Living Life In A Lifestyle Way

Hope everyone out there who is a father had a happy Father's Day today. I was unable to spend it with my dad because he's in the upper peninsula at the moment and won't be home until this Thursday.

Anyways, what in the world has been going on in my life?

Well a few days ago I had my first exam in my film class. I didn't find it to be horrendously hard but I am well aware that I missed a few multiple choice questions. Also, I'm pretty sure I will be knocked down some points because I kept calling the hats the British guys were wearing "colonial hats." I'm actually rather curious as to what other name there could possibly be for a hat that looks like this;

But I'm getting my grade back Tuesday and can only hope that it is good.

I also seemed to have lost my voice last week. Probably from me and my mom yelling so much or possibly from singing but let me just say that I hate nothing worse than losing my voice. If I don't have my voice I feel like I am not a true person and am an alien from Mars. Nobody will ever know how hard it is being me and not being able to talk. I found that chamomile tea does help a little along with taking an entire bag of Ricola's. By the way I've never had a Ricola before and they are quickly becoming one of my favorite things. Thank you Switzerland!

On Saturday I was unable to sleep thanks to the stupid little crickets that kept chirping their heads off. Not only do they chirp 24/7 but they chirp in a NON SYMMETRICAL way and never shut up! I had to move five different times but that didn't even help because those little bastards could be heard everywhere! Plus the birds in my neighborhood have a tendency to sing at unreasonable times once the crickets stop chirping. I am never going camping, nature is trying to drive me insane.

Today my mother moved my computer desk against the wall for some reason and when I asked why the desk was there she turned around and sprayed Pledge in my eye. I drained my eyes for at least 15 minutes with water then put some eye drops in. The chemical didn't technically get inside my eye considering I closed them once I saw the yellow can pointed toward me, but either way it's not like I have a car or friends or anyone who would be willing to take me to the emergency room even if the stuff did penetrate my eyeball. I know a lot of you right now are probably going ASDJHGKGMB THAT'S ABUSE! Yes, I can understand why you may see it that way, but to be fair she was cleaning the desk and had absolutely no intentions of blinding me...hopefully. She felt quite bad afterwards but probably not as bad as I did with the lemon chemical stuff on my eye. That is painful and if any of you out there are going "Oh I wonder what lemon Pledge feels like IN MY CORNEA" let me just tell you that it sucks and it hurts and I am going to strongly encourage you to never find out what it feels like.

Acting Survey!

1. Who is your favorite actor/actress?
This has always been a hard question for me to answer because there are so many different types of acting. As for movie actress I am going to have to say Helena Bonham Carter is my number one favorite. I'm also a huge fan of Meryl Streep,Catherine Zeta Jones, and Keira Knightley. As for movie actors, I have always really liked Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman. It is really difficult to pick out my favorite movie actors because there is just so much talent in that pool. Heck, there is a ton of great talent in all of the acting types I'm going to list!
As for stage acting, I am a huge huge fan of Jenn Gambatese, James Barbour, Kelli O'Hara, Bernadette Peters, Caroline O' Connor, Natalie Toro, Norm Lewis, Kate Shindle, Betsy Morgan, Angela Lansbury, Andrew Varela, Omar Lopez-Cepero, and Marla Schaffel. Marla has not been on stage I believe since 2009 which really saddens me.
As for voice actors, Michelle Ruff and Kate Higgins will always be my two favorites but in all honesty everyone in that field of work amazes me. I would also like to remind everyone that  voice actor does have the word ACTOR in it.
As for favorite dead actor/actress- Judy Garland, Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy, and Vincent Price.

2. If you could be part of any old Disney Channel movie, which one would you choose? 
Gotta Kick it up! Although I'm not even close to being the race 99% of the people in the film were but working with Susan Egan would have been so much fun. Plus it was just a great film.

3. What is your favorite genre to act in?
I really like drama. And musicals. I'm never too picky about my favorite genre though considering I have never really been in a show where I have heard anyone say "OMG this play sucks because it is COMEDY!" Who does that?

4. What is your favorite TV show? 
I have two; Person of Interest and Downton Abbey. I just started watching Game of Thrones the other day and I think I'm really going to enjoy that as well. I've read the books so I already know what is going to go down but I do like seeing the world from the books in screen form.

5. What is your favorite movie 
Sweeney Todd. 

6. Who would you replace on a tv show?
Oh I'm not even sure I could pull off the awesomeocity of a lot of people on TV today. But I have to say that I think Morgana Pendragon (from Merlin) would be a great role to have. Katie McGrath does a wonderful job portraying the character though.

