It's been a while!

Oh hey!! So yeah I'm terrible at blogging if you can't tell... Basically I just haven't had much time, or I haven't thought about it, or I've had better things to do! (yiiiiikes) Right now I'm listening to some oldies on Pandora while sitting on my couch while my roommate Shelbi is sitting across from me.. my feet are under her blanket. Basically we could be playing footsie and NO ONE WOULD KNOW. Anyways. life. OK.. So life really has been pretty bland! nothing too big! Lots of homework, and I'm in two scenes for a directing 1 class! One is good, the other is sketchy.. just cause it's comedic and I dislike that sometimes... but the other one is pretty intense and I can't wait to see where it goes! I haven't auditioned for much lately just because I have to write a friggin 10 page paper on Affirmative Action that's due in a week.. and I've only got one page written... yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!
BUT GOOD NEWS!!! I GOT A JOB!! I'm officially working in the ticket sales/reservations at Brianhead ski resort!! Perks to that: I get a free pass, I get paid money, I meet new people, and I get free day passes for people! Downs to that: basically I won't be able to go home for Christmas break... or any break for that matter. I'm really hoping that I'll be able to get a job in the summer up here working in a restaurant or something so that I can just have that job for the entire year! But I'm super psyched about Brianhead!!
Ok so relationship update... there is none haha! I'm still single!! But my roommates "friend" is trying to set me up with a basketball player so we'll see how that goes!!
But.. yeah that's basically what my life has been besides some random weekends full of crazy nephew's (whom I love), and OH for halloween I was a nerd. It was fun. Plus I had to help out with the Howl at SUU and basically sat in a chair watching a lot of mostly naked people dancing on top of eachother while telling dumb people that they had to use the other exit for 4 hours until 1 am. IN THE MORNING. But it was an entertaining experience!! I'm honestly glad it happened and I had fun!! But mostly not much has happened! Sorry that I took so long to blog and I'll try to pick it up again!!
PEACE OUT!

24 hours of theater.

OK... So...... this is gonna be a short blog. Because I REFUSE to go into too much detail about this. If you want to know the full details just text me, haha depending on who you are I may not tell you.

Well my friend James and I signed up for this 24 hour theater thing. Basically what that is is a group of actors/writers/directors sign up, and then meet on a Friday, and then they're put into groups (7 in this case). One writer, one director and the number of actors varied... It was mostly just under 10 people. Then the actors/directors/writers go home! The writers stay up all night and at 6 am turn in a short scene they typed up. Roughly 10 minutes long! Then actors and directors show up, read the script and get to work! The shows are put on that night! So me and James were (completely randomly) put into a group together! The rehearsals happened, and the show went great! Like I said I'm not gonna go into detail unless you ask me over text or phone call or in person or whatever.
.....I'll just say that I'm exceptionally happy that it's over and that I never have to do that particular scene again!

College is going great and homework is not too bad!!
Peace and Love!

The Weekend of Labor.

Yeah the title? Not what it sounds like! SOOOOO. This LABOR DAY weekend I came home to good old ClEaNyStOoRnED Utah!!! (edited because I realize that there are stalkers in the world... cough cough SHELBY cough cough.....) It was quite a fun weekend! I is not gonna lie!!

FRIIIIIIIDAY.
So. The Friday of Labor day was spent in a car. Well most of it. My ROOMmate Shelbi's brother Brady (who attends SUU) owns a car! So they both were gonna head to their humble abode and Shelbi asked if I wanted a ride back North! So of course I said yes! So the day comes and as we're putting stuff in the car, Shelbi's brother is talking on the phone about "we'll be there in a minute... call us when you know you can come... and so on." So I asked Shelbi about this and found out (to my GREAT surprise) that we would be having one of Brady's old mission companions in the car with us. So. We picked up the mission companion... Yeah that was interesting. Within 5 minutes he had hit on both me and Shelbi. Freaking Ridiculous. Plus I was reading Richard III. When I want to read, I READ. I don't be social. I plug in my Ipod and I read. Rude of me I know but he was bugging ok!! But even with the clear signs I was giving him, he kept grabbing my leg and going IS THE BOOK GOOD?!?! or. YOU'RE FUNNY. I LIKE YOU. or. (this was my favorite) WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES???? YEP. interesting. But entertaining. So I arrived home safely!! But even when I was gone the relentless youth said "SHE WAS REAL CUTE." yikes. Anyways, when I got home and walked in the doors I honestly teared up. I miss my home smell. Sounds weird but it's true. At the close of that Friday my family took me to a lovely dinner at Pizzeria (in Ogden) which is LITERALLY the best pizza in Utah. IT'S BETTER THAN THE PIE. But over all, Friday was FFFFFantastic!

