I couldn’t resist, I had to take a picture. They set up the display in the middle of the mall (and moved the Easter bunny to upstairs by JC Penny, awww lol) last weekend. There’s Glinda’s “bubble” dress as well as her “Popular” dress and Elphaba’s scene II dress. As well as her “One Short Day” dress. You know what woulda been awesome? Having Fiyero’s outfits up there as well. How come Fiyero gets no attention? He’s a main character too! Kinda. It’s okay Fiyero, I think you’re awesome!

I’m looking through my picture recap and I don’t know which day came before which (I prefer to be in order), it’s not like you guys would know the difference, so I’m gonna just put them in a random order. Sorry I had to say it “out loud” to warn myself lol!

I finally got to make my Bed Bath & Beyond run to get some stuff I needed. Ban is the only deodorant that doesn’t give me an allergic reaction. Have you ever had an allergic reaction to a deodorant before? It’s the most irritating thing ever. Surprisingly our Bed Bath & Beyond is the only place that carries the new scent (like the one above). They didn’t have my usual toothpaste so I grabbed that one, it burns. Seriously. Like something fierce. And remember how I was talking about my desire for the Jolly Rancher Gummies? They’re disgusting. I’m so sad.

Boston Market started these $5 meal deals and I’ve been addicted to them lately! OMG. Husband get’s this half chicken carver sandwich OMG, it’s so damn good! And so are their mashed potatoes and lemonade! Yum. My mouth is watering just thinking about it…!

I’ve also been obsessed with Popeyes Mississippi Mud Pie! My dad bought one for me last week and now I’m hooked. This is seriously the best thing I’ve ever eaten before. It just makes all the bad things fade away. I’m so serious. And did you know that Panera Bread’s lemonade had free refills?! I swear the last time I bought one (last year-ish) they told me there was no free refills! Did the person lie to me or did they recently change it? Either way, I’m excited. I like their lemonade, even if it does give me a stomach ache later… lol.

We usually do our homework at Panera cause usually it’s quiet. It hasn’t been quiet lately. It’s been packed. Does everyone have finals soon? I don’t understand why it’s so packed and loud. I swear there’s study groups but they just sit there and talk really loud for no reason! Shut up! People are doing homework! Husband doesn’t wanna do homework there anymore though, so we just rent out a study room at school. I mean it is much quieter but there’s no food there lol!

I also ran into my good friend Bernard that day. Aww, I miss you Bernard! If you’re reading this, which you’re probably not lol!

I went to Coco Swirl a few days ago because they released a new flavor and I was kinda craving the Moon Pie flavor but I found they removed both flavors but they had Red Velvet. Which was kinda… weird. It was good, but weird. Really creamy. I’ve been putting chocolate chips on my froyo a lot lately… I’m not a huge fan of chocolate but ever since I had that Mud Pie, I’ve had a new found love for chocolate… weird!

Usual Barns & Noble reading! Hex Hall and Fairest of All are both on my wish list. I got The Last Song when it was released awhile back and never read it. Now I’m trying to finish it before the movie comes out! I hate watching a movie without reading the book first. You know what annoys me? That they kick you out of the children’s section now! I’m usually at B&N at 9PM-ish. There aren’t any kids or parents around at that time, but they still kick us out. I actually prefer to go to Borders. They have more places to sit there!

I figured out last week that the dry/itchy/bumpy-ness on my hands is actually eczema. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so hard. It’s so frustrating and I was hoping it would be something that would just pass… but there’s no cure for eczema, at least I hear. And it’s just depressing that I’m going to have to live with itchy, dry hands forever :(. And the hive-like-bumps aren’t fun either… my sister in law suggested I try a Vaseline lotion, so I have been and it’s been working good so far. But who knows, my skin might grow immune to that too…

And if you’re curious, I’m wearing “Good Witch?” by China Glaze in the picture. It’s from the Wizard of Ooh Ahhz collection. I was going to do a post on it, but I haven’t yet. Maybe after this one. The picture was taken for my beauty blog for my NOTD (Nails Of The Day) and I noticed you could really see my eczema in the picture…

My messy room! I’ve been planning on cleaning this area since my husband left for basic training last year LOL! Yeah, so much for that idea! The bins were bought to organize all my stuff. I managed to put some of my DVD’s (that were stacked on top of my TV) away, I was afraid they’d all eventually fall over and I’d get reallyyy annoyed. Now I just have to work on everything else! It’s taking some time, my OCD can really hold me back from cleaning things like this… I did manage to clean some of my desk off and my closet yesterday though, so I’m happy about that!

