Today I was playing Mario Party with Clint and Janessa while Crystal was sitting on my parent's bed. She saw through the window a man come onto the front porch and make off with Clint's bike. She told us this and Clint was just going to let it go even though it just barely happened. I made him get up and run with me.
We followed the guy all the was until he turned left at the end of our street where the street ends. Then we couldn't tell which direction that he went. We kept running but we couldn't figure out which way to look. By this time we were about 5 1/2 blocks away and I was to the point where I couldn't breathe anymore. I sat on the nearest lawn on the corner and sent Clint for a bike while I tried not to die.
After 5 or 10 minutes, Janessa showed up on a bike. She let me sit on it for the trip home if I went slow enough that she could walk beside me. I don't think I would have been able to breathe yet if I had to walk so soon.
When we got home, the only thing to do was wait so we played Mario Party until my parents got home.
When they did, my mom called the police. They must've not had much to do because an officer was at our house to make the report in about 15 minutes. Yup, it was pretty exciting. My mom had the serial number so we had good chances.
A couple of days later, my dad thought he saw Clint's bike several blocks away abandoned on a front lawn. My mom went to see and sure enough, it was Clint's. So we got lucky and we got Clint's bike back.
It was probably good that I went after that man but didn't actually catch it. He may have ditched the bike because he saw me chasing him and was scared that I would call the police. If I would have caught up to the man, I would have attempted to get the bike back. What if he punched me, beat me up, or worse kidnapped me or something crazy of that sort? Scary stuff. Obviously the adreniline was pumping. If you know me, would the be any other possible reason that I would run at all, let alone 5 1/2 blocks away from my house?
26 January 2006
23 December 2005
More A Christmas Carol Happenings
Friday 16:
Today there were like 7 people sick. So everyone had to move up to fill in the parts. Stacey, who usually does the poulterer lines (I am a poulterer too but I'm just an assistant and don't have any lines) took the park of Ghost of Christmas Past. (Which is a very large part.) So I moved up to take the poulterer lines. It was so super scary. During my normal costume change, I had to get a mic on too. And I've never worn or used a mic before. I ended up running to the stage, but I got out there at about the right time. I took my book out in my chicken basket. When I walked off stage, Gavin was right there and I gave him this "I don't know" kind of look. I don't know if he noticed though.
Saturday 17:
Matinee:
We got Sydney B. to come over and come to the matinee with Janessa. I got to be the poulterer again so that was cool so they could see me in that role. They told me that my mic was off but they could still hear me. That's pretty sweet, but I'm sad that my mic was off.
At the beginning of the second act I was sitting backstage. When I started to stand up, my shoe made this big squeek. It was really awful. And Sherilyn was sitting right next to me.
Evening show:
Gavin told me that I did a good job with the poulterer part. That makes me so happy. He wasn't there for the matinee when I did the poulterer part so he was referring to the first time I did it on Friday. He couldn't see my acting because he was backstage, but I think he was just happy that I was loud enough. He was worried that I would be my quiet self because he told me to be loud or the mic wouldn't even pick me up at the cast meeting before the first time I did the part. I was so happy to know that he approved. It was awful seeing him and not knowing what he thought.
Near the end of the show I was so scared of getting sick. There were so many sick people around--pneumonia, colds, flus, and stuff that we don't even know it's name. I was hand sanitizing every few minutes.
Mon. 19:
We had a full house. Most people liked it but I didn't really. It made it so hot. I about died when I had to stand there forever onstage as a monk.
Bryce (Scrooge) is way too nice. He went around at cast meeting and gave everyone a gift. I got a Ten Virgins lamp. It is so cute.
Tuesday 20:
Today Gavin asked me to give the word. It ended up being "I don't wanna say anything" becuase that's what I was thinking. I knew that if I said "I don't know" they would use that so I sat there for a long time before I said "I don't wanna say anything". Oh well. What did he expect?
I did the poulterer part again and I screwed up my lines. I said "Something else then?" twice. I don't think the audience noticed because I repeated the lines when I was supposed to say "Coupla chicken legs?" and it was after Tiny Tim sung this little solo thingy. Still, we were filming the show and that's going to bug me forever.
