holy update batman!!
So......i'm on this uber slow computer that is at my house in Markham. So who knows how this will go.
***NOTE*** this first paragraph is about the rest of the play i worked on, skip a head to the next paragrah to hear about my amazing weekend, its way better!!!!!!
The rest of the plays for the fringe show went really well. We had full houses most of the time and barely any technical mess ups. My last show was on Thursday. On Tuesday it was a pretty late show, like at ten o'clock or something like that. So the cast and crew head over to the wheat sheaf as usual and I complain the whole time how much it sucks. The service is incredibly slow and they forget every order placed, having to come back and ask you, and the food is only so-so. But anyway I finally crack and order a pitcher with two of the boys, meh i don't really like beer, but i was able to down about 3 pints of beer. Amazingly it doesn't make me wanna gag as most beers do. Anyway, slowly all the people with us leave and its only Vllad, myslef and hottie Aaron (no worries, he has a gf). We decide that since we have a day off we should go get totally stoned out of our minds. So we flag a cab down and tell the cabbie that we want to go to Aaron's house. Vllad suddenly backs out when Aaron and I were in the cab, so it was just the two of us. Which was fine since there would be more weed between the two of us. Aaron crashed soon after we smoked and I took his roommate's bed upstairs who was away for most of the week. The next day I let myself out and headed to the subway station and headed to Scarborough to visit my weakening grandfather. He seemed happy to see me. That night I made cards for all the cast and crew for the Stage Managers to give. The next day I got back on the subway to get to the Factory Theatre to do my last show. It went really well especially since it was a fairly early show. AGAIN we go to wheat sheaf for lunch and finally people were beginning to see why I thought it sucked. Then I head out at around 3ish and said all my goodbyes to the staff. I was thouroughly sad that i was gonna miss the cast party....
Yeah so this weekend was AMAZING!!! The rest of thursday, I spend the day packing up all my dirty laundry and pack a duffle bag for the cottage. My parents pick me up and go to work in the laundry room. It was intense, I forgot i had so much clothes. The next day I slept in which feels good since I had been getting up pretty early for the play. I packed the last of my clothes for the weekend including a new $5 bikini i had to pick up because my roommate felt weird about bringing my bathing suit home from the pool party at Jonny's. so stupid......anyways. I meet up with Katherine at around 4:30pm and her mom gives us directions for about 20 different ways to make it up north. We finally get on the road to meet up with Katherine's friends, Mike, Lex, Amy and Rich. We go for a quick shop and an LCBO run before leaving at around 6pm. We finally make it into Haliburton at around 8pm. We met up with Katherine's roommate Rebecca and her friend Stacy. Too hungry to sit down at the restaurant previously planned (McKeck's...or something like that) we head to Subway to get sandwhiches and rush to Katherine's cottage on Drag Lake. We were so desperate to start the party that we just threw all our belongings and food into the cottage, and soon enough we heard the first beer crack. It was also very hot in Katherine (or Coons for short)'s cottage so i decide to throw on a bathing suit and everyone followed suit and we all ran and jumped in the lake. It was amazing and being sorta drunk already the water was refreshing. So we realized all our drinks were empty and that we had been treading water for almost 30 minutes. So the night continued with copious amounts of booze, smoore making by our awesomely hot fire and singing at the top of our lungs. The night eventually ended with people passing out on the dock in sleeping bags. Lex, Mike and I smoked about 6 bowls before crashing, it was amazing.....i also got to hear my new favourite song of the moment: All The Love In The World by NIN. i finally fell asleep at around 6:30am....
......only to wake up at 8:30am because the sun was blazing hot and in my eye. But for some reason I was pumped to start the day. I cooked eggs and bacon for everyone and at around 11am the beer started flowing again. Katherine and I went to go see if the beach wasn't over taken by the high water because we wanted to have a beach lunch, and Rich decided to come with us. The beach indeed was covered with water and Rich asked Katherine about the jumping cliffs. So Katherine took us there to see them. They were so scary and high up, but Rich was so overwhelmed he couldn't but scare the crap out of us and jumped off the highest rock, which was about 50 feet in the air. So Katherine and I scurried down the rockface to a lower ledge and jumped off as well. We climbed back into her motorboat and went back to tell everyone. Soon after more people showed up, Nick, Phedra, and Heather, and I made my famous pasta salad. After many drinks and swimming we decided we should be idiots and go jump off the cliffs. Katherine had to take 3 trips back and forth to get everyone there. We must have spent 3 hours in the water treading and jumping off cliffs as high as 10 feet to the really ridiculous one. I went off the 15 and 20 ft. ones, I couldn't bring myself to go any higher. When we got back I was so sleep deprived that I went for a nap and everyone else either copied me or put bathing suits on like diapers and put a cooler full of booze in the water which marvelously floated. I woke up just in time to eat pizza and to see more people arrive, Jess and Andre, and Kristin who somehow drove all the way here by herself. We continued the party outside but then it soon turned to rain and thunder. So we brought it back inside. The sauna was on and Katherine and I went to steam ourselves with a 1.5L bottle of wine. I was so drunk and amazed to see myself sweat out of some really strange places like my KNEECAPS!!!! I ran and jumped into the lake almost drowning because I was so drunk then got out of the water after riding the waves of the tubers. I passed out on the deck and woke up to cold rain washing my back, I went and jumped on the trampoline and got really sick feeling after being jostled everywhere, so I went and wore my drink off inside. Another fire was started but it was difficult since everything was soaking wet. I tried to make Jiffy Pop but the heat was so uneven that I brought it inside to the stove. We skinny dipped and ate marshmallows and danced to some madonna and bon jovi. it was amazing. Then everyone started to pass out because of so much booze but the rest of us decided to smoke our asses off again. We were up laughing our asses off 'til 5am. I then crashed in Katherine's brother's room at 5am and slept in until 1pm. I got a call from my mom to say that my grandpa was getting worse and that I should come home asap.
When we got home, I went straight to my grandpa's house and hung out there not answering my cell and pretending that i was still in haliburton. I just wanted to be alone with my sick and "dying" grandfather. It made him so happy to spend time with me, he never gets to see me as much anymore and I was his first grandchild, so he always wants to know how i'm doing.
Now I'm going to pack up all my things and camping gear to prepare for this weekend and the next!!
Talk to you folks soon~
*high fives*
Steph