Liiiiife

Oh, life, I get carried away by you so frequently, don't I? Let's see, what is important enough to fill you blog readers in on...

My show was fantastic. Saturday night, especially, I had so many important people in the audience and I felt so good about my performance (minus a part in act III, but I don't want to explain why). It was a bumpy road with this play for everyone in the cast, but I am so proud of us all because we put on a show that we were so proud of and bonded so much. I love that class. I was so worried that this year would be absolute shit, but it has been such a great year already and I am excited or future acting endeavors. Meanwhile, we have taken down the set and have begun delving into our one act festival. I will be directing a rather absurd one act which I will probably discuss more at a later date because I don't have a copy of it with me at the moment. But believe me, it's WEIRD. Haha.

Denis and I celebrated our one year anniversary on Friday, the 20th :) An entire year of putting up with me takes endurance and I applaud him. I'd give him a medal if I could. Instead, I got him Jayne's hat and a long note. He got me a mixtape and we are celebrating the event this Saturday at Teatro ZinZanni! I am very excited. I'll save you the mushy girly stuff, but I love that guy. He means the world to me and he is my world and I am lucky. So there. <3

I am sooo excited for this weekend. I am so busy and so excited for the holidays to officially begin! We all know that I am a Christmas-o-holic, but I adore Thanksgiving, as well. On Thursday, I have two Thanksgivings to attend for both sides of my family. Black Friday means GETTING MY TREE. AAAAH. And then spending all day decorate! :D And then in the evening, I am having a ton of awesome people over for a Thanksgiving dinner. Saturday is Teatro ZinZanni, Sunday is probably more decorating, et cetera. I really need to do some Christmas shopping. Like, the actual shopping part. I have all of the gifts picked out already, but need to get/make them all! Eek!

School sucks. There are about 200 issues with it right now and it is stressful and stupid and I deal with it by completely ignoring it and putting shit off, such as meetings with counselors and such. Fuuuck school. I don't want to think about it. Happy thoughts!

The internet has honestly been the last thing on my mind as of late, actually. I've had to force myself to check YouTube and Tumblr, just so it wouldn't bug me when I had twenty videos or pages to go through. Frankly, people on the internet have been driving me crazy. Especially with everyone I know talking about Nanowrimo or Jingle Spells or other things. Every time I go on twitter, everyone is talking about New Moon, nanowrimo or Lady Gaga. Three things I couldn't care less about, to be quite honest. I want to keep as far away as possible from New Moon talk or the singing of Taylor Swift or whatever else it may be. Oh popular culture, how you can be a bitch sometimes... Anyway, people have also gotten ruder on the internet. I feel like if I mentioned my favourite colour in a youtube video, people who bitch and tell me that I was wrong and that clearly *insertothercolourhere* is so much better. People immediately jump down your throat on the internet. I don't take myself that seriously and I don't think that others should take me that seriously either. Just saying.

While on the subject of the internet, I want o ask all of you to give me a video idea. I have had so much trouble as of late coming up with ideas for videos. So please, COMMENT WITH AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IN A VIDEO FROM ME. If you say sing, Hoedown Throwdown or anything to do with things I have mentioned I dislike in this post, I will send death glares your way.

And with that, I should be off to bed. Tomorrow kind of my last important day for school stuff because a four day weekend and I can't waaaait. So leave a comment and farewell, my dears.

Fashion section: Frankly, I have no ideas for this section. But someone mentioned me talking about what I love to wear during winter and all I have to say to that is LAYERS. I own very little thick clothing. I am all about the layers, knee-high socks, big scarves and hats. I recently purchased a rain jacket from Forever 21, which was much-needed. But I don't think that in my entire life (which has been in Seattle), I have owned one. Except possibly as a small child. Crazy, huh? This autumn has brought enough rain to make the jacket necessary, however. So. That's my short answer: layers. Even layering tights can be really fun and look awesome. Have fun with it.

