If you ever experience any trouble with your blood pressure whatsoever, I highly recommend you visit Debbie at my new midwife's office. All she had to do was sit down and smile at me, and...kazam! Instant drop in diastolic of about 30mm!
(95mm down to 65mm...in under 2 minutes...whoo whee!)
To explain, aside from teaching high school all day, I have been offered a home tutoring job through the school district. As the days unfold, so do the many layers of politics, disaster and calamity that seem to be attached to the wayyyy wayyyyy wayyyyyy too nice salary (aka carrot, bribe, blood money......) of this new job. A few more layers than I was prepared for unfolded themselves just before my Dr. appointment this afternoon. (ack!)
But, all's well that end's well!
That can also be said for Alannah's stunning performance in Beauty and the Beast this weekend as the lovely, stoic, Mrs. Potts. She was FANTASTIC!!!! As soon as we get them organized, I will put all the pictures up here, and eventually we will get a video so all you folks far away can enjoy her too (if you wish).
Actually, all the kids were fantastic. The high school and the middle school casts all did such a great job. Each group had it's unique strengths--there wasn't really any group that stood out as better, and we know, because we went to all four shows!
Probably our favorite parts were the Gaston characters for both performances. The high school character was a big, burly, muscly senior who played the part PERFECTLY. He was hilarious, and really went all out to portray Gaston's clueless, egotistical villion-ess. The middle school Gaston was the exact opposite in physique, as in a REALLY tiny kid, but made up for it with a hysterical Napoleon-complex brutality.
Susie and Dan were enthralled by it all, and I couldn't believe that they begged to go back each time. Dan cried when he finally grasped that it was over--he wanted to see it again and again! (just wait until we get the recording, and he WILL.)
It was also great to have Mom, Dad, Eva, Andrea, Christian and Stephanie there. We managed to squeeze a celebratory lunch in amongst all the curtain calls and cast party. We were especially proud of Scott who won the prize for the grilled chicken that didn't make Andrea feel queasy. I guess morning sickness, er, 24/7 sickness, is just being relentless.
Since I lost all my basketball polls, anyone up for a "It's a boy", "It's a girl" one? :)
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