This past weekend was my first performance with the Vox Femina choir. It was an incredible success! There was dancing, shuffling around, costumes....all sorts of exciting moments. We had a guest star singing with us, Broadway singer Rachel York. She was a last minute replacement for Tony Award nominee Susan Egan, but she rocked it and took the house DOWN. Gloria Allred attended the performance....a fierce attorney who takes on high profile cases. Just turn on CNN and you'll know exactly who she is. I'm happy to say she filed a lawsuit against the state of California due to the unconstitutionality of Proposition 8 (law nullifying same sex marriage). Rock on sister! Here I am with the choir....... (I'm on the left side)
I'm also rehearsing for Pirates of Penzance. STILL. I feel like I've been rehearsing for five years! The show is the first weekend of December, and even though its been fun....I can't wait for it to be done. I'm over it. Only women can attend the show...I'm not sure why, but that's the story.
I also started a new job four weeks ago. I work at a hotel that is still under construction and our opening date is next week. We are learning body treatments in a meeting room with fire alarms going off for maybe 10+ minutes at a time, maybe 20 times a day....drills, saws, paint fumes, boxes everywhere, construction guys always trying to catch a peek as we lie naked on massage tables. Yeah, its a ZOO. I'm inclined to believe I'm getting a cold after the stress I've been going through....but it could just as easily be construction dust, paint fumes....all that fun stuff to give me congestion and free radical damage. As annoying as these things can be, once this place is up and running and more gorgeous than any place I've ever been, I'll be proud to say I've been through all this.
I haven't even seen the entire spa yet, but based on what I HAVE seen, it's the most beautiful spa I've ever been to. We offer stuff no one in town offers, and we'll be rockin busy. Award season....bring it on. (translation of award season = Oscar, Emmy, Grammy awards)
Here are some shots from training......
I work with some amazing, talented therapists! And it's great to make some friends along the way.
So all of this has been going on simultaneously, as well as some personal hardships that I'm working through. Now that the concert is over and the hotel is about to open, I'm expecting life to regain some kind of normalcy. I haven't worked out more than a handful of times in the past two MONTHS. It's only by the grace of God I haven't gained 400 pounds. I'll get to clean my house, return some calls. When I was doing a lot of nothing before all this started, I felt bad about being so lazy. Now I know it was making up for NOW.
Balance will be a beautiful thing!!
PS........YAY OBAMA!!!!!