I’m counting this as my 23rd of 52 performances in 52 weeks.
I think we all know which department store I’m talking about… as I’ve mentioned it before. (And it’s the most famous Santa area in a department store in probably the whole country…
Aaaaanyway, this was a joy.
I had done this job for a season in college. And now that I was back in New York, I wanted to do it again!
It was a little silly, ’cause I didn’t totally super have the time, but I wanted to…
They no longer let elves have reindeer names, but because I was grandfathered in, I indeed got to be Vixen again!
Part of the reason I took this job was to meet more people in New York outside of school and my normal job, but that didn’t work out so well. I was doing possibly a little too much at once. So, I’d always roll in like 5 minutes before I started, leave immediately, and spend lunch working on my songs for BMI.
(Again, maybe not the super smartest idea to take this job, but I had a good time – a great time in fact.)
As we all know (because I’ve talked about it ad nauseam), BMI was a total mess, and even The Nightly Show was stressful craziness. [Edited to add: The Nightly Show became the greatest thing to happen in my life.]
But at the time, my life was crazy and my weekends saved me. I loooved going to work at Santa’s place.
There were crazy fun times. And there were even serious moments – which I’ll get into tomorrow!