Wednesday 21:
I was the poulterer again and I got my lines correct and guess what? They re-filmed it! The cameraman re-filmed it because his microphones were picking up noises from backstage. How awful. But it bought me a second chance. I heard that he is going to splice the recordings together so hopefully he notices that my lines were correct on the second night.
The monks who bring in the large coffin during the graveyard scene tried to put it next to me, not even close to the center of the stage. It was really really annoying.
Thursday 22:
I was the poulterer again and I got my lines correct. Yay! Tomorrow is closing night... Buh. I'm going to miss the show so so very much.
Today there were like 7 people sick. So everyone had to move up to fill in the parts. Stacey, who usually does the poulterer lines (I am a poulterer too but I'm just an assistant and don't have any lines) took the park of Ghost of Christmas Past. (Which is a very large part.) So I moved up to take the poulterer lines. It was so super scary. During my normal costume change, I had to get a mic on too. And I've never worn or used a mic before. I ended up running to the stage, but I got out there at about the right time. I took my book out in my chicken basket. When I walked off stage, Gavin was right there and I gave him this "I don't know" kind of look. I don't know if he noticed though.
Saturday 17:
Matinee:
We got Sydney B. to come over and come to the matinee with Janessa. I got to be the poulterer again so that was cool so they could see me in that role. They told me that my mic was off but they could still hear me. That's pretty sweet, but I'm sad that my mic was off.
At the beginning of the second act I was sitting backstage. When I started to stand up, my shoe made this big squeek. It was really awful. And Sherilyn was sitting right next to me.
Evening show:
Gavin told me that I did a good job with the poulterer part. That makes me so happy. He wasn't there for the matinee when I did the poulterer part so he was referring to the first time I did it on Friday. He couldn't see my acting because he was backstage, but I think he was just happy that I was loud enough. He was worried that I would be my quiet self because he told me to be loud or the mic wouldn't even pick me up at the cast meeting before the first time I did the part. I was so happy to know that he approved. It was awful seeing him and not knowing what he thought.
Near the end of the show I was so scared of getting sick. There were so many sick people around--pneumonia, colds, flus, and stuff that we don't even know it's name. I was hand sanitizing every few minutes.
Mon. 19:
We had a full house. Most people liked it but I didn't really. It made it so hot. I about died when I had to stand there forever onstage as a monk.
Bryce (Scrooge) is way too nice. He went around at cast meeting and gave everyone a gift. I got a Ten Virgins lamp. It is so cute.
Tuesday 20:
Today Gavin asked me to give the word. It ended up being "I don't wanna say anything" becuase that's what I was thinking. I knew that if I said "I don't know" they would use that so I sat there for a long time before I said "I don't wanna say anything". Oh well. What did he expect?
I did the poulterer part again and I screwed up my lines. I said "Something else then?" twice. I don't think the audience noticed because I repeated the lines when I was supposed to say "Coupla chicken legs?" and it was after Tiny Tim sung this little solo thingy. Still, we were filming the show and that's going to bug me forever.
Wednesday 21:
I was the poulterer again and I got my lines correct and guess what? They re-filmed it! The cameraman re-filmed it because his microphones were picking up noises from backstage. How awful. But it bought me a second chance. I heard that he is going to splice the recordings together so hopefully he notices that my lines were correct on the second night.
The monks who bring in the large coffin during the graveyard scene tried to put it next to me, not even close to the center of the stage. It was really really annoying.
Thursday 22:
I was the poulterer again and I got my lines correct. Yay! Tomorrow is closing night... Buh. I'm going to miss the show so so very much.
22 December 2005
A Christmas Carol happenings
Friday, 9 December:
Backstage there is a very narrow passage to get to the left entrance. Well, today I was trying to get through there in my poulterer skirt and get past another actor. The back of my skirt velcrows and then there is a bit of a hole. Well, that caught on the handle of a door prop and totally ripped my skirt all the way down about to my knees in the back. I didn't make it on for the main poulterer part, but it wasn't totally essential that I was there. I quickly changed into another poorish costume and made it on as a poulterer for the ensemble scene. Besides that incident, a handle on the inside of my fur almost broke and one of my dress' zippers got stuck.
