Day 227/365 (March 1, 2015)

Now that was a crazy night!!!!

I am pretty sure today will be my best day of 2015.

It began by going to the Altar Boyz Reunion concert sound check. I spent 3 hours at 54 Below as Altar Boyz music was being performed and stories were being shared and seeing so many faces I have missed. There was Andy Karl doing table dives and Kevin Kern completely surprised me by pulling me up onstage when they were doing Something About You. I mean you know I love being serenaded but I wasn't expecting it to happen so I was all about it! It was really funny during the talking part Kevin was like "Something's making me put on the brakes, maybe it's that I'm 40 and I've got four kids at home or maybe it's your special blend of charisma and spunk"... hilarious! They told him to do it during the show and it was a great call! Then he referred to me as his girlfriend so shhh don't tell his wife, haha! Ryan Ratliff jokingly asked where the cookies were and I was like don't worry I have them for tonight!

Then I headed home for a bit (where I got a little bit of Lola time) before heading out to meet up with some holics at the lounge to catch up. It was so surreal to see some of them again, especially the ones that had been really young and are now adults. My mind was blown and it shocked me how sad i was when they slowly left to head over to 54 Below. It was like I was saying bye to long lost family members! Thank you Beth, Sarah, Allison, Natalie, Michelle, Mark, Diane, Lynette, and Michelle for coming (and Allison's parents like old times).

I chose to wear the dress I got on super sale from Macy's and let me tell you how much I loved it and had fun wearing it. I got a whole bunch of compliments on it as well! New party dress :)

Then it was over to 54 Below for the shows. When I got there Kenita Miller was there (from previous show) and we chatted for a bit, and she asked to have a cookie. Then things got more and more exciting as the boyz started to arrive and took pictures and I got to see them do their preshow chant and then it was show time!

Let me tell you being stage manager is stressful! I had so much fun though making sure everyone was ready to go before their song and having the handheld mics ready for the people who needed them and it was really neat to be standing by the bar watching the show with all of them and hearing their excitement and sing alongs and attempting to remember choreography. Safford was fog boy for the first show, and Lynne was the SAY girl. I learned the reason Mark wore a hat for Epiphany was because Tyler thought his hair looked terrible by that point and "demanded" to wear a hat so he would look good for his song. Scott Porter Sent in a video since he couldn't be there that was super sweet. Andy Karl walked across a table during Body, Mind, & Soul, and for the second show poured Karolina's glass of water on top of himself. All the boys came out during Number 918 and got to "excerise the crowd" And Carlos brought water with him to sprinkle on people and just watching the faces of the people in thhe audience as they came out and just had so much fun. I am sure I am missing so many more moments of note but it was so incredibly wonderful. The second show I had a panic moment when I thought Mitch was missing before a song he was singing in and I was freaking out until James realized i was looking for him and he was like he is on stage.... oops! haha Neil and Carlos did the Sit Down from Church Rulez booty pop with Travis, and They whiffered each other on stage. Kevin (Del Aguila) made a cheesy fun joke saying A. Boyz are now A. Men!

I also got to see so many other holics that couldn't make it to to the lounge and everywhere I turned there were more people I haven't seen in ages. The Choratis', and Kim, and Neil's mom/people in general, and Heather, Kelly, Suze (who was actually really nice and affectionate to me), and just too many to name! It was also nice to meet Michael Patrick Walker in person since we used to twitter chat all the time!

