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.