Saturday, 10 December:
Matinee:
My whole family came to see the show and I finally got a program because Janessa brought me one. The program is so flippin' sweet.
Between the shows my whole family went out to eat at Los Hermanos. A whole bunch of the teenagers/kids from the cast of A Christmas Carol came and ate there too. It was really weird and really funny.
Evening show:
One time I walked out of the dressing room and didn't zip up the back of my dress. Yeah, that was sorta embarrasing. I noticed right when I came out so only the actors there noticed. (What if I went on stage like that?!?!) At the end of the show we had a man propose. It was very cute.
Backstage there is a very narrow passage to get to the left entrance. Well, today I was trying to get through there in my poulterer skirt and get past another actor. The back of my skirt velcrows and then there is a bit of a hole. Well, that caught on the handle of a door prop and totally ripped my skirt all the way down about to my knees in the back. I didn't make it on for the main poulterer part, but it wasn't totally essential that I was there. I quickly changed into another poorish costume and made it on as a poulterer for the ensemble scene. Besides that incident, a handle on the inside of my fur almost broke and one of my dress' zippers got stuck.
Saturday, 10 December:
Matinee:
My whole family came to see the show and I finally got a program because Janessa brought me one. The program is so flippin' sweet.
Between the shows my whole family went out to eat at Los Hermanos. A whole bunch of the teenagers/kids from the cast of A Christmas Carol came and ate there too. It was really weird and really funny.
Evening show:
One time I walked out of the dressing room and didn't zip up the back of my dress. Yeah, that was sorta embarrasing. I noticed right when I came out so only the actors there noticed. (What if I went on stage like that?!?!) At the end of the show we had a man propose. It was very cute.
21 December 2005
Opening Night (Thursday, 1 Dec.)
Yesterday (Wednesday) was the comp night dress rehersal. My grandparents and my mother and sister came. Yup, it was nervousing.
Anyway, on Thursday it was opening night. Our show was kind of screwed up. I finally got a poulterer basket and Beth got a pot and Mark got a rolling pin so when we are cooks people will at least know who we are. The first act was pretty good but the second act was a train wreck. It was really weird because Christmas together, which is usually really crappy, was very good. It was the best that it's ever been. Dancing on your grave was awful though. I got Dan's cape thingy (he had to get a special one that's like a foot longer than everyone else's because he is so tall). At the beginning of the second verse, we kinda started singing and then no one knew it so we didn't even sing anything for a few stanzas. Also, everyone forgot to circle around the stage and taunt Scrooge--except for me. I started walking and got to about the center of the stage when I realized I couldn't go any further because everyone else was in the way because they had not gone. And my cape was dragging and getting caught on everything. To get back to my spot, I had to get my cape across a coffin. It was pretty difficult. So because everyone else screwed up, I was the one who looked like an idiot.
Anyway, on Thursday it was opening night. Our show was kind of screwed up. I finally got a poulterer basket and Beth got a pot and Mark got a rolling pin so when we are cooks people will at least know who we are. The first act was pretty good but the second act was a train wreck. It was really weird because Christmas together, which is usually really crappy, was very good. It was the best that it's ever been. Dancing on your grave was awful though. I got Dan's cape thingy (he had to get a special one that's like a foot longer than everyone else's because he is so tall). At the beginning of the second verse, we kinda started singing and then no one knew it so we didn't even sing anything for a few stanzas. Also, everyone forgot to circle around the stage and taunt Scrooge--except for me. I started walking and got to about the center of the stage when I realized I couldn't go any further because everyone else was in the way because they had not gone. And my cape was dragging and getting caught on everything. To get back to my spot, I had to get my cape across a coffin. It was pretty difficult. So because everyone else screwed up, I was the one who looked like an idiot.
12 November 2005
Sadies (Fri. 11 Nov.)-My First Date!
