rehearsal went well tonight. we learned a dance! i guess it’s a very easy dance, but that’s ok. only three more dances to go, except one is the polka.
here are some more photos from chicago. this first one is the clock hanging outside the store where Dad bought Mom her wedding ring. Mom just told me that. she actually probably told me before, but i forgot. but now there’s a record of it, right here. it was called peacock jewelers. maybe. so that means that before they ran off to NYC, he must have proposed. mom says he did. he did it on the steps of some building at the U of I.
here’s another photo from the train – it’s when we rushed past the little town of towanda. i’d never heard of towanda.
past this town, somewhere in the country, we roared past a crossing, and there on the road was a woman jogging. she wore a jingle bell run long-sleeved t-shirt. one of the best things about being in races, besides the snacks at the end, is getting a t-shirt. except usually i’m not in the mood for a snack after running, and some of the shirts haven’t been so great. but the jingle bell run shirt is my favorite. i just thought it was funny that this woman was running down the road in the shirt. i didn’t have time to take a picture.
this is mom in front of that outdoor stage in millenium park. note her heavy down vest. why? because it was FREEZING.
here are a couple of photos of the theater where wicked was playing. have you ordered your tickets yet? i can’t think of ANY REASON AT ALL why you wouldn’t have already done this. YOU MUST NOT MISS IT.
and finally, here’s a photo inside marshall field’s, where i was sitting waiting for mom. the problem with shopping for me is that sometimes i go in a store and immediately get extremely tired. this was heightened by the fact that we’d been walking and walking all day, plus i got up in the morning and ran on the treadmill in the hotel for 40 minutes, even though the exercise room was in the basement.
anyway, i was extremely fatigued at this point, and i was sitting there looking at the sea of clothing which was everywhere, and here were these mannequins, and i sat there wishing i could be as thin and perfect-looking as the mannequins. not as pale, though, and i do find it convenient, generally, to have a head attached to my neck.
there are a couple more photos that i’ll probably put up here, but i’m saving a couple of them for the flyer. they feature me, looking mighty cold. because it was FREEZING.
i don’t want to live in chicago, that much i know. i don’t have a lot of definite ideas about life, but i’m getting new ones all the time, and not living in chicago is way up on the top of the list.
it’s late already. i must sleep. i hope your weekend is fun-filled and not crammed with annoying things that you feel you have to accomplish, for some reason. please keep in mind that you have no idea of what tomorrow may bring, so you’d better have some fun today.
and me, i’m going to attempt to practice what i preach.
always easier said than done.
ok ok ok, enough with the triteness and platitudes and all of that,
grace getting tireder and tireder by the second.