking to me, so i would make funny faces, or play peek a boo with him while passing the time. it was super cute and if i would stop for too long he would start to get cranky. then when we finally got to the cash register his mom had pushed him through to load the stuff on the belt blocking me from view and he started to cry, she moved out of the way and as soon as he saw me he started to giggle... i felt so loved because well little kids love me without much effort on my part!

anywho then i came home and it was a good thing i set an alarm to remind me when to leave so i wouldnt be late meeting michelle because i ended up falling asleep for like two hours and when i woke up i was s disoriented... like i didnt know what day it was and couldnt remember what i was supposed to be leaving for... then karolina called me and well she had to put up with my what in the worldness and and asked if i would join her that night... turns out karen couldn't make it to harry potter and the half-blood prince so i went in her place. i finally snapped to at 72nd street... whilst i was sleeping i had a nightmare that the chocolate i had bought and placed in the fridge was not supposed to go in there and it almost got ruined so i freaked a little and had krysta check the package since i had forgotten to before i had left in my disoriented state.

had a lovely time with michelle chatting about the past two weeks and eating at chipotle, then i headed over to the movie theater which was freaking on 32nd and 2nd ave... so far away!

i didnt really like the movie but it was nice seeing it with karolina and david. i felt the movie was way too rushed, and they didnt explain certain things so if you hadnt read the book you would be clueless. they also changed things that were unnecessary and added random things. i thought it was well acted for the most part, i didnt like slughorn, or the littlest voldemort. the teenage voldemort i thought was pretty good, i would have enjoyed you know who more, but he is definitely way too old for it. i think the thing that disappointed me most was that they didnt do the whole dumbledore tells harry that he knew he would be fine because he was with him thing. it was such a sweet powerful moment in the book and wasted by not being in the film. eh oh well at least i can picture things in my mind. I mean most of the people that used to be important in it were just glorified extras... longbottom anyone? and a few others and the billing at the end... i understand that the people are more seasoned performers and had larger parts in the other movies but tom felton certainly deserved to be higher up and listed individually!

then i headed home and found a puddle off pee on my floor from tucker and poo on my bed from emma... i was not pleased in the slightest!

Day 330/365 (July 14, 2009)

2009-07-14T23:26:00.007-04:00

ooo it was a day! after getting like no actual sleep at sasha and marty's before heading out to rush... idk why the couch is comfy and i was sleepy, i went to rush next to normal. i was of course the first person there and thankfully i feel asleep from about 8 until 9 am so it gave me a little boost!. i even finished reading the 6th harry potter book, tears! After i got the tickets i came home and took care of a few quick things (such as playing with tucker and giving emma some love) then i got ready and headed out for two separate job interviews...

the first place i am not a fan of... it was clustered and chaotic and well i am desperate so if it happens i will take it, the second... OH MY GOODNESS! it was with a temp agency and they had me fill out paperwork that took about 40 minutes before i even got to do the interview! and my hand writing sucks so that was painful! the interview seemed pleasant and hopefully they have some job pop up for me. afterwards i headed over to sasha and she was trying to seel since she hadnt the night before so i watched more of how i met your mother until i fell asleep and got a much needed hour nap. at one point since pip was in sasha's room fred came up and nuzzled with me again... setting off my allergies, but i dont really care because i love him so much!

then i went and met with my theatre buddy at Mother Burger in the courtyard. it was my first time checking it out and it was yummy, especially the sauce when i dipped the great fries in it. then we headed over the the theatre... we had to wait in a long line to get in but always worth it. the show was great and it was fun seeing it with someone i haven't seen it with yet. then we hung around after and chatted with Kyle Dean for a bit... always happiness... then i went home.

i paid some bills and dealt with a very annoying emma who wanted my undivided attention since i left her alone all last night.

Day 329/365 (July 13, 2009)

2009-07-14T23:24:00.006-04:00

here Pip is all snuggled in my lap

i had gotten up early to go drop off a resume and fill out an application at an office, then i came home and chilled for a bit. I took Tucker over to have a puppy playdate with Pip and ran into Ryan D. on the subway... he is just lovely to chat with. then tucker and pip played whilst sasha and i chatted (and she worked.) eventually krysta showed up for a bit and took tucker away, then marty came home and we ordered some food... i go a most delicious calzone but next time will not get the spinach because it tasted great but it was hard to bite through and was all bunching up. At one point Pip threw up on my shoulder but sasha cleaned it up all nice like

we watched some TV including Marty's How I Met Your Mother DVDs... let me tell you! i have seen a few different episodes and enjoyed them but seeing all the ones we did I LOVE IT! i need to remember to ask him to borrow them starting with season 1 so i can catch up. then we all tried and failed to go to bed. it was nice because fred came up and nuzzled with me, and even though my eye became painfully itchy and the nose was all runny it was totes worth it for some quality time! curse those allergies! lack of sleep was not cool for the day i had coming up ahead.

Day 328/365 (July 12, 2009)

2009-07-12T18:33:00.006-04:00

i stayed in new rochelle over night unexpectedly and it was nice and we spent lots of time reading and playing games this morning outside under the nice umbrella of their patio set. i missed the train by seconds when i was dropped off so i had to wait an hour for another to come... i ended up falling asleep at the train station... it was a very nice nap! On the train i continued reading harry potter until i got to the chapter where they battle and then dumbledore dies... i am so not ready to read that again... such an emotional pull it has on me, i still remember reading that for the first time and after i read avada kedavra even though i treat those books especially well i didnt like what had just happened and i chucked that thing clear across the room and had to wait a bit before i could bring myself to continue reading!

i got home and went to the bathroom because even though i went before i left i really had to pee (TMI warning too late)... i got home and krysta had made brownies, yum!

anywho i made some terryaki chicken for dinner (not as good as i had hoped) and krsyta picked me up a shrimp roll of yum. i worked on an arts and crafts project and although they look kind of cute i am sad they didnt turn out as i had hoped, and it doesnt look like i spent much time on them even though i totally did!

whilst on the train i felt like taking a picture of the pattern on my bag, so there you have it!

Day 327/365 (July 11, 2009)

2009-07-12T18:16:00.005-04:00

i headed to new rochelle because my cousin patty was in and i havent seen her in AGES!!!! i spent some quality time and did laundry and it was just really nice being there, even tho gallagher was doing a show at rockwood and i had been planning on going to it, it became clear that i was not going to be able to since it would have taken me forever to get my stuff home, then head there, and inner had finished too late :( sometimes family has to be more important. we played apples to apples junior and i dont like that game but dennis was getting a kick out of it.

i also stayed up way late reading more harry potter... the mark of a good book is no matter how many times you have read it, you are excited to continue reading and you still have a hard time putting it down to go to bed.

Day 326/365 (July 10, 2009)

2009-07-10T16:20:00.007-04:00

The day began on the usual side and then i discovered some DVD's... i watched parts from an easter bonnet and gypsy of the year competition. It was pretty fun watching except when i saw Rent's Easter Bonnet from last year... yea it made me cry pretty much from the beginning until the just shortly after the end. i love that it still has such an emotional power over me, it is nice to know i am not completely "emotionally dead inside" as i like to often to joke.

i headed out and met karolina in bryant park and thus began our evening of talking and wedding planning and just a nice time catching up. we were there for a wicked long time but then it got chilly so we went inside at a mcdonald's... i got an angus, bacon cheeseburger... i normally dont dig fast food but i was hungry and it was actually really good! (but i could just have been really hungry)

we ended up staying there until really really very late until they told us they were closing, so that is finally when we parted ways... i came home and instead of getting myself ready for my new rochelle trip tomorrow i am watching tv and writing this! i came home so i wouldnt be up so late from mostly sondheim... guess i will be up late anyway :(

Day 325/365 (July 9, 2009)

2009-07-10T16:09:00.007-04:00

i woke up on the earlier side and got myself together, then i headed to brooklyn and spent the day with judith. i finally met her cute dog Fei... who is about 35 pounds but thinks he is a tiny little puppy... so cute! we played speed racer and mario-kart on the wii... oh and some sort of sims mini game thing with "festivals." her mom also made some super yummy chicken and rice and i attempted to get judith a little more into twitter.

she was going to come to karaoke with me but we realized she couldn't so i didnt think i was going until i found out joey was going to be there too, meaning i had company! it turned out to be good she didn't go since i would want her to actually see it when it is happening and not the attempt at karaoke that fizzled because the computer was being wonky... but the night was still loads of fun with everyone there and the attempt at joke night... it was nice being able to chat with the peeps there and stuff, then at about 11:30 joey and i left and we ended up walking to 72nd street where i was getting on the train but we stayed there talking until like 1:15 in the morning! so then i went home and chatted with carina and krysta when they got here for a bit.

oh yea! i also ran into james smith who is part of my favorite band... that was a fun surprise even if it was while i was in the middle of combing my hair while on a subway platform... herumph!

