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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Six Months Later....

So, Yeah... When I started this blog thing I was going to be so good about it, but then life happens and something has to get put aside. Then someone- a friend named Jeri, mentioned she had a blog and now well, I want to blog!!

Let's see, what HAVE I been doing? Well, there was work. That's always there. Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story, Beauty & the Beast and then a little known play called Be My Baby. So, that happened. There isn't much to say about those now. The shows are over. Surely at the time I had lots to say, but now, they are a thing of the past. They happened, and none died. Oh but I did get to leave Jennerstown!!! Not that it wasn't lovely, I'm just not that much into country life. I prefer the more city-fied living!

That summer experience led right into my wedding experience. NOT MY WEDDING! Don't get all crazy. I was a Bridesmaid (never a bride) I had a dress that I looked great in that I will still never wear again. I pair of shoes that gave me blister so bad I had to go to a podiatrist. I spent more money than i could afford and really in the end all I have to show for it are happy friends and a great necklace that I received as a bridesmaid gift that I have worn tons. Again, at the time I probably had more to say, but now, it happened. Like every wedding I take from it things I liked, things I didn't and a better sense of what I would like my one-day wedding to be like.

I had my short foray into Internet dating. I stayed just long enough to discover what I already knew- it wasn't for me. There were a lot of creeps, some guys that were nice enough and 2 worth mentioning. The first was interesting but just stopped calling. The second, I had to stop calling because well, he was making me crazy! There is a guy out there, I'm still looking for him and hopefully he's still looking for me. I like to believe that I will know who he is immediately, but just in case I hope I don't accidentally blow him off!!

Right after the wedding I did something I'd never done before, I cut off all my hair. My hair is shorter than it's ever been. I'm still not in love with it, but everyone else seems to like it. I will be happier when it's a little longer. If I had it to do all over again, I would wait and cut it 6 months from now. But you know, what's done is done!

I am currently back in my old stomping ground, Little Rock, Arkansas. I am forbidden by my friends to frequent that employs a former object of desire, so that means I can't call one of my friends here because I don't really want to explain to her why we aren't going to this bar.

Upon my arrival, I enlisted 10 unsuspecting co-workers to join me at the midnight showing of TWILIGHT. Yeah, that's how I have spent a lot of my time lately. Following the wedding and the hair cut, I had to pack and vote for change. (That was an amazing experience, but I think I'll wait to sum up everything after the inauguration.)

So I started reading the Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer. I have a lot to say about this, so sit back. Back during the summer the 4th book came out and I was unfamiliar with what Twilight even was. So when I knew I'd be driving from NY to Arkansas I thought it would be fun to buy the books on cd to listen to. (I had decided that I wanted to go to the midnight showing, because I had wanted to go see Harry Potter, but when it got postponed and this movie started being promoted, I was intrigued) But I knew that I would prefer to read them eventually, so I ordered the 1st book as well.

What happened after that can only be compared to the first bite of cake that accidentally makes you eat the whole thing. I spent Halloween taking it easy. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and I started packing. Right before I went to bed, probably around 6am Saturday morning,(don't judge my sleeping habits- that's not the point) I picked up the book to start reading. At 11am I was 200 pages in. At 3pm I had to stop reading and have a life. I needed to go to the post office and get dinner... So I did. I also realized that I was going to need to pick up the next book, and I knew I couldn't wait until I ordered it from Amazon, so I bought it after shopping around. By 7pm I was back in the book and by 10pm I was finished.

Talk about slightly obsessed! If you haven't read Twilight, stop reading this and go get the book. (Seriously- I'm going to say things that may spoiler it for you, so if you don't want to know- stop right now I will continue talking about the books for many paragraphs) Edward Cullen, despite the fact that he is literally 1/2 my age and a fictional vampire, is as close to the perfect man as you can get. Say what you will, it's hard not to fall a little in love with him. And I am a logical person- I know all the reasons why this is never going to be a literary classic in the vein of To Kill a Mocking Bird or Of Mice and Men, but he is exactly what you want him to be.

In any case, The obsession continued, after getting through the first 3 chapters of New Moon, maybe more, once I realized Edward was gone for a while, I finally allowed myself to sleep for the first time in 2 days. HOWEVER, by my friends' birthday party on Monday, I had stopped to pick up book 3 before getting on the train. By the time John McCain gave his concession speech, I had finished the 3rd book. I believe that it was Thursday evening when I finished the last one, and then maybe Friday when I finished reading the partial manuscript for book 5 online. I spent the entire night packing because I needed to start driving on Saturday. I listened to the books cd in my car. I stopped at bookstore and targets along the way to buy the ones I didn't have. I literally went from 0 to obsessed in 7 days.

