Boogie Wonderland opens tonight!!!!! We are all so excited (and a little nervous!) We have been having a lot of technical issues- our sound guy has NO idea what he is doing and our Production Manager had issues with his visa so he cant join the ship til week 2. This means we are opening both shows without a boss and all our cues (lights, sound, stage staff) are led by him. So right now, its all a guessing game about what will work and what won't.....we are praying it all pulls together for tonight!!!!! Our director is very happy with our cast though, she says we look amazing and are ready for an audience. So no matter what is going on behind us or around us, at least the singers and dancers will be giving a good show!!!!
My feet have returned to their normal state...THANK GOODNESS!!!!!! My show shoes couldn't fit over my swollen marshmallows!!!!!!! And my blisters have hardened but they will prolly scar because, lets face it, they won't get a decent rest from the heels lol.
I'm still adjusting into the life on board a ship. It's been really rocky and will only get worse when we are crossing the Atlantic :/ Brian (one of our singers) is going to lend me a pair of ear plugs that he swears will help but I think I am so sensitive to it all and just need to take my Dramamine. During the days its not so bad, we are sailing now and I feel we are pretty solid, but at night when the winds pick up, woof. My first night I did throw up.....gross. And since then I take my pills regularly. And its funny because even when we are docked, I still feel like we are swaying. Everyone else laughs at me cause I'm also saying "are we moving!?!?" No one else feels like that but maybe its just another adjustment for me that will come with time lol. It's that feeling after you have been in the ocean all day and then you are laying in bed and you still feel like you are in the water! Mel, do you remember that time in Florida when we were boogie boarding ALL day and it took us FOREVER to fall asleep cause we couldn't shake that sway feeling. That was also the time when I got really, really burnt which then blistered my shoulders and I cried when I was partnering with Justin for our duet the next day....good times. HA HA.
Today we had ice cream!!!!!! :o AND they sell chocolate milk in the slop chest (which is a little goodies shop for crew and staff members) so I am very content right now :) Luckily they serve cereal at all meals so I won't starve!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow we will start working on Rhythm and Rhyme, which is an easier and shorter show :) Then its only a few more days til we reach Lisbon, the first port we can get off!!!!!!! And since they are adding in a Brazilian cast, I really won't be working very much :o Lots of time to explore and memorize the ship and see the world :D
Well, I should go get ready for the show!!! I need to preset my costumes cause I have SUPER DOOPER quick changes and I need all my costumes, and wigs ;) to be set up a certain way or I won't make it on stage on time! I hope the seas are calm tonight or I will be falling over trying to pull my pants on (which I have done several times in rehearsals already!!!!!) You would think, as a dancer, that I am in control of my body but I am very much a klutz. :D
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!! <3
Shannon, you're little car is haunted.. I swear! And I finally figured out what to call it-
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When I first started driving your car I made sure to 'man'-itize it. Like sanitizing only manitize is used to get rid of girl smell, girl stuff, etc. So I took off all the decorative ribbons in the car I could find. Here's the strange part...
Just about every week, I'll look for something in the car and find a new ribbon! All tied in a bow! I don't know where they come from!! Why, just the other day I shifted into drive and noticed a ribbon around the parking brake. I swear that was not there for the first month I was driving...I would have noticed.
My best guess is that, whenever I open up the center console to store something, the ribbons escape and go fasten on to something somewhere else in the car. I keep putting the ribbons back in the center console but when I looked for them today, they were all gone!
Maybe this is your way of letting us know you're still out there...somewhere...
Ok this was a serious L-O-L story for me!!!! Serves you right for trying to de-girlatize my car!!!! Lola knows better. She will attack you:D I'm so proud of my baby car!!!!!!
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