Sarah Frisk

Wow, this post is long overdue! Better late than never, I guess. :-)

Tuesday's quote:
Hayley to Katie T: What do you think of me as a toy soldier?
Katie's responses: 1. You're a very pretty toy soldier.

1. You look like you know what you're doing.
2. What kind of answer were you looking for?
3. I don't know!

Thursday's quote:
"I feel like 'taking my jeans off' sounds less awkward than 'taking my pants off'." –Micky

And the next selection from the Backstage Handbook:
+Preparing for Good Intentions+

1. Before anyone comes back to the dressing room, have all the Good Intentions costumes and headpieces draped over chairs for faster changes.
2. Jessica, Micki, and Elise will come backstage first. Take Opera Offi’s dress from Micki so she doesn't throw it at you like she did during dress rehearsal. All the ruffles and flounces look nice, but they’re incredibly hard to get off your head without messing up your hair.
3. While Elisa, Hayley, and Ana are helping Jessica, Micki, and Elise change out of their Caged Crew costumes, take Opera Offi’s dress back into the costume area and hang it up.
4. By the time you get back to the main area, Jessica, Elise, and Micki will already be ready to go. Wait by someone’s chair to help them change.
5. When your person comes back to the dressing room, take their costume and drape it over your arm while your person is putting on her shirt and pants.
6. Put the cummerbund around your person’s waist and fasten it.
7. Put in your person’s hairpiece.
8. Take the costume off your arm and drape it over their chair—your person will have a fast change back into it soon.

Are you working mostly back stage for this production?

She is in it, but when she is in the dressing room they help with the quick changes. And I just relised that i have to help with thequick changes next year. :-/

Yes and no. I was in four of the dances out of 15-20, so I did have a part in it. But most of the pointe girls had speaking parts, as well as being in at least six (often more) dances apiece, so they had a lot of fast costume changes. I think our average change was two to three minutes to get between eight and ten people changed and ready to go. Our second fastest change this year (after the Birthstone Collection) was out of Good Intentions and into character costumes for Keep the Candle Burning. We had six people backstage helping eight people do a full costume change with about three minutes to get it done. That one's coming up next. :-)

Well, I guess I might as well put this up.

Saturday's quote:
Katie S: "Enduransh"? You shound like you have a… what'sh it called… a shpeech impediment!
Elisa: getting defensive I do not!
Katie S: "keeps randomly talking with the fake speech impediment It'sh really hard for me to talk like dish.
Elisa: (the next day, after tripping over her words several times) I can't talk.

And the next section of the Backstage Handbook:
Candle Burning

1. Choose someone to help change (for me, it usually ends up being Elise or Micki) and hurry over to their chair.
2. As soon as Candle Burning starts, Katharine, Elise, Jessica, Micki, Jenny, and both Katies will run into the dressing room as fast as they can. Help Elise/Micki out of her cummerbund, shirt, pants, and hairpiece and put them on the chair for now.
3. Help Elise/Micki back into the dress, pants, black leotard (for Micki), and hairpiece for her character costume and send her off.
4. See if everyone else has finished yet, and if not, help them finish up.
5. Everyone who’s not currently onstage hurries back into the costume area and hangs up their person’s Good Intentions costume.
6. You, Elisa, Sarah H, and Linnea change into Coming Alive costumes and head backstage.

Okay, we're getting to the most exciting (and also most stressful) part of the show… the costume emergencies! Here we have ripped seams, unplanned quick changes, and all the other things that add a little extra pressure for the students and parents involved with the costumes.
+One-Time Costume Emergencies+

1. The zipper of Katie S’s ragdoll dress comes mostly unsewn onstage. (Thankfully, no one notices.) Send Katie to the IA-B dressing room in between scenes and have Elisa’s mom do an emergency zipper repair job.
2. The stitches on one corner of the piece of fabric on the front of your Whimsical Wonders dress come off shortly before you go onstage. Pull out a safety pin and ask Elisa to pin the corner back on for you.
3. Hannah S. is considering dancing in Coming Alive in Jenny’s place, because Jenny isn’t feeling the greatest. She asks you, if she does end up substituting for Jenny, to have her tutu ready to quickly put on backstage for the next scene. But you can't do it, because you’re also in Coming Alive. Talk to Hayley and Ana about the predicament and try to figure out which of them should get the job. (In the end, Hannah doesn’t dance in Coming Alive anyway.)
4. One of Elisa’s contacts comes out during her fouettés in Finale. Fortunately, she’s able to find it. Unfortunately, it’s super dirty and she can’t put it back in. Go ask Mrs. R to pick up some contact solution in between shows, and hope Elisa doesn’t lose it again.

