So, I haven't written for a very long time... I'm so lazy now that I have a little more time to be lazy!
I just had a lovely weekend, four days long, and I only worked one day of the weekend. I hung out with my friend, saw a musical, shopped a little bit, and generally relaxed and enjoyed myself. How lovely to not spend my WHOLE weekend working.
Since I haven't been in shows, I've adjusted to the extra time. I watch more TV (of course) and I'm part of this sweet after school club called the Explorers. It sounds super nerdy but it's actually really cool because we actually DO things. It's a police club and we meet at the police station. We've only had about 4 meetings/activities and already we've learned how to finger print and dust for finger prints, finger printed little kids, watched 3 guys get tazered, eaten doughnuts, cake, and ice cream, went paintballing (I didn't attend this one), explored a police car, among other sweet things. Ah, it's so facinating and so much fun! The group is still new and very small and we have a HUGE budget. (I realize I've turned this into an ad...but it's so cool!). If you live in Utah county and want to join, let me know.
Today I discovered a girl in my class who is both a Mizzie and a Jekkie. So that's pretty sweet. I barely know her an already we want to have a party and watch/listen to mucho sweet things.
This is getting lame so I'll just shut up now... My life is fairly dull (but still lovely) as of recent.
20 February 2007
28 October 2006
My Week!
Lesee...
This week I basically did homework and went to rehearsals. (Our term ended Thursday.)We blocked my part (Lillian) and I got a few more lines because we cut out the part of Walt (? I think it was Walt...) and Joel also gave me the part of Harriet. I can't find it in the script! Anyone know who she is? It's super-awesome that I have all these lines but I'm getting really nervous about them!
A Wonderful Life is going to be so much fun. Our George is SO awesome! I love his acting style so much. It's so...genuine, heartfelt and touching. The first time we ran the opening scene where he's praying (right after we'd blocked it) I almost cried because I felt so much. Yes, he's awesome. Another thing I'm really excited for is the bank scene right after the stock market crashes. It's super-awesome and we haven't even learned the music yet. (By the way, the music for this show is so awesome! There's many styles and a lot of it's really cute/fun to sing. Plus it sounds so cool with all the harmonies and groups (when we get it right).)
I know we still need more men but I think we could also use some women. Spread the word! It will help so much! It's hard with no cast!
On Friday we had no school and I worked from 6 AM-2 PM. It wasn't as bad as it sounds but I was SO tired. Guess what exciting and fun thing I did during my shift?!? I cleaned every garbage can, every wet-floor cone and every iron man (the stands of signs). Keep in mind that nearly every isle end has a garbage can, EVERY isle end has a cone, and there's a bunch of signs throughout the store (although not quite as many). We have 21 isles and each has 2 ends. (21+21)2+21. Something like that. I can't do math. I went through a whole spray bottle of cleaner, a ton of paper towels, and it took me nearly three hours.
On Saturday I took the ACT. (Evil...EVIL!) I fell pretty good about the two English portions but math and science (of course) weren't so good. I think I knew about half of the math problems but the science was rough. Yeah, sure I could reason it all out, but not in 35 minutes! That's rediculously short! To get science, I have to think about it for awhile, but I eventually can get it. A lot of the stuff was chemistry which is one of my worst science subjects... I finished most of the portions this time though, which was WAY better than last time. In fact, the only one that I didn't finish was the math portion. Last time the only thing I finished was the essay. (This time I didn't take the writing. Thank goodness!)
If this entry is a little messed, I thank the ACT. IQ went down, definitely.
This week I basically did homework and went to rehearsals. (Our term ended Thursday.)We blocked my part (Lillian) and I got a few more lines because we cut out the part of Walt (? I think it was Walt...) and Joel also gave me the part of Harriet. I can't find it in the script! Anyone know who she is? It's super-awesome that I have all these lines but I'm getting really nervous about them!
A Wonderful Life is going to be so much fun. Our George is SO awesome! I love his acting style so much. It's so...genuine, heartfelt and touching. The first time we ran the opening scene where he's praying (right after we'd blocked it) I almost cried because I felt so much. Yes, he's awesome. Another thing I'm really excited for is the bank scene right after the stock market crashes. It's super-awesome and we haven't even learned the music yet. (By the way, the music for this show is so awesome! There's many styles and a lot of it's really cute/fun to sing. Plus it sounds so cool with all the harmonies and groups (when we get it right).)
