What a wonderful weekend, if you read Asa's blog you know why but here's my version. The Marathon Christmas party was wonderful and it gave me an excuse to wear my "Mayzie" dress again. The shrimp, chocolate fountain, veggies, flavored steamers and hot chocolate, drinks, turkey etc. were all terrific. Asa was such a gentleman and dressed up in a nice tie and vest, dropped me off at the door and danced with me. It was one of the best yet.
Of course, I loved "Spamalot" and I even more love that I found a husband who buys me theatre tickets. I was thrilled that it was completely true to any expectations I had from pictures and excerpts I had seen of the Broadway version. There was audience participation, pyrotechniques, incredible flowing set changes with a set that was layed and detailed, also enough set surprises to last the whole show. Not just recycling the same set over and over. The cast was VERY good, although the Lady of the LAke could have been a bit better. In my opinion her voice was a bit to operatic for that role and she sacrificed her diction to frequently to the role's demands for overdoing it. Not that I could do better of course, but I always have to critique! The humor was excellent, I loved it and I have never seen Monty Python. There are some good samples on youtube.com featuring "The Song that Goes Like this" and even a "flying" nun that I shamefully am still laughing at. Although these sets arn't as good as we saw, it gives you a good idea.
Well first, I have heard from a few people that they can't leave comments. I tested this from another computer yesterday and it worked. I may have to ask Asa about that. I appreciate the effort guys!
I got my very first ever eye exam this week. The whole time I thought about the "what if's" what if my eyes are bad and I have to wear glasses, but the glasses give me headaches? What if I get contacts and have to get up earlier? (anyone who knows me well knows that this would be a very bad thing) Then I thought, " if I need glasses at least I would get to shop in that little glasses store and pick out something cute" Oh, how the prospect of shopping can change one's mood! Any-who it turns out I have 20/20 in both eyes. I am one lucky girl. Though to be fair that is the first time I have been to a doctor and they didn't find anything wrong with me. Yay!
I have almost all of my Christmas shopping done and wrapped. Asa and I have done so well this year, we were wrapping back in November.
We put our tree and nativity scenes up last weekend. My tree was a bit too big to fit in the window so I left some branches off the back. Then I ran out of lights for the top. Asa and I kept running into the street to see what it looked like. It was dark and looked like it had a big hole in it. Finally, after lots of laughing and teasing back and forth we made it work. Barkley seems to like the tree too! We took some pictures that we will try to get on Flickr soon.
This weekend we have a record three parties to attend, and amazingly none of them overlap! Should be fun.
May you have a warm and wonderful advent!