SEATTLE #1

so first seattle post!

seattle is cool! It's not snowy or too cold (though I am freezing all of the time!)

the house i live in now is GORGEOUS!! it's in the middle of this hill in a district called magnolia. it's really beautiful, but man, climbing up the hill is BRUTAL.

My room is slowly but surely getting organized, mostly slowly bc im lazy. but I didn't really bring that much stuff which is good for me.

Bo and his sister Kaitlin and her bf Derek are super cool and we've been playing banangrams every single night which is so much fun! we get really into it and play 4 or 5 rounds in a row. I also learned how to play this cool ass card game called 313. it's fun. and I WON my first game!

I'm getting used to sharing food (aka pooling groceries) because I'm not always so good at sharing food with people, but I'll settle into it, and I do like it because it means we get to do this bigger meals and eat together which is cool. I feel like we're a little family.

Kaitlin and Derek have two dogs, Angel and Duke ! who are the cutest things in the world. They're both mutts and rescue dogs. Angel is part great dane and pitt and possibly mastiff and she is just a love bug! she loves to snuggle and be pet and she just is the cutest thing! Duke is part rot, lab or shepard mix, he looks like a little brown bear and he's a little "saltier" as Derek says. He's a little bit less lovey and can get a little protective of Derek, but only in the way that he'll sit there and growl at you, but not do anything about it.

we don't have internet at the house yet but when i do, i want to do a video tour of the house. While I was at home I got to watch some home video's of my 5th birthday and it made me realize how much I want to take more video's of my life, because they're so much fun to watch later on!

so what else. I have my first day of work today. I applied to a website that said "jobs that matter" and I'm going to be going up to people and going door to door to fundraise for the sierra club to stop blowing the tops off of mountains to get at coal. pretty cool. the hours aren't exactly what I want and I might die being outside all the time (see above about being cold ALL THE TIME!) so we will see. I'm keeping my options open and not getting myself too worked up about anything. I'm here to relax, save money and work like a normal person. so we will see. I'll keep you posted on how it works out.

yesterday I got to go to pike place market which was super cool! this city has so much character and beauty. the mountains in the background are really quite beautiful and I'm really happy to be living here. hopefuly another update will follow soon! I must go and get ready for my first day of work! hooray!

washington dc

so i've been really bad about updating, but i started another blog about eating vegan on the road under this same name, so you shoudl check it out.

i'm currently in DC and i can see the kennedy center from my window as well as the watergate- dc is a pretty cool place. it's weird being back here, especially bc the hotel is on teh same street (like a block and a half away from where the KC put me up)- it's like flashing back to my past job. I love it.
day off tomorrow. so i'm probably going to go to the smithsonians tomorrow and maybe catch an imax.

wizard of oz is on tv right now and i'm really enjoying it. also enjoying how not-skinny judy garland is. like. i think i have better legs then she does. and that makes me feel happy and sad at the same time that that is no longer considered a standard of beauty.

oh well. off to see the wizard. taking a shower then out dancing tonight! woot woot!

i love my life.

so tour is going great.
we started out in north carolina our first load in was a little crazy, it was at a high school and there was no venue contact and i didn't really know what i was doing but it was fun and the kids were great. my co workers gave them all nicknames like smize and sasha fierce. a lot of them really loved working with us and i hope that they continue doing theatre and at least one of them does technical work. it was a bit of a crazy thing but a totally fun first day.
the night before we all went out to this bar called zac-a-doo's. it was in fredricksburg va, and kind of ridiculous. we were the youngest people there and a woman told me that we were all cute "in a mom way". it was ridiculous.

we've been in north carolina all week. just getting used to the show, it's been an adventure and each venue has been a learning experience, but i'm beginning to get the hang of things. hopefully next week will be easier.

other things have been ridiculous. went to a strip club near unc wilmington, with the only straight male co worker in the company. i felt like i was in csi las vegas or pulp fiction. it was wild. first time ever at a strip club so far this tour has been adventure after adventure. sketchy gay clubs all over the country. so much fun.
last night we went out in st. louis, mo. another discovery of america is that cabs suck and are way too expensive, except for in new york.

