Some good things in life…

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Things to be happy about: A quick reminder.

Desktop Tower Defense
Good Lord this game is eating my brain. How fun! If you’ve not tried it, give it a shot – strangely addictive. It’s like that time I got hooked on eating Strawberry Quik Powder with a spoon, except without all of the running and twitching.

Surprise Gifts
Today I got a call from a company called Production Advantage. It’s a theatrical supply store – lots of theatres all over the country order gels, tape, phone ringers, lighting equipment, etc… from Production Advantage. Well, the last time I went online to their website to check out some prices, I filled out a contest they had for the folks visiting the site. Today in my office I get a phone call: Williamston Theatre won a $1,000.00 Gift Certificate to Home Depot!!! This is a huge thing! That’s a whole lotta set being bought at Home Depot this winter, my friends, and I’m totally thrilled, and grateful and appreciative to Production Advantage for it! Our little not-for-profit company can certainly use every penny of it. What an out-of-the-blue blessing.

Fun In The Car
We had some errands to do this evening, so as soon as I got home from work, we all jumped in the car and headed to town. While driving, we started singing silly songs, and eventually it turned into us rapping, and then became us taking turns each rapping a line or two as we created a rap song about our trip to do errands. Oh, my, gosh. We were just cracking up, listening to the kids come up with rhymes and rhythms – so much fun. “We got into the car, we’re driving very far, we have some stuff to do, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh!”

Tickets Are Selling
Holy Mackerel. We have a small theatre, and I’ve certainly blogged a lot about how we’re working to build our audience. However, this past weekend was essentially SOLD OUT for the closing 5 performances of Guys On Ice. We had about 20 seats unsold for the Saturday matinee, but out of the remaining performances two had only 3 or 4 seats left, and two were completely sold out. ALSO, we’re bringing back a show that we did last year with much success, and on Monday when tickets went on sale for this season’s special 2 week run of Every Christmas Story Ever Told, the phones went nuts. Between yesterday and today, we’ve sold so many tickets that a couple of the performances are nearly sold out, and the rest are over half full. Yay team!

Babies
My friends Mike and Sarah have added another member to their family, bringing the total up to 2 wonderful sons. Yay! Also, our neighbors /friends are expecting, and they’re wonderful people with a couple of kids already, so it’ll be a wonderful thing to add a new brother or sister to the mix! AND our dog Sneakers got fixed, so she WON’T be having any babies, which is okey-doke with me.

Some Good TV
Okay, Heroes and Chuck were great this week. Also, I’m falling in love with Pushing Daisies.

I’m sure there are more, but right now the last thing is…a comfy bed to sleep in, which is where I’m headed now.

Hope everyone out there has a list at least as long as mine!

G’night!

12 thoughts on “Some good things in life…”

  1. *sings*And a bed dat is warm when you turn out de lights…..
    Oh, I had to do that.
    AWESOME ON WINNING THE GIFT CERTIFICATE!!!!!!!
    (Ya might wanna stock up on some light bulbs too….Just sayin’.)

    • Yeah, I’m a big fan of the style of Pushing Daisies! And I’ve read/heard a lot of grumbling about Heroes this season, but I’m not nearly as unhappy with it as a lot of folks seem to be. I do think it started out a little slow, but I disagree with the blogger you linked to: I like the Hiro journey into the past – why not go there, and have fun, and see what happens?! It’s about the journey, and without that why are we watching? If every episode is a season ending giant world shattering climax, then don’t they all wind up being the same? Peaks and valleys, that’s what I think…
      And also…it’s a TV show. Maybe people shouldn’t be so invested in a TV show making them happy? Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go dust my Star Trek action figures.

  4. Congrats on the ticket sales and gift-certificate. Those rate as especially big victories in these times. And what an awesome prospect to have a Christmas show return and prove the presence of a growing core audience. Way to go!

    • Thanks Jake! It’s been a pretty good week here at WT. Now all we have to do is fight the Michigan Economy, apathy about the death of our artform, and the growing costs of heating our building! *laughing* Seriously, though – you’re right – times are tough right now, and the tiny steps forward like the ones you mentioned DO seem like big victories compared to the giant, very real threat of sliding backwards!

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