Here's what made my day...
Part One:
This excerpt from Julie Andrews's autobiography, Home, which I'm currently reading: "I was offered the title role in Cinderella at the London Palladium. The theater has tremendous prestige and a great history. Almost every American headliner has performed at the Palladium. It holds more than two thousand people, yet standing on the stage, one feels one can touch the entire audience. It is immaculate -- nothing like the tacky vaudeville theaters I'd been playing in." (She was seventeen at this time.)
Part Two:
My ticket stub to the performance of The Sound of Music that Sara and I saw in London.
We saw The Sound of Music in the same theater where Julie Andrews got one of her first big breaks! That is one of the fucking coolest things ever.
We survived Hurricane Gustav with ease. Our electricity went out for a little while (on Tuesday, after the hurricane was over, for some odd reason), but I was out bike riding when that happened. This morning Sara and I heard an ad on the radio that said something about "the wake of such a powerful storm," and Sara burst out laughing.
I sold my cans today and got twenty dollars for them. I used that to treat myself to some goat cheese (of course).