I know we still need more men but I think we could also use some women. Spread the word! It will help so much! It's hard with no cast!
On Friday we had no school and I worked from 6 AM-2 PM. It wasn't as bad as it sounds but I was SO tired. Guess what exciting and fun thing I did during my shift?!? I cleaned every garbage can, every wet-floor cone and every iron man (the stands of signs). Keep in mind that nearly every isle end has a garbage can, EVERY isle end has a cone, and there's a bunch of signs throughout the store (although not quite as many). We have 21 isles and each has 2 ends. (21+21)2+21. Something like that. I can't do math. I went through a whole spray bottle of cleaner, a ton of paper towels, and it took me nearly three hours.
On Saturday I took the ACT. (Evil...EVIL!) I fell pretty good about the two English portions but math and science (of course) weren't so good. I think I knew about half of the math problems but the science was rough. Yeah, sure I could reason it all out, but not in 35 minutes! That's rediculously short! To get science, I have to think about it for awhile, but I eventually can get it. A lot of the stuff was chemistry which is one of my worst science subjects... I finished most of the portions this time though, which was WAY better than last time. In fact, the only one that I didn't finish was the math portion. Last time the only thing I finished was the essay. (This time I didn't take the writing. Thank goodness!)
If this entry is a little messed, I thank the ACT. IQ went down, definitely.
20 October 2006
Weekly Update
The most exciting thing of this week was that we began rehearsals for A Wonderful Life. Lillian is a person on a board and she comes in right after Mr. Bailey (George Bailey's dad) dies. I'm part of the group that votes on the fate of The Building and Loan. I have three lines:
"Henry, that's premature."
"That's a serious charge!"
and,
"Let him speak!"
I don't really like any of those lines, except the last one. I actually know how I'm going to say that one and it's the line that comes right before everyone starts singing. I get to yell: "Let him speak!" and then they'll start some huge vocal debate through music. Sweetness.
At our second rehearsal (Wednesday), Joel informed me that I have a solo. I didn't know what he was talking about so he told me to look at my script. I CAN'T FIND IT! The part of Lillian only has those three lines and he didn't tell me about any other parts. Either he's confused or he didn't inform me. But I'm scared!
On Thursday Crystal and I drove all the way to Springville to go to rehearsal and it was cancelled! Sure enough, when I got home there was a message on my machine about it. So now I must wait until Saturday to find out about this "solo".
"Henry, that's premature."
"That's a serious charge!"
and,
"Let him speak!"
I don't really like any of those lines, except the last one. I actually know how I'm going to say that one and it's the line that comes right before everyone starts singing. I get to yell: "Let him speak!" and then they'll start some huge vocal debate through music. Sweetness.
At our second rehearsal (Wednesday), Joel informed me that I have a solo. I didn't know what he was talking about so he told me to look at my script. I CAN'T FIND IT! The part of Lillian only has those three lines and he didn't tell me about any other parts. Either he's confused or he didn't inform me. But I'm scared!
On Thursday Crystal and I drove all the way to Springville to go to rehearsal and it was cancelled! Sure enough, when I got home there was a message on my machine about it. So now I must wait until Saturday to find out about this "solo".
15 October 2006
Update
I know I missed a week. I considered posting, but I just plain didn't feel like it.
I can't really remember what happened during the school week...but my UEA weekend was amazing!
Right off the bat, I came home from my 4-hour shift and Joel called about A Wonderful Life. Not only am I in it but I have a name!!!! A NAME! I'm Lillian and he says I'm a chorus member or something. Our first rehearsal is Tuesday and I'll find out who my character is. I'm excited to see! My little sister Crystal got the part that Joel wanted her to have and that she auditioned for--Zuzu. She's in the main character's family! And has lines! And a scene with the main character! Is she the one who states the famous line "Everytime a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings?" My friend thinks so and that'd be so awesome.
Wow, babbling but I'm excited! This show will be awesome.
Thursday was Janessa's birthday and I spent the majority of the day planning out her kidnap to The Haunted Forest. I made fifty-trillion phone calls and even a trip to the Butler's house in Orem (they would help kidnap in some way). We decided I would just make it lots simpler and get Janessa in the car, then ask her to put a blindfold on, and then take her where I needed.
