\WARNING\ This post is written terribly. Sorry about that.

Okay, so it's been, well, forever. Sorry.

But tons of stuff has happened.

Annie camp has been an absolute blast, and it ended on Friday. BUT, we get to meet the adults in the cast on Saturday, which is super exciting.

We lost our dog Faith a couple of weeks ago, but then we got a new puppy named Nala, and she's SUPER sweet. She's a yellow lab, so she's really cute and playful. We've only had her for about four days, but she fits right in.

The other day a friend of mine spent the night, and we had an absolute BLAST. She showed me the link to Adam Lambert being Fiyero (one of the main characters in Wicked the Musical) on Broadway, and WOW. He's so incredible. At everything. :)

Speaking of Wicked, I went online to eBay and actually bought the script of Wicked for about twenty-five dollars. I'm so excited, because now I can read it through and be different characters.

My little sister just turned eight, and right now she's having a sleepover/spa birthday party.

My really-super-good-friend-who's-pretty-much-like-my-sister who used to be my nanny came over yesterday and spent the night, and that was SUPER fun. She straightened my hair for me, and it seems so much longer than it did when it was curly.

Umm.... I think that's pretty much it...

Unfortunately I have almost nothing to tell you...

Except for the fact that my friend Kenzy got a part in the Shakespeare show that our city is putting on. YAY HER!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

Hello world!!

Many good things to share today, so here goes.

First off, I GOT CAST IN ANNIE!!!! YAAAAY!!! I tried out for Pepper and got--Pepper!! And there's a story behind all this. At the dinner theater where I am now 'working' (more like playing, but whatever) they did Annie ten years ago. So when I was three I went and saw my first remembered piece of musical theater, and caught the bug. I wanted to be Molly at first, the youngest one, but then I got too old. Then I tried out for Annie, and I got called back but couldn't do the show. One of my friends though got in, and she was great! Now, I tried out for Pepper, the one of the older and meanest orphans, with my same friend who was in the show last time, and she got in as well!! So did six of my other friends, and we're all going to have a blast this summer.

Next good news: In the town where I live, they have a huge Earth Day celebration every year. Well this year, my whole family and I got to play an hour-and-a-half long (no idea how to make that look cooler...) set of music. It was SO much fun.

More good news: I'm trying out for the show Hello Dolly today, which is making me really excited, and nervous, cause if I get in I'd have to miss the first part of the final jam (and maybe all) at my parents' camp, which would seriously not be fun. I'm trying out for either Ermengarde or Minnie Fey. I'm going to sing the song "For Good" From Wicked, which is making me really excited cause I haven't sang from that show in ages, and it's such pretty music.

Crazy, crazy weekend.

Two emergency hospital visits in two days.

Tonight is my 'calm things down' night before the week resumes.

Basically here's what went down:

Saturday morning-- We got into the car and drove over to a friend's house to pick up my brother had spent the night there. Then we went to my best friend's house for a huge Easter Egg Hunt party. We got to it every year; so much freaking fun it's unbelievable. While I was there I got to see four super special friends. Special how you ask? Well when I was un-born, there were four other kids who were un-born with me (meaning that our parents met because of us). So I got to hang out with them all and that was super fun.

During that party, a little boy got hurt on the trampoline and whip-lashed his neck (I don't think that's an actual term, but you know what? That's okay.) and had to go to the hospital. But he's okay now. :)

Then I spent the night at my best friends' house (coincidentally the same one that threw the party). We had a great time, and we played Just Dance 2 on WII, which I've never played before. We had a BUNCH of fun. Until she fell out of the hammock and bruised her shoulder bone, sending her to the hospital and keeping her home from school the next day. (aka tomorrow). Not as much fun as it could have been. So hopefully she'll feel better soon.

Then I went from her house to my callback fro Annie, which went pretty well. I got to read for Pepper, which was what I really wanted, I'm really really really really really really really REALLY hoping for that role, so keep your fingers crossed!! It looks like a girl I know and a girl I sort of know will most likely get Annie, and that a few other girls who I'm really looking forward to working with are going to get in as well; they did REALLY well at the callbacks.

