Day 293/365 (June 7, 2009)

i woke up and cleaned my room hardcore! i also bought the final supplies for making of the cake, and bought some drinks and chips for the party. then i waged war! i made the rice krispy treats for the medallion and then the rest for us to just eat. i cut the cake and frosted it. I wrapped the wire in super awesome gold ribbon and when the rice krispy was hard enough i wrapped the ribbon over the parts of the dowel that would be exposed. then i frosted the treat and sprinkled the glitter sugar on it, and then after it refrigerated to firm it up i used the glitter gel to do the details... then i waited. ps i succeeded greatly because my bad boy cake never actually fell over! it did fall apart because the rice krispy treat medallion broke in half after 25 minutes (it got real hot and i think the marshmallow in the treat loosened up and SPLIT!). but i said i would be happy if it lasted at least 5 minutes and it surpassed that greatly!

i did so many dishes throughout the course of the day to keep the place clean and watched lots of tv until our guest arrived. we ended up with so much food and we ate a lot! there was amazing fruit (watermelon especially) and veggies and chips with onion dip, and raspberry iced tea, and i dont know what it was but fruit on some spongy thing with ice cream, and duh rice krispy treats, and my cake!

sasha, amelia, and her roommate nicole came to celebrate. we watched the TONY's which was pretty not great... the performances were weird (especially the opening number) and the sound was terrible, as in someone wont be working this event next year! billy elliot took almost every thing they were nominated for which was so freaking wrong! no way should the three billys have one best actor in a musical! and sieber lost best featured actor... CRIMINAL he is the best part of shrek and just embodies the character so well, not to mention the psychical aspect of it. Neil patrick harris did a great job hosting,t oo bad they didnt let him onstage/screen more!

anywho after the show ended krysta and i did a quick cleanup and i didnt go to bed because i am a fool, but i caught up on the last four days worth of blogs!

Day 292/365 (June 6, 2009)

anywho by the time i got home and settled in bed, and did some pant cleaning because of tucker pee and something else i saw my toes that had been in pain and it is hard to tell in this photo but man my middle three left toes were infinitely swollen compared to my right toes. they hurt wicked badly! thankfully when i woke up the pain had subsided a little bit and the swelling had gone down.

i got up and got ready and headed to a rainbow meeting for the first time in ages, and the first time in new york. everyone was super friendly and made me feel not awkward. the assembly is still pretty new and i got to help and fill in as hope, bad i know but whatevs! there were some differences and stuff but everything sort of comes back to you! then after the meeting they held rehearsal for initiation, they balloted this meeting, and i got to pretend to be the clueless candidate. by the end i eneded up being there for about 4.5 hours but it really didnt seem like that long and it was something i really needed and i am looking forward to getting more involved with this assembly and learning more about the NY differences and sharing my experience!

after it was over i walked and met up with sasha, then we met with krysta (after i got some good quality fred cuddle time!) and we headed out for food. i got subway and they got cosi and then we went to the courtyard and chilled there while eating... then i finally had to part ways.

i met up with diane for her 200th show celebration and shared in our excitement for kyle dean in n2n. then we saw altar boyz... the show was super fun since it was a double wunderstudy show... joey was on as luke (he is so great as luke) and mitch was on as mark (and he was super freakin' awesome!). the show was going so fine until something about you. ya know all i want to do is be pulled up on that freaking stage as the something about you girl, because when i was so very long ago they didnt take pictures and i want one! i understand and respect the rue of not being allowed t pull up altarholics but by golly it still sucks and is uncool when you are sitting next to an altarholic and THEY get pulled up onstage for the second time in less than a year. i wouldnt have been upset (well that upset) if i hadnt been at the show but i was sitting right next to HER! upset isnt the right explanation of the emotion i felt but i know i lost control and made some sort of face of shock/horror/jealousy/anger/???? and i keep telling myself to "let it go" tamra but its hard because i am naturally a jealous person. and well it just isnt fair... yes 200 is a big milestone but you know what so is freaking 100! how many people have seen that show more than 100 times? not that many... i am not asking for a pull up everytime but really i think i have earned it! 121 is a big number and do you know how many people i get to got and see the show? i mean i get alot of people there... i should sign up for the affiliate thing but would rather people see the show than profit from getting them to see the show (i am weird i know)... so that is my soap box and i am going to be not pleased about this for quite sometime... 

