Slowing Down?

Now that my big performance is over life is a little less hectic (but not by much). I spent most of my September weekends preparing for the show (which was last Sunday), but last weekend was my most insane yet.

I had no plans Friday evening. I intended to stay in, other than quickly popping into the Bay at Richmond Centre. But Thalia called me in the late afternoon inviting me over to the North Shore. I couldn’t resist, so I joined the long weekend traffic heading that way, and crawled over there (actually, it wasn’t that bad). Around Rupert & 1st Thalia called me to ask if we could go downtown to pick up Buddy (kind of long story, not going to get into it). So I pickup to Thalia’s and head downtown, get Buddy, and then head over to Park Royal Bay so I can pick up a couple of things. Afterwards Thalia took me out to dinner as a thanks for driving her downtown. It was a pretty crazy (but fun) night, all in all.

Saturday morning I had my final rehearsal before the big show. So I spent a good portion of my Saturday morning and afternoon out in Burnaby rehearsing. Then I pretty much spent my whole Sunday in Surrey at the show. It was a tonne of fun, and I’m looking forward to next year’s, but I am also glad it’s over. After the show Colin and I went to my parents’ for Thanksgiving dinner. It was a good night for a big meal – Polynesian dancing really works up an appetite.

I was very thankful it was the Thanksgiving long weekend, as I really needed a break on Monday: some time to sleep in and play catch up with my personal life.

This weekend is already shaping up to be a little crazy, but nothing like the past couple of weekends. Tonight Lisa and I are carrying on an annual tradition and heading to Value Village to find our Halloween costumes (I’ll come back to that in a moment). Tomorrow morning Thalia and I are heading to Richmond Centre for part two of our Clinique gift, and tomorrow evening is Thanksgiving dinner at the in-laws. Honestly, it’s better having the two dinners a week apart, versus 24-hours apart – I feel like less of a gluton that way.

Back to Halloween: The only person who actually knows what I am going as for Halloween is Colin. So here are some hints:
¨ It’s a superhero
¨ It’s a DC comics superhero
¨ I’m going as the female version of this superhero (who apparently made her first appearance in 1998 - I thought it was long before that)
¨ The quintessential part of my costume is a ring, which I have ordered from E-bay. Without that ring, there really is no point to the costume, or character

I don’t know why I’m being so cryptic about my costume this year…