Capre diem!

Dear Friends, I can't put what I want to say in words so I am just not going to say it right now. So much has happened since I have last blogged, a whole world of things, it's hard to grasp. Since April, I've moved out of New Jersey, made some incredible connections, gone on a lot of auditions, made new friends, had life threatening experiences, and learned a lot. I have been back in Ohio since August, right before the hurricane (Irene?) I can hardly remember now, hit the east coast. Lydia and I made it a whole year, it was a really great, long, strange, tough, unbelievable year. I moved back to finish High School at home. I am doing 2 shows while I am home. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and West Side Story. Narnia opens... TOMORROW! Which is absolutely insane! I am a Dryad and Adult Lucy. I sing through out the show with some music that was added, do some set changes, become evil as a cloaked dryad, and I am Adult Lucy at the end. It was a very fun show and I think it will be pretty good, fingers crossed. It's really great to be back at the theater working with old friends and just being silly and having fun. I am doing West Side Story, which opens at the end of Jan. I am Anita, which is beyond exciting, it is going to definitely be an awesome role for me, different than I am normally cast, instead of the sweet, demure, innocent one, I get to be a bit sassy and on fire! I am excited about that as well! Christmas is also coming up, and I LOVE christmas so that will keep things busy! I'm also hoping to get a job while I'm home, I have applied a few places, and no luck but thats why the hunt continues! John Degrazio from Captiol Records, whom I met at the ARTS back last summer, called me just before Thanksgiving, I missed his call which is oh so unfortunate, gave him a call back but got voicemail. Very busy man I presume, and I just have to keep contacting him. Besides the fact it is super exciting he did give me a call, and I really hope I can get back in touch with him! I also took a visit back to New York, when my manager got me an interview with Carson-Kolker Agency, now freelancing with them and excited to see what comes of it! The trouble I have now is being back in Ohio, I can't wait to finish school and have it off my back, but I also am just trying to enjoy my time home as much as possible, but I need to get on the ball with my career. I turned 18 in October, so finally I am legal, I don't like the thought of being so old, (even though 18 is very young) but it does make a lot of things much much easier! What I wanted to say in the beginning, keeps coming up and its that I always catch myself at times thinking I really need to get rolling with this or that. For example this blog... I am not a blogger, I don't do well with keeping up to date with it, but there are things like this and facebook, and twitter, and youtube, and just general marketing skills that you have to keep up on. Thinking about things like that make me crazy, because I know they need to be done, but golly I only partially know how to go about doing it. I think what I have come to realize, is that everything is just a bit jumbled, and I think that is because of the place I am at right now. I need to little by little work on all these little things to prepare me for when I really get going, because at this point, I can only prepare, but not being in the city, means I can't only do so much. But you know what... I can do something, it even if I keep coming back to saying this and then falling behind a bit it, it is time to get moving, and if I only move forward a little bit, then I am a little bit closer to where I want to be, if I wait to say its not to get moving, or don't because I know I'll fall behind then I've already moved backwards 10 steps. So, now that I have pumped myself up by my own cliche, motivational speaking.... I have one thing to say.. CAPRE DIEM!