Here's a crazy backstory:

When I was REALLY little, I went and saw Annie at a dinner theater near where I live. I absolutely loved the show, and since then I've always wanted to be an orphan in that show, or do ANY kind of theater at all. Since then I've never gotten to be an orphan. Well, when I was about nine, another red-headed friend of mine and I tried out for Annie together. We really bonded during the auditions, and we both got callbacks. I ended up not being able to do the show because of the fact that I had already been cast in another show and they wouldn't let me back out. It totally wrecked me not to be able to do the show, but I went and saw my friend in it, and she got cast as one of the six main orphans (and of course she was awesome (: ). We sort of fell out of touch after that, but today when I got out of the car for the callbacks, she was the first person that I saw. So five years later, she and I did the callback that we never got to do together. And hopefully we'll both get cast ;).

Hmmm..... how to start this post....

First off, camp was fun. My parents run a summer camp for adults, and sometimes teenagers, who play the bass guitar. Therefore we had sixty-something campers out at our camp for a week, and it was super fun.

Second, the fact that I am newly hooked on the TV show Pushing Daisies. It's absolutely amazing, and whoever came up with it should be patted on the back. Repetitively.

Third, our audition for Annie. Again. My sister and I auditioned for the show yesterday, but not the Junior version this time, so if I get in I could literally act my age this time. (Haha, get it? Yeah okay I'll leave the jokes alone...)

Fourth, I'm doing a script-version of the writing thing that I did in November, so I'm supposed to write a hundred-page script by the end of april. So far I'm quite behind....

That's it, really, hopefully something blog-worthy will happen soon... ;)

Oh my gosh.

One word: Annie Withdrawal.

So much so that I just counted those two words as one. Yeah. I'm sad. Seriously sad. We closed last week. So, so sad. We did get to have an awesome cast party though, where we theater nerds all sat around and sang pop songs. Yeah. Go us, right? Videos to come.

I did get to take with me a few paper props that the director was going to throw out. These are the ones that I got to keep:

--Annie's note

--The FBI letter

--The fake check

--Annie's birth certificate

Something really sweet that some of the other teenaged girls did at the end of Annie Jr. was this: (If you've seen Legally Blonde 2 then you'll understand) They made a Snap Cup. A Snap Cup is when you write anonymous complements and put them in the cup. Then the girls read them out loud and let the recipient of the complement keep the piece of paper. It was super fun; a definite feel-good game.

Then, literally the day after we closed Annie, we left for a skiing trip with some friends of ours, including the stage manager for Annie and the little girl who played Molly (one of the orphans). We got to go and visit one of my bestest friends who moved away when we were six or seven. It was SO much fun to see them, and I didn't die while on the ski slopes, which is a definite plus.

I just finished a book called The Nature of Jade, which started out oddly, but really was incredible. It was about a girl with a panic disorder, and just how she deals with life in general. The beginning was sort of iffy, and I wasn't sure if I really liked the message that it was sending out, but in the end the lesson that it taught really could be taken either way. I decided to take it the positive way. Cause I'm just that optimistic kind of person. ;)

Something ironic: We were reading about one of the American Idol contestants (Thia, I think is her name) and we found out that she uses the same Homeschooling curriculum that we do. Just a funny fact. Guess who else used that curriculum?! The dude who wrote Eragon. I'm a little prouder of the author if you don't mind me saying, but don't get me wrong, Thia can definitely sing.

A list of books that I'm currently reading:

-The Illiad

-Princess in Love

-The Republic (only on about the second page **smiles sheepishly**)

-Among the Hidden

-The Devil Wears Prada (Still, I know!)

-Jane Eyre (For school, but I'm really enjoying it)

-The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I've never read it, and I'm only on about the third page of the first one, and it's alright so far.)

I'm sure there are other books that I'm forgetting right now, but oh well, the names'll come to me later.

I'm really really hoping to audition for Annie (not junior this time, so I could be an orphan). I have absolutely NO idea, though, what to audition with. Any ideas?? Also, next month there are auditions for Hello, Dolly! which I am SO SO SO excited for, even though there aren't really any parts for me in this one. I really don't care though, because virtually all of the people I love are going to try out for that show. (Okay so not everybody, but you get the idea (; )

Hmm... I think that's it for now....

