It's a hard, cold, tumble of a journey...

The 5K was today!

I didn't run the entire time, which was slightly disappointing, but I'm totally not dwelling on it and though I kind of hoped to, I *totally* didn't expect to - I'm not going to force my body into doing something it's not ready for. Especially when that something would involve my heart totally exploding from exertion!

But my time was 32 minutes and 57 seconds...which is like three minutes under what I thought I was going to do. So hooray!

My sister ran the whole time, because she is far more badass, and did hers in 30.10.

And our wonderful mommy was there to love us and take pictures!

Megan got in yesterday afternoon, and we ran a mile together, went to Trader Joe's to get ingredients for our freaking amazing dinner, and then beautiful Lisa came over and joined us for a fabulous evening of delicious food and lots of laughing and fun. And she made freaking cream of wheat for our breakfast this morning - it was like our childhood plus her chef experience all in one little meal. YUM.

Oh - also, we registered ourselves separately, and obviously don't share the same name anymore now that she's married, but - my number was 1189 and hers was 1198! How awesome is that??

So now I'm just icing my sure-to-be-achy legs now and resting before having dinner-and-the-Oscars with the beautiful Lauren Angwin.

I'm going to be so very tired at work tomorrow!

Pictures of the day to come!

Here comes the sun...

...well, not for another hour actually, but that's what I woke up to early early this morning! One of the CD's my yoga teacher gave me last month is a gentle yoga-esque version of a bunch of Beatles songs. The only bad thing about waking up to it is that it makes me want to drift right back to sleep...

So why am I up before the sun? Well, my latest 'day job' literally covers the span of a day - 7am to 5pm! Yikes! But I'm not complaining - I'm grateful to have it. It'll just be interesting to see how my body and schedule adjust...

Here's what my day looks like today:

7-5 Work
5:30-6:30 Yoga
7-9 Dinner theatre rehearsal
9-? Buy Billy Harley a birthday drink. Unwind. Collapse into a coma at the girls' apartment till 5:50 am tomorrow morning!

The 5K with the big sister is on Sunday, and I'm nervous. I don't think my legs are ready. Sigh.

But - I'm almost finished with Will in the World! It's very exciting. I need to go back and start reading the plays I bought in NYC. I think first up shall be David Hare's Skylight - Denise has been after me to read that for ages.

Okay. Enough silly rambling. Time to eat and stop having a headache...

Happy V-Day!

Well, I'm a little sad, because this is the first Valentine's day in *years* where I haven't done cards for like every person I've ever met. That's always my thing that I do, but...between time and money and...well, time and money, it just didn't happen this year. Alas.

But it's still Valentine's Day! Hooray! My exciting plans today include...classes at the gym, working with Denise, and later tonight, going over to the girls' and continuing our newfound tradition of me-spending-the-night-Thursday-nights-and-watching-Lost-even-though-I-have-no-idea-what's-going-on. It's fun.

It's also V-Day! So check that out!


I do have a little Valentine's Day present type thing for those happy few who read this silly thing...I invented a chocolate chip cookie recipe yesterday!

I feel as though they deserve their own cheesy little name - I'm currently toying with "Half & Half Cookies," because I used half whole wheat flour & half white flour, half organic white sugar and half dark brown sugar, and half white chocolate chips and half regular. It wasn't really planned that way, it just kinda happened. But...I don't think I could bring myself to actually call them that.

Anyway - here's the recipe!

Combine 1 cup of whole wheat flour and 1 cup of white all-purpose flour and about 1/2 a teaspoon of baking powder

Combine 1 cup of dark brown sugar and 1 cup of organic sugar along with 2 sticks of half-melted organic unsalted butter in a mixer and blend

Add a generous dash of vanilla extract and 2 eggs to the mixer

Add flours to the mixer

Stir in chocolate chips by hand - as many as you like. I used a combination of white and dark chocolate chips, but whatever you have. And I also probably usea bout double the amount of chips any normal recipe will call for.


So there you go. I've still given something to the world for Valentine's Day!

YES.

Obama won Virginia, suckas!




That is all. :)

Sunday Sunday.

So it's the first Sunday in a few weeks that I've been home alone and not at my girls' apartment...and I may or may not have spent it laying on the living room floor cuddled in blankets watching Jon and Kate Plus 8 and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and alternately giggling, aww-ing and sobbing.

It's been a wonderful week, but I think my body has finally caught up with how incredibly busy I've been lately. It's wonderful and I revel in this kind of busy-ness and this kind of positive stress, but it is kind of a change from the last few months and it's...well, exhausting. The last few days, even if I am getting enough sleep, I just feel totally wiped out. It took all of my strength today to get to and through my dinner theatre rehearsal where I barely even had to do much. A huge amount of flu/sickness has been going around lately, and I've been sucking down Vitamin C like it's going out of style trying to avoid it. I think I have for the most part, but...something's definitely up with me. My health is not 100%. Which is not good at all.


