Public Service Announcement with a bit of sleep...

Wow! I must have been so tired yesterday after work. I came home, cooked dinner, and the next thing I knew I was waking up on the couch. After stumbling upstairs to bed, I slept through the night (a rarity for me) and on until 9:30 this morning. I usually wake up naturally around 7:30 sometimes 8. I think if I let myself go back to bed, I probably could squeeze out a couple more hours. This dancing is really taking its toll on my poor body...magic is so much easier.


Public Service Announcement:

If you are on vacation to such places as Las Vegas, Disneyland or anywhere that has costumed characters that you would like to take pictures of, and if you have one of those cameras that looks like a camera but is actually taking video, you'll get a much better video if you inform people that you are in fact taking video.

After the shows people always want to take pictures of me and the cast. And so many times we'll be standing there smiling like idiots for what seems an eternity while they're waiting for us to do something because it's video. Even as a magician, I'm not psychic...just tell us it's video and we'll do something fun for the camera otherwise when you get home, you'll find a lot of really boring video of people standing there...

This works conversly as well...if you have a video camera that you're taking stills with, you should tell people...otherwise you'll get a lot of blurry pictures of people moving around trying to mug for the camera.

Out of Shape

Ooooooooooow!

My whole body hurts right now.

Since the Venetian made the cuts to the entertainers, I've had to do double duty. For some of the shows I'm still the magician, but for other shows I'm a living marionette and I have to dance.

Now in my former life I was a dancer (ballet to be exact), so it's not out of the realm of possibility. And actually when I was first hired there, I was hired as both marionette and magician...but that was when I was in my twenties...now my body is older and far more out of shape.

Then to top it all off, the guy who does marionette got injured and will be out for at least a month, so I'm picking up a lot more days....Owwwww!...I'm off today at least.

I know I'm going to spend the morning "relaxing" in a reclining chair...unfortunately, my mouth will be open and a dental hygenist will be poking sharp pointy metal things in my mouth...then back to work tomorrow.

Did I mention Owwwwwwwwwww?