So are final show ended up being canceled due to late trains. Fitting.
So my last day in the loops was spend organizing costumes, dismantling my prompt book and saying farewell to cast and crew. We toasted off with a couple of drinks, I got on a bus and now I'm back in Vanland.
I'm done.
Now I'm back in Van and getting ready to move onto the next adventure...
Thanks for reading this blog and keeping me company as I tried to navigate the madness. I think I may have stayed in better contact with some people while I was out of town rather than when I was home.
I'm not sure what I'll do with this blog at this point. If I do continue blogging, I'll have to re-vamp this page or start a new one. I'll be sure to let you folks know.
Until then,
Thanks for the adventure Kamloops. Keep well all.
Peace
Cmax
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
last show
Today feels a bit weird. Last show.
Cards are done, tickets are booked, and now I just need to finish my packing and strike my stuff at the theatre.
I'm excited to be home and still a piece of me is feeling sentimental about saying goodbye. I'll get over it I'm sure.
Six months is just such a long time. Its hard to imagine it being over.
There are just hours left of this adventure.
peace
Cmax
Cards are done, tickets are booked, and now I just need to finish my packing and strike my stuff at the theatre.
I'm excited to be home and still a piece of me is feeling sentimental about saying goodbye. I'll get over it I'm sure.
Six months is just such a long time. Its hard to imagine it being over.
There are just hours left of this adventure.
peace
Cmax
Monday, 3 October 2011
It just keeps getting better
What could be better than finishing our last show on the 6th?
... finishing our last show on the 5th
whoooo hoooo!
... finishing our last show on the 5th
whoooo hoooo!
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Welcome to October
Less than a week left here in the old loops.
I've been trying to think up some finalizing, all encompassing anecdote to wrap up this blogging business, but my brain has been failing me. I think if there is wisdom to be taken from this adventure then I am still too close to see it, or simply too tired. I am still holding out hope that there is some sort of golden learning to extrapolate from this madness, but only time will tell I guess.
I made it back to Van for a few days. The move was quick and painless and I am grateful for that. Thanks!
I intended to do some unpacking and reorganizing while I was home, but I couldn't bring myself to break the plastic seal on my belongings. Just the thought of unleashing bugs into my Vancouver home sends me to the brink of a panic attack and the risk just doesn't seem worth it. I know I cleaned everything very throughly, but believe it or not, I'm not perfect; so what if I missed something or didn't do it right? I've decided to wait till my steamer returns to me; so I can steam the beegeebies out of everything.
I spent most of my time at home while in Van. Catching up with the cat and my roommate. It was restful and homey and just what I needed.
I got back to Kamloops yesterday, got some errands done for the week and then spent an obscene amount of time browsing Michael's crafts. I went in to get some closing night card supplies and then 2 hours later I was still there. I get over stimulated in that store cause there is so much to look at and so many projects I want to make. Also, now that its Oct, there is Halloween EverYwHerE and I was thinking of all the cool decorations we could make for our party. Did you know that Martha Stewart makes crow decorations you can stick on your walls? Forget Halloween, I just want a Martha Stewart Murder themed bedroom! I refrained from buying anything other than my card supplies. I don't want to be packing more stuff. Besides, there's a Michael's in Van now; so I can go shopping when I get back.
Well I'm rambling now, I should get back to my cards.
5 more days!
peace
Christie
I've been trying to think up some finalizing, all encompassing anecdote to wrap up this blogging business, but my brain has been failing me. I think if there is wisdom to be taken from this adventure then I am still too close to see it, or simply too tired. I am still holding out hope that there is some sort of golden learning to extrapolate from this madness, but only time will tell I guess.
I made it back to Van for a few days. The move was quick and painless and I am grateful for that. Thanks!
I intended to do some unpacking and reorganizing while I was home, but I couldn't bring myself to break the plastic seal on my belongings. Just the thought of unleashing bugs into my Vancouver home sends me to the brink of a panic attack and the risk just doesn't seem worth it. I know I cleaned everything very throughly, but believe it or not, I'm not perfect; so what if I missed something or didn't do it right? I've decided to wait till my steamer returns to me; so I can steam the beegeebies out of everything.
I spent most of my time at home while in Van. Catching up with the cat and my roommate. It was restful and homey and just what I needed.
I got back to Kamloops yesterday, got some errands done for the week and then spent an obscene amount of time browsing Michael's crafts. I went in to get some closing night card supplies and then 2 hours later I was still there. I get over stimulated in that store cause there is so much to look at and so many projects I want to make. Also, now that its Oct, there is Halloween EverYwHerE and I was thinking of all the cool decorations we could make for our party. Did you know that Martha Stewart makes crow decorations you can stick on your walls? Forget Halloween, I just want a Martha Stewart Murder themed bedroom! I refrained from buying anything other than my card supplies. I don't want to be packing more stuff. Besides, there's a Michael's in Van now; so I can go shopping when I get back.
