I really have to stop disappearing from LJ. Gosh so much has happened, I just hope I remember it all... Anyway, in case anyone has noticed my absence, real life got in the way. And I know that sounds like a stupid excuse but there it is.

Let's see, where to begin... well I got my hair cut and now my friends have started calling me Alice because now I look similar to Alice Cullen which I find pretty amusing. My grandparents are here, (they came for the holidays) which has its ups and downs. I love them, I really do and I especially love how my grandma makes cookies and fudge (which is to die for) but sometimes... They're really old-fashioned. And they can make these comments that just infuriate me but, I mean, what can I do? They're a little out of it sometimes anyway. Christmas was fun, I got the third season of Grey's and got my little sister hooked on it. She's now almost as obsessed as I was. Oh I almost forgot, I went to the Switchfoot/3 Doors Down concert and that was good, but we were standing the whole time so my feet were killing me. And all before that I had finals and junk and I'm glad that's all over.

So this is my last post of 2008! I'm ready for the new year, ready to start over. I think my resolution will be to be more outgoing around strangers or something. I gotta be more open. So how about you guys? Set any resolutions yet?

Anyway, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are looking forward to the new year! I'm off to catch up on posts and then search for a Dana Fairbanks icon (Can anyone point me in the right direction?)

See you in the new year!

Brooke Smith axed from Grey's Anatomy. No more Hahn.

( this has completely ruined Grey's for me )

A post dedicated to wishing the awesome chickwith_stick a very happy birthday! Drop by her page and wish her a happy birthday :)

To Lauren, here's hoping this year's better than the last and that all your birthday wishes come true!

And remember: growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional ;)

Let's see where to begin....

Well, Wicked at the Fox on the 14th was wonderful. At first I was slightly sad to see that Carmen's standby would be in, but that was quickly changed. Anyone else ever see Donna Vivino, the standby for Elphaba on tour? Well, she's a little powerhouse (and I do mean little, smaller than Carmen). The show overall was fantastic. Popular was especially hilarious. Katie took Elphie's glasses at one point and wore them for a while; it was too cute. She also all but manhandled poor Donna (you know that part, where Glinda has Elphie in a vice grip swinging her back and forth). She really had a complete hold on her, arm across face holding head close protectively. Katie even gave her a little kiss on her head (possibly the cutest part). She gave Elphie a similar little kiss on her shoulder during defying gravity as well. Heh, during the catfight when she throws her wand down, Katie threw it all the way off the stage and like into the orchestra pit. I don't think anyone was hurt, but it was really funny. The whole ensamble was great, everyone's voice seemed flawless.

So after the show me and my friends who I was with went stage-dooring. I got all the main character's autographs (except Boq's and Morrible's), but man was I starstruck! Everyone was super nice, and Katie was so so cute! She had her dog (Sampson, isn't it?) with her. I was the most starstruck with her; she's just so talented ,and cute, and amazing, and pretty, and quickly rising on my list of favorite Glindas, and did I mention cute? I think I may have told her she was amazing. Twice. And I couldn't wipe off the goofy grin I had on my face all night. I may have even creeped someone out... Donna was also amazingly adorable when she came out. You could tell she really like being Elphaba with how she was so happy and eager to sign everyone's playbill. She was really friendly and sweet, and I think that made her slightly less intimidating. She was shorter than me too, that may have helped....but anyway the show was so great I felt euphoric afterwords and had the urge to hug everyone at the stage-door. Don't worry, I didn't, but I wanted to.

I bought A Lion Among Men like two days ago, and I'm almost done. Don't worry I won't give any spoilers, but I like it so far. I feel bad for Brrr though... Also bought Kristin's new Christmas CD. She picked really good songs to sing, especially with her tone and all. Can't wait to watch her on Ellen tomorrow; they're always so funny together.

