2nd Star to the Right :: Neverland. I think I want to live there.

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This is why I haven't been around. My first producing gig - I was hoping to start with a smaller show, but trial by fire, eh?

We open this weekend, so I'll be gone a while longer. Gimme a week or so and I'll have my life back. For a while anyway.

7:54 PM | allison | # |

Today, I ache. Not my heart or my head, but the rest of my body. My back is sore, my knees are creaking and every time I move either of my ankles, they pop and crack.

Either I'm growing old at an incredible rate, or the up and down changes in the weather are really messing with me. I'm hoping for the weather thing.

8:15 AM | allison | # |

I spent today at home. I called in sick with a sinus headache, but really am using today as recouperation for my own mental health. It's helped clear the funk. I realized this morning when my alarm went off that I just couldn't deal with work today.

After spending five days and four nights with co-workers last week, Saturday and Sunday filled with forty-plus cast memebers for Fiddler, and the next three weeks on my calendar already full, I needed a little quality me time.

Sometimes its hard for others to understand how much solitary time I need. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hermit. I love crowds and big events and lots of things going on just as much as the next person. But I need a little more decompression time afterwards than most. And when I don't get that time, I get overwhelmed, crabby and a little depressed.

So really, this mental health day is preventative medicine. I wonder if my PPO covers that?

4:41 PM | allison | # |

I’m in one hell of a funk. I haven’t been able to pinpoint the origin or know how long its going to last. But I’m sad and angry and anxious and I can’t make it stop.

So, don’t take it personally if I don’t pick up the phone, or stay away from AIM; I’d feel even worse if I passed this funk along to someone else.

I’ll work through it. I always do. I just need a little time.

9:01 AM | allison | # |

It's Friday afternoon and I'm waiting for 5:oo to roll around. Actually, I'm starting the shut down a little after 4:30. I got here early and worked through lunch.

And I'm going for a pedicure, the first of the season, tonight after work. A woman has got to have priorities.

The trip to Dallas. I've got a lot to say and not enough patience to write it now. Maybe later.

I do, however, want to make everyone aware of a note I found on the company message board this afternoon. It reads:

Multi Family Yard Sale!!!!

This weekend only. Furnicher, toys, kids cloths (boys and Girls), Adult
clothing, Microwave, and more

Should you want to attend, the Multi Family Yard Sale!!!! is taking place in Kingwood, Texas.

If you do stop by, please let me know what kind of Furnicher and Adult clothing is available. It all sounds a little kinky.

Update: I should read the message board more often. I also found a home hospital bed w/ matriss, a heeler puppy named Jack that is blue and red with heavy frosting and invitations to what looks like a cult with a buy in of just $99 in March and April!

4:11 PM | allison | # |

Currently, I am here. I would much rather be here.

Two more days.

4:42 PM | allison | # |