Day 104/365 (October 29, 2014)

After only 2 hours of sleep both Ally and I woke up to rush Pippin for Kyle Dean's last day as Pippin on Broadway. We got there way too early, but once again we wanted to be safe not sorry. It is a good thing we were first in line because they only had two front row seats left for the evening show. It was worth it. We played Disney trivia in line and her friends got there later, but they had to study for their mid-terms... yuck! I ended up with the one front row seat I hadn't sat in yet AA112! Had to do my sad face rush pose in front of his poster before it went away.

Then i rushed home and did a quick change and headed to work for a few hours. I dropped some of the smores off at Cinderella for Neil and I came home to have lunch, shower, and change and when I got there I found mail from Whitney which was a super cute cupcake necklace and a unicorn for cats... so naturally I took a picture of Fred wearing it. I tried for charlie but he did not cooperate. Then it was off to the matinee. The show itself was wonderful and I loved my seat J1 but man oh man the audience was terribly rude! there was a high school group there and they kept talking and making oOo noises at things and especially during the shirtless/cage seen they were so rowdy and cat calling him and whistling an it was embarrassing me highly I do not know how Kyle Dean (and the others) kept it together like nothing was happening, and then when he was putting his shirt back on some were yelling to keep it off. and later in Act Two the Bolero seen when they were under the covers it was rough! The people all around me were talking loudly, and at one point when KDM is in the audience at the beginning of the duck scene as he was walking off an older man in front of me yelled run away she is trouble, and KDM made the funniest look as he was trying to remain in character and turn around for his next line. Also during intermission I spied Mark by where I was sitting and I didn't realize just how much his sudden dropping me s a friend had affected me until I saw him and it made me extremely unhappy and angry that he was even there. didn't he like move to Florida or something... why not stay away, jerk! I can't help it that you are behaving like a big old baby when you are more than 20 years older than I am. Any way it had been really nice out on the way there so I didn't have a coat but by the time the show ended it was freezing, but since this was his last day I was waiting at Stage Door and Mark was only a few feet from me and we did not acknowledge each other's presence. I kept debating about if I should or not but for a while I couldn't bring myself to be the bigger person. It became apparent after a while that no one, even KDM, would be coming out but I am so competitive and Mark made me so angry that I din't want to let him "win" by giving up and leaving first, despite how freaking cold I was. I waited for at least 45 minutes to an hour and finally only caved because I needed to go to the bathroom pretty badly. On the way by thoughj i did say Bye Mark, he begrudgingly said bye back.

I came home and warmed up and had dinner before heading out for KDM's last show. I liked sitting in that seat and the show itself once again was really good but once again another rude audience. This time there were 3 people in the front row on the other side that turned out to be friends of one of the acrobats. They were drunk and yelling during the show, like repeating lines and waving arms like at a concert and it wasn't until the very end an usher came and told them to stop... it should have been sooner! Once again not sure how the cast stayed in character, true professionals, especially the little boys who played theo who didn't let the talking stop them from their moment at the end of the show and stayed on key and everything.

KDM got extra applause/love after extraordinary and that made me happy. Ally decided to wear her Pippin costume for pictures and I must say, despite my concern over the color not being right more than one cast member, KDM included, said "the color was spot on" so I did a really good job! Mike even said he asked the wardrobe department about the shirt because a friend really liked it and I guess in the show they buy a really expensive designer one to dye and here she was with a $6 one I dyed correctly that fit and looked the same... so I win! While at the stage door Mark and I once again kept our distance and I ran onto that Producer guy from last week who is a character and was bedazzled. He was pretty intense but amusing to speak with and quite eccentric. The only time he really bothered me was when KDM came out and I wanted to speak with him by myself, and I gave him personal space to chat with KDM, then when he kept trying to come talk to me he just didn't want to let go and KDM and I kept giving each other looks like okay let's wrap this up. When we finally got to chat he sang "so anyway I'm leaving" from n2n and i was like knife to the heart dude! we chatted for just a bit because I knew he was busy and others were still waiting but I said I would come see him on tour and we said goodbye and had him sign my playbill. I can't lie about how he makes my heart happy, especially when he calls me doll and when he keeps up the tradition of writing love you on playbills form his final shows. Then he moved on tot he next set of people and I chatted with this girl I had met earlier in the day from Mexico for a while. She was nice, then I chatted with Ally and the twins for a while before finally heading home. It was a very long and fun eventful day!

Day 7/365 (July 24, 2014)

Today was lovely. I spent the morning in Bryant Park for Broadway in Bryant Park since Zach Braff was performing with Bullets Over Broadway. Ran into someone i knew so that made the time fly!

I headed to the office for a bit then popped into the M&M store to get a certain color mix for cookies I am making next week, then came home and baked some cupcakes. I realized as I was cleaning up that I forgot to add the milk to the batter so the cupcakes came out a bit dryer and denser than I would like but they are still tasty nonetheless and the frosting is heavenly! They are cherry lime-aid flavored. Most of them were frosted sky high with a cherry on top but i made these special for someone.

Then Whitney and I went out for dinner since I won't be here when she goes back home, and after she went to her show I painted a glass vase. I had a crafty idea but due to the nature of the paint my vase didnt turn out so well because of what i was trying to accomplish... oh well, the next one will turn out great!

Day 4/365 (July 21, 2014)

These two places have become so important in my life. If you had told me a year ago I would enjoy going to the gym and working out I would have told you how crazy you were! Today after work I headed down to blink to warmup before my hour of personal training where I worked my lower body until I had a hard time walking. I end up in so much pain but it is worth it for how good I have been feeling about myself!

Later in the evening while hanging on the couch with the roomies and Whitney who has been staying with us for a few days she told us about a show called American Ninja Warriors. Apparently its been on for ages and it is so fun to watch people use their crazy human strength to beast through these obstacle courses, or at least try to!

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.