In the middle of the night Oreo got up and decided that he wanted to go out into the living room and sleep on his pillow. It was very strange. We had the air conditioning on in the bedroom so the doors was closed. So I got up and walked him out to his pillow where he was very happy to lay down for about half an hour. He came in to check on us once but saw that we were in bed and ran back to the living room to his pillow. We could hear the clicking of his toenails on the hardwood as he ran the whole way. Eventually he gave up on that idea and returned to bed. That kept me up for about an hour between two and three in the morning with him going in and out and opening and closing doors for him.

This morning I had to get up with Dominica so that we could go down to Ryan’s apartment and feed his fish. Ryan is in Florida and we are looking after the sealife for him. I have not taken care of his fish before so I didn’t know what to do. So my night was rather short after going to bed after midnight, being up for an hour and getting up at seven.

At least today is my day at home with Oreo. It is yet another bright and beautiful day here in Newark.

Today I discovered that our ivy plant that I like so much has a spider mite infestation. Because the plant hangs so high I didn’t notice it until it was pretty heavily infested. So now I have to figure out how to take care of spider mites. I am hoping that regular washing will do the trick but they are all over the leaves. I need dad to send me some of his spare ladybugs from back home.

Tonight we are going to see Riverdance at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. This is the third in our series of tickets for the NJPAC this season. It works out well that the tickets are for Thursdays as that means that we always leave Oreo home alone after he has had an entire day with me already. He is much more relaxed about being left in that case.

Dominica got home and wasn’t in the mood for anything except McDonald’s.  So I walked down Broad and got dinner from the McDonald’s just two blocks away.  We watched a few episodes of Average Betty while we ate.

After dinner I had to get ready to go as quickly as possible.  Then it was time to walk down to NJPAC to see the show.

Riverdance was really good.  I have seen Lord of the Dance in Toronto, I think, long ago and have seen Riverdance on television or DVD or something at some point over the years but have never seen it in person.  It was very good.  Dominica coworder Al and his wife joined us at the show and had tickets for the row right behind us.  All of the seats by them were empty so we moved back by them after intermission.

After we got home from Riverdance it was time for Min to get to bed.  I did a little work, a little over an hour, and then was ready to head off to bed myself.

Today was my stay at home day.  Oreo was very tired and slept all day.  There was little sun though so he didn’t get to enjoy his sunspot like he normally does.

Today was quite busy and I was tied to the desk all day.  I barely had time to get ready what with walking the dog and feeding him and getting dressed and everything else.  Dominica was home at twenty till six and our dinner reservations at the Theater Square Grill were at six.  We made it over just in time for our prix fixe dinner.  Dominica had truffle infused polenta and I went for the arctic char which was excellent.

The timing was perfect and it was right in from dinner to the show – which is all in the same building at NJPAC.  We claimed our season tickets, up on the second tier which is rather high but not too bad in Prudential Hall and went off to find our seats.

The seating organization was a disaster and the theater was just telling people to “sit anywhere” even though we all bought assigned seats.  It was really bad.  At one point there were only two people in the entire second tier and they were in our two seats!  What are the chances of that?  And every person who came in after us either took someone else’s seat or had to sit elsewhere because their seat was taken.  I am not sure if a single person made it in and got to sit in their own seats.  Why they felt the need to seat people in places other than their ticketed seats I have no idea.

The show, The Wedding Singer, was pretty good.  The cast was quite good and the venue is a good one.  I wasn’t thrilled with the music and the storyline was changed from the movie in some corny ways that I thought were unnecessary.  The original story was better.  And for some reason they decided to make the musical a bit more adult oriented (i.e. not appropriate for children not “more intelligent”) than the movie and for no apparent reason.  But overall it was a good show and we had a good time.  And it is so easy to get to and from the theatre.

Our season tickets also give us a chance to go see My Fair Lady, Moving Out and Riverdance yet this season.  We are also talking about going to see Yo-Yo Ma and Pink Martini in concert – but not the same concert.  One night apart from each other.  I discovered Pink Martini a few months ago through Amazon’s “if you like so and so then you will probably like Pink Martini” service.

Once we got back home Dominica was right off to bed.  I stayed up for several hours working on my RIT homework.  Best to get it done so that it isn’t hanging over my head tomorrow.