SATUR(D)DAY!!!
Saturday... Saturday was an errand day mostly! It was spent with my parents going around town getting my pupils measure (for my future new glasses that I'm stoked for.) and grocery shopping (I didn't need much.. yikes.). But the end of it was spent with an exceptionally great friend of mine. Ms. Niki Waite. Niki is a year older than me and is a Musical Theater Major at Weber State University (I hope her stalkers read this.) Basically it was spent talking. Just talking. But she did buy me a Red Mango (LAAAATE Birthday present.) Basically I asked her about some advice about my future. (Whether or not I should go into acting) She gave me some great advice which I won't go into. But yes. She's one of my dear best friends and I'd be screwed in life without her. JUST SAYING.


SUNDAY.
OOOK. so. For a quick background check, and for those of you that don't know, I'M LDS. (latter day saint) and I'm LOVING it. I also have an incredible Bishop. He helped me through some great trials in my life. This past Sunday was full of testimonies and tears. The Bishopric is being released! After serving us all for 5 years it's over.. Weird to think about right? But yeah everyone was crying and it was depressing. AFTER CHURCH. Well. One of my other best friends (who I literally consider my sister, not just cause of her but I'm pretty close with her family.. I hope I can say that. I think I am? If I'm not this is awkward!) who goes to BYU invited me to her humble abode to hang out for a little! (oh it's McCall Simmons... just so ya know?) So I was going to hang out for about an hour roughly and ended up being there for three hours. Haha! ACCIDENTAL. We hung out with McCall's neighbor Katie. Who is FANTASTIC. She had so many videos that she made while on some..... stuff! (LEGAL STUFF.) Before the first video had been going for 10 seconds we were all gut laughing. GREAT STUFF. And by the end of the night we were good friends! Plus Katie has... a grrrreat family! No joke.. Some of her specific family members are..... sweet! After we left Katie's house we went to McCall's to play a game.. That I can't remember the name of. Basically it's a fantastically addicting card game that I suck at (for the moment.). It was an incredible night full of laughs and love. McCall's family is incredible and will be there for me if I ever need them. THEY'RE GREAT.



THE FINAL DAY. (...Monday...)
Ok! So Monday was a day FULL of emotions. But it was a wonderful day. And I'm not just saying that. Monday morning me and McCall met up with a dear friend of ours who was our old Theater teacher! Mrs. Andra Thorne! She never signed my yearbook. And that HAD to be fixed. So the plan was to meet at Yogotogo at 9:00 (cause that's what time the internet said it opened!) So I was the first one to get there and looky at that IT WAS CLOSED. Didn't open until 11:00. So because my phone was dead (forgot my charger at Cedar) I couldn't call Mccall or Andra and tell them! So I figured I'd just wait. Well while waiting the man who owns Yogotogo (and who's daughter was in Musical Productions with me and McCall) came and went in the lovely shop and took out these three chairs that sit outside when it's opened! So I was like.. "Is it opening early cause of Labor Day?" POSSIBLY. So McCall came and we discussed that we should go in! We went to open the door... and it was locked. Disappointing. BUT. Then the owner comes up and is like "What are you two doing here??" So we told him that we were meeting Andra here and that we thought it opened earlier! Well this guy.. is an extremely nice man. So he let me and McCall come inside to just hang out and wait for Andra. So we did! Then Andra came and we all got caught up on life and stuff! Then the owner was like "I got everything set up! You guys can get some Yogo if you want!" So McCall and I went, filled out cups, and went to pay. You know what he said? "It's on me!! College student discount." YEAH. FREE YOGOTOGO!!! Best day ever and it was only 10:00 in the morning!! So while eating Yogo I talked to Andra about my future. I want to go into acting. But I don't. I have NO clue what to do!! So Andra asked me a couple of questions "Will you regret it?" duh. "Will you always wonder what would've happened?" yep. THEN DO IT. So through her advice, and the advice of Niki, and the advice of my sister-in-law Casey... I've decided I'm going to major in Acting. BAM! ROASTED. I'm taking a Intro to Public Relations class next semester so if I like that (people have told me I'd be good at that) then I'll double major!! I'm glad that I'm done with worrying... Yay! Anyways. So yeah not only did I get a free yogo. PLUS direction of my future. BUT. The owner pops out and is like help yourselves to another one!! YEAH. TWO FREE YOGOS IN ONE MORNING!! Great morning. But Andra's need to be a mother caused that she had to go home, plus my family wanted to go to lunch! So we said our goodbyes and left. GREAT MORNING. So before lunch I got my paycheck from good old Cherry HELL, and saw some old friends of mine! Great people. Then we went to Mandrin Palace. Which is magical cause you get a ton of food for 5$. AWESOME. Then when we were done I waited a few hours and got a ride back with Shelbi, and her brother! The RM was not there! (heh heh thank GOODNESS.) We arrived home around 10:00. It was a great weekend and I'm so lucky I got to go home and see my family. Well... that's the end of my weekend. Peace out!!

