Tired, But Happy

The first weekend of “The Pajama Game” has come to a close. After a solid week of nerve-racking rehearsal, we finally brought it all together. With three performances (before three terrific audiences) in the can, we get a couple of days of rest, one quick refresher (without having to make the rushed costume changes that are an integral part of this show) and another rest day before we hit the boards again.

What I love about working with The Village Players is that they take it all very seriously, and yet make it all seriously fun. I don’t think I’m going to get another chance to perform there again for a while, and I’m going to miss it.

But it’s also very tiring, especially with this family’s hectic and unpredictable schedule. And, for some reason, this show is even more exhausting than “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum,” even though I was on stage for most of that. Perhaps it’s because I actually dance in this show, and when I’m not on the stage I’m running up the stairs to change my clothes.

Fortunately, I have tomorrow off to rest a bit before I have to go back to work.

In other news, we got our building permit, and now we’re just trying to get on the schedule for excavation and foundation. In this neck of the woods, you have to get these two tings done before the truly cold weather sets in, before the ground feezes hard and makes the whole thing more expensive, or even impossible.

Karen’s store had their Family Night tonight. I was on stage, but Karen took the two younger boys and they had a good time. The store opens tomorrow, mostly unannounced, and the Grand Opening is Thursday.

And now that the Rochester store will be open, I can stop by on my way home, say hello to my wife (a rare treat these days!) and pick up anything we need for the new house.

Catching My Breath

A rare few moments in the library to pay bills and catch up a little on blogging. Still rehearsing The Pajama Game, at the Village Players; opening Friday with only three more rehearsals to go. Yikes!

There is a new gallery up, finally, of William's birthday party. We are running around trying to get our building permit for the new house so we can get the excavation going and get the foundation poured before the ground freezes. If we can get the shell done before it gets too cold we can work on the house during the winter.

You'll have to excuse any typographical errors in blogs and gallery captions. I try to correct them as I find them, but they are all written on the run between the many other things I have to do these days. Unfortunately, I can't do it over lunch (although right now I use that time to study my lines anyway) because I can't bring my laptop computer into work for security reasons.

So mostly the captions are written at home while looking at thumbnails of the pictures, and the the whole gallery is loaded onto the laptop for uploading at the next trip to the library. The blogging process is similar, although sometimes I can write while waiting to go onstage at the theater and other spare moments. Today I'm writing directly into the Blogger screen since I'm sitting at the laptop for other online work anyway.

But now it's time to pick up the boys, so I'll post this and try to add another entry this weekend--after opening night!