Day 22 and Confessions...

22.A picture of something you wish you could like better:
RUNNING!! I've been running/jogging for almost 4 weeks now and I still hate it. I'm doing it for the exercise by the way, not for fun, more on that later...

Inspired by Calottta's confession posts, here I go:

confession: I hate running. But it's part of the exercise program I've made myself to get in shape for summer and more specifically, Damn Yankees. The community theater where I did It's a Wonderful Life, is putting on the classic Broadway musical Damn Yankees . The storyline is genius and goes like this: *this is taken from the theater's website that you can see here *

Joe Boyd is a typical middle-aged man who is addicted to baseball. Every baseball season is painful for him because his team, the Washington Senators, always loses to the Yankees. Joe ends up making a pact with the Devil that allows Joe Boyd to turn into the slugger, Joe Hardy. Hardy becomes the savior of the Washington Senators and a star in the Major Leagues. The problem is that Joe has also agreed to let the Devil have his soul. Luckily, the deal included an escape clause that allows him to return back to his normal life. After great success as a baseball player and various attempts by the Devil to convince Joe to remain young, Joe decides to return to his wife.

 *Dancing in the show requires athletic, jazz steps.

So seeing the note at the bottom about the dancing, my BFF Bridget and I are working out. I'm trying

getting in  shape by running, biking, sit ups, stretching, wall sits and eating healthy {working on that eating healthy part!} Bridget challenged me to being able to do the splits by the audition, I'm getting there! I can now touch my toes, which I couldn't before... ;)

The characters that Bridget and I are hoping for are "Lola" {the main girl} for Bridget and I'm aiming for the part of "Gloria Thorpe" {she's a newspaper reporter and sings my fave song in the show!!} But we are working hard for preparation for the audition in exactly 35 days!!!!!! Not that anyone is counting, hehehe... But I'm getting nervous and very excited for it... Excited to be in a show @ the OCP and see people I haven't seen in 5-6 months from It's a Wonderful Life. And yet nervous about failing the audition and the audition itself... Even if I don't get any part I'm planning on working backstage somewhere... So I'll keep you posted on  the whole thing! :)

*yummmmmmmmm*

confession: A 24" rooster scares me. Seriously. That rooster while come up and attack you... He'll peck you and ruffle his feathers and it HURTS! He stalked me while I was feeding my rabbit Darcy and scared me so bad I screamed bloody murder because I thought he'd attack me. But he would not leave me alone, he'd follow me and freak me out. If you can't tell, I don't like chickens much!

confession:  I can't stand a beagle's bark.... We found a stray beagle wandering around our yard, eyeing our chickens and so my mom caught him and he's in our dog's kennel and our dog is spending some quality time outside on a leash... But that dog won't shut up! It's sooo annoying. And I thought our dog's bark was bad... But at the moment we have 3 dogs at our house: the stray, our dog, and a dog we're babysitting. Fun, fun, fun. I'm not really a dog person either... :P

I need to go.... And work on my history homework that is calling out to me to finish.. Meh. But I'm paying attention to it's constant calling and I'm gonna go do it!

-Love,

Josie

                                     *ice in lemonade... a summer staple right there*





It's Over.

It’s over. The play I was in “It’s a Wonderful Life” did its last performance yesterday…. And I’m really rather sad about it, but you have to be done w/ one show before you go on to the next one, right?


But I had so much fun and made a lot of new friends and I hope I can see again through future productions.

It was kind of funny but my character had the more costumes and accessories than most of my cast mates… It took a while to check it all back in on Sunday.