7. What is your dream movie role? 
I would love to be in a period drama, I truly would.

8. Would you rather do tv or movies?
I would love to do both. I can't choose! However I think TV would be a bit funner. 

9. Who would you want to be your onscreen boyfriend?
A person who isn't creepy.

10. What do you want to accomplish in the next five years?
I don't put a time limit on things. But I would like to voice act in something someday. 

Idiots on Facebook, Round 4

If you are not aware of what this is then here are the rules;
Basically I go on someones profile on Facebook and if their status is horribly non-sensible I will copy and paste their status right here. There is only one way to not get involved with this game; make your profile private or type like a normal human being. If you choose not to follow these rules you are fair game.

Classy! A dueschbag stole my garage to wheel it behind car down the road! I heard ya stop luckly the gun was a few steps away or I would have blew your end of your car out duesbag! #wrong house to be fing with, LOCKED & LOADED!!- Something tells me this guy is not legally qualified for owning a weapon of any sort. However, I am very curious as to how a person can steal a garage, put the garage in his car, and then drive with the garage down the road. Please, tell me how one can even lift a garage.  

Party at mcdonolds & bears tonight!!!! Come on! ! Anything fun!!- Bears do like McDonalds parties. And HUMAN FLESH. 


Anybody have a jet ski for sale??? Ill buy it now time! Just wanna be on a lake and my boat isnt ready yet!!!!- I can somewhat comprehend what this guy is saying.  But there will never be an excuse for "buy it now time." Even if the sentence said "I can buy it on time" that would still make no sense considering what he says after that.

Chillin slamming down bloody marrys w/ lovely n my muther.- That's nice. I do believe he is calling his girlfriend his lovely. Classy youngster.

Woo woo one year probation for my dui...non check, $5000 later but still get to leave state for CEADER POINT SATURDAY in Idoho! Guess I gotta quit drinking- Yes. Yes I would recommend that you do need to stop your alcohol consumption. Why? Because I'm guessing your probation officer would not dig it and because you are traveling quite a few states away from where Cedar Point is located. 

Wht u got ur ass in trouble. I jus got off probation- Why is everyone on/off probation? Stop doing illegal things! 

Alright  huricane rain storm its damn hard to start a fire...mo fuuuuuuckie!!!- Ah the good ole' hurricane rain storm. Who in their right mind would think about going outside and trying to start a fire during something like this? I can see bad things happening if this guy is allowed to be within 6 yards of any matches.


















Ur better off not to lie in the long run no matter wut u did the truth will make it rite- Thank you Mother Theresa. I enjoy how this is supposed to be a message of some sort but it is basically just trying to boss people around. "You BETTER off not lie." I will BETTER whatever I want. I will better butter. Bam! 

These are all from the same girl: if i had some1 would go pick up Dran i would let them win in a card game its hard 2 beat me on ur own-
1. Dran is a stupid name. It's like his parents combined Draco Malfoy and dragon and turned it into a child.
2. I could probably kick this girls butt in her rousing game of Go Fish!
3. Why do people feel the need to not capitalize the letter I? I do not accept this. 

Ugh,.. I am sick with a cold. I really wished my baby could come and make it all better- So from what I understand she is saying that if her honey bunches of oats was there she would feel better by contaminating him with her sickness. Right on!

He was and is my true love. was with him a week and two days. - Yeah, being with someone 12 days automatically means that person is your true love. 

Guy- DO I KNOW YOU? (I am your worst nightmare.) 

Her- No But i am jays women n i am tryin 2 call him so i can call him. tell him to call me. (She is like 17. Not a woman yet. Also I enjoy how she wishes to call this person because calling this person means she'll call this person. =/) 

Guy- I don't know anyone named Jay. (But I added you as a friend because I don't know anything about photoshop and from your profile picture you look like a Rootbeer model!) 

Her- I wished i could meet u cuz u sound fun like me (Let this just speak for itself.)

That's all for now but I am sure plenty of other silly jelly beans will post something stupid in the future. Thanks for reading! 

Life Is For the Alive My Dear

Howdy there blogger universe!

I know I haven't been on in two weeks or so and I only thought it would be nice to update. My film class is really fun and I am definitely going to get my moneys worth taking it. I have already learned a bunch of definitions about film and a ton of other things like if a film has been shot on a lot or just in some random place. It is actually hard to explain everything I've learned so far because it is so much and honestly I think it is a class you just have to take in order to understand what's going on.

