Day 354/365 (August 7, 2009)

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 324/365 (July 8, 2009)

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 311/365 (June 25, 2009)

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 290/365 (June 4, 2009)

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 280/365 (May 25, 2009)

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 248/365 (April 23, 2009)

Today was an interesting day to say the least. Krysta took Tucker to Josh's for the day so there was no puppy to play with, but i had the two best NY kitties to give me some lovin'!

i barely had time after i woke up to eat breakfast (which was frozen yogurt because my refrigerator tends to freeze things, and well when it isnt meant to be frozen it isnt so good) then get myself ready to go out. (I slept in real late.)

I was supposed to meet judith in central park for a little picnic and to watch some softball but that resulted in me sitting on a bench by myself waiting and eating by my lonesome. I was not happy in the least! wish i could say whatever to it but i cant.

Then i headed back home since i needed to shower and stuff before heading out. I went to Penn station to meet Mary, Kim, and Susie. After quite the fiasco of trying to locate each other we went on our way. We lucked out in getting like the last set of seats on the LIRR which were also the ones that faced each other so that was nice.

Once we got to Westbury (on long island) we walked a little and had a failed phone call to a cab place, but we found a company so we grabbed a cab there and headed to the venue. We thought we had front row center seats until we got there and the front row was stupidly organized into 4 rows (true) and then the biggest uncool was that we got split up 2 and 2! but we werent the only ones in our section alone there were two other groups of people that got split up because of it! Luckily the two people next to mary and i were willing to switch with us so we could all sit together.

The show was beyond beyond beyond hilarious! I am not usually into comedians and dont usually find anything they have to say funny, but OMG! I love that he uses music and just has a great way of delivering the material. There were times when he was singing and he would hit some awesome notes and the whole crowd would be cheering and i was like its kinda cool to know that people who arent necessarily into musicals and stuff can appreciate it. I just cant get over how funny it was and Rob was it? was a guy who came out and was really funny too, and then Joberg was awesome! When he came out singing his voice basically filled the whole theatre (or should i say circus tent?) and yea he is justa funny talented guy who can hit some crazy high notes and make it look like nothing. (really wish i had seen him in ABz)... People loved him too and were even buying his CD! I snorted so much during the show that my throat ended up hurting like whoa! and this guy in front of us loved it, like he kept giving me the thumbs up, looking back and laughing and everything. As we were leaving he even told me how much he loved my laughter... i totally made a fan!

After the four of us began our journey home which was quite the trip! We walked up a ways because Susie was all we have time let's just walk back to the train station. Well after a tiny but we were like um we have no idea where to go, so we called a cab number. As we were trying to tell them where we were a cab pulled up and we were like ooo get in. Seriously? he was crazy and sounded funny and drove fast and we all thought we were going to die... this of course led to an interesting discussion on the train about us joking how we thought he was going to kill us... we really are interesting awesome people! So anyways as we were driving we were on a highway which was weird since we didnt take one there and it seemed really long... well that is because instead of taking us to the Westbury train station he took us to the Hicksville train station? we couldn't get out the cab fast enough.

We waited and ended up on a pretty empty train on the way back, but the ride was pretty quick and it was fun talking about crazy creepy cabbie and the show we had just seen. then we parted ways and i walked Mary to Port Authority and then headed home where i got some yum in my tum and wrote this.

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.

Day 234/365 (April 9, 2009)

the day was well spent in my opinion... after taking lots of cute pictures of fred i went on a carzy job application spree... like twice as much as i usually do! i also took a little nap at some point and showered and headed out and about.

i went to go meet mary and susie for a night of fun and as i was climbing up the subway steps i saw mary pass by, so we walked and as we did we were like where are we meeting susie and a few seconds later we saw her before we got our answer. we went to Vynl and got some yummy food... instead of getting the BLT i love so much i branched out and got a turkey burger that was just amazing, it has apples in it and some spices... yum! i met Lil for a hot second and she gave me a cute easter card and little easter goodie cup. i wish i had my act together like her to pass that stuff out! I was also quite surprised/pleased to hear someone call my name in Vnyl and look over and see Laura! unexpected friend encounters are quite appreciated.

After dinner we went and sat in the courtyard talking for quite sometime until we got really cold so we "moved the party" to starbucks. the great thing about starbucks is they dont make you buy anything and so yea we stayed until we moved to TOL. it was too early for karaoke which we knew but it was kind of nice being there with almost no one there and being able to chat still and catch up with dakota, drew, and michael/george.

Karaoke started off quite busted with microphone and sound issues but then worked out and we found a Carlos 3.0 and there were some other musical theater "kids" that were singing and having a good time. Mary also knows me far too well from when i started laughing while singing a song... and it was nice having such lovely times with susie. we finally bounced on the earlier side because we were all tired and Mary had to get to Jersey.