**Takes Deep Breath**

Okay, so many things have happened. First on the list would be tech week for Annie Jr. This means that for about a week we would go to the theater every night and run through the show as many times as possible with costumes and lights and music. All this put together = exhaustion. Fun exhaustion, but exhaustion all the same.

So tech week went really well, and then came opening. That of course, was super SUPER fun. It went really well, with only a few minor mishaps, which were totally fixable, and we have officially opened our run of Annie Jr.!! We had our third show today, and we only have three left. If it were up to me of course the run might never end.

So something else. Okay there's really not much else, other than the fact that I've started watching a TV show called 'Psych'. It's pretty much a comedic murder mystery TV show, and it's absolutely incredible. The acting, plot, videography, and script, is amazing.

I'm thinking about auditioning for the show Hello Dolly next month, but I don't really think there're any good roles for me in it.

I don't have any pictures of Annie Jr. yet, but you can be sure they're coming.

Looking back on my posts I've realized that they've become quite silly and personal. What do you get from reading that? Uh, boredom. So this post will be different. Aka, better.

First off I would like to thank you for reading this blog. Whether it's your first time or your last time (uh, could it *not* be your last time please?), I think it's very nice that you took out a chunk of your time and dedicated it to this.

And following that I have a question: Chances are that if you are reading this blog you've read other blogs, or some web page with the same gist and purpose. I would love to be able to see what other peoples' blogs are about, so maybe you could comment with a list of up to three of your favorite blogger sites? Then in my next post I'll make a compiled list of all the sites that were shown to me. Sound good?

Okay, so I have a new book idea, and I'd like to see if it's worth actually writing. It's kind of involved though, so it might take a minute.

Basically the story is as follows. There's a girl (she's about sixteen) and she moves very suddenly from Montana back to Hawaii, where she was born. She moves with her mother and her sister, who is about nineteen, maybe twenty. She absolutely HATES riding in cars, which is why being on Hawaii is great for her (cause you can just ride a bike virtually anywhere you need to go). She LOVES to swim and her favorite color is purple. On her first day of school she meets this boy named Marshal, who is very awkward and won't really look her in the eye or talk to her about much. She realizes immediately that he has Asperger's Syndrome (a type of autism). You find out that she's really good with autistic kids as she becomes great friends with him. In the end you find out that her five year old brother was severely autistic and got hit by a car and died, which is why the main character and her family moved to Hawaii.

So yeah, that's that.

Annie rehearsals are going very well, and are SO much fun. We open in two or three weeks, and I do think that we'll be ready. So far it's been a smooth ride from the beginning until now, so hopefully it'll stay that way ;)

Hello!!!

It's been a while since I last wrote, and for that I am sorry. :)

Right now I am sitting in my hotel room in Hawaii, which makes me very very happy. If I look out my window I can see palm trees and palm trees and palm trees and then the ocean. It's crazy, because since there is an active volcano on the island, there is a haze that blends the ocean and the sky together, so instead of feeling like the water goes on forever, it seems like you are trapped in a blue sphere which you can't escape. Some people like that feeling, but I could do without it.

We are staying at an absolutely beautiful resort where we can walk to the beach and swim with sea turtles and dolphins. Seriously, we got to get into the water and swim with dolphins and pet them. It was incredible. Yesterday we got to go to a hill overlooking the beach and watch the whales as they shot water out of their spouts and slapped the water with their tales, and it was absolutely breath taking.

Tomorrow we plan to go and see the volcano before we leave the island.

I am very excited to get home, however, because Annie Jr. Rehearsals are going full force and it's absolutely KILLING me to miss them.

While I've been on the island I finished tow books: I am Number Four, and Beastly. Beastly, on a scale from 1 to 5 was a 6. I totally loved it, which is funny because it wasn't really my favorite writing style.

I am Number Four was a 5 on that same scale, with an even weirder writing style :).

Not much else to tell now, so I'll talk (type??) to you later!

**sighs**

Not much has gone on around here lately. We're leaving for Hawaii soon, which is really good and really bad at the same time.

School is taking over everything, and it's sorta annoying. I don't mind school, I really like it, but it's really hard to just do school all the time.