Yesterday was Sadies. I went with Danny Morris and it was a lot of fun. Our theme was pajamas because we thought it would be easier. Even with something that simple, we had to do 3 different types of pajamas within our group. Danny, me, Carolee, and her date, wore blue PJs with sock monkeys on them. Danny pinned a sock monkey to his shirt which was really cute. :) Laura, Ariel, and their dates wore blue pants with Napoleon Dynamite sayings on them, and Suzie, her date, Jenna, Matt, and Jenna's friend, wore blue plaid PJs. I think the other two in our group, Katie and Kyle (I think) wore the blue plaid too maybe. I'm not really sure because they joined our group not very long before the dance.
I got picked up at like 7:30ish and we went to Los Hermanos. Downtown was so crowded that we had to park all the way in the CSMT PARKING LOT.
Los Hermanos was so hot and it took awhile to get the food coming and even until we ordered. We were there for two hours. We didn't leave until after ten. It was really fun though.
After that we drove up to the dance to get pictures. The pictures were so complex because Laura's car got there first and paid for theirs and then we had to tell the lady that we were all in their group too. Then, to make things worse, I only brought in $10, so Jenna loaned me money. We had to figure out all this math of how much our stuff together would be and how much we would owe. After awhile, we got the human calculator, Matt, to help us.
I think the pictures will turn out well. I bought a group and a single, I'm not sure how many of each.
After pictures we went down to the dance and danced a bit. Mostly Danny and I just swayed, which gets really old. I tried teaching him ChaCha and Waltz when there were those types of songs, but either he can't really dance or I'm just a really bad teacher. Probably the latter. We also did other stuff like ran in a circle with our whole group and watched Jenna and Matt dance all over the commons. They are crazily good. They just make up stuff and do it. I wish I could do that and for it to actually look good.
After like only 1 or 2 songs, Laura's car left. We started to leave, but a good song came on so we all went back in. We stayed till the end of the dance which was like 5 songs or so.
When we finally left we took Suzie and her date home and then drove to Laura's house. Ariel was seriously worried that we thought that they had ditched us because we took so long.
We played some games, which was fun, but not as fun as it should have been because I was so tired. And not a hyper tired.
After probably an hour of games or so, everyone took off. Jenna took me home. I got home at about 1 AM.
I went in my room and played stuff with Janessa and Sydney (Sydney was spending the night) and got to bed around 3 AM, completely exaughsted (SP??? I'm really tired, Okay?)
I got picked up at like 7:30ish and we went to Los Hermanos. Downtown was so crowded that we had to park all the way in the CSMT PARKING LOT.
Los Hermanos was so hot and it took awhile to get the food coming and even until we ordered. We were there for two hours. We didn't leave until after ten. It was really fun though.
After that we drove up to the dance to get pictures. The pictures were so complex because Laura's car got there first and paid for theirs and then we had to tell the lady that we were all in their group too. Then, to make things worse, I only brought in $10, so Jenna loaned me money. We had to figure out all this math of how much our stuff together would be and how much we would owe. After awhile, we got the human calculator, Matt, to help us.
I think the pictures will turn out well. I bought a group and a single, I'm not sure how many of each.
After pictures we went down to the dance and danced a bit. Mostly Danny and I just swayed, which gets really old. I tried teaching him ChaCha and Waltz when there were those types of songs, but either he can't really dance or I'm just a really bad teacher. Probably the latter. We also did other stuff like ran in a circle with our whole group and watched Jenna and Matt dance all over the commons. They are crazily good. They just make up stuff and do it. I wish I could do that and for it to actually look good.
After like only 1 or 2 songs, Laura's car left. We started to leave, but a good song came on so we all went back in. We stayed till the end of the dance which was like 5 songs or so.
When we finally left we took Suzie and her date home and then drove to Laura's house. Ariel was seriously worried that we thought that they had ditched us because we took so long.
We played some games, which was fun, but not as fun as it should have been because I was so tired. And not a hyper tired.
After probably an hour of games or so, everyone took off. Jenna took me home. I got home at about 1 AM.
I went in my room and played stuff with Janessa and Sydney (Sydney was spending the night) and got to bed around 3 AM, completely exaughsted (SP??? I'm really tired, Okay?)
20 October 2005
Catching Up
Wow, it has been a long time.
