I'll Praise You In This Storm

**PatrickStar4491** · 01-07-2007, 11:03 AM

Yea. I looked at their website, and it's starting to worry me. They're only able to open 2 slopes right now. The rest is green. They say they're supposed to get some colder temps this week, so hopefully some Winter weather will come along.

wjarmusch · 01-07-2007, 11:40 AM

Allright...Update on my life:
We started selling tickets for our Dinner Theater over the weekend. We have decided on doing 8 performances, and with 3 weeks to go we are about half-way sold out for the first show. We haven't even hung up any posters yet (we have 50 being printed coming for around the area).
We got lighting from the school, and then had to give it back for a performance they have on the 12th of January. So when we get it back we will have 4 practices with lighting before our show...kind of scary.

Aparently the grant's we were expecting are not being awarded untill March, so we won't have a new stage or our full lighting set-up we expected, but we'll do the best we can, it's still going to be good. We're already being asked to start working on a 2nd set of shows for the summer!

As far as work we are barely still open, and if we get any snow or cold weather we will be busy this weekend because it's when school groups start coming. I'm working Tuesday, Friday, & Saturday.

Tomorrow I also get the full script for the other play I'm involved in. We start weekly practices on monday, and we perform 3 shows in April. I have the main part so I have a lot of work to do. The play (before someone asks) is an original play writen by our homeschool drama group director. It's based on short stories by author George MacDonald:
The Lost Princess,
The Day Boy and the Night Girl,
and Far Above Rubies.
It's going to be a lot of fun.

As far as schoolwork I'm trying to get everything I want done and doing some college prep stuff as this is my senior year.

I guess that's all for now.

wjarmusch · 01-07-2007, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by PatrickStar4491

Yea. I looked at their website, and it's starting to worry me. They're only able to open 2 slopes right now. The rest is green. They say they're supposed to get some colder temps this week, so hopefully some Winter weather will come along.

Or you could always talk your youth group into coming farther north to someplace like say...Michigan?

**PatrickStar4491** · 01-07-2007, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by wjarmusch

Allright...Update on my life:
We started selling tickets for our Dinner Theater over the weekend. We have decided on doing 8 performances, and with 3 weeks to go we are about half-way sold out for the first show. We haven't even hung up any posters yet (we have 50 being printed coming for around the area).
We got lighting from the school, and then had to give it back for a performance they have on the 12th of January. So when we get it back we will have 4 practices with lighting before our show...kind of scary.

Aparently the grant's we were expecting are not being awarded untill March, so we won't have a new stage or our full lighting set-up we expected, but we'll do the best we can, it's still going to be good. We're already being asked to start working on a 2nd set of shows for the summer!

As far as work we are barely still open, and if we get any snow or cold weather we will be busy this weekend because it's when school groups start coming. I'm working Tuesday, Friday, & Saturday.

Tomorrow I also get the full script for the other play I'm involved in. We start weekly practices on monday, and we perform 3 shows in April. I have the main part so I have a lot of work to do. The play (before someone asks) is an original play writen by our homeschool drama group director. It's based on short stories by author George MacDonald:
The Lost Princess,
The Day Boy and the Night Girl,
and Far Above Rubies.
It's going to be a lot of fun.

As far as schoolwork I'm trying to get everything I want done and doing some college prep stuff as this is my senior year.

I guess that's all for now.

That play sounds like fun. Stressful I'm sure, but fun. I've taken a theater class before, and I've realized I'm much more useful as a tech person than an actor.

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Or you could always talk your youth group into coming farther north to someplace like say...Michigan?

That's about a 17 hour drive not considering any stops... Not too fun in my opinion.

I think the North is the only place experiencing something close to Winter right now. We've had temperatures between 20-30° above normal these past few days.

wjarmusch · 01-07-2007, 01:41 PM

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That play sounds like fun. Stressful I'm sure, but fun. I've taken a theater class before, and I've realized I'm much more useful as a tech person than an actor.

I'm a tech person too...but I've been getting into the acting thing the past few years. This play is really going to stretch my ability's. I'll keep you posted on how it's going.

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That's about a 17 hour drive not considering any stops... Not too fun in my opinion.

I think the North is the only place experiencing something close to Winter right now. We've had temperatures between 20-30° above normal these past few days.

17 hours isn't bad when you're with your friends!

One final note...this is my 500th CGR Post! Wow, seems like I've been here longer than 5 months.

wjarmusch · 01-07-2007, 01:52 PM

Just to prove #500 was in this thread

**PatrickStar4491** · 01-07-2007, 02:02 PM

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I'm a tech person too...but I've been getting into the acting thing the past few years. This play is really going to stretch my ability's. I'll keep you posted on how it's going.

That's cool. I have always seem to be interested in the logistics of things. That really explains a lot about me, haha. I'm sure you'll do well. You seem pretty devoted to it, which is a great thing.

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17 hours isn't bad when you're with your friends!

Yea, but 3 hours is much more preferable.

We did spend 12 hours driving to Panama City Beach, FL for Bigstuf camp, though. That was worth it. I've also spent 10-14 hours flying/waiting at airports on my way to the Dominican Republic this past summer with part of my youth group.