We were supposed to have rehearsal tonight, but the world decided to pick right now to dump snow on our already treacherous roads, so now we're stuck at home and we can't go to rehearsal, which drives me absolutely insane.

Needless to say I was really looking forward to rehearsal.

I've been on medication for my eyes lately, and it seems to be helping which is good. I was supposed to have another doctor's appointment tomorrow, but like I said we're snowed in, so that's gonna have to be cancelled.

**sighs again**

I just finished a book called Perchance To Dream and it was very good. Now I'm reading The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie and Dramarama by E Lockhart. I'm also reading a bunch of other books, but if I put a full list down here it might never end. :P

:D

Okay now I have a new story. A couple days ago were the Annie Auditions. I felt like I did all right, but I figured I wouldn't get Grace like I'd really hoped. So then come the call backs. I got one, but SERIOUSLY messed up. Spoke too fast, sang way off key, the whole sha-bang.

Somehow, I got Grace.

So, I'm currently freaking out (internally, you know cause if I reveal how crazed I am to my family they will ship me off to the farthest mental institute). Rehearsals start tonight, and I am vowing to do WAY better tonight than I did at the call backs. Vowing.

Sorry It's been a while. But, the good thing is that now I have MANY things to say.

>First off, PICTURES.

This archway was about where the tears started. Yeah, I was crying. But think about it this way. Since I was five, I have absolutely LIVED for the Harry Potter series. And then I went there and stood in it. Wow. Super wow. Super huge freaking wow.

It was SO. COOL.

While we were there I did my first upside - down rollercoaster ever. Three times. Well there was another one but I only did it once. We had so much fun, even though some of my family were sick. We actually got to go with some great friends of ours, and we had a ton of fun together.

Then, the day after we got home (AKA yesterday) were the Jimmy Awards. That's the award show that we go to for the local theater company. My little brother won one, and we're all SUPER excited.

Also yesterday were the auditions for Annie Jr. I feel like I did okay, and I got a callback!! I'm not sure for what role, but the callbacks are tomorrow, so wish me luck!

Tonight we get to go see the show Shrek the Musical, which I am SO excited for. I've been listening to the music, and it's really great. We're going with three different friends of ours, which we coincidentally saw yesterday :)

Not much else to say right now, but I'll definitely be adding pictures some time later!!

I Love Life Today

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No words for this.

So cool.

Wow.

Okay so.

A list of things I know as of today:

1. Bus drivers can be AWESOME.

2. Harry Potter is even cooler than I initially thought.

3. I'm way to obsessed with said series.

4. Kissing the ground of parks in Florida is much less disgusting than it seems.

5. I love scary rides.

6. I don't like rides that are too scary.

7. Spiderman is cooler than cool.

8. Sometimes dangling from a 'Pterodactyl' can be slightly terrifying.

9. I'm not so bad at finding slightly lost people.

10. Butterbeer tastes better in your mouth than it sounds on the page.

11. Some people skip in line. Sometimes you just have to deal with it.

12. You will NEVER feel like you've had enough time in awesome places. AKA Universal Studios

13. Chocolate frogs are HUGE.

14. The train-dude for the Hogwarts Express is awesome.

15. Hogwarts has an awesome choir.

16. It costs too much to be a Ravenclaw.

17. Ollivander is a good person, but not so great a drawer....

18. Impaired vision makes seeing in the dark really hard.

19. Steroids make it hard to stand still or sleep.

20. I. Love. Florida.

Pictures are coming soon

Random things that are on my mind.

Hello!! Okay, exciting things.

1. In only THREE DAYS we are leaving to go to the Harry Potter Wizarding world.

2. The day after we get back are auditions for Annie Jr.

3. The same day of the auditions are the awards for our theater.

4. The day after THAT we're going to see Shrek the musical.

5. Sometime this year the musical Le Miserables is coming to our town and I REALLY want to see it.

6. There are auditions for Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar this April. Not that I could get a part in either of them, but it would be fun to try out and possibly just be in the chorus.

7. In February we're going to Hawaii.

So that's my list of cool things going on right now. But I do wish that I were in a show or had some more auditions lined up, especially for something that I could get a role in, because it's not looking so good for this year. :( NEED. SHOW. BADLY.