Tuesday's quote:
"Oh my word, my elbow is getting hot!" –Elisa

Thursday's quote:
"You can go to 180 if you want, but– don't fall over." –Karissa

We're almost done with the Backstage Handbook! Hope you guys are enjoying it!

Saturday's quote:
Katie T: How did you like the recording?
Naomi: It kind of freaked me out.
Katie: Awesome! That's the point.

Backstage Handbook:
If you think of the dressing room as a city, this last bit describes all the "tourist attractions". Number 3 is my personal favorite. :-)

1. Signing Donna’s hard hat.
2. Talking with Elisabeth, Kyra, Linnea and Sarah H. about Sarah’s future funeral. No idea how that topic came up.
3. Elise forgets to put on her pants under her (very flowy) Caged Crew dress during dress rehearsal. Micki (remaining anonymous at the time) writes on the message board outside the dressing rooms, “I pray that Elise remembers her pants!” Someone crosses out “remembers” and writes “forgets”, then someone else replaces that with “remembers”… and the pen war continues until nobody can read the original message anyway.
4. Taking pictures of the party on the dressing room floor… and then ending up sending the pictures to Hannah S.
5. Helping Hayley name Karissa and Katie T’s headpieces (we came up with Perciento and Ledetto), and then playing with them like puppets.
6. Randomly doing piques down the hallway in my Whimsical Wonders dress. When I’m spinning, the skirt goes out around my waist.
7. Doing warm-ups in the hallway to the pre-show music.
8. Watching Katie S’s ceremonial breaking of the last link on her show countdown paper chain.
9. Using Katie S’s postcard from Como Zoo as a reminder to smile.
10. Discovering that Elisa’s family and mine know a lot of the same people.
11. Getting the knots rolled out of my calves. Rolling pins do have uses outside of the kitchen.

And a little tidbit of life at the Frisk house:
Tonight, instead of the usual Saturday night church service, our church was having a baptism service at a lake. It had been raining off and on all day, but the rain had mostly cleared up, so we went even though the ground was still a little soggy. The potluck dinner went fine, but just as we were finishing eating, the rain decided it didn't want to miss out on the fun. We figured it was just drizzling and we would be fine, so we went on with everything. The people getting baptized gave their testimonies, and the rain kept getting harder. By the time we headed down to the lake, it was raining pretty hard. After about six people were baptized, we saw lightning and decided we probably shouldn't be in the water. But we've already baptized half the people; why stop now? So Pastor Dan finished baptizing everyone else in the middle of a thunderstorm, and then everyone grabbed the food they brought and made a run for the parking lot. Note to the pastors: Next time, check the weather forecast. :-)

Wow, I really need to get more on top of my posting! :-)
(Note: These quotes, as well as next Tuesday's and Thursday's, are all from Bible study.)

Sarah H: The next word is "minds", and the Greek is spelled n-o-e-m-a.
Donna: No, ma!

reading a definition Nay– not the horse! -Kyra

And Saturday's, since I probably won't be on tomorrow.
Kyra, in an attempt to reform Donna's lack of commas: Reason, comma, cause, comma…
Donna: Commacausi!
several moments in which everyone is trying to write while laughing and failing miserably
Donna: Commacausi no ma!

So, at long last, there's the story behind "Commacausi no ma". :-)

And, true to form, I'm super late again…

Tuesday's quote:
"Watch out for that mischievous conduck!" –Donna

Thursday's quote:
Kyra: reading another definition Love feasts…
Donna: Did you just say "love feet"?

And Saturday's, while I'm at it:
Karissa's stomach has been really noisy all evening
somebody's phone rings
Karissa: That was not my stomach!
Donna: If it was, you would be really sick!