After convincing people that I barely knew to come to the movie with me, I convinced people to start reading the books so I had someone to talk to about them since most of my fiends scoffed at my young adult vampire books. It's a month later. I have loaned twilight to 3 people, New Moon to 3 people, Eclipse to 2 people and Breaking Dawn to 4 people.

My favorite book has to be Eclipse. I love the fight, I love Edward. I didn't love the movie, but I can't remember a book that I loved that translated into a movie I loved. I could list all the things that didn't work for me, but you everyone knows what was wrong. Everyone knows what scene from the book that didn't make it onto the movie or wasn't the same in the movie. That's life. I didn't love Breaking Dawn. I thought that I read a lot of things that steered me to believe things and in the end I had just spent a lot of time reading about things that would ultimately have no effect on the outcome. More importantly, I didn't want that to be the end. I wanted more. I wanted the 5th one. I would love books that were just about the back stories of all the Cullens. A book about how Alice ended up in the mental hospital, What Edward was doing before contracting the Spanish influenza, Why Esme jumped off the Cliff. Who was Emmet? Rosalie in her last early vampire years. The travels of Jasper during the vampire wars all the way through the arrival at the Cullens. Carlisle's 300 years! And what the heck the Cullens were up to before meeting Bella. There's like 10 more stories to tell!! I'm just saying. Maybe even an all encompassing La Push book. Like who is Embry's father? And what will happen with Jacob and Renesme? (Seriously what do you get when you cross a half human/ half vampire with a shape shifting wolf? Enquiring minds want to know- is it a baby that is self loathing and can't stand it's smell-- it makes the brain hurt if you try to figure it out)

Oh and speaking of Vampires. Anyone watching True Blood? After reading the Twilight books and then watching the True Blood series- there are a lot of similarities. I think my current obsession with vampire is the immortality. When someone you know dies,and then you get a year older, you start thinking about how nice it would be to live forever. (And at the rate I'm going, I might need the extra time to find love)

Wow, I have gone on haven't I? I am tired and I will attempt to keep this up with more consistency. Till next time...

Monday, May 26, 2008

Rained out!

(If I sent you an email about my week in review, read the next post.  This is not it.)

Well before we got to the camp fire, with the guitars and the smores, it started to rain.  I was having a brilliant conversation about creating life on Mars and the pictures that just came back.



So we were talking about that and Quantum Physics. Stuff that made my mind explode. Like we are creating the universe through our consciousness. And how things behave when we are looking at them, are not how they behave when we aren't. I know I'm not selling it very well, but I didn't retain it as well as I hoped because the rain started and everything went to chaos before I could grasp it.

Oh and lastly, what is the name of that thing, it was usually yellow and you put it in the middle of a 45 record to play it on a normal stereo... Anyone?

Music On The Mountain

So I'm going to try to split this into sections, I think, because that way if you don't care or you don't feel like reading about something you can skip it!

THE ARRIVAL

So, I arrived in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania last Friday. I arrived about an hour later than expected because Mapquest sucks sometimes. When I realized I was going to be late I called the person that was supposed to be meeting me. She said she was just going to go home and leave me keys and some information at the front desk of the restaurant. So I had to find my way alone, which I think is what set me up for my 4 day unhappy rant (which some of you were unlucky enough to hear).

The place was rustic at best. I mean people tried to prepare me, they told me it was going to be in the country, but until you are there, trudging through the wet grass and mud into the cold concrete house, you don't really understand it. The lights didn't work in the living room, but my bedroom was fine. It was warm at least. The room was a little bare and the window is big enough to open and walk through like a door, so I backed my car up to the window and threw all my stuff in! This would come back to bite me in the ass.

I pulled out my welcome pack and grabbed my computer and headed to the restaurant, which was the only place I knew that had internet. I sat in my car and mapquested myself some directions to the nearest store. I bought some decorations and dinner. I came back, unpacked and then went back to the restaurant with my fully charged computer and stayed until the battery died. Then I went to my new home and fell asleep watching The Cutting Edge.

The next day I attempted to do some work, but I hit a bunch of obstacles. Mostly that everything was closed because it was Saturday. So I did what I could, sent my assistant home and told her that we were going to work on Monday instead of taking the day off, so we should take off on Sunday. I decided to go get some groceries. When I got home I backed my car to my window again because it had been raining all day and that's where it stayed. I already wrote about this, (see post, Stuck In The Mud) needless to say, things had hit a low point.

The next day, my car finally freed from the mud, I decided to go to my old stomping ground in Carlisle, PA. I met my friend Libby and I gave a quick recap of my life there. It was fun, we ended at the sex shop where I spent money on things I currently have no use for, but they sounded like a good idea at the time. By the time I got home it was late and I managed to just pass out.

