Trying to Remain Calm By Escaping Reality

Sorry if taking my blog offline for awhile gave anyone a panic attack.  I didn't mean to do so.
It's nice to know a few folks noticed though. lolz
Believe me if I ever take this blog private I'll let everyone know in plenty of time so y'all can sign up.

I was just doing some maintenance on the ol' blog and I really needed some time to get away from being online too.

I've been on edge--between RL stuff, being cooped up with Hubs and not feeling great(I've been so jittery and my hands are shaking like a whore in church).  I probably need my Vitamin D checked again to see if it's too low again, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

I've got some Cymbalta left from when I was on it a year or so ago when I was having a rough patch with depression that I was all set to dispose of.  I am thinking I may want to go back on it short term instead. ;-)

Trying to stay away from the news as much as possible helps.

Today is Hubs birthday too which is making me nervous.  He just expects so much on his birthday(gifts, attention, etc.)and I keep waiting for him to explode because his birthday isn't living up to his expectations.  Plus we can't go out for his birthday dinner so he's grumbling. 

He wouldn't go get himself a cake at the Weis bakery so I'm having to dig through my stash and see what cake mix I have plus I'm cooking Easter dinner today instead of next Sunday.

Between cooking, I'm watching some lighthearted musicals from the 50's/60's, specifically one called "Bells are Ringing".  They made it into a movie starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin in 1960.

This show has always held a special place in my heart as I was in a production of it in Summer Stock back in 1979.  I was a chorus member who had a one word solo in the number "Simple Little System".

I was the gal you sang, "Rockinghaaaaaam" in this number...........


Incidentally the Bookie, Sandor, and President of Titanic Records in the film was played by Eddie Foy, Jr., the son of the famous vaudevillian Eddie Foy.  There was a movie made called "The Seven Little Foys" starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy, Sr. back in 1955. 

This is a fun number too called "Drop That Name".........




The tune below is called "Hello Hello There! In the musical it takes place in a subway car, in the film they moved it to people waiting for the crossing sign to change in a NYC street corner and essentially took out the singing.
In the production I was in, I played a bag lady in this subway scene. The music gets faster and more frenetic as the number goes along and the bag lady ends up humping a young gay man on the subway car seat by the end of the number.  lolz



I was also one of SuesAnswerphone's customers, an opera singer name Madame Grimaldi in that production who is heard but never seen.

Here's a Judy Holliday Tour de Force that was dropped from the film(but in the show)but this clip of it survived and lives on.......



 And this one of my favorite's called "Salzburg".  Sue of SuesAnswerphone company is in love with the Bookie Sandor(who runs "Titantic Records")and needs money.  Jean Stapleton(of "All in the Family" fame-Edith Bunker)originated that role but I couldn't find a clip of her from the film version.  Stapleton had a wide range from drama to comedy and had a set of pipes too in real life.



 And one of the popular hits of the time was in this show.........



I hope everyone is having a good day. 
Wash your hands and stay safe!


Sluggy