moving on! after the show we went to TOL to celebrate and ended up staying until just before midnight... i also let someone in on my true level of crazy... still trying to access if that was a mistake or not... then home i went... but i didnt stop there! i decided that i should bake the cakes for the tony award cake i was making before i went to bed so that i wouldnt heat up the apartment in the morning or be rushed for it to cool in time... then i went on a cleaming mission to help make it much easier for krysta to do her finishing cleaning touches... then to bed i went at like 4 am ish!

Day 291/365 (June 5, 2009)

anywho i didnt get much sleep since i had gotten in so late from karaoke and had to get up early to meet krysta at next to normal rush. she had been so insistent that i see aaron tveit in it before he left , she worked it out that she rushed the first part, then i would finish it out. it was drizzly and my pants and shoes got wet and the wind ended up making me really cold! i also had tucker with me which was totally fine and fun until he had to go potty and i had to move him to the wet street to go and he wouldnt and ended up with a very wet dog with a full bladder (paranoia now). anywho there was a person behind me in line that when i saw him he wicked familiar but i couldnt quite place him. well after i got my ticket and was just at the subway i realized why he looked so familiar... he was zeke (the baker guy) in high school musical that i saw out in texas!

anywho i got home and did a bunch of stuff... i took a much needed nap at one point... i would also like to point out that at some point during my sleep that night i did something and my toes were in pain! so eventually i headed out to meet up with krysta and steph. i chose to wear my boots since my sneakers were still wet and it was still raining. anywho i met them at a yummy place called rice and beans. after dinner krysta left us and steph and i walked for a bit until we ended up killing time inside the marriot marquis.

we got to the theatre and what did we find on the cast board there was an understudy on for aaron! how am i supposed to let go of my i really dont think aaron is a good performer if i cant see him in the role he is supposedly amazing in? well i didnt care so much since i dont really care and i was glad i was going to see what the story was about. steph and i took our seats and i saw jo ann so went over to chat for a bit. during intermission i ran into hsm guy and asked him if i was right... of course i was and that was pretty random and weird! at SD i also ran into someone who knew who SJ was! that night they also FINALLY announced that kyle dean was taking over for aaron in the show and well i started getting lots of people sending me links about it, which i appreciated so much :D

anywho the show: i thought it was great and i liked it as a better choice for best musical, but i didnt think it was as amazing as everyone had been saying and although the cast really was great i didnt think they were as great as everyone had been making them out to be (highly critical o know) and everyone kept telling me i would be nervous sitting in the front row because someone was so fierce and the story was so emotional i would be in tears like crazy... yea not scared at all and well it just didnt touch me emotionally. i decided i was like the tin man because we both apparently have no heart! well anywho the understidy that played gabe i thought was extremely good and i dont think there is any way aaron could have done a better job than him... he worked that character! i think overall in the show my favorite character (not actor) is the doctor... the "second" rock star one more so

anywho i headed home!

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 289/365 (June 3, 2009)

this was how i found emma when i woke up for reals this morning. Before i fell asleep emma did the cutest thing, she came up along side my body, flung herself onto me, curled her head on my arm, and then wound her body down the rest of my arm, then purred like crazy while i pet her. i kept waking up in the middle of the night and i guess this morning i finally had my share of joni mitchell... i am sorry but i dont think her voice is all that great and dont understand the attraction people seem to have for her music.

