And Now We are 2006
2/1/06 11:36![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsYesterday the rain held off until about 3pm. My friend Ellen had come to stay for a few days, arriving around 1pm; we went haring off to Oakland to a New Years' Day party, which was lovely (there are all these cool people I know who live in this area, and I'm such a slug that I never see any of them! They were all there. It was swell). At about 4pm, just as the rain started getting serious, Ellen and I left Oakland in her rental car, to return to SF; Spouse and the Girls and I had theatre tickets, and Ellen was planning on seeing a movie. So as we roll along the front right tire blows. Big time. In a location where we could not pull over for almost a mile, which meant we were riding on the rim, which is Not Suggested. We come to a stop on I-80 just across from the big Emeryville IKEA, and as Ellen gets on the phone to the rental car company a roving tow truck pulls up behind us. After a complicated negotiation (Ellen learns that the rental car company's roadside assistance will charge her $150 and take at least an hour to get there; the roving repair guy will change it for $125; we could do it ourselves, but life is short, it's raining, and...). So we get home in time to eat some dinner before Spouse and girls and I head off to Palo Alto to see a production of Into the Woods which ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jonquil had recommended. It was wonderful. I'd seen it on Broadway, where (because the Witch was being played by Vanessa Williams, who was clearly the star of the show) the focus had been a little off center--more on the Witch than quite seemed right. In this production the Baker's Wife, who is sort of the moral center of the show (for all that everyone gets their moments) was more focal, and it worked well. And of course, by the time we get to "No One is Alone" I was sitting there awash in tears. I'm a mush. YG loved it; SG loved it (although she is more critical, as a performer and theatre geek); and Spouse loved it.
Oh, and I made a Bishop's Cake to take to the party. I hope they ate it. It's my new favorite pound cake recipe.
Not a bad start to the year. It is now pouring down buckets, and Ellen and I are off to trade in her car and yell at the rental car people (who will doubtless try to yell back...)
jonquil had recommended. It was wonderful. I'd seen it on Broadway, where (because the Witch was being played by Vanessa Williams, who was clearly the star of the show) the focus had been a little off center--more on the Witch than quite seemed right. In this production the Baker's Wife, who is sort of the moral center of the show (for all that everyone gets their moments) was more focal, and it worked well. And of course, by the time we get to "No One is Alone" I was sitting there awash in tears. I'm a mush. YG loved it; SG loved it (although she is more critical, as a performer and theatre geek); and Spouse loved it.Oh, and I made a Bishop's Cake to take to the party. I hope they ate it. It's my new favorite pound cake recipe.
Not a bad start to the year. It is now pouring down buckets, and Ellen and I are off to trade in her car and yell at the rental car people (who will doubtless try to yell back...)