Day 204/365 (March 10, 2009)

bag my ballet slippers came in

This was quite the day! I had decided i had lots of stuff i needed to do and after taking care of job hunting i set out on my errands for the day. This is the first time i spent lots of time doing errands. Although the weather wasn't technically "a beautiful day" i still left the house with nothing but a hoodie and it was good for me!

My exit began with some door troubles, no idea what happened but it decided that it didnt want to shut so after fighting with it for like 5 minutes i won and went on my way. The plan for the day was get stuff i needed to be able to take the ballet class i want to take and look for stuff for Texas. I headed to 34th street to get athletic wear and sunglasses. I looked in K-Mart and then went to old navy. Nothing worked at Old Navy (and i didnt even find any shirts for texas but that is why sasha and i are going out wednesday), so i went back to K-mart since i saw some there. In between i stopped in H&M hoping to find some sunglasses, but i will grab some cash and look on NYC streets some point soon. I also went to Bank of America to get my temporary debit card. Lucky for them i was in no rush since i ended up waiting 45 minutes for something that was finished in 5 minutes once a person saw me.

i got a chance to catch up on the phone with Mark as i walked.

then i walked over to Broadway Dance Center on 45th to get my photo taken for the ID card i need... sadly no one was at the kiosk so i couldn't do that but i got a feel for the place and asked some questions i had to an actual human and got answers that made me excited and feel better. Then i headed over to Sasha's and was greeted by Matthew and Pip, who he likes to call Nibs. It was nice having the pit stop there and chatting, sadly matthew wasn't feeling so well so he went to go for a long nap and i left before he woke up. Finally i had to leave to get to the Capezio store before it closed. I found the ballet shoes i needed for a very reasonable price and made my way out.

I decided to walk up to columbus circle and go to the Whole Foods there and ended up buying asparagus (asparagoose) and pizza supplies. The line was soooooo very long! but worth it. As i was walking to the store i gave Zina a call on the phone and ended up talking to her for almost an hour as i went on my crazy cheese hunt in the store and waited in line and then went outside. FInally i decided i didnt want to get off the phone and was sick of walking around columbus circle so i just walked to the 72nd street station while talking. and let me tell you it was a much needed talk. i have been having random really depressed moments lately and talking to her really helped, i cant wait for the cold to go away so we can hang out again (she doesnt come into the city when it is cold).

then i came home and made another real dinner of yummy pizza with onions and ate my beloved asparagoose! I finally went to watch Tv and we record Law & Order: SVU every week, and if i am home i usually watch it but today i decided i was going to watch without a trace... well as i was doing that i was checking facebook statuses and saw about 6 people with ones saying Gallagher was on the episode of L&O, and i had gotten a twitter from devon saying the same thing. So as soon as WAT was over i put on L&O. i was excited he had a large part on the show this time and well as yo may know i tend to be a little psychotic when i am watching tv shows and movies... i like violence, and i love bad guys, and i i love to see people cry! poor krysta had to deal with my craziness! he did such an amazing acting job on the show but i kept thinking gallagher!  So before i knew who his character was i was hoping he would be the murderer and he finally was! at one point his character was being interviewed by the psychiatrist and he got upset and i started yelling push him push him, and then he did and he feel to the ground and his character picked up a chair to hit him with it and i was screaming yes! the whole time causing krysta to die of laughter! later on he had a dramatic scene and ended up crying and i was like yes crying, and i got to see him dragged away in handcuffs... i dont know why i like to see the bad guys (though his character wasnt actually a bad guy but still) dragged off in cuffs and crying, and why i like so much violence (i like to call drama) but i do!) then instead of going to bed i stayed up way late playing online, writing this, ordering a leotard, and reading Devon's recently updated photo blog.

At one point while watching Without A Trace i stumbled upon someone's blog that had a really funny post that made smile, laugh, and be a little sad all at the same time, but it was a great read!

Krysta and i also decided it was time to throw out our High School Musical shower curtain because it was falling off its HSM hooks by ripping, so now we replaced it with a super cute duck one that i really like, but i miss HSM and it will take some getting used to! At least our bathroom is now primarily blue and not pink.

Day 90/365 (November 16, 2008)

This is a picture i took of the stage... it would have been better but i couldn't very well ask the two in front of me to please sit so i could take a better picture of the stage now could i? I placed the image of the poster on the picture for a better identifier.

Let me just tell you how much i loved this PLAY! I waited at the Atlantic (and surrounding area) for forever! At five minutes before "curtain" I was able to get a rush seat... 4th row, not to far away from the center. It was seriously the perfect seat... i walked in and my first thought was i love the set design! I don't like plays very much, and i certainly am not into politics! i mean in college i could have gotten a political science minor with all the law classes i took, but since i refused to take any political core requirements that was not a possibility.

My basic expectation for this play was that i would be bored out of my mind, but at least i would get to see Gallagher in a new role. I thought Port Authority was well done, but i also know i could not have seen it more than once, let alone the 4 times i did, if he were not in the cast.

I have never enjoyed a play like this before. It ended with my feeling excited, something i never thought possible for a play. Each actor did a superb job, and the way the set worked was really all kinds of awesome, and i loved the "edgy" scene transitions. I wanted to see it again that night (but i already had plans) and i fully plan on seeing it again, this time with Sasha in tow.

I love "evil" characters and manipulation and that was so this show. There were two characters that executed this brilliantly. One was out in the open, and the other completely underhanded. You didn't realize how truly manipulating the character of Tom was until he revealed himself... and then there was Stephen who went completely crazy when his whole world unraveled and he took everyone down with him that he could. Yes this was a great show!

there were only two things i would change:

1. Gallagher's character name... the name itself was fine, but the nickname they kept using well i just don't like it, and it bothered me to hear

2. At first i thought that Chris Noth's character was the presidential hopeful, which i just didn't buy. A little later i realized that he was just another higher up person on the campaign team, and then everything he did/said made perfect sense.

As a random note: i don't have a picture with Gallagher because i still don't feel the need to. How can one want another picture when you already have the perfect picture from 10 months ago?