But there was one fur coat I will most definitely NOT miss. I was a really pretty coat, like velvet and a huge fur collar and was a couple sizes too small! I wore it in like 3 scenes and I didn’t like it. : P and my red dresses will be kind of missed, but I did wear a lot of red! Red and black were my colors in Act I. And also my hats were fun, if you like hats falling off your head while onstage, but it added spontaneity to each show :P

That's all for now, I hope to be back to posting regularly soon!
Love,
Josie

Miscellaneous

I'm sorry for my lack of posts, but life can get crazy! So this is going to be a hodge-podge post, just be warned! :P

1.) my birthday was yesterday! I turned 14 and it was like the best birthday I've ever had! Everyone actually remembered it was my birthday {people sometimes forget} and I was sung the "Happy Birthday" song three times...Once at my percussion class, four little girls from the pay sang to me at the cast party {more on that later}, and everyone from the cast party sang as well. At the last time, I almost cried 'cause it was all so sweet. I had so much fun! The people in my cast are the best! :)

2.) 5 dozen cupcakes are alot of cupcakes to frost all by hand! :) I took cupcakes to Delta and to the cast party...Everyone seemed to like them!


3.) cast parties are the best! We had one at the lady who plays "Ma Bailey" 's house and it was a blast to just hang out and talk to all the people I've come to know and appreciate over the course of 8 weeks. Sadly, that time is coming to a close..... :(

4.) our performances are going very well, this Saturday and Sunday are THIS CLOSE to being sold out...which is great but very nerve-wrecking! And Sunday is going to be awesome because my family and Bridge's family are coming and also 3 friends of mine are coming. Tonight, Sat. possibly some other friends are coming {if they can get tickets}

5.) a cold is  going around the cast, which is very bad! Our Mr. Potter's voice last night was terrible. He had gotten the cold and he couldn't project well enough so they microphoned him and it helped a little but he still sounded really sick. I feel really sorry for him. But I have the feeling I have a touch of it and this morning I had tea w/ lots of honey and some garlic o help w/ it. I feel fine but I think I'll get sick after it's all over. Oh, well....

I hope I haven't bored you all, but  hope to get back to posting more regularly after Sunday!
Love,
Josie

Thank-You All!

I just wanted to let you all know that last night, opening night for my play went really well! I did puke, but I thought I came close once. My friend in the play and Bridget were all so supportive and wonderful! And I also want to thank you all for the lovely messages and comments! :)

 I have 5 more performances to go and I'm going to be very sad when it's all over, but I'm going to live in the moment and have a great time at it! 

Tonight's the cast party and I'm hoping to take lot's of pictures! But before last night's performance I went around taking pictures to help relax and here's what I got: *NOTE* the reason why I'm in hot rollers and in a big, pink bathrobe is that I was cold and my hair was curling...No, I didn't go onstage like that! :P

                                                                         "Play Day"

                                                         Bridget and I, being normal

                                                 And then there's the goofy side of us! :P

                                        Jamie { Who plays Bridget's play mom, Mrs. Hatch} and I

                                                 Jonathan {the news paper boy} and I

                                                 Empty seat ready to hold theater-goers

                                                  Nicole {Ma Bailey} and Me

                                                Bridget drawing crow's-feet on Mike {Clarence}

                                                           Mike {Clarence} and I

                                                And the star of the show {George} and I

One again, thank-you everyone and have a great day!

Love,

Josie

aka "Violet"

Oh My Gosh!

Tomorrow night is opening night for the play I'm in, "It's A Wonderful Life"... I'm getting really nervous but mostly excited! :) And I have to admit, I've had to limit myself on how many pictures I post of the show but since I probably won't be posting for awhile here are a few my wonderful Mom took:

                                                  Me doing both my lines and "Uncle Billy's"

                                                                George and I
{I'm taller than him and alot of the other guys, So farI've been dubbed "The Statue of Liberty" and "Amazon Woman"}

                                                                  Bridget and George

                                                            Me...Getting mad :P

                                           
                                          Me after rehearsals {please ignore the red-eyes}

Wish me luck this weekend!

Love,

Josie

Rehearsal Fun

Yesterday we had an early rehearsal and there was a potluck and I brought cheesy potatoes {my favorite potluck dish!} and tried to take as many pictures as I thought I should. I still don't have very many good ones :(  But I still have 2 weeks. But have a look!

