Coming and Going

I’ve been meeting myself coming and going this week. I’ve been remiss about posting because if I am in front of the computer I have only enough brain juice to sit and drool on facebook for a few minutes before I pass out.

Work has picked up the last part of the week, which is great! Rehearsal was good Thursday night, and quite possibly a train wreck last night. I realize Friday night rehearsals are sometimes wonky. everyone is tired. Most everyone gets to sleep in today. Whatever. The actor opposite me, in all my scenes…that looks at my forehead. GAH!!!! it’s rough guys. The director was about to lose his mind last night. Learn the lines. stick to the blocking. quit making excuses for everything that isn’t right. “you didn’t tell me to move there. You told me, you didn’t tell me….” that kind of thing. The girl is so intent on adding emotional arbitrary noises that she doesnt do the lines. There is a moment in our second scene that calls for a big meltdown on my part. Sally Field-esque. It calls for her to hand me one thing then stand there until I’m finished and then help me off the stage. No words. no nothing. I was about three seconds from opening that emotional window last night when she starts with the patting and the it’s okay’s and the i’ll be alright’s….and I hadn’t even given her anything to motivate that yet!!!

SLAM!!

there goes the window. and it smooth pissed me off. and I said something to her off stage, “you cannot talk to me during that scene. you can NOT talk to me in that moment. once the window is opened, I dont care if you recite the gettysburg address, but keep it quiet until then.”

She just looked at me like I was a stupid bitch and made a commment about how the character WOULD certainly react like that and basically said, I could lump it.

STEAM! anger,combined with exhaustion combined with a SEVERELY low level of gin in my diet these last weeks…oh lawd it was a miracle I got thru it.

We went out for drinks after. The director and stage mgr and artistic director, myself and two of the “kid” actors. I really am enjoying getting to know them. The girl that plays my daughter is sweet, and she’s having the same problems with her acting partner. Slow cues. Paraphrasing. GAK!!!!! It was nice to vent and know that our director sees that issue as well and to know that we will WORK IT next week.

We had a big ole salon meeting yesterday. “THEY” are really working on making our company a team. Really working to figure out that missing ingredient in ourselves, in our salon, in our company, that is keeping us from blowing the top off of this market. I respect that. In this economy, our owners haven’t had a paycheck in some months. it’s tight. and scary. But our salon gets new clients daily. NEW ones. And they, for some reason, aren’t being kept. or we’re losing our regular ones. I know I’ve lost about a handfull of clients since things got tight. I can give you names, faces, jobs, their husbands jobs…and I know it’s because of the money. People are going longer and longer w/o a visit. I think that by the time we see this economy change for the better, there’s going to be a lot of LONG hair walking around out there. Anyways, one of the ways the company is changing is by setting up a system, according to the time we’ve been an employee, to how many new clients we get a month. average. Some girls, who are new, still fresh, trying to build a business, are getting 10 a month. Some girls, who’ve been there 5, 6, 7 years already, are getting 2 or 3. I’m slated to get 4. I think it’s totally fair. It’ll average out differently, as any plans do, but if I get and KEEP four new clients a month….that’s good. It’s also up to me to get really energized about getting referrals. I have referral cards that give 10 dollars off to not only the new client, but to the person who sent them. yes, that comes out of my paycheck, but I think it’s worth it if I get new business.

We’re also all reading this book by John Maxwell, WINNING WITH PEOPLE. We’ve got set meeting times to discuss and work thru whatever the plan is within this book and work to apply it to ourselves and to our business. this is right up my ally. Yeah, the meeting times are sometimes at 8am and that totally sucks. But I read a lot and at the end of the day, if this makes us better? Bravo, then. Everyone at the table last night oooh’d and ahhhhh’d about this guy. They knew him and just went on and on and on. We will see. I prolly won’t be reading much of squat till I get this play opened…

today is a full day. After work, I must to the game store and buy Wonderboy his birthday Wii gun, then home to feed the livestock, gather clothing (which will prolly be dirty and have to be washed at my sisser’s house!) fill up Bella, and get on the road to Arkansas. I don’t know if I’m doing hair, can’t imagine them not needing it, so will bring supplies for the visit. Hair tonight, Party tomorrow, home monday morning. must get my own laundry done. I have rehearsal monday night…did i tell you the redhead loaned me a voice recorder so I taped last nights scenes and plan on listening to them on the drive. it’ll help get the lines in my brain.

There’s a lot going on. With everyone. B and ScottyRingo have had some drama and some body parts removed since I’ve seen them. Joe is being swollowed by the movie, which means he’s ass deep in happy. Gert is working on getting packed for her big move. I’m desperate for face time with these folks. MGirl is about two weeks into the no smoking thing and doing perfectly! I think…I think I could sleep for a hundred years if I could just go back to the bed.

Happy Saturday kids! Enjoy yours and I’ll see ya back here whenever. may try to get Wonderboy off the computer and post while there but chances of me parting the Red Sea are more likely.