Snow!!
Ok, so we got our real first snowfall of the year last night!! I hope that pictures works...I won't know until I try to post this. But if it doesn't, that's ok, because it's from my cell phone and not very good, but I just wanted to show everyone the view outside my window with all it's snow! I woke up sometime around 9 this morning, realized it was snowing, and then fell back asleep dreaming that I was in Narnia and it was Christmas morning! It was a very lovely dream, and naturally I woke feeling all Christmas spirited. But babysitting last night helped too because their house was all decorated from Christmas, and the girls and I made Christmas cards and paper snowflakes, and played a long game pretending we were each Santa Claus and we delivered 'presents' which consisted of any random toys we found lying around the house. They're sweet girls.
So, I don't know why I suddenly feel inclined to write in here. I find motivation to do so difficult lately because I realize that they few people who might read this, I usually already talk to and therefore it seems redundant to post about things I've already told people. But since I am already here, my recap of the last month or so, at Ludicrous Speed:
~Crystal came to visit and we had a blast! I don't think either of us actually slept that week, but who needs sleep when you're seeing Pride and Prejudice, meeting the movie cast of Rent and getting really awesome free Rent posters, seeing Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and falling even more in love with Norbert, going to the midnight showing of Harry Potter in costume, wandering around times square, seeing SPAMalot, and getting Alan to sign a really ridiculously huge dinosaur!! (Alan played with the dinosaur and said just like he did when he Wash 'Mine is an Evil Laugh!' and then signed that on the dinasaur as you can see....it was awesome!!)
Those are just the highlights, but trust me, it was good times the whole week...except for the part where I had to work, but especially the part where I ditched ALL of my classes that week! :-)
~Almost immediately after Crystal left, my mom came to visit! and we did what any mother and daughter would do in NY during Thanksgiving weekend....SHOP! Ok, so I don't actually like shopping, but I hadn't seen my mom since May so I managed to have fun just visiting with her. Plus, she bought me some really great new clothes and boots. Oh, and we saw Forbidden Broadway, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Pride and Prejudice and Zathura at the movies, and SPAMalot!!!! But here's the things about Spamalot.....my mom had gotten me a front row ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FRONT ROW!!!!!! For the most popular show on Broadway!!!!! In fact, here's a picture of my ticket:
And it was a total surpise...she wouldn't give me my ticket until we were already inside the theatre!! And the show was incredible!! I'm still trying not to forget any of the wonderful details...the silly faces that Tim Curry makes, Alan dancing during 'his name is Lancelot'...those arms...mmmmmmmm, David Hyde-Pierce's face during 'Brave Sir Robin' as the song gets more graphic, Tim Curry trying to dance, everything Chris Sieber does as Galahad, Alan as the French Taunter when he's making 'lude gestures', actually you know, just everytime Alan is onstage. :-) It breaks my heart that was his third to last performance and now he's not there :-( Who am I going to stalk now?? just kidding people...i'm not a stalker. Really!! You'll believe me when Alan and I are happily married with our 3 little red-headed children...you just wait! :-)
And since it's BC:EFA time, my mom bought me the signed showcard which is soooo cool! (and the only way I was ever going to get Tim Curry's signature since he never comes out of the stage door)
Oh yeah, and I have seen Harry Potter, Rent, and Pride and Prejudice, all multiple times now. Actually multiple doesn't really do it justice for P&P...I've seen it 7 times! I honestly never intended to see it so many times, but I kept seeing it was different groups of people and I really really love even more every time I see it!! Matthew Macfadyen or Matty Mac-hotty as I've decided to call him, is so wonderful as Darcy, I'm even starting to have trouble watching Colin Firth with as much adoration as I used to know. Blasphemy I know! But he is just so passionate about Lizzy and not as restrained by the etiquette of the era. Especially when he first proposes and he is so hurt but Lizzies rejection and he's standing there are drenched from the rain and staring into her eyes and you can see how much he wants to kiss her but you can also see his struggle with trying to mask his feelings with his pride. Who wouldn't want that man to be in love with you?! And that is exactly why Kiera is so good as Lizzy...from the very beginning you can tell that she is attracted to him and yet he wounds her pride and she has the same inner struggle where she's falling in love with him and hates herself for it. Plus she just captures certain moments perfectly, like the look on her face when she first sees Pemberley. You don't even need the line "of all this I might have been mistress" because she captures it all in one look!
If anyone hasn't seen it and doesn't believe me about the passion, just watch this clip:
http://www.focusfeatures.com/viewer.php?f=pride_and_prejudice&c=epk7&ext=mov&w=480&h=204
Well, I should stop before I get started on Harry Potter and Rent and this starts sounding like a silly fangirls page. oh wait....I suppose I'm a bit late for that.
Laters, everyone!
PS. 12 days till I come home!! Woo-hoo!!!!
PPS. I'm sorry I don't know how to do cuts, so that this very long entry doesn't take up so much room on everyone's friends page. If someone can tell me how please feel free to explain in my comments.
PPPS. If any of those Firefly fans out there want to see the actually picture of Alan with the dinosaur instead of just seeing it in the backround on my wall...let me know, and i'll try and figure out how to get it in here.