How to sum up that last month and a half in one blog post? The only way to do it is in pictures:
Emma came to an end (my body was excited, that show beat me up). This was the fun crew.

We then started Bill W and Dr Bob. A show about alcoholics. This is the crew posing with Easter Eggs. On Easter we had an accident during rehearsal that involved ambulances and a post traumatic incident counseling session. Everyone is basically ok now, but it was a long few weeks.

Easter was also my first day eating chocolate. On Monday I went and got the Chocolate Lover Extreme at Coldstone. I had a gift card. Thanks Calendar Store Manager!

In addition to chocolate helping me deal, I also spent time with these folks.

Playing games and getting really into it.

Jam sessions at parties.
And just havin a good time in general.

Last Monday I went to Niagara Falls with Maureen. It was so awesome. I mean, what a world we have.
One of the actors in the show knows a guy so he got us tickets to Riverdance. They are on their last tour so I was lucky to see it now. Um....WOW.

It was pretty much amazing.

So its been kind of a crazy month but for the most part they have been experiences that I'll be happy to remember. I do feel sad leaving Cleveland, which, as always, is a good thing.

Hi Sugar High

I feel like sugar has a greater effect on me than alcohol has on normal people. If you'd been at the party I was just at you'd probably agree.

Um...oops!

It all started with the simple task of polishing some of the set furniture. The crew guys took the Pledge and polished a podium and a small end table. That was it.

Unfortunately they polished these pieces while they were still onstage, and not all of the Pledge was contained only to the podium and table. Some of it got on the stage floor. The WOOD floor. Imagine how silky smooth your coffee table feels after you Pledge it. Now imagine how silky smooth the stage floor was. Uh oh.

So the task was to make the floor not deadly.

Plan A: Coke it.

To "Coke the floor" is to mop or wipe down the stage floor with Coca Cola. For shows involving a lot of dancing Coke is added to the mop water every day. It makes the floor a little sticky which is good because it isn't slippery. So we tried with the Coke. We put layer after layer of coke down on the slippery spot until our shoes were sticking to the floor, but when the show started the actors were sliding all over the place. With each exit we had another actor saying "the floor is really slippery out there."

Suddenly even places that hadn't been Pledged were slippery. We attribute this phenomenon to two things. 1 - it was being tracked around the stage on the actor's shoes, and 2 - when a cast gets it into their heads that there is a slick spot on the floor, suddenly the whole stage is an ice arena. It was in their heads. Great.

Plan B: Coke AND Iced Tea

We use powdered iced tea in the show and its sticky so we sprinkled some onto the stage and then spread it around with a Coke wash cloth. This was at intermission. The audience had no idea what was going on, they just saw us wiping down the floor then sliding around on it.

As soon as Act 2 started the actors were slipping all over the place again.

Plan C: Vinegar

Our Stage Manager Amanda looked it up online. What gets through Pledge? Vinegar. So when the show ended we mopped the whole stage with Vinegar water. It smelled awful. Either awful, or like Easter.

Plan D: Special Soap

The internet also mentioned a special soap. So we bought the soap and this morning before the show we mopped the whole stage with this soap. Wardrobe has also cleaned off all of the shoes. Hopefully this works. If actors start complaining about a slippery floor again so help me...