Remember my earlier post about my United Way fundraiser? Well, I guess doing a good deed pays off once in a while. One of the leaders had some extra tickets to A Chorus Line and she gave me a pair as a "thank you" for my help. I was SO pleased. Chorus Line is one of my favorite musicals and I had even asked my husband for tickets for my birthday next week. Fortunately, he's a procrastinator and hadn't bought them yet. (Now I guess I get to pick something else. Probably something cute to wear for SITScation in two weeks!)

He had to take Blake to Scouts, so I called around to my "peeps" to see who wanted to go. My friend Bonnie was delighted to go. She's also my Realtor and she works like a dog 24 X 7, so I was glad to take her out for a bit of fun. She'd heard some of the music, but hadn't ever seen the show, so I told her she was in for a treat.



We got there late, so we got great seats. They were in the very back row, but it was great. We didn't have anyone to either side of us and no one in the row in front of us, so we were able to stretch out and relax. That's so much nicer than sitting squished up next to a bunch of strangers. And we could whisper and giggle with each other without bothering anyone. Yes, I am THAT person. I try to be quiet about it, but I just can't refrain from little snippy asides to my companions during a movie or a show and I have gotten a few glares and shushes from time to time!

It brought back a lot of great memories. As I shared in an earlier post, I was a Performing Arts Major all through school. You name it, I did it - singing, dancing, acting, stage crew, musical instruments, the whole enchilada. Until a rotten Nazi perfectionist of a choir leader booted me out of his choir, which totally broke my heart and destroyed my confidence. By the following semester, I had transferred over to the Computer Science program and I never looked back.

I can't say that I really miss it because I think my life would have turned out so much differently if I'd followed that path, and I really do love dinking around with computers all day. I can't imagine doing anything else for a living, but those days were sure a lot of fun and I made some wonderful friends that I wish I'd kept in touch with.

There's something about performing together that seems to make for some very close friendships, and it was a crazy time. I would go to my High School classes in the mornings, College classes in the afternoons, then I would go off and work for a couple of hours, and then be back in the evenings for rehearsals and performances. I remember one point where we were closing out one show and pulling together another one and I literally worked a 20 hour day. Sounds exhausting, but that's totally my vibe. I think I'm happiest when I'm going 90 miles an hour with my hair on fire!

It was good for my physically too. All that dancing and climbing up and down ladders and wrestling sets around was really good for your body. I remember climbing around on a catwalks 30 feet in the air, hauling lights around and being totally fearless. I guess teenagers are just like that. I don't think I could do that now. Some things are best left to the young, I think.



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