So the show is done! Finished and complete. Packed houses every night of about 180 people and they all, bar a few in the matinee, loved it. They were absolutely cracking me up with how much they laughed and even cheered at some parts! Amazing, really. My one line a night (and two on matinee day) was fine. I didn't bugger up anything the entire time apart from forgetting one prop but other than that a complete success. And today is my first proper evening of having nothing to do in about a month, and I'm loving it. It is quiet after so many evenings of being surrounded by about 10 people a night and having a lot of backstage banter with the blokes and my fellow assistant stage managers. But it's nice to have my life back again.
I am probably going to have put some weight on this week however. I haven't done any exercise I don't think..bar perhaps one or two days. I just didn't have the time nor the inclination! Yesterday I had work from 8-2, then straight to the theatre for the matinee performance. Then hanging around the theatre until the evening performance, followed by the get out, which means packing everything and dismantling the set. Which took about an hour and a half. All told about a 16 hour day and I didn't get home until about 11.30pm. With a 7am start this morning, even though I've had the time to exercise post work today, I figured I deserved a day off.
Added to that, there's the no cake/chocolate challenge for the week. Which was a complete success. I wanted to keep a sort of diary going about it this week but I just haven't had the time to squeeze a post in. But needless to say not one scrap of chocolate or cake crossed my lips. Where I will fall down on the calories is that I was having my dinner and then having a snack pre-show because my stomach has been kicking up a right fuss with all the stress and excitement this week. So I didn't want to eat my evening meal before I dealt with the production in the hopes of calming the effects. Which it did but it also meant I was pretty much snacking before the show (only on Ryvita and fruit however) and then eating my evening meal around 11pm. Plus the lack of exercise, I'm pretty sure will mean I've put on a couple of pounds. Hopefully not too big a set back.
However, the not eating cake and chocolate for a week thing has shown me how easy it is to go without it. I'm not saying I'm cutting it out of my diet forever because frankly, with the dairy and now the wheat I'm not going to have much left to eat if I keep cutting stuff out. But I reckon I might have a couple of chocolate free days a week. Even if I do replace them with honey or something there's still a lot less calories and sometimes can be a lot more satisfying.
Right anyway, I think that will do for now. I'm still on a high from the show even if I'm completely knackered right now. I'm going to go have a long shower and then tackle a bit of my room, which has gotten into a frankly shocking state since I haven't been bothered with it for weeks.
For this evening, good boo.
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