Once More Into the Fray

So here we go again. Time for some blogging. Sorry to my regular and not so regular readers, with studying for finals and things like that I have been remiss in my writing in my blog.

Today is Friday, yesterday my parents took my sister and I out for lunch to celebrate my good grades. I ended up with great grades this term, although they aren't any better than other term, just that I worked really hard this term, and it payed off.

In other news I love my job. The kids are great as are some of my coworkers. Some of them are not so great although I don't think I will write about that here except that here in case I have unexpected visitors to this little place.

Theater & Me

Theater has been a big part of my life, I thought I would take the time to post a few picture of me in costume from a few shows. I few of them need descriptions so here we go.

This first picture is an oldie but a goody. This is me as the singing fairy in Midsummer Night's Dream. This was my freshman year. my friend Melissa is right to the right of me facing the camera, she did my makeup and later that school year she died horribly in an incident with a car.



This next one is me playing the guitar and singing "Figure Eight" from Schoolhouse Rocks! Live! That was our show my senior year, and boy was it fun. We did i think 6 matinée performances in three days for the elementary school children in our area. That was followed my three evening performances then another weekend of shows. We were all about dead on our feet after that. I can't believe that we made it through, but we did.

The other thing about this play was that there were over 20 songs in an hour and a half which meant that they tried to make it so none of us strained our voices by not having all of us in every song. It worked to some extend however I think I was in about 19 songs which was the most I believe out of our entire cast. That was because I have a good voice and I don't have a problem learning music and my voice is strong so I could handle it. In fact I was darned proud that I could sing that many songs in such a short time. Not that the music was very hard at all, but anyway. Time to move along to a different reverie. (Did you notice that my shoes match my shirt, I was really happy to be able to wear my favorite shoes in a play)




The next is of me during Bye Bye Birdie. I played the mother of a character named Kim so during rehearsal things were a bit confusing because when the director would say, "Kim, I need you to do such and such a thing" we would have to ask him if he meant actual Kim, or Sam who was playing Kim. Good times, well sort of I didn't really like that show but i worked my butt off for that director mostly because when I got the part of the mother he said that I wasn't a good actress. I sure showed him. In this picture we are singing "Ed Sullivan" isnt my little family cute. This is my husband in the show and my daughter right after we have found out that we will be appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and that Kim will get a kiss from her favorite singing on live television.

This one is my real family all dressed up in our costumes from "Cinderella" we were all dressed up for the ball or the wedding, I'm not really sure but I think it is the wedding since my brother is dressed up in his Minister costume. That was a fun show and all the family was in it. Mom made my costume, isn't it amazing. I Love It! Mom's dress she found at Goodwill I think and very cheaply I might add. The rest are dressed up in other costume pieces. I love costuming and looking and designing costumes. We don't dress like this every day or wear the crazy makeup either. Silly us and how cute.



This show was done actually the same summer as Cinderella. Actually it was just after we closed Cinderella that I was approached my some family friends to take this role. I had less that a month to learn my lines and everything, I think it was 2-3 weeks actually, so I had to work really hard but it was a fun show. A comedy, where I played a gold-digger. This picture is a publicity shot not a scene from the play, but it is funny. The other characters in the picture are my love interest/fiance and his other fiance who is very lower class but she knew him first hilarity ensues with gangsters, best friends and siblings, and babies. all in all that was one fun summer. By the way, my mom made this dress a well, and yes I am wearing fake nails.

From beach

This is where I would like to be right now, well if the weather wasn't full of cold and wet. I am so tired of being cold, what I wouldn't give to be completely warm. Even at night with my two comforters and flannel sheets I am not warm enough. I have never been cold like this before, normally I can handle being a bit chilly no problem, but this winter I am craving warmth like no other. May be its because of all the weight I have lost, just so you know the weight is down about 20 pounds since I started. I cannot wait to be thinner still, I'm doing my best although it is taking time to unlearn a lifetime of bad eating and exercising habits.

I have found out that I like to exercise although I still have to make myself do it, one way that I have started to make myself is the mile and a half walk to the bus four days a week. I don't have a choice not to go to school so I have to walk. It makes me feel alive to walk like that even though on those rainy cold wintry days it is not fun to be soaked or have cars splash you with even more water than is already raining down on you. After that it is even less fun to sit on the bus for about an hour followed by about another forty five minutes on the MAX while soaking wet, then sit in class and wait to go home still drying and smelling faintly like a wet dog, not to mention having your jeans weigh about 20 extra pounds from the water. Not that I'm complaining, too much at least, it was my own damn fault and I have no one to blame but myself.

Will This Ever End?

So here I am, in the computer lab at school, waiting for my dad to pick me up. I am bored from doing my homework so this is my break. Things are crazy still but I still am not sure if I ca make it through this term without borrowing some money. I have about 500 dollars to pay to PCC and I start my new job hopefully on Saturday night, but in order for me to pay for my tuition I will have to work, almost 70 hours although I will be getting some money from my church for working in the nursery. But still, I don't understand why people have to pay so much money to make money. I mean if you don't have a college education, then you wont succeed easily in your career.

It makes me crazy.

The other thing making me crazy is me. Lately I have been kind of sad, not really sure why. Part of it I think is that it will cast an extraordinary amount of money for me to travel to Nepal, and I don't really want to spend money on anything else until I go there. I just cannot figure this out. Every time I think about how far away he is, I just feel like crying. I almost just want to give up hope, but I know I cannot, I must keep hoping since this all rests on my shoulders.

Next craziness, is me looking at universities. A few of my wonderful, darling, friends have plans for me, like, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Southern Oregon, Central Washington. The thing is I don't know that I want to go to a University so close to home, even though Southern Oregon is at least four hours away. I have recently been thinking about moving to Canada for a while. I might go to University of British Columbia in Vancouver. I really like that city and Canada itself. I have a few family members there although we aren't really close to them since they are kind of distant relatives. Although I like them. The other thing about that is that Canada is a lot easier on people who are immigrating that would make it easier for my future I think. And, really Canada is not all that far from home and the climate isn't that different than I am used to.