I've discovered that I keep snatching shows out of thin air to be obsessed with. First it was Love Never Dies (The second Phantom of the Opera) and then it was Hairspray. Then it was Love Never Dies again, and now it's Le Miserables. So of course I've been listening to all the music and learning about the actors and stuff like that. SUCH PRETTY MUSIC. Ugh It's an incredible story, and I really hope that I get to see it.

My mother was asked to direct a show in our town, and of course I REALLY want her to because, well, I would like to see that side of it, but it probably won't happen. Oh well. A girl can dream, right?

My new favorite word is 'laconic'. Unfortunately I don't know many people who I can describe with it. I guess that's what happens when you hang out with a bunch of performers.

I know I'm boring you with all this 'acting' talk, but if there were any place I could be with a purpose right now it would be on a stage and in a costume. I haven't been in a show since DECEMBER. The thing is, I started a show in November, and then the day after it was over I launched myself into rehearsals for my next show. So since then I've been bored out of my head not having any rehearsals to go to. **screams**

Okay, I'm going to go take out my fury by screaming 'Avada Kedavra' at inanimate objects. ;)

Today is my brother's tenth birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKYE!!!!!!

And in about a week we will be going to Florida to go to the Harry Potter Wizarding World. There are no words for the excitement I feel over this. So I won't even try.

Then the day after we get we're auditioning for Annie Jr. (hopefully I can be Grace....) and then that same day are the awards for that theater, and I think I'm up for a few, but I haven't been able to look at the ballot. Then the next day we're going to see Shrek the musical, which I am VERY excited about.

So life is spicing up a bit.

And, as requested, here is a little more of that Oracle story (which is actually called The Truth About the Oracle, but that just takes too long to write (; )

Chapter three, Yeah, right.

“Alright, but quietly. Listen, I’m going to say it quickly once, then I’ll go back and fill in the holes. Mummy’s an Oracle.”

I laughed. Not much, just a little bit. But… I mean, an oracle? It was all a bit much. I knew that oracles told the future and everything, but they were fictional. Fake. Not. Real.

“Okay. What’s wrong? Really?” I asked.

“Really. Mum’s an Oracle. She has been ever since before you were born. I don’t know how, I haven’t gotten there in my training yet, but I suppose I’ll learn eventually.”

“So you’re serious,” I said shortly. I was waiting for the punch line. But the punch line didn’t come.

“I’m very serious.”

“Why did you run away, Lucas?” I asked him straight. I hoped he would be just as straight with his answer. I should have known better.

“Mum’s not… well, like I said, she’s the Oracle. The Oracle isn’t like she is in the movies, Lucy, she’s unpredictable. She took Mum, so she’s not really… Mum anymore. I know you probably don’t understand, but basically, the Oracle changes hosts every now and then, and the Oracle chose Mum.

“The hosts are allowed one child. I was that one child… but then you came along. The Oracle got angry…”

“Wait!” I interrupted, forgetting myself. “Mom got angry because of me?” I asked. I was really that unwanted?

“No, Lucy, haven’t you been listening? The Oracle got mad.”

“But you said Mom was Oracle,” I said, confused.

“She was the host for the Oracle. That doesn’t make them the same person, even though they are close. Anyway, the Oracle got mad, because Mum had defied her orders. So, she took over Mum almost entirely, and… well, it wasn’t safe for you or Dad to stay with us anymore.

“Dad took you to here, to America, and you’ve been here ever since. Once you were gone, the Oracle pretty much let Mum go, even though she… reminded us… every now in then of who was in charge. When that happened, it wasn’t pleasant. But I at least knew that you were safe.”

I was still confused. “Then why did you run away? It sounds like you were happy.”

“Well, I had a cool life. I didn’t go to normal school, the Oracle’s minion sidekick thing taught me about the Oracle’s magic so that I could—“

“Woah woah woah. The Oracle’s magic? You didn’t say anything about magic.”

“It’s an Oracle, Lu, what did you expect?”

Lucas’s playful chide and nickname almost stopped me short. I had a brother. I had a brother and a nickname. I smiled in spite myself and nodded.

