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.