Monday Moment – stay healthy!

I hate being sick.  I’m one of those people that will do ANYTHING to keep from thowing up.  I’ll do breathing techniques and try to go to some happy place.  This past weekend I missed my first ever performance from illness and it really stinks.  I must soldier on.  I was fine all week and then on Friday morning (around 3AM, it all went to hell).  But, was it fine all week, looking back?  No it was not.  Spreading myself to thin is what my week was like last week.  Of course, I was going to get sick.  How many consecutive days of no sleep, stress and pain on a regular basis from finger therapy, can you go before your body packs it in?  After getting over my swine flu paranoia (I like being first, but don’t want to be the first case of swine flu in my area), I realized it was a hideous cold.  You can’t go to a performance (especially one in Carnegie Hall where you are practically on each others lap) if you are sick and coughing.   I was doing really well with my anti-bacteria hand wipes and vitamin powders, BUT no amount of help can do battle with a highly stressed life.   I’m working on ways to be better at this (and less stressful). 

How do you handle stress?

Monday Moment- My thoughts about audiences

I’ve already talked about what I loved about the Susan Boyle Video but I didn’t mention the audience, which was interesting in itself.  This reminds me of my trip to New York to see Guys and Dolls last month and the audience there – I’ll get back to that in a minute.  

As I’m sure you noticed, if you have been in, or gone to, classical or musical performances, how different the audiences can be.  Did the audience in the Susan Boyle video remind you of Parlimant or is just me?  Is this good?  Is it bad?  As shocked as I was with the openly vocal and negative response of the audience (was this just for television or for real?), I was torn with their reaction when she started to sing and when she was done.  As touching as it was to hear them eventually cheer her on, did it negate the heartbreaking behavior prior to that?  I would love your feedback. 

Now, back to New York.  Maybe it is me, but Broadway has always been a magical experience for me.  Now, as you know from my post here regarding the book, Making it on Broadway, it is not magical by any stretch, except by how the experience is perceived by the audience.  NEVERTHELESS, I draw the line at breaking out the movie snacks during the performance, which was what my seat neighbor was doing during Guys and Dolls.  As I started to look around, I noticed some people in cocktail dresses and others were in, well, sweats.  Really?  Will talking and heckling be next?  I shudder to even consider it.  It is an incredible feat to not only perform, but to produce a Broadway show, or any show for that matter.  Keep the twizzlers and sweat pants at home.

Monday Madness – Contents of my Purse

• ATM Withdrawal Receipt
• Occupational Therapy Script
• Township Receipt for Recycle Cannister – It’s mandatory and they make you pay for the canister
• Receipt for Salad Works – lunch
• Buddy Tape
• Gauze
• Checkbook
• ATM Withdrawal receipt #2
• Starbucks Coffee Receipt
• ATM withdrawal receipt #3 (a month old)
• Receipt for a haircut I got in NYC while there on business.  Broken finger means no washing of hair that week!
• Receipt for Doctor’s visit to have him look at XRAY and say, “yep – still broken”
• Glasses and glass case
• 1 packet of Splenda
• Package of Kleenex
• 2 items that women use a certain times during their cycle if you know what I mean
• Used Kleenex (ew)
• Highlighter
• Change purse
• 2 Packets of Advil
• 1 loose Advil,  1 loose Tylenol, 2 loose Excedrin Extra Strength
• 2 hair pins
• 2 earrings
• Target Gift Card ($2.79 remaining)
• Sears Gift Card (don’t have a clue what’s left)
• On the Border Gift Card (don’t have a clue what’s left)
• Banana Republic Gift Card ($9.00 remaining)
• 3 Target coupons for free Starbucks Coffee)
• Stack of my husband’s business cards
• Berlioz Score (Damnation of Faust) for Philadelphia Singers Concert
• Philly Pops Song book
• Wallet (and what’s in that is a whole other post

Monday Moment

My triple “P” to combat discouragement:   Productivity, Preparation, Process.

Upcoming:
Messiah Concert
Sunday, December 14