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WELL. I took myself a little hiatus, didn't I?  I was in production and then it was Halloween and well, you know. Life just gets busy sometimes. Also? I GOT AN iPHONE, PEOPLE! And I'm playing Words With Friends like a crazy person.

Tomorrow I'll embark on my favorite month of blogging, NABLOPOMO! (That's national blog posting month, or as it's called in my house, NaNaBloPop.)  I intend to do 30 posts in 30 days. I can't wait. Alissa will also be participating, so stop by and show her some comment love. Anyone else doing it? I hope so!

Here are a few pictures of our Halloween.

It all started early in the day when we took ourselves to the driveway for some pumpkin carving.

Dean kept saying, "Pumpkin guts are GROSS."  Our pumpkin is a stegasaurus, but its legs sort of fell off, so it looks weird.

Dean doesn't go to school on Mondays, but we went to the school Halloween party anyway. We got there early to help set up, then he got to make a cool Haunted House craft with his class and have a whole bunch of icing snack before going outside for fun and games.  After that, we picked up Marcus from work, then headed downtown for Trick or Treating.  We ended up at our favorite coffee shop with some good friends. It was a fun, fun day.

And now he's passed out on the couch from too many lollipops.

Happy Halloween, y'all.

Still here!

OH, HEY!  Sorry for the lack of posting, y'all.  I've been stage managing a hum-dinger of a show.

 

That's a lie...it opened Sunday.

DRACULA!!!!!!!!  It's fun. And big. And there are explosions.  No one flies, but there's a ton of magic. I'm having a blast. It's also kind of nerve-wracking because there are multiple times when I could screw up and kill someone. Let's all hope that doesn't happen.  The audience for opening went insane every time something blew up.  It was so much fun.

Even Shakespeare got dressed up for the occasion:

 

He says he didn't write this play, but it's still pretty good.

Here's a sneak-peek at one of my favorite special effects:

 
That, friends, is what a vampire looks like after you stake it.  See the little round things by his head, hip and between his legs?  Those are pyro pots and contain enough flash powder to blow the sides off a coffin. (Told you the special effects were cool!).  This picture was taken looking down into one of our traps in the stage floor.  I kind of felt like this guy looked during tech week, but we made it through and have one of the best shows I've seen in a long time, so all the hard work was worth it!

To read more, check out our company's website:  www.asf.net, or like Alabama Shakespeare Festival on Facebook!

(Shameless plug over. But I have to admit...my job's pretty cool.)