Sunday: Shopping and Performance

[elfs]

Omaha and I had a very tight schedule Sunday. After waking, we had to race down to Costco just as it opened to do our monthly shopping. The girls were surprisingly helpful and we managed to get through the entire trip in 17 minutes, mostly due to Omaha's excellent planning. I used to encourage her to use HandyShopper for the Palm (which I use and like), but she seems to do just fine with only the memo pad.

After we got home, we set about cooking a gallon of pasta sauce and two gallons of pasta for the post-production and stage tear-down potluck. We were just finished in time to race out the door at 12:30 and make our way up to Kouryou-chan's last performance.

We made it in time, and Kouryou-chan was very much better today than in previous performances. She stayed focussed, didn't blink too much at the bright lights, and her nervous tic with her tongue was absent. Good for her. The cast and crew were a little loose, this being the last performance, but otherwise all was well. In her own two major scenes she was very good, but when she was asked to be part of "the gang" and had only one or two lines she didn't quite maintain a sense of attention to the speaker the way she should have.

After the performance, I had to hurtle down to the pharmacy to get Omaha's medications, and then came back to finish the stage breakdown, moving the seats back to their storage closet and tearing down the stage itself. And then we had the potluck. There was a ton of spaghetti sauce left over.

We thanked the director for all her hard work and for Kouryou-chan's opportunity, and she gave us her thanks for being pretty fine stage parents after all.

We didn't get home until after six. We didn't get any gardening done at all this weekend. Bummer.

Comments

Gardening?

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

You know, since they won't let me play in the dirt where I'm renting, maybe we can work something out... I've been itching to get my fingers in the dirt the last week or two.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Apologies to Omaha, but with all the political stuff going on, when I read the first line of this post I read it as "Obama and I..", and I had this moment of confusion and wonder thinking of you being that close to the White House... :)