Day 324/365 (July 8, 2009)

2009-07-09T00:14:00.005-04:00

so i spent my spare time today reading lots of harry potter, over a 100 pages today in fact! it is so weird how i am not a big reader but when i crack open harry potter i just fly through pages not realizing how much time i have spent reading.

i had gotten a complimentary ticket to see a show called "Perfect Wedding" down on bleecker street. it was the first performance of it and it was evident in occasional slip up of words but each of the actors just made it work as if it were supposed to be like that. when the show began i had thought it was funny but i could not figure out how they were going to make the story engaging and not monotonous for the duration of two acts... however once the story pulled out of that awkwardness it was jut completely funny! especially in act two the guy playing the best man when he went all looney tooney running around with the cake knife to was just ba-rilliant and the girl who played the maid was an excellent character and well i had tears at one point from the laughter... so props to the Vital Theatre company!

when i left the theater the weather was just perfect! there was a subtle breeze and i contemplated walking instead of going home but realized in the end i should go home before i needed the bathroom. i thought i would stop in path mark on the way but when i walked in and saw the lines... like the worst i have ever seen... halfway up the aisles at each of the like 6 or 7 registers i was like PEACE OUT and left.

i helped mary with a video project by giving her feedback and think she did a wonderful job. and i had some decent emma cuddle time today and well plenty of tucker pee clean up :(

also i couldnt get a picture of it that you could tell but the moon was so gorgeous tonight! it was hanging low, full, bright orangey-yellow and reminded me of construction paper lit up, and i just love love love when the moon is like that!

Day 323/365 (July 7, 2009)

2009-07-07T23:37:00.004-04:00

this was me reading sasha's photo a day and realizing i hadn't taken any pictures today... this is also me taking it from really far away so you can't actually read what it has to say, or really see it.

today i didnt do too much except their was some serious tucker pee clean-up and emma giving me heart failure for climbing outside the window. she also just got a taste of being an outdoor cat since it just started down pouring while she was out there... yea not too pleased is she at being wet!

i watched ella enchanted again and did a bunch of other stuff, including lots of dishes! i really want a The Nanny reunion special... you know so we can see the twins all teenager-ed up and niles and C.C.'s child and their life in LA!

Day 322/365 (July 6, 2009)

2009-07-06T21:55:00.006-04:00

he's chewing a little bone here

today was a short and long day in many ways. tucker was especially stressful in the barking and biting department, but he also played games and cuddled with me at times. i read harry potter and the half-blood prince for quite sometime (over 100 pages) and am well on my way to finishing it before i go see the movie.

my emotional state was better than it has been the last several days but it began to break while i was grocery shopping and realized that there is nothing that excites me anymore (food-wise) and that made me think about things which led to a downward spiral, which means i am trying my best to fix it because i am proud of the fact i made it several hours before lying down on the couch.

so stupid thing of the day? someone broke their key in the apartment building door so you cant put your own key in there so you are stuck outside until either someone leaves the building or you can find someone to buzz you in by pushing random buttons... translation they better fix this in the early morning or else! then once you make it past the first door you have no worries since the second door lock is broken and you dont even need to put a key in it... just push it! (go figure)

the next to normal twitter chat back thing has apparently ended in a you ask the people involved capacity, and starting tomorrow the people involved will ask us. this saddens me because although it will be interesting to see what kinds of questions they are asking it isnt like we will see everyones answers, and i am guessing that means they wont go back to having us ask questions and i think that sucks because it is really fun having the answers come. i am sure it is annoying for those who are running it but maybe they can cut back on the amount of questions they ask everyday because once they finish doing the Q and A thing what will they do? it was a nice way to communicate with the fans without being annoying and making people talk about the show to people... sadness in my soul!

i also got a free ticket to a show called the perfect wedding on july 8th because of twitter and following the vital theatre company. i am pretty excited because who doesnt love free theatre, especially when the description of the show sounds pretty hip!

i also addressed some emails i had been ignoring the whole weekend... basically was any email that required thought i let go because i didnt feel like thinking this past weekend but i put my thinking cap back on today.

i ended up staying way late to watch ella enchanted on tv... i own it on dvd so there was no point but i still did!

Day 321/365 (July 5, 2009)

2009-07-06T00:06:00.006-04:00

my day started out really weird. i had originally planned on getting up at 10:30 so i had time to get ready and chill before heading out to brooklyn but i couldnt bring myself to get up until 12, which is when i was originally planning on leaving! i had the most unusual experience that freaked me out a little... i got a phone call and asked who was and the person answered your father but i knew it wasnt him since A. he died a few years ago and B it sounded like my cousin alyssa. anyways as i was thinking about why alyssa was calling me since i didnt think she had my number and well she never has before my alarm went off and i realized i had never been on the phone instead it was a dream the whole time that just felt real. it freaked me out so much i had to ask krysta if something that happened earlier was real or a dream... it was real at least!

i eventually headed out to brooklyn to megan's apartment and got their even quicker than i expected, and not much later than i originally intended! on the way there i began re-reading harry potter and the half-blood prince... i didnt get far before the dude next to me saw what i was reading and engaged me in conversation about the books and movies and i kept thinking dude can't you see i am trying to read but was unable to tell him because i felt bad.

the time atmegan's was lots of fun we ate bagels, and chips and salsa while playing harry potter scene it, balderdash, and rock band. i got booed of the stage my first time playing but did much better the next attempt! and i learned that i should know wesley snipes better since he is snipes not snipe, emily is cornish pixie intuitive, and laura and i were both a little crazy. it was really a great afternoon of fun and good peeps... then on the way home i took my own discovered non-hop stop way and it got me home wicked fast compared to what hopstop had told me, so that was pretty exciting! i also discovered a unicyclist on 141 and ACP... it amused greatly, especially when he was forced to stop for a light and i was able to get this picture!

i decided also that i need to try to be in better spirits and stuff during the week so i need to do things that will try to prevent me from slipping into a not good emotional state as i seem so prone to do lately. this weekend really rejuvenated my spirits and i dont want to jeopardize that!

Day 320/365 (July 4, 2009)

2009-07-05T01:11:00.007-04:00

look at the fireworks, light up the night sky (ITH)

pretty sky

what a day! it started with krysta and i eating a ton of pizza and cheesy bread for brunch (Ok not that much but it felt that way) and then we got ready and eaded out. a quick trip to petco turned into quite the stay since they had kitties up for adoption outside and they were sooo cute! we just kept looking at them... we even found a mini emma, mini stalker, and an almost mini fred.

then we went to Sasha and Marty's for some 4th of july fun! we ate chips and dip, cheesy crackers, and played the stock market game (Pit Bull, i didnt do that badly... like i was in the positive!) and we played poker... well i tried to at least. thankfully marty was very helpful and i didnt lose too much fake money! tucker and pip were having a great time together even if pip was a little too into tucker... and then marty read tarot cards for us... i liked my reading, and it would be super awesome if it were all true! krysta went to drop tucker off and poor pip was beyond sad and kept crying. fred jumped on the table during sasha's reading and was all impressive and stepped in between all the cards on his own!

then we went to play hide and seek (high tech) it was quite fun, and after sasha and i found marty and krysta we went to Josh's buildings' roof deck to watch the pretty fireworks. then we resumed our game, and sasha and i waited for them to find us... we even got to change our location! then we were a little tired so we called a pause and will play again later... i hung out with sasha and marty for a bit before finally heading home and eating more pizza! (and a fluffernutter)

i also like to point out that i am proud of myself for always taking time to "stop and smell the roses." i take the time to recognize pretty skies and one of my favorite things to do is pass by the flowers by wicked, well any of the places that have flowers out there but that one on particular always has the prettiest, freshest, strong smelling flowers. whenever i walk by there i always slow down and just breathe in deeply because it smells so beautiful... definately one of my most favorite things to do

Day 319/365 (July 3, 2009)

2009-07-03T21:06:00.008-04:00

the emotional downpour continued and have been watching lots of tv and eating too much i am sure. i really need to get myself out of this funk man. i mean i'm not usually this consistently dumpy and unfortunately it seems to get even worse after i have a little bit of fun such as last night... this is a picture of krysta and her broken tooth, i took it on our way home last night well after midnight so its the most interesting picture of the day...

i did dishes and drank a whole bunch of root beer... and anyone who actually knows me (at least in the last 7-ish years) i dont really drink soda and when i do it almost never is anything except gingerale! yea so not good signs, uh-uh no way! sleeping on the new monsterous height of a bed was really comfy and alot easier to get down from than on!

went to mostly sondheim with hope and emily mcnamara was a guest host... she really is awesome! and this guy Josh Walden was also the host and he was so talented and funny!

Colleen ended up coming there too and the night was filled with many LOL moments and i got up and sang and get this they said i sounded really good! not the usual good jobv they said i actually sounded really good and when i was like really they said yes... including colleen! so well i was feeling pretty good! and jeffery and cole sang suddenly seymour... it was high quality entertanment and danny pintauro (who's the boss) sang sweet transvestite and was uber bubbly and stuff... another guy sang dont cry for me argentina in spanish... and cute waiter was working! (Adam)

Day 318/365 (July 2, 2009)

2009-07-03T13:35:00.008-04:00

I had forgotten to take my necklace off the night before, which as you can see was a BIG mistake! I am allergic to anything that is not at least 14k gold, dont ask me why, but even hypoallergenic stuff has the power to turn me red and itchy (and in my ears swollen). as long as i dont wear necklaces for more than a few hours i am fine, but a full night produced this rather itchy red bumpy patch right where the pendant dangled all night :(

the day began with nothing new just being a lump on the couch... until krysta came home. she was bit with the clean bug and it trickled to me a little bit. (although i did hang my clean clothes up after two weeks all on my own before she came home). she did a MASSIVE floor clean, i mean she swept and got down on her hands and knees and scrubbed our floor like crazy and made them so clean and smooth. i moved the green futon mattress in between my mattress and box spring and my bed is so high up i kind of have to jump a little to get on since the bed is also on bed raisers. i dont know if this is bad for my mattress though but i dont want to store the futon mattress on the floor (eww)... anywho after i did this we were able to do the thing that needed to be done most after i had discovered it late the night before. tuckers pee (since he loves to pee on my floor close to where the skanky mattress had been dwelling until we got motivated to carry it down to the garbage) had been sometimes trickling underneath the skanky mattress that was on a big piece of plastic... and even though krysta and i have been cleaning it up whenever we saw it, we didnt know some of it was pooling underneath. well we lifted it up and found a rather large amount of dog pee that had been sitting for who knows how long and explaining why i was always complaining of my room smelling like dog pee! so we laid some heavy chemicals on it and cleaned it like nobodies business and found my flip flops that i have been looking for for a wicked long time! (this story is a little TMI i guess huh?)

