Plot: Time Lapse Montage - Part two

During March we did some fun things. We made fresh homemade bagels. We went out for sushi. Our four month anniversary marked the first day of spring. We went on a hike. Then by mid to late March I began volunteering downtown at a community theater and not long after that I got a new job.

By the time March rolled around I had been out of work for about three months. Though I had been keeping myself somewhat busy with housework, errands and sewing projects, I was getting pretty restless being at home all the time. So in attempt to get out of the house and hopefully make some connections, I contacted a theater downtown to volunteer at called the Bunbury. I was hoping to be involved in the costume design part of it, but by the time I got there, the designer had everything down and didn't really need any help, so I ended up helping with stage production, mainly the props.

The production was called "Crimes of the Heart". (A tragic comedy about three sisters who deal with a difficult past and each dealing with their own crime of their heart.) By the time the show started I was in charge of making sure props were set before the show and cleaning up after the show. My only responsibilities during the show were telling the sound booth when it was ok to start and to drop a bag of sand that made it sound like the actress had just fallen from her attempt at hanging herself from a chandelier.

About a week before the show started I was offered a job as a secretary at Advanced Global Communications. It is a company that installs data cables, telephone systems, security systems and other audio visual devices. I was working 40 hours and then had to be at the theater by 6:30 every night. For the next three weeks I was only able to see Nathan for about an hour to eat dinner then I headed out to the theater until 10:30 or 11 at night, which by then Nathan was usually in bed. I was exhausted and overwhelmed.

The theater is run mainly by volunteers, so the play was not with out some technical difficulties. On any given night you may have heard the cricket sound track in the lobby while waiting to come in, the phone ring (controlled by the people in the sound booth) vary in length thoughout the play, and various props would either be missing or somehow get broken. However, two major technical difficulties happened that I was responsible for. One, I missed my cue to drop the bag leaving an awkward silence. I had forgotten to reset the bag the night before, so when I went to unhook it from its latch, it wasn't there. I didn't catch on to this very quickly, so there was about 10 seconds of me verbally processing and trying to figure out what to do before I realized all I needed to do was to pull it up and let it go..Two, one of the other volunteers was unable to make it one night, so I was called up to the sound booth to help out. I had never done the lights before but it was easy enough, just hit the button that says "go" when I am told. The problem was that during the show I heard a cue "go" that wasn't meant for me. So when I hit the button the light cue went to black in the middle of the scene! Rush came over and had it go back, but then it was stuck in the wrong cue for the rest of the scene. I felt so bad. There was nothing else anyone could do to fix it.

Despite all that, I enjoyed working with the theater, I was able to meet some nice people and make some connections as I had hoped. Rush, the stage producer, owns his own production company and is putting on a production of Alice in Wonderland either sometime this summer or this fall, which I will be designing the costumes for. I have been working on some sketches for them, and really need to finish. I am quite excited to do some designing and for the chance to work with him, he is a really fun guy.

The play is done now, so things have slowed down, which I am thankful for.

Here are some pictures of our delicious bagels and of our hike.

Golden Brown

Boiling them

:)

Terrified I was going to fall

:)

Plot: Time Lapse Montage - Part one

Ahh its been so long since I have been on here to write an update! Lets see, last time I was here was... January!! (I had to go look, hence the delay...)

Well a lot has happened since then, all of February and March and almost all of April.

Nathan spoke briefly about some of the things we got into in February. My favorite from the month was getting those old sewing tables and transforming them into our new bedside tables. That was a lot of fun, I love seeing ideas transform into real things. Makes me feel like I belong on HGTV:) Needless to say, I am very happy with the way they turned out.
Other February happenings included our annual delayed Valentines day. We found early in our relationship that if wait a couple days after February 14th, Valentines day becomes much cheaper to celebrate. However, we stayed in this Valentines day and had a nice dinner at home.
My least favorite part of February was going to the dentist. Since Nathan has dental insurance, we figured we'd put it to good use, so I did some research and found a dentist in the area. I went in for my appointment; a small building not far from where we live, cute, with a fireplace :). After filling out my paperwork, I was led through two French doors and into the patients chair where the dental hygienist proceeded to take 15 different x-rays of my teeth, most of them being fairly uncomfortable. Then the dentist came in to look at my teeth, and found for the first time since I was a child, a cavity. No, not just one, but three! Three cavities! Are you kidding! So I had to make another appointment so they could fill them. After this appointment I found that having a numb mouth is a very strange sensation. To this day, my back tooth is very sensitive to cold things, so I find myself eating things on the left side of my mouth, which makes the right side sad.

Apart from that I'd say the rest of the month was just spent trying not to go crazy from being in the apartment all day, hanging out with each other, and doing things that young married couples like to do..you know, like going to church and grocery shopping.

I'll stop there for the night. Maybe tomorrow I'll catch up on March!