Today I also visited the Orem Smith's which was super-awesomely fun. Not only did I get to visit my old co-workers and my old lovely store, but I picked up two pay checks and got them cashed. 'Twas fun.
I also went to Wal-Mart with Sydney Butler. 'Twas fun. I bought an Oreo HandiSnack and this Axe body wash gift-set. It was on clearance or something because it was only $2. It came with two bottles of body wash and a "male" rubber ducky. It's so cute! Instead of being yellow a baby-looking, it's black with horns, sunglasses, and a masculine white-bead necklace. Hopefully when I give it to my dad he'll let me have the ducky. :) (Curses, his birthday isn't until November...)
After the excursion we headed home where I got some food and then just waited out the hours until it was time for my plan to take place. Janessa went with Crystal and Dad to Los Hermanos for lunch and came home with a new unicycle! Janessa should just join the circus and be done with it.
At about 7:45 I got Janessa into the car on the context that we were heading to Wal-Mart. She knew something was up by now, but she had no idea what.
When we got by Provo High, I told her: “Janessa, you’re going to hate me but put this blindfold on”. She thought it was gross and was a bit hesitant but she did it.
It was hilarious because she got so confused!
We stopped by Sydney’s house to “pick up something” but in reality, I picked up Sydney. Janessa was confused by this as we drove on, but soon she knew there was a “presence”. Also, she reached into the backseat and touched Sydney so she knew it was a person. She also connected round-a-bouts with Sydney’s house and was pretty certain Sydney was in the car with us. Sydney was awesome though because not one peep did she make on the whole drive.
When we got to The Haunted Forest, we all got out. She heard 3 doors, not 2 (she knew Clint and me were in the car). We opened the front door and I took pictures as Sydney surprised her and removed her blindfold.
Once we got all ready, we waited for like an hour because Genevieve’s car hadn’t shown up yet. Aubrey got a call from Genevieve and it turned out their car was broken down an exit back. Gene’s dad came and gave them all a ride and they got to The Haunted Forest pretty quickly considering what had happened.
I think we got 15 people to come which was awesome. After the line we were in the forest and it wasn’t AS scary as I thought.
I really hated the haunted castle at the beginning with all the stuff that was being electrocuted. In fact, I just hated all those things that were being electrocuted. I also hated the muddy pathways, the closet, the tunnel that kept getting smaller with all the hanging burlap sacks (that was just gross) and the chain saws. Some of those guys are really good actors and it’s fun to watch them and others, you just feel bad for them. The way they have to act like retards or stay in one position all night is really sad.
I think the scariest part was when this one guy (a really good actor because he seemed just like those crazies that you meet on the street) started talking to us and surprised us oh-so-well.
“You know what the voices in my head are telling me to do right now? Do ya?”
Sydney: “What?”
“Cut you up!!!!!”
He immediately started a chainsaw and started to chase us. It was so awful. Just as we started to run, another monster started a lawn mower and began to chase us also. It was awful!
One time that was just awesome was this:
“You guys aren’t supposed to glow!” (Referring to our glow sticks and glow bracelets and necklaces)
Sydney: “Why not?”
“Because then I can’t scare ya.”
“Do you want a glow?”
“Oh, I got my glow.”
“Where’s your glow?”
Something roars out of the water by the bridge.
“There’s my glow!”
Haha, awesome eh?
Some of the cooler parts included the Jason room. The clown room with the strobe light was cool and that was about the only time they made good use of the strobe. Usually it was just retarded; like that one where you walk through a strobe-lighted hall on a platform with mechanical skeletons moving all around you. There was so much strobe that you couldn’t really even see the “scary”, you were just concentrating on where to look so it wouldn’t hurt your eyes and head so much.
It was a cool experience but I won’t pay to do it again. (It’s expensive!!!)
After we got out of the forest, we all drove to Genevieve’s house for treats. I gave a ride not only to Clint, Sydney and Janessa, but also to Aubrey and her friend Jessica. It was kind of nervousing. And Nessa and Sydney sat in such a way that it put Aubrey and Jessica at opposite end of the car so they were talking louder and kind of across me. It rather sucked.
Genevieve’s house was fun and the treats were yummy.
After a bit, Sydney, Nessa, Clint and myself all went to Sydney’s house. We waited while Sydney asked her mom if she could come over tonight and guess what the answer was!? It was a yes! YAY! Then we hung out for a bit longer and did random stuff. It was hilarious because Craig and Brandon started fighting over an exercise ball. Haha.
