The Lyrics of my Summer

It's funny, because I am working for the Old Lyric Repetoire Theatre Company. Like... Lyrics. Ha. I feel very repetitive in saying that life is good and that I all I am doing this summer is living and working, but I do think that it is important for people to know that I am still alive, and that even though I don't have internet I am getting through it. Even now as I sit in the theatre's seminar room, it is quick to realize that trials make the heart stronger.
Side note. I love the Book of Mormon.
Over... AND OUT!

Internet-no-no-no!

I HAVE NO INTERNET. My new apartment is really great, but I don't have the internet. The other rotten thing about my place is the air. I am very confident there is a dead woman under the floor boards. This confidence comes from the stank radiating around our apartment. Febreeze, furniture polish, cookies, candles, and other various scents cannot do anything for the smell that has settled in. Yep. Worst part is that I have become used to it. I don't even notice anymore. AH!
I am really excited for the summer in store. Plus, my broseph is getting married?! It will be a really awesome time. I am very stoked. But, I need to find a sweet dress to wear at the temple and wedding breakfast. Oh man. Shopping is the best.

Two Decades of Awesome

Well. It became official. On April 26, 2010 my 20th birthday was recognized. Never before have I felt so old. Yep. Two decades of my life have gone by me and I still remember the first day of kindergarten, having my brother's smash me to the ground on multiple occasions for many various reasons, and I remember the sweet essence of what a teenager is. It was really weird, I was getting ready that Monday morning starting out the next decade known as my twenties when I heard a song from the Little Mermaid come on. I sang that song when I was ten in a concert. I was freaked out at how fast time has gone by. My dad told me soon I'd be fifty. Umm... Yeah... In thirty years. Freaky.

Currently I feel like I am swimming in a raging river of doom. What makes this worse is the fact that I am swimming upstream, and not down it, therefore fighting with all I have to get through multiple things.

1. Finishing my final projects. I have been painting with stupid watercolors for the past five hours, and am not yet done. Ridiculous really.

2. Finish designing for The Cripple of Inishmaan. The cast list was posted yesterday, and although everyone told me how behind I have been... I really just noticed it and am starting to freak out.

3. My mom and dad gave me tools for my birthday. I feel like I have to build something... but I am not quite sure what... and it is adding a little bit of stress in my life.

4. Did I mention all of my finals are Monday?

Pressure and stress I know. Not to mention the fact that all of my close friends are so awesome at getting boyfriends and having them buy food, and give them rides, and be all awesome... So that sucks.

SCHOOL ENDS ON MONDAY! Swoot.

A Job, A Design, and A Plan??

Well, I definitely lied about the plan, but other than that I speak truth. I got a job at The Westate theatres in Logan. I work concessions and spend hours on end dishing popcorn to people who I believe to be salt and butter deprived. I'm pretty good at it. I did mess up one day though. I had just refilled a man's large popcorn tub, extra butter. I set it on the counter and then threw it at him. Yep. So awkward. My manager saw and he didn't even yell at me. I just refilled the guys popcorn and together we laughed about it. I made a fifty year old friend that day. Working at a movie theatre is really weird, because you go, go, go, go. And then you wait for a couple hours until you go, go, go again. I would like to put my emotions into one little picture.

Thanks random kid!

I am also designing the costumes for a show at USU next fall. And, this is a pretty big deal. A real life main stage show. It is crazy. Somedays I feel very overwhelmed, but it's going to totally be worth it. Nancy Hills, bless her freaking heart, has been so nice to help me really take the time to do the process correctly. So, the show is called The Cripple of Inishmaan. It is a dark comedy, and I enjoy it. It takes place on the Aran Islands and uses a lot of Irish comedy. It's quite the adventure to work on. If anyone has any books on clothing worn in Ireland during the 1930s, let me know, and I will make you cookies.

School ends in a couple of weeks. Crazy town! Somedays I wish it were sooner, but I am glad that I have a little bit of time to compose myself. I have really enjoyed this semester a lot. I am currently taking playscript analysis, costume design, billiards, and pattern drafting. I am also taking life science, but I don't like it. Yesterday my teacher spelled sick wrong, and she had me taste some paper which I couldn't taste. All I learned was that I shouldn't eat random plants in the wilderness because I won't be able to taste their poison and I will die, or get sicke. Whichever happens first.

The Art of Hanging

Indeed it can be said that the college years are the best years of someone's life, and I do not doubt that. I am enjoying school and everything I am doing, and yet, I feel as though I am left out. I've been watching Life on the Discovery Network and I wish that I was a meerkat. Those guys have fun and they keep it tight. If I could hang out like they do, I would! They watch out for each other, make sure that they learn basic skills, and eat scorpions. I am not saying that I want friends that eat scorpions, because maybe that is a bit crazy, but considerate friends are a necessity. My best friends live hours away or in my apartment... So I don't get out much. If I was a meerkate no one would even judge me for being at home all of the time. Perfection right?
So... How does one make people want to hang out with me? I already tried being awesome... but I failed...

Family Matters

My family matters. Definitely. Yet, I feel that I have quite a few families in this world.
My literal family is connected by DNA, flesh and bones, and some ridiculously good cooking courtesy the parental figures. Rachel had Prom, and I had the closing night of Bye Bye Birdie and so the whole family came up. I feel so blessed to live in a family that actually cares about what the other person is doing. When Rachel and her super hott date walked out for the promenade we screamed at the top of our lungs. Probably the loudest cheer all day. Thank goodness she looked so great and totally deserved all of the uproar.
Then we have my theatre family. The place where I live when I am not living at my house or apartment. I would like to emphasize my Birdie family. A family filled with tears and love. Here is a shout out to my best friends in the cast. A seventeen year old, a fifteen year old, a ten year old, and an eight year old. Odd that I could hang out with these people any day? I would have thought so too, but give my a tank of gas and I will head straight to Ogden and spend the day with these cool cats whenever I get the chance. Then I have my Utah State theatre family. Oh yes! My best friends in the world live here. I am excited to keep working and living up here for the summer.
Here is a shout out to my roommates! The girls that keep me going, and hear me rant and rave about politics, and are even my friends when I am sick or tired or riotous.
To my family of friends, my army, my rock, my fortress. Thanks for not leaving me behind on the worst ski day of my life. For coming to my shows. For giving me a ride home because you know we can talk for hours without listening to a drop of music. And most definitely for dressing up like superheros in celebrating our youth.

FREEDOM!

I have been the assistant costume designer for the USU production of Love's Labour's Lost. We went into dress on Thursday. Can you say freedom? Thus far I have done some homework, eaten food, and yes, watched movies with my roommates. It really is the simple things that make me super happy. Yet, I am kind of sad about not spending as much time in the costume shop. The costume shop is my favorite place to be. If I were told I had to be condemned to one spot forever it is very probable I would choose to spend eternity in this little costume shop I consider home. First. I have a great card game here that can keep me entertained for hours. Second. People come in and visit me all of the time. Third. People would probably be nice enough to get me food every once in awhile.