Well...for those of you who have only been tuning in since I set up this blogg...here is what the past year looked like for me...
JANUARY 2006
I rung in the New Year in the basement of my parents house with my mom, my dad and my good friend Roger...Shortly thereafter I was able to take a quick trip to NYC with my mom!!!! YAY! We went to see...Chicago, an Opera at the Met...and the best of ALL...THE COLOR PURPLE!!!! What an experience that was! After a very short 3 day trip...it was back to Trail BC...then after a cancelled flight to Calgary...a long night bus ride back to my last semester of school... Rehearsals began right away for our upcoming Musical Showcase and our Spring show Busybody. January 21st my best friend Marissa got engaged...getting married in JUNE! January 28th...the 23rd Anniversary of my birth...pretty wonderful hey?!
FEBRUARY
We kicked off February with the Musical Theatre Showcase which...looking back was pretty horrific...hmmm...that's a little harsh...some good some bad I guess...Songs from Godspell (my favorite), Carousel, Annie, and How To Succeed In Business. Other that the continuous rehearsals the rest of February was pretty uneventful.
MARCH
The most eventful part of this month? Busybody...all consuming rehearsals...teck week and show...quite a stressful ending...was thankful to be done! Also was the month of distributing Headshots and resumes...FUN ;)
APRIL
I found a job (phew) as a nanny and started working weekends and the occasional evening so Audrey (18mo.) could get used to me. Crunch time for our solo performances...stayed up all night and re-wrote my entire show...a little scary...vulnerable as all hell...EXPOSED: performed the first night...woke up that night puking...and such...spent the next day in emerg where it was determined I had an infection in my colon...YUCK! Had to miss my second and last performance of EXPOSED...and my very first audition :( Mended after about 2 weeks...then a week before graduation! YAY!!! I'M AN ACTOR!
MAY
An eventful month...I moved in with my former dance instructor Deirdre Young and her family to be a part time live in nanny...I don't pay rent...they don't pay child care...it's a nice arrangement! I had my first audition with Theatre Junction...amazing experience...didn't get a callback, but made the discovery that I would like to create my own work and start my own company! I began to nanny more regularly...and began rehearsals for Deirdre's dance company: Quenched Pure Performance's premiere show UNVEILED. Marissa and Peter got married May 13th in Orangeville Ontario...so I flew out there for about 4 or 5 days as I was the maid of honor...wow!
JUNE
We began June with UNVEILED...a complete success! Stressful...but a success none the less! It was revealed to me that the family I nannied for was moving unexpectedly at the end of the month...so I found another family with 3 children and began there right away. Since school had ended I was still having stomach pains which I thought might be related to my colon infection... I started a fairly strict diet of no salicylates...most of you don't know what those are...let's just say a chemical found it pretty much every plant...just less in some and more in others. So...very limited. I soon took out wheat and sugar as well, because my stomach was still acting up...started to see pounds melting off! YAY! I had auditions for the original show I was attempting to put up in August! I was also able to get back to Trail for Steps Dance Company's Alumni Reunion! We all served as MC's and even performed at the end of the first act! Awesome hey?!
JULY
A big family reunion in Trail to celebrate my mom's 60th birthday...a huge success...stressful still. My good friends Maralee and James got married July 1st! Way to go! When I got back to Calgary (this being about 4 weeks since my complete hypo allergenic diet) I finally got into my naturopath...only to discover that the stomach pains...all because of STRESS!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! So, though relieved to hear I could eat normally again...a little unsure as to how to stop putting all my stress in my stomach. One way? I quite my brand new nanny position because I was getting depressed. I found a job at Community Natural Foods in the Cafe...and started to meet lots of people! YAY! I also began rehearsals for my show to be called AT RISK under construction...
AUGUST
Busy as usual... I was able to join my crazy friend Kristen in the States while on the last leg of her cross-country tour! I flew into Florida...and visited/drove through...Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan...wow...we visited friends and family, and had tons of fun. I came back to crunch time on my show (not to mention my friend's [SHARLA] wedding) and put it up in front of an audience the last week of the month!!!!! What an accomplishment!
SEPTEMBER
I began rehearsals right away for an FET production... Went to a writing workshop with Lucia Frangione, had my first Film audition, and started a Jazz class at DJD.
OCTOBER
More rehearsals, Thanksgiving with my Calgary fam, a 10 hour Dance Class Marathon!, obtaining an AGENT!!!! YAY!!!, auditioned for and got a role in THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, and dressed up for Halloween!
NOVEMBER
Rehearsals get more intense... I finally meet my cast mates with TVM at "The Vagina Meet and Greet", go into teck week for HALO and get laryngitis...super sick...miss lots of work...oh yeah at my new job! My boss was awful...you can read a few posts back...found an amazing boss! FINISHED HALO!!!!
DECEMBER
Started rehearsals for TVM, auditioned for and called back to (though didn't get the part) "This Is For You Anna", had a Thanksgiving-Hanuka-Christmas-Dinner-Extravaganza"!!! Fun Times...and travelled back to BC where I spent Christmas with my family...beautiful niece and nephew who were extremely hard to say goodbye to:(
SO I guess that wasn't really a nutshell...but it was the last year of my life...what do you expect?
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