Guess Who's Back?

I decided to come back to blogging because I think there is a lot going on in my life.

Let me explain. I still have my job at the Disco, still live with my mom, still have feelings for the bad news bear - all that is the same.

But I started going back to church, started weight watchers, was diagnosed ADHD and went on medication, the organization I work for is being reorganized, i am trying to launch my third theatre company, I need to clean and redecorate my house, I have been asked to audition at Toby's, i am understudying at a theatre in Frederick, i want to take a cruise and I havent taken my car in for service. See? A lot.

As Pastor Mark would say, let me unpack that statement a little bit ;)

I started going back to NCC regularly. It is important for me to be connected to a community of believers and to be challenged to move forward in faith. I can give up pretty easily - one of the main things I give up is church and God. I know! I am ashamed to even type that. But it's true. When the road is too tough, I dont fall down on my knees and ask for help. I just run and run and run...as if some how the running will lead me to an answer.

Weight watchers has been in and out of my life for the better part of thirty years. Much like going to church - when things got too tough, I just left it. I suppose I am ready now to make the changes in my life - as opposed to going on a diet. I have to feel better, I have to do better. I am commiting to trying - and it's working. I am making positive strides toward being a healthier eater. Eating for life and not for comfort, all those kinds of things. Oh, blogosphere you'll hear a LOT more about this as I progress.

In December, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Forty years and NOW I know why so many things were uncessarily challenging for me. I have started on a regime of medicine and implementing tools to keep my life in order. Things are looking up on that front. I think it's what has enabled me to progress in other aspects of my life.

the Disco is changing. The parent organinzation is doing strategic planning and doing a reorganization. It's stressful and everyone is unsure. I cant really speak too much to it - cuz I dont really know more than that.

One of my bucket list items is to establish a theatre company that lasts. I want to make it my career to run this theatre. Like Michael Kahn or Toby Orenstien. It would be a lasting leagcy to the art that I love. I am taking very slow steps to make this one happen. I am still hoping for a summer show, but I dont know if it will happen. I am incorporating and getting our tax exempt status together and trying to make some contacts in the community to do some partnerships and such. It all takes time...and we all know I am impatient.

The house, the house, the house. Me and Moms still live together and I am drivng her crazy with my quasi hoarding ways. She really wants to live in a tidy little house with few things, a cat and a daughter or two. What she has ended up with is a pig sty with me! oops. So, I am plegding to make some changes and to clean the jont and redecorate some of the rooms. I am going to turn the basement into my pig sty - I mean studio/office. Complete with a big table to do crafts/having meetings at and shelves for my eight million books and tchotcke. Perhaps when it is done, I shall even throw a dinner party.

I just got called in the audition for NUNSENSE at Toby's. For those of you who have known me for any length of time - I have done this show three times already. It was actually the first show I was paid to do at the Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre. I have fond feelings for the character of Sister Hubert and I would love to tackle her again now that I am closer to the actual age of the character. We'll see, i'll keep you posted.

Next week, i get to revive one of my all time favorite roles. That's Sylvia in ALL SHOOK UP. I am doing a little understudy gig at the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theater in Frederick Maryland. I'm a little nervous cuz they dance more than i did the last time - but I have a video tape and a week - we'll see what happens!

I got my tax refund and now all I want to do is take a cruise. I have taken the time off and I know which one I want to go on ( 7 days to Bermuda on the Celebrity Summit). Only glitch is that I am afraid I will need the money to take care of my car. I have been a really bad car mommy and havent gotten it tuned up in a while. I am skeered now that when I take it in, it will cost me the whole refund. That will leave me cruiseless and cranky. This is one of those times when a lottery win would be AWESOME.

Okay, if that isnt enough in the life of me...you'll have to tune in later for more posts. My brain is tired