8 July 2013

Today I am exhausted. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I was still wide awake at 4:30 am and was out of bed by 8:30 - perhaps not.
This past week was a good one. I went to Stratford on Wednesday to see Fiddler on the Roof (by myself) and Three Musketeers (with Mom, Dad, and Dave). Fiddler was better in my opinion. The singing was mostly great and the dancing was fun and in general the choreography made sense with the story. Musketeers was also good but not AS good as Fiddler. There were some line drops and minor light errors and a dude sitting beside us with a motorized oxygen tank that whirred for the entirety of the play. From there I went back to London - got up the next morning for my online class and then did nothing until pub. Hung out with the pub crowd for a bit and then went home and to bed. Friday I got up - did a bit of class stuff in the morning and then spent the rest of my day in traffic - 6.5 hours from London to Trenton. I ended up missing the rehearsal for Jennie`s wedding but that was fine. We hung out Friday night, got up the next morning to get hair and makeup done and then went off to the church. The wedding itself was lovely - I figured out where to go despite being first and not having practised. Pictures after were a little insane - we went into Presquile Park and got eaten alive by the mosquitos and annoyed by the passing cars. Hopefully the photographer got some nice shots - she was a little crazy.
The reception was fun - hung out with some randoms and some not randoms. Stayed to the end (only 1am thank goodness) and then went back to the house for some sleep.
Sunday morning I started the treck back - ended up in Kitchener with Christina for a couple hours and then eventually made it to London where I crawled into bed but did not sleep. Today I putzed around for the morning and then went to school around one to print some stuff off. While there I checked my course website and realized I had homework due by 6 tonight (it is done.... a whole 1/2 hour early I might add...) so it's been a mad rush to complete that.
Tonigh'ts plan involves prepping for my article presentation for class tomorrow - oh the student's life's for me :P

2 July 2013

summer post #1

it is summer again and with that it seems - time to update the old blog...
i am at this point back in london prepping for my courses that i'll be taking (curriculum studies and a choral conducting symposium) as well as planning for the two weddings i am in this month.
july is going to be a blur - i can sense it now.
today
i got up - went for a jog/walk... mostly walk - it was nice to be on the trails along the stream again... london has the best trails.
i then found somewhere to get my hair cut (a real salon place - not first choice hair cutters like usual) and quite enjoy the result - it's not too much shorter than it was but the way it sits works better.
i then hopped in my car and drove to kitchener to try on a bridesmaid dress which was of course too small so i had to leave it with them to fix...
since i was only 45 min from home i thought i'd stop in for dinner... so i did
after dinner lisa, kimberley, nathan and i went to the mall to buy wedding shoes. they are goldy silver and shiny.
i then drove back to london...


I took a quick break to update some bachelorette plans - came back to this and reread the above portion... apparently teaching English for a semester creates a need to use at least some proper punctuation. Gah - ridiculous. Anyways - it's late - i'm off to bed.
Tomorrow - first 2 Stratford shows of the season!