anywho there was some freshening up involved and i finally convinced Krysta to come to karaoke with me. we headed out and while we were waiting at 72nd street to transfer one of her teeth split in half! i learned that i can handle blood and guts and gore, but i cant handle seeing a split tooth held in hand! shivers just thinking about it, but we went to karaoke anyway.

it was a fun night in TOL and the new sound system is so fierce you feel the stage vibrate underneath you! i had lots of fun singing and chatting with everyone there. especially Michael (one of the many rockin' box office guys), Patrick, Joey, someone i havent seen in ages and i cant remember her name because i suck at that, gabe, and zach. (other peeps too). two sets of people even sang *NSYNC which made me very happy and dakota even told me i am getting and sounding better at the karaoke :D (josh even swung by for a hot second). i would also like to point out that Patrick is one of my fave NWS employees... he is such a fun and sweet person!

we ended up staying out pretty late and after we got home and walked tucker a tiny bit it was like 2 am! i really needed a night of fun where i forgot about my down mood. and i ran into kyle post on the way into NWS, so i mean really? that was a pleasant surprise! and i got was paid another lovely compliment by someone else and made more plans to see n2n. i even only had one moment of "oh i shouldn't have said that" well at least in front of one particular person who i dont exactly trust and i dont think actually likes me... but hopefully she wont bring it up to anyone in particular... crossies?

Day 317/365 (July 1, 2009)

2009-07-02T16:14:00.011-04:00

Constantine with the official Guinness World Record Certificate... BWW maybe?

from Rock of Ages Twitter... i look rad and laura is in it too

i took this... cast holding certificate but you cant really tell

I had another day of poopiness but at least there was something fun to look forward to and that was helping break a Guinness world record! (largest and longest air guitar ensemble) i headed out to rock of ages pretty early to check the line situation and i ran into brian! it was nice having a little catch up chat with him! then i went to the courtyard for a bit and just hung out. eventually i went back and was of course the first person in line. the guy who works for them and was holding a "line starts here" sign was thoroughly amusing and a fellow camera whore. we would ham it up any time a camera appeared (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2PBncrsd1o) so far i saw myself on CBS (or was it NBC) news, RoA twitter, and that video but frankly there has to be more! we witnessed some stupid people such as the woman asked how to get into the theater (um open a door) and the woman who passed by saying "but they dont have any air guitars with them!" (um lady AIR guitar?!?!) it was also a nice surprise having laura join in the line too!

eventually they let us in and i took my seat in the mezz (B101) and OCean ? taught us some air guitar moves including the "stacie jaxx dirty panty air something or other" Ocean was quite funny and extremely entertaining. after the instructions and a short practice run they played the music and everyone in the theater did their best moves and it was fun watching the cast participate too! then they gave out prizes and did a Q & A with the cast while the judges tallied stuff up... with 810 people we broke the record and even though we only needed 90 seconds we rocked on for about 2 and a half minutes (i think it was 2M 34S).

then i headed over and hung with sasha, fred, and pip for a nice long while. marty was in and out so fast! then i went t path mark and went grocery shopping even though i didnt find the things i did want and couldnt figure out what to get. i dont understand how i cant remember other things to eat! i mean i am an awesome cook and can do whatever i set my mind to but alas nothing seems to interest me.

anywho i came home and didnt do too much.

Day 316/365 (June 30, 2009)

2009-07-02T16:14:00.009-04:00

today wasnt a good emotional health day... i dont remember much of what i did besides laying on the couch and not wanting to get up (and watching lots of tv)... i did catch up on the episodes i had missed of Paris Hilton ??? BFF show... guilty pleasure much?

Day 315/365 (June 29, 2009)

2009-06-29T22:36:00.005-04:00

what are the odds of this fruit snack assortment? i opened up a little packet and did what i always do: eat the ones i dont like first. after eating only one grape and one orange i looked down to see what else to eat:and i was left with one pink and NINE reds! craziness! too bad there werent any peaches in there... of this brand they are my favorites! (and the only ones that actually taste like a fruit)

i cuddled with emma, played and snuggled a bit with tucker, picked up tucker pee, baked banana bread, had grilled pb and j sandwiches, had the fruit snacks, and watched lots of tv. i also chatted briefly with judith on gchat. i did a ton of dishes in between and was on a bit of an emotional roller coaster for myself. On one of the shows i watched today (The Closer) Barrett Foa ended up being on it (yay) and it resulted in my happiness at him being able to show a really emotional side of his acting and once again thinking he should be singing on some stage in NYC.

as far as my emotional state i was happy at some points which resulted in my cleaning out my scary inbox and stuff, but i was also unhappy in other ways that resulted in not good things (did you see what i ate today?) and thinking about things in general. i have always known i didnt want to physically live in NYC for the rest of my life, but not that i have any idea where i would be willing to live. today (and yesterday too kind of) i wished i were some place else. i know i am a long ways away from leaving the city because i am not at a point in my life where i can just go someplace else. i am not ready to part with the friends i have close by, and dont feel like making new ones... so hopefully this feeling passes since i do not know what i want out of life any more... i am just sort of floating through with no aim or direction and that scares the crap out of me... i used to be so ambitious, and have so many plans, and now well i have nothing... i just cant deal with certain things anymore and am sick of keeping up appearances ya know? i need something but i just dont know what? there is so much going on in this head of mine that i just cant express... partly because i dont know how to and partly because i dont have anyone i am willing to unleash it all on... not because i dont trust but i just dont want to open that can of worms... though i am midly by this very public post, oy!

Day 314/365 (June 28, 2009)

2009-06-29T15:51:00.004-04:00

what a slightly weird day! i met with michelle at the courtyard to hang out for a bit and to meet with travis to give him his birthday goodies... we felt kind of like a stalker sitting where we were but whatever, we had made arrangements to do so! anywho after a while michelle had to leave to see the show so i started to leave... i got about as far as starbucks and paused torn between if i should go home or stay and read. well after about a minute debate i saw mackenzie walking towards me! so anywho after he said he was going to the courtyard so i decided i was staying. it was nice chatting with him, but eventually he had to leave and i decided that i was going to stay and read... which i did for SEVERAL HOURS!!!! (which that was strange enough) anywho i finally decided i needed to leave because i was hungry and needed to use the bathroom and prefer my own... well what are the chances that i would run into mackenzie again as i was leaving? well i did and matthew this time too! so we walked to 42nd street and then parted ways. i came home and ate and chatted with krysta about our weekends. we watched some tv and that was the basics of the day!

Day 313/365 (June 27, 2009)

2009-06-29T15:49:00.004-04:00

considering the time i had got home and went to bed i was surprised i was able to get up so early to help michelle with the hair lotto. luckily she won and was able to see it with mark. after lotto we got some yum at chipotle and then stayed there for a while... i hung out reading and almost (or maybe actually) falling asleep in the courtyard. then i met them at stage door and we headed down to pick up tim, and spent time at a street fair. i got this awesome pretty necklace that has a real four leaf clover inside of it! (so perfectly me).

then i went home and i dont remember the rest. oh yea i baked a bunch of cookies for travis for his birthday!

Day 312/365 (June 26, 2009)

2009-06-26T15:41:00.005-04:00

i decorated the cupcakes i baked with sunshine and equality! anywho i dont remember what i did besides that during the day, but then i headed out and began craziness amidst random rain.

i helped chris with wicked lotto (we lost) then i traveled to three different pinkberrys to sample the free new flavors! then i needed real food so i got subway.

then i went to sasha and marty's and watched some pirates of the caribbean 2 and hung out until going to mostly sondheim. it was fun as always especially with marty and sasha there... marty sang willingly and then bribed sasha to sing. my cupcakes were a hit and some guy bought my table a round of drinks he was so grateful... lol! then home i went.

i dont know if this was the day or not (but i suspect it was) i went on a crazy cleaning spree of the floors, the bathroom, and my room... and did a bunch of dishes!

Day 311/365 (June 25, 2009)

2009-06-26T13:05:00.007-04:00

well i ended up doing another overnight rush for next to normal... this time i slept a tiny bit more than last, mark ended up showing up and mary was able to get a ticket. after i got my tickets i went home and slept for a while. eventually i went and met krysta to drop off tucker and that was the last time for a while because he ripped my pants and almost pantsed me!

then i met up with mary and devon and sasha and marty. after some time there mary devon and i went and filmed some stuff for mary's demo reel for twicon with allison case.

then i went to next to normal and met up with jo ann there too! and finally shoshana. we had an excellent time at the show and meghann (natalie u/s) was FANTABULOUS! all of us hung out after the show for a bit at SD chatting with each other and what not and had a lovely chat with Kyle Dean. then mark and i headed back to my place and i baked cupcakes.

as we were leaving next to normal i stepped in some gravel and it got stuck to the bottom of my flip flops until i pried it off!

