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<p>Just practicing for one of those tasty ankles!</p>
<p>Count on m&sdad to corral the particular marmot specialist for the job. A Dinner Theater Marmot is on its way to Kansas right now.</p>
<p>m&s, did you get a chance to have one of my Scarlet Fevers? I mixed up a batch just for you. <em>coy smiley face needed here</em></p>
<p>OMG!!! Have I told y’all lately that I love you!!! :)</p>
<p>Y’all are the ABSOLUTE best! Never thought I’d be smiling and laughing so hard THIS week! </p>
<p>mommusic~ How are the little critters makin’ out at your house?? Have they finished your painting?? Are they solid yellow yet?? 
Don’t worry, they can stay yellow for the show tonight…It’s “Seussical,” so the more outrageous, the better! They can be Who-marmots! ;)</p>
<p>jasmom~ HA HA HA!!! OMG, I can’t believe your son’s costume mishap!!! Wow…I give him a TON of credit for being able to finish with no interruption and no laughter!!! He must be a PRO! My girls and I were talking last night after all of this came down, and we were listing the number of costume mishaps that they’ve seen during various dress rehearsals. Seeing lingerie (and human bodies) is just part and parcel of theatre…ALL threatre. And while this woman was chastising MY D, HER D was walking around in a micro mini cheerleader outfit!! AT THE REHEARSAL! 
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<p>BTW, this mom is crazy but not so crazy that I felt I had to ignore what happened. In fact, I called her last night after the dress rehearsal. I think she understands how I feel about the issue now–and how everyone else does too. 'Nuff said. ;)</p>
<p>momof3sons~ PRECIOUS PRECIOUS PRECIOUS!!! I just reserved his buddies and him fifty seats for the show. Got a good deal on the price…marmot tickets cost even less than kids’ tickets! :)</p>
<p>m&s~ I had <em>NO</em> idea marmots were so stinkin’ adorable!!! I almost feel guilty sicking them on such a despicable character as this woman, but hopefully they’ll forgive me. The one in the picture you linked looks like he realizes that it’s all for a good cause! Do marmots make good pets???</p>
<p>To all…mission accomplished! I have just dumped <strong><em>FIFTY</em></strong> dollars on a bra that has more straps than a marmot has hairs. It goes around everything BUT the back <em>lol</em>, so no straps there! SUCCESS, but OH, what a price! :eek: </p>
<p>Y’all are <em>really</em> keeping my spirits up!!! THANK YOU!!! ~ber</p>
<p>jmmom~</p>
<p>Pass one of those Scarlet Fevers this way, huh??? I’ll need it before I hit the dress rehearsal tonight! ~b.</p>
<p>Jmmom,</p>
<p>Had a virtual Scarlet Fever with my fellow Parent Cafe RU alumni and Soprano viewers the other evening.</p>
<p>Could say it was the perfect Knight. </p>
<p>…Scarlet Knight… Rutgers mascot… Geddittt!!! ;)</p>
<p>FYI, we’ll be spending Thanksgiving in Bawlmer this year…</p>
<p>Costume catastrophes…now that’s something I have experience with! Between my daughter’s MT years and my apparent inability to say no, I’ve costumed more shows than I can count.</p>
<p>One show I DIDN’T do was “Annie”…and my daughter will never let me live it down. When my daughter played Annie, the director decided she wanted the Annie dress on my daughter earlier in the show than in the script. She and the choreographer worked it out so that the servants changed Annie into her red dress on stage (with the creative use of tablecloths to mask the change). During rehearsals everything went fairly well (although I tried suggesting to the costumers that a dress that buttoned up the back would be better than pulling a dress over her head, but my opinion did not prevail), and my daughter was able to emerge from behind the tablecloth singing a solo. </p>
<p>Opening night, however, was quite another matter…100 degree heat+stage lights, and my daughter was a sweaty mass of red curls. As she was trying to change into the red dress, she was so sticky she got stuck! She was into the dress except one arm wouldn’t slide through the sleeve any further than her wrist. She was frantically trying to ram her arm through at the same time the “servants” were trying to pull the dress back over her head to try again. And all this time, the dancer-servants who were holding up the tablecloth were also trying to help…which meant the tablecloth kept slipping down, revealing the stuck-state of my daughter. In retrospect, it was hysterical…my daughter managed to stay in character and hit her solo cue, but the costume was altered the next day before the show opened. </p>
<p>B…I love Seussical…what a fun, fun show!</p>
<p>m&sdad, FYI back - we’re headed <em>toward</em> but not <em>to</em> Charm City (the new name I have just learneddfor Baltimore). Have deputized the Niece to pick up the Son and we will all meet at my brother’s place at Bethany Beach. So we may pass you on some highway somewhere. 