                                                   They got the marquee up! :)

                                                   
                                                        Bridget and I in front of the marquee

                                                  Damien {"Mr. Martini" and "Harry"} and I {man, it's grainy....}

Bridget and I...again :P

Racks of costumes downstairs

                                                                 Me! {In my RED lipstick}

Mr. Potter and George

Marquee letters

Me in Bridget's stage glasses

                                                    Mike aka "Clarence", Bridget and I

I hope you all enjoyed these pictures, hopefully more to come...

On a sad note, my sister lost one of her angora goats yesterday. We think she died because she ate a plastic tie that she had found somewhere. It's Gabbi's first "big" animal to die {no, goldfish don't count}, so if you could keep her in your prayers, that'd be very appreciated. :)

I've decided I'm going to wait to launch my photography blog, "Still Memories". And then I'll launch it on January 1st, 2011. I just wanted to let you all know about that....

Love,

Josie

Backdrops {My New Technique}

Wow, I haven't posted for awhile! *Sorry* I just been so busy, it's insane...Rehearsals every night, and I had a history exam to study for and well, life jut happens. ;)

But I have been experimenting w/ backdrops... I was trying to figure out how to do backdrops that I can make and use easily. The result ended up using table clothes and and huge roll of white paper draped over our massive food dehydrator. And it work really well. I just set it up facing a window {but that day was cloudy and you can kind of tell, but I'll try again on a sunny day.

You want to see? Take a look!
                         
                                                       I used a table cloth for this one

The rest I used a roll of white paper

Rehearsals  for "It's a Wonderful Life" are going well, we are now running through the whole thing, and opening night is this coming up Friday! AAH! It's really sad to thin that I only have 2 more weeks to hang w/ all my new friends in the play...

                                                                      Bridget and I

                                                  A scene from the back of the stage

                                                 Mike aka "Clarence"... He's a hoot!

 
                           Me in my play makeup, I'm just missing my fire engine red lipstick :P

Tonight is another rehearsal and before it a potluck, so I'm hoping to take allot of pictures! :)

Have any of you read "The Visitation" by Frank Peretti? If you ah isn't it great!? I read it withing 2 ays, and it's a 519 page book, I'm a little weird like that. :P But it was so good! "The Oath" by Frank Perretti is really good aswell....

                                                                     Talk to you all later!

                                                                                    Love,

                                                                                    Josie

"Violet" Make-Up

I don't normally wear make-up...Now, I'll be wearing it every night for the next 2 weeks. It's definitely going to take some getting used to it though! The reason I don't normally wear make-up is that I never really wanted to, but my director said that for me to be more "Violet" I need to wear make-up: BRIGHT red lipstick, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, the works. So after rehearsals on Monday, Mommy, Bridget and I went to Walgreens on the way home... Ad they were all so pretty and new, especially the lipstick...

The smoothness of it was amazing, the texture as well......

I REALLY need to take ore pictures at rehearsals, but I'm going to get very busy... I'm going to start wearing my costumes on Thursday, so I don't have as much free time during rehearsals....But I will try for all of you! :) Oh! And there will be pictres of me w/ my make-up on soon! :)

Love,

Josie

aka

"Violet"

Goofy Me

I've been searching for some recent pictures of myself and have found none. So today I took my camera and stood against the side of our house and snapped away.....Be warned! I can get pretty goofy! :P But I think they look good. :)

This is my new profile picture :D

I love this one :P

Tough girl.....

This is my absolute favorite!

I normally don't like black and white pictures of me, but this one is great!

Rehearsals are going good, tomorrow we are running through the whole show....AAH! I also need to start REALLY need to work on projection {talking louder} I think  I got the hang of it but we'll see tomorrow night. :P

Paul {who plays "George"} at the base of the ladders onstage while adjusting the backdrop on Wednesday.

 Chuck {who plays "Mr. Gower" and is the stage manager} onstage from a reflection in a mirror. As seen from backstage}

Do any of you guys watch "The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"? If you do, wasn't tonight's episode awesome!? Though it was a little scary for my little sisters {M and T}.... But it was sweet! :)

Good-night all!

Love,

Josie