PS. I asked my (current) theater teacher if the man who played Richard in Richard III was gay... you know what she said?? HE'S NOT. AND. HE'S SINGLE. So I can day dream without feeling completely wrong. James wasn't nearly as excited about it as me... I wonder why???

College as I know it!

OK. So this is my first blog... EVER. If it's sketchy don't judge me. I can't write, sometimes I don't capitalize letters, sometimes I'm not grammatically correct and we all know it so we'll all just have to live with it!
So college started. I'll start with that! So when I first moved up to Cedar City (I attend SUU in case you didn't know) I lived with my brother and sister (in law) for a couple of days! I lived with them longer than I planned on. (which I am extremely grateful for.) Mostly because I was scared to move and be alone.. Seriously what if my room mates were psycho?! It was just scary and I wasn't ready. When I did move in though I remember my brother Brock helping me move everything in (which for the moment was just a suitcase and a couple of boxes)and when we were done he gave me a hug and I almost started crying. (I cry REALLY easily by the way. Good movie. Good book. Good story. I WEEP) But yeah I was about to cry BUT I held my tears cause I feel like Brock would've thought I was crazy. So while holding in my tears I met my room mates Daysha, Britany, and Mia (Shelbi my ROOM mate came later. She's incredibly nice and generous and I'm lucky to have her as my friend and room mate!). All of them are so cool and I am SO lucky (and happy) none of them are psycho! So my first day on my own as alright! Just a little stressful but still, it wasn't too bad! I'm taking this whole blog thing in sections.
In college I'm honestly not extremely social. KIDDING. I'm awesome. KIDDING. But really I've met a ton of new people and so far all of them are awesome! I'm in a group called SUUSA where we focus on students getting involved in school with clubs and games and stuff like that! There are so many people and some cute guys to! At "Flight School" (which was a couple of weeks ago) we had a dance on the Saturday of that week. Lemme tell ya there were some hotties. Especially this one kid. BEAUTIFUL. Yeah I could've made out with him and not felt bad about it AT ALL. So me and my roomies danced the night away and got ready for school the next Monday! The first week of college honestly wasn't too bad! I mean home work sucks and the stupid required university classes are NOT worth the money or the time but most of my classes are interesting and fun! I'm taking Psychology which is SO interesting so far except I have to write a paper and research a bunch of stuff. Then I'm taking Institute which I so far love! My class has one of those kids who answer EVERYTHING and it all goes right over my head. I'm also taking an American Government class. I'll admit it's extremely interesting but whenever my teacher mentions this bill, or that bill, or this law I really have NO clue what he's talking about and everyone around me nods in understanding. It's pretty awkward for me but hopefully I'll get the hang of it! After that class it's time for my Theater class! Which so far I partially love. The teacher is great! But some of the students... Well they're all extremely nice but they're also the definition of why people think theater kids are obnoxious. That sounds awful but you all know exactly what kind of person I'm talking about! Don't deny it! My last class is a leadership class. I thought that class would be fun and it is! But because of the people. The work is terrible. My professor told us all that he was going to grade us really hard at first so that we'll build good work ethics and keep our grades up. AKA. Bull shiznick. It's more him saying I'm going to grade you hard so that you fail this class! It's interesting but I'm getting the hang of it! The Saturday of my first week there was an 80's dance. Freaking awesome. My awesome sister helped me get ready so that I looked legit (she wanted to give me a fake mullet. I refused that. I may be a hippy bum but I have standards) I learned something from that dance though. Never wear a velvet (although it was awesome) dress to a dance. I was sweating so badly it was DISGUSTING. When I went to the dance my hair was crimped. When I left it was straight. THAT'S HOW WET MY HAIR WAS.
