good thoughts to your mom, Aurelia.

I worked until 2am, got up at 5:30 and started working again. Today is going to be great.

{{Buffistas}} Quick recovery thoughts for your mom, aurelia.

So we went to see a show last night with ND while Pix begged off claiming an early morning date with the sea. My best theory is that they had 3 bins: bin 1 held a few dozen costume designs, bin 2 held a few dozen scenery plans, and bin 3 held a few dozen music catalogs. The producer randomly picked about 25 from each bin and tossed them together. Then we had lights blinding the audience from time to time from being misplaced. Oh and the choreography which substituted throwing bodies around for what might have worked as leaps and lifts, with added extra rolling on the floor perhaps to smother body fire? We alternated between slack jawed astonishment, tears rolling down cheeks, and attempts to not laugh too loudly. I wanted to hug each cast member and pat them on the back with promises that this too shall pass and they should hang in there for the end of contract bonus. That's entertainment, folks. DH told me it was a good thing my introductions to theater with him were quality because he would never have gone back if that was his first show. What a hot mess.

ION, the Caribbean remains glorious and can hardly wait to see more shows!

My resentment level for this 6:45 meeting is at "flames on the side of my face".

Almost no one else is in this meeting. Grrrr.

I am in an Uber on the way to the airport. Here's hoping all m travel goes smoothly

Dana, that ain't right.

Laura, at least you were with friends who you could laugh at it with?

And I thought my irritating coworker started vacation today, but it's not until tomorrow. And she's on the call, being irritating.

Travel~ma, meara.

Oh dear, Dana. Too early for that nonsense.

Laura, at least you were with friends who you could laugh at it with?

Drew and Brendon at least had the good sense to get a drink as we walked into the theater. I was nearly sober for this. Good fun. I think tonight might be comedy but not sure. I can take abomination in musicals easier than comedy I think. Although bonus for being able to laugh out loud.

aurelia, good thoughts for your mom.

Laura, that sounds hilarious.

Purging/decluttering update:

For those who haven't seen on FB, I started a huge decluttering project two weekends ago by taking a carload of stuff to Goodwill, sending off a box of t-shirts to make a t-shirt quilt, sending two boxes of books/CDs/DVDs to Decluttr (and making $50.00!), ordering an envelope from ThredUp for clothes purging (which I still need to fill), attempting to sell a few Madame Alexander dolls via LetGo (the buyer was a no-show, trying again), and recycling and throwing out a bunch of stuff.

Yesterday, I hired two college students from a website called Sweeps (because we are outside TaskRabbit's service area) and they came over with a big pickup and made four trips to the thrift shop down the street. I got rid of:

An ancient gas grill, three dining room chairs, a night stand, a bed frame (for a full-size bed, and I only have a king-size, and a queen-size in my second bedroom), a hide-a-bed couch that weighed a ton, a solid wood bookshelf that also weighed a ton, a big bag of books, two TV stands.

They also helped rearrange furniture/move it to different rooms. Everything fits so much better now! Yay!

Now all I have left is more purging and cleaning and putting things away, which I can do on my own. This is such a relief!

The worst theatre I've seen was a time when I went with my brother. A friend of his was in the production, which was the brainchild of her then-boyfriend. His day job was a chiropractor, but fancied himself a thespian.

She asked Brendan after the play what he thought of it, to which he replied, "I hope the sex is good."

Wow amyth, that sounds awesome!