T13: Reasons I’m Working for the Weekend

It’s been one long spring and I’m ready for summer. The past ten weeks have been one of the longest shows I’ve worked on since I left college. We started a week early and this production company likes to run for four weeks instead of the usual three. No biggie, but at this point we’re all looking at each other thinking “done.” Luckily, this one ends on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. I’ll have two glorious days where I have no commitments that I don’t make myself. So here’s a list of why I’m counting the minutes to the weekend.

13 Reasons I’m Working for the Weekend

1. Three Day Weekend! Three whole days where I don’t have to go to my little cubicle and listen to other people have conversations I’m not supposed to hear right outside my wall.
2. Closing night Always a great time to reach that point in a show, where you can all look at each other and say “we made it!” This one culminates with a party at Spice Street.
3. Spice Street on a Saturday Throughout this show, we’ve tried to have a drink over at Spice Street and routinely been blocked out by some chickie in some scantily clad yet oh-so-stylish outfit saying “it’s a private party” Once was the annual Latino thing, another time was a white party, and still another was just some odd event where we got no explanation. It’s nice to be on the guest list this time and tell them off.
4. Brunch The world stopped turning and the Bald One and Five Diamond (T) have Sunday and Monday off. This means we’re getting the long awaited brunch. Hopefully with cheese biscuits.
5. 5 hours of BBC I acquired the 5 hour version of Pride and Prejudice recently. Part of brunch is going to involve curling up with the hubby and our friends and watching this epic.
6. Gardening! With both of us off, we might actually finish mulching our front flower beds. Will wonders never cease?!?
7. Lazy Monday The other benefit of having both days off with the Bald One, we can be lazy and sleep in on Monday until the indecent hour of 10am.
8. new iPhone (maybe) Mercury went into retrograde and took out my cell phone. This means I lost connection with the world. Today (well, Thursday is almost weekend…) I go to the Genius Bar and if they can’t fix it, I get a new one. Woohoo!
9. new tattoo? I’m hoping to go visit the tattoo parlor and get the one that has been in my head for a while put on my body. It’s going to be a garland of gerber daisies around my ankle.
10. Ez Clean House Having had a “professional” come do the place last weekend means I should be able to rock through cleaning the house this weekend.
11. No more quiet office Things supposedly start to get interesting here after Memorial Day. Growing season kicks in and people start doing things fun.
12. Cheese Biscuits Have I mentioned these enough???
13. Sleep I miss it so. I’m looking forward to spending quality time with my bed.

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T13: Crafty Nook Needs

A recent purchase of a stackable washer/dryer has made our laundry room a much more open space. It means that I can have a small crafty nook that I can customize in there. But first, I need to figure out what exactly I need in the 24″x35.5″ space.

13 Things I’m Hoping for in my Nook

 

T13: Happy November

Welcome to November. I’m blissfully thinking that I’ll be able to take a deep breath and participate in the world at large. But I should know better - holding pattern opens in a week, the Bald One goes to 6 day work weeks, it’s the middle of fourth quarter and tour season is right around the corner. But still…

Why I love November…

1. Fall Unlike the rest of the year, November is when North Carolina pretends to be fall. For a day or two, but it’s there - crisp mornings, cool nights and color changing leaves

2. NaNoWriMo This is where I fool myself into trying to write 50,000 words in thirty days with some loose concept of plot. I’ll be tagging things, if I ever get there.

3. Thanksgiving On odd years (like, say, 2007) the Bald One and I cross our fingers that he’s opening on Wednesday so we’re not driving ten hours in one day. If we’re lucky, we drive up to Anne Arundel County for turkey dinner and all the trimmings at my aunt & uncle’s home. My parents drive down from Cleveland, my cousin & her husband drive up from Florida and we all have a fantastic time. It’s wonderful.

4. Show Break I often try to block out November & December for tour season. Not that we’ve had any times on the road in November, but we have had our brush up rehearsal during it. Which means that usually I have a little bit of a lull here before we jump on the road. This one will be exceptionally nice since it will come after my week stint with Warrior Theater and co-designing lights with both hands.