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One final note...this is my 500th CGR Post! Wow, seems like I've been here longer than 5 months.

I was happy to make my 3,000th post in someone's blog recently. Journals are a great way to increase your post count, if you care about it.

Adri · 01-08-2007, 03:30 PM

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Sorry, I've been REALLY busy. I haven't even checked my email the last 2 days. I'll try to keep it updated when I can.

That is okay. I wont feel so bad that I wont be posting frequently. *smile*

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And DON'T YOU DARE THREATEN ME YOUNG LADY...I'll hunt you down!

*threatens*

Yes Sir. *meek*

(Congrats on 500 posts! I still remember making that one, last year. )

Snow conditions are getting better here! Well sort of.

wjarmusch · 01-09-2007, 09:34 PM

YES! YES! YES! LET IT SNOW!
We got dumped on today. combining natural and snowmaking we got probably close to a foot on the slopes. There were no lessons so I got to ski all day (tough job

). We should be very busy this weekend tough being Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Kids around here have an extra day off of school. Now that we finally have snow it should be really nice. That's about all that happened today. More later...

~Melmo~ · 01-10-2007, 01:27 PM

Hey Wesley! This is kind of strange for me, dropping into someone else's blog...but here I am! My name is Melissa, and I too am a Sr. and am into drama. My favorite drama we did would have to be(of course)Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet so I never got bored. For me it doesn't matter whether or not I'm on stage..I'll keep on acting away!

BTW, I'm home schooled too, and well, play a little bass, but more guitar. God Bless....hope you didn't think that was too awkward. And, CC rock!

wjarmusch · 01-10-2007, 02:47 PM

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Hey Wesley! This is kind of strange for me, dropping into someone else's blog...but here I am! My name is Melissa, and I too am a Sr. and am into drama. My favorite drama we did would have to be(of course)Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet so I never got bored. For me it doesn't matter whether or not I'm on stage..I'll keep on acting away! D BTW, I'm home schooled too, and well, play a little bass, but more guitar. God Bless....hope you didn't think that was too awkward. And, CC rock!

Hey Melissa, what's up?
Of course, Romeo & Juliet. Our play (I'm now finding out) is sort-of a christian romantic/love story. I'm the main guy part in it.

I've got about 70 lines to memorize.

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For me it doesn't matter whether or not I'm on stage

sound familiar

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And, CC rock!

Yes, for sure...and so do the Afters! Love your siggy.

~Melmo~ · 01-10-2007, 03:19 PM

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Hey Melissa, what's up?
Of course, Romeo & Juliet. Our play (I'm now finding out) is sort-of a christian romantic/love story. I'm the main guy part in it.

I've got about 70 lines to memorize.

sound familiar

Yes, for sure...and so do the Afters! Love your siggy.

I'm doing great! Yeah, 70 lines...not fun. Although when I played Juliet...that was just insane! I can't remember most of them now...but I can remember :
"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I'll call them back again to comfort me:
Nurse! What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.

*puts dagger down*

What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Or, if I live, is it not very like,
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,--
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed:
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;--
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environed with all these hideous fears?
And madly play with my forefather's joints?
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee."

Pretty much my favorite scene. lol. Don't you just love being one of the main charactors? I love it! Of course it's hard work...but it's soo worth it and soo much fun!

The Afters rock big time! I actually met Josh Havens last year!

~Melmo~ · 01-10-2007, 03:54 PM

Oh, and I too am into photography. I have a Nikon D200 Digital with a 18-200mm lens on it. Some time I'll get another lense for it...my favorite...would have to be doing black and whites.

**PatrickStar4491** · 01-10-2007, 04:39 PM

18-200... very versatile. I wish I had a D200 to play with, haha. I hear the D80 is almost as good.

wjarmusch · 01-10-2007, 07:21 PM

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I'm doing great! Yeah, 70 lines...not fun. Although when I played Juliet...that was just insane! I can't remember most of them now...but I can remember :
"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I'll call them back again to comfort me:
Nurse! What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.

*puts dagger down*
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Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee."

Pretty much my favorite scene. lol. Don't you just love being one of the main charactors? I love it! Of course it's hard work...but it's soo worth it and soo much fun!

WOW, that's an insane part to do. A ton to memorize

I'm generally pretty good at memorizing lines, but this play is going to be difficult because it's a serious/romantic part. (obviously being Juliet you know what I mean) I've never really played a part like this before so it's streaching me a bit. Yes I totally love being the main part and the girl who I'm with is awesome. I don't have too much trouble pretending to fall in love if you know what I mean

maybe it's not pretending...
Anyway she's going to make it soo much easier on me because she's an awsome actor and she really gets into it. I know that she won't forget lines either, always a good thing. Oh, and our characters ending is a bit better than Romeo & Juliet's

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my favorite...would have to be doing black and whites.

My favorite pictures ever are some black & whites I took with a 35mm Minolta Maxxum 5. It was for my cousin's wedding and they turned out pretty amazing. If I ever get my scanner working I'll get them online.
Actually...I've got some pictures from one of the earlier play's I'll have to put online. I forgot about those.

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I wish I had a D200 to play with, haha. I hear the D80 is almost as good.

And I wish I had a Canon 5D to play with...