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| Today was an off-beat day. I over-slept, felt rushed leaving, Oscar broke my heart with his little begging eyes as I walked out the door. Nicholas was sick, so Meriwether was home in the morning with him, and Julian home all afternoon. I don't like working when they are there - I feel superfluous. I also was irritated by having to be around a possibly contagious kid. Finally, my day smoothed out when I left and met Lee for dessert at 6pm. We visited over tea and tarts for almost two hours in an empty, quiet little bistro right across from her school on Connecticut. I was a nice way to wind down. Tim got in bed around the time I got home. Supposedly meeting up with Mike tomorrow for a doggie date - we'll see. Hope the weather holds, today was cold, but at least it was pretty and sunny. I loaded up on Burt's Bees hand repair creme and daily facial moisturizer at the store during Madeleine's ballet lesson. I really like both a lot and they smell so heavenly Oscar keeps licking my hands and face. Now curled up with hot chocolate, boy, and dog... job searching. Got a wait list spot for the Lottery Audition in November - coming up so fast! Now I need new headshots.
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| So we didn't end up getting to see Angel with Lee and Rex. The box office did not have our reservation, and they sold the last tickets as we were stepping up to the window. Despite - as we heard later - a whole row of late seating that went unsat, we were turned away. We will just have to go another weekend! Instead we decided to see a movie and meet up afterwards. We got 9:30 tickets for Bright Start (the movie about John Keats five-year, unconsummated love affair with Fanny Brawne) and then walked around downtown, hitting up DSW - where Tim got a pair of mocs and a pair of suede boots, and Borders - where I bought Cabaret (with Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming) and Marilynne Robinson's new book Home. We enjoyed the movie - I cried a lot, of course - and got out at almost the same time Lee and Rex were finished with the play. We decided to eat at Austin Grill, since it was one of the few places still open and serving food. The band playing was so loud we had to scream over the ridiculous r&b/jazz renditions of already ridiculous songs... "Boy, why are you obsessed with me.... Boy, why you havin' sex with me..." We eventually gave up trying to talk - there was no point, the music was so loud. Lee and I are meeting for dinner tomorrow to make up for our lack of visitation last night.
Today was a four hour makeup rehearsal. Let's just say... I'm glad that's over with. But at least we made it through Dr. Faustus - all one hour and thirty-three minutes of it! WOW - that has got to change. Back to work tomorrow...
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| Just a lazy Saturday at home in bed with my boy... Oscar! Aside from getting up AT NOON to make megas tacos and hot chocolate, we have been here all day, and it is now 3pm. This evening Tim and I are meeting Lee and Rex for Angels in America at RoundHouse Theatre. I am excited to see it on stage, since all I've seen is the HBO series - which was fantastic.
Tim has had a lot of coffee this morning, and worked out during half-time of the TX/OU game and as a result is an absolute motormouth. vroom vroom. I don't dislike football as much anymore - especially if I know the teams playing, but I sure would have rather gone shopping this morning and found Tim some good boots.
Oscar came to work with me yesterday. Nicholas didn't have school and so I thought it a good day to bring Oscar (keep them both occupied) on our way to pick Madeleine up from school, Nicholas finally succeeded in getting Oscar into his lap where he was sitting on his booster seat. Then he said, "I like having him up here where people can see him, because he makes me proud." And I said, "Oh yeah, why is that?" Nicholas: "I just want people to see him, because he's a good dog, and he makes me proud." Awesome. He IS a good dog. And he DOES make ME proud, too.
Right now he's keeping my foot warm, so he's extra special in my mind.
I had pumpkin pie for the first time last night!
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| i didn't have to work today, so i did some much needed cleaning and laundry. it is absolutely amazing how much oscar sheds. if i didn't love him so much i'd get rid of him so i didn't have to clean so often. or maybe i just need a good vacuum - here comes the christmas wish list! i also managed to cook dinner in time for tim getting home from work and clean up afterwards, all before 7:30pm.
tomorrow we're down to columbia heights to check out an available basement apartment in the area. tim took the morning off work, and we're driving down before i have to be at meriwether's. can't wait - maybe this is THE ONE and my desperate search - since last spring - will be over!
our south africa trip itinerary is really coming along. so far it looks like this:
Trip to South Africa - Itinerary
Saturday, June 26 - Depart from IAH 3:35PM
Sunday, June 27 - Layover in Amsterdam/Arrive Cape Town 9:15PM
Monday, June 28 - Recovery Day:)
Tuesday, June 29 - Soccer Match #1 8:30pm
Wednesday, June 30
Thursday, July 1 - Volunteer Work Day
Friday, July 2
Saturday, July 3 - Soccer Match #2 4:00pm
Sunday, July 4
Monday, July 5
Tuesday, July 6
Wednesday, July 7
Thursday, July 8 - Depart Cape Town 10:55PM
Friday, July 9 - Layover and LUNCH in Amsterdam!/ Layover in Detroit/Arrive IAH 8:58PM
so needless to say, i'm getting pretty excited... even though it's still almost a year away. we have a lot of FREE days to fill. some of those will be taken up with Cape of Good Hope and climbing Table Mountain and the Winelands. of course, exploring the city could take as many days as we have in the trip, total, but we will have to prioritize.
i'm also very excited about the show i'm working on (Three Fantasies by Don Nigro) right now. it's been a long time since i've worked with a cast on material that i just couldn't get enough of. i love my roles and i like and respect the people i'm working with. i wish this was a more common occurrence in my life as an actor - maybe this will be the springboard for that? it makes things like hating my job sort of fade into the background.
today oscar starting barking at the door and when i opened it there was this nice looking lady holding the twig star that is supposed to be tied to my knocker. she sort of started mumbling something about she thought it was hers, that someone had left her a present, realized it wasn't her apartment, etc. i'm still not sure if she was stealing it, and made the knocker knock in the process of this act of thievery, or if she was really stupid enough to go to the wrong apartment accidentally.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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