Saturday, I went to speruoc's moving sale getting some Renn-type CDs I'd been wanting. She's moving to Kentucky near family -- I'll miss seeign her around the Tavern volunteering. Then, on to work at the Horizon Theatre, where I found Jennifer (the Chief Operating Officer) and her husband trouble-shooting to fix the phone system which had shut down when ( Read more... )

WHY IS IT that every single time I substitute as house manager at Theatrical Outfit, the volunteers go flakey? Last night there were three scheduled for a nearly sold out house and not one of them showed up or called in! I had to take one door and the development director (there to sell subscriptions) and the stage manager .. the stage manager! ( Read more... )

I am home, and semi-rested, fed, with laundry in process, and actually posting with content ( Read more... )

Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to write down your top dozen songs you cannot live without. You know, the ones you can listen to over and over and never get tired of. They don't have to be in any particular order.And I could not do it. There are lots of songs that I like, and many that give me a nostalgia fix, but none that really fit ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the volunteer lounge at the Shakespeare Tavern, all by myself. It's the Preview night for A Christmas Carol and I was drafted yesterday to run the Gift Sale Table tonight for a sold out house (yay!), in addition to being here to work bar tomorrow night. Last night was #3 son's (Rick) girlfriend's graduate piano recital, which was ( Read more... )

Which is appropriate, since this week has been full of music. Choir on Sunday (with choir director not there, having missed his red-eye flight from California) and choir practice for two solid hours, no breaks Wednesday night, and a fabulous concert at the GSU Recital Hall on Tuesday. Officially, it was a faculty chamber recital, but #3 son Rick ( Read more... )

I went to the opera again last night, my second time (I don't count school productions), to see the Atlanta Opera's production of Puccini's Madama ButterflyLuckily, I am compulsive about being at a show a half hour early, because I was WRONG about curtain time! I thought it was at 8:00, and was smug about being there early at 7:30, when the ( Read more... )

Three day weekend. Memorial Day weekend. Summer is here weekend. Invasion weekend ( Read more... )

It occurred to me that I haven't posted much since asking for help with my condo situation. That is in process, and I am super grateful for everyone out here! Well, I have posted some, but it's been soapbox or gloom. I had the intention, months ago, to blog accurately about volunteering here in Atlanta., and I feel bad about lapsing.

( I really have been having a good month so far. )

The interim organist/choir director (otherwise known as OCD) paid us the nicest compliment yesterday. We had an extra rehearsal on Saturday afternoon to get ready for the bishop's visit today, for which we'll sing at two services, after performing last Saturday at a convocation get together ( Read more... )