February!? Are you kidding me!?

I'm not kidding when I say; where has the time gone?! I absolutely cannot believe it's February already. I feel like New Year's was just last week or so! And I've only blogged 3 times!? Lame.
So, Millie is up and running now, and I'm having a blast working backstage. I'm doing makeup for this one woman in the show, Deb, and she's a Geisha, so I took her wig and made it into a Geisha "do" (with some help from a friend of mine) and I do her face all white with red lips and red and black eyes. She looks pretty damn cool, if you ask me :o) I do have some ridiculously quick changes with Millie, but the rest of the time, I run around putting false eyelashes on (other peoples, not mine), stitching hems, zipping, buttoning, pinning wigs... it's good times, really. I'm still involved with the kids show running the light board. My friend Dan is up in the booth with me and we're pretty much trouble. Luckily, we haven't missed any cues during the show, what with all of our shenanigans.
I did audition for the next kid show, Willy Wonka, but I wasn't offered the part I auditioned for so I politely declined, which the director wasn't too happy about. I don't feel bad, however, because there is already a ton of drama in the show, most of which stems from the girl who got the part I auditioned for and the director's attitude. Well, C'est la vie!
I'm happier still that I declined the role because few days ago I was approached by 2 friends of mine (an older couple who are heavily involved in the community and theater) to be part of a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons". For those who are familiar, I'm playing the part of Lydia. The show will take place at a theater in downtown Fredericksburg called the "Rude Mechanics". The theater went dark in the mid 90's and Barbara and Mel (the friends who approached me)along with another friend of mine, John and some prominent community members are trying to resurrect the theater, re-opening it with this production of AMS. Apparently, Barbara told me, when they were all reading the show together, my name came up for the part of Lydia. I've never read it, but shes says I'm perfect for the role. We'll start rehearsals in the next week or so, and the show runs the first 2 weekends in May. I can't tell you how excited I am to be doing real theater again! No more frivolous musical fluff! Musicals have been fun for a while, don't get me wrong, but I've been missing meaningful theater for a long time!
Yesterday, Curren and I "celebrated" Valentine's Day early, since he'll be on the west coast visiting his grandmother and battling for a week. As timing would have it, I leave for NC, FL and beyond on the day he returns from his trip. I think Valentine's Day is crap, personally, but he felt bad being away so we went to DC for the day. We took the Metro into the city and visited the original Smithsonian, the new Native American Indian museum and the National Gallery of Art. After all of that, we had dinner at an Irish pub in downtown DC. I'm pretty sure we walked 87 miles yesterday, which was fantastic. I totally broke down and got him VD gifts, though. He always talks about the different plaids that everyone wears to the battles so I got him 2 pairs of plaid pj pants to lounge around in when he's not battling, and a poster with French cognac and a green goblin on it that he wanted. All in all, it was a good day :o)