Book recommendation: I haven't read for fun in about a month. Feel sorry for me. :(

Have a lovely Thanksgiving all of you Americans! xx

Christmas excitement and other joy

Hello there. Honesty, I don't have too much to share, but I am in a blogging mood. So, as I sit here on my giant lovely couch, with holiday music playing (the only reason I like Comcast is for this channel that plays non-stop Christmas music), drinking hot chocolate and eating Cane Cane Joe Joe's (the best cookies every, pretty much), I am going to blog.

Last night I had an interesting experience. I was on a double date pretty much with an ex-boyfriend. Sure, it's been two-ish years, but still, so weird. We were all in play production together (his new girlfriend, Bryn, and I are still close and still in the class while the boys have both graduated) and it was really great to be with them. We had dinner that Denis and I made, went to Cupcake Royale (if you ever end up in Seattle, go there please) and came back to my place and watched Ratatouille because New York, I Love You only plays at weird hours in the middle of the week because it's two and a half hours long or something. I reaaaally want to see that film, though. It was fun. Double dates are a lot of fun, even though I was initially opposed to them so many months ago. We've only had good experiences.

What else, what else...Oh yeah! We finished blocking the play, sort of. It's a little rough right now but tech is on Wednesday, so we don't have much time. We'll probably have a few extra rehearsals from now to next Thursday when we open, but ahhh. It's exciting! Having a lead has been such a great experience for me. I feel so much like my character at times; it really is fantastic. I wish everyone in the cast was as into their roles as I was, but we'll see how that changes as we approach opening night.

Speaking of that weekend, Hank is coming here! I really hope that I'll be able to see him, because he's in Portland on Friday the 20th (coincidently the night of a performance and my one year anniversary with Denis), so I told him he should do something in Seattle during the afternoon of the 21st then come see my show that evening xD That would be pretty awesome.

I have no motivation right now. I just keep stopping and thinking and that is all I want to do all day. Imagine I am doing other things while I sit here and think about them. Oh, life. Speaking of things I want to do, roadtripping Route 66 (or what's left of it). Next summer. Who's with me? I seem to be the only one overly excited about this idea, which is a shame, but I have new odd travel ideas like this every month, so it could stem from that. I just need a big trip; an epic trip, if you will. Will all matters of transportation, please. Train, plane, car, boat, etc. Especially the first two, they are my favourites. I want to go to Portland...sigh. Need to stop thinking about traveling...

CHRISTMAS. It's everywhere. And it seems to bother just about everyone but me. I mean, yes, it's silly for Tully's to have Christmas trees in their windows and Starbucks to have broken out the red cups (which they received on October 13th, believe it or not!) but that just means good things to come, right? Christmas is a beautiful time of year. People are happy and there are pretty colours and lights and music and just... joy. In my mind, a bad Christmas is a total and complete oxy-moron and I want to personally fix Christmas for anyone who doesn't enjoy it. I can't wait to pull out my snowman cardigan and Christmas owl v-neck bought for me by the lovely Rita and just dance around my living room to this Christmas channel with the fire a-blazing. I've already started shopping online for people and can't wait to hit the stores and wrap presents! I LOVE wrapping presents! Christmas! Ah! Just spent half an hour shopping for people online.

So let me tie up this blog because Denis is coming by and needs his laptop for homework. I am going to listen to more music, read The History of Love and relaaax. Hope this is reaching you at a relaxing moment, too!

Forgot to mention I posted a ton of new photos on my flickr, so go check those out!

Fashion section:

I wasn't planning on adding one today, but you guys seemed really enthusiastic about it, so I'll throw in a little something. I have so many inspirations and next to none of them reside on a runway. Sure, I love me some Marc Jacobs, BCBG, Balenciaga and DKNY, but rarely do I refer to them as influences. I am a street style girl and adore sites like Lookbook, tumblr and various blogs for inspiration. My idol is a lovely French girl named Betty, whose blog I have been reading for a couple of months now. No idea how I stumbled upon her, but boy am I glad I did. She has introduced me to new sites, new styles and given me tons of new ideas for my own wardrobe. In addition, this girl's blog is awesome with all of the black and studs, which I am obsessed with as of late.