Day 310/365 (June 24, 2009)

2009-06-24T18:38:00.006-04:00

it was a very long, but very much fun day! i woke up early to get ready to meet my cousins and walk Tucker. I left earlier than planned because paula had texted to say they were looking to get there earlier. i ended up getting there way earlier than i meant to and sat on a bench to read my book. ya know i lived over there for a year and never did that!

anywho i et up with my cousins Paula, and her clan... and also my cousin Mo and her kids. 3 adults, 5 children... phew!

we hopped the boat to liberty island and then we waited in line forever to get in... by the time we got to the observation decks of the pedastool it was raining! not hard but enough that my pants got soaked and i was slipping in my flip flops! that gave me quite the bit of stress. but we had lots of fun and then i left to go home.

i got home and went straight to the tub to clean my now extremely dirty feet from all the yuck of the streets on NY and then i washed my jean bottoms in the sink since they soaked up all that yucky water! then i took a much needed respite to re-gather myself and get pack my overnight bag to head to sasha's so i could get some more sleep before heading to rush for next to normal.

i got there about 11 and met with marty and fred. i laid down to try and get some sleep and then i got a text saying there were already people in the next to normal rush line... i thought about it and then away i went... not so much sleep, but at least i was close by and got a quick hello in.

Day 309/365 (June 23, 2009)

2009-06-23T23:11:00.009-04:00

oh the day... so anywho i only got three hours of sleep (ok not quite that much but rounding up) before i had to get up and go do the rush for next to normal. i headed out and met mark there and we waited until 10 to buy our tickets. it was not as much fun as last time since we didnt have a ton of other people we were being all chummy with, but it was nice having the company.

krysta brought tucker to the rush line before heading to work and he attacked her poor skirt/shirt pretty badly, but she was able to sew it up on the spot... and then he did it again! everyone seemed to love him (of course) then we went home... i took a nap! i woke up with really cold feet since i was hot when lying down and didnt get under the covers and by having a dream that flies were biting me and i was bleeding because of it. obviously flies werent actually biting me, but man oh man i was itchy for a little while after because of the dream!

i ended up with another nap at some point and some quality time with emma and tucker, then i brought tucker to meet krysta at josh's. i was quite pleased at myself for even remembering his apartment number on my own! then i stopped for a 99 cent slice of pizza before going to the theater. i met up again with mark, his friend jess (i think is her name), and diane.

the show was really quite good and i had lots of fun even if i am emotionally dead inside. we had a nice little chat with kyle dean after then we all went our separate ways. i got home and chatted with krysta for a bit and down loaded drew seeley's new version of her voice from the little mermaid.... it sounds quite awesome and pretty and i dig it as a stand alone song, but i cant wait to hear him sing the actual version of it in the show when i go to see it. that song is just so beautifully written!

i also have been really into reading my book Angel's Tip... so good!

Day 308/365 (June 22, 2009)

2009-06-23T16:00:00.005-04:00

a day of nothing turned into an evening of fun! i thought my only activity of the day was going to be buying someone a ticket for altarholic appreciation day, then i found out Sasha and i were going to Born for Broadway, a benefit in support of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.

i got to the apartment and spent some time with Marty and Fred while Sasha got ready... then we slowly made out way to NWS. it turned out to be quite the awesome event and i wish i had recorded it. Richard Kind was the host and he was hilarious and there were some standout performances, and some "not so much". Noah Weisberg (with one S) did a cute and funny number (with Krysta R.). Steve Rosen and awesome music director guy came out and did their absurdly amazing broadway medley and i really have no idea how Steve is able to remember all of those lyrics! Then Grandpa Vanderbilt (from Gossip Girl) who is actually a two time tony winner sang two songs and one was Elvis so he could say "thank you very much" and the other was i've been everywhere complete with fast paced town rattling off lyrics and he was um fantastic! aaron lazaar sang a really great original song and it even had a lyric in it about where is grandpa vanderbilt (except it was with his actual name which is something naughton). i would also like to point out how Grandpa Vanderbilt was introduced Richard was like blah blah blah, gossip girl, and sasha and i were like who is he? then he walked out, we saw him, and were like OH! then there were some not so great ones... one of which (i think his name is adrian bailey) is the guy who fell through the little mermaid trap door. he came out using a cne and he sang his song and he sounded pretty terrible actually, not worthy of having been in 20 broadway/touring shows and then PEOPLE FREAKING GAVE HIM A STANDING OVATION! just because you have a cane doesnt mean you deserve a Standing Ovation for an inferior performance! (that is my soap box anyway). i am so glad i was able to go and that i went with sasha.

another awesome moment of the night was when people were sharing stories about the Reeve and one of their friends recounted when Dana had called to say she had a date with someone and when she finally told him the name of her date he said he was like "you're Fing dating superman?" that was pretty funny.

anywho it went until 11 and i needed to get home ASAP since it was an early day to rush for next to normal, so i went home and was in bed by 12:03!

ps we took this picture in one of the fisheye mirrors before leaving NWS

Day 307/365 (June 21, 2009)

2009-06-22T00:11:00.007-04:00

emma has been my cuddle buddy since i got back, especially today! she just kept curling up all cute like on me! anywho last night i actually got in bed before midnight and was asleep by 12:30ish which was monumental! this resulted in me waking up around 9!

the morning started off quite nice with yogurt, and yummy sausage made by krysta. we watched way too much tv and all that jazz.

eventually i got myself together and headed to run an errand and meet up with the family. i met my cousins (paula, clare, and winnie, and their awesome Aunt Ming) at Vynl for lunch. it was nice hanging with them in "the city" and they enjoyed the food and restaurant, because duh it is amazing! clare and winnie kept going to check out all the bathrooms. then after we finished i escorted them over to see wicked, and then headed to the NWS box office to buy my AA Day ticket. then i went to the courtyard and read for a bit. while there i checked my twitter app and saw they were still looking for phone banking volunteers for the marriage equality bill in NY State. so i said i was willing to help. it was quite fun and kayla was there! (someone pointed out how humourous it was that everyone who was doing the phone banking were single and we were calling about marriage! the interesting thing was the day really turned out wonderful complete with clear blue skies and white fluffy clouds...

well as i was walking from the courtyard to the human rights campaign office it all of a sudden turned gray and not so pleasant looking. it began to rain just as i got the building (it was mere droplets when i went in). well i was in there we could see out the window the downpour that began... then just before i ended up leaving the rain stopped! i was able to get home without rain, and then when i got home it started opening up again! i was a pretty lucky girl for sure!

ended up having chinese food for dinner and feeding tucker more peach than i intended! i also worked on fixing the next to normal audio someone sent me and creating album art. i didnt fix the bad splicing, but i did put the songs in the correct order, AND give them all the same type of nomenclature. though i feel i should add a little something special to some onf them, but we will see if i ever do that. oh yea i also did a bunch of dishes...

also i woke up in the morning having the strangest dream... it was about my dad, which is kind of fitting on father's day EXCEPT in my dream my "dad" was kind of a non-formed being (as in i never saw him even though i was looking at and speaking with hom... and to make a long story short he told us we were moving to brooklyn and i in my dream i started to cry because i didnt want to move to brooklyn and i was freaking out about how long of a commute it would be to get back and forth from manhattan and brooklyn... then i woke up

Day 306/365 (June 20, 2009)

2009-06-21T09:43:00.006-04:00

i got up early, and made some pancakes for breakfast... they didnt hit the spot i was looking for... then i went out for the rainbow rehearsal/meeting.

it was in a lovely room and i helped with rehearsal and then we had the initiation... wow there are so many differences from MA rainbow it will take some getting used to but everyone did a great job and at the end they did this friendship circle thing that i loved so very much!

then i left pretty quickly because it ran late (started late) and i was meeting Zina... but sadly she had already left to go home... i was sad but i knew i could have some fun with sasha and marty...

so i headed up, ran into some altar boyz flyer-ing TKTS area while i was walking... then went and got some subway and hung with sasha, marty, fred, and pip for a bit. i ate some interesting pickles (one was a cinnamon raisin tasting one) and we watched an interesting theater documentary thing on "the golden age"

then i went to path mark and did some grocery shopping and came home. the night ended (after much tv) in krysta helping me change my lightbulb in a death defying set up since we do not have a ladder... the sight of her getting off the two chairs, two speakers, 2 taped together shelves contraption was HYSTERICAL... she dove onto the mattresses/clean laundry pile near by to get off...

oh also there are harry potter movie posters everywhere in the times square subway stop! like every where and it made me all crazy excited! and at some point i did a crazy cleaning of our living room and my bedroom floors.

