Work and Match.com

Lovelies,  I'm not gonna lie.  I'm a little stressed out today.  

Lady of the House is planning a big birthday bash this year in the Hampton's where she has 15 of her nearest & dearest out for a weekend of pampering. 

I'm the lucky gal who gets to schedule everyone in the hotel, arrange the shuttle from the hotel to the beach house, set up the times for group Pilate's classes, call the Mani-pedi ladies to schedule times for 15 Mani-pedi's and also give the masseuse a schedule so she knows when she needs to be available.  

Oh, yes and coordinate the gift bags (consisting of lovely Dr. Haushka products and beautiful spa-related goods!)  It's actually quite fun, but it's also very time consuming and also a little straining on my nerves - as I'm a perfectionist and I really want this to turn out beautifully for Lady of the House!  

AND I'm currently trying to bump up my dating life a little and thus a re-joined match.com which is taking up so much of my time!  I have to e-mail these guys back if I want them to keep in touch with me!  (Duh, Miss Musical!?)  But it just takes so much brain power to remember each one!  And time to write these thoughtful, "I'm a great catch without trying too hard" e-mails back.  

I'm in the process of e-mailing with about 5 men right now.  (only a few have gotten up the balls to ask me out for a date - but it's nice to be asked!)  Go figure the one I'm really interested in is taking it the slowest!  

Does anyone else have that problem remembering details about who's who in their dating life?  (I've actually gotten that mixed up before - I e-mailed one guy with the WRONG NAME and information in the e-mail -- needless to say, I didn't hear back from him again...)  Uugh.  

Also, I find the best relationships are where the man loves the woman just a little bit more than she loves him...  They still love each other, but he's willing to bend just a little more to make her happy.  This is true of my parents, my auntie & uncle, my best friend and Lady & Master of the House.  Anyone else find this to be true?  

When all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome or "Un".

Oh Lovelies,  I just about floated out of my Camelot (NY Philharmonic) audition today!  I got to audition for LONNIE PRICE!  What a trip!  (he was the Kellerman Nephew in Dirty Dancing and, my favorite, Ronnie in "The Muppets Take Manhattan")  

Everyone in the room was SO nice!  Wouldn't it be lovely if I actually got into a show?  I felt like I did a really great job - and I sang the song I worked on in Waldman's class!  It went great (I sing it like I'm waiting to find out the results of my pregnancy test!) was very exciting to bring that into the room, as NO ONE else sings it!  And it's such a GREAT song - and a great fit for me!  

And (Best Part) when I was done Lonnie Price said "Very Charming!"  AAHHH!!!  I nearly wet myself I was so happy!  Vali-freakin'-dation!!!  Usually the people behind the table just say "Thanks" and have me scoot out!  At last - one of my auditions has been validated as being "charming" by someone who is a Big Wig!  

I also saw Stac at the audition - she & I went out last night to the dashing diva and had cosmos whilst enjoying our Mani/Pedis.  THEN we went to dinner at a great place called Nicks on 94th and 2nd.  

I took a cab to get there!

People - I never EVER take cabs, but I took TWO yesterday!  Exciting, right?! One reason for the cab was because my manicure was still drying on the way to Nicks and the other because I had a couple glasses of wine at dinner and didn't want to take the subway home.  (and by had a couple glasses - I mean more than 2... Ahem..)

Overall it was the best Valentine's day I've ever had!  And I never felt sorry for myself  - not once - for not dating!  Hooray!  I just enjoyed my day & made the best of it.  Also, it didn't hurt that my roommate left this on my freshly toasted bread.  

She's a good Roomie.   

Plays, Playgrounds & Pampering!

Friends, today I auditioned for Young Frankenstein the Musical and it was so much fun to do my new song!  I decided to do a song called "Not a Day Goes By" which is usually sung to a lover, heres the lyrics:

"Not A Day Goes By, Not a Blessed Day, 

That you're not Somewhere a part of my life

And it looks like you'll stay...

'Till the Days go By - I keep thinking when does it end?

But it only gets Bigger & Stronger & Deeper & Nearer..."

That's pretty much the gist of it - nice love song right??  Well.... I sang it to my zit that refused to pop! 

 (made up of course - but I pretended that it was on my chin!)  Gross & funny - right!   (I love doing that stuff -taking a song & making it funny!)  

Well, the creative team all laughed - and I really am proud that I went in there & did that today! Success!  Now they didn't ask me to vocalize like the girl ahead of me, but I feel like I gave a really creative & original audition!  Hooray!  

Then it was off to work this afternoon & I made a few phone calls, mailed a few packages & got to spend the rest of the afternoon with HHC in the park!  That's the best!  We went down the "curly slide" at least 6 times and played "driving in the car" with the little steering wheels that they have on the playground equipment!   Was pretty fun!  

Then we stopped by the little flower shop and got one rose for his mom (my boss) because it's Valentine's Day & I want to teach him that it's good ettiquite to give flowers!  So we got one rose.  He picked out the color all by himself!  (a yellow one with red tips) He was SO proud giving it to her!  Said "Happy Valentine's Day, Mommy!"  (He's only 22 months  -- so that's a pretty big deal!)

Tonight I'm off to Dashing Diva on the Upper East Side with my friend Stace!  Will be a blast as it's "Girls Night Out" there & you get a cosmopolitan while you have your mani/pedi!  Love that!  Will be fun - just have to get some quality work in before I dash out from work at 7:30.  

Tomorrow I'm going to audition for Camelot - it's the Principal audition, but I could play a very interesting Guenivere....  Think I'm going to sing "Waiting for my Dearie" from Brigadoon.  Or maybe my new one I worked on in class last night!  Hmmm.... we'll have to wait & see!