Well I'm rambling now, I should get back to my cards.
5 more days!
peace
Christie
Monday, 26 September 2011
a few days off
I'm headed to Van tomorrow! YAy!
I may not blog while I'm home. I'm hoping to be out socializing with real live people and enjoying my city. I will check in again later in the week.
These few days off are well earned and much needed. Hopefully I'll be able to come back and charge through our last with some revived positivity and energy.
For you MBTI/ Naramata enthusiasts, this is where we're at: I'm living in the 'grip' (as are a few others I'm sure) and the ensemble is cycling through the 'control' phase of group dynamics. Everyone seems irritable. Perhaps with some rest I can restore some of my dominant functioning and then next week we will move into 'inclusion' and all be very polite.
Peace friends
Cmax
I may not blog while I'm home. I'm hoping to be out socializing with real live people and enjoying my city. I will check in again later in the week.
These few days off are well earned and much needed. Hopefully I'll be able to come back and charge through our last with some revived positivity and energy.
For you MBTI/ Naramata enthusiasts, this is where we're at: I'm living in the 'grip' (as are a few others I'm sure) and the ensemble is cycling through the 'control' phase of group dynamics. Everyone seems irritable. Perhaps with some rest I can restore some of my dominant functioning and then next week we will move into 'inclusion' and all be very polite.
Peace friends
Cmax
Saturday, 24 September 2011
scrubbing
So today has been filled with scrubbing windows, walls, fixing baseboards, cleaning out the fridge, all that sort of cleaning business you do before you move.
The floors will be the most work, but I'm not even gonna bother. My landlord will be showing the house next week and my roommate still has to finish moving out her stuff; so the floors would all be dirty again by the end of the month.
So mid afternoon, I'm taking a little break, thinking, 'I've got tons of time to get this done'
When it hit me.
This is my last weekend in this house!
Hooray!
I only hope and pray, and hope and pray some more, that all my stuffs are clean and that Monday's evacuation sees all the bugs left behind.
Later friends!
The floors will be the most work, but I'm not even gonna bother. My landlord will be showing the house next week and my roommate still has to finish moving out her stuff; so the floors would all be dirty again by the end of the month.
So mid afternoon, I'm taking a little break, thinking, 'I've got tons of time to get this done'
When it hit me.
This is my last weekend in this house!
Hooray!
I only hope and pray, and hope and pray some more, that all my stuffs are clean and that Monday's evacuation sees all the bugs left behind.
Later friends!
Thursday, 22 September 2011
2 more weeks!
So here we are. 2 weeks left. Amazing!
And we're dark for most of this upcoming week; so it should be pretty easy.
Tomorrow is another understudy show, kind of. We have last year's SM subbing in for our other technician. I hope it doesn't turn into a show down. I'm really not that worried.
No show today. That's fine for me, gives me a chance to check some things off my list. I ventured out into the Loops today and it was sooooo windy! Seriously, crazily windy. It was the kind of wind where I actually had to stop and brace myself to avoid being blown over. It actually reminded me of living in Lethbridge. Wind is to Southern AB, what rain is to Vancouver, and it can drive people bonkers. I would take rain over wind any day, clearly I do.
See what boredom has reduced me to? I'm blogging about the weather!
Monday I'm headed to Van, with all my stuffs in a truck *thanks D : )
That means I can side step all the Greyhound, shipping, logistical stress and just get out of town.
I'm often convinced that the hard way is the right way and usually that it true. In this case however, I choose to believe that easier doesn't mean wrong, it just means easier. And some ease in my life sounds pretty good about now.
Onwards and upwards folks! see you soon!
Peace Cmax
And we're dark for most of this upcoming week; so it should be pretty easy.
Tomorrow is another understudy show, kind of. We have last year's SM subbing in for our other technician. I hope it doesn't turn into a show down. I'm really not that worried.
No show today. That's fine for me, gives me a chance to check some things off my list. I ventured out into the Loops today and it was sooooo windy! Seriously, crazily windy. It was the kind of wind where I actually had to stop and brace myself to avoid being blown over. It actually reminded me of living in Lethbridge. Wind is to Southern AB, what rain is to Vancouver, and it can drive people bonkers. I would take rain over wind any day, clearly I do.
See what boredom has reduced me to? I'm blogging about the weather!
Monday I'm headed to Van, with all my stuffs in a truck *thanks D : )
That means I can side step all the Greyhound, shipping, logistical stress and just get out of town.
I'm often convinced that the hard way is the right way and usually that it true. In this case however, I choose to believe that easier doesn't mean wrong, it just means easier. And some ease in my life sounds pretty good about now.
Onwards and upwards folks! see you soon!
Peace Cmax
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