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....singular sensation.

Just in case you haven't heard i'm doing the show A Chorus Line, It's been an amazing experience getting to do this show, even if it is at a crappy theatre (and i'm practically doing it for free) . I'm getting to do the most amazing show with some of the most talented people in Chicago. It really wouldn't have happened if we all hadn't taken the initiative and given all that we possibly could, which i'm very proud of because that's how the show was created in the first place.

I'm also completely obsessed with it, i'm reading the biography of the show and how it came to be right now, its called On The Line and was written by three of the people who lived it. It's kind of the center of my entire existance right now. The show is an Audition, and it's helped me a lot because that's my second job, Auditioning. I'm doing it more and more and i think i'm getting better at it. I've already got three shows that will take me into the end of the year and two of them actually pay enough for me to pay rent. I feel really lucky to be getting cast but also really proud because i know i'm getting these gigs because i'm talented and a hard worker.

So all in all life is going really well.....except i must be bipolar because the past few weeks especially i absolutely loathe my job... the tea one....well it's not so much the job as it is the customer service aspect....I feel like people can talk to me like a lesser being because i'm behind a counter and in a hat and because its a corporation i have to just sit there and take it. if there's one thing i miss about living in Texas...(besides the warm weather more than two months a year) is southern hospitality. it's a vicious circle of rude costumers (who clearly hate thier own lives) making me hate my life and want to be rude back....and the number of people it takes for me to get to that point is getting smaller and smaller. i think i just need a break...luckily i have the show, and i'm looking forward so much to my family coming this weekend.

Lana and Nathan and Mom and Dad are coming to Chicago Ladies and Gents....get ready for it.

and because i only read blogs with pictures on them, here are some of me :)

this is my Thanksgiving Tofurkey....it was delicious!!!!

this is a picture from the last show i was in The Pirates of Penzance.....i was a pirate, if you couldn't tell...this is potatoe my roommates dog

Happy Birthday Dad!

41. He’s a master skydiver

42. He’s a master scuba diver

43. He’s a plate cleaner

44. He’s always up for a race

45. I think it’s funny when he points at things (like trees) intending for whoever’s around to look at whatever he sees, but he doesn’t say anything so nobody knows what he’s doing

46. I think it’s cool that he’s a pilot

47. He comes to most all of my shows (the ones I tell him to come to)

48. He always tell me I am the best one in my shows(I don’t even have to tell him to say that)

49. When we go indoor skydiving and he’s on a first name basis with everyone that works there

50. He’s always up for anything crazy and fun like surfing and jumping out of planes

51. He used to take me up in the little yellow two seater plane….(j-3 cub)

52. He always asks me if I want to go golfing with him even though he knows the answer is no, I still like being asked though

53. He brings a baseball mitt to baseball games

54. He got to play baseball with Nolan Ryan

55. He’s taken me on some sweet vacations that I’ll never forget

56. I get my spirit of adventure from him

57. I enjoy remembering his adventures in real estate and car flipping(even though he probably doesn’t)

58. He’s completely random (really dad, racecar driving lessons?)

59. He helped birth me

60. He’s the greatest dad and grandpa in the world!

in the style of my sister Lana

I hereby write this letter to 2009
Dear 09'
You were okay but you weren't exactly what I expected. I have learned a lot from you, like how even when terrible or just stupid things happen in your day/week/life-something surprising and equally great is left behind. You've also brought me some fun things like, sweet jobs at new and nice theatres and way overused catch phrases such as "you guys" and "that's what she said" (I do love a good catch phrase.) But the thing that I definitely need to take away from you and never forget is that nothing...absolutely nothing is going to turn out the way I think it should, or the way I think is right... so I must continue to roll with the punches and work hard at what I want. 2009, you've been great but 2010 is gonna be soooo much better. I bid you adieu in the same fashion one bids the flu (or like when you finally exit the train after being stuck on an express run with obnoxious cell phone talkers and stinky homeless people.)