Day 305/365 (June 19, 2009)

2009-06-20T00:59:00.006-04:00

i woke up in new rochelle and thankfully it was not raining! i spent some time with the cousins before heading out, and then rode the train home... i decided to take a cab with all my stuff... great decision in theory but he didnt stop where i told him to so i ended up having to walk quite a distance with my stuff anyways!

i got in and somehow got that almost 90 pound suitcase full of laundry up the stairs... i estimate it to weigh that much since that is what it weighed when i came back from SF and it was filled to the seems! then i said hello to emma (who has been all over me anytime i sit still... she missed me! even now as i type this she was just curled up on me, then moved to the side of my hand) then i said hello to tucker by taking him out for a walk,,, he was so excited to see me and perked up and when i took him out of his crate he was trying to wag his short stub of a tail and licking my face all over! i took him for a walk then eventually he ended back up in his crate because he wouldnt stop biting me.

anywho while outside i noticed the time (12:45) and was like oh i should enter the virtual line lotto for twelfth night (shakespeare) tonight, which meant i had to do it by 1... well by the time o got inside and turned my computer on i signed up for it around the 12:50 ish mark and waited, then i checked like 5 after and 1 and it said i had won them! so i called sasha up and of course she wanted to go!

i then spent the time watching tv (um luther was in an episode of the unusuals), eating lunch, and making myself presentable, also saw krysta for the first time since last thursday, and went on my way.

i was quite proud of myself for getting to the theater in the park on my own... like i didnt get lost either! fin-a-freakingly! after sasha made her way to the theater (some troubles) we got the most unusual pickles and pickled green beans that were yummy.

the show was actually pretty good for the most part, despite my uninterest of shakespeare. act two was certainly funnier than act one (well parts i should say) i thought everyone was great in the show (except julie white... i felt like she was acting and not actually her character). and some were superb. Anne Hathaway was absolute brilliance (and my reason for seeing the show). she carried it so well and the few times she got to sing can we focus on her gorgeous voice? The guy who played Sir Andrew (Hamish something) was the next best thing... he was so perfect as that character and at one point he (and anne) had me in tears from laughter. i had also never seen raul or audra in anything before but they did not disappoint... really casting was on point! and audra especially she really embodied olivia. sasha gave me cliff notes as the show went on to help me out. and the guy playing sebastian looked like anne from where we were sitting.

anywho after it was over we went to do the stage door thing, and to my complete happy surprise i found hope! so we all stood and chatted and totally fan girled when anne came out. i know i might seem " a fan girl" many a time but in all actual fan girlness there havent been that many OHMYGOD moments... Anne walking out was one of them (maybe 4 total fan girl moments). i was like OMG its anne hathaway and to make her even more rockstar she took the time to chat with everyone and take pictures AND sign autographs... when she was with us we were like you broadway musical, now! and she was like um ok write me one and i will do it! (if only!) yea i was so flustered that when i wnet to hand her my playbill to sign i handed her the camera because my brain just couldnt process life correctly at that moment... and she was all i cant take the picture of us (not in a diva way, but in a it wont work way)... anywho AMAZING!

we also spoke with audra, and had to move ourselves down the line again so we could get hamlish.... SO AWESOME! i was like i love him the whole show. then we asked about raul and was told he sneaks out pretty quickly after and we headed home... after an obnoxious train wait i came home and ate chips and fluff for dinner, yum, but not good at 1 in the morning!

anywho i am so happy i saw it and i need to see it at least one more time.... ANNE HATHAWAY!!!!

Day 304/365 (June 18, 2009)

2009-06-18T20:57:00.003-04:00

RAIN RAIN RAIN! all today was was RAIN! so gloomy and miserable. my cousin dennis and i went to trader joe's and got some stuff, then we went to a yummy bagel place and had some breakfast.

eventually came back to the house and did lots of hanging out with the cousins and also getting some personal space. i also did the catch up on this blog for the last 11 days of my slacking (oops)... rain makes for frustrated children man, but it was still a good day... i decided to hold off and go back home tomorrow since tomorrow is the only day in the forsee-able future that doesnt have rain predicted... so hopefully i can get home without a downpour!

ps i didnt do laundry today but did A TON while i was here!

Day 303/365 (June 17, 2009)

2009-06-18T20:55:00.009-04:00

once again in new rochelle... i was going to go home but paula asked if i could stay another night because she could use my help, so i said yes! today they released the new updates for my iphone and well it was like christmas! i cant explain how happy they made me... we are talking copy and paste, text forwarding, landscape keyboard in texting/email, better fast forwarding/rewinding in itunes, the SEARCH feature, the voice memo, and s may other awesome things! i sent matthew this text because well i love him and i screen capped the copy option because it is my favorite of the updates!

i would also like to point how how over the last several days i have been listening to next to normal whenever i get the chance (even play it while going to bed) and i just love the music so much! yea, wow, yea! i mean dennis can even sing parts of I'm Alive now!

also the cousins all love icanhascheezburger and get an insane kick out of them!

it should also be noted how upset i was at missing the spring standards in hobeken since the show sold out before i could buy a ticket... i ahvent seen them in ages and my heart is breaking more than a little because of it!

Day 302/365 (June 16, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:34:00.007-04:00

it should also be noted during my time here in new rochelle i have been playing with their wii like crazy! and doing lots of baking... but today i helped clare finish decorating her cupcakes for her class party... she put some dye on her tongue... 'twas the result, so we remember my picture from a little while ago of tongue art? (http://mysticmeow.blogspot.com/2009/05/day-264365-may-9-2009.html) yea i was quite proud! but as a responsible adult i was all don't do that again blah blah blah!

i also spent the morning at their schools talent show... it was two hours long... it was for the most part pretty torturous, but my cousins two acts were great and some of the other kids were good... some... not so much! but one little boy sang you raise me up acapella and well he sounded pretty great for a 3rd grader and i think his parents should put him in voice lessons!

Day 301/365 (June 15, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:33:00.012-04:00

another good day... i hung with the cousins, and then paula headed off to MA so i was the babysitter for the night. it was good times. i also changed the wallpaper on my phone to this because well lets face it i am vain and well my hair looks great and i look happy so change i did! it is me and kyle dean after his first performance. sadly the only picture i took on this day was this screen cap on my phone from facebook so i could use it as my wall paper. yay new rochelle!

also baked some chocolate chip cookies with dennis

Day 300/365 (June 14, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:33:00.009-04:00

another day in new rochelle... such fun... even if my little cousin insists on jumping on me, and trying to pick my nose, and well slap my bottom... the major activity of the day was shrinky dink making mayhem.... it was fun! i was obsessed with trying to recreate a butterfly someone else had made but in my color choices... this was the closet i came.

also i baked some yummy banana bread

Day 299/365 (June 13, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:32:00.004-04:00

got in late from mostly sondheim... and didnt sleep until 6! then i got up at like 11 or 12 and got ready... i begun my journey to new rochelle and it was raining!

this is a picture of dance your a** off with marissa jaret winokur... i took it because her fb status had asked if someone could snap a picture of one if they saw it... so i did :D

it was nice to get to new rochelle and see my cousins.

i also baked brownies with them.

Day 298/365 (June 12, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:31:00.012-04:00

day was pretty basic... except no tucker because krysta had him in jersey... so it was just me, him, and emma... we napped a little all three together (rock on!) and finally i headed out. pip and i went to times square and blew bubbles for a bit with everyone else who was doing it (so cool!) then we went and helped out cheryl and jake at the rock of ages lotto... then we went back to pip's home... i was really quite sad to give him back since he was so much fun!

anywho then we all hung out with sasha, marty, and fred! we played some hardcore wii (super mariokart) and i just had a lot of fun, then i headed out to mostly sondheim. there were so many people there and i was irked because i kept getting hit and having to get up for a girl to go in and out of her seat. but it was another night of fabulous music and entertainment that ended earlier than usual... and besides a seasons of love sing along we had a la vie boheme a sing along... thou that was mostly me, brian, and Dom. then i went home!

Day 297/365 (June 11, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:31:00.009-04:00

so the day was pretty good, tucker, emma, pip, and i all hung out... we went on walks (well not emma) and they played so beautifully together... pip is pretty strong and beat tucker at tug of war by pulling him across the floor repeatedly.

unfortunately this ast week was one of tamra loses everything and i couldnt find my metrocard and it really pushed me over the edge of life and was upset i couldnt go to karaoke that night with kim and susie. i did end up finding it quite sometime later wedge between the kitchen table and wall... really? destroyed my life just a bit! i ended up watching lots of tv of course and i dont remember what else but i was having so much fun with mr. pip and i loved the bed he had made for himself in my room.

oh yea pip and i took tucker to meet krysta at penn since she was taking him to jersey... yea i am really too pro at two dogs on the subway!

Day 296/365 (June 10, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:30:00.004-04:00

the nigth before sasha asked if i could watch pip for a few days... of course i said yes! well after my crazy lack of sleep from my rushing endeavor the day before and my typical lack of sleep anyway i couldnt wait to go home and get in bed... pip is a quiet puppy... no real barking... until he gets to my place i guess! he and tucker spent the whole night barking at each other and i didnt really get any sleep. they were barking while playing, then barking when we seperated them, then barking to bark... i yi yi yi yi!

and he would bark every time someone would pass by our door since i think he was trying to protect us. i still love him though! anywho pip, tucker, and myself went to help tracey with hair lotto. we lost (i am pro at taking two dogs on the subway!) then the three of us set off to the dog park for a bit... it was quite the walk at that point and it was CLOSED when we got there for something! i was so aggrivated, then we started walking to the 72nd st subway but jordan asked if i could meet her outside of the barrymore theatre to give her the lotto money... so we headed there... did that and finally headed back home... by the time we got back the dogs had walked about 41 streets and 8 aves worth! and i got stopped lots because of their cuteness. originally i was offered a 12th ight ticket but i had to say no because after the nigth before i knew i couldnt leave the Pip alone... its ok i needed the sleep!

but we had a really fun and good night together and although emma is not a fan of other animals, she actually would let pip sniff her! (Actually by the time i took him home, she would even come up and sniff him... yes pip has an awesome personality!)

Day 295/365 (June 9, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:29:00.005-04:00

tuesday was an incredibly amazing, fun, and LONG day! i ended up sleeping for 30 minutes outside the booth theatre and then only 45 minutes at home. Mark and i rushed from 10:30 pm monday night until 10 am tuesday morning. it had tremendous rain, thunder that set off car alarms, frigid winds (that turned me into a superhero, and awesome new friends. i met this new person Joe and well he was so freaking awesome, and jake and tracey were also in the line, sasha swung by with pip at one point and i dont think i actually ever left the rush line except after they handed out the bracelets i took a tiny bathroom break! (jordan even stopped by for a bit) it really was lots of fun and we played a game of UNO and i kicked butt!

it was all for me to see Kyle Dean's first night in next to normal and it was worth it! after we left i went home and baked cookies for him and stuff, had my little nap, showered after the crazy long night, then met mark at build-a-bear to help him make a bear for kyle dean. i also scouted out the finishing stuff for the abe bear from last year's AA Day scavenger hunt. then we headed to the amrriot and put the bear's clothes on and stuff, got some food, then met with michelle at the theatre. it turns out Alice Ripley was sick so her understudy was going on and a bazillion people got refunds for their tickets including some of the people who had camped out overnight with us and i was like wow that is crazy! and sasha got one of our extra tickets but got hers refunded so joe ended up sitting next to me for the show and that was fun.

