Musicals. Musicals everywhere!

One of my aspirations has always been to audition for a play or a musical. I’ve never acted before, though I’ve always been interested. I came close to being in the Wizard of Oz in high school but couldn’t afford the fee required.

Anyways, the Blonde is auditioning for Grease this March, and has asked me to audition with her. I agreed, and I am terrified and also really excited. The theater that is putting on the play is the largest in our area, and the cast is fairly small, but hey, I think I’d make an awesome Jan.

That’s right, I said Jan. I love me some Jan. Remember her?

I think her character is underappreciated and hilarious and hey, she loves food and I love food so it seems fitting.

In order to get ready for the audition, I need to work on getting into better shape. I’m not going to lie - I could stand to lose a few pounds. Okay, more than a few. Anyways, I’m going to start working toward being more active and more conscientious of what I’m eating, drink more water, all that good stuff. I have to be able to dance, and sing, and dance and sing at the same time… Will be interesting!

In other news, I think it can officially be said that Angelica and I are completely and totally obsessed with Les Miserables. We’ve each seen either the 10^th or the 25^th anniversary concerts multiple times in the past week (I lost count), which are amazing, just FYI. We’ve acquired the soundtracks. Yes, soundtracks. It’s plural on purpose. She hadn’t seen the movie yet, so I took her yesterday and we had a Les Mis lady date. Seriously, addicted.

Hope this post finds you well!

New Year's Eve

Alright, so this post is a little late, as it’s technically the 4^th already, but hey, I’ve been busy ringing in the new year and going on lady dates with my best friend and such.

I had an absolutely fantastic New Year’s Eve, mostly because I spent it with some of my favorite people. One of my best friends (whom I affectionately refer to as ‘the blonde’) invited me to her home to ring in the New Year with her and her fiancé. Originally, there were supposed to be a few other people, but plans fell through and so it was just the three of us.

Her and I spent most of the day watching the 25^th anniversary Les Miserables concert and geeking out, and then we watched a recording of a stage version of The Wizard of Oz in which her fiancé played the cowardly lion (and did an amazing job).

In a stroke of luck, another of my best friend’s was able to join us in the evening, and the four of us played some card games and had some drinks. I was planning on taking plenty of pictures, but we got so caught up in our games and having fun that we didn’t remember to photograph the night. We almost missed midnight because we were having so much fun.

With four minutes to midnight, we managed to rush and get in some last pictures of 2013 and then set off a couple fireworks as the clock struck midnight.

Cosmopolitans with the blonde.

Last picture of the three of us before 2013!

Fireworks!

First official best friend picture of 2013!

I was planning on typing up a few hilarious quotes from the evening, of which there were a ton, but, well, as I was sufficiently inebriated I don’t really have enough recollection of what all was said to make a list.

However, there is this gem from Angelica while we were playing a card game called Rocketship. The first round of the game, each person is supposed to guess the color of their card. When it got to Angelica’s turn, this is what happened:

The Blonde: “Angelica: red or black?”

Angelica: “Blue!”

She was completely serious. It took her almost an entire minute to realize why the three of us were laughing so hard.

I hope everyone out there in the blogosphere had a wonderful New Year’s, and I wish everyone the best of luck in 2013!

Dear Melynda,

The point of this post: Once a week, I'll be dedicating a post to my friend and fellow blogger Melynda, who writes over at Despite All Logic. Go check her out - she's hilarious and pretty awesome.

Dear Melynda,

So I'm up at Angelica's this morning, minding my own business (aka passed out on the couch) when suddenly, I find myself under attack.

A wild Raia appeared out of nowhere, apparently deciding that it was time for me to wake up. Now, Raia has a very... let's say special way of waking people up. It involves jumping on you, walking up and down for awhile, and randomly assaulting you. Don't believe me? I have proof.

Raia, why are you trying to eat my hand?

Oh, good! She's laying down. I'll finally have some peace.

Spoke too soon. Hey, Raia, please stop trying to eat me. Please?

Are you comfy down there, Raia? Well, that's great. Please stop stepping on me, it hurts.

So that was my morning. Lovely, yes? Seriously, you should spend the night on Angelica's couch some time to become acquainted with Raia's morning ritual of harassment. No, really. You totally should.

I'll leave you with this:

<3,

Me. (and Raia.)