Bad Luck Sandwich

So I find it funny and ironic that the one day of these past few days of my life that I haven't had bad luck was Friday the 13th.  Because Thursday the 12th I got a concussion.  I managed to keep myself out of trouble on Friday the 13th.  Saturday the 14th, (today) I locked my keys in the car at Burger King and had to walk to dress rehearsal.  Luckily, my school is very close to Burger King, so I didn't have to walk far.  I had to call the police after dress rehearsal and pay them $20 to break into my car since my parents don't tell me where the spare key or jumper cables are until I need them.

Anyway, as far as dress rehearsal- it went okay.  Certainly better than Cinderella of Loreland, the last play I was in- we didn't even make it through the whole play.  The main issues of my scenes were that people didn't know their lines. *Cough cough Greedo Graspo cough cough.*  The throwing scene went well- got a little tangled up in my cloak, but that's it.  (I have a cloak!!! And it's green!!! And awesome!!! And too long!!!)

Speaking of too long- that was the story of my life.  The costume shop did a shoddy job of costuming our play.  I heard that the costume shop let their apprentice do our show.  They will be getting a call from my drama teacher, let me tell you.  They just don't seem to believe that I really am 4'9".  They did make an effort to hem my skirt and I commend them for that, but we had to hem the hem in half- much like my servant girl costume.  I wear basically a nightshirt with a peasant neckline and long puffed sleeves (it's white) under a lace up vest, which is tan with green leaves and pinkish red flowers on it.  My skirt is green, and I have a green hooded cloak.  Do you know how epic cloaks make you feel?  Really epic, let me tell you.  I only get to wear it for scene 1, though, and the beginning of scene 2. *sad face* But scene 1 is really long *happy face*  So many of the princess' costumes are way too huge and don't look very princessy at all.  I feel bad for them.  They sent us a wig with a ponytail for the Beast- and a mustache/beard thing.  He looked like a bearded lady.  Graspo (my son-in-law) is upset because his costume looks like a dress.  He's had a lot of crummy costumes- I feel bad for him.  He was really upset about something today- though I'm not sure what.  He wouldn't tell me.

I have old-age makeup for this play.  I've never had it before, and it's certainly...interesting.  My hair is in one french braid down my head (my hair's real short, so we tuck the tail of the braid under the rest to hide it) and grayed.  I felt so tired today, and I joked that I could feel every one of the wrinkles on my face as tiredness.  I also got my first nose bleed- it wasn't bad- taking off my make up.  I have no idea how that happened. And yeah. That's about it.  I have to go edit a whole bunch of portfolios now.

Adios

Things I've learned about driving...and having a car

So, here's my list of things that I've learned about being responsible for a car and driving it around (since I have to drive to get to school and I drive all over the place and whatnot)

1. Don't leave water bottles with water in them in your car in the middle of winter, especially if it's freezing outside
2. If you hear a little beep when you open the door to leave, it means you've done something stupid, like left your lights on or left the keys in the ignition.  If you do that, you may end up needing a jump... and that's never fun when you're stranded in a parking lot without jumper cables.
3. One way streets are CONFUSING! especially when you're turning out of a store or something and don't realize that there's a one way street divided by a median, and you have no choice but to go in the opposite direction that you want to go.
4. Detours.  Enough said.
5. Don't leave chicken in your car for a week.  It smells. (and I thought I didn't like it when it was fresh!) PU!
6. Clean up after yourself.  You'll thank yourself later.
7. Lock the doors if you want to keep stuff safe- but ONLY if you have the keys IN YOUR HAND!
8. Learn to close your glovebox, especially if it has the trunk pop button inside
9. Don't overstuff said glovebox.
10. It's easier just to open the trunk with your keys, unless you're lazy and left them in the house to grab your backpack out of the trunk...
11. Remember that dress you stuck in the trunk for the NHS induction ceremony you didn't need?  It's still there.  Don't forget it (because it's awesome and you got it at goodwill)
12. Be careful when changing CDs of your audiobook.  Wait until you're stopped.  I don't care how interesting the story is.  Or the fact that it's full cast audio.  Safety first, Haili!
13. You can sing and drive at the same time.  But driving is more important.

And now that I've given you thirteen things I've learned, I'm going to recommend that you read Thirteen Reasons Why because it just popped into my head.  It's about a girl who commits suicide and leaves tapes for all the people she's left behind.  It's sad, but interesting.  Not my usual fantasy-esqe read, but good all the same.

Also, if you have time, you should watch this video

INSANE!!! How does he do it??

The beginning of this post was from ages ago... and I have no clue what happened to the post that I tried to do yesterday.  Computers like to delete stuff.  I had a dream about monologues- I'll write more about that, blind babies, and give you my reasons for doing Script Frenzy later.

Oh, update on Script Frenzy- 21 pages!  Okay, about five of them are just place holders for scenes yet to be written, but still.  I'm working on it.  (I wrote scenes 3 and 6, so scenes 1, 2, 4, and 5 are just one page things that say stuff like "SCENE 1 "A is for Alone"" I have two pages of characters.  Lots of them.

Need to do homework now.

Adios