Kyle Dean did such an incredible job and i know it sounds weird but i was so terribly proud of him. i have seen him grow as a performer over the last three years and this really was amazing, he finally is able to show the rest of the theatre community how freaking amazing he is on a nightly basis. best part? i actually like this show so it wont be painful to sit through and watch it many times! (though i did love xanadu by the end) he played Gabe so well and well i just cant say enough ... yea and all the people who freaked and got their tickets refunded? you missed an incredible show i thought Jessica was leaps better than Alice Ripley (yea i said it) her voice was so pure and her acting choices made me appreciate the character more... jessica phillips is amazing!

special thanks to tracey for helping unwrap all my reese's for the cookies and jake who was in line with us

Day 294/365 (June 8, 2009)

2009-06-16T21:28:00.004-04:00

i watched tucker, i went to open mic night at TOL, i got there early to help raise money for a walk, i drank something called Purple People Eater... it was yum! i also got my stuff together to get ready to rush next to normal. i got there at 10:30 and two minutes later two other girls showed up... turns out one of them is the cousin of one of my LJ/ALtarholic friends... such a small world huh?

anywho mark and i rocked rushing... more on that on tuesdays entry

Day 293/365 (June 7, 2009)

2009-06-08T03:06:00.008-04:00

i woke up and cleaned my room hardcore! i also bought the final supplies for making of the cake, and bought some drinks and chips for the party. then i waged war! i made the rice krispy treats for the medallion and then the rest for us to just eat. i cut the cake and frosted it. I wrapped the wire in super awesome gold ribbon and when the rice krispy was hard enough i wrapped the ribbon over the parts of the dowel that would be exposed. then i frosted the treat and sprinkled the glitter sugar on it, and then after it refrigerated to firm it up i used the glitter gel to do the details... then i waited. ps i succeeded greatly because my bad boy cake never actually fell over! it did fall apart because the rice krispy treat medallion broke in half after 25 minutes (it got real hot and i think the marshmallow in the treat loosened up and SPLIT!). but i said i would be happy if it lasted at least 5 minutes and it surpassed that greatly!

i did so many dishes throughout the course of the day to keep the place clean and watched lots of tv until our guest arrived. we ended up with so much food and we ate a lot! there was amazing fruit (watermelon especially) and veggies and chips with onion dip, and raspberry iced tea, and i dont know what it was but fruit on some spongy thing with ice cream, and duh rice krispy treats, and my cake!

sasha, amelia, and her roommate nicole came to celebrate. we watched the TONY's which was pretty not great... the performances were weird (especially the opening number) and the sound was terrible, as in someone wont be working this event next year! billy elliot took almost every thing they were nominated for which was so freaking wrong! no way should the three billys have one best actor in a musical! and sieber lost best featured actor... CRIMINAL he is the best part of shrek and just embodies the character so well, not to mention the psychical aspect of it. Neil patrick harris did a great job hosting,t oo bad they didnt let him onstage/screen more!

anywho after the show ended krysta and i did a quick cleanup and i didnt go to bed because i am a fool, but i caught up on the last four days worth of blogs!

Day 292/365 (June 6, 2009)

2009-06-08T02:36:00.010-04:00

anywho by the time i got home and settled in bed, and did some pant cleaning because of tucker pee and something else i saw my toes that had been in pain and it is hard to tell in this photo but man my middle three left toes were infinitely swollen compared to my right toes. they hurt wicked badly! thankfully when i woke up the pain had subsided a little bit and the swelling had gone down.

i got up and got ready and headed to a rainbow meeting for the first time in ages, and the first time in new york. everyone was super friendly and made me feel not awkward. the assembly is still pretty new and i got to help and fill in as hope, bad i know but whatevs! there were some differences and stuff but everything sort of comes back to you! then after the meeting they held rehearsal for initiation, they balloted this meeting, and i got to pretend to be the clueless candidate. by the end i eneded up being there for about 4.5 hours but it really didnt seem like that long and it was something i really needed and i am looking forward to getting more involved with this assembly and learning more about the NY differences and sharing my experience!

after it was over i walked and met up with sasha, then we met with krysta (after i got some good quality fred cuddle time!) and we headed out for food. i got subway and they got cosi and then we went to the courtyard and chilled there while eating... then i finally had to part ways.

i met up with diane for her 200th show celebration and shared in our excitement for kyle dean in n2n. then we saw altar boyz... the show was super fun since it was a double wunderstudy show... joey was on as luke (he is so great as luke) and mitch was on as mark (and he was super freakin' awesome!). the show was going so fine until something about you. ya know all i want to do is be pulled up on that freaking stage as the something about you girl, because when i was so very long ago they didnt take pictures and i want one! i understand and respect the rue of not being allowed t pull up altarholics but by golly it still sucks and is uncool when you are sitting next to an altarholic and THEY get pulled up onstage for the second time in less than a year. i wouldnt have been upset (well that upset) if i hadnt been at the show but i was sitting right next to HER! upset isnt the right explanation of the emotion i felt but i know i lost control and made some sort of face of shock/horror/jealousy/anger/???? and i keep telling myself to "let it go" tamra but its hard because i am naturally a jealous person. and well it just isnt fair... yes 200 is a big milestone but you know what so is freaking 100! how many people have seen that show more than 100 times? not that many... i am not asking for a pull up everytime but really i think i have earned it! 121 is a big number and do you know how many people i get to got and see the show? i mean i get alot of people there... i should sign up for the affiliate thing but would rather people see the show than profit from getting them to see the show (i am weird i know)... so that is my soap box and i am going to be not pleased about this for quite sometime...

moving on! after the show we went to TOL to celebrate and ended up staying until just before midnight... i also let someone in on my true level of crazy... still trying to access if that was a mistake or not... then home i went... but i didnt stop there! i decided that i should bake the cakes for the tony award cake i was making before i went to bed so that i wouldnt heat up the apartment in the morning or be rushed for it to cool in time... then i went on a cleaming mission to help make it much easier for krysta to do her finishing cleaning touches... then to bed i went at like 4 am ish!

Day 291/365 (June 5, 2009)

2009-06-08T02:12:00.006-04:00

anywho i didnt get much sleep since i had gotten in so late from karaoke and had to get up early to meet krysta at next to normal rush. she had been so insistent that i see aaron tveit in it before he left , she worked it out that she rushed the first part, then i would finish it out. it was drizzly and my pants and shoes got wet and the wind ended up making me really cold! i also had tucker with me which was totally fine and fun until he had to go potty and i had to move him to the wet street to go and he wouldnt and ended up with a very wet dog with a full bladder (paranoia now). anywho there was a person behind me in line that when i saw him he wicked familiar but i couldnt quite place him. well after i got my ticket and was just at the subway i realized why he looked so familiar... he was zeke (the baker guy) in high school musical that i saw out in texas!

anywho i got home and did a bunch of stuff... i took a much needed nap at one point... i would also like to point out that at some point during my sleep that night i did something and my toes were in pain! so eventually i headed out to meet up with krysta and steph. i chose to wear my boots since my sneakers were still wet and it was still raining. anywho i met them at a yummy place called rice and beans. after dinner krysta left us and steph and i walked for a bit until we ended up killing time inside the marriot marquis.

we got to the theatre and what did we find on the cast board there was an understudy on for aaron! how am i supposed to let go of my i really dont think aaron is a good performer if i cant see him in the role he is supposedly amazing in? well i didnt care so much since i dont really care and i was glad i was going to see what the story was about. steph and i took our seats and i saw jo ann so went over to chat for a bit. during intermission i ran into hsm guy and asked him if i was right... of course i was and that was pretty random and weird! at SD i also ran into someone who knew who SJ was! that night they also FINALLY announced that kyle dean was taking over for aaron in the show and well i started getting lots of people sending me links about it, which i appreciated so much :D

anywho the show: i thought it was great and i liked it as a better choice for best musical, but i didnt think it was as amazing as everyone had been saying and although the cast really was great i didnt think they were as great as everyone had been making them out to be (highly critical o know) and everyone kept telling me i would be nervous sitting in the front row because someone was so fierce and the story was so emotional i would be in tears like crazy... yea not scared at all and well it just didnt touch me emotionally. i decided i was like the tin man because we both apparently have no heart! well anywho the understidy that played gabe i thought was extremely good and i dont think there is any way aaron could have done a better job than him... he worked that character! i think overall in the show my favorite character (not actor) is the doctor... the "second" rock star one more so

anywho i headed home!

Day 290/365 (June 4, 2009)

2009-06-08T01:56:00.006-04:00

so the day started out with finding out softball was once again rained out... which turned out to be a good thing because i didnt feel like having to get ready for the day that early. anywho i found out during the day that mitch was going on for luke in altar boyz and even though i have been really good about not seeing it too often i wanted to see him as Luke since that is my favorite character. i also knew i would only get a ticket if i could get what i consider a good seat since i am a seat snob. i also made plans with kavin and he knew i would only go if there was a good seat.

well anywho my plan was to go to the box office then help mary lotto hair. i got to the box office and was not given very excitable seat options so i was going to hold off until i could talk to kavin and help wit hair... so i high-tailed it over to the theater just in time for the lotto and found mary, sasha, matthew, mackenzie, and zuri. luckily mackenzie was called right away so sasha and i peaced out! (later i found out my name had been called... yay?)