So far, cocktober has been good to me. Though, my friends seem more emo-ish than normal... I'll fix that though. I just will :)

So, I really pumped for this month. First of all, it's cocktober and I can giggle about that with my friends and then have people stare oddly at us.   Secondly, Pushing Daisies started up again and I find the whole thing with Olive in a convent really ironic. Thridly, I go see Wicked on tour the 14th which is -fifthly- the day A Lion Among Men is released as well as -sixthly- Kristin Chenoweth's Christmas album (though most of you probably already knew about the fifth and sixth). Seventhly, at school we're putting on a show and the cast list was just posted. There are 54 parts and twenty-something actors, so most of us have more than one role. Me and this other guy got the most parts (and they're good parts too). I'm really really happy and excited. Eighthly, Halloween. Yeah, I still go trick-or-treating. Hey, it's free sugar. Me and a group of friends are going to go. But I can't decide if I should be Elphie or Maureen in her catsuit (and, you know, carry around a bag of chips).

Also, I saw RENT in theaters the 28th of Sept. and it was amazing, even better than I imagined. Isn't it coming out on DVD? I'm definitly going to buy it.

I have I feeling this month is going to be really busy, but in a good way.

Ok, so first off, if anyone's wondering about my seeming absence/lack of comments here's why:
- my teachers love giving me homework and projects
- I got addicted to the Twilight series last week and couldn't stop reading, therefore stuff piled up on me and I had lots o stuff to do

I'm hoping after this week stuff dies down a bit...
On the brighter side, I pre-ordered my ticket for Sunday's (Sept. 28th) showing of the last Broadway show of RENT in the theaters. I'm very excited, escepically to see Eden and Tracie. Hmm I wonder if Eden has ever been on the big screen before...

It seemed like there was something else I was going to say too but I can't remember what it was....I hate when I do that.

teasuhs:
 

( iconz under cut )

It seems kinda corny, but today I felt that that I needed to say something about RENT. So, here's my attempt at an ode to RENT:

You know when you literally can't stop thinking of someone and every little thing reminds you of them and you think you're going to go crazy because you really don't know if this thinking will ever stop? Yeah, I kinda hate that.

Anyway, on a much much much much better note, I'm going to see Wicked on tour again! I'm going on October 14th, and yes I am counting down the days. I have about 56 days to go. And, you know, I get to count down that and when A Lion Among Men comes out, because that comes out Oct. 14th too! I thought that was kinda neat, but I'm a dork like that. To make things even better, my whole main circle of friends are coming with me to Wicked! So, we're all really excited, and, of course, we're going to go stage-dooring. Did I mention I was really excited? I was doing a little happy dance when I bought the tickets.

I survived the first week of classes! Just barely though. I seriously wrote like 12 papers within the last week - well, it was really more like 4 days. Ugh it was awful, I'm soooo glad it's the weekend. Anyway, once the work balances itself out, this year is going to be awesome. I'm in the drama program at school, and at one outside of school of well. Outside of school, I'm definitely going to be in at least one musical and one to two shorter plays, and may even go to competition with the musical, so I'm really excited. At school, I'm not exactly positive what will happen and won't go into details since I'm not exactly sure of them myself. But, I'm excited for whatever we do there too. 

AND I'm probably going to see Wicked on tour again, and this time with friends! I'm going to try to get tickets either today or tomorrow.

So today I woke up, came downstairs, and my mom tells me that our neighbor died. It was....weird. And of course, it's sad, you know, becuase he had a wife and kids, two of which younger than me. Even though I'm not that close with my neighbors at all, I know who they are. And I feel bad for everyone and everything, but.... I don't really know how to go about dealing with this. I mean, do I cry? Do I have the right to cry? My mom was crying, but she's kind of an emotional person. Death is sad. I feel like I sould be sadder. I do feel bad, but I don't know if I feel bad enough, you know? But I've found that I don't cry a lot at all anymore, or at least, not at appropriate things like, for example, this. I only really seem to even tear up when I feel like a strong surge of emotion, something that really hits me, makes me feel.

I think the thing that scares me the most is that he was younger than my parents...

Anyway, school starts soon. Blah. At least with school comes drama, that makes things better.

 The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other.
I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

You don't have to repost this or anything, but I thought it was kinda cool. So, go ahead, ask me whatever.

Here's some various gelphie icons and a few Annaleigh Ashford ones. By the way, I'm blaming thanking spud14  for the Annaleigh ones made.
You know the drill, credit if used please!

Teasers:

16 icons:
1-4: RENT
5-15: Wicked (Gelphie)

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