Eventually we drove to my house and we basically just got ready for bed, seeing the it was 1 or 2 AM.
On Friday we played some LF but then we went to Maple Lake with my family. Mom, Dad, Clint, Jordan, Crystal, Janessa, Sydney and myself all went. When we got to the lake, we ran into Grandpa and Uncle Mike who were just leaving so all of the girls (except Mom) went home with them in their truck. Mike drove which was sort of terrifying and made be quite car sick because he’s so messed up he doesn’t even have a license because it’s been taken away.
At Grandma’s house we helped her decorate and did random stuff.
Later, after everyone had arrived home, we had a yummy dinner and then hung out some more.
In the late evening we drove home and Janessa, Sydney and myself stayed up really late and got lots of Loving Family played.
On Saturday we got ready and played some Loving Family and then all the girls in my family left for Crystal’s birthday party. On the way we stopped at Honks and bought cups, plates, forks, soda, goody bag candy and surprises, and other last minute party supplies. Pretty fun and spontaneous. (Ha.)
Then we drove to Michael’s and I put together the goody bags and decorated a bit.
Only two of Crystal’s friends showed up: Lacey (because we went a picked her up) and Gaby.
First Jean (the Michael’s person who conducted the party and the craft) helped up paint and decorate cute little boxes. When everyone finished that, then we played pin-the-horn-on-the-unicorn, then Simon Says and then Mother May I. Then Mom came back with the ice cream and we had root beer floats, cake, and ice cream. ‘Twas yummy.
Then some of us cleaned up while the rest played pin-the-horn-on-the-unicorn and then we left. We dropped off the Butler’s and then Gaby at the theatre in Provo and then we went home. Here I got ready and then went to work. I got the 5 PM-1AM shift. It sucked so badly. Not only did everything hurt, but the checkers were rude. There were no “pleases” or “thank-you’s” it was just “SARAH! SARAH! PRICE CHECK!” I think they were all irritable as well about working Saturday night. They really need to schedule more people or people shouldn’t try to make the late Saturday night shopping. It sucks really bad when the lines are 12 feet past the checkout lane and you’re the only bagger.
GAH.
I HATE WORKING SATURDAYS!
After work I took a nice shower and stuffed my face. I love food. Then I watched some TV and went to sleep.
I can't really remember what happened during the school week...but my UEA weekend was amazing!
Right off the bat, I came home from my 4-hour shift and Joel called about A Wonderful Life. Not only am I in it but I have a name!!!! A NAME! I'm Lillian and he says I'm a chorus member or something. Our first rehearsal is Tuesday and I'll find out who my character is. I'm excited to see! My little sister Crystal got the part that Joel wanted her to have and that she auditioned for--Zuzu. She's in the main character's family! And has lines! And a scene with the main character! Is she the one who states the famous line "Everytime a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings?" My friend thinks so and that'd be so awesome.
Wow, babbling but I'm excited! This show will be awesome.
Thursday was Janessa's birthday and I spent the majority of the day planning out her kidnap to The Haunted Forest. I made fifty-trillion phone calls and even a trip to the Butler's house in Orem (they would help kidnap in some way). We decided I would just make it lots simpler and get Janessa in the car, then ask her to put a blindfold on, and then take her where I needed.
Today I also visited the Orem Smith's which was super-awesomely fun. Not only did I get to visit my old co-workers and my old lovely store, but I picked up two pay checks and got them cashed. 'Twas fun.
I also went to Wal-Mart with Sydney Butler. 'Twas fun. I bought an Oreo HandiSnack and this Axe body wash gift-set. It was on clearance or something because it was only $2. It came with two bottles of body wash and a "male" rubber ducky. It's so cute! Instead of being yellow a baby-looking, it's black with horns, sunglasses, and a masculine white-bead necklace. Hopefully when I give it to my dad he'll let me have the ducky. :) (Curses, his birthday isn't until November...)
After the excursion we headed home where I got some food and then just waited out the hours until it was time for my plan to take place. Janessa went with Crystal and Dad to Los Hermanos for lunch and came home with a new unicycle! Janessa should just join the circus and be done with it.
At about 7:45 I got Janessa into the car on the context that we were heading to Wal-Mart. She knew something was up by now, but she had no idea what.