Then went to Characters with a couple of people including Shoshana. It was a lovely way to end the might :)

Day 353/365 (August 6, 2009)

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 331/365 (July 15, 2009)

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 314/365 (June 28, 2009)

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)

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 295/365 (June 9, 2009)

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 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 244/365 (April 19, 2009)

I woke up and didnt do much (except make a birthday card) since i had done all the baking and cleaning the night before. I ended up spending lots of time watching tv on the couch and Fred curled up with me. We spent about an hour taking cat naps and each time i woke up i found him in different positions snuggled with me using my arm as his pillow. My favorite was when i woke up and we were nose to nose. eventually i was able to get my phone and take a sneak picture of the cuteness.

then i got ready and got all the baked goods together and headed downtown. First i swung by NWS and dropped off Ravi's cupcakes/cookies. Then i went over to Sasha's to get her camera again and deliver the cake i had promised her and found Marty there. I was able to stay for a bit so we chitted and chatted and they enjoyed my red velvet cake balls that i was carrying around for anyone i encountered during the day! then i left and walked up to meet michelle, mark, and nicole at 72nd which was close to where we were going that night.

I met them at Chipotle and they loved my red velet cake balls which at first nicole said tasted like jesus, then later named them satan's balls which is now what they are called. we then walked to a starbucks and spent some time there until we went to the theater At This Performance was being done at. We were the first to arrive but they didnt let us sit in the front but we still had fabulous seats. At This Performance was really fabulous like the last one and i enjoyed everyone very much. This one guy Jimmy Ray Bennett, besides sounding amazing, was seriously wicked hysterical! i mean i cant even count how many times i snorted because of him! I am sad i forgot to check the batteries on my DVR so i dont have any audio, but at least the snorting isnt preserved! Kyle Dean was great and i got some awesome pictures! i kept taking them because they looked on screen like they were coming out blurr but it turns out they were quie nice! He sang ALAYM from Wicked with Jennifer Danoia and i really am interested in seeing her as Elphaba because she sounded great and had such an enthusiasm for the show, so mayhaps one day i will see her do it!. Then for his personal song he sang Flight which i really just love, and he sounded incredible. I love when people sing without microphones. I mean i as long as the person performing Flight sounds great while singing it i can listen to that song over and over again... Can i see MK sing this live please? (and no i dont mean MKC, i mean MK).

After the group of us gt to talk for a bit which was nice and my favorite moment was when i was demonstrating The S?? Spin as i was doing it this random stranger was like oh no honey you have to give it more spin when you do it... so i did, while resisting the urge to go toss, toss!

Anywho then i walked mark to his car on 60th and then i walked further downtown to the subway, so i walked away from home to get home... not the smartest thing but watever!

I really wanted to go the battery's down thing at joe's pub but when the time came i was just too exhausted and needing to be home... even if i ended up not being able to sleep once i got here!

Day 224/365 (March 30, 2009)

i didn't get much sleep and ate a ton of the yummiest purple grapes (ok technically red but i call em purple) ever!  i also watched lots of TV... then finally i got ready for the day and headed over to Lincoln Center to see The Music Of Bobby Cronin.

i met mark outside and we headed in to wait in line and get out of the cold, eventually carina came in and joined us. slowly everyone else started to trickeled in. (Krysta, Michelle, Lynette, Michelle, diane, karolina, nicole.)  Mark and i had run into andrew as he was leaving sound check, and then we all saw michael come in but logan was with him so i chatted with him for a bit. eventually we all went in and took seats in the front.

I had never heard of Bobby Cronin before and just knew that there were a ton of people that i love to see perform participating in it. Aside from the people who were all great let me tell you he is such a talented song writer! i enjoyed each of the songs very much, especially the understudy song and music from BRATT Camp. Michelle, Nicole, and I were maybe going to leave during part of it to go to something else but shortly before the time we were going to leave i had decided i wanted to stay and continue hearing the songs which was a great decision!

they were just really well written, played, and performed! the host guy was funny because he kept referring to in the heights as into the heights. The first song of the evening was sung by michael kadin craig, andrew call, marcus paul james, and jared gertner... i was quite excited because they are some of my favorite performers and i was like 3 of my favorite shows are being represented on stage (note that MPJ represented Rent for me). then michael sang another song, and andrew ended up in two more, and kate pazakis did some killer vocals and it was nice seeing her sing again since i had been absent from mostly sondheim for so long!

afterwards the group of us chatted for a bit and eventually parted ways, i was about to go home when mark was like lets do something so we walked down to vynl and i got the BLT sandwich again, and then we headed to TOL and enjoyed part of open mic night before heading our seperate ways.

