This is why you have a best friend...

Soooo- greetings from the lobby of the Windemere Hotel in East Mesa-

Couple of interesting facts abou this hotel:
The pool/jaccuzzi stays open 24/7
Your key card can become unmagnetized if you so much as look at it wrong
There is a free breakfast buffet every morning from 6-9:39am
Also, this computer is an ancient artifact brought over buy the Aztecs.

(not sure about that last one, but the monitor is bigger than my house)

So, I began rehearsals for the King and I this week, and life has been pretty hectic and awesome. Nothing like the beginning of a new show- or as one of the other actors put it "the first day of school" We've been living out of this hotel for the past couple days- and I hate to say this because I'm probably the only one and I might be dragged out and stoned... but I really like it! I have my own room so I can talk on the phone and watch tv as loudly and as late as I want, plus there is room service- look, ok- I LOVE HOTELS!!!! there I said it. Certainly life will change when we move to cast housing. I hear it's fabulous; but I'm going to be living with all of the girls. FIVE of us in one house. I hope it works out. So far, I really like these people.

RE: the title-
Today, Red called me while I was out with the cast, post-rehearsal. "I have the most random and bizarre question to ask you" she said. Now, you have to understand, she says this in the beginning of about 80% of our phone conversations. The questions usually are pretty random, but- I usually prep myself for the absolutely bizarre (How fast do you think you would have to throw a cat to skin it using velocity alone?),only to be met with the mildly bizzare (What was the name of the movie where the girl who won the Tony for Hairspray played the fag hag to Scott Wolf and Jay Morr's shared lover?) (BTW that movie is "Go".) So the question: "How does the song "Quit Playing Games With My Heart" begin?" So, without asking why, I immediaely launch into the lyrics. "Even in my heart..." and I realize I'm singing at full level in a crowded Applebee's. SO I went outside, and together we came up with the lyrics to the first verse. Only then did it dawn on me that this is a strange situation- only after going outside and fully belting the first verse to a Backstreet Boys song did it occur to me that people don't normally do this. "What is this for?" I asked her then- and she told me why. Some of her servers wanted to know- It really isn't important. The whole purpose of this blog is to say that what happened here, tonight is why you have a best freind. So you can call someone int he middle of dinner and ask them for the lyrics to a late '90's boyband song and they will give them to you without asking why. Well- it's one of the reasons.