I am wide awake and exhausted at the same time courtesy of a wonderful weekend away from Wichita and a 20 oz of Diet Pepsi. I just got back from my audition in Omaha, NE. Good times and noodle salad is what it was. (Thanks Katie for the reminder!)
1. Road trips are fun.
2. A 1999 Ford Contour can get 37 MPG. Miracles do happen.
3. I really want to give Phineas a belt with a sword, some nice thigh high boots, and a hat with a feather and teach him to talk like Puss in Boots from Shrek.
4. If you are going to do an audition you really should have looked at ALL the excerpts on the list. It is Murphy's law that the one excerpt you suck at is going to be the one they ask. And no matter how wonderful your solo is the committee is going to remember candidate #26 with a smile on their face because the Haydn #31 sounded like a cat being squeezed and then squeezed again-thanks to a very well placed repeat.
5. I can get from York, NE all the way to Park City, KS using only the cruise control settings on the steering wheel. The one city with stop lights was sketchy, but due to the late hour and timed stop lights we made it.
6. A big shout out goes to the family driving the dark blue Chrysler minivan from South Dakota. Thanks for letting me watch The Emperors New Groove with your kids. Technology is a wonderful thing and even if I couldn't hear the words because I was in a different car it doesn't really matter cause I came up with my own storyline.
7. A ponderance....is it possible that Midol can be the best road trip drug ever? Minus the actual menstruation part I suffered all the symptoms that it covers. Cramps-Yes, my leg cramped up once or twice partially due to the fact that I was sitting Indian Style in my car. Headache-Yes, the setting Kansas sun piercing my retina did cause a disturbance. Backache-Of course. I sat for over 5 hours straight, of course my back is going to start to ache. Muscle aches-I think that is covered in back aches and probably cramps too. Fatigue-Yes, I just drove 800 miles over 2 days did an audition and spent the remainder of the time hanging out with a friend. Of course I am fatigued. Water-weight gain. YES-drinking all that water before the audition did cause me to swell like a raisin sitting in a pool of water. Breast tenderness-Sure. Keeping the ladies restrained for such a long period of time will cause them to get cranky. And the final symptom that Midol claims to relieve....Bloating. Oh hell YES! After eating a bag of Cooler Ranch Doritos and a 2 liter of Pepsi on the way home I was most certainly bloated. It seems to me that Midol could double their marketing and repackage their product as a road trip remedy. I'll give the people at Bayer a call.
8. Popeye's biscuits with honey are my new favorite thing!
Signing off...
