Monday, October 13, 2003
It's been a busy weekend
Friday was great! It was quiet and mellow at work. I met up with my friends John and Melanie for lunch, and they gave me some Drambuie and a lovely bottle of red wine for my birthday. It was nice to see them, as it's been a while.
After work, it was a bit of a rush to get to the Imperial, so I grabbed some apple crumble and brought it with me so I could at least have something to eat (as tasty as it was, it may not have been the best choice for supper). The rest of the makeup crew surprised me with a cake and card (and singing Happy Birthday). Then a little while later, while doing their vocal warmups, Harry Cross got the cast to sing an amazing rendition of Happy Birthday to me - with harmony and everything. It was amazing! A lot of folks seemed surprised that I'd be working on the show on my birthday, but I don't consider that stuff work at all - it's fun, social, and creative. All the folks involved in the production are so friendly!
After the show, the cast and crew went out to the Somerset Pub for a couple of drinks. Anthony even came out and met us for a little bit. Lisa, Anthony and I didn't stay too late though, as we were pretty tired. Thanks to everyone for making my birthday so great!
I got up nice and early Saturday morning and gave Anthony a lift out to his office so he could put together the music for the cast party. He treated me to a tasty Sweet Onion and Chicken Terryaki sub from Subway on the way over. Man, those are tasty. I needed a proper meal, as it was going to be a long day.
I made it to the Imperial by about 11:15. Thank goodness I found my smock so I wouldn't get any more of my clothes covered in makeup. I don't know how I manage to get it all over me - I guess I just really get into my work! It's an interesting thing, putting makeup on people - working in thier personal space and on their faces. Stage makeup is so different from regular makeup too. I bet the cast was pleased that it was the last day they'd have to endure the over-dramatized looks.
Marzenna, Pam, Guila and I took a quick trip out to KFC for supper. I don't think I've eaten at a KFC since the '80's! By 5:30, we were back at the Imperial doing makeup for the evening performance. Paula put my hair in rollers so I could have fancy hair for the cast party (I felt like an 19060's-style alien - and looked like I could pick up shortwave radio). After the show, we packed everything up and got ready for the cast party. I came home and had a half hour nap, then threw on a dressy top, jean skirt and some fun dancing shoes. I'd been wearing flats all week so I could do makeup - but I find it much easier to dance in heels. :-)
The cast party was good. The presentations didn't take too long - and they'd come up with a great idea of giving little personalized awards to everyone. Pretty much everyone was up dancing after that. We did have one unfortnate thing happen - and that was that one of our guests, as he was leaving, fell down part of a flight of stairs and I think he hit his head on the cememnt floor. We called an ambulance, and they came and checked him out, and I think he was pretty much OK, but his blood suger had really dropped, so they decided to take him to the hospital to make sure he was OK anyway. Poor guy, I hope he's OK now. After all that, a lot of people left. Towards the end of the night, there were just a few of us sitting around telling stories. I think Lisa and I left around 6:45 AM. I was still wide awake, but I knew I'd be tired the next day so I thought I should at leasst try to get some sleep.
I woke up at 1:30 PM on Sunday. I did a bit of tidying - since I'd had such a busy week, I'd only really been home to drop things off, get changed, and run back out. I also went out and picked up a few much-needed groceries. I picked up Lisa and Anthony at about 5 and we headed out to Lisa's mom's for Thanksgiving dinner. It was so tasty - and I think I ate too much - but I couldn't help myself! Lisa's mom even gave us take-home meals so we could have leftovers today! Yum!! Thanks so much to Lisa's mom for everything!
Lisa, Anthony gave me my belated birthday gifts: an Aragorn action figure and an electronic Middle Earth sword from Lord of the Rings. I love that my friends buy me toys for my birthday! We then decided to go see Kill Bill Vol. 1. I really enjoyed it. It was pretty much what I'd expected. It was extremely violent, but it was done in the style of anime. Stylistically it was phenominal. Uma did a great job (and Lucy Liu made a convincing villanesse). It is pretty frustrating that Mirimax Films felt that they had to break the movie up into two parts because it was too long. I would have been happy to watch the entire thing in one sitting.
I slept in a bit today and watched a few home re-decorating shows. I really enjoy Divine Design with Candace Olson. And as for Debbie Travis or the Decorating Challenge folks, I don't think I'd ever let them anywhere near my house!
Now that I've managed my lengthy update, I think I might putter around for a bit, andmaybe go see another movie. There are lots of movies out at the moment that I'd like to see. It feels weird having free time again!!
Posted by Dre at 12:15 PM
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