Day 320/365 (July 4, 2009)

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 177/365 (February 11, 2009)

Sasha and I were going to try the In The Heights lotto for the matinee show, but there was a problem... they didnt have one!. I thought this was the case when Sasha first asked, but then when i looked it up on Playbill it said they had a matinee, but then we learned early this mornign i was right and Playbill was wrong. We then decided we would rush either Guys and Dolls or The Story of My Life. We both wanted to try G&D first and that is what we ended up getting a ticket to.

We got lunch and went back to Sasha's for a bit before showtime. Entering the Nederlander after all of its' changes (especially after seeing Rent the night before) was crazy weird and emotional. The place really does look gorgeous and still smells of paint. Seeing Brian, Sonny, and Terrance all spify-ed up was just weird. They looked great but they were so dressy! We chatted for a bit before heading in to our grayish/silver seats. During intermission we went up to see the view from the Mezz and the beautiful ceiling artwork is of course gone :(

I had wanted to take pictures but couldnt find my camera at the time, and forgot to bring my phone with me. The show itself is pretty good but i will refrain from my actual opinions but my favorites were the ensemble and the two playing Sarah and Skye. There is some impressive choreography during the sewer craps game. We had a partial view and the place was packed so we couldnt move over but they do have an impressive screen for background at times and an incredible sound system. Before the show began the director came out and made a few announcements that inlcuded telling us this was the first wednesday matinee performance, turn off all electronics, no recordings, and my personal favorite explaning what a preview means and telling us that this might be a train wreck... LOL!

Stage Door was a fiasco to say the least! SO many people and so many that i am not quite familiar with so by the time i saw them and was able to process who they were they had already left. Some even left at rapid speed even though i saw them coming, but didnt stop them because i could tell they just wanted to leave. i did get this picture with Nick Adams and got his and Steve Rosens' autograph.

Day 152/365 (January 17, 2009)

I left the house to go help Lizzie with In The Heights Lotto... sadly we lost but the lotto that night was a massive reunion of running into so many people! i shall try to list them all: Mary, Kaitlyn, Becca, Andrew, Frances, Lindz, Her Mom, Stef, Penski, Sami, Sami's Mom (ok she was on the street as i was walking there), Michelle (SA), Brian, Kate, Katie, seriously i know i am forgetting a few! Also Jo Ann had called me earlier to ask if i wanted her extra Spring Ticket... so i said yes.

Then Jake, Lizzie, and I went and got dinner at a diner and it was really yummy... then they walked me over to Altar Boyz and we parted ways... or so i thought! I went in really early so i could do a cookie delivery before the show... well as i was downstairs occupying myself the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate the building! i then went to Starbucks and hung with Lizzie and Jake for quite sometime until they let us back in... i give NWS and everyone involved with Boyz alot of credit because even though we weren't even let back into the building until about 7:48 they still managed to get the show going only ten minutes kate! I was also glad i had gone in earlier because there was such a crowd of people that were trying to get in for the practically sold-out show, and if any other show was playing t that time they were ripping people's tickets instead of scanning them, but since i was already scanned earlier to go in, i was spared a ripped ticket! The show was great of course, and after i did the stage door thing i headed out to a place called the Crooked Knife.

I went there for Whitney's goodbye send off (part one, but i cant go to part two). I met Whitney at my first ever Altarholics day and even though we don't see each other very often i really think she is quite great and i will miss her now that she is heading off to live in Chicago... before i left she, one of her friends, and myself were talking to these random two boys... and well quite frankly i found it amusing since they were the first straight boys i have spoken to that i didn't already know in well a REALLY REALLY long time! Then i snapped this picture of us just before midnight and headed home.

Day 53/365 (October 10, 2008)

Sasha came to visit for the weekend!!!!!!!! Seriously it was so nice to see her again; I really miss her and can’t wait for her to move back… Mary met up with us and after a failed ITH lotto attempt we just bought tickets. I really do like In The Heights but didn’t think I could stand seeing it twice in one week… I was wrong, it just got even better! We even had better seats than Rosie O’Donell and they filmed that performance for the Lincoln Center Archives so I am now a part of history for reals people!

Right after we headed to the insanity that was The After Party and met up with MARTY, Mackenzie, Matthew, and Krysta.