I am working on updating the design portion of the site. Right now this is looking totally different. I’m pondering making this fit in with the rest. But since this doesn’t limit itself to design stuff I think it might not need to be tied into the look of the rest.
Here is a taste of the new look:
We had a great Christmas up at Ann’s parents. Our kids had many presents to open including American Girl dolls(Thanks Grandma & Grandpa Collins). I’m sure we will soon have to build a new room for all the stuff that go with these things. They also got horses to go with(Thanks Grandma & Grandpa Courtney). The horses are as big as our dogs. I keep seeing the black one out of the corner of my eye and think Mazie is just standing silently in the middle of the dining room. Freaks me out.
But we brought our dogs with us to Christmas(2) to the Courtney’s(4 dogs), and Ann’s brother Chris brought his Chihuahua’s(4). but wait there’s more. Ann’s sis Karen brought her dog(11 total) as well. They outnumbered the ten people gathered for Christmas.
Crazy but fun.
I have posted a time lapse movie of us decorating our tree. here
it is.
I have posted some more pix at my Family Photos page.
Click here for a fun waste of time in the holiday season. Click on Zoom in
So Thanksgiving is over, at my work I get the entire week off for Thanksgiving. Which is nice. It has become a traditional ‘get stuff done around the house’ time. This time I fixed a little part of the roof of the house (Don’t be too impressed it was 3′ by 3′ and only 8′ foot off the ground). Also we got some painting done in the house. Hopefully by Christmas(another home project time) we will finally get the rooms in the house painted.
Also McKelvey said today, “I am too tired to wake up.” Ahhh, she really is a normal kid. Since this happened on a school day and the previous week she seemed to be fine with waking up when there was no school. I just can’t wait until they sleep in on the weekends. That will be nice.
Here are some pictures of the latest shows I’ve been working on:
The Long Christmas Ride Home and How I Learned to Drive
Also I have posted some process pictures of the puppets we constructed for The Long Christmas Ride Home.
Boy am I glad that is over.
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I’ve updated the Family Photos page. Go take a look.
So I am in the middle of Technicals for two plays in repertory. Meaning they are playing on alternate nights. So while the directors, actors and such are just doing one show. While have two complete shows to deal with. I’m acting as the Scene designer, Lighting designer and projection designer.
We are in a flexible space so we have to set up the audience seating each time. and we haven’t completed that. It was done when we started and we just haven’t had time to get to it. The set I inherited from the previous designer is so clunky and formulaic. I was able to visually clean it up a little. It also is horribly unsuited as well. There are screen that need to be back lit but there is only 4′ of space to do it in and that is nothing.
Since the playwright is coming we really have to get this right.
One of the directors keeps changing things so we just can’t catch up. He’s unorganized and quite an ass sometimes. And not that I have a big ego or anything , but I don’t like being yell at in front of my students.
So I just keep spending all day and night in both work and rehearsals, not seeing my family enough and getting tired and grumpy. I don’t know what else to do but just keep slogging through it.
What else are you supposed to do when you have bitten of more than you can chew?