Sasha and i went on a mailbox hunt, and did a little bit of walking then i went to the box office to buy the tickets. well just s i was about to give th discount code i was told it was going to be a wunderstudy show and that mitch had been switched to mark and joey was going to be luke. so i ended up not getting the tickets because i knew i was seeing mitch as mark on saturday. (i have already seen joey do all 5 roles!) then we went back to sasha's and hung out for a while.

later i headed to NWS to meet kavin for the final round of karaoke idol. i made a random friend for a few minutes waiting for kavin, who it turned out was inside the whole time seeing The Toxic Avenger, and i chatted with Michael for a tiny bit while he waited for someone.

anywho finally met up with kavin and i got to sing twice during the night and watched the final round of karaoke idol... i wasnt happy with the winner but whatevs! it was so nice hanging with kavin and it was one of my favorite nights i have spent at karaoke because he is so fun and i havent seen him since january and we danced around and all that fun stuff... we left at seriously like 2 in the morning!

Day 289/365 (June 3, 2009)

2009-06-03T13:44:00.010-04:00

this was how i found emma when i woke up for reals this morning. Before i fell asleep emma did the cutest thing, she came up along side my body, flung herself onto me, curled her head on my arm, and then wound her body down the rest of my arm, then purred like crazy while i pet her. i kept waking up in the middle of the night and i guess this morning i finally had my share of joni mitchell... i am sorry but i dont think her voice is all that great and dont understand the attraction people seem to have for her music.

an idea forms, plotting and planning: a while back emily sent me a link for hunter bell's tony award cake recipe. i read it and laughed but felt as if it were a challenge. i am not saying i am going to attempt to make it, but i will say that i just spent the better part of an hour figuring out a way to modify his directions so that if i do it wont fall over. and mine would be more like it, since his recipe seems to lack the middle part the plaque actually goes on... it just means if i do make this it would be bigger than life size and i need and impressive dowel that will be big enough to go through the cookie and the cake and down below what the cake will be on so it wont fall over. i figure if i do it it will either be a photo op for hunter bell or a photo op for cake wrecks! (http://www.titleofshow.com/blog/index.php?itemid=1736)

i left the apartment and met up with krysta to drop off tucker, then i headed for some cake related errands. i found some great things and bought supplies at home depot... how hardcore is that? anywho i also brainstormed another idea i might do instead of using the black and white cookie. i also got glitter gel and it looks so cool but since i got special sugar i am afraid it might not show up, or it might drip... oh well, i look forward to this challenge!

it began to rain and i was getting soaked so i was glad to get home and change into dry clothes and am now wasting the night away!

Day 288/365 (June 2, 2009)

2009-06-03T00:31:00.006-04:00

i paid more bills, and i went on a cleaning spree. i wiped down the surfaces in the bathroom, including the tub, and i did a bazillion dishes... practically all our silverware! i also wiped down and organized all our surfaces, i just couldnt get to my bedroom... will stay messy for a while!

then i met mark at barnes and noble, and ran into kelly :D

the story of my life did a performance and CD signing. it was nice to see will chase and malcolm gets sing the great songs again. then mark and i did some walking and ended up chatting in the courtyard before i came home. i finally had the penne a al vodka i had been craving for a few days, a TON of asparagus, and topped it off with the last half pound of cherries!

ps i also had such a happy dream at some point last night... i cant share it but it put smiles on my face!

Day 287/365 (June 1, 2009)

2009-06-01T13:50:00.008-04:00

i went out on an errand with tucker for krysta. it was so frustrating because tucker just flat out was not cooperating in the walking department and i had to carry him most of the way. anywho i finally found the drop box i needed because krysta had given me the address it was by. so when i couldnt find it i went in the building who had the address she gave and CARRIED tucker. well anywho i asked the security guy if he knew where the ups drop box was and he told me it was right over there by the other security guard. (about twenty five feet away). anywho i told him thankyou and he said but you cant go there because no dogs are allowed in the building, then asked if i had someone else who could go drop it off for me, and i was like no it is just me and him and i am carrying him, cant i just drop it off? he once again said there are no dogs allowed in this building and i was like well i am going over there now pretend you dnt see him and he was protesting to the other guard like i told her no dogs and he looked like she just is trying to drop off a package, no big deal! really that guy was one stupid person.

on the way home i finally stopped and bought fruit from the street guy and got so much yum! i mean look at those cherries and peaches! i even bought a super yummy tomato and a fresh avocado to eat. i came home and ate the tomato and avocado, two peaches, and like half a pound of cherries!

anywho mark had called and said he was coming into the city to try avenue q lotto, and i said i would come meet him and help. krysta asked if i could bring tucker then and she would help, so i did. i ended up being the first name called and well afraid my lotto luck is maxed out right now. then mark and i headed to next to normal to try and buy tickets for him, michelle, and i think nicole... but there lady there wasnt so cool so we failed. then we got some yummy chinese food. since i had sweet and sour chicken not too long ago i got chicken and broccoli... i really LOVE broccoli!

then we hung in the courtyard until he went to the show. i headed home and watched part of i'm a celebrity get me out of here... i can sense this will be a new guilty pleasure! then i went back out and met him at TOL for some open mic night. we stayed for a while and had fun and i was skeeved out at one point and also made really happy by something mark had done for me... yay!

i missed kate pazakis' cd release party which made me really sad, but i just couldnt spend the money on it... i am getting more careful with the use of my money... and yea i know it totally ricked and had a great turnout and thankfully sasha didnt end up being there by herself.

also on my way to meet mark after Q let out i had a showdown with a rat... i was brave and stood my ground... the subway people cheered me on!

Day 286/365 (May 31, 2009)

2009-05-31T15:48:00.012-04:00

i love how emma always curls her tail up on her body like that when sitting or laying down.

anywho this was not a good day for me. i was in a really depressive mood, like one of the worst i have been in a long while. i know what came over me, and i wish i had someone to talk to and i know what i need but cant get it. (calling this life woes in my tags). i am thankful krysta had volunteered the night before to help sasha and autumn get the little mermaid student tickets because really the thought of getting out of bed (ok well off the couch) for more than a few minutes was painful... enough that i didnt even go to path mark because it was "too far away" i meant to go down eventually and hang for a bit, but well emotionally and mentally i couldnt even though i am sure hanging would have helped.

i spent the day watching lots of tv, including the cute maneater on lifetime. i also finally cleared my inbox and even paid lots of bills... boredom in the highest.

at one point i went grocery shopping and bought some stuff. i made a real dinner of terriyaki beef and yummy mashed potatoes. i ate a lot but it was good. i also did a bunch of dishes

Day 285/365 (May 30, 2009)

2009-05-31T15:48:00.009-04:00

by the end of the day i did a lot of walking to and fro. basically i took tucker to meet krysta and mark and i met at the in the heights lotto. tucker passed out next to me on the street at one point and i got some happiness news about next to normal. i somehow won the in the heights lotto (last named called) a la the same way the final time i saw rent from lotto when mark was all i guess we didnt win.

anywho by the end of the night i ate some subway and hung in the courtyard, then hung out with sasha, autumn, fred, pip, tucker, and krysta at sasha's.

pretty good day

Day 284/365 (May 29, 2009)

2009-05-31T15:47:00.007-04:00

the day didnt start off to great... i almost used body wash instead of shampoo, then almost lost my balance completely and fell in the shower... can you say heart attack? well then it got better (not) when i was taking tucker ona walk and he got a hold of a chicken bone and even trying to swap him pupperoni for it didnt work and resulted in my hand in his mouth, and then my other hand attacked while trying to free that hand. in the end i had at least 15 scratched and puncture wounds bleeding from it and two swelling bruised fingers that hurt like nobodies business for the next two days. (we call him demon puppy for a reason)

then the day got better. i accomplished a goal i had set for myself sometime in march as soon as the weather got to a point that was ideal for me and i walked from 141 and lennox to 46th street (richard rodgers theater). anywho the walk was great... i had my music and i walked there in the time it took to listen to the Xanadu OBC and *NSYNC's No Strings Attached (UK Release) all the way through. it was nice having time for myself and stretching those legs. the only stinky thing about it was sometime when i was at 72nd street where broadway and amsterdam sort of criss-cross i thought i had put myself on broadway to finish the walk but i guess i wasnt paying attention because i stayed on amsterdam. but i wasnt really thinking i was just listening to my music and walking and i mean flags werent raised for me that i was on the wrong path at first because i walk along those lines quite often! i needed to be at in the heights in time for the lotto at 6 and when i realized i was on either 10th or 11th ave i had to high tail it and ended up running the last 5 streets to make lotto in time. i dont run and it was painful and not a cool way to end my serene walk, and they ended up calling lotto 2 minutes before 6, and i was ticked off... though not too bdly since sasha did win but still i was mad!

anywho so i met up with sasha, marty, and autumn and then we evetually headed to Vynl for dinner... got the turkey burger this time and then autumn and sasha went to the show, and marty and i went to the apartment. he did someunpacking and i did some fred time. we played with pip for a bit then marty set up his wii and played that for a while, so much fun! and fred spent the whole time like that on the coffee table.

then i met sasha and autumn at pinkberry and we headed to mostly sondheim. it was of course another great night of fun there and the two of them sang for good, and did a great job, and there were FOUR hosts for a while since marty thomas, brian nash, danny calvert, and a tricky Kate pazakis were there (kate left after an hour or so). they began singing aquarius and let me tell you the sound that came from them was way more powerful and fierce than the whole of the broadway cast. it actually made me enjoy the song for once (i am not a big hair fan).

the rest of the night had fun moments including MT and DC doing the whole of omigod you guys from legally blonde. i made my way home and crawled into bed at 5 am since it ran until 4!

