Crunchy peanut butter + chocolate chips=happiness

Beth has introduced me to the best and easiest dessert treat ever! (Beth is my roommate while in Myrtle in the beach condo) Many a nights after rehearsal as we sit and watch TV....Glee is our favorite....the crunchy peanut butter and chocolate chips come out of the pantry. We each take our spoon, dip it in the peanut butter, cover that sticky lump with chocolate chips and enjoy, yum! So easy- so simple- and I never thought about it till Beth showed me! Beth, you are a genius! :)

We finished 'Shine' today and I found out that I'm the top of the staircase in the grand reveal of the number. It's nothing super exciting except it's a great way for me to tell people how to spot me during the show. It's actually the scariest spot considering that I have the most stairs to step down giving me a better chance of tripping and falling! That would be something to happen to me....knock on cyber wood!! ha! I think toward the end of rehearsal today our energy got a little low as a group so one of the dance captains, Mark, stopped and gave us a wonderful inspirational pick up. He reminded us why we are all here- the love of dance. And how this particular number really lets us shine that out. (no pun intended, well kinda) On this tour we will perform for hundreds of thousands of people all over the country. In those audiences there will be little girls that will look up to us and dream of being a Rockette one day. We truly have an amazing job and are so lucky to be doing what we love to do. Sometimes it's hard to remember that as we are jumping in and out of 40 degree ice baths, rolling out of bed at 5am to travel on a bus for hours for a show later that night, or shoving a swollen and blistered foot in a heel for hours. It felt nice to reflect on that positive moment and warm fuzzy feeling. I definitely benefited from being reminded of those things today because I've felt my attitude has been on the brink of falling to the dark side. We ran the whole number after his pep talk and I think our cast had it's first magical moment. We really came together as a group and danced as a team. It felt great. We have a really good line this year......GO A TEAM '09! Oh ya, and today we also had our first theme day at rehearsal- fosse day. We wore all black and a red lip, not that far off Rockettes I know, but you have to start somewhere, right?