Wordless Wednesday - Almost

Some of the things I've been seeing during VBS this week...

Cortney- our lovely princess for the week!
And it's appropriate too since she just spent
a semester in Disney World!

Kim leads the kids in singing every morning.

When else will you see 14 year old boys dancing like
little kids?

One of the best parts of VBS- Pastors dressed up in crazy
costumes.

Ethan... I mean, King David made an appearance on Monday.

I think the teenager enjoy the games and activities more than
the kids sometimes..

Pastor Mark and his friend "Gaston" had some fun with their contraption on Tuesday.

It's Gonna Be A Long Week...

I'm not gonna lie, I'm slightly tired and stressed.

As in- I'm so freaking exhausted and I don't want to do anything and when I think about the upcoming week I want to run and hide.

It's 3:40pm on Monday, the first day of Vacation Bible School and tech week for Romeo and Juliet. While VBS went very well this morning, it was exhausting.

Especially when we suddenly got crazy thunder storms at 11am and they have been on and off all afternoon and will continue tonight and roads have been closed because of flooding.

Yeah... when you have 100+ kids in your church that's a good time.

It's also not helpful when you have outdoor play rehearsal. (Thus, it got cancelled.)

Be Peter Pan

On Tumblr lately, I've been seeing a lot of Peter Pan love. Not necessarily the movie. The guy who played Peter Pan at Disneyland for a long time.

I saw this written about him a few days ago:

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Then soon after, I found a whole batch of other stories about this guy. (You can find them here: http://xxbecstarrittaxx.tumblr.com/post/52949430893) 

Week Wrap-Up and Guest Post Request

Everyone - it's Friday!!!!!!

I love Friday. But really- who doesn't love Friday? I'm only in the office until noon today, this evening I'm (maybe) going to "Tunes at Twilight" with a friend of mine and her husband, and I can spend my afternoon doing all of the things I've been needing to catch up on all week since I've been crazy busy with VBS training and play rehearsal.

Things like memorizing lines, cleaning my apartment, doing dishes, getting food that doesn't come from a drive-through, and of course, some much needed quality time with the Winchester brothers.

What Do I Want? So Glad You Asked...

This morning, I was watching Jenna Marbles newest video where she tells all of her fans about a new item they can buy from her shop- Kermie and  Mr. Marbles!

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Naturally, my first thought was...

It would be perfect. Once, I made a video and my friend Kirstie was watching it. Her mom walked in and caught a glimpse, and apparently Bandit was in the shot. She was all "is that that funny girl with the dogs?'

AKA- Jenna Marbles.

I'll take that as a compliment.

Which means I need my own Mr. Marbles and Kermie - right? Right.

I'm On Top of the World

With another full day of VBS training today - it's gonna be another short post.

However - it's not even 8am and I've already had a good morning.

Love woke me up by...

Tuesday Morning

It's 8am, I'm sitting in my office sipping my coffee, the sounds of "Today Will Be the Perfect Day" on the 8 Tracks Radio app (tags: morning + summer) is coming out of my iPad, and listening in on random conversations in the office as we prepare for the new vicar moving in (he'll be sharing my office, so it'll be interesting) and VBS training begins in an hour.

We're getting new cubicle dividers for my/the vicars office so I took down all of the notes, photos, and other various things off of my own "walls" to make way for the new. Now, when I spin my office chair around it looks oddly empty. At least the walls. My bookshelf, file cabinet, and floor are as crowded as ever.

Monday Morning Ramblings

If I were a good blogger, I would have done a lot of things.

Such as:

• Taking pictures of my weekend
• Sending people guest posts on time (which I normally do, but time got away from me this week)
• Linked up with two bloggers that I said I would link up with
• Wrote this post on Sunday night

However, if these are the standards I am not a good blogger.

It's not that I didn't have things to take photos of this weekend. I did. It was a great weekend. It kicked off early on Thursday by me taking Bandit up to St. Louis to visit with some friends. We went to Shakespeare in the Park to watch 12th Night (which was hilarious!). It was a perfect night for outdoor theatre too. Wine, sandwiches, fruit, puppies, friends, and Shakespeare. Could a person ask for more? I didn't think so.

The next day while my friends were at work, I spent the morning at my favorite St. Louis coffee shop, Kaldis. Lucky for you, I did take a picture of that. Because every blog needs pictures. Or so I'm told.

Thankfully I was able to sit there for about four hours catching up on other blogs, reading City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare, and memorizing lines. The rest of the day consisted of hanging out with Bri, watching the newest Star Trek movie, and eating the most delicious homemade pancakes for dinner in the history of the universe.

A weekend that included seeing this face for a couple hours
 is a good one in my book.

Unfortunately I had to head home Friday night, because I had play practice the next morning. (Yes, I realize my life revolves around Shakespeare right now.) However - that was glorious as well. When you have beautiful summer days that are warm but not scorching hot, outdoor play practice is the greatest thing ever. Even if my shoulders did get burned a bit.

We also did some filming for our kickstarter which was good times. I might have drooled a bit over our camera guys awesome equipment and made How I Met Your Mother references in my interview.

Oh look at that. I took two pictures this weekend. Maybe I'm not such a bad blogger after all.

Then Sunday I was able to leave the last church service early and head home for more reading, watching Netflix, and overall relaxing.

There was a slight panic at one point in the afternoon. My TV antenna broke as I was making sure I had everything set up to watch the Tony Awards!!!!!! Thankfully, the people at Best Buy were able to point me in the right direction and I was able to get home in time to get it set up and not get caught in the rain.

Whew.

Speaking of the Tonys....

AH! They were amazing. If you want to see my commentary, check out my Twitter. Here were some of my favorite moments (via Tumblr and Google Images):

“There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere who’s sitting there living for Tony performances; singing and flipping along with the Pippins, and Wickeds, and Kinkys, Matildas, and Mormanses. So we might reassure that kid, and do something to spur that kid, ‘cause I promise you, all of us up here tonight, we were that kid.”

—	Neil Patrick Harris, Tony Awards 2013 Opening Number (vianewyorkshows)

"Revolting Children" from Matilda

Aurthr Darvill (Rory from Doctor Who) performing with the cast of Once.

“I am the spirit of Tragedy. Screw you.”

—	Liam Neeson

Patina Miller Winning Best Actress (Musical)

Billy Porter Winning Best Actor (Musical)

Playsicals

The elephant man of La Mancha 
42nd streetcar named desire
Children of a lesser god spell
Cats on a hot tin roof
The testament of Mary poppins
A midsummer nights dream girls
The diary of Anne Frankenstein the musical (Justin briber would love that show)
Cabaraisin in the sun
Bring it on golden pond

There are a million other moments that were amazing, and so many great performances. Go Google and YouTube all of it. Personally, I was rooting for Matilda for Best Musical and Cinderella for Best Revival. However, Kinky Boots and Pippin were the two I would want next and they both totally deserve their wins. 

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about - I'm sorry, and... what else is new? I mean, really.

Also- Neil Patrick Harris should host every award show ever. 

Last night I also decided to try out Scrivener for my writing. At first it was outrageously scary and intimidating, but now I'm in love. I might be adding it to my birthday wishlist. It also might need it's own blog post at some point.

So, that was my weekend. That should suffice for a Monday morning blog post - right? Right.

What did you all do? Did you watch the Tonys?

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