Nugget

We have a nugget staying with us until further notice! Her owner is in jail for an unidentifiable amount of time for an unidentified crime. Apparently he was in the car with a girl who got pulled over for a DUI, and there was a warrant out for his arrest. It's all very dramatic, but we get this little bundle for at least a couple weeks!

The past few days have kind of been a blur of work, nugget, rehearsal, and House. Saturday I managed to get out of the house for most of the day. Started with ballet, which I was really not wanting to go to because I was feeling so so lazy. Since I've been doing this eccentric workout plan for the past week my body has just kind of been aching all the time. I think it was also hurting in combination with the run I went on last Monday, which was probably the first run I had gone on outdoors ever; I'm more of an elliptical fan than treadmill/runs. So after that day I decided to stick to what I know and do Zumba for the cardio part of the workout. Overall, the eccentric strength training, where you hold each move for longer than you would normally to try and maximize results more quickly, has been working for me. I've lost about 3 pounds in one week, so I'd say that's pretty successful.  Hopefully by the end of this week I'll make it to my goal weight, or pretty close.
Anyway after ballet on Saturday I met up with my friend Sara, it was her birthday, Natalie, and Sara's boyfriend Lucas. This is the second time that he has visited but I didn't get to meet him before. He's about to be a junior at Dartmouth and is from Brazil. He's spending his sophomore summer at school, which is why he's able to visit relatively often. We got a coffee then Sara and Lucas had to run off to do other birthday festivities, so I went to Nat's house for a bit. We had a dinner planned at Chino Latino because my friend Noelle had 3 friends from school visiting, as well. I wore my Michael Kors heels for the first time and didn't hurt myself. It was super delicious, as always, and we didn't get a ticket after parking illegally in the Lund's parking lot. Pretty solid score of an evening. To top it off, we hit up Sebastian Joe's for some much needed oreo ice cream.

Work yesterday went surprisingly quickly up to about 2:30. I was making some fixtures in the morning until I ran out of washers. Then through the rest of the day I filled some boxes, did some inventory, organized some invoices, labelled some file folders, etc etc. After 2:30 though it was brutal. The last hour is always the slowest.

Nugget says "Hey"

Last night we had the Fringe-for-All instead of rehearsal. 30 shows get a 3 minute preview at the U of M Rarig Thrust, and for ours we sang the song "Evening Prayer" from our show. The thing is, each show can only have 10 people backstage, so what we did was have the 3 soloists on stage, and everyone else sat out in the audience. We flash mobbed, sort of, by just standing up from where we were sitting and singing. It worked out well, from what I could tell. We were all sitting in a clump on the side of the thrust so it looked like we could've been on stage. My mom was sitting in the center of the audience and said everything sounded good, which was a relief because last minute they said we couldn't use our CD and had to sing acapella. There were a few other gems that we saw, even though we left at intermission to get dinner. A few examples: a belly-dancer who had very clearly just started belly-dancing, a show about a young LA thirty-something getting cancer that was very poorly written and the woman's butt was falling out of her shorts the entire 3 minutes, and at one point some mermaids came running screaming onstage with blades for a show, cleverly enough, titled "Merblades." There were a few that I legitimately enjoyed, including "Class of 98," a time travel comedy, and "Rip," an adaptation of Rip Van Winkle. All in all, a very enjoyable evening.