Tuesday, January 06, 2009

i brought my high fiber bread with me to ohio

The last thing to happen in 2008: I was too sick to go out and do anything so we stayed home and watched WALL-E. In an effort to save money on our ridiculous gas bill, we bought a cheap space heater (seriously cheap. It only cost me $15 since it was 50% off this store that was going out of business). Our apartment is hella old and it's really easy to blow a fuse... which of course happened, at about 10pm. The fuse box is in our neighbor's apartment in the basement. He didn't come home until the next day. We had no power to ring in the new year. (We did finish watching the movie in Scot's apartment downstairs because he wasn't home, but they don't have cable so I was watching a wall clock to know when it turned midnight. Also, Chris fell asleep on their couch and I kept trying to wake him up saying, "You can't sleep on other people's couches!" His sleepy response was, "If I sleep here they'll give me free transportation for a year.")

Sooooo... the year didn't end without one more punch. However, the next day, when we finally got our power back, our landlord came to look at our sink problem (we had no running water in the kitchen for like 2 weeks) and he got us a new faucet which is AWESOME! It's tall enough so that you can actually fit stuff in the sink, the water pressure is so good it's amazing (especially when you know, like I do, how ridiculous it was before. It took 30 seconds to fill up a glass of water!) and it has one of those spray thingys which I love. I never minded doing dishes except at this apartment because it took sooooo long. Now it's a breeze again and I am so thankful!

Chris and the rest of the renaissance troupe opened Midsummer on Friday, after starting rehearsals on Tuesday. No director, no designer and 2 days to put it together. It is the funniest show I've ever seen here. I know what happens in this play. It is not unfamiliar to me. I laughed so hard that I was crying and sweating, sitting in my seat. That should not be the case with a show you really know. It's really funny. I wish everyone I know could see it. It is just so impressive that they had such a small amount of time and so much work to do and it's still this good.

On Saturday night after the show, we started watching Christina's dog for her. This dog is super cute and super sweet.... but please, take notice. If you are ever dog sitting, do not get the dog at night. The dog needs time to get used to his or her surroundings... and to freak out that her owners are not there for a while. Poor Bella freaked out until about 3am. The minute they left she started looking for them and crying... later the crying and desperation became howling. At like 2:45am she let out one last, ear piercing howl and then she went to bed with us. In the morning she was fine and she was fine the whole next day. I'm sure she is still fine... but man. She was really sad. At least she didn't blame us. She reacted towards us more like "PLEASE HELP ME FIND THEM!!!!!" rather than "WHERE DID YOU TAKE MY PARENTS!?!?"

Yesterday I woke up at 3:45am for my 6am flight to Cleveland, via Detroit. The plane from Charlottesville to Detroit was a prop plane! I don't know if I've ever flown in one of those before... maybe once. It's been a long time since I've flown. A long time for ME, anyway, who has flown over 100 times (that's a lot for a non-business person, right? Most of those have happened in the last 8 years, t00). I got really annoyed with the liquid carry-on thing. I had an unopened bottle of contact solution which they made me break the seal on and then test to make sure it was actually contact solution. Uhhh... it was sealed. They also didn't let me take on this one small bottle of face moisturizer... but my OTHER moisturizer, which I had forgotten about in my purse, didn't get checked at all. That's dumb. Anyway, I'm in Ohio now and I am happy about it, although I do miss Chris. Yesterday the company told everyone that their summer/fall contracts were not going to start until the end of May instead of the first week of April. They were supposed to only have a week off and now they have two months. I don't know what we're going to do in this time span. It's not long enough to get another job but it's definitely long enough to totally screw you financially if you're only able to get unemployment. Ugh.... I don't know. Maybe I should just move to NYC in April and he can have actor housing when his contract finally DOES start. I don't have any money to move to NYC in April... but I might be able to make it work... somehow. MAN. This sucks. It's so stupid that we don't have ANY wedding plans because we have no idea how we're going to pay for anything. Chris was hoping he'd be able to save enough money from the summer/fall contract to be able to pay for at least a honeymoon (in disneyworld. at the cheapest hotel). I feel like we should just get married in April. Just come up here when the renaissance season ends and get married at the courthouse. I mean, I don't see a reason to postpone it until next January (the original time we imagined would be the first time available). It's not like we'll magically have money then. This is depressing. I never envisioned a big wedding... but I didn't envision a courthouse wedding, either.

Sigh... anyway... despite that news, 2009 has started off pretty well (knock on wood). I feel more optimistic for some reason. Maybe because I'm in denial. Who knows.

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