But we have been  watching several clips from a ton of movies such as; M, Bonnie&Clyde, The Bicycle Thief, and The Red Lantern along with a ton of other amazing films. We started with silent films and are now watching stuff that more people have probably heard of. However I made myself watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on youtube and that was fabulous. I've heard the name around a million times but never had the chance to see it so I'm happy that I finally was able to do so. I have every intention of renting Sunset Boulevard soon because
A. From what I've seen Gloria Swanson is amazing in it
and
B. The musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is wonderful.

The class also got to watch two scenes from Gone With the Wind. Only six girls besides myself in the entire class have seen the movie. I feel so bad for them. If you are reading this blog right now and have never seen Gone With the Wind I am ashamed of who you are as a person. Alright not really, but pleaaase watch the movie. Please. It is an American classic for a reason! I remember watching it about a million times when I was in 8th grade and my English teacher in high school made us see the film because according to her it would be "unacceptable" to have her agree to the seniors graduation if we never saw Gone With the Wind.
 



As for the book we are using, I shall officially classify myself as a complete dork because I love my literature text book and usually text books are not supposed to be loved. They are supposed to be hated with a burning passion of a thousand suns! But on the SIXTH PAGE it has a whole bunch of interesting facts about the filming of Sweeney Todd and then it goes on for five pages about the editing, costumes, and acting in Sleepy Hollow and it just has a whole bunch of stuff in it about movies which I find super awesome. Everyone keeps complaining about how we have to read stuff in our book and I am probably the only one who ENJOYS reading these chapters. =/

 We even got to analyze the Sweeney picture in class yesterday which was awesome except for the fact that my teacher forgot Helena Bonham Carter's character's name and that pretty much killed me a little on the inside.  However my teacher is great so he is forgiven.



^ By the way I have seen this movie a million times and never noticed the sign before until our teacher pointed it out. It says;
Adolfo Pirelli 
King of the Barbers. Barber of Kings.
AHHHH. That is so cool considering it also happens to be in the song lyrics!
And do you see that little red and white candy cane looking thing in the background aka the barber pole? Barbers used to practice bloodletting and pull teeth and during bloodletting the patients squeezed a pole to allow their blood to flow more freely. The pole was often painted red to mask bloodstains. At the end of the operation the pole was wrapped in the white bandages that were used during the operation. SYMBOLIZATION!!! Apparently the set designers have a reason for putting everything you see in a scene and I'm just now starting to pick up on this stuff thanks to this class.

As for the students, most of them have been really nice so far. Only a few stupid things have been said or asked so I am very grateful for that. These stupid things included one girl thinking Jodi Arias was a person in our book. The other was some guy who didn't know who Judy Garland was. 

^FYI THIS is Judy Garland.


Besides class though, I have been reading a truly magnificent book titled The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Maybe you've heard of it? I'll more than likely finish it in the next two days because it is just THAT GOOD. I love the Disney film and knew this wasn't going to be 100% the same but I'm glad I kept an open mind about this. None of the characters are "good" per se but I actually prefer all of them over Esmeralda. God I hate Esmeralda in this. She has absolutely no character development. I'll try to find some time to review the book on here once I'm finished with it but be warned that this will be my first book review ever so try to be kind but fair.



Lately my mom has also been getting on my case about THE INTERNET. O_O Her friend at work has a daughter who's 18 who met some guy she met online in real life. Nothing bad happened but my mom has been all "You are exactly like this girl! You better not be talking to people online because if you do that they can come to our house at 3am and burn it down!"
I told her that pyromaniacs are "hot." She did not get that joke.
I understand where she's coming from, I truly do. I've never given out my address, phone number, or last name to anyone online that I don't know in real life because yeah, you shouldn't do that. However most people I have spoken to online have been really nice and I think it's unfortunate that people have to be put into the "OMG they're a pedophile" category if you wish to have a conversation with someone. If you wish to converse do it, just be safe and block/report the person if they are being creepy loser. In my opinion though anyone under the age of 16 shouldn't be talking to unknown strangers online, that doesn't scream safety to me.

Oh and before I forget, I found this at the store the other day!

It is the best tasting stuff in the world next to cupcakes. Plus it comes in a pink can. PINK!!!

Thanks for reading! 

Javert and Jaws

So I found out today that the guy who tried out for Javert got cut from the final round. In all honesty I kind of feel bad because now I can't sing "The Confrontation" with him, but I do feel somewhat euphoric at the same time which is pretty disturbing to say the least. But thankfully  I learned that a place in Michigan is putting on Les Miserables next year thanks to this guy who didn't tell me about this audition so I can't be overly mad at him and can only wish US the best when this audition rolls around.

