Well, our contract is over and I am SO SAD! Our last week was weird. Along with moving out and closing the shows we had a lunch with Brent and a reception on Friday afternoon. On Thursday I was supposed to give a tour for a local news channel but they didn't want to go on a REAL tour, they just wanted to pretend they were going on a tour and interview some people. Chris was asked to go also but he got to stay with the camera crew and give the interview while I had to give the rest of the tour to the people who had paid for a tour. I was sooooo irritated. It wasn't Chris's fault but I was really excited about being on TV and now I don't even know if I was. Oh well. They missed a GREAT tour. We had a lot of fun.

Today is my second real day in the box office and right now every single person in the company is in a meet and greet with the new troupe except for ME. It's kind of sad but mostly I still have no idea what I am doing so I am more scared. Example: I just took a phone call and had to tell the guy I'd call him back if the information I told him was wrong because I just don't have any idea how to find out and Jen, my boss, is in the meeting. Last night I was house manager training for Twelth Night qhich was fine but there is a lot to learn. I don't like to get things wrong so I ask a million questions and double and triple check everything I do. I won't have to house manage on my own for a while but right NOW the job seems daunting.

Our final performances were great. During Henry it was really hard to keep it together at the end and I started to cry during "Non Nobis" (which is not good to do while singing---I sounded so shaky). Merchant was even worse. We ALL cried like babies after it was over. It was soooooo sad. It was the true emotional ending. On Sunday Shrew was just great. It was a great audience, we had four curtain calls and then the moment we stepped off the stage everyone (except Raffi, who is afraid to show emotion) stood backstage and cried and hugged each other. I started to cry during Kate's final speech but I HAD to hold it together, not just because I had to sing briefly, but because I knew if Ginna saw me crying SHE would start to cry. I couldn't help but be emotional. I looked at the ten other people's faces and thought about how we'd been doing that scene for a year and how we had done it soooo many times. I thought about how much we'd been through together and how, even though some people hated others for a little while, we WERE still friends and probably a lot closer than most of the troupes that spent that much time together. It was so sad. It's still sad. Chris told me that both Josh and Ginna got choked up while talking about our troupe at the meet and greet. I really do love them all. It was such a good time and one of the best years of my life.

Something that probably shouldn't have been that hard but was was when Chris and I checked out of our room at the actor housing. Chris had said the night before, "This has been a good room. I got engaged in this room." Suddenly it wasn't a room it was our LIFE. We cried SO MUCH right before I left. We were just standing there, hugging and crying because we were going to miss our ROOM. Ohhhh, God. And then Raffi left and we cried more. Well, actually, Chris cried, I went with Dan, Alex and Raffi to drop him (and Alex) off at the airport. THEN I cried.

After Dan and I dropped them off we went to IKEA. Dan bought a bed and a couple bookshelves and had to strap them to the roof of his car because the delivery charges were so high. We spent about half an hour in the loudest noise you could possibly imagine because the straps were pulled so tightly the wind was making them vibrate. It literally sounded like there was a jackhammer on the roof. We laughed a LOT but I was also afraid we were going to go deaf. We pulled into the parking lot of an Outback Steakhouse (which is only funny because Dan is from Australia) and he fixed them. We didn't get home until 10pm but we had good conversation and, after the straps were fixed and our ears didn't explode, a good time.

I was a little worried about moving my bed down here because it's been in storage, on its side, since the spring 2006. I just got worried that it would be all out of shape but it's been great so far. We're getting close to being unpacked. We don't have a ton of storage space so finding a place for all of our crates and plastic containers has been hard. We're hoping to be getting CABLE sometime soon!!! I haven't had real TV outside of my parent's house and hotel rooms (and kind of grandma's house, but she only had like 20 channels) since I lived in California! I just know without anyone else around to talk to (ie, because Raffi is gone and we moved) if we didn't have internet and TV we'd go crazy. I'D go crazy. Plus, you know, Chris likes TV. I just really miss Animal Planet and TLC.