Busy like a kinda lazy bee.

I'm not sure what it is about telling summer to fuck off, but I swear.. Once the cold weather makes it's way over, I can hardly stay in the house.

Whereas hot weather makes me hermit myself away from the world and hug my AC 22 hours out of the day.  Because sweat.  Ick.

Last Thursday a friend and I headed over to Irving Plaza to catch Candlebox and Hinder.  

But first we started with this.

And this.

Because calories don't count when you're going to see live music.

It's true.  I read it on the internet.

Then we watched some bands that I hadn't heard of who were pretty good, actually.  Open Air Stream and Devour the Day.  Look 'em up, if you want.  Or not.  

After that Candlebox came out.  Did you know it's been 20 years since their first album debuted?  That doesn't make me feel old at all.

After rocking out with them for a while, they scooted and Hinder came out.

Now, if you're familiar with Hinder at all, you'll see in the pictures that the lead singer?  Not Austin Winkler.  Nope.

It's Jared Weeks.  From Saving Abel.  Who I have a huge lady boner for.  Despite him being all gingery.  Because omg I love him.

So, not only did we get songs from Hinder, we also got some Saving Abel songs.  Which I was totally OK with.  Because I love him.  And not only that.  He totally sweated on me and it was awesome.  Because I love him.

Then on Saturday I finally got my hairs did.  Finally.  I was starting to look a hot mess.

But minus the hot.

And something that is totally out of character for me.  I completely forgot to take 600 selfies of my finished hair.  And I wasn't even drunk.  So I have no idea how that slipped my mind.

Later though, I was drunk.  I met up with a friend and her husband to watch the Iowa game.  Or something.  I'm pretty sure it was Iowa.

Maybe.

Then they headed home and I went to meet up with another friend at her work.  It's a bar though, so it's not weird.  It's good that she's not like, a teacher or something.  Because they tend to frown on drunken visitors.  And that would be awkward.

I don't have any pictures of that though.  Because I was drunk at that point.  I did find this pic on my phone.

Of which I have no explanation for.  So we'll just go with aliens.  Because why not?

Next up?  Shopping tomorrow for some tops for my upcoming headshots.  Which will either be Wednesday or Friday.  With a fantastic photographer.  I am superdupersuper excited about this.  

XOXO

Shame on the bad blogger..

Wow.. I can NOT believe how long it has been since I last posted.  I'm thoroughly ashamed of myself.  I just got so busy with life and school and the boyfriend that time flew by.  And of course, the more time passed between postings the more overwhelmed I felt with updating.


It's a vicious cycle.


Let's see.. A quick overview.  B's birthday just passed a week ago.  He turned the big 2-8.  I keep teasing him about looking for nursing homes soon.  He doesn't think I'm very funny.


I hear elderly people sometimes lose their sense of humor tho, so I won't hold it against him.


I'm nearing graduation from my dramatic arts conservatory.. 3 more weeks and I'll be completely done with school.  Forever.  It's a scary thought, but I'm excited to be starting on a new chapter of my life.


I went into the recording studio to record a voice-over demo.  It consisted of 5 commercials that then got cut together to create a sample of vocal abilities.  This will then be used to send to VO agents if I should want to head that direction.  I admit that I really enjoy it and my VO instructor seemed to really think I had a talent for it.  Here's a couple shots of the studio:

Recording and mixing equipment.

Inside the studio.

That was a really fun experience.


I also got my headshots taken last month by an up-and-coming photographer (Wildfyre Photography) that really did an amazing job.  Here are a couple of my favorites:

The only problem is that a couple weeks ago I woke up, couldn't do a thing with my hair so I walked down to 23rd and 3rd to Dramatics and had my hair all chopped off.  Now I have to redo ALL of my headshots since my new hairstyle makes my current ones unusable.  


Here's a pic so you can kind of see what my hair looks like now:

It's a bit hard to see but you can tell how much shorter it is now.  I have gotten so many compliments from people that it makes my head spin.  I ended up going about 4 inches shorter than I planned so I didn't know if I liked it or not but everyone I know has been so vocal about my new hair and how much they like it.  So a big thank you to all of my friends for their amazingly kind words!


Hm.. Oh yes!  B had been kind of down the past 2 months about not really finding a pro (football) team out here that he liked.  But his manager contacted him about an arena team so he went and met with the coaches.  They really liked him, set up a couple try-outs with him and now we're waiting on the third try-out and their decision.  I'm so proud of him and he's been super excited about the whole thing.  That's definitely been some good news for B.  :)


Also, today I went to Smile in the City which is an amazing cosmetic dentistry practice here in Manhattan.  I'm going to be getting Lumineers to straighten my smile.  My smile is actually pretty decent, I just have one tooth that is slightly turned inward which tends to look odd when I smile.  Also, the two teeth on either side of my front two are shorter than the front (you can see what I mean in the pic above), they'll be lengthened and my canines will be slightly rounded out so they're not as pointy.


I couldn't be more EXCITED.  I go in on May 9th, it'll take about 45 mins and then i'll have a brand new smile!  Generally I probably wouldn't have bothered if I wasn't on camera.  Everything on film is magnified and it drives me nuts.  And makes me a little self conscience.


Which I hate.


So that's pretty much everything that's been happening.  Other than filming my reel and submitting myself for auditions.  But that's only been within this past week so there's been no news on any of those things.  But you can bet I'll be blogging about it when something does happen.


Also, if you've made it thru this whole post you deserve a friggin' cookie.


So, this is for you!