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Year in Review 2018

[photo by This Is Soul]

January

  • 10 – Get married at Seattle City Hall on our 9th anniversary
  • 14 – Wedding Day at McMenamins Edgefield!
  • 16 – Start teaching ballet at UW Rec Center
  • 29 – Wizard of Oz at Nathan Hale High School rehearsals start
  • 30 – Get drinks with Kayleigh, a coworker of Daryl’s from Sacramento

February

  • 8 – Swan Lake at Pacific Northwest Ballet
  • 10 – Hike Little Si
  • 12 – Sell Sue Ann, my 1991 Subaru Legacy with 312,619 miles.  I bought her in 2008 for $2000 (with insurance money from when Rosie was totaled) and sold her in 2018 for $900.  Not bad!
  • 28 – Bought new skis with money from selling Sue Ann!

March

  • 3 – Jessie and Darren’s wedding!  It was so wonderful for us to get to spend time with Arina, Emily, Jesus, and Frank – unlike when we saw them in January at our wedding.
  • 4 – Snoqualmie Pass was closed and we got turned back to Ellensburg.  In all the years I’ve been traveling over the pass, I have never been turned around before!
  • 7 – Hamilton!  I still can’t believe we got to see it!
  • 13 – Tech Rehearsals for Crowns at Taproot Theatre start
  • 18 – Clare has a 12 hour layover in Seattle!
  • 23 – Crowns opens
  • 26 – Finish buying my new ski set up: ski boots, bindings, and ski crampons
  • 29 – Cascade Grotto Pub Night at Floating Bridge Brewing
  • 30 – Drive to Astoria.  Drinks with Tammy!
  • 31 – Mama and I drive to Roseburg for my Aunt Karen’s Celebration of Life.

April

  • 10 – Danielle and Greg took us out to Stateside as a wedding present.  So good!
  • 22 – Daryl, Johnny, Danielle, and I catch the last day at Steven’s Pass for their Pond Skim.  The first day on my new skis!

May

  • 3 – Wizard of Oz opens
  • 5 – Vertical practice for the Grotto at Ravenna Bridge
  • 6 – Daryl and I catch closing weekend of Mt. Hood Meadows with Chandler
  • 12-13 – North Cascades Recon trip
  • 19-20 – North Cascades ski trip
  • 22 – Sub as LBO for Lady Windermere’s Fan at Taproot Theatre
  • 26-28 – Eugene with the Greaser-McDaniel Clan

June

  • 1 – We moved into our new place!  Riley gets a yard!
  • 4 – Daryl’s birthday!
  • 8-11 – Papoose Cave with 19 people from 6 grottos!
  • 12-15 – I got to be the Tech Advisor for the Center School’s student written play festival with Seattle Public Theater
  • 24 – June Birth Month Ski Trip: Chinook Pass
  • 27 – My 31st Birthday!  We saw West Side Story on the big screen!
  • 30 – We got to spend the day with Mike, Saville, and the kids at the Pacific Science Center.  I love our family.

July

  • 7-8 – Astoria Weekend with Sydoney!  We got coffee at 3 Cups, lunch at T. Pauls, coffee at Astoria Coffee House, climbed to the top of the Column, snagged tickets to a “Sneek” Peek of Shanghaied in Astoria, then we camped at the Saddle Mountain trail head and summited the next day.  Talk about a perfect weekend!
  • 9-12 – I spent the week as Technical Director and Lighting Designer for SPT’s summer camp production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
  • 14-15 – McIver Float with the Beechaus!
  • 20-Aug 5 – Montana
    • 21-22 – Camp with Tom and his kids at Benchmark
    • 23-24 – Benchmark.  Float the creek between the campground and the airport
    • 25-27 – Scapegoat
    • 30-Aug 3 – NSS Convention

August

  • 4 – Mike’s birthday float.  We floated the confluence of the Blackfoot and the Clark Fork rivers!
  • 7-10 – Lighting Designer for Charlotte’s Web at Taproot’s Summer Acting Studio
  • 11 – Jack White concert with the Beechaus
  • 16 – Skype date with Emily and Arina!
  • 17 – HanaSara was in town for the shortest amount of time, but I managed to steal her for breakfast
  • 19 – Becky and I had planned on going hiking, but smokey skies are gross.  Brunch instead!
  • 25-26 – Clear Lake with the Beechaus.  The lake was practically gone and it was chilly, but we all had so much fun.  Daryl and I got to be in charge of breakfast!
  • 26 – On the way home from Clear Lake we stopped by Spencer’s brewery, 54’40’
  • 27 – LBO for Sandbox Radio Live at SPT

September

  • 14-16 – 56 hours in New York City!
    • 15 – I got brunch with Mark, an online friend from the days of sondheim.com message boards in high school.  Then I got drinks with my high school friends Temple and Jess.  And to top the day off, I had dinner with so many UM friends: Emily, Ellie, Clare, and Christopher!
    • 16 – Daryl and I got to spend the day wandering around the city!
  • 27 – We saw Program B of the Jerome Robbins Festival at PNB (including The Concert, a ballet I’ve wanted to see for years).  It was so good!
  • 29 – Program B was so good that we got tickets to see Program A too!

October

  • 1 – Riley’s 2nd birthday!
  • 11 – We saw the MountainFilm World Tour at the Mountaineers tonight.  Lots go great films and a lot of stoke to get outside.
  • 15 – Rehearsals for Taproot Theatre Christmas Touring shows start.
  • 20-21 – Dynamited Cave trip with Cascade Grotto!
  • 27-28 – I made a trip home to see my parents and Grandma.  We went through family photos and I learned more about our history here in Seattle.

November

  • 3 – Date night at the Showbox to see Lil’ Smokies!
  • 10-11 – I5 Super Awesome Friends weekend in Hood River!  We visited the Western Antique Automobile and Airplane Museum – it is AWESOME!
  • 19 – Rehearsals start for A Charlie Brown Christmas at Taproot
  • 30 – A Charlie Brown Christmas opens

December

  • 6 – Banff Mountain Film Festival at Benaroya Hall
  • 8 – Cascade Grotto Holidays Party!
  • 10-12 – LD The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe for Taproot Acting Studio
  • 14 – Betsey got new boots (Cooper CS5s)
  • 16 – After months of trying to have a work get together, we finally have a Greenwood Diva holiday party
  • 20 – The Nutcracker at PNB
  • 24-25 – We spend Christmas in Astoria.  Christmas Eve at my parents with my Grandma and cousin, then Christmas Day at our favorite beach.
  • 31-Jan 1 – Ski-N The New Year with Mike at Blewett Pass

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