The other day, husband wanted to go check out some parks in our area. We got new boxing pads so he wanted to find a place for us to practice kickboxing. It was pretty out and I wanted to try Pasta Pomodoro’s strawberry lemonade since I saw my sister in law’s picture. It tasted a lot more like limes, but it was really really good. If you like tart, then this is perfect! I also like the cute refill jug they give you!

I wish I had taken pictures of the park, but it was depressing. I hadn’t been back there since I was a kid, and while the main area of the park was pretty and clean, the ponds where we use to fish for crayfish were dirty and filled with that stuff that grows on top of water. And it got all creepy looking. It was really really sad, at least for me. There weren’t that many peacocks like I remember. We did play in the playground. I tried to hang upside down from the monkey bars like you do when you’re a kid, didn’t work out. I’m not as flexible as I use to be! Haha. Made me feel old… and very sad… lol. There were also a ton of gnats there! Ugh. I hate gnats! I ran into the car when we were walking back and shut the door. I found 3 dead gnats on my door! And one crawling on my hand! Gnats make me feel buggy!

They would be all over Six Flags during the summer. And I’d usually go on the last games pick up, so it would be at night when the park closes. Well not only do the gnats at the park come out at night… but so do the spiders. I didn’t know what to dodge more… the gnats or the super huge spiders. I’m arachnophobia so that job, while I loved it, was very difficult for me. Especially in the summer time. Oh man, the stories of that place… consider yourself lucky!

I was suppose to do my GEN/195 final yesterday, but I didn’t. It’s due on Monday. Crap. I can’t believe my first University of Phoenix class is almost over :(!

I’ve also been forcing myself to drink at least half a bottle of water (a bottle of 16oz) every night before bed. Like I’ve mentioned many times, I’m horrible with drinking water… I hate water, but I’ve felt a huge difference since I started drinking more water. I feel a lot better and I don’t get as many headaches. Whoohoo :)!

So I saw Wicked for the 4th time on Wednesday. I was trying to get tickets for Sunday or Saturday since Sunday was Patty Duke (Madame Morrible) and Eddy (Boq)’s last day but the tickets I wanted for those two days were sold out so I just settled for Wednesday, besides, I’ve never seen Teal Wicks as Elphaba, so I figured, why not.

Once again, we were almost late. We tend to do that a lot! And our usual parking lot was full so we had to park across the street. We made it in time though, with literally one minute to spare. Thank goodness! The show was amazing as always, Eddy did really well as Boq and it made me sad that he’s leaving. I love how Patty screams all the way behind Nessarose when Elphaba introduces herself hehe.

Husband and I skipped eating cause we were running out of time so we were pretty hungry by intermission. Got both M&M’s and Famous Amos cookies (which btw are delicious, I forgot how delicious) oh and used the bathroom. Everyone commented on my little witch hat :). Tweeted Nicolas and Neka literally right before the curtain went up (wasnt aware) and I was like “aw, they didnt see it” cause they were on stage LOL!

Teal. I loved her acting. I loved the way she mocked Glinda (who was played by Natalie that day and I LOVED Natalie as Glinda, she looked like she was not holding back at all! She was really fun to watch) and there was another part of hers that I loved, I forgot what but Vicki is still my favorite Elphie! Husband disagrees with me, he loved Teal as Elphie lol.

After the show, of course we headed down to Stage Door. In fact, we were the first ones there lol.

Nicolas came out first and he was signing peoples Playbills and he saw me and he was like “HEY ZEL!” and I was surprised he remembered me by name! Chatted for a bit and took a picture. He also commented on how much he liked my hat lol.

The wonderful and talented Patty Duke and I! She’s so tiny up close! I was like “I heard you’re leaving!!” and she nodded and I was like “whyyy?” and she responded “you gotta go home sometime!” aww we’ll miss you Patty!

