I'll Be Home For Christmas
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mrdreamjeansIt’s bone chillingly cold. It was four degrees when I went to the local bakery this morning about 10:30am. We had early curtains today - a 1pm matinee start time and 6:30pm evening show. It’s good that we’ll be finished by 9pm, as most of us have to be up at 6am to catch early flights home. Yes - Home!
There’s something special about flying home for Christmas after being gone for three months. I’m eager to sleep in my own bed, help my folks organize our Christmas week traditions, to see my brother, wife and nephews ...to once again be surprised at how they’ve changed.. to be bewildered at how Buddy and the twins are nearly adults. I’m even ready to grumble back and forth with my dad. Three of my friends have lost their mothers in recent weeks; it’s the reason I never take any visit home for granted. Even grumbling can be a tradition:)
I won’t see my sister and her family this Christmas. Colleen’s in-laws are taking their four sons, spouses and all of their grandchildren on a seven-day holiday cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico. It’s the first time my sister will not celebrate at least part of the holiday with my parents, but her father-in-law has Huntington’s Disease and his family wants to make the most of this Christmas. His health is failing.
Appleton was a big surprise. A small city of 72,000 with a good manufacturing base, low unemployment, a commitment to its roots, historical restoration and the arts. It’s been a pleasure to play the three-year old Fox Cities Performing Arts Center and I look forward to returning here someday, whether on a tour or just for a visit.
I didn’t make it to the museum housing the Houdini collection, as a visit to a dentist was more important, but future employment might take me this way some day.... Ya never know. There is a terrific Italian Restaurant by anyone's standard here called Victoria's and a wonderful bakery called Tastee Bakery. I highly recommend both for quality and price.
I’m out of Appleton on Delta at 9:35am, switch planes in Cincinnati and should be in Houston by 2:20pm. My parents are driving in from Brenham and picking me up at IAH in my truck. We’ll head to the mall in Katy to finish a little shopping and by early evening, I’ll be eating dinner at my folks home in the country, sleeping peacefully in my bed with not a word of Evita dancing in my head:)
It's time to pack up my computer and hit the sack! I wish everyone safe journeys in the days ahead and hope that they too will be home for Christmas ... wherever and, by whatever definition, that may be. Hugs!
"We'll Be Home For Christmas"
My friends Joel Briel and Mary Sheehan with me
at rehearsal on stage in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
There’s something special about flying home for Christmas after being gone for three months. I’m eager to sleep in my own bed, help my folks organize our Christmas week traditions, to see my brother, wife and nephews ...to once again be surprised at how they’ve changed.. to be bewildered at how Buddy and the twins are nearly adults. I’m even ready to grumble back and forth with my dad. Three of my friends have lost their mothers in recent weeks; it’s the reason I never take any visit home for granted. Even grumbling can be a tradition:)
I won’t see my sister and her family this Christmas. Colleen’s in-laws are taking their four sons, spouses and all of their grandchildren on a seven-day holiday cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico. It’s the first time my sister will not celebrate at least part of the holiday with my parents, but her father-in-law has Huntington’s Disease and his family wants to make the most of this Christmas. His health is failing.
Appleton was a big surprise. A small city of 72,000 with a good manufacturing base, low unemployment, a commitment to its roots, historical restoration and the arts. It’s been a pleasure to play the three-year old Fox Cities Performing Arts Center and I look forward to returning here someday, whether on a tour or just for a visit.
I didn’t make it to the museum housing the Houdini collection, as a visit to a dentist was more important, but future employment might take me this way some day.... Ya never know. There is a terrific Italian Restaurant by anyone's standard here called Victoria's and a wonderful bakery called Tastee Bakery. I highly recommend both for quality and price.
I’m out of Appleton on Delta at 9:35am, switch planes in Cincinnati and should be in Houston by 2:20pm. My parents are driving in from Brenham and picking me up at IAH in my truck. We’ll head to the mall in Katy to finish a little shopping and by early evening, I’ll be eating dinner at my folks home in the country, sleeping peacefully in my bed with not a word of Evita dancing in my head:)
It's time to pack up my computer and hit the sack! I wish everyone safe journeys in the days ahead and hope that they too will be home for Christmas ... wherever and, by whatever definition, that may be. Hugs!
My friends Joel Briel and Mary Sheehan with me
at rehearsal on stage in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
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Date: 2004-12-19 09:14 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear of ailing folk in your life, or the lives of your siblings.
In any event, I hope by the time you read this you have had a wonderful flight home, to enjoy the comforts of your bed - and wthout Evita dancing in your head. :-)
As for me, I'll be home in Tacoma with Mom for Christmas Eve and the weekend, but we'll be on Bainbridge Island for Christmas day with my middle sister and her hubby and at least their 11 Y.O. daughter Rachael. Should be fun. :-)
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Date: 2004-12-19 10:20 pm (UTC)picture posted!
Date: 2004-12-19 11:20 pm (UTC)...funny thing how with some minor editing...
Date: 2004-12-20 12:10 am (UTC)except I'll be arriving on Tuesday. We'll need to figure out tha logistics for our rendezvous. One thought that came to mind was going to see "Phantom" on opening night (the 22nd), but I don't know if you'd want to see a movie of a show you've been in so many times, and then again...
anywho, see ya soon, you 'fudge packer, you!!' :)
Re: picture posted!
Date: 2004-12-20 10:53 pm (UTC)Re: ...funny thing how with some minor editing...
Date: 2004-12-20 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 10:57 pm (UTC)Re: ......I haven't even seen ....
Date: 2004-12-20 11:31 pm (UTC)....I mean about the movie choices... :)