(no subject)

[the_rck]

Today's to-do list:

Cook chicken liver
Fill and run dishwasher
Change sheets
Sweep/mop bedroom
Gather and take out trash
Take bus to drug story to look for eyepatch (put off to Wednesday?)
Insurance forms x 3

I won't get to more than half of these, but it's good to have them laid out like that.

Scott just left for work. Technically, I don't need to be up any longer, but I'm not really ready to sleep again in spite of being very tired and having a growing headache. I've been up two hours, and I think that I need to knock some things off of my to-do list before I try to nap. The trash and the insurance forms are most feasible.

I think Scott really needed yesterday to rest. I'd have liked him to take another day simply because I'm worried about him exhausting himself, but his employer has pretty awful policies about sick time, and his work isn't physically taxing any more, not the way it used to be.

Cordelia's birthday presents this year will be entirely theater tickets. There are several shows she really, really wants to see, and live theater is fairly expensive. They'll be seeing Anastasia in Detroit in June (I think), and Dear Evan Hansen is on the list. They already saw Percy Jackson, and we're trying to find Hamilton tickets somewhere within a viable driving distance.

Scott and I are both doing the lottery for Detroit performances, and I'm doing the lottery for Saturday performances in Chicago. I don't think Chicago is viable for us any day but Saturday. The part I'm not clear on is whether I can win the lottery and let Scott and Cordelia pick up the tickets without me. If I can't, the logistics become much more challenging.

I have one DVD for Cordelia that I intended for her birthday. I may just give it to her now. It's one that I know she kind of desperately wants, and I found it cheap a month or two back. I'm pretty sure she'll say that waiting and having something to open in May doesn't matter. She'll be 16, so I probably ought to let her choose.

Comments

[rmc28]

Dear Evan Hansen is coming to London and I have tickets for this November. (But oh yes, theatre isn't cheap)

[rmc28]

Oooh, that reminds me, do you have the equivalent of Theatre Tokens where you are? For a while, that was just my default gift to my dad and stepmother, because they see a LOT of theatre together, and I know it'll get used.

[the_rck]

I've never heard of them, but I expect that there's something similar available. My daughter's only been interested in big theater stuff for the last couple of years, so it's not a thing we've researched.

[the_rck]

Even amateur production theater tickets aren't cheap, except in comparison to professional.

[chelseagirl]

Hamilton is more than fairly expensive. I can't afford it on Broadway; I couldn't even afford the road company in my second home of Buffalo.

[the_rck]

We just spent an arm and a leg for two tickets to a show in Lansing which is about an hour and a half from here. I'm not going because I'd panic in that sort of crowded environment.

[evalerie]

Just checking that you know that Dear Evan Hansen is about a young person committing suicide.

[the_rck]

I know. Cordelia's given me the plot synopsis more than once. She's read the book it's based on and loves the soundtrack.

[evalerie]

My son James loves theater, and there are oodles of neat shows coming to the area, but he isn't interested in seeing any of them. I am baffled.

[the_rck]

Is he into big shows or more avante gard stuff? Sometimes, people prefer the stuff that's never going to play at the Fisher.

There are a lot of different types of theater. Cordelia's very definitely into musicals. My tendency when watching plays is to critique the tech choices-- sets, lighting, blocking, special effects, etc. Not that I go to plays often, given the agoraphobia.

[evalerie]

James is pretty flexible about what kinds of theater he will watch. So it is baffling me why he doesn't want to go. Maybe it's the complexity of going to Detroit to see something, or the expense of the tickets? Or just general introversion -- why go see a play when you could stay home with your computer on your lap?