I'm taking this day to celebrate the day that my Father sent his Son to die for my sins. And to appreciate being given things ya know and all that commercial jazz.
Oh by the by, if any of you were wondering…
LES MISERABLES WAS FANTASTIC!
The Before and After Pic
"No, I'm not drunk…I just saw Les Mis…"
The entire cast did a great job. But if you ask me, Aaron Tveit was the standout of the movie.
Today the boy and I drove up to Bankston Ford one last time to get his new truck inspected. And as my reward for being such a patient girlfriend, we got In-N-Out!
Inaugural In-N-Out Experience
2x4 Animal Style with Fries Well Done, thank you!
(The Well Done fries weren't that great…)
According to the boy, nothing is better than Whataburger, but it beats Wendy's…
…thanks, babe.
Now we're back at his place. It's Christmas Eve, a day to be lazy and thankful for family and anticipating the celebration of Jesus' birth. I have a lot of cards to sign and presents to wrap... #procrastination
We'll be heading to the 7 o'clock candlelight service tonight.
AND THEN
TONIGHT at TEN O'CLOCK I'm seeing LES MISERABLES!!! I am so excited!!! This is the most powerful musical I have ever seen. It changed my life.
Lets watch a few clips to further prepare.
And let's listen to my favorite tear-jerker, One Day More.
And of course, as an aspiring costume designer, I had to watch this bit. I must say his rendering style is interesting.
Only a few more hours!!!
~*~
10/1 - 7
The first week of October brought the second week of performances of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It also brought my last week of rehearsals for Eastern Standard.
Let me explain.
I am in a class at Baylor known as Beginning Directing. Members of the Junior class cast other students from the department in a scene from a play that they analyze and present to the department. I was the first scene of the first group of this semester of Beginning Directing and I chose a scene from Richard Greenberg's "Eastern Standard."
Eastern Standard is the story of two sets of friends who meet in a restaurant fiasco and continue on to face the trials of work, life, and love.
It was such a fun experience. As I had such wonderful actors to work with.
We had two weeks of rehearsals followed by our performance on October 5. It went splendid. The entire group of directors was super strong.
Here's my cast list - crafty cast lists are kinda a thing...
Final Dress
Friend Directors!
Me and my GORGEOUS Cast
The more important part of the week was that my boy came in for his Fall Break and we got to go dancing just like the good ol' days.
I love him
~*~
10/8 - 14
Sadly on Tuesday morning I was once again alone. But not for long! It was finally
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY'S PARENTS WEEKEND!
My family was here! (And this was the first Parents Weekend for my stepdad, Jay.)
Brother and Sister reunited.
The first night we went to After Dark, Baylor's annual talent show. And that pretty much summed up the night. Haha. We were tired.
The next day we went to early morning Meet the Teacher blah-blah-blah. Then we had to do some homework with the brother.
Nevada was doing a project on Indians (although for the life of me I can't remember the specific tribe…) and he needed to make a diorama. We went to Hobby Lobby and got to work.
It's a family effort
Eventually we got to a stand-still and took time to go watch the BU vs. TCU game...
We're wet and we're losing, but we're okay!
Well, we lost, but I got to spend time with my family. And we put together a pretty sweet diorama for Nevada.
Go, team!
~*~
CRAFT TIME
Of course, I'm a sucker for all things miniature. So when we were buying Nevada little things for the diorama, I had to get some for myself.
I got these little pieces: a dress form, an antique singer, fabric, scissors, patterns, and a measuring tape.
I knew I'd need some sort of a table, so I bought some little squares and some pegs as well.
I'd also need some sort of a background... I figured a patterned piece of scrap booking paper that I like would work.
It was pretty much smooth sailing from there. I put it all in a 4x6 shadowbox and...
TAH-DAH!
I'm so very happy at how this turned out. It's a little reminder of my wonderful job and what I love.
So this will be a bit brief. There wasn't too much that happened at the end of September.
9/17 - 23
On the 20th, the boy and I had our 6 month anniversary. And like the good guy he is, he sent me flowers. Love this guy.
9/24 - 30
The 24th was the first day of dress for Baylor Theatre's 2012 musical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
As a workstudy in the costume shop, I helped to build the costumes (per usual) but this was my first show to assistant Costume Design.