While on the subway i found my camera in the outside pocket of my purse which i had checked several times but the pocket never seemed deep... guess it was really deep and i found out on accident, i was quite happy! i also got really sad/reminicent (spelling blarg!) over Rent because i saw a pretty boy and he made me start singing one song glory and then next thing you know i was all missing it.

i got home and krysta was excited about her new dog and well right now it is 3 am and we are still up... i also came to a realization about "my list" i really didnt think this would happen but the order has changed ... there is a new number 1 to which krysta said she has known for a while but i didnt until tuesday/tonight. i also scandalized mary while simeltaneously making her proud by "growing up." and at one point both krysta and i have hoisted fred up to the ceiling because he is after something imaginary... but whenkrysta was doing it fred ended up trying to deshirt her.... and he and emma were having serious play time... well play for fred, not so much for emma!

i also have been trying for a a day or so, but now really trying to add wicked back into my vocabulary. Growing up in MA (and well new england i guess) wicked is an adjective that is used often. I did not realize that it wasnt a regional thing until i went to school in NY and people would chuckle when i would say something was wicked awesome or whatnot... so slowly it left my vocab, but i want it back in because i love it so, i also feel like people might think i am using it because of the musical but gosh darn it that word was there long before the musical (or even the book) was so by golly into my vocabulary it will go again! besides i am not a bog fan of the musical... sure it has some great songs, but it also has some boring songs, and yes the costuming and set is beyond stellar and i think everyone should see it but man oh man i just dont so much like the show on a continued basis and am kind of sad about the amount of times i have seen it... ending tangent and watching bones before going to bed even though i should just go to bed... or maybe i wont, i have no idea!

Day 226/365 (April 1, 2009)

oh this was a weird and rough day! i woke up on the earlier side and was totally fine... life was good... then it all went downhill!

sometime around 2 i started to feel a little dizzy and was like WTF! then i had a conversation with mary on the phone and i told her that i was feeling dizzy and she was like try taking a nap maybe it will make you feel better and i figured she was right... so i hung up and let myself fall asleep.

well when i woke up a little while later i quickly discovered that i felt a thousand times worse! anytime i tried lifting my head up off the couch the room would spin around so violently that i felt sick and i could barely see straight.... i only felt ok when lying completely flat. i had no idea what was wrong with me or what medicine would ever help since i dont know what to take for spinning rooms. going to the bathroom was interesting at one point as the room was so spinny that i was richocheting (whatever) off of the tables and walls trying to get there then because i wasnt laying down i felt like i was going to faint and had just barely made it back to the couch to lay down.

my mom had called at one point and i made the mistake of telling her how dizzy i was and completely afraid because i had no idea what was happening and NOTHING like that had ever happened before... so then she called my aunt maureen since she lives on the UWS and is clearEly the closet relative to me and i ended up arguing and spending lots of time on the phone with her because she meant well but the last thing i wanted to do was be on the phone with anybody when i was feeling that way, and i had eaten the chocolates at one point hoping that maybe it was my blood sugar was low.. yea that didn't help. eventually krysta came home and i took two of her ibuprofen even though i dint think it would help, but thankfully it did and after a long night sleep i woke up with a little headache but felt fine.

Day 223/365 (March 29, 2009)

i still felt sick but headed out to meet Karolina and David in SoHo for another wedding thing. this has turned out to be my favorite so far because it was informative and not a zoo! there was a really yummy drink we got that was made of passion fruit, edle berry (spelling?), and some sort of vodka, and yummy appetizers, and some chocolate to try. we got a nifty gift nag with chocolate in it that came in handy later... well tried to at least.

then we parted ways and met up with Mary and Devon and went and got dinner at Vynl. I got the most yummy BLT and we had fun, then headed over to NWS for altar boyz/cookie delivery. While waiting we were ran into Nicole who was volunteer ushering for Rooms and then were joined by michelle and tim while they waited to see toxic avenger. i dropped off the cookies and we had our usual bought of fun and diane joined us too.

the show was great and neil had a wonderful flub of losing the van instead of wrecking it... then there was a BC/EFA photo shoot for mary and devon and neil's mom. (other people too but i didn't know them.)

then we headed to TOL but never actually stayed in there, instead spent the whole time outside because they had moved the tables and chairs out for some sort of TA talk back. we were able to say our goodbye to neil and had lots of fun with each other. then finally it was time to head home!

Day 211/365 (March 17, 2009)

St. Patrick’s Day! I got up and went to meet Karolina at a place on 35th and met some of her other friends, then I went to say hi to Brian the birthday boy at the house of brews. I ended up spending lots of time at 3A with Sasha, Matthew, Mary, and Pip… and eventually Nick and Mackenzie. We performed some SA and 13, and took lots of pictures, we took Pip on a walk to the Wicked Stage Door and I wore no coat… stupid! But I was so green. Someone told me Pip was a summer dog, not a winter dog… what does that even mean? Eventually Matthew, nick, and Mackenzie walked me to the subway but they ran into someone so we spent time doing nothing much and I showed off my “cartwheel” because well I cant do them. I also spent a good portion of the day cutting HSM audio.

Day 185/365 (February 19, 2009)

Today was an interesting day. i consider the day beginning at 4:10 when i met up with Mark. I met him at the Marriot and we hung there for a really long time until we headed to get dinner before seeing Altar Boyz. It was a nice surprise to find out Mary would be joining us.

