Being Thankful.

Hey. What's up? I haven't posted a blog in like two years. Not sure why, maybe stress from work, maybe depression, whatever. I'm done with all that shit. I don't want to stop doing things I love just because certain areas in my life haven't panned out the way I'd like.

I just have a few thoughts that I'd like to share.    
The past couple weeks have been a little stressful and decently productive. I think I've made some important decisions about my life.

I'm going to take dance classes to brush up on my triple-threat status. I need to be in a musical again. It's been way too long. I think I've decided on the place, I'm just gathering up the money, and it's a done deal.

I'm making more time to exercise. I'm making more time to be creative. Simple as that.

Some cool things happened:
Last week I met Fionnula Flanagan. She was absolutely delightful. She bought some coffee at the boutique and I made her a macchiato. She said it was amazing and that I made her day with it. I shook her hand and told her what an amazing actress I think she is. She was very appreciative and introduced herself formally. That made my fuckin' day.

My long-time boyfriend, Jason, and I love Disneyland. So does his brother, Matthew, and his new wife, Jessika. They had their honeymoon at the Disneyland Hotel, and they happened to get a free upgrade to a lovely suite. They invited us to stay with them since they had a pull out couch in the living area of this suite. That was pretty amazing, since we didn't expect to have the chance to stay at the REAL Disneyland Hotel anytime soon. It was beautiful! We drank a lot of alcohol. Then we decided to get in the pool and make use of the awesome water slide. I don't think I've ever gotten into a pool in November, but it was great, heated pools make it easy to deal with the cold outside. We used the hot tub too, good times. I had such a wonderful time with them.

The four of us had been wanting to get tickets to Hollywood Babble-On, a live podcast with Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman. Jason I and had seen the show once, but when we saw it, it was Ralph and Jon Lovitz, before Lovitz fucked them over. I hadn't yet seen Kevin Smith in person, and I've come to respect him so much over the past year, just learning about his life and how he went from nothing to making movies. We looked it up and found that the one day they were doing the podcast this month was while Matt and Jess were here. We grabbed some tickets right before they sold out. It was a great night of pre-game drinking, with my new beverage of choice: Whiskey and Ginger Ale...Oh my God, so goooood. We got to The Hollywood Improv Theater early and ate some food, had some wine, and laughed a lot at stupid shit as usual.
If you haven't listened to this podcast, you need to. It's super funny and witty. Basically they talk about news in Hollywood and read emails that fans send in. The catch to the reading of the emails is, Ralph Garman does some great impressions of celebrities and folks ask him to do those impressions in messages to their friends or family or whatever. Kevin has joined in on some of the funny voices as well, so I sent in an email asking Kevin's "sexy voice" and Ralph's Huell Hauser voice to tell Matt and Jessika we want then to get out of Colorado and move to LA already. They said our names and we woooed and screamed from the FRONT ROW where we were, and I felt bad because I probably blew out someone's ears, so I covered my mouth and Kevin kinda made fun of me and said I was adorable and that he was kinda turned on because we had a little erotic moment together. It was really funny and pretty fucking sweet to have Kevin Smith tell me I was adorable. It was a really unforgettable night, and I'm so glad that we all got to experience it together.


Yesterday was a simple Thanksgiving for Jason and I. Since I'm still sadly in retail, we couldn't go see our families. We bought a very large 21 pound turkey for just the two of us, but hey it was extremely inexpensive. We made food and watched TV all day. It was wonderful! I'm very happy to have him in my life, he's my support when no one else is around. I can never be sad with a nice rainy day, our two cats, and Jason. If my best friend/roommate, Neil, wasn't in Merced seeing his parents, he would've made the perfect addition to the holiday.

I'm not sure what the point of this blog is, I suppose I just needed to remind myself about the great things I still get to do, and the people I have in my life who make me very happy. I'm glad I have all my limbs, and that I have my eyesight, hearing and that I can think for myself. Soon I'll be doing what I want to do with my life, I won't be stuck in a job I don't like; I won't have to struggle so much with bills and having the energy and time to do more things that make me happy.

That's it I suppose. Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving!