Naming Names

Last night I attended to my first run-through conducted by the Columbia University community and it was incomparable to my experience at MSSD. Tim McCarty knew his stuff and selected a good crew to command. The lightning staff was 1 hour behind schedule, putting the rest of us behind, and during the run-through the sound crew struggled to find the right music for this particular group- then when they found it, it kept skipping. It was funny. Some of the dances were HOT HOT HOT. Especially the one after mine! Attendees are in for a “Laker’s Half-Time Show” treat.

Meanwhile, my dance is kinda abusive. We do this “crawl” dance twice through the peice and it is one of the best parts to the dance but its hard on our knees. During rehersal some of us even bled even though we wore pants. See todays picture- this is after 3 consectutive days of preparing for the show. Hey no pain no gain!

This morning I got an email “to home” from Kirsta… I was AMAZED! It adds to my list of reasons why I should have a deep freezer in my home someday See below;

58 bottles of “extra” breast milk.  Isaac always got the freshest which
was me when I was there, but these represent the excess I was pumping
when while he was in the hospital.  I was infamous because the staff
had to send me home with most of this early, since there was no room for
the other mother’s milk in the freezer!  They kidded me but decided it was
good since isaac would never go hungry.  My milk supply has adjusted to
match isaac’s needs and I no longer have to pump the excess (there is
none).

The sad news is that the midwives told me this milk is only good for 2
weeks in a “normal” refrigerator-freezer.  In a deep freeze it would be
good for several months.  Sad to see it all go, but I will sterilize
and use the bottles again.  Recycling makes me feel better.  Breast-milk
soap anyone?