A Visit to Remember

My mom's visit was wonderful...we didn't do much of anything! I had to be in class most of the time, but we cooked and baked together and she came to my Script and Score class on Wednesday and our Cabaret rehearsal Saturday morning. I didn't even get to show her downtown Boston, but I guess that will be for the next time.






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Ho, Ho, Ho

I have a few blogs to catch up on from Thanksgiving, but I just had to post this tonight. My mom and I decorated our tree while listening to the Carpenter's Christmas album. It was so feel good, you know? Dolly had fun too. She loves anything to do with unwrapping...

Do you see a theme here?

Happy Birthday Grandma

Grandmother is a mother with time--time to linger in front of a toy store window, time for a visit to the zoo, time to listen to the really important things like the injustice of a playmate or a parent, what happened at school today or the thirty-seven reasons why bedtime should be later.

Grandmother has amazing talent--she is a combination Betsy Ross, Florence Nightingale and Emily Post, with the ability to fix anything from the most mouth-watering treats to fractured toys, torn clothes, bumped heads, skinned knees and broken hearts.

Her home is a treasure chest filled with things to explore, take apart, look through, smell, touch and eat--a wonderful combination of warmth, laughter, and memories--a happy place to visit.

Grandmother may forget bad tempers and cross words, but never forget your birthday. There are hundreds of big and little things which make grandmother wonderful--her friendship, understanding, and sympathy--but most of all, her love! ~Unknown

We love you Grandma! Wish we could be with you on your special day!

Coming Home!

It is time to come home...what a long 20 weeks. I am so ready to put my arms around my precious family! It will probably be the sweetest holiday I have ever shared with them.

A Person Can Develop a Cold...

I'm doing a scene in Script and Score, Marry the Man Today, from Guys and Dolls and I am Adelaide! This is the most challenging thing I have ever been given to work on. But just so we're clear, there are much harder characters out there, I'm just saying that I finally have something interesting to work on and I'm loving it!

Walden Pond

Scott and I went to Walden Pond in Concord this afternoon. This is where Henry David Thoreau lived for about eighteen months, to live the simple life. Scott is becoming more and more interested in this lifestyle, as opposed to being a lawyer or a professor at a top research university. He used to say back in highschool that all he wanted was a leaf hut with a couple of goats and chickens...don't worry, I have a say in things too! But I think he would love to be a Vitner or a Baker or a Gardener in Italy or France.

Anyway, it was really beautiful...and it was only the second time I have gotten OUT OF little ALLSTON in almost five months!

Almost like Family

Scott and I had sushi with my brother John's good friend Zac tonight, who is a guitar major at Berklee School of Music. I have never spent time with him before, having only met him once and briefly in Indiana this spring. But just being with someone who knows and loves my family was a touch of heaven! We spent about 3 and 1/2 hours, yacking away like we had known each other for years. He even has some of John's mannerisms! We are going to get together again and play some music!

Applesauce

Oh, man, you wouldn't even believe how good this stuff is...!!

blast to the past...

Scott's parents sent us a little Happy Halloween card and this picture was in it, so I had to post it! He is very cute, don't you think? Thanks so much, mom and dad!!

Mask-querade

We had an assignment due today in my Acting class to create our own mask. I found some great material that dries faster than papier mache and had to keep my face in a perpetual smile. The whole thing from start to finish only took about 7 hours. Apparently, I was the only one who thought to cast my face...My classmates' masks were, to put it gently, lacking in inspiration, made out of milk cartons, paper plates, stickers and garland. Hmm.

In retrospect, I believe mine represents my love of outdoors, my desire to be passionate in life and have the ability to be mischievous and whimsical onstage. Anyway, I can't wait to make more!