Natalie and I! My new favorite Glinda, except sadly her last day was Sunday too :(. I actually thought she was Nessarose when I saw her. I feel dumb! Haha. But I’m glad to had met her either way :).

Neka and I! She plays ensemble and the witch’s mother. She came out looking for Nicolas and she looked at me and I looked at her and I didnt know if it was her or not… so I ran up to her, poked her and said “are you Neka?” and she was like “are you…. zel?” haha it was weird but funny. So husband and I chatted with her for awhile, he snitched on Nicolas walking off with two other girls lol. She’s really friendly and really cool to talk to! And she really took the time to talk to us, it was really nice! She also mentioned that her and Nicolas were planning on coming out together to say hi to me, awww!

Then Nicolas comes back after Neka heads back inside and I’m talking to my husband and he comes up and pokes me and I dont see him and I’m like “ah! who’s poking me!” and Nick asked if Neka came out to say hi and the husband mentions he snitched on him walking off lol!

I love how this poster stretches all the way down to Stage Door!

After Wicked, we went to Bay Street and I got my Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows (goodness that’s a long name)!!! It’s really nice and spiffy and Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite movies and all but… I dont think $53 is worth it. That’s  a lot of money! I havent played around with it yet and I’m kinda glad I returned all my other Urban Decay palettes last year so I dont really have these colors. But I’ll do a review once I play with it some more!

And that was my day :).

I attempted to make my first ever Egg Salad Sandwich. I dont know how to boil eggs. I bake, not cook! So me and Martin were trying to figure out how to boil an egg and this conversation came about:

Martin: You have to turn it up, all the way up
Me: But then the water is going to boil!
Martin: Well it is called a hard boiled egg!

Well, you have a point my dear husband but I dont think they literally mean the water has to boil that much. And of course, one of our egg’s popped. Goodness.

In the end, all the eggs were perfectly boiled and the Egg Salad Sandwich mission was a success. I paired it with my favorite homemade salad drenched in Zesty Italian dressing, yum!

I added chopped olives and bacon to the sandwich thinking it was going to be epic, but you could barely taste it. I blame the mayo!

It’s been really windy at night lately around here (and foggy). And really windy nights scare me :(

I spent the night eating another bowl of salad on my laptop. I was tempted to read more of my book, but I didnt. Husband was next to me playing Mafia Wars on Facebook. Pffft.

Yesterday was Wicked Day!!!

I went to see Wicked yesterday with my sister in law and my husband :) we got there early this time! Last time and Martin went we had 2 minutes to get to our seats so we made sure to leave super early this time!

And we found Stage Door, yay!

Vicki Noon wasnt playing Elphaba. I was bummed about that, but I really liked Angel Reda as Elphaba too! Tim was also playing Dr. Dillamond instead of Tom (which I found out today that tonight’s show was Tom’s last performance). There was also a different person playing the Wizard, over all I did enjoy the show. As I always do :)

After the show me and Marissa ran down to Stage Door and there was already a bunch of people there! I got Eddy (who plays Boq) to sign my PlayBill. He has a really really nice smile and he’s a cutie! I also got Tim to sign it. Then came Nicolas Dromard! I was so excited haha! He signed my PlayBill and I mentioned I was Marie and introduced my husband to him. Talked to him for a bit and got another picture :).

Then Angel Reda came out! She came out quick too, I heard normally Elphaba’s take awhile to come out since they have to shower. But she came out, wet hair and all to sign PlayBill’s and take pictures and say hi. Then she went back in. I thought that was really cool of her to come out and say hi to us. She was really really nice too!

Wicked’s one year anniversary here is coming up this month I believe. I wonder if they have anything special planned. I’m trying to know ahead of time so I can go. I’m hoping to go see Wicked again next month, and in March for my birthday :)

I had a good day with my husband and sister in law! We ended up spending the rest of the day in Emeryville. I got my moleskins finally! I told you husband *sticks out tongue*.

Spent today updating blogs and trying to tidy up my room. I cleared out one area of my room, whew, that alone made me feel accomplished lol!