When we got by Provo High, I told her: “Janessa, you’re going to hate me but put this blindfold on”. She thought it was gross and was a bit hesitant but she did it.
It was hilarious because she got so confused!
We stopped by Sydney’s house to “pick up something” but in reality, I picked up Sydney. Janessa was confused by this as we drove on, but soon she knew there was a “presence”. Also, she reached into the backseat and touched Sydney so she knew it was a person. She also connected round-a-bouts with Sydney’s house and was pretty certain Sydney was in the car with us. Sydney was awesome though because not one peep did she make on the whole drive.
When we got to The Haunted Forest, we all got out. She heard 3 doors, not 2 (she knew Clint and me were in the car). We opened the front door and I took pictures as Sydney surprised her and removed her blindfold.
Once we got all ready, we waited for like an hour because Genevieve’s car hadn’t shown up yet. Aubrey got a call from Genevieve and it turned out their car was broken down an exit back. Gene’s dad came and gave them all a ride and they got to The Haunted Forest pretty quickly considering what had happened.
I think we got 15 people to come which was awesome. After the line we were in the forest and it wasn’t AS scary as I thought.
I really hated the haunted castle at the beginning with all the stuff that was being electrocuted. In fact, I just hated all those things that were being electrocuted. I also hated the muddy pathways, the closet, the tunnel that kept getting smaller with all the hanging burlap sacks (that was just gross) and the chain saws. Some of those guys are really good actors and it’s fun to watch them and others, you just feel bad for them. The way they have to act like retards or stay in one position all night is really sad.
I think the scariest part was when this one guy (a really good actor because he seemed just like those crazies that you meet on the street) started talking to us and surprised us oh-so-well.
“You know what the voices in my head are telling me to do right now? Do ya?”
Sydney: “What?”
“Cut you up!!!!!”
He immediately started a chainsaw and started to chase us. It was so awful. Just as we started to run, another monster started a lawn mower and began to chase us also. It was awful!
One time that was just awesome was this:
“You guys aren’t supposed to glow!” (Referring to our glow sticks and glow bracelets and necklaces)
Sydney: “Why not?”
“Because then I can’t scare ya.”
“Do you want a glow?”
“Oh, I got my glow.”
“Where’s your glow?”
Something roars out of the water by the bridge.
“There’s my glow!”
Haha, awesome eh?
Some of the cooler parts included the Jason room. The clown room with the strobe light was cool and that was about the only time they made good use of the strobe. Usually it was just retarded; like that one where you walk through a strobe-lighted hall on a platform with mechanical skeletons moving all around you. There was so much strobe that you couldn’t really even see the “scary”, you were just concentrating on where to look so it wouldn’t hurt your eyes and head so much.
It was a cool experience but I won’t pay to do it again. (It’s expensive!!!)
After we got out of the forest, we all drove to Genevieve’s house for treats. I gave a ride not only to Clint, Sydney and Janessa, but also to Aubrey and her friend Jessica. It was kind of nervousing. And Nessa and Sydney sat in such a way that it put Aubrey and Jessica at opposite end of the car so they were talking louder and kind of across me. It rather sucked.
Genevieve’s house was fun and the treats were yummy.
After a bit, Sydney, Nessa, Clint and myself all went to Sydney’s house. We waited while Sydney asked her mom if she could come over tonight and guess what the answer was!? It was a yes! YAY! Then we hung out for a bit longer and did random stuff. It was hilarious because Craig and Brandon started fighting over an exercise ball. Haha.
Eventually we drove to my house and we basically just got ready for bed, seeing the it was 1 or 2 AM.
On Friday we played some LF but then we went to Maple Lake with my family. Mom, Dad, Clint, Jordan, Crystal, Janessa, Sydney and myself all went. When we got to the lake, we ran into Grandpa and Uncle Mike who were just leaving so all of the girls (except Mom) went home with them in their truck. Mike drove which was sort of terrifying and made be quite car sick because he’s so messed up he doesn’t even have a license because it’s been taken away.
At Grandma’s house we helped her decorate and did random stuff.
Later, after everyone had arrived home, we had a yummy dinner and then hung out some more.
In the late evening we drove home and Janessa, Sydney and myself stayed up really late and got lots of Loving Family played.