I need to get more on top of things here…

Tuesday's quote:
Karissa: coaching Linnea on her fouettes One-and-two-and-spot-and-where did I go?

Thursday's quote:
"Have I ever told you about my fear of clowns?" –Micki

Saturday's quote:
Elise: quoting from Frozen Go away, Anna.
Ana: walks away Thanks a lot…
Elise: Ana!
Ana comes back

Boy, am I behind on these! I guess the sooner I get caught up, the better. :-)

Last Tuesday:
"She almost got hit– in the face–with a hacky sack." –Jessica

Last Thursday:
Ana: I really like your skirt! Where did you get it?
Me: Mrs. T. gave it to me yesterday.
Karissa: I knew that skirt looked familiar, but I couldn't place it…

I think I'm probably not even going to bother catching up. I'll do all of this week, though. :-)

Tuesday:
Elise, Micki, Daniel, and a couple of others are outside on the balcony and being relatively loud
Jessica: spots Elise with a lighter What's going on out there?
Elise: Nothing.
Several minutes later…
Elise is pretending to set fire to Daniel's hair with the lighter

Thursday:
"Do you have something that looks like a gun so we can rob the place?" -Sarah H.

Saturday:
Elisa is lying on the floor while Karissa is trying to get one of her muscles to loosen
Donna: walks in with her sweatshirt covered in glitter Here, have some glitter! shakes the glitter all over Elisa

And, on a completely unrelated note, I'm loving these new ankles! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

…And my resolution to keep this up-to-date goes out the window. Oh well, I guess there's always next week.

Tuesday:
"No! My battle wound is fading!" –Sarah H.

Thursday:
Elisabeth: I'll need to leave rehearsal twenty minutes early tomorrow.
Donna: Unacceptable!

Saturday:
"That was the tastiest prop ever!" –Sarah H.

And I have a Question of the Week! xD

You're part of an army of ninjas, and you're trying to design a new disguise system. The problem is, the only material you have to work with is cheese. How do you camouflage yourself and your fellow ninjas with the cheese?

It seems to me that would depend upon the situations in which your ninja army was likely to be present. e.g., the jungle, a cheese warehouse, NY city, etc.
For other colors you could go with molded cheese.

And I have a Question of the Week! xD You're part of an army of ninjas, and you're trying to design a new disguise system. The problem is, the only material you have to work with is cheese. How do you camouflage yourself and your fellow ninjas with the cheese?

1) Ninja is the plural of ninja. :P

2) Spray melted cheese into the eyes of your targets. :P

More properly, ninja has no plural.

2) Spray melted cheese into the eyes of your targets. :P

You're using the cheese for disguise, not attacking.

Boy, am I behind here! I'll do six quotes, which is two weeks' worth.

Elisa: Can I help with anything down here?
Karissa: Yes, the Case of the Missing Hanger.

Hannah S: I was not expecting you to stand there holding my tutu for ten minutes!

Katie S: Who put these bodices away? This is not okay!

+*Would Y: ou rather ride a duck up a mountain, or ride a fish up a waterfall?*+

Linnea, Sarah H, Kyra, and I are in the gym in our Awakening costumes
Linnea: talking to Sarah You look like an ancient king or something! turns to Kyra You look like an Elvish princess. turns to me And you look like…
Me: A giraffe?
Linnea: No, you look like… an African princess.

Elise: I'm not masculine enough to wear a ninja costume.

Donna: You're almost as stubborn as me! In the end, I will win, though. You can take that as a challenge, but I'll win!
(I think Donna is the first person to ever call me stubborn. Most people say I don't have a stubborn bone in my body.)

I guess nobody read my post very carefully. The Question of the Week is hidden in there. :-) (No, seriously, it is. I'll bold it so you can find it.)
Would you rather ride a duck up a mountain, or ride a fish up a waterfall?

I guess nobody read my post very carefully. The Question of the Week is hidden in there. :-) (No, seriously, it is. I'll bold it so you can find it.) Would you rather ride a duck up a mountain, or ride a fish up a waterfall?

Neither. If we're going by impossibilities here, I'd just whip out a Pokeball, summon my Charizard, and have him fly me wherever I wanted.