an idea forms, plotting and planning: a while back emily sent me a link for hunter bell's tony award cake recipe. i read it and laughed but felt as if it were a challenge. i am not saying i am going to attempt to make it, but i will say that i just spent the better part of an hour figuring out a way to modify his directions so that if i do it wont fall over. and mine would be more like it, since his recipe seems to lack the middle part the plaque actually goes on... it just means if i do make this it would be bigger than life size and i need and impressive dowel that will be big enough to go through the cookie and the cake and down below what the cake will be on so it wont fall over. i figure if i do it it will either be a photo op for hunter bell or a photo op for cake wrecks! (http://www.titleofshow.com/blog/index.php?itemid=1736)

i left the apartment and met up with krysta to drop off tucker, then i headed for some cake related errands. i found some great things and bought supplies at home depot... how hardcore is that? anywho i also brainstormed another idea i might do instead of using the black and white cookie. i also got glitter gel and it looks so cool but since i got special sugar i am afraid it might not show up, or it might drip... oh well, i look forward to this challenge!

it began to rain and i was getting soaked so i was glad to get home and change into dry clothes and am now wasting the night away!

Day 288/365 (June 2, 2009)

i paid more bills, and i went on a cleaning spree. i wiped down the surfaces in the bathroom, including the tub, and i did a bazillion dishes... practically all our silverware! i also wiped down and organized all our surfaces, i just couldnt get to my bedroom... will stay messy for a while!

then i met mark at barnes and noble, and ran into kelly :D

the story of my life did a performance and CD signing. it was nice to see will chase and malcolm gets sing the great songs again. then mark and i did some walking and ended up chatting in the courtyard before i came home. i finally had the penne a al vodka i had been craving for a few days, a TON of asparagus, and topped it off with the last half pound of cherries!

ps i also had such a happy dream at some point last night... i cant share it but it put smiles on my face!

Day 287/365 (June 1, 2009)

i went out on an errand with tucker for krysta. it was so frustrating because tucker just flat out was not cooperating in the walking department and i had to carry him most of the way. anywho i finally found the drop box i needed because krysta had given me the address it was by. so when i couldnt find it i went in the building who had the address she gave and CARRIED tucker. well anywho i asked the security guy if he knew where the ups drop box was and he told me it was right over there by the other security guard. (about twenty five feet away). anywho i told him thankyou and he said but you cant go there because no dogs are allowed in the building, then asked if i had someone else who could go drop it off for me, and i was like no it is just me and him and i am carrying him, cant i just drop it off? he once again said there are no dogs allowed in this building and i was like well i am going over there now pretend you dnt see him and he was protesting to the other guard like i told her no dogs and he looked like she just is trying to drop off a package, no big deal! really that guy was one stupid person.

on the way home i finally stopped and bought fruit from the street guy and got so much yum! i mean look at those cherries and peaches! i even bought a super yummy tomato and a fresh avocado to eat. i came home and ate the tomato and avocado, two peaches, and like half a pound of cherries!

anywho mark had called and said he was coming into the city to try avenue q lotto, and i said i would come meet him and help. krysta asked if i could bring tucker then and she would help, so i did. i ended up being the first name called and well afraid my lotto luck is maxed out right now. then mark and i headed to next to normal to try and buy tickets for him, michelle, and i think nicole... but there lady there wasnt so cool so we failed. then we got some yummy chinese food. since i had sweet and sour chicken not too long ago i got chicken and broccoli... i really LOVE broccoli!

then we hung in the courtyard until he went to the show. i headed home and watched part of i'm a celebrity get me out of here... i can sense this will be a new guilty pleasure! then i went back out and met him at TOL for some open mic night. we stayed for a while and had fun and i was skeeved out at one point and also made really happy by something mark had done for me... yay!

i missed kate pazakis' cd release party which made me really sad, but i just couldnt spend the money on it... i am getting more careful with the use of my money... and yea i know it totally ricked and had a great turnout and thankfully sasha didnt end up being there by herself.

also on my way to meet mark after Q let out i had a showdown with a rat... i was brave and stood my ground... the subway people cheered me on!