How's that for a first? What do you want me to talk about in this section? My influences, where I shop, outfit posts, what? Keep in mind, I suck at outfit posts, but I may be able to manage. We'll see :)

Book recommendation: The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray. I was thinking about that today and I adored that series. If you haven't read and you are a female, get on that :) even if you just want to read the first one, as far as I remember, it's a great solo read.

Dollhouse tracker: Ready for new episodes! Enver Gjokaj is an accent and acting GOD. Seriously. So impressed every episode. Oh and 2x04 was brilliant, by the way. Aaaand next on our television agenda is Battlestar Gallactica! Woo!

(Can I mention again that I love Emily? Because I feel like we have been particularly mentally connected lately and I am so, SO excited to see her in January. I am making a list of things we need to do together as I type!)

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I am tired, so here's a list:

- I should have written a paper today, or the day before, or the day before...But I didn't. I hate procrastinating! It isn't me! But I now have about four hours to work on it tomorrow, so...cool.

- I'm currently in the last few weeks of production of Ivanov and I feel really, really good about my performance. I can't wait to share it with my friends and family and everyone. Until I can, however, there is so much I have to do, lines to memorise, tears to shed, etc.

- Please stop sending me emails about Glee. I get that you guys all love it, but it's not my kind of show and I have about twenty things I'd rather than do than read another email telling me to "give it another chance"! xD I'm not a fan of 97% of musical theatre.

- I am so happy that Halloween is over because it means Thanksgiving, which to me means CHRISTMAS TIME BEGINS. I am about ready to break out my carols (as soon as I have time to, you know, listen to music).

- The Pacific Northwest is officially freezing. Brrrrr.

- I missed free Chipotle and am still distressed, days later.

- I am not doing NaNoWriMo because I don't really enjoy writing novels (I've never been about to remotely finish one and the furthest I got was about sixty pages, front and back, handwritten in about seventh grade. My friends and I were ambitious little things...). On top of that I have tons of work, a show, a boyfriend, a social life, a deep infatuation with getting way too much sleep aaaand because I think pressing myself to write words, rather than a quality novel, is sort of counterproductive. I'm a quality over quantity girl. That's just how I've seen it; never been a fan of the activity but for those who are: that's really awesome and hope you...win. (I don't like how they call it "winning," haha. xD)

- I will do the fashion section of the blog at a later date. I'm happy you all liked the idea and gave such great feedback! I'd like to add that my other passion is traveling, but I didn't add that to the previous post because I was focusing more on passion that required some sort of "work," so to speak, rather than just something I love with all of my heart. If that makes sense...probably not.

- Seattle is kind of my favourite place in the entire world. This is a recent realisation, but it's very true. Or at least one of them.

- I love my sisterwives (don't ask) and can't wait for Emily Voss to come here and then possibly live here.

- Paper Towns is still my favourite non-Potter novel. Despite John Green being a lovely person and a friend of mine, he is also such a brilliant writer and I haven't acknowledged that enough lately.

- My boyfriend is the best person and I am very fortunate, to say the least.

- I need to take better photographs and go through the ones I currently have and post them.

- I am tired more than any person who gets at least eight hours, but normally more, should ever be. I think I have a problem. I can't get enough sleep! I go to sleep at ten at night, wake up at like..eight in the morning and am STILL TIRED. Not to mention the many, MANY evenings that I have sleeping issues due to my back, inability to fall asleep/back asleep, etc. Rawr.

This was much longer than intended...Sooo, goodnight, everyone! xx

P.S. For the person who informed me that River wasn't a Browncoat in my post when I talked about Halloween...I am aware that the sixteen/seventeen year old girl didn't fight in the war xD I was referring to myself when I said it feels good to be a Browncoat, haha. Just wanted to point that out because blogspot, sadly, has no way of responding to comments efficiently :(

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