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11.02.2014

The Crazy 'Yes' Men

Hello all!

I'm afraid that this one is going to be fairly short and sweet. It's a day late and life is just moving by too too quickly currently. We seem to be the 'yes' men at our house as we are always taking on more work and projects and generally enjoying life somewhere in between the craziness.

Kurtis has been working at a new shop in New Jersey called Siegfried's Basement. He is happy to be back in a shop, building every day. It does cause him to be up at 5am every morning with an hour and a half commute to Secacus, NJ, but on the plus side, he does get a seat on the train and tends to be out of work by around 3pm. When things are in full swing, he will often do a 7a-8p day out there and thankfully, they have been swinging left and right! He has been brewing beer like crazy as we get ready for the holidays and plan to share a lot of this with friends and coworkers as gifts for the holiday season.

I am keeping busy with all sorts of work. I have been at Jersey Boys and Aladdin leading up to the end of October with side projects on White Christmas as it got ready to go out on tour. There was even a day working at Side Show, which is a new musical. Then, this week, the Christmas Spectacular bloomed full on and I am happy to be back with my Rockettes. I think it's fair to say that I have not worked less than 60 hours per week since sometime back in July, including the weeks where we went away for the weekend. In addition, I offered up my sewing skills for Halloween costumes for the little nieces this year. Four Frozen costumes later, we had a great success! In my small moments, I have found time to brew kombucha, ferment saurkraut and do yoga.

Amazingly, we made a couple of small trips this fall. One to Kansas City for a friend's wedding, which was a great success as we saw many friends from college that we had been missing. The second trip was really our little reprieve from all the crazy busy-ness. We got the chance to sneak a weekend in Austin with Hannah and James, which was truly lovely. Lots of time outside, eating great food and chatting up a storm.

Missing you and wishing you happiness for the holidays ahead.

Sending love to all,
Mary and Kurtis
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3 comments:

  1. Pam JohnstonNovember 3, 2014 at 6:38 AM

    Thanks for the update and pictures! Slow down a bit you two! See you soon.
    Love, Mom

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  2. AuntieNovember 8, 2014 at 8:31 AM

    White Christmas-how cool! Do they have the red fur coats with white like the movie?

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  3. GrandmaNovember 18, 2014 at 4:40 PM

    The girls costumes were really neat

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