Day 212/365 (February 14, 2015)

Jess arrived super early so yay! I spent the day staying warm and having fun with Lola. I helped her with her thank you cards and bookmarks for the kids in her class. I was taking a picture of her working on them and she caught me and said "no pictures while I'm working" and then Karen was vacuuming and she put her hands on her ears and said "I can't concentrate." Then later on I pulled out our window markers when I thought about them and she and I had fun making pictures on the mirrors. She asked me all hurt like "why didn't you tell me about these before Tamra?" and i was like I forgot we had them. She ended up with green all over her hands from clean up and I was like you look like Elphaba and she asked who that was and I told her a wicked witch. I didn't know if she had seen the wizard of oz or knew about wicked. Then she said she knew of a wicked witch she is in wicked.... i was like well she is a Broadway baby! She also wanted to know why we still had snowflakes hanging up and didn't replace them with hearts.

Jess also told us about a "cat trap" where if you make a circle on the floor with tape cats will sit in it like a box... it worked!

I also made crepes that were wonderful!

Later I left to help Jess with Hedwig lotto an thankfully she got a ticket! Then I met up with Ben for dinner at Cosi before we went to see Jersey Boys thanks to Jordan Roth's twitter contest. I was treated like royalty. we were greeted by 3 different people, including the house manager, who called me by name and thanked us for being there on behalf of Jordan. We were given drink tickets and chocolate roses and the absolute best seats in the house in my opinion. It was truly a wonderful evening. I have always heard that Jordan is a stand-up guy but this was my first experience and he went above and beyond and I just can't get over how wonderful the evening was. The added bonus was I finally saw Jersey boys and can cross that off my dirty musical theatre secrets for not having seen it. I really enjoyed it and would love to see it again. Then after Ben and I went backstage because his friend Quinn offered to take us so we took a few pictures on stage and chatted for a bit.... definitely the cherry on top of it all!

Day 265/365 (May 10. 2009)

it was anther good day! i got some rest after the last night of fun, then i headed out. I met up with Ewa and her friend, and her friend's boyfriend at a Pinkberry on bleecker st. (i finally let myself get some) and we hung there for quite a while. then we walked to their car and they dropped me off on their way to their hotel. i walked to the courtyard and waited for a bit until the macdonalds were done seeing ABz

Tim gave me the tickets i needed for Broadway Loves the 80's (volume 5), and then we went down and met up with Michelle and Nicole. After we headed to Cosi's and got some yum, then walked to their car and krysta popped out of Josh's so they could meet Tucker. I am so happy i was able to spend that time with them since they are a big part of my new york family. (this was day 1 of running into Jo Ann by the way)

Today was also the day of literally running into everyone and their mother! (although no actual mothers except michelle herself) i even got to speak with mark on the phone for a while. but so many of my friends i ran onto and that was nice and another sign of the good weather being here!

Then i had some time to kill and needed to charge my phone and didnt want to go inside, and as i was heading to starbucks i noticed an outlet on the wall in the courtyard! so i chilled there for a bit letting it charge and ran into more people then i walked to Joe's Pub from the courtyard because i had so much time. when i got there i did my favorite thing to do before taking my place in line which was going to wal-green and sitting in their massaging display chair for about 20 minutes.

Then i got in line and Hope joined me and we were seated. i was so excited because i had only made my reservations that morning and they had said the cushions were taken but when we got there we were on the cushions!  so sad my camera was dead but hope got a few pictures and videos!

This one was so much fun! the theme was movies from the 80's and well it was just an evening of good music, good friends, and great performers! this time there was some good choreography! danny calvert performed thriller with zombies and everything that danced aboive my head and in front of me, and there was YMCA with original cowboy guy who came into the audience and sang to the guy next to hope before heading back and being joined by 4 delightful looking men, and many other great people. Ran into Dom there and we all hung after for a bit.

i also would like to say Mo Rocca is the king of random knowledge and should be on my team if ever we were to play trivial pursuit and made me happy i am not the only person who has never seen a bunch of movies that are "80's classics"

Day 238/365 (April 13, 2009)

It was another crazy day. I of course couldn't fall asleep and by the time i did i barely got like 90 minutes of sleep before i had to get up and head out to my aunt's house to come back to NY. i got there at 4:30 am and then after a little wait we got in the truck and set out. i wasnt able to get much sleep during that ride since i have a wicked hard time falling back asleep when i have already "waken up" for the day. Eventually i got back to NY and made the journey on the subway home with my massive bags.

i wanted to sleep but this didnt happen! i knew i wanted to meet tucker the puppy but i also knew i had to give the kitties my undivided attention for a while before i did this so they didnt think i cared more about him, then them. They have become even closer since tucker came in and SO cute! after a while i went and met him, and he is so adorable and i spent alot of time cleaning up after his puppy accidents, krysta's floor has never been cleaner!

Eventually i was able to get a little nap in which helped because i had a show to go to. TONY magazine was giving away free tickets to Rock of Ages which i had avoided seeing for quite sometime since i thought it was going to be stupid and well there was another major reason that kept me away but you dont pass up free theater! i met with Mary and we went to Cosi and got some yummy dinner and then went on a failed ticket box office mission at 9 to 5 and hair. 9 to 5's box office made me more upset than the helen hayes box office and that is saying something! then the hair one was a major butt munch towards mary so we got her ticket anyway while standing outside so they can suck it! i am sorry but why do box office people have to be so crabby sometimes?

then we went to wait to be let in to RoA, some former NWS employees work there now and i was like oh that is why i dont see them anymore! i dont like admitting i am wrong but i do when it is true... i really thought i was going to HATE rock of ages with an absolute passion but i couldnt have been more wrong. the show was so great and fun and i just loved it! i mean i want to go back like now! the cast was really quite talented, yes ALL of them, and yea. i really thought there wasnt a show i was super excited about out right now (yes people i really am on a break from ABz i just dont want to end up hating it, so i truly am on a hiatus) but now there is! i wanna go back! and the people that came out the SD were really nice... and even my stalker!

my two favorites (i dont know names yet sorry) were the people who played Franz (hit me with your best shot) and the narrator. but drew was right up there with him... okay i know his name but i know people have google alerts for people and well i am being deceptive. The picture up above is "drew" and we are doing something from the show "detroit, michigan" and it made me LOL when i saw it (ok many things did during the show) and i wanted it for a picture... and when i asked for it my friends were all like i bet you dont even know what that means, and before i could be like so what, he was all of course she does... thanks for having my back! (ps i now know what it means)... and it was a nice surprise to run into some other friends that i didnt know were going to be there.

Finally it was late so home we all went, and andrew and i rode the subway until he got to his stop... and i got home and yea i don't know what my problem is but i just cant sleep at night lately and it bothers me that i am having such a difficult time! i also have crazy back pain because the bed i sleep on in MA is just horrible! i mean it shouldnt be because it has soft stuff and pillows but it has just always killed me.