The musical I was in the last two weekends ended up really coming together and going quite well. I felt that as the shows went on each weekend, they got better and better. The quality dropped off on the second Thursday performance since we had a break of four days from the show. However, the very next day, we brought it right back and had a solid performance. If you weren’t able to make it, you missed a great show. If you did make it, wasn’t that Biff Baker something?!? Pieface wasn’t too bad either I must say.

The news in our lives is the following: we have decided that at the end of August, we are going to be getting a dog! Not just any dog mind you, but a basset hound puppy! We chose a basset hound particularly because they are pretty lazy, independent, and low maintenance dogs. After a lot of searching and a bit of luck, we were finally able to find a breeder that hadn’t already sold all of their puppies down in Southwest Minnesota. We are both pretty excited. You could probably guess that Bethany is a little more excited than I am if you have been noticing her Facebook updates recently. The ones we found were born on 7/5 so are only a few weeks old right now. They keep them with their mother until they are about eight weeks old which puts us at the end of August. Originally, we were shooting to get a girl, but after we found that two of them were already spoken for and we weren’t all the keen on the third female, we decided to switch our aim at one of the males. Bethany went down to scope them out on Monday and decided on this little guy.

Leading up to the decision on which one to get, we had listed out several name options for the little guy. Ironically enough, we had better consensus on boy names than girl names. This made the switch over to getting a boy a little bit easier. Being the music nerds that we are, the name for this little guy we decided on is Copland. You know, after the tremendous twentieth century American composer? Think Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man. We plan to bring this little guy home at the end of August, right around Labor day.

We had a couple rehearsals prior to this week so that we would learn the music before we met up with the singers. Some of those rehearsals did go longer than I had anticipated. Fortunately for me, last week I didn’t have to be to work until 8:15 so I was still able to get a fair amount of sleep. Then this week started. Just for the record, I have to let you know that we have rehearsals or shows every day this week. Also, unlike last week when I could sleep in a little bit, this week I have to be at work by 7:30. Those 45 minutes of sleep are sure nice to have each day. When we were first told the rehearsal schedule, the end time each night was suppose to be at 9:30. This would have been a fine time to end for me, even on these early mornings. Being that this is a musical, I had expected the rehearsals the week of the show to go a bit longer. However, I didn’t expect them to go quite so long as it did on Monday night. That night, we didn’t finish up with the rehearsal until 10:20. That is a significant difference from what I had originally expected. Since it takes me 20 minutes to get home from Bethel, I didn’t arrive home until close to 11:00. Now that is late! Needless to say, I was struggling to stay awake yesterday, especially in the afternoon. Fortunately, last nights rehearsal was significantly shorter. I think we finished up at around 9:50 last night. This allowed me to get a little more sleep last night so I’m not doing so bad today. Tonight is our final dress rehearsal before the show opens tomorrow. I’m hoping tonight will be more like last night and less like Monday. I would encourage you all to come see the show. It is pretty fun and the music is good. When Dr. T asked me to play, I asked him to compare it to another musical we played a few years ago. He said it was kind of like that, except with better music. I tend to agree. You can find out more information on the show by going here.

On a side note, I finally got around to putting up a Blogroll on my blog. Let me know if you are missing from the list and I’ll be sure to add you. Also, I put up a link to Bethany’s and my Book List at the top and bottom of my blog. From there you can view the list, see where we’re at, and check out the ratings I have given to the books we have completed so far.

Hope to see you all at the show!