After yummy chinese food and good conversation we headed over to NWS. We hung in TOL for a while until it was close to showtime. Mary had fun playing with my phone and getting a feel for it since she is likely getting an iPhone soon, and we all kept up with our lovely conversation.

Mary went home, and Mark and I saw Altar Boyz. I love this show so much, but i think for the sake of me continuing my love for it i need to take a little bit of a break from it. There have been 19 days in February and i have already seen it 5 times! After Diane's anniversary celebration, and the actual anniversary celebration i wont see the show again until April... unless there is a special wunderstudy action reason.

After this point the rest of my day can be found in my LJ account, but only if we are LJ friends since it has personal stuff in there. Except this is a picture of krysta's room and i am proud of her because this is the first time in at least a month she has had floor space.

Day 149/365 (January 14, 2009)

So i was at work until 11 in the morning and had already planned on trying Wicked lotto with Sasha for the night show, but when i saw the time thought "why don't we try the matinee and if we lose we can still try the night show." Sasha liked this idea so i met up with her and Matthew and we tried our luck... Sasha won the Wicked lotto for the first time ever, and i was so happy for her and myself.

Then we went back to Matthew and Sasha's place and ordered CHinese Food... it took FOREVER to come! like over an hour and we barely had time to eat before heading to the theatre, sadly Kyle Dean wasn't in the show that day. I won't lie i was more than a little crushed, i really am not a gigantic fan of Wicked and feared i would be in pain watching the show... luckily the current cast is pretty great and that made the show actually kind of enjoyable and i enjoyed the understudy that was on for Elphaba.

After the show was over we didn't bother stage dooring since i had already done so the past Sunday, and there was no kyle dean to say hi to, shallow i know but it was COLD! we went back to the apartment and just hung around for a while which was nice to catch up with Sasha and Matthew... then i left them to meet up with Mary and Kavin... they were hungry so we went to The Olive Garden, too bad i ended up feeling sick, but it was nice to socialize with them before i went home and went to bed!

Day 134/365 (December 30, 2008)

Mary convinced me to go to the second Spring Awakening Holiday caoncert at Joe's Pub even though it was super late at night. I am really glad she did because not only was it a fun outing for mary, jo ann, mike, and myself but we were treated to some great performances. The very end they sang Song of Purple Summer and Emma started crying... it made me think of everything that has happened in my life because of Spring Awakening and i am beyond greatful and somewhat sad that it is ending very soon, more sad then i thought i would be... oy!

Day 77/365 (November 3, 2008)

Ahhh! So I finally saw Spring Awakening since the massive cast change in July. It was interesting to see it again. I just yea it was crazy to see. After at Stage Door I had to get my “Moritz” pose with Gerard and a picture with Hunter. Seriously between Mary, Roxy, and Sasha we had a great night… Hunter even said we could take him back to Sasha’s place, which of course we didn’t. It was also funny because there is only one other person I have ever seen Sasha go all fan-girly over and that was Josh Strickland, but Hunter Parrish made her go batty!

Day 69/365 (October 26, 2008)

Mary got us tickets to a Wicked talkback with author Gregory Maguire and a producer of the show. It was really fun and i think GM is seriously funny! I want to read the book even more now... anyone have a copy i can borrow?

Day 54/365 (October 11, 2008)

Matthew and Nick had a cabaret show, and as it turns out Nicole was part of it too. Seriously it makes me so proud to see Matthew and Nick sing, and I have complete confidence in their abilities… Nicole however was the surprise of the night… who knew she was so freaking awesome? The other performers were kind of well interesting but at least we had them there to bring The Triad down. This was Good Morning Baltimore. I even got to be Something About You girl AND get a picture later on when Nick sang it… finally!

I even got a little teary-eyed at times when they were singing… I yi yi yi yi

After we went to Blockheads and our 11 person party had a great time! Thanks to Sasha, Mary, Marty, Nick, Nicole, Kelly, Matthew, Mackenzie, Their Mom, and her friend for making the night just INCREDIBLE! (I would use our group picture, but that was taken with Sasha’s camera and not mine L

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.

Day 40/365 (September 27, 2008)

Mary, Karolina, and I went to Providence, Rhode Island to see Jay in Legally Blonde.

It was raining.

It was raining really hard.

Umbrellas did not matter and by the time we got to the hotel (Hilton baby!) the stuff inside our bags and us were soaking wet.

We spent the time pre-dinner/show using this hairdryer to dry our clothes and shoes… burning rubber and crazy times.

Did I type this enough in a “See Spot” manner?

Day 15/365 (September 2, 2008)

I really do have a lot of fun times in my life and last night was definately one of the best. Who says you need alchohol to have a good time? First Devon, Karolina, Mary and I saw Altar Boyz together, and after not seeing it for two weeks, and sitting together well there was some crazy laughter, giggling, and snorting! Then we did what we do was head over to TOL and this time to celebrate Mary's birthday... there was some crazy stuff, and LOTS of crazy pictures... even though this is dark and Mary is not technically in it, this was my favorite shot of the night... the camera was on the floor, Mary got bored waiting for the self-timer, and left... but then she put her foot over to cover the lens, and i pushed it out of the way just in time for this!