promises

so, I had promised myself, and put an alarm in my phone, but I haven't blogged yet this week.
sorry.

I was going to take pictures of delicious things and post recipes... instead I just ate the delicious things.

no doctors appointments, so... nothing there..

My show closes on Sunday, and a fun three weeks begin.

the first week isnt so exciting, still just 40 hours, but during the day, its hard to adjust to the schedule at first, but its nice to be home at night time, and to see friends like a normal person. On Tuesday I am going to Lauren and Stephen's house or just going out to dinner with them, whatever, and on Saturday I am going to Tori's for Canadian Thanksgiving. No other plans as yet, but it could be exciting.

the second week, well, thats tech week, Tues-Weds-Thurs are 8am to midnight days... sometimes 9am, but still, Fri-Sat-Sun are usually 9am but can be 10am or even 12 to when the show ends and after about a 1/2 hour of notes, for this next show that will mean about 10pm.

On Tues-Weds-Thurs 8am to 11am is for cleaning up, organizing, and getting things ready, 12pm to 5pm and 7pm to 12am is tech rehearsal where we SLOWLY add technical elements to the actors performance, lights, sound, scenery etc. This show doesn't have a lot of props, but it does have a lot of flying pieces, something like 8 trees, a red rectangle, our big red show curtain, a black scrim, the black out curtain (BOC), and 3 electric linesets. oh, and a chandelier. So, there are only two of us backstage on this one, plus it takes both of us to do the trees, so, this will be fun...

On Fri-Sat-Sun 8am to 11am is for fixing things, and more making things better, adjusting lights, moving props around, sweeping and mopping... 12pm to 5pm rehearsal - director's choice. 6pm to 930pm a preview performance, 930 to 10 notes - notes are when mostly the director says what they thought worked or didn't work during the preview, ie. trees faster or slower, this was too bright, this was too dark, etc.

the third week is just like Fri-Sat- Sun of the second week, until Friday when we open, then its mostly smooth sailing after that... its the last tech weeks of the season.

Colonoscopy

So, do you all read the twitter feed to the right?

Well, they found nothing in my colon, nary a polyp. I am pretty excited.

But this doesn't mean I'll get some stamp of cancer free, because of that protein marker, I'm not sure what the next step is, I'm going to not worry about that yet. You shouldn't either!

Unfortunately for my curiosity, the drugs they gave me for the procedure either put me out or I can't remember any thing. I hope I did not disgrace myself in front of the cute medical tech/drug pusher, he sort of brought the cougar out of me... Sigh.

Next up, is a follow up with radiation oncology, they will just be looking at the radiated area. This is Tuesday October 12th.

No medical news is good news until then, oh, except I have to go get the pertussis and flu shot. Lame.

My Trip to Victoria

Outside the undersea garden place, I already posted this but I like it.

The floating undersea garden, a little overpriced

The Harbor

giant seastar, with grey fish

Sea star with orange fish

a view of the windows, there was a dive show going on.

Creepy wax museum

More creepy wax museum, many pictures I took were too dark.

This chair was not made of wax

Wax Buddha

Victoria BC's Pioneer Square is a pioneer cemetary.

Castle Craigdarroch was a large house built by an industry baron in the 1880s, its all hand carved wood, and stained glass, the furnishings are not original, but are from the right period.

Every stained glass window was different, mostly thistles and other flowers from the family's Scottish and British roots.

Hand embroidered fire screen, every fireplace in the castle had one.

there was no explanation of this item, what it looked like to me, is this was a hand knotted hair piece, made with real hair, it was seriously elaborate.

Hair and stained glass reflection. Bonus.

whats a museum without knitting!

Hand carved lizard detail, I wish this picture was better.

Billiard Table, the plaque said mostly the ladies played.

Um, I am currently obsessed with fake food... I think its the prop person in me.

Telescope

The view from the top of the staircase... also a bad picture, sorry

Every post in the staircase, hand carved, and alternating.

Ball gown

View from the top.

An old piano, this was available to anyone who wanted to play, provided you could play that is...

Dance Card

More stained glass...

Fancy duds for dudes too.

This carpet is an old time prop favorite at the Intiman... not this exact one, of course, but this same pattern.

A Model of the castle

More fake food

this vase was cool

Fake bacon and eggs, and below... I was trying to get the high chair.

this was in the gift store, and I might need to knit one.
We didn't make it to anymore cool places after this, the castle was about a mile and a half from downtown, and we ran out of time, plus my phone battery was not holding up well...
so.... this is the end of my pictures.