Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Who Pressed Fast Forward?!

Life is zooming by right now. Time is flying. I know it's cliche. I know.

I have a show opening in less than 3 days, which deserves a post of it's own, considering all the drama that has surrounded the production of this play - starting with the fact that I replaced a fired actress who was apparently super talented but a major diva. Yikes. Sprinkle into that having to learn British accents or face the possibility of being shut down due to violation of performance/adaptation rights AND losing our stage manager 2 days before tech and you've got quite a situation.
I took the role because I knew it would be a great challenge and there's always that lingering voice in my head saying "when are you going to get a chance to act again?" I *heart* our director and there is some fierce talent in this cast, so I'm convinced it will be an overall success - it just feels dicey right now. But the show must go on!

It's late August!!! I never posted about our glorious, restful, wonderful trip to Maine in July with Andrew's family. I have over 300 photos and so much to say about how bittersweet it is to see Sadie with her "far away" family in such a special place. Here are a few photos of our trip:

The Perch, dead center.


Lobster boats in the morning!

Papa pointing things out.

Grimes Cove beach with Nana and Daddy.

Relaxation.

On a walk with Nana.

Classic coastal Maine

Joanne leaves for New Zealand in less than 3 weeks. I'm in denial that she's really going. I'm so excited for her & all of the possibilities & adventures that await her there, but oh. my. GOD. I'm going to miss her so much. Thank heavens for Skype, I guess. It's sort of beyond my comprehension that she literally may not come back to the US for a very long time. The bright side of that, though, is that if she doesn't come back, that means things are going great for her there. Double-edged sword. Big time.

Babies everywhere! My friend Leslie had her sweet twin girls after a very scary and complicated pregnancy. My friend Alissa had her perfect twin boys. My cousin Steph had her beautiful baby boy, and I know about 5 other women who are expecting in the coming weeks.

We're about to buy a car! My very first brand new car! We are doing the cash for clunkers thing and finally getting rid of a car that Andrew was asked to "watch for a month or so" by a friend who needed to go attend to some family matters in New York...about 6 years ago. Yes, you read that right. We've gotten that thing ($) out of tow yards twice (one time involved an 8 month pregnant me helping Andrew push it out of a very sketchy place in East San Jose - yes, you read that right, too). We had to do the street-parking-shuffle for the year we lived in Redwood City, Andrew tried stashing it in an abandoned lot at work for a while once, etc. The thing has been SUCH an albatross around our necks. I donated my car almost a full year ago, so we're happy that our carbon footprint was greatly reduced during this time, but there have been a few times when only having one car was definitely a problem. I've had to drive the POS a handful of times, including 2 nights ago, when I was blessed with a flat tire on the way home from rehearsal at roughly 10:30 PM. Nice. AAA came to the rescue and the tow truck guy and I had a good laugh about the car and the spare tire he put on for me. He said, and I quote: "Be careful driving on this thing. They don't even make this kind of tire anymore. You could run over a mouse and this thing would blow." Sweet. Good riddance.

Okay that's it for now. I need to study my script.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Two!


Peace. I'm two.