I guess nobody read my post very carefully. The Question of the Week is hidden in there. :-) (No, seriously, it is. I'll bold it so you can find it.) Would you rather ride a duck up a mountain, or ride a fish up a waterfall?

Neither. If we're going by impossibilities here, I'd just whip out a Pokeball, summon my Charizard, and have him fly me wherever I wanted.

What if you don't have a Pokeball with you?

I guess nobody read my post very carefully. The Question of the Week is hidden in there. :-) (No, seriously, it is. I'll bold it so you can find it.) Would you rather ride a duck up a mountain, or ride a fish up a waterfall?

Neither. If we're going by impossibilities here, I'd just whip out a Pokeball, summon my Charizard, and have him fly me wherever I wanted.

What if you don't have a Pokeball with you?

I'd run back to the Pokemon Center and get one! Duh! :P

I have a Question of the Week!
You're trying to get into a castle, but it's surrounded by guards. To your advantage, would you rather have the castle guards have only one leg, or have no arms?

"Behold, a hen!"

Have no arms, definitely.

One leg. :D

I have a Question of the Week! You're trying to get into a castle, but it's surrounded by guards. To your advantage, would you rather have the castle guards have only one leg, or have no arms? "Behold, a hen!"

No arms. Although them with one leg would slow them down so would no arms and, they can't hold any weapons effectively. :)

I have a Question of the Week! You're trying to get into a castle, but it's surrounded by guards. To your advantage, would you rather have the castle guards have only one leg, or have no arms? "Behold, a hen!"

The question that comes to mind is "What kind a jerk are you, attacking a castle full of disabled people?!?!" :P

I have a Question of the Week! You're trying to get into a castle, but it's surrounded by guards. To your advantage, would you rather have the castle guards have only one leg, or have no arms? "Behold, a hen!"

No arms. Although them with one leg would slow them down so would no arms and, they can't hold any weapons effectively. :)

Exactly. If they had only one leg, they could still shoot their guns, and stuff. But with no arms, that takes away a large amount of their running speed, and disables them from being able to shoot, catch, or fight you. :P

So, I haven't asked Katie for the question of the week yet. Fortunately, I have a backup. This was actually the very first question of the week. :-)
How many pancakes would it take to fully inflate a fish?

What kind of fish are we talking about here? A grouper can hold more than a guppy. :P

The pancakes will be sized based upon the fish, so the diameter of the pancakes is 150% of the width of the fishes body (across the gills) at empty stomach. and the thickness of the pancakes is the thickness of both pectoral fins at the joint put together. Then you simply have to use the number of pancakes as that variety of fish has ribs divided by two.

Depends on how puffy these pancakes are.

Two thousand or so. That should do it.

Easy. Just put in as many as you can and count how many you put in!

She said, used to inflate. Not stuff. In other words, use the pancakes to push air into the fish. :P

Tip of the day: When attempting to revive a clock through CPR, have someone who's not hyperactive do it. Otherwise, when the clock comes back to life, it will have inherited the person's hyperactivity and tick way too fast. :-)

Finally, I have a Question of the Week!

What happens when you cross a 1/2 lemon, 1/2 date with a 1/4 horse, 3/4 turkey?

A mess. :P

Finally, I have a question of the week!

Would it be easier to teach a tiger or a llama to read?

Probably a tiger. Don't ask me why. :P

Well, the lama at least doesn't want to eat you! :P

I have another question of the week!

How do you keep your house from being invaded by a stampeding herd of orange giraffes?

Pets lions. :P

You blow the house up so they can't invade it.

Living out of their range, e.g. Snowy arctic, away from orange-giraffe-supporting-leafy-greens. Come summer we would have to come up with a different plan though.

I've gotten a bit behind on questions of the week. :-) Here's last week's; hopefully I'll have this week's tomorrow. :-)

You are going to war against an army of gorillas, all of whose combat equipment (weapons, armor, vehicles, everything) is made of bananas. What one fruit do you choose to use to fight against them?

So easy. Watermelons.

That's what a lot of people said– that and coconuts. Personally, I went with durians. I've never had any real-life experience with them, but from what I've seen their spikes look fairly hard, and apparently they smell awful when they're cut open.