5. Post Halloween quiet Halloween is a big party week with our friends. The weekend before involves a party at a house - this year was ours and until 4am (before some folks relocated). Then there is the actual day of candy-ing. S&M have been slowly building there house to the point where they had children actually avoid there house with the blood, hanging body parts, spooky music and fog. There was also an evening viewing of the Great Pumpkin. But now….it’s quiet. Blissfully quiet.

6. 4th Quarter I’m working for a Corporation, which means end-of-year wrap-up. November, however, is that nice moment after the “OMG! 4th Quarter!” and before the “December Deadline Doom”

7. Candy Halloween Candy on dirt cheap, Christmas chocolate hitting the shelves…time to get a little well padded for winter. And test your resolve.

8. Sweaters Remember how I mentioned the chilly goodness? THat means I get to break out the big fuzzy sweaters. Cashmere, wool, woven cottons…all piled together in my closet so much of the year get to come out of the cedar and wrap me in their love

9. Snuggling I have a heat-generating hubby - which means that cuddling is banned most of the year unless I want to cuddle a wet sheet. But now with the cold coming and my lack of body-heat means that he can use that heat to keep me warm and I get to snuggle.

10. Fires It’s also cool enough to light the fire in our living room fireplace. Haven’t been able to do that for many many months.

11. Movie Releases Getting ready for the holiday buying spree, a lot of the summer movies hit DVD in November. This means I can finally get to see some of the things I had no intention of spending $8/head to see.

12. Not Christmas Yes, not Christmas. The music has started, the theater shows have kicked in, Trans-Siberian tickets are on sale…yet I don’t have to think too hard about where I’m going to be on the 25th or who is getting what. Sure, I’ll shop during November, but there isn’t the OMG! panic that will start on December First.

13. Fall Back With the longer Daylight Savings, this month gets an extra hour of sleep come Sunday - and I’ll love every second of it.

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T13: fun times

 

I’ve started a new job, visited Cleveland and had my SIL in town for a (canceled) concert. Since I’ve been short on blogging time as I adjust to the work schedule, I’m doing a T13 highlights

 

T13: Songs & Songwriters

 

 

We get XM Radio on our DirecTV - a fact the Bald One and I completely spaced on until he was flipping through channels while I wasn’t home one afternoon. Since then we’ve been listening to 80’s on 8 or Flight 26 depending on who has the remote. It’s reminding us of lots of good music we’ve forgotten we need to possess. I also owe someone a CD…which inspired the last few.

13 Music Moments

 

T13: Geekness

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the last Harry Potter novel is hitting the shelves at midnight, tomorrow night. I was chatting before rehearsal last night with the director and we were comparing generational notes. He branded me a geek because the Bald One and I are going to see (finally) HP5 today as a date and we’re probably going to have a tussle come mail on Saturday. In comparing notes with the director, I discovered a few other ways I’m a complete geek. Here’s the highlights.

13 Ways Rae is definitely a Geek

 

T13: Cleaning House

As my last post mentions, I’ve hit an odd point of serenity in cleaning. Yes, cleaning. Things are getting spic ‘n’ span around here and I’m rather happy about it. But I’m finding odd things and finding new and different projects to throw in my closet of time wasting necessary evils. Here’s the highlights.

 

T13: What’s my next spot?

Right now, as you’ve seen, I’m looking for the next place I might call my “day job.” Unlike the first time around almost seven years ago, I’m looking for something rewarding and meaningful to spend my day doing instead of just a job that took me years to make interesting and meaningful.

13 places I’ve applied to work

 

13 random things found in our office…

As some folks know, my parents are visiting starting tonight. While we’ve been in the house for three months, there are two rooms that look like they haven’t quite been unpacked - the guest room that’s full of knick knacks and the office. So we were trying to make sense of the office last night…and found some very odd ball things.
13 Random Things Found in our Office

 

T13: Plants!

I get to start gardening now with the whole house thing. So I’m eyeballing plants that I want in the yard…and trying to figure out what to do with some of the mess we’ve inherited. It looks like the front yard has one gigantic island from being formerly a half a dozen trees. We’re hoping to split that in twain and seed the middle of it for grass. We then have three more patches of garden (front of house, side of house & side of porch) as well as a mucky backyard to fix somehow pleasantly. So here’s a list of plants I’ve been eyeballing.
Plant list of Possibilities