In other news, I start my class tomorrow at 5pm. The class is basically a let's watch some classic movies class (where you watch movies and write about them) and I'm pretty much only taking it for 3 credits and of course because I feel like this class might help with learning about film and what not and it's really not a bad thing for me to learn. Plus we get to watch JAWS and I have to admit that I have never seen Jaws all the way through so I'm looking forward to that. Plus sharks are cool and I can guarantee you that I will probably be the only one in class singing the theme song.

I'm really hoping that this class will be fun. I mean, watching movies is fun how can the class be boring? I already know the films we're going to watch because the teacher put a list online for the students already and none of them are truly horrible. Looking forward to movie times!

Classes and Evil Grandmothers

Good news to those out there who care about my lovely little life; I get to take an acting class in June! I am really excited about it considering:
1. It's an acting class and any class that involves acting is automatically great in my book
2. Not only is it an acting class but it is a 9-5 class where everyone gets to better their skills and learn a ton of stuff and what not.
3. Singing and Dancing!
4. Professionally trained people are going to be teaching, INCLUDING Jeremy Jordan who most people know by his SMASH fame. However he was on Broadway as well in Bonnie&Clyde and Newsies! The website says;
Classes taught by Emmy® Award Winning Producers & Directors along with Talent Agents, Casting Directors, Musical Directors, Choreographers, University Faculty Members and Celebrities.
How neat is that?
5. I get a free headshot!!!
6. The hotel I am staying at for this is by the lake. I probably won't get much use out of the beach time but it is still a great location.


However I am actually a nervous wreck about this. The class says that anyone who is 8-25 can join. The class is crazy expensive and I am just hoping that if a whole bunch of 8 years old sign up I won't be the one who has to babysit them. It has happened to me before (not in a class) but just because I am a 22 year old who looks 12 that does not mean I have the skills of an 8 year old or have the patience to handle them 24/7.  Also, theatre divas. I don't want to deal with them. Hopefully everyone who signed up for the class is there to learn, not to showcase how they will become the next Meryl Streep or Johnny Depp. And the dancing aspect. I am not a dancer by any means and that is honestly the #1 thing I am worried a lot about. This is how I dance, no joke.

But I will try my best, that's all I can do!!! I am taking this class to have fun and to learn. If something else happens then I will accept that as well. 

The sad part about me taking this class though is my lovely family and their opinions about it. My grandmother came over today and told me that, "It is completely ridiculous to waste your money like this! You are 22 if you were serious about acting you would have been in California or New York by now. No agent will ever want you considering you look nothing like the Kardashians. Plus I never found you to be all that great when I have seen you on stage. Save your money!" 0_0

Yeah, grandma you don't know what the hell you are talking about, but thank you so much for that boost of confidence, you are always good at that. After that conversation today I have been quite sad. I guess I should be used to her telling me stuff like this but I doubt I will ever become content with it. 

My mom agreed with everything she said which made this 100 times worse.

I never thought that being 22 was a bad thing. I stand corrected. It's not that I don't take acting seriously, I do but it's not like I have enough money to make it in New York or any connections to start working in L.A. If I am going to move I want to be smart about it so I do not end up starving and living under a bench or palm tree.

Either way though, I am taking this class. I will learn stuff and by continuing to learn I will become better at this. Who knows, maybe by taking this class I won't get cut from the next thing I audition for! =)

How To Make Me Furious

These past two days have not been that great for me at all.

Yesterday morning a girl I used to be best friends with in middle school, who was in my class called my house asking if she could have my cousins phone number so she could "catch up" and "hang" with her. Oh so I'm apparently not good enough to hang with even after four years. Hell to the no. I don't care if people want to hang out with my cousin or even if they prefer her over me, in fact a lot of people do. But please don't call my house acting like we never associated with one another and convey that talking to me is a huge downfall on your social life. That is rude and will not earn you any phone numbers. However it will earn you a special place on my non-existent dagger board of doom.

This is basically how the phone conversation went;
Her: HEEEEEEEEEEY.
Me: Hey how are you doing? I haven't really seen you since high school.
Her: TRUE STATEMENT! (???) I just graduated blah blah blah I have a degree and work in a bar so that makes me better than you.
Me: That's nice. I should be graduating this year after I take a French class.
Her: French is a lame language. You should take Spanish. Anyways are you still majoring in teaching?
Whoa whoa whoa back up there. You are not paying for my classes so you have no business telling me what I should or should not take. Teaching is also not a major. By the way, why does everyone always assume that I am majoring in education? I swear if I was a teacher and this girl stupidly sent her kid into my class I would send the kid outside everyday to collect iguana's! I would get fired but it would be totally worth it. 
Me: No I'm majoring in theatre.
Her: Whatever. Do you have your cousins phone number? I haven't seen her since shes been pregnant and I want to hang and catch up with her.
Ah. The ulterior motive finally comes out.
Me: She's been busy.
Her: I kind of figured but I do want to call her and ask if she wants to hang out by my pool this week. What's her number?
......O_O
HELLO?!?!?!?
Me: I'm not sure if I have it. She changes her number a lot.
Her: I DO TO!!!!!!!!!!! (Good to know!!!) Just tell her to ring me up when she gets a chance.
*hangs up on me.*

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this? It shall be a cold day in hell before she get's my cousins phone number. If she really wanted it she should have looked in a phone book or messaged her on Facebook or something.

