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Oh crap, its almost December!

by zel

So with all the chaos going on with the wedding and with Martin’s graduation I completely forgot that its almost December. I mean… I didnt forget it was almost December but I forgot its almost Christmas!

I’m not the type of person who shops for Christmas gifts a weekend before Christmas like my other half. I dont buy them too far in advanced either where they’ll lay around my room causing clutter but considering how hectic this December is going to be, I might just have to start Christmas shopping a little earlier than usual. The part that worries me is that I have no idea what to get anyone! Not to mention Marissa’s birthday is in December so would that count as two gifts or one? Maybe I can buy her a birthday gift and Martin can handle her Christmas gift. And what do I get Martin?! I was thinking a DSi since I’m not getting it for him for his graduation but that’s it? Just a DSi? Did I mention I’m not a fan of buying just one gift for people? Yeah, its a bad habit I have lol.

*sigh*

I mentioned how I emailed Nicolas yesterday well… he emailed me back to let me know I’d be able to get his autograph and to see him after the show :D I was literally screaming (in my head of course, people were sleeping!) and cheesing like it was nobody’s business lol. So that was pretty exciting.

I also received a phone call from Martin this morning. He actually woke me up. He had to get the info for the graduation background check thing. We had a nice 14 minute phone call but everything is such a blur when you’re unsure of your time limit and you kinda just say as much as you can as fast as you can, you know? So I dont remember much of the conversation, which sucks! I told him about Boq and he laughed, I’m glad he laughed. And I’m glad he liked his name hehe. Told him that all of the wedding stuff is pretty much done and I’m waiting for everything to ship. My Wicked news and some other stuff and forgot to tell/ask him other things. I was half asleep, which also sucks.

His school is in fact in Florida and I’m not looking forward to that, he says he wants me to move out there with him… but… I dont know. That’s across the country! We’ll see how that works out though, I’m not ready to leave just yet. Then again, you never really are… *sigh*.

I’m not a fan of daylight savings this year. It’s 4:16PM and the sun is setting like its 6PM. Blah!

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What a WiCKED day.

by zel

I spent all last night browsing sites and layouts, searching for something inspiring for both my domain and for my Wicked site and nothing really hit me. Well, I tried changing my domain layout but I’m so picky and WordPress is such a hassle to figure out, blah!

So I was listening to Stay With Me by Danity Kane (which always reminds me of that Twilight fan video someone made last year) and how I wanted to make a banner with me and Martin (since you know, he left and all) and I thought… why not with Elphaba and Fiyero? But I didnt have the screen shots I wanted for that (and its a live musical, pictures are hard to find) so I thought why not with Glinda and Elphaba since you know, the musical is basically about the friendship between Glinda and Elphaha, not so much Fiyero and anyone lol. But last minute I changed my mind and just made it For Good which I think came out pretty decent.

Now I just have to figure out how, where and what kind of content I want on the site. Its not hard finding content, just where and how. You know? I feel super accomplished because I didnt get ANY headaches making the banner for the site (which is surprising, cause I always get headaches every time I graphic design which is why I dont do it that often anymore) yay! It kinda just flowed, which is so rare when it comes to me cause I’m a total perfectionist. I plan on touching up my Photoshopping and make more complex banners and layouts.

I managed to add Nicolas (who plays Fiyero for the SF production) on MySpace, subbed to his YouTube and emailed him for an autograph the next time I see Wicked! I hope he emails me back, that would be awesome haha. I’m completely smitten with Nicolas! Heheheh *insert Glinda giggle here* haha!

I finally got my Amazon order for my Sweep books! Yay! Hopefully I dont finish the next two by tomorrow cause these have got to laaaast!

Got two letters from Martin today. Depressing :( I hate how all the letters are depressing *sigh*. I hope everything works out, it left me kinda worried and I hate that I’m worried because I feel like I dont believe in him when I’m worried… but I do believe in him. I know its hard and things are complicated, I just hope things work out…

I’ve been trying to keep busy with Wicked and the new site to keep from being down… I try not to do any wedding planning on the weekends, there’s no point since all the places for the wedding are closed on the weekends… so I save weekends for Wicked :)

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Behind The Emerald Curtain & Wicked!

by zel

*** I’ve been trying to get the bottom paragraphs to look like paragraphs and its just not working, I even re-wrote those paragraphs! Ugh its really starting to bug me!***

Yesterday me and the future sis in law woke up at 0645 and headed to the Ferry building to take the ferry to SF. Man, its been years since I’ve taken the ferry or the muni. We go to SF and since we got there 10 minutes early, I stopped by my favorite bakery Miette. Picked up an Opera Cake and a Caramel Panna Cotta. Made our way to muni and took it to Civic Center. I was afraid we’d get lost but we didnt, yay! Grabbed some Burger King for breakfast and went to Behind The Emerald Curtain.

Took pictures of everything, it wasnt what I thought it would be… it was basically a room that had poster boards and props and the dresses up and two members of the cast (for us it was a swinger who sometimes plays the main flying monkey Cheshiery and also sometimes plays Boq and Fiyero). They tell you a little about behind the scenes, the costumes, the makeup, how everything is a wig (I always wondered how they curled Galinda’s hair so fast!) and things like that. You watch a few video clips, they tell you some stage secrets and have a Q&A. That’s pretty much it. I did get to take a picture with Fiyero and I did get to ask “Boq” about the part where Elphaba makes him into the Tin Man, is it two different people… cant tell you what he said though! If you want to see pictures from the event, they’ll be posted in my Flickr.

After that, went to see if they had any open tickets just to be curious. And walked away with two tickets for the early show haha! But the thing that sucked was the tickets I bought were $80 cheaper than my previous tickets and they were closer! Grrr. So we walked around to kill some time and grabbed lunch then headed back to see Wicked at 2PM. We had floor seats! I didnt know that! But it was off to the left and though you’re close up, it was hard to see the center of the stage and the left back part of the stage. Defying Gravity looked amazing that up close!

A couple bloopers from last night’s show?

In “No Good Deed” at the end where she goes “alright, enough so be it!” and she waves her arms around, Elphaba’s cape stuck to her face. You could tell she was slightly off from the vents that blew up the air so yeah she had to pull it from her face hehe.
In “Dancing Through Life” the duet between Elphaba and Galinda where Galinda goes “you deserve each other, this hat and you, you’re both so… smart” she said “sharp” instead of “smart”. Hehe.

I really really enjoyed Behind The Scenes and Wicked. Best morning ever!

After the show we headed to Powell to the Bloomingsdale mall and had dinner at Straits. We had Lobster Pad Thai that cost $39. To be honest, it was totally worth the money. I am NOT a fan of lobster, at all. But this lobster was amazing. It was juicy, it was fresh, OMG. It was good. The Pad Thai wasnt as spicy as their normal Pad Thai but it was really really good. Even the green onions in it were good and I HATE green onions! Marissa was hooked on the Roti lol! After dinner I took her on the spiral escalators haha. Got my usual strawberry shortcake thingie and headed back to the Ferry building.

We missed the ferry by 2 minutes so we went back to the Hyatt and the ferry building was having some celeb culinary show. One of the girls from the Food Network cake challenges was there. But I didnt know who the rest of the people were. Went to the Hyatt and walked around. I asked if they still had the rotating restaurant and they dont. A really nice host at the lobby lounge was telling me how someone bought that Hyatt and the new manager got rid of it two years ago. Aww, that sucks! The host was really nice and friendly. He was like “but when I get enough money to buy this place back. I’ll call you!” cause he use to work there. Made it to the ferry (by lightly jogging) and it was the bigger ferry (we had the smaller one earlier that morning) and for some reason all the tables, the chairs were taped down and looked super ghetto. Wtf?

Tiring day, but it was fun!

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I hope it brings you bliss.

by zel

Me: I hope you’re happy. Now that you’re choosing this.
Martin: I hope it brings you bliss.
Me: I really hope you get it.
Martin: And you dont live to regret it.
Martin: I hope you’re happy, in the end.
Me: I hope you’re happy.
Me & Martin: My friend.

Yes, we sang a part of Defying Gravity to each other before saying goodbye. Does that make us lame? I dont really care. Its what we do, and it was actually really sad. I love you babe, I’m so proud of you. And I’m so thankful. You’re my dream come true too, I’ll be here waiting for you to come home. =(

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So he’s shipping out in the morning, I’m feeling numb right now. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking, trying to laugh, staring at each other, hugging, crying and kissing. “Forever isnt enough time with you”. It isnt, and yes. I want more time too. I tried my best to be strong and was surprised at the fact that I was being the strong one he wasnt. Then he said “every drive home, you’ll be okay” and I cracked. I cant believe hes really going. This is surreal, this is insane. I dont think it fully hit me yet, I’m still awake. Waiting for an IM / call that I’m never going to get =\.

I dont know what I’m going to do.

xoxo

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Lazy Saturday.

by zel

I literally did nothing all day but watch Wicked on YouTube. Seriously. Oh and researched Wicked and Wizard of Oz characters on Wikipedia. And reblog a bunch of Wicked stuff on tumblr. Yep, that’s pretty much all. And I had a crap load of things to do today, but you know what. Screw that.

I’m feelin a lot better today than I did a few days ago, unfortunately the call from the hospital yesterday is still worrying me. I’m tempted to google that drink of doom they’re gonna give me but maybe I’ll (for once) just let it go. Martin says even if it does taste like shittyshittybooboo I’m still gonna have to drink it. Gah! I cant even eat onion or cilantro! I’m such a baby when it comes to nasty tastes and physical pain! I’m not feeling doing a bunch of random lab tests… again. I do so much fuckin lab work I’m starting to feel like a mouse. Seriously. I squeek like one too. FML.

So something odd and interesting I found out today. My favorite Elphaba (Idina Menzel) played Nancy in Enchanted and she’s married to one of my favorite actors Taye Diggs. How crazy is that!!!! I hated Nancy in Enchanted! But I adore Idina Menzel! Crazy crazy crazy!!

Had a conversation with mom last night about religion. Cant say it went well. I know she’s probably just worried, but really, I’ve been better than ever since I decided to change my religion. And it was a very long and hard choice to make, especially since (like I’ve mentioned many times before) it felt like changing my religion was like turning my back on my grandpa. Like saying I didnt care if I ever saw him again, which isnt true. And that’s what made it so hard for me, but I know he would want me to do something that I thought was right. I hope he forgives me.

This week is going to be crazy busy, with things I’m not excited for. Except seeing Wizard of Oz in theaters for their 70th anniversary! But other than that, not excited. I’m actually really scared and nervous.

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