On Saturday we got ready and played some Loving Family and then all the girls in my family left for Crystal’s birthday party. On the way we stopped at Honks and bought cups, plates, forks, soda, goody bag candy and surprises, and other last minute party supplies. Pretty fun and spontaneous. (Ha.)
Then we drove to Michael’s and I put together the goody bags and decorated a bit.
Only two of Crystal’s friends showed up: Lacey (because we went a picked her up) and Gaby.
First Jean (the Michael’s person who conducted the party and the craft) helped up paint and decorate cute little boxes. When everyone finished that, then we played pin-the-horn-on-the-unicorn, then Simon Says and then Mother May I. Then Mom came back with the ice cream and we had root beer floats, cake, and ice cream. ‘Twas yummy.
Then some of us cleaned up while the rest played pin-the-horn-on-the-unicorn and then we left. We dropped off the Butler’s and then Gaby at the theatre in Provo and then we went home. Here I got ready and then went to work. I got the 5 PM-1AM shift. It sucked so badly. Not only did everything hurt, but the checkers were rude. There were no “pleases” or “thank-you’s” it was just “SARAH! SARAH! PRICE CHECK!” I think they were all irritable as well about working Saturday night. They really need to schedule more people or people shouldn’t try to make the late Saturday night shopping. It sucks really bad when the lines are 12 feet past the checkout lane and you’re the only bagger.
GAH.
I HATE WORKING SATURDAYS!
After work I took a nice shower and stuffed my face. I love food. Then I watched some TV and went to sleep.
22 September 2006
Update
I live through this week only because the Juniors were testing all week and I got to sleep in most days. It was lovely but now it's over :(.
School was pretty usual but big event included begining work at Smith's and my birthday.
Working at the Provo Smith's is just weird. I know HOW to do everything, but it's just knowing where everything is that is the trick. The isles are switched around but most of the things that were together/on the same isles in Orem are the same way at Provo. So I can find things, I just have to think about them a little more to decide which way to run. At Orem, the left of the store was all non-foods and the right was all food stuffs. Well, this store mixes it up which is just crazy and annoying. Carts are easier due to their nicer carts, but sometimes they are so new that they just slip apart and make for difficult gathering. I do love working with two family friends of mine, Brandon and Craig. It makes it so much more fun when you have someone you know already to work with. So far I like it but their scheduling is screwed up...I can't work late, get it? Ah, well.
My birthday was fun but pretty boring for someone turning 18. Yay, I'm an adult! Let's party by visiting my grandparents! It sounds lame but I enjoy doing that so it's all good. Yup, that's pretty much all I did. I just ate yummies and hung out at my grandparent's house with my family. My parents gave me a $20 gift card to Maceys so I'm excited to check out that store. It's kinda fun for a conservative Mormon community to get a store that's traditional of New York. I also got some wicked sweet cards, some money and a package of Skittles from a friend.
And there's your update of the week!
PS. Everyone should go to www.wheresgeorge.com and enter all of their bills! It's fun and awesome when you actually get a hit! (The more people who do it, the more hits you'll get!!!!!) It's simple too if you've never used the service before. You register once and then when you enter a bill, you only have to enter what is actually on the bill. Then you don't have to do anything else! Unless of course you want to check out the other interesting features.
Anyway, I probably oversold it there but it really is cool!
School was pretty usual but big event included begining work at Smith's and my birthday.
Working at the Provo Smith's is just weird. I know HOW to do everything, but it's just knowing where everything is that is the trick. The isles are switched around but most of the things that were together/on the same isles in Orem are the same way at Provo. So I can find things, I just have to think about them a little more to decide which way to run. At Orem, the left of the store was all non-foods and the right was all food stuffs. Well, this store mixes it up which is just crazy and annoying. Carts are easier due to their nicer carts, but sometimes they are so new that they just slip apart and make for difficult gathering. I do love working with two family friends of mine, Brandon and Craig. It makes it so much more fun when you have someone you know already to work with. So far I like it but their scheduling is screwed up...I can't work late, get it? Ah, well.
My birthday was fun but pretty boring for someone turning 18. Yay, I'm an adult! Let's party by visiting my grandparents! It sounds lame but I enjoy doing that so it's all good. Yup, that's pretty much all I did. I just ate yummies and hung out at my grandparent's house with my family. My parents gave me a $20 gift card to Maceys so I'm excited to check out that store. It's kinda fun for a conservative Mormon community to get a store that's traditional of New York. I also got some wicked sweet cards, some money and a package of Skittles from a friend.