SHAKESPEARE. As some of you know SUU has the Utah Shakespeare Festival every year. This year the shows are Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo & Juliet. Me, Shelbi, and my friend James went to see every show.
Richard III
INCREDIBLE. I've never been more blown away by any Shakespeare play. But I haven't seen that many so I can't say that much. It was INCREDIBLE. Literally that's all I can say! The man who played Richard was a BABE. Although he was a psycho. There was a hot make out moment involving Richard. All of the actors were brilliant. The man who played Richard (although hot) "seemed like a douche" as my friend James said. I had to slightly agree with him. I can't really explain WHY but.. Just a gut feeling. My senior year of High School I was in a Shakespeare scene from Richard III. When that scene came up I stopped breathing. But I couldn't stop moving. I would lean forward in my seat, and then lean back. Not in a constant motion cause then I'd seem nuts. But it was incredible. The actress who played Margaret was fantastic. She OWNED that role. So over all Richard was probably my favorite of the three. Although Midsummer is RIGHT behind it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
This play was HILARIOUS. I have never laughed so hard in a show in my entire life! There were a couple of actors that bugged me but over all they were all perfect for their parts! Especially the man who played Oberon. WINK. Guess who? Yep. The man who played Richard. Aka Mr. Beautiful smile. The only problem was when he was in his Oberon costume he.... wore tight pants. and a tight shirt. The tight shirt thing was GREAT. The tight pants? Not so much. (I'm about to get disgustingly graphic) There was no bulge. No clue how they did that! But he'd always seem to be thrusting forward. Just how he was standing. But he was also around 7 feet. Not even joking! He seemed HUGE as Oberon compared to him being Richard. Once again shows his brilliance. But that show was full of hilarious innuendo and a moment that suggested that Oberon (richard... yeah whatever) was gay. SERIOUSLY?! It really could've just been a joke. In fact I'm just going to believe it was a joke. But he just did something that suggested it, but it was HILARIOUS. That play was HILARIOUS.
Romeo & Juliet
Ah Romeo, Romeo. Romeo was HOT. In my way.. I have a unique taste. I'm attracted to a lot of types of men but there are some that just catch my eye. Romeo was one of them. PLUS he didn't give off the gay vibe AT ALL. Which is a huge plus!! But Juliet... She was.. obnoxious. I thought she played a convincing 14 year old. But not a convincing 14 year old in love. That's the problem with this play. R&J meet and instantly fall in love... It's romantic but so unrealistic!! That's why I liked Romeo though. He made it seemed like he'd known her for a while! While Juliet played the typical Juliet.. I give credit to most of the actors. They did an incredible job! It's just not my favorite Shakespeare! There was one moment however that I really liked that I've never seen in any other version of R&J. (SPOILER?) So after Romeo has killed himself with poison, Juliet wakes up from her "sleeping death" and sees him and sees the vial the poison was in and realizes that he poisoned himself right? Well then she kisses him to see if there's any left over poison. Well after that she shouted "His lips are warm!" and Romeo sat up GASPING. He opened his eyes and saw her, and then fell back down dead. Yeah, I did NOT see that coming. That kind of jostled me not gonna lie! (But I didn't cry.) But yeah basically Romeo was attractive, and knew what he was doing. I liked parts of the play but not all of it.
So there's my Shakespeare experience so far! It isn't the end either! Honestly seeing these shows has piqued my interest in going into acting again... But I'm torn just because (IN THE DISTANT FUTURE) I want to get married and have kids. Acting is an extremely busy life that doesn't have much time for family... I don't know what to do! If I did go into acting I'd want to do Shakespeare because I MISS IT. Plus I love Shakespeare... I am conflicted about my future. But I have some time to decide! Plus my theater teacher is forcing us to audition for at least one show! So we'll see how that goes!! Well school is great and homework sucks! So I better get on my Psychology homework! Peace out!