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 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.