Monday was a good day. I got a lot of work done. I met a bunch of the cast as they arrived. I did some texting and made some phone calls. Things were finally starting to look up.

OTHER RANDOM THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN UP TO...

Personality Tests

Now that I have internet I have been killing time at night looking up random things. For example, I have taken that Meyers-Briggs personality test. I am an INFJ, which is The Protecter. Look it up, I think it's pretty accurate. Apparently, I should be dating an ENTP, The Visionary or ENFP, The Inspirer. So, now you know and I know. What does it mean? Probably nothing. How many people know their personality type?

Astrology

My friend Mellen and my friend Sam are VERY into astrology. So I have been killing time looking up that stuff. I'm a Sagittarius and apparently I should be dating an Aries. Better if it's an Aries that is closest to the cusp of Pisces (which would be between 3/21-3/27) because they would match the fact that I am on the cusp of Scorpio? Maybe? I don't know I got kind of lost reading all it. It was really just a time killer.

York, PA

Apparently, York, PA is the mecca for weddings in 2008. The Production manager here left for the weekend for a wedding in York. I'll be there later this year for a wedding... okay well that's only 2, but what are the chances that you would meet someone who just went to a wedding there? I mean it's not NY or Boston or Atlanta or California, it's York, PA. How many people have even heard of York, PA? I just think it's interesting.

MySpace

Does anyone myspace anymore? I only ask, because in an accident on the level of stupidity that only I could achieve, I deleted almost everything from my page. My music, my layout and I was going to put them back, but then I stopped and thought, does anyone still use this? I mean I have 2 friends that do, I know, but other than that... So should I bother trying to restore my site a little (keep in mind that it will probably never reach the long to load super cluttered heights it had. That's how I accidentally deleted everything. I was trying to delete a bunch of stuff and I accidently went a little crazy) Anyway...


Cosmopolitan and the Male Organ

While I was getting ready to leave and packing, I came across my collection of Cosmos from about 3 years ago, when I had gotten a free subscription for Christmas. I had never read them so I packed them figuring I could get rid of them in Jennerstown after I was finished, which I have. 12 issues + 2 from this year that were an impulse buy at the register. Considering the style pages were outdated, I pretty much just read the the articles. 14 issues on how to please your man. Needless to say, I am expert now. I know all about the man's G-spot, and F-spot, C-Spot, O-spot, 8-spot, W-spot, X-spot and R Spot (oh yeah, according to Cosmo, they all exsist) and where to put my hand/mouth/tongue to make his toes curl! Go Cosmo!

FINAL THOUGHTS

Okay now that I have given you some info... I leave you with this... I think I will try to keep this up to date at least weekly. Although it might not work that way. Especially considering that I will have a crazy weekend next week.

But by all means call me, if I don't answer tell me when is the best time to call and I will. Text me. Email, aim.

Check out my new tongue rings, 2 posts ago.

Questions? Comments?

Okay, I'm off to search for beer...mmm, beer. Wish me luck, and Happy Memorial Day!

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Guess who got INTERNET?!

Finally, I have rejoined the human race, so be sure to check back either late Sunday or Monday for my first week, update! Trust me as much as I have had to complain about, the work is good, and the people are awesome! And if you love music, you want hear about it!

See you soon!

Friday, May 23, 2008

Impulse Buy






Okay, so I was online and bored and sitting in my car on Monday night and I was internet window shopping. Then I accidentally bought 9 new tongue rings because they were cheap. Well, that and because I couldn't find all mine before I left the house, I can't really imagine where they have gotten to. The last time I saw them was the day before my surgery, when I switched from the metal one to the plastic one so, that was 3 months ago. And I was really just searching for 1 because it makes me nervous not to have a backup. Even though it's been 9 years since I've accidentally swallowed one of the balls, I still never like to be without insurance, incase it should happen again. Always be prepared and all that. Anyway, they got here today, and since this is the most exciting thing that has happened today, i thought I'd share my fun new purchases! Or at least a few of them. The others are mostly plain, or you can't really see them in a photo. All I can say for sure is they are fun to play with!

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Is the world still there?


You know, I never realized how dependent am on the internet. I mean completely. It is where I get my news and it is a huge force of communication. Like for instance, this last week, I have been able to get on line just long enough to check my email and send the typed emails and post these pre-written blogs. Or sometimes while I am at work, the signal from the restaurant creeps in and I get surprise mail download, but I am in no way able to read it. So, for all I know, the whole rest of the world could be gone and we could be the last survivors and I'd have no idea... scary. I get internet on friday, hopefully. Then I can rejoin the land of the informed.

Apparently I am near where flight 93, crashed and the memorial site. I will definitely pay a visit when I have a day off in a couple of weeks. Plus, once I have internet I want to find out what is near by and have a few adventures. Anyone wanna join me?