And there's your update of the week!
PS. Everyone should go to www.wheresgeorge.com and enter all of their bills! It's fun and awesome when you actually get a hit! (The more people who do it, the more hits you'll get!!!!!) It's simple too if you've never used the service before. You register once and then when you enter a bill, you only have to enter what is actually on the bill. Then you don't have to do anything else! Unless of course you want to check out the other interesting features.
Anyway, I probably oversold it there but it really is cool!
16 September 2006
End-of-week Update
This past week was pretty usual except for the fact that I finally got my transfer from Orem Smith's to Provo Smith's worked out. It was my last week at Orem *buh* but I'm excited to start at Provo. I hope they don't treat me too much like a newbee and they're nice. I have noticed that when I first started at Orem I did something nasty like garbages or bathrooms every night but after a bit I only had to do the bathrooms about once a week and I haven't done garbages for who knows how long.
I just got my schedule for next week though and they have me working past 10 PM. I'm annoyed about that! Tues. I work until 10:15 (that's not that bad), Thurs. until 11 PM (that's pushing it) and then Saturday until 1 AM (that's too late but at least it's not a school night).
Gah, next week is going to suck. My school work is going to be heavy and with that I'm going to have high stress especially because I'm switching jobs.
What crazy weather though! It was 90 only a few days ago and now it's freezing! It snowed today! It feels like Halloween is coming right up but it's still a month and a half away. And it doesn't feel like my birthday is really Wednesday because usually it's a lot warmer. It's cool but depressing also.
I just got my schedule for next week though and they have me working past 10 PM. I'm annoyed about that! Tues. I work until 10:15 (that's not that bad), Thurs. until 11 PM (that's pushing it) and then Saturday until 1 AM (that's too late but at least it's not a school night).
Gah, next week is going to suck. My school work is going to be heavy and with that I'm going to have high stress especially because I'm switching jobs.
What crazy weather though! It was 90 only a few days ago and now it's freezing! It snowed today! It feels like Halloween is coming right up but it's still a month and a half away. And it doesn't feel like my birthday is really Wednesday because usually it's a lot warmer. It's cool but depressing also.
10 September 2006
General Update
Gah! This school is killing me! I've been meaning to update for a long time but haven't quite gotten time enough to really even think about booting up the computer (and not be doing homework).
I'm supposed to write the introduction to my essay for Pride and Prejudice by tomorrow for English. #1: This task is hard enough (especially since I haven't had time to finish the book yet. #2: Quote from Ms. Drummond: "Don't be surprised if I ask you to read your introduction out loud to the class. That put way too much pressure on me...
Anyway, mostly this update is supposed to be about The Music Man. We've now been open for 2 nights.
Three people are doing tech for The Music Man. Genevieve-Stage manager Janessa and I-Her assistants.
Well, for the first two nights our stage manager had a family get-together campout thingy so she was gone. So Gavin added his daughter to our crew (Kyrsten) and we never rehearsed this setup.
By my tone of voice, you can probably tell that what happened was a disaster.
Friday, our first night, we had a set change that we never practiced (even with Genevieve). We basically didn't know how short of a time we had, although it was a set change behind the curtains. We have only the song "Ice Cream" to remove curtains covering the huge set pieces and then get them into a very odd position but center it. Kyrsten thought it was the blue tape so they pushed their piece there (in actuality it was the glow tape). I was left to get the other set piece in by myself. Basically, I opened the curtains when we were only halfway there. Come to find out, Janessa and Kyrsten's side had a HUGE gap where the audience could see directly backstage. I mean, it was like a 3 foot gap. And we had to set for the library with that gap. We would have closed the curtains but Sydnee (light booth person) told us to leave it. I had to set the left side by going all the way around and then crawling on the floor backstage. I know for a fact the audience saw lots of people they weren't supposed to see. Backstage is pretty much black except for when people walk back there. Then the people light up and are clearly seen.
To make matters worse, just tonight Gavin put hooks on the front of the large set pieces to hang cover-up curtains on. Well, these hooks would catch like crazy on the curtains. It was just the next set change when the pieces caught and popped the curtain off a few of it's hooks. The damage was so bad that Gavin had to fix it during intermission. He also took off the hooks (thankfully). Our second act when perfectly. The curtains stay on the top of the set pieces with no hooks what-so-ever. I wish Gavin would have tested this out before hand. He could have saved himself a lot of time drilling the hooks on (and then having to fix the curtain and removing the hooks.)