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 182/365 (February 16, 2009)

So i got up relatively early, (especially since i had gotten no sleep really) and brought my mom to Port Authority so she could catch her bus back to MA. I then headed to the Staten Island Ferry to meet Michelle and Nicole. The main soundtrack of my travels was the Zanna Don't cast recording. When i got to the ferry i ran into Abraham Lincoln, and that amused me more than you could know! (though he was much shorter than i would have thought!) When i got to the ferry i saw my old apartment building and got a little nostalgic, but the big thing that made me happy/sad was seeing the Statue of Liberty. She is one of my favorite things about New York and i miss seeing her every day when i would leave or enter my apartment building. She represents alot for me. After i first moved into that apartment i was so excited to finally be living in Manhattan but after a quick amount of time i began to take it for granted and got a little jaded. Then when the new year came (2008) i had tol myself i needed to remember what was so special about living in NY and the statue of liberty became that reminder since looking at her would make me remember how far i had come in ife. Living in Harlem i obviously dont get a chance to see her everyday anymore and i take such joy when ever i do get to see her :D

Michelle and Nicole picked me up and we went on an arts and crafts store trip. It was nice to be in a Michael's and an AC Moore, and i was ale to buy the needed cake decorating supplies for a super cool cake i hope to make, and stuff to transport it in. I also bought a 3-tiered cooling rack since i make so many cookies. We just perused the aisles and had fun. Then we went to the Staten Island Mall so Nicole could check out Payless, and i went to the pet store and looked at the cute puppies and such what. Then we got some yummy chicken terryaki, and had fun people watching all the lovely way people looked with poofy hair and ugg boots and animal prints and mini skirts and tacky leggings and velour suits... good times! After a quick stop at Barnes and Noble they dropped me off at the ferry and i made it home in record time. (however i was frightened that i fell asleep on the ferry for at least 18 minutes of the trip.

I then spent the rest of the night watching TV, and was lucky enough that my roomie made me dinner, pancakes and pasta!

Day 180/365 (February 14, 2009)

Lots of pictures today! Oh well!

The day started off with a simple plan: be lazy, see Gallagher, then see Altar Boyz. Well in my paranoia i decided to look at my tickets when i woke up this morning. I was surprised to see they were matinee tickets and NOT evening like i had thought. So i quickly got ready, and my mom too, and emailed Nicole about our little change of plans for when we were going to meet up.

On our way to the theater we ran into Neil on the subway, then when we got to our stop my mom and i went to Subway to get some lunch. We saw the show and had a great time, and i took pictures with them for the first time in a long while since it was my 111th show and well that made for an easy picture idea.

Then we met Nicole outside NWS and went to Rockwood Music Hall which took alot less time to get to. We got there way early and had to sit through what i liked to call pretty torture. The girl playing before them had a great voice and played piano well but i have a hard time sitting through soothing peaceful songs live. Gallagher was great and he sang this really funny cover song that actually caused me to have to use something to prop my camera on so that it wouldnt jiggle when i laughed. I am also quite glad Nicole was able to come since we have been trying to get to a Gallagher show together for quite some time.

Then we headed back to my Starbucks and met with Michelle and hung there for quite sometime before they went to see Boyz and my mom and i went to the Celtic Pub for dinner. It was quite yummy but very filling and we had a terrible waitress... Krysta ended up joining us to kill some time. Then we all went to PINKBERRY!!!! Well there i finally decided that i should just buy the spoon i have wanted since day one, i mean it is shaped like a heart! (look closely above, i also like that picture because it reflects the computer screen in it!).

Then Krysta went to a friends and my mom and i came home. I introduced her to some VGL Gay Boy videos, The Unexpected Boys, and Jesse songs. Then we watched Psych... good times and now I need bed!

