I'm too sexy for my knees

Today I'm not going to blog about rehearsal. Nor how I spent most of it knitting a sock. (Fyi, I'm so tired I just typed cosk instead of sock.) I had previously knitted the ribbing (just twelve rows...) and then when we left the theater several hours later I had turned the heel and started the gusset decreases.

Today, I'm going to show you something.

That little bruise right there on my knee (See it?) is the most painful bruise I've had in a long time. I can't bend my knee without it hurting! I just got it today during dance class when we were doing a really cool floorwork dance. But I went down wrong at one point and BANG.

"Oooooooowfuckooooooooow!" was kind of what I sounded like.

Anyway, I am going to bed now. Night all.

On/Off Switch

You know, today wasn't awful. Despite the amount of time I spend complaining about being busy, being stressed, being blah... My life doesn't suck.

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Today I had a rehearsal.

A very long rehearsal. A rehearsal that lasted the entire school day. We left the school at 8:30 and we arrived back at school at 3:00.

The hardest part of this rehearsal wasn't the acting. That probably went the smoothest it's gone in a while. No, the hardest part of the rehearsal was the fact that I had to be "Turned On" all the time. No, I don't mean it like that. I mean that even when I wasn't on stage I had to brightly smile at people, laugh, chat, and shush the loud freshmen boys. I had to project myself into any conversation, I had to make an effort to not just stare off into space and think for a while... There is no 'Off' button when it comes to rehearsals like these. Having been 'On' all day, I am very tired. You know those days when it's just too much effort to even appear like you care about anything happening around you? Now, alone in my room and winding down, I kind of feel like that. I just got out of the shower and am rocking the towel turban, too. (It must be genetic. Mom can totally rock the towel turban.)

Well, we open on Friday night. Wish me a broken leg, will you? Tomorrow I need to remember to bring things to entertain myself. Unfortunately one of those things is my AP Gov't study guide... because I would like to pass my AP test next monday. Gack.

Come to think of it, wish me a broken leg on Monday morning. I'll be driven to the hospital and (Oh no!) miss my test.

...Uh wow

So I've been sending out emails to people overseas to let them know that I'll be traveling in Europe this summer. The response has been overwhelming. I've heard back from people in seven countries.

SEVEN.

And while I've been sitting here in shock, I've realized how much travel time I'll be doing. And then looking at my yarn drawer and going,

Hmm... That's a lot of socks... I could totally knit that many socks in two months... I'll be, you know, on a lot of trains.

That's a good reason to, you know, stock up on some more sock yarn. They're portable, light, and don't require any crazy patterns. I know how to cast on, turn a heel, AND graft a toe or two. So if anyone wants to make an anonymous (or not so anonymous... I'm not picky) yarn donation to my Traveling in Europe stock, I would totally knit you some socks.

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In other news, I was sitting downstairs on the couch reading a book and up jumped Topher the chihuahua. He just sat there and stared at me and made the adorable little "I can't contain myself I'm just so cute" cooing noises that he is just so good at. And then he put his paw on my leg and tried to climb into my lap and then decided against it... until he just couldn't bear it any more. That little chihuahua jumped into (and out of) my lap so many times I just laughed when he finally situated himself on my boobs. Apparently they make a fantastic shelf on which to sit and survey the area.

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Tomorrow my tech rehearsal will be happening during the day. The junior ring ceremony is tomorrow night and there are so many juniors in the play that they wouldn't be able to attend rehearsal anyway. So we leave the school at 8:30 and will be back at school by the end of the school day. That, in my opinion, quite rocks. It's getting out of school with an excused absense! This calls for some knitting...

Uneventful!!!

This hasn't been a very interesting or exciting weekend.

I feel bad about blogging, because the most out of the ordinary part of my weekend was waking up this morning at 6:30 because there was an awful hail storm outside just pounding on my window. I did the whole roll over and shove a pillow over my head thing... Which didn't really help.

What else about this weekend...

I bought yummy English chocolate. I bought some cotton yarn for a beach bag I'm knitting. I went to a 5-hour Tech rehearsal (thus starts 'hell week'.) I bought a new bra (!!!!!). I knitted an ankle sock on Friday night. I bought a watch. I ate a mussel (It was weird!! All squishy... but I was at dads and I felt like I should instead of flat out refusing.)

Yep. That just about sums up my weekend.

Happy Birthday Bill

Yesterday I went with some of my school's Shakespeare Club (which I am the secretary of, actually) to a celebration of William Shakespeare's 444th Birthday. He couldn't be there. Apparently he had struck stage gold and was busily writing away at his next hit play. We all ate cake anyway!

There was dancing.



And merriment. (Well. For some.)



And acting. (We watched a rehearsal for their upcoming show of Much Ado About Nothing. As a club we'll go see that on May 9th. I'm excited. I do love shakespeare, but I love it even more when it's free.)

And, of course, general tomfoolery. What would a birthday party be without tomfoolery?!

Just to let you know

Today

-I still felt terrible...
-So I stayed home and took a lot of 20 minute naps.
-I watched all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. :)
-I knitted about 5 inches of my clapotis. She's about 60% done now.
-I'm feeling better at the mo, though a little unstable.
-I only had water, a cherry coke, crackers, jello, and a potato today. I'm not hungry, but I need to eat.

Well, that's all I really can report. Tomorrow is school again. Sigh. I'm off to bed.

Forgive me for being blunt

But today is one of those days when you swallow so much snot that you just feel like crap.

Last week I had this awful cold. I thought it was allergies, but living in Austin, there's not really any way to tell, unless you actually remember to check webmd for the symptoms because you forget every other time that you read up on it. And my throat is kind of scratchy when I breathe, so I keep sucking on cough drops, which don't taste very good when you feel like crap to begin with.

So I'm going to keep this blog short and tell you that my plan for purging myself of the last remnants of this cold include:

1) Advair. Lots of it. (This is an asthma medication. It helps be breathe AND sleep... because I can breathe.)
2) Romance novel. (I will, however, skip out on the chocolate. See the "I feel like crap" segment above.)
3) Knitting. (My knitting group meets tonight. I look forward to it every week.)
4) Some sort of cough/cold medicine that I'm sure we're out of in the medicine cabinet downstairs. (Mother.)