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is a newer musical based off of the Steve Martin/Michael Caine movie in which two "dirty rotten scoundrels" scope out the French Riviera for con-work. The musical is actually pretty funny with some really catchy songs.
I was given the task of designing the choral costumes for the "Oklahoma?" number.
preliminary renderings for one of the cowgirls
The Final Results
My design in the display case outside of the theatre!
I'll tell you what, there are few things as rewarding as seeing your own design become a reality. I was so very happy with the results. And I got tons of compliments.
copyright Baylor University
Well guys, I don't really know what today holds, but I'm not feeling too hot today so…
Hello, world! Today the boy and I had some company. Our friend Justin came in for some shooting. Turns out I'm not too shabby at it. It was a nice, beautiful day.
I actually did really good at this!
Later we're heading up north a bit to check out some neighborhoods with exceptional Christmas lights. 9/3 - 9
My weekend of fun was not going to end with the last post, ladies and gents, because Monday, September 3rd was what we call LABOR DAY. So Shelby and I packed up my car with drinks and chairs and towels, got in our sexy swimsuits and went to Lake Waco. We stopped for Whataburger, parked the car at the park and got a sweet little spot right in front of the water, and did absolutely nothing else.
It was such a nice day.
And we'd definitely be grateful for this nice relaxing day once school really got under way.
~*~
The next week was pretty mundane…until Saturday. Saturday was the second annual BUT OLYMPICS!!! AAAHHHHHH!
So BUT Olympics (or Baylor University Theatre Olympics) is pretty much departmental Field Day. It is pulled together by the Druids - the Executive Committee of the Baylor University Theatre Student Society. Each class wears one of the four non-black olympic colors and we participate in four extreme games: orange-passing, tug-o-war, hula hooping, and water balloon tossing (which is typically followed by a free-for-all water balloon fight). Last year, my class (the sophomores) wrecked shop.
Waddup, Juniors.
This year was our time to protect our title as Reigning Champs.
Tug-o-war was not our best...
Ultimately, we got the job done.
But the most important thing was that the department had fun.
Yay! Go Druids!
9/10 - 16
Friday was going to be my mom's birthday. The past couple of years her birthday has fallen around Parent's Weekend at Baylor, so I've been able to celebrate with her. This year unfortunately Parent's Weekend was scheduled for October. I needed to be in Houston that morning for a Speaker's Committee event anyway, so I was able to come home Thursday night and be in early for the traditional
RUNK BIRTHDAY MORNING
Happy Birthday, Mommy!
Basically, the morning of someone's birthday, the rest of the family wakes up early to set up cake, cards, decorations, and presents.
Jay put the "3" of "53" on backwards… lol
After the celebrations I hit the road, driving from Bay City to Calder Road Elementary.
As I've mentioned before, I'm a member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's Speaker's Committee…kind of. Currently, I'm too young to actually be a member, but give that 18 days and I'll be certified. I'm sort of a provisional member for the time being. A provisional rookie.
Well, rookies must observe a full day of school speeches before being let loose to give their own. Even though I wouldn't be able to make any speeches until January, I figured I'd get my observation out of the way.
So from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. I was at Calder Road Elementary watching speeches and getting further educated about Texas Western Heritage.
This was the nicest, most hospitable bathroom ever.
It was such a fun day. I know that I definitely picked the right committee to go after. Being able to take a day away from my typical schedule for a day and spend some time talking about the rodeo and western heritage and this great state of Texas…There's not much better than that. And some of the speeches were just super entertaining.
One guy had a speech on the History of the Rodeo Clown. By the end of his speech he had about six or seven kids up in front, putting on a little rodeo for the class.
The kids ate it up!
The rest of the weekend was dedicated to getting Nevada ready for the Rice Festival Pageant on Sunday where he would be competing for Little Mister Rice Festival.
Look at his snazzy white suit.
I had to go back to Waco before the pageant but pretty soon my mom texted me these photos.
HE WON! This was huge, because my senior year of high school I was in the Rice Festival Queen's Pageant and I won as well. So we're a bit of a royal family.
Rice Festival Royalty over here. woot!
I'm so proud of that little man. And he was so happy.
Well, I'm off to see the Christmas lights! Sorry, friends, no CRAFT TIME today.
