To Ryan, Forever And Always

Hello, everyone!

So tomorrow when I wake up it's time to weigh in!  Last I knew I had lost about 5 lbs over the course of the past week, and already I'm starting to feel it.  It's easier to move, to get around, and the pain has lessened in my feet and hips after I've been on my feet for a while.  However, I won't have the actual results to post to you until tomorrow.  :)

Now, to business.  I'm taking another 1-post hiatus from the focus of losing weight, and putting it on something/someone else in my life.  Ryan has blogged recently about his doings and going-ons at the Haskell Opera House this summer, what with rehearsing Curtains, and more recently the putting on of the actual show.  If you've lost the link to Ryan's blog, follow him here.

First off let me say, awww my baby has grown up so fast!!!!  Staring out as a soprano with me back in 7th/8th grade, and singing songs like "Hero", "Dancing Queen", and something about a bell dying?, now to this amazing tenor voice that reaches every nook and cranny of the opera house, Ryan is coming into his own as a performer.

I know I will never be the one belting everything I have in me on stage (my voice isn't strong enough for that), but that's okay-that's what Ryan is here for.  I am needed elsewhere in the world, but Ryan always has and always will belong on the stage.  My place is in the audience, providing unending support and love for the person in my life I know is going to go places.  (I just hope that after he gets the swanky house and swimming pool I can come visit-often.  Maybe daily?  Or like, make every night a sleepover?  Please?)  ;)

Every consecutive time I've see Ryan perform I find myself smiling bigger and bigger.  (Except, of course for the times I've performed with him, in which case it's "LIGHTS ON!" and everyone has to have a smile plastered on, regardless.)  It's clear to see that he's gaining skills and confidence with each role he successfully completes, and his resume is already pretty extensive without even have graduated college yet! 

Ryan, you have such a power in your voice now that is SO extraordinary.  I want you to know how fucking proud of you I am, and that even though I'll never be on par with you vocally, I love singing with you.  I love being in your audience, and I love being there to support you in all the rest of the process.  Your voice makes me happy, and just FYI-I'm going to be around forever.  So, you might as well get used to having groupies everywhere you go, cuz...mmm, you know.  (P.S.-I hope you're crying now.  I'm trying reallllly hard.)  :P

Keep doing what you're doing.  Even if I have to fake it and pretend like I'm going to Becky's Music Maker's party at the end of the year instead of hitching a ride from Sketchy Josh up to UVM and surprising you at the performance of the Red Eye Festival, I'm going to continue to surprise you and do my best to make it to your performances.  You continue to do amazing things, and I feel so incredibly lucky to have you in my life.

To all the rest of the cast and company of Curtains, amazing job!  You all seem like wonderful people, and for the few of you I got to meet and talk to in person-you all have my same kind of humor and demeanour.  To the techies and musicians, congrats for putting on a FABULOUS show!

Blogosphere, please comment below and tell Ryan what an amazing job he did.  Bravo!

<3 Megan <3