So, this post will be random because I'm just going to type what I think of... :)
Being in A Christmas Carol has been super fun. A Christmas Carol really is a pretty worn out story, but I love the music to the production that I'm in. It's the bestest ever. I don't know, maybe I'm biased. Everyone should come see it though.
On Tuesday we learned all the dancing for Fezziwig's Christmas Ball. Yeah, I'm not in shape so 2+ hours was so hard on me. I mean, I was having tons of fun, but about the time that I left I realized I was going to be really tired.
Wednesday was fun. I was so tired and random places on my body kept hurting. But Wednesday was the last day of school before UEA so it's all good. It's now Thursday and I slept about 10 hours last night. Talk about wonderful.
I also found out that Bonneville High School is doing Jekyll & Hyde. That's in Ogden (at least it's South Ogden, eh?) which is about 1 1/2-2 hours away. My mom agreed to go on this one Saturday where there's a matinee at 2 PM and then another show at 7 PM. Hey, we'd be gone for about 12 hours, but I could see it once while only driving up there once. Hopefully it all works out and hopefully they do a good job! I still have to get permission from the directors of A Christmas Carol because I'd have to leave about and hour early from our rehersal.
I'm so excited for musicals! I'm also seeing Beauty and the Beast at the Hale, The Secret Garden at my school, and Beauty and the Beast at Provo High. Well, most likely. I haven't been to the theatre since I think August? Whenever it was that I saw The Secret Garden at CSMT.
Right now it feels like Christmas because of no school today. I hate school so much.
And I know there's lots more but I'm not thinking of it. So, byebye!
So, this post will be random because I'm just going to type what I think of... :)
Being in A Christmas Carol has been super fun. A Christmas Carol really is a pretty worn out story, but I love the music to the production that I'm in. It's the bestest ever. I don't know, maybe I'm biased. Everyone should come see it though.
On Tuesday we learned all the dancing for Fezziwig's Christmas Ball. Yeah, I'm not in shape so 2+ hours was so hard on me. I mean, I was having tons of fun, but about the time that I left I realized I was going to be really tired.
Wednesday was fun. I was so tired and random places on my body kept hurting. But Wednesday was the last day of school before UEA so it's all good. It's now Thursday and I slept about 10 hours last night. Talk about wonderful.
I also found out that Bonneville High School is doing Jekyll & Hyde. That's in Ogden (at least it's South Ogden, eh?) which is about 1 1/2-2 hours away. My mom agreed to go on this one Saturday where there's a matinee at 2 PM and then another show at 7 PM. Hey, we'd be gone for about 12 hours, but I could see it once while only driving up there once. Hopefully it all works out and hopefully they do a good job! I still have to get permission from the directors of A Christmas Carol because I'd have to leave about and hour early from our rehersal.
I'm so excited for musicals! I'm also seeing Beauty and the Beast at the Hale, The Secret Garden at my school, and Beauty and the Beast at Provo High. Well, most likely. I haven't been to the theatre since I think August? Whenever it was that I saw The Secret Garden at CSMT.
Right now it feels like Christmas because of no school today. I hate school so much.
And I know there's lots more but I'm not thinking of it. So, byebye!
25 September 2005
A Christmas Carol results and other things of that day
On Saturday, someone for Center Street Musical Theatre called with results. It was so scary when I saw on the caller ID who it was. But good news, I made it! I am so excited, I was shaking for like a whole half hour after I hung up. (That was from being nervous too.) But I finally made it in a show! My first one ever! Yay! :) (Sydney, if you read this, tell me if you made it!)
A couple hours after that my whole family went to my grandparent's house to celebrate my birthday and my grandpa's birthday. (His is the same day as mine.) We had dinner and cake and ice cream and opened gifts. My grandparents gave me this awesome bracelet that has the YW values on it. And it's so much more awesome just because of who gave it to me.
A couple hours after that my whole family went to my grandparent's house to celebrate my birthday and my grandpa's birthday. (His is the same day as mine.) We had dinner and cake and ice cream and opened gifts. My grandparents gave me this awesome bracelet that has the YW values on it. And it's so much more awesome just because of who gave it to me.
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