Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

Saturday was Maggie's 12 week trip to the vet. She didn't like the car ride. She kept trying to squeeze to the front seats, getting herself stuck between the chair and the door. Poor puppy. But she was super excited when she got to the vet. As soon as she saw the woman at the desk, she exploded with excitement. I can't believe Maggie was able to remember her after two weeks! She jumped out of my arms, ran across the desk, and leaped into the arms of the woman at the desk to furiously lick her face. It was unbelievable cute.

Once she calmed down a bit, we were taken to the examination room. Maggie gained about 2.5 lbs since last time. She's getting so big! And then she was given another booster shot. She didn't cry this time. She's such a good girl.

After that, Maggie was a little tired so I let her sleep in the front seat. I brought her inside and she slept the rest of the afternoon.

Sunday was the night we had ticked to see Wicked. It was an extremely good evening. I got dressed up and everything. We had no trouble finding parking at the metro and we only had to wait about 5-10 minutes for a train.

We had an early dinner at Tonic, which was very tasty. I had an heirloom tomato salad and stole some of ben's tater tots. The restaurant was also a short walk away from the shuttle to the theater, so it was really perfect.

The shuttle was waiting for us after we finished dinner. It was a nice short ride. Everyone else was also there for Wicked and were also very excited. We arrived at the Kennedy Center just as the doors were about to open. Very good timing.

I thought our seats were perfect until an extremely tall woman sat in front of me. Tall people should be forced to slouch in theaters.

The show itself was very good. The first act was fairly similar to the first half of the book. A few changes to simplify the plot. They made Elphaba a bit more innocent and Galinda a bit less intelligent. I thought the actress for Elphaba was very very good. She made my inner teenage nerd cry out for her. If I had seen this show in grade school, I would have OBSESSED over it. Galinda was the understudy. I thought she did a good job of being ditsy.

My only major complaint is that act 1 ended so epically that act 2 felt weak and lost. Defying Gravity was just incredibly emotionally climatic. How could anything compare with that?

Act 2 is nothing like the book at all. Nearly everything was changed. I'm ok with that though because it had a happy ending! I hated the sad ending in the book. I like believing that Elphaba lived happily ever after.

One other small thing I noticed and really liked was the glasses at the emerald city. Most people forget that in the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz, all visitors were required to wear sunglasses in the emerald city supposedly to protect their eyes from all the glitter and glimmer, but in actuality to make the city LOOK green. Since the wizard was a humbug, he couldn't actually build an emerald city. So when Elphaba had the glasses on and was saying how wonderful it was that no one was looking at her oddly, I had a little giggle to myself.

It really was a very good evening. Good company, good dinner, and a good show. I went to sleep very happy that evening.

Too bad it's Monday now. Work always gets in the way of my fun!

Thursday
We went to see Hollywood Abridged. It was by the same people who do Shakespeare Abridged. We had front row tickets from ben's boss. It was a little weird for him to give us a gift, but I really don't like wasting tickets.

The danger of the front row was that we were asked a question. "What's your favorite movie?" would not normally be a hard question but they meant live action and my favorite is animated. So then ben and I argued over what my favorite could be, which worked out fine cause the actors were able to make fun of us and move on.

The show was funny, but I think I like their Shakespeare one better. Hollywood isn't nerdy enough for my tastes.

Friday
So much work oh my god. Did not get it all done. Gave up and went home. Went to bed early.

Saturday
Woke up at 6am. What's wrong with me? Did some cleaning. Then practiced reading crochet patterns. I re-did my crochet project twice before deciding the problem was the pattern and not me. I always ended up with 5 too many stitches at the end. Once I knew that was going to happen no matter what, I was able to find appropriate places to decrease by 5 stitches. Problem solved.

Ben and I went shopping for shelving for my sewing room. Now I'll be able to finish cleaning that mess.

We also went food shopping because we were out of essential things like dog food and orange juice.

When we got home, we had dinner and then took a nap because ben has to work late tonight. It's not fair that his job makes him do all these awful late hours. He had to work friday night too.

I guess I should go to bed soon. But only my brain is tired. My body feels fine. Maybe I'll do some push ups or something to tire myself out.

The Little Mermaid on Broadway.

I MUST see it!