The best thing about this week? Being able to do a bunch of work with Steven and Tidewater
Regional Rep. It's so fun and rewarding and exactly what I want to be doing with my life. I wish I could do it 24 hours a day. Our auditions and callbacks and site-building and everything has been a blast.

I've been enjoying working with Denise as much as ever, but she was sick this past week, which was very sad for her...the poor thing looked like she just needed a week of rest. I hope she feels better this week, and I hope my day-job-work schedule still allows me time to help her out and have fun times with her :)

Let's see, what else, what else...

Oh!

APO held a reading of The Pillowman last night, and...I can't describe to you how wonderful it was. Hands down, it was the best reading TheaterCNU has ever put on. I was so, so, so proud of everyone involved, and it's a play I've been wanting to read/see for awhile...it absolutely exceeded my expectations. I was exhausted yesterday and really just wanted to lay down forever, but I really wanted to see this reading and it was absolutely worth it. I'm so proud of my baby loves :)

Okay. Extreme Makeover Home Edition is making me cry. I think that's enough of an update for one Sunday.

But things that I'm looking forward to...hopefully getting word that my application materials have reached the other theatres, more TRR, more jobs and more Denise time, more money (please dear Jesus I am desperate!), more time with all of my beautiful friends, Lisa Johanson's freaking HOMECOMING, maybe seeing Chris Blake's beautiful sister in Measure for Measure in Richmond next weekend, planning for SETC in a few few short weeks...there's lots of stuff coming up!

Gyaaah!

I just got an e-mail confirming that The Shakespeare Theatre received my portfolio and application and resume and everything.

They'll e-mail me if they want to interview me. Interviews will be going on throughout the spring.

I DON'T THINK I WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE WAIT! AAAAAAAH!

I'm so nervous.

I had lunch (kind of) with Jordan today and he told me all about his fabulous grad school auditions and now his current torture waiting to hear back. We are in neighboring boats.



AAAAAAAAH!

At least this quells the irrational fears that my stuff will get lost in the mail. For STC, at least. I haven't heard from the other 3 yet.

Oh god. Please let me get hired.



This post brought to you by irrational fears and giant quantities of nerves.

You're a big girl all the way

So it's an hour past the time I was hoping to be snuggled in bed with Will in the World (which I haven't picked up in a WEEK because I've been so crazybusy), preparing to go off to dreamland, and yet I am blogging. WTF? you might be asking yourself.

Well, I'm not in bed on time (which is scary because I'm getting up earlier tomorrow than I have been in quite awhile - but it's for a temp job at a retirement home with lots of sweet wonderful people who remind me of my granddaddy) and I didn't accomplish the last thing on my to-do list (website info for TRR that I really wanted to get done tonight - grrr), BUT...

BUT...



I FINISHED ALL OF MY STUFF TO APPLY TO THEATRE JOBS!

I know that doesn't sound like a very big accomplishment...but seriously, I feel like I just went through a semester in a week. And this weekend was Exam Week.

I created two kind of gorgeous disposable portfolios (for The Shakespeare Theatre and Long Wharf), dug out a writing sample, wrote and revised and re-wrote cover letters, totally overhauled my resume with the help and guidance of my dear gay fiance Peter Adams, completed applications...oy vey. Every waking moment this weekend that I wasn't working out, at auditions, or sleeping (or drinking, let's be honest), I was creating those portfolios. They both look way nicer than my *actual* portfolio, which is a bit sad. And I am eternally indebted, once again, to Peter for teaching me how to make them beautiful and perfect. I'm actually going to be sad to part with them.

All I need now is four copies of a letter of rec from Denise, and all of these suckas will be off to DC, Connecticut, Maryland, and Maine.

I really feel stupidly proud of myself for all this. I don't know why. It just took a lot of work and was really time-consuming and terrifying and nervewracking, and now the terror and nerve-wrack-iness will just come from the waiting-to-hear-back.

But in the meantime...I have SO MUCH OTHER STUFF TO DO. Seriously. It's ridiculous. Between tons of stuff forTRR, the dinner theatre, agreeing to direct Katie's senior thesis, preparing for SETC, overhauling my *actual* portfolio, trying to at least *kind of* finish my website, working toward the big 5K with my sister on the 24th and oh yeah, working to make MONEY so I don't starve to death...I'm so thrilled to have this off of my super-full plate.

I keep over-using the plate metaphor.

Okay. I'm loopy and exhausted. It's great to be busy again.

In conclusion, I'm super excited about TRR. This weekend was fantastic.

Oh, and also - Super Tuesday! Go Obama!

Oh! and extra conclusion...everyone keep my sweet precious angel Lisa in your prayers. Her grandfather's ill and she's gone to Georgia to be with him and I wish I could be there to hug her. :(