You have no idea how bad I felt about this night. It made me want to never come back. Poor Gavin worked so hard for all of this (plus playing the lead role!) and then we upstaged a whole scene and broke things. Also, we messed up the first night which is very important for the audience numbers later just because of word-of-mouth.
Thankfully, we proved ourselves for the next night. We proved that we aren't just stupid and we CAN do it without Genevieve. Everything was perfect except Kyrsten didn't close the curtains at one point because she expected a blackout and their wasn't one. She closed them a bit later in the same scene. (They only close there anyway to give tech a chance to prep the two huge pieces.)
After the disasters opening night, there was this huge tension between backstage tech. and Gavin. It's gone now since we did it right the second night. Gavin was in a very good mood after the show (I saw him talking to tons of (pleased?) audience members and gave us an enthusiastic "good job girls!" after the show.
*Sigh* What a hectic opening weekend!
Now I must get onto my Pride and Prejudice essay in which I am procrastinating on...
I'm supposed to write the introduction to my essay for Pride and Prejudice by tomorrow for English. #1: This task is hard enough (especially since I haven't had time to finish the book yet. #2: Quote from Ms. Drummond: "Don't be surprised if I ask you to read your introduction out loud to the class. That put way too much pressure on me...
Anyway, mostly this update is supposed to be about The Music Man. We've now been open for 2 nights.
Three people are doing tech for The Music Man. Genevieve-Stage manager Janessa and I-Her assistants.
Well, for the first two nights our stage manager had a family get-together campout thingy so she was gone. So Gavin added his daughter to our crew (Kyrsten) and we never rehearsed this setup.
By my tone of voice, you can probably tell that what happened was a disaster.
Friday, our first night, we had a set change that we never practiced (even with Genevieve). We basically didn't know how short of a time we had, although it was a set change behind the curtains. We have only the song "Ice Cream" to remove curtains covering the huge set pieces and then get them into a very odd position but center it. Kyrsten thought it was the blue tape so they pushed their piece there (in actuality it was the glow tape). I was left to get the other set piece in by myself. Basically, I opened the curtains when we were only halfway there. Come to find out, Janessa and Kyrsten's side had a HUGE gap where the audience could see directly backstage. I mean, it was like a 3 foot gap. And we had to set for the library with that gap. We would have closed the curtains but Sydnee (light booth person) told us to leave it. I had to set the left side by going all the way around and then crawling on the floor backstage. I know for a fact the audience saw lots of people they weren't supposed to see. Backstage is pretty much black except for when people walk back there. Then the people light up and are clearly seen.
To make matters worse, just tonight Gavin put hooks on the front of the large set pieces to hang cover-up curtains on. Well, these hooks would catch like crazy on the curtains. It was just the next set change when the pieces caught and popped the curtain off a few of it's hooks. The damage was so bad that Gavin had to fix it during intermission. He also took off the hooks (thankfully). Our second act when perfectly. The curtains stay on the top of the set pieces with no hooks what-so-ever. I wish Gavin would have tested this out before hand. He could have saved himself a lot of time drilling the hooks on (and then having to fix the curtain and removing the hooks.)
You have no idea how bad I felt about this night. It made me want to never come back. Poor Gavin worked so hard for all of this (plus playing the lead role!) and then we upstaged a whole scene and broke things. Also, we messed up the first night which is very important for the audience numbers later just because of word-of-mouth.
Thankfully, we proved ourselves for the next night. We proved that we aren't just stupid and we CAN do it without Genevieve. Everything was perfect except Kyrsten didn't close the curtains at one point because she expected a blackout and their wasn't one. She closed them a bit later in the same scene. (They only close there anyway to give tech a chance to prep the two huge pieces.)
After the disasters opening night, there was this huge tension between backstage tech. and Gavin. It's gone now since we did it right the second night. Gavin was in a very good mood after the show (I saw him talking to tons of (pleased?) audience members and gave us an enthusiastic "good job girls!" after the show.
*Sigh* What a hectic opening weekend!
Now I must get onto my Pride and Prejudice essay in which I am procrastinating on...
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