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February 10, 2008

he vas my boyfriend!

I have had such an amazingly cool weekend.

Friday night, I went with Cakes to see Cloris Leachman perform her new one woman show. We saw it at a beautiful new theater in Tempe. She is doing a test run before she goes on tour. So basically we got to be her guniea pigs.

It was a very intimate setting and a smallish crowd. She spoke directly to the audience and allowed us to respond to her. It was fantastic. She told stories from her truly amazing life and career, her family, the people she has gotten to work with, the movies and tv roles she has played. She sang songs, played the piano, and showed a handful of skits and clips on a big screen. She made me laugh, then cry, then both again several times over.

She shared personal stories about her relationship with her mother and father and the tragic death of her son. She shared an incredible experience she had working on the stage with Katherine Hepburn. It took everything I had not to bust out with my Hepburn impression, "Norman, you old poop."

She did her famous, "He vas my boyfriend", as Frau Blücher from Young Frankenstein and a couple of lines from Nurse Charlotte Diesel in High Anxiety.

It was an amazing evening and at the end of the show she came up into the crowd and she hugged people as we filed out. I am short but I towered over her tiny little frame. I hope I am that strong, feisty, and funny at 81 years old. I was still teary eyed from the story she had told about her son dying and the final song she had sung and I told her that I loved laughing and crying all at once. She put her hands on my face and patted my cheeks then she hugged me and thanked me.

It was extraordinary. I floated home.

Then tonight my mom and I got all fancied up and we went to ASU Gammage to see Johnny Mathis perform. He was incredible. His voice is so smooth and he is all class. My parents took us to to see him once when I was abou 9 or 10, but this time I really appreciated what a gifted performer he is. There was a very funny comedian, Brad Upton, who came out and made us laugh between sets. He was funny as hell. It was a tremendous treat.

The best part of the evening for me was that I have lost enough weight that my big knee high platform boots fit for the first time since I got pregnant with Little Bear. It was a great feeling.
I felt pretty. It didn't hurt that I was the youngest person in the audience either. It automatically made the prettiest, least wrinkled girl in the whole place.

As I rarely get to go anywhere, this whole weekend has been a major, happy, treat.

And to top it all off, I just found out that my oldest friend, Sarah, is about to have her first baby. We met in 9th grade and somehow we have kept track of each other all these years of moving and grooving. Congratulations honey!

Now I am off to bed.

Posted by bugg at February 10, 2008 12:36 AM

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Posted by: mona buonanotte at February 21, 2008 07:00 PM