Day 174/365 (February 8, 2009)

We woke up and headed out by 10 to go to Baltimore, Maryland to see the Grease Tour. We got there and parked the car then took a walk to find Edgar Allen Poe's grave for nicole. After we went and got something to eat at Salsarita's.

Eventually we went into the theater and saw Grease. It was kinda of fun because about ten minutes before the show starts the guy who plays the radio guy comes out and entertains the crowd/gets them in the mood for the show. We danced the monkey, and helped sing a song.

The show itself was lacking in book but Eric did a great job as Danny and made the whole show worth it. Taylor Hicks however has a song that lasts an eternity and then busts out his harmonica... lame! After curtain call he even came out to sing his latest single which just made me mad... i came to see a show, not a concert! so we left while he was singing to head the stage door where we encountered some really rude people.

There was this one guy who pushed nicole out of the way without even a sorry (way to set an example for your children, and the people who interrupted us while we were talking to eric. It was nice to see him briefly, and then we left... no need to wait for Taylor!

we went to starbucks to kill some time until Michelle's friend arrived to pick her up since she was staying for the night. It had the cleanest public bathroom i have ever been in anywhere! i took a picture of that too (its on FB). Then Mark, Nicole, and myself headed back to New York. We stopped at a burger king and i was extremely excited that MArk gave me a ride home and i didnt have to fight my way back using MTA!

Day 173/365 (February 7, 2009)

The day started so early! i got up at like 6:30 to get ready and by 7:30 Michelle, Mark, Nicole, and myself were on our way to see Les Miz. The roadtrip was kind of nice because i ended up falling asleep for more than half the trip and so it went very quickly (thanks to Mark for driving and Michelle for being co-pilot).  We passed through DC and made our way into Arlington, VA where the Signature Theater is and met up with one of Michelle's friends who joined us. We also had lunch at Johnny Rocket's which was really fun and i loved the smiley face made out of ketchup!

We finally went in to see Les Miz, which is one of the shows i really don't like and it takes a special reason for me to sit through it. The Javert was way to angry and i had some problems with a few of the cast but there were also a few that were really spectacular! Andrew Call was just incredible. I have seen him sing before but in pop-y type things and this was the first time i heard him sing a traditional broadway type thing and his voice was flawless, and he acted the part so well.  I was also excited to see James Gardiner perform and he did a great job too.

We spoke with Andrew for a bit and i got my Glory Days poster signed by James, so now it is complete and once again hanging up in my living room. Then we headed off to check into our hotel, the Holiday Inn. It was a nice place and mark gave me my christmas gift which was "make your own opoly" so that will become Altar Boyzopoly. We brainstormed ideas and headed off to the mall to kill some time and get some dinner. It ended up being a pretty early night for us and we were all asleep by 10:30 (well i was everyone else was out by 10).

Day 139/365 (January 4, 2009)

I was torn between 4 photos i took during the day. There were ones from the final Hairspray lotto and ones from Starbucks. Even though Broadway died a little with 10 shows closing i felt like this was the best picture.

After i lost Hairspray and Wicked i headed to Apple for my appointment and after being told to restore my phone (scared to do) i took my newly exchanged headphones (real reson for visit... success!) and walked from 14th and 9th Ave to 50th and 8th Ave, while walking up and down random aves on the way to waste time. I finally ended up not in my Starbucks (since every seat was occupied, the nerve!) but in the one close by actually on 8th Ave. There i sat people watching and when i took a phot of my view, i noticed how interesting my bag looked with the headphones on the table, so i took one of just that. i really enjoyed all the competing colors and patterns of everything.

Afterwards i met up with Mark, Lynette, and Michelle (not MacDonald) in my Starbucks and we just chatted for a really long time, then MArk and I headed to Chipotle followed by Coldstone (i tried for Pinkberry) and walking around.... oh yea i saw the marquee for Guys and Dolls but couldn't bring myself to take a picture of it. Then we headed to sasha's for a potty break, and got into some mischief... but it turned out to be a great day!