*sigh*

Ok, I've been really bad about posting and I'm so sorry. All the shows finished without a hitch. YEAH!!!!! The whole cast of Nutcracker 2010 made a huge 10ft poster for the teachers that we had all signed and we presented it to them right after the curtain fell on the last show. Jimmy kept telling us that we were part of the FIRST annual Nutcracker at TDC. Even though I've done a lot of Nutcrackers it felt cool to be apart of the first one for them. After the last show, Mommy and I went out to Denny's with a great friend of mine and her mom for desert. When we got there and started to look at the menu, real food started to look really appealing. So I got breakfast instead of ice cream. After we got home and kind of unpacked the car, I ended up crawling in bed at 11:52pm. The next day, so Thursday, we had technique class, which didn't happen. Jose, Dana, and all us students had a fun day and sat around eating cookies and watching Don Quixote for 2 and a half hours. So that's the end of that chapter for me. Here's a recap of the last couple months!!

Setting waltz of the flowers

Us girls hanging out waiting for rehearsal to start

Yes this did happen a lot!

Most of the time, this loverly Dr. kept me going

Fooling around during a break

Snow Queen, me, with my flakes

Group picture with the 10ft poster

Sugar Plum Fairy and Dew Drop Fairy.
One of my many wonderful teachers to learn from.

Fly the curtain!!

Show #1..CHECK!!

I'm so sorry, it has been forever since I last posted here. Let's see, the last I posted was Jimmy had his radar on me and blah blah blah....Oh yeah! Ok so dress rehearsal went relatively smoothly, but it was long. All the dancers had to be there at 3:15pm and we finally got done at about 10:30pm. The worst part about it was Jimmy band us from eating in the theater and in our costumes...so we didn't get a bite of food from start to end of dress! That was one big issue, one of the others was the snow. One of my parts is snow queen so during the whole snow waltz Jimmy wanted snow falling on the front of the stage. And when I say snow I'm talking little pieces of floating plastic that cause death if you step on it. So I spent the whole 1st half of dress and the 1st show trying to avoid this deathly snow. The show itself went pretty well, much better then the rest of us thought it was going to go. Here are some pics of dress rehearsal!

Snow Queen, lovingly made by Mommy

This was before dress started. Mommy wanted a good picture of me in both my costumes. Now I just need one in Dew Drop.

He's on to me...

Well today was the first day Jimmy has really gotten on my case about my dancing. I was doing dew drop and I could hear him telling Jose. "She needs to make it bigger, elongate it, stand out from the core." Jose gestures to me. "Yell at her bro." Jimmy promptly turns to me and yells, "You need to make it bigger! You're blending into the core and you're not standing out. You need to earn the spotlight and keep it." Got it Jimmy, workin' on it!!

Ay ay ay....Can I die yet?

I know I keep saying that this was/is a long day and what not, but today was officially a long day! I went to the florist to help out Brooke with an order that she got for 50 center pieces and originally I told her I had to leave by 3:30pm. Then Kathi from TDC emailed everybody and warned us that there was going to be a parade going down Old Town and Front St, the main street, was going to be closed from 4pm to 10pm. Well the way I get to the studio I have to drive part of Front St and rehearsal started at 5:30pm, so I didn't know if the part that I drive was going to be closed as well or not. So I told Brooke that I had to be out of the shop by 2pm so I could rush home, hop in the shower, inhale some food and then get up to the studio 1.5hrs early so I wouldn't get blocked out. Jimmy wouldn't be very happy with me if that happened. So, that's what I did. I came home, showered, inhaled and Ricky Racered, some of you will know what that means, up to the studio to find that they were closing the road right past the intersection where I turn. In short, I didn't need to rush at all. So having PLENTY of time, I took Dani along and we went and got a starbucks and then came back to sew up her pointes shoes. Then the rehearsal commenced, on time and I filled in for the nutcracker doll, which was kinda fun cause I got to play a guy part. After rehearsal was all through with, I was going to leave but I looked out the window at the street and the traffic was backed up to Tahiti. So I hung out with some of the other dancers for a few at the studio waiting for the traffic to subside. It finally did not long after that so I left and got home at about 10pm. Hope to get a good night sleep tonight cause Jimmy wants a full costume, full hair, full makeup runthrough tomorrow, which seems really rather pointless to me but...whatever! Hope tomorrow goes smoothly.