Merry Christmas, Whoop Dee Doo!

My, my! What a busy weekend.

Lessee...Saturday, Eric and I went shopping most of the afternoon. He wanted to do some Christmas shopping, and I had some things I wanted to get. Unfortunately, one item turned out to be a waste of money. The "refill" I got for my planner doesn't fit. Oh well. We went to Borders at one point, and I got a Candy Cane Mocha. Yum. That's right, yum. Oh, and we got the soundtrack to The Fountain. Beautiful. Yay, Kronos Quartet!

That evening, we went to the play Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge at the Playhouse. It was very funny. The finale was "Merry Christmas, Whoop Dee Doo!" It was a parody of Christmas Carol, where the Ghost of Past, Present and Future (all the same person) had defective magic powers and kept transporting them to the wrong places and times. And Mrs. Cratchit was miserable being poor and kept trying to commit suicide. But then, the Ghost got help from Clarence the Angel from It's a Wonderful Life, and he made it so that Mrs. Cratchit was never born. But then she saw that the world was BETTER without her. So they both got help from Monica on "Touched by an Angel", and she transported Scrooge and Mrs. Cratchit to New York in 1977 where they were happy being rich and rotten and mean.

Then, we went karaoking. I sang "One Night in Bangkok". Got a huge cheer. Melanie said I hate "bite" in my voice.

Sunday, Eric performed in the "Sights and Sounds" Christmas concert up at Dana College. They had an "Alumni sing Christmas on Broadway" thing. Cheesy. But they did well. It had that freaky "Turkey Lurkey" song. But we also got to hang out with Chip for a while. It was a fun day, which is good - it was my 1 year anniversary with Eric. And, coincidentally, we had our first "official" date going to the Christmas thing at Dana LAST year.

Cathy offered me one of the lead parts in Translations. I'm reading the script right now. I'll probably accept. Yay for my neverending busy schedule, yay for theatre masochism! When will our government fund the arts like they do in other major civilized countries?

We're doing the "Chess" reading tomorrow, and I'm psyched about that. Yay for Tim Rice!

Alrighty, I'm out.