so i love glee but really... really... it is a little ridiculous. let's talk first about the way they sound. totally not their real voices. they sound best when they're not digitally remastered like disney's high school musical. also it annoys me when there are 8 million voices when there only 12 people onstage, and only 3 of them are singing. also. then... let's talk about the lighting for all of their numbers. newest episode... really? a 8 ft high and probably 15-20 foot long light wall? because a high school that has no real theater department has one of those hanging around, and a tech crew to set that up just for rehearsal. just the basic logistics of it all. sometimes being a theatre person ruins otherwise beautiful simple things for me. hahaha.
also because i've pretty much seen lea michelle naked i feel like i know her. thank you spring awakening.

that's all for now. i am so hungry i need to go try and find food.

so i just saw the movie fame. it made me really really happy. i highly recommend it to everyone.

to bead or not to bead...

packing sucks! ohmigod.
i am so bad at it. I've pared down my clothes as much as possible and they "fit" in my big ass walmart suitcase (which i love, don't get me wrong) but man. I packed a little differently this time from last time, this time bringing less pants and more leggings and a couple of skirts. the problem is the food thing. i'm planning on buying more food on the road and not eating out as much so i have a small duffel that was meant to hold my food and my frying pan and my beads, and hopefully my shoes but it is looking way too small. i mean, towards the end of tour what I have was what most people had, but at the the beginning? it's going to be an issue i can tell.

I'm happy with the clothing, and i'm not changing it. but now the dilemma. do i I bring the beads or do I not? honestly bead crochet has been all i've done of late and i love doing it. i can do it all the time. once they are strung it is wicked fun just to sit there and crochet. problem is beads take up room. i've tried two different ways of organizing them and neither is really the best. i don't know what to do. very annoying. i really want to. but part of me says it's a stupid idea.
last tour i had a significant amount of down time where I could bead and stuff but I don't know how this tour is going to be. i'm assuming busier but that could be me being cynical. we will see i geuss. i'll let you know all tomorrow what i decide. until then... im heading to bed and hopefully by the morning i will have found clarity. and my mind... or at least some of it.

so the time between jobs is quickly coming to an end. it's amazing how quickly a month can go by. i had so many things i planned on doing/should have done that are nowhere near. oh well. life goes. on. I need to start packing. which is goign to be interesting seeing as my room is a mess. a vile mess. lol. have i unpacked from camp? nope. have i worn pants in 4 months? not really. so i don't even know what fits/i don't want to pack any. it's an issue. seeing as pants are kind of important in theatre. tech. i'm goign ot see how much i can get off wearing leggings and long shirts and t-shirts etc.

i'm irritable today. probably because I don't want to do much and I'm not sure how amped I am about leaving home/starting this new job. we'll see. hopefully it will be good.

so i haven't updated in way too long. i need to work on keeping this more up to date. maybe i'll make it a resolution to be a daily thing.

i'm currently in boston's logan airport waiting for my 7 am flight to orlando to meet up with 9 of my amazing camp counselor co workers from this summer for 5 days to go to disney and enjoy the florida goodness. It was a really spontaneous decision for me which is rare when it comes to trips, because i love to have each little detail planned out to the minute. it's an ocd thing. i get anxious when i'm travelling. it can be a problem, i like to know every detail of every moment of every day. i have no idea what i'm doing. no idea where i'm sleeping (exact details) it's going to be an amazing romp! and I packed the lightest i think i ever have in my whole life and i'm really really proud of myself; 1 bag (21" upright rolling!) and a pillow and blanket and backpack so good. and nohting is crammed into a plastic bag. go me.

what else.

as some of you know i worked at kingsley pines summer camp all summer and it was, without a doubt the best summer of my life thus far. there are no words to describe how amazing it was and all the amazing campers i had the pleasure of meeting and the incredible counselors and staff i got to know and become friends with. being out camp sucks. there's no longer food cooked for me, a bell to tell me when it's time to do something else or the ability to dress up like a character from dr seuss or disney or history or a pirate... i mean, i could do the dress up bit but it would be a lot of work and i'd look kind of ridiculous not to mention that once i started i wouldn't be able to stop and i would have way more clothes than is necessary. hahah. i digress.

im just hanging loose and easy until sept 29th when i go on tour with chamber theatre company which should be great. then come january im thinking about bouncing around to visit people then 80-98% sure of moving to nyc or the nyc vicinity. and if not there portland oregon or burlington. so there's that a very brief run down of what's going on right now. woo hoo...

may i suggest this is the best part of you life.