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<p>OK we’re back, and in my best TV commercial voice I’m shouting, “HEY MIKEY! HE LIKES IT, MIKEY LIKES IT!”</p>
<p>So… yeah. We had a great visit to Purdue (although I’ve already been up for 10 hours and it’s only just noon in CA where I am now). I’ll be writing up a trip report in the Official Section soon (I didn’t see any there last I looked), but the short version is that he bought the cap, and is wondering if he should bother to send in any other apps. (!!!) He did, however, notice that he has longer hair than 99.99999% of the other males there. We are hoping this will not cause him to get beaten up his first month at school. (Although when discussing this, he did roll up his sleeve to show me whatever that muscle is at the top of your arm to ask if I thought seriously that he’d have any trouble. I reminded him that this was not the preferred solution.)</p>
<p>How did he get those guns through security?</p>
<p>I think I’ve said it before, but…</p>
<p>Boilermakers all around! (although none for the minor child who inspires them)</p>
<p>Painting report–the dear little marmots were an absolute success! It was more fun than working alone, too. 
Thanks, ya’ll!</p>
<p>Now for a drink & a chorus of “There’s no business like show business!” True, that.</p>
<p>As far as cute animals go, I have to say I think meerkats are the best; however, they are probably not as aggressive or um, <em>useful</em> as marmots, and that’s what we really need, right?</p>
<p>Now that the marmots evidently did the right thing by TJFH, and painted a hall yellow just for kicks in parallel, clearly they are all ready for their next assignment. </p>
<p>Theater marmots. A special breed. Just make sure you have a lot of champagne for them. That is all they will drink.</p>
<p>Oh, and they’ve been watching endless re-runs of the Bugs Bunny show so they can learn the words to the theme song “Overture hit the lights, this is it the night of nights no more reh…”, unfortunately, the Marmots of SA are all dyslexic and have trouble with words on paper…but they are marvellous mimics…and have been known to break into song while performing their many heroic tasks for the desperate denizens of the Alley. </p>
<p>Oh, don’t worry about him! That’s Lieutenant Marmot. He think’s he’s Ethel Merman!</p>
<p>mommusic…please send the marmots over to my house! While painting the ceiling in my dining room, my telescoping roller brush fell apart, dousing me in primer. I am not even at the first coat of color and I am ready to hire out. I hurt from head to toe, have an ugly blister on my left hand and can’t get all the paint out of my hair. Having quit for the day, would someone tell me what we’re pouring here tonite. Make mine a double.</p>
<p>Tonight for mommusic and blucroo, we are serving (please clear the decks of all of those boilermakers; something a little more <em>refined</em> is coming up)…</p>
<p>Painted Ladies</p>
<p>Yellow for mommusic:
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1 1/2 oz. lemon juice
1 tsp. Light Cream
1 Egg White</p>
<p>Blue for blucroo:
1 1/2 oz. Blue Goose vodka
1 tsp. Light Cream
1 Egg White</p>
<p>I don’t know if they’ll taste any good, but they’ll be the right colors :D</p>
<p>Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and serve.</p>
<p>remember those ladies whose successful investment strategies made it into a book? maybe the feisty dames of sinner’s alley should concoct a cocktail publication. The Sinner’s Alley After Hours,…or something. Sinner’s Alley Cocktails,…too provocative?
lots of Nigella-ish close-ups etc</p>
<p>rorosen - Great Idea! :)</p>
<p>Perhaps a calendar/recipe combo - we could make a fortune and start a Sinner’s Alley College Fund…</p>
<p>I have been led to believe that Sluggbug bears a striking resemblance to Dame Edith…I nominate her for Miss January! :p</p>
<p>Next nomination? ;)</p>
<p>blucroo–You poor thing!</p>
<p>Don’t do ceilings, ever. Rule one is–hire someone to do your ceiling. In fact, hire someone to do any wall over 8 1/2 feet high, while you sit back with the appropriate color drink.</p>
<p>I nominate BHappy in her incarnation as the Funny Fairy in this life for Miss February, all those humourous pounds of her.</p>