After that marvelous phone call I got up and around because I had to get my blood drawn and was fasting. I arrive at the phlebotomy place at 10 and they didn't get me back to have my blood drawn until 11:30. Someone needs to be kicked for that.
Anyways I go back there and was surprised to see a male was going to take my blood. Not that I'm saying that men can't draw blood or anything, but whenever I go in a woman usually draws it so yeah, I was a bit surprised.
I thought that the male was pretty good looking at first until he started being an idiot. In my world you cannot be moronic and continue to be good looking. He started telling me that he just graduated from college and that he was only doing this job until he could find one that suits his bachelors degree much better. I still have no idea why he told me this. He then asks me if I'm sure I'm 22. Well what does the computer say? Shouldn't that have my birth date on there? What did he expect me to say? "Haha I'm 15 I guess I'll have to come back another time!"
He then tied my arm  up in a super tight fashion, which I understand that is what they have to do but this was extremely painful before he even jabbed the needle into my arm. Then he starts poking my arm extremely hard to find a vein and bruised it before the needle went in. I have good and visible veins. Why did this dude have to poke me in an extreme manner?

By the way, while he was poking me he had the needle in his hand. I do not enjoy being played with like that! As soon as he put the needle in my arm he starts telling me about how the blood drawing process works. I KNOW HOW IT WORKS! I'VE DONE THIS MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE! Thank God I was paying attention to what he was doing because he wanted to fill up 5 more tubes with my blood when my doctor clearly stated in my lab slip that she only wanted ONE. His response "Well it's always good to have a little extra." I was about to go all nuclear war on this guy. I told him that if he thinks he's drawing more blood he's sadly mistaken. He then leaves the needle in my arm (making me hold the thing), walks back to his computer then states that I was right and that "It's just an aspect of my job to assume lots of blood." Not "Oh I'm sorry for almost causing you a severe anemic reaction" but "I assume things." He then takes the needle out of my arm and almost puts a piece of tape on it. NO. I know this isn't The Ritz and I shouldn't ask for luxury but tape gives me an allergic reaction when placed on my arm. I told him this 10 times. I had to tell him this again and instead of giving me a band aid he told me that "I was just making it up" and placed tape on my arm over the cotton. He then left the room and asked me to stay so he could ask me some basic questions. He came back, asked me what my date of birth was along with my name again. I gave him this information then told him that he sucked at his job and should be fired. He asked me "why" and I told him that he was a disgrace to phlebotomists everywhere. He told me that he never wishes to see me again. I told him that he probably won't because the next time I come in here he would be fired. I called and filed a complaint against him, we'll see where this goes.

After getting my blood drawn I had to go take my accounting book back at my college. $250 accounting book. I got $10 back for it. I do believe I got royally screwed on that deal! I would have choke slammed the lady who gave me the money if it weren't for the fact that two security guards were watching my every move.   Oh well, at least I was able to buy an Arby's lunch with that money.

Later I took my tape off and lo and behold, my arm is now 50 shades of rainbow!

As for today, I woke up with about 50 mosquito bites on my arm and 10 on my back. How wonderful! My bruise also has failed to change colors so it still looks like a coloring book sneezed on me.

I then learn that one of my supposed "friends" on Facebook auditioned for Les Miserables somewhere and failed to tell me where the audition was. Things like this make me hate humanity. I'm not one to tell people about auditions because yeah, not a big fan of competition. But this was a guy and I am a girl and that usually means we wouldn't even be competing against each other. But I am not heartless. If I knew someone and knew that their dream was to be in THREE SPECIFIC SHOWS before they died I would tell them about the audition, not pull a lame move like this. This guy got a callback for Javert (one of my favorite characters). If he gets the part it will be official that SOMEONE up there has it out for me.

I know not many people read this blog but if there is a place anywhere in Michigan holding auditions for any of the following shows at any time I am pleading that you contact me. I look up auditions all of the time but sometimes I have a tendency to miss things;

* Sweeney Todd
* Les Miserables
* Jane Eyre
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Jekyll&Hyde

Thank you all for reading this!