Day 283/365 (May 28, 2009)

2009-05-29T12:47:00.008-04:00

it says: "You have a potential urge and the ability for accomplishment"

so the day started with me waking up relatively early and feeling really down about the job thing, the last few weeks have been a sort of slow spiral and then the last few days i have been just a complete emotional plummet. things keep happening that give me temporary good times but they dont seem to be enough, and my throat was still killing me! peppermint is a life saver and i will miss my peppermint sticks when they are gone

then to make matters worse i started feeling really queasy and even though i had lunch at like 1 around 4 i could still taste the fluffernutter stuck in my throat it seemed and it was so disgusting! i wont be eating those for a while to come now!

anywho i got some happy news karolina asked if i would come with her to rock of ages since sadly karen couldnt make it. of course i jumped at the chance since i hadnt actually seen her in some time and i do enjoy the show.

emma has unfortunate timing and chooses to cuddle with me when i have to get up and go! anywho krysta came home and after the long day with tucker too we left, and i parted ways. i met karolina at ollies intending not to eat since i felt like vomiting but the food is so good so i had some edamame and chicken dumplings (YUM), and some of her chicken fried rice. then we headed to the theater. the show was even better this time and first time i saw the whole cast. karolina loved it and with the exception of the gigling fan girls in front, the girl giving lap dances in the box, and the most obnoxious theater goer i have encountered who did everything wrong except have a cell phone go off, including having a full dinner during the second act, it was just an awesome show.

anywho so we headed to stage door after and karolina got almost everyone in the cats, but the funniest moment (she will kill me for this but oh well) happened when she got her picture with james c. so it went a little something like this, though i am sure they are not exact quotes but they were pretty close to it, and he might go see it! (i am so good!)

Karolina held up peace sign while he held up rock on sign

Him: what is that
Karolina: what?
Me: oh that's from another show we see alot
Him: oh hair
Me: no altar Boyz
James: is that a good show, should I go see it?
Me: yea, I've seen it 120 times
Him: really how about this can you make it a 121?
Me: we're working on that

anywho then we finally went our separate ways and i got home to find a wonderful youtube video that i spent 2 hours trying and failing to rip audio from

Day 282/365 (May 27, 2009)

2009-05-28T12:32:00.007-04:00

i woke up pretty early on my own thanks to so much sleep the day before, but my throat was still kind of hurting. i checked my email and saw mark was coming in so i gave him a call and we made plans.

i met up with him at wicked and we put our names in the lotto but then took a peek at the cast list and when kyle dean's name was no longer listed there i was like i have no interest in seeing the show if he isn't in it, and he thought about it and decided he didnt want to see it either (mainly because i dont think he wanted to see it by himself) so we left... and i have no idea if either of us was called, oops! any who we ended up at the 9 to 5 lotto to help sasha and matthew. we ran into penski so she hung around to help too. after sasha won we all went to vynl for some yummy food... i love my BLT but next time i will get the mac and cheese that sasha had gotten... so much yum!

then we parted ways and mark and i did some more walking and ended up in starbucks for some time. i finally parted ways with mark after a great afternoon and went to path mark to do some grocery shopping. a stupid crazy lady began following me around saying "oh honey. you're so pregnant" (tho she was so stupid she probably thought your so pregnant) and saw my shoelace was untied (what else is new) and kept saying she would tie it for me if i wanted so i wouldnt trip and hurt the baby. ya know i might not be a decent weight but i do NOT look pregnant and it irked me every time she said it, so i had to ditch her by weaving up and down a few aisles!

Whatever i ended up home and did another successful bathroom walk outside with tucker. then it was time to try and not feel so sick anymore from my poor throat and the sinuses filling up. which isnt helped by emma's insistence on cuddling up on my face, this picture is of tucker misbehaving as usual!

Day 281/365 (May 26, 2009)

2009-05-26T13:00:00.006-04:00

it is wrong how excited i am that tucker will now pee and poop consistently outside! so anywho i woke up after a ton of sleep (like 10.5 hours) actually feeling good for once... little did i know how far down i would go! so i also had a sore throat and began my battle with that. well eventually throughout the rest of the day i ended up falling in and out of sleep. like i slept way more than half of the day. which made me groggy and miserable. the only picture i took was a screen cap from my phone reminding me to check out pics taken from the rock of ages today show performance

Day 280/365 (May 25, 2009)

2009-05-26T12:59:00.004-04:00

after like 3 hours of sleep, and a really scary nightmare that almost made me not leave the apartment i conquered the temporary fear of the nightmare and headed out to RockefellerPlaza for the Today Show. i was surprised that even that early and on a holiday the train came pretty fast and even ran express, i got there in record time! anywho we began our wait, then they finally let us into the area around the stage. i never got any of the free stuff that was being handed out despite my best efforts, i almost got a pin but someone stole it from me as the kid looked directly at my face while trying to hand it to me! anywho after hours on our feet, and numerous amazing sound checks we got a rocking performance. poor constantine almost wiped out when trying to stand on a speaker, then tried it again and mouthed "watch this" before attempting and succeeding! i now know the blocking and choreography of those performances hardcore! Rock of Ages did such a great job and it was so worth it!

then i came home and stayed up for quite some time before i finally crashed into a little nap. eventually i woke up and did a little tv watching before crashing at about 10:30

Day 279/365 (May 24, 2009)

2009-05-26T12:58:00.002-04:00

the day started off kinda hum drum, then got really good, then ended really bad. i did take an actual picture this day, but this was the most important one, which i screen capped from icanhascheezburger.

it was a lazy morning, and i could have used the car but i didnt... then eventually we got stuff ready and eventually people came over. It was a lovely afternoon/evening with family and friends. we ate lots of food, and i even found hummus i actually liked! the kids put on a dance party show for us, and even though we kept going in and out because of the rain or lack thereof it was just a really nice day and i am happy i stayed the whole weekend.

then i left and took the train back even though i didnt want to because i didnt want to ditch mary for seeing rock of ages on the today show the next morning. well sometime in transit i have no idea when it happened but my emotions took a crazy downward crash. i was so unhappy and cranky and it just wasnt good. when i saw this particular icanhascheezburger i almos cried when i saw it because it was so cute and i guess i needed a hug i never got at that moment. eventually i put away all my clothes and went to bed, not that i got to sleep for too long!

Day 278/365 (May 23, 2009)

2009-05-26T12:56:00.011-04:00

woke up early, and went to dennis' baseball game. it was super cute and fun. it turned out to be a great day weather wise! then left and clare continued on working on her science project. eventually clare, winnie, and myself went to see hannah montana (the movie) at the cutest movie theater. it looked like it was an outdoor theatre put inside. the movie was super cute and had fun catchy music! so what if i enjoy hannah montana!

then i was dragged to church, which i know made clare and winnie happy. then we came home and i did some babysitting. even though alot of tv was already watched i let them watch the first part of the second star wars... but i occupied myself with my phone since i had no interest in watching it... i can still say i have never seen star wars! then i showed paula some stuff on my computer and she had fun with photo booth... eventually to bed i went!

this picture was a stuffed animal i found on clare's bed and thought it was cute... then i looked at the tag and it said it was the common cold... yes they make stuffed animals out of what virus molecules look like (really, why?) later i found winnie's... hers was the kissing disease, LOL!

Day 277/365 (May 22, 2009)

2009-05-26T12:46:00.005-04:00

the day was good... i woke up, showered, went to TARGET!!!! i didnt spend too much time there but the time spent was glorious, even if i couldnt get the flip-flops in the size i needed. later paula and i began our project of hanging up different pictures. With the exception of these last four it was pretty simple and easy... we just had to find the right spot for them. these however required much thought and then planning... but i busted out some awesome math and logical skills and we hung these bad boys! they dont look it from the angle of this picture but they are spaced evenly and the two larger ones ended up being the same level! i was quite proud :D

i even got to drive a bit and took a little driving tour of CNR, and other parts of new rochelle, and i never needed to look up directions to get from the different places!

Day 276/365 (May 21, 2009)

2009-05-21T22:18:00.003-04:00

Success! after how many weeks of trying i finally made it to a game of softball in the park!

i woke up on the early side and did my usual emma cuddle time, then got ready for the day. tucker and i left for central park to meet mark and got there right on schedule! I ran into neil which was nice and he showed us how to get to the field since well i suck with directions and got way lost last time! bumped into steph and carina, which was nice! the weather was perfect and we got a spot in the shade and were able to watch the game and chat and all that fun stuff... after tucker even went pee outside! he didnt walk as much as i would have liked him too but he did enough that he fell asleep on my lack the second i sat on the subway.

then i got home and got the last of my stuff together and said bye to emma and tucker and made my way to the train station, new rochelle bound. i received a very joyous welcome from my cousins and headed to their place. it was an enjoyable afternoon with the little ones watching a tiny bit of tv, reading, having yummy pizza, and playing games... phew let me tell you i played "kickball" and tag with my cousins and boy did i get a workout... i ran so much i got all itchy and sweaty and so red! but the proudest moment was when i outran my 6 year-old cousin dennis around the whole house because let me tell you that kid moves quick... so yea i was very pleased!

i also helped krysta through email which was difficult since she left her phone at work so she would email me and i would contact the different people through text and phone call then email her back! thankfully she was able to get her phone and it was not lost.