“Well, as soon as I started learning about the magic I realized that something was odd. Everything I learned made too much sense. It was like I’d almost known it all ready, and I was just being reminded. I told Mum last week, but the Oracle heard me too. The Oracle got excited and called me something… ‘the Ordan’. I don’t know what an Ordan is, but I am one. And… I can do magic.”

Lucas bit his lip, knowing that I probably wouldn’t believe him. And… did I believe him? I mean, come on. Magic? But Lucas had seen my doubt coming.

“Lucy, I didn’t fly here on a plain. I flew here by myself. Look.”

As I watched, Lucas held out his left hand. He took his right hand and swiped it over his left. When he revealed his hand again, there was a miniature white dove sitting on his hand.

I stared. The bird was as tall as my pinky finger, too small to have been real. But as I watched, it flapped its wings and flew to me, perching on my shoulder. I lifted my finger to it, and it nipped it softly before stepping on.

I moved the bird so that it looked me in the face, but as I did, it jumped off my finger. I expected it to fly away, but it didn’t. It dive bombed the ground, turning into a single feather before it hit the ground.

Lucas picked up the feather and tucked it in his pocket. All doubts I had in him were erased.

“Okay. So… Magic…” I said softly. Lucas smiled lightly before taking my arm again and leading me away from the library.

“Yeah. Well, the Oracle flipped out, tried to make me her minion. Took over Mum again, and it was bad. So I ran away. I found you, and now I’m here. I still don’t know what to do.”

“So… we have to research the Oracle. My history teacher at school…” I trailed off. School! I checked my watch. Fifteen minutes time. If I ran really fast… I took off.

“School. I have to get to school.” I told Lucas over my shoulder. He followed me.

“School? Lucy, did you hear anything I just said? This is the Oracle we’re talking about. Telling the future. Powerful magic. Could destroy the world?”

I stopped running.

“You didn’t say anything about destroying the world. Why would she do that?”

“I don’t know, but that’s what I heard her say.”

“It sounds like you left something out of your story.”

Lucas blushed, and went on. “I overheard her talking to her minion thing. He lives with us, teaches me and helps Mom do chores. I’ve always wondered why the Oracle needs him, and I found out why the other day. They thought I was asleep, but I’d come back downstairs to ask Mum a question.

“She was sitting in her chair, but the Oracle had her. She was talking to her minion, and she was talking about world domination.”

I almost wanted to laugh. This was ridiculous! But the look on Lucas’s face told me otherwise.

“Okay, so no school?” I asked him, trying to get a straight answer.

“No. We’ve got to get back to London. Immediately. You can meet Mum, and the Oracle, but you’ve got to pretend to be someone else. Mum’ll know who you are of course, you’re her daughter, she’ll know right away. But it’ll fool the Oracle, at least until she thinks to check Mum’s thoughts.”

He grabbed my arm again as he spoke and walked me to the edge of the street. He waved down a taxi and hopped in. I followed.

The way he talked was confusing; as if the Oracle and Mum… er, Mom, were the same person, and yet two individuals at the same time. It was more than disorienting. His forehead wrinkled.

“Did you understand any of that?” He asked me skeptically.

“Nope.”

“That’s what I thought…” He turned away from me, and told the taxi driver where he wanted to go.

One exciting thing has happened since my last post.

I got a manicure. It was a bunch of fun, and it was also funny. My mom said she'd wanted to take me since I turned thirteen (which was, well, last year.). I got my nails done a dark blue, and it's really pretty. My mom got hers done in a peach color, which is really pretty even though she doesn't like it.

I have some more of The Oracle story, but I'm not going to post it unless you ask for it.

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Not much to say, and I haven't uploaded my pictures from New York into my computer, so right now I have pretty much nothing interesting going on.

Sorry.

Um............ what did the grape say to the olive???

Olive you!!!

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Get it?? Olive you? The grape loves the olive? Yeah okay I get it, the joke stinks.

NO WAIT!!! I have one exciting (Well, exciting to me) thing to say. My red wig is awesome. Superly awesome. So here are a couple of pictures with terrible lighting, and you can't really see the wig, but hey I tried.

I got a red wig. Nothing more needs to be said.