Washingtonians

[SadieSue]

This is the final weekend for the play I'm in at Tacoma Little Theatre, so I promise this will be my last story about it - at least until the next show...

Our 4th and final review was posted in this mornings Tacoma News Tribune. Alec had some very kind words about the show and the actors as well, even though it's not his favorite Neil Simon script.
I am so looking forward to meeting a couple of our WA BYCer's from the north who are coming to the show on Sunday! I promise - my stage husband Elliot and I will do our best to make you laugh. Shouldn't be too difficult - he is FANTASTIC. My favorite part of this experience has been finally having the opportunity to work with him. I've been stalking him for a couple of years now, auditioning for him, chatting him up when I've run into him, congratulating him on his past award winning performances, writing, etc. Now that I'm playing his wife, he's been forced to notice me.

Here's a link to our latest review, (including one of my favorite pics from the show) and underneath is the link to Tacoma Little Theatre and all 4 reviews from different publications, just in case you might still be considering a trip to Tacoma... the show runs tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 PM and our final performance is Sunday at 2:00 PM.
Here's a hint - you can always buy the cheap seats, which are still very good, and then move into a better seat once you're sure it's not occupied. BUT, ahem, you didn't hear that from me!

http://www.thenewstribune.com//2012/02/10/2020088/cast-generates-controlled-chaos.html?storylink=fb

http://www.tacomalittletheatre.com/

 

[SadieSue]

WOW LOOKIE what I just discovered.

This WAS NOT sent to me it WAS sent to our friend Cloverleaf Farm.

AWESOME ! ! ! Congrats Jeanine.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Hope everyone's got good news coming in the days ahead. I'm in a Very Bad Mood, mostly having to do with my hands not working very well at all, so you're lucky I'm not contributing much, because it'd be nothing good at all.

 

[SadieSue]

Hey - when did I get BYC friend next to my name? How long has it been there? I feel like a dough head for not noticing before!
Gosh... Thank you to whomever nominated me - I'm humbled, and honored to get to hang out with such great people on the WA BYC forum.
(Double checking to make certain that isn't an error now... )

 

[FlyRobinFly]

60* rain is NOT WARM !!!! fortunately it has cleared off considerably today; still cloudy but they aren't the awful purple-blue-gray monsoon clouds we had yesterday
we were rather chilly last night, had to find a second sheet to pull over us (most of our stuff is still packed inside one of the cars in the garage) and even then we shivered; usually we need no covers and often have the ceiling fan blowing air at us as well
the locals are pulling on sweaters and sweatshirts, looking unhappy, while daytimes it's about as nice here as it was the couple of days before we left Washington, so it's great for us
it'll get back to its usual mid-70s in a couple of days ... meanwhile we bless the cooler weather, it's easier to haul boxes and bags around, from storage to the house, if it isn't pushing 80*
if I can find my drill, I might drill out some genuine kukui nuts off the ground, bring a lei back for you (or mail it) --- of course the southeast-Asia-made ones are all over the tourist stores, and cheap; this one would be unpolished and "aged" quite naturally ...

I would love a natural kukui nut lei, but only if you have time and it's no trouble! Mahalo.

Hope the weather stays cool while you're unpacking, and then warms up to something pleasant.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

My Puter is cramping up like a cat trying to pass a cantalope.

Now THAT is quite the mental image!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

OK and while we are looking at pretty and all. Say Hello to "Arnold" Not mine and his name has been changed to protect somebody.

What a character! I agree, he needs a pair of pistols and a western hat!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Olivia's teacher called me early this morning. She said Olivia is one of her top students, always polite, eagerly participates in class, stays in during recess to help out where she can or goes to the special needs room at recess to assist the teachers with the disabled kids. She knew Olivia had to be studying. I told her that Olivia is so upset over all the bullying that she threw out all her homework and classwork in hopes that I would pull her out of school and enroll her somewhere else. The teacher was completely unaware that Olivia was being teased. The other teacher had not filled her in when this one returned from maternity leave, and Olivia had not given her the notes I wrote to her.


I think our school district has a very serious problem with bullying - last year the local HS made the national new twice for bullying. I spoke to one of my co-workers, and her son too had been bullied far worse than anything my kids have experienced. He was in 7th grade last year at the same school that Alex goes to and some girls introduced him to a "friend" from another school who they said had a crush on him. They set up a fake Face-book Account for her, and she totally led him on with posts on the account -- only it was not the girl he met, but the group of girls from his school. The poor kid waited outside for her at the school dance, she said her mom would drop her off. She never showed. She later managed to convince him she had to be rushed to the hospital for some rare disease she suffers from. Stuff like this went on for 3 months when he got a text in class from "her" that an angry ex boyfriend was about to kill her. He ran to the office to try and get help for her, the office called mom, figured out what was going on. The group of girls doing this were all expelled as they had done this to several boys in the school, and had been warned before.

Olivia is obviously a very good kid, and well raised. You are clearly a good parent!

What those girls were doing is serious cyberbullying. It is awful that this type of thing is happening in your school district, and I hope they fix it for the sake of all the kids. No wonder yours are fed up with it.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

As it turns out, she was the one who taught me. I often look at her and wonder if our roles have been reversed. She has so frequently spoken to me, not condescendingly, but in a way that makes me think in a past life she was the parent.

See, I just knew Lily's resemblance to an angel was not a coincidence!!!

She is a very fine young lady, and you are a caring and supportive parent.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Thank you everyone for the good thoughts. I am just glad I am gonna get to go. Now for the boys to "make it" to state. Otherwise, there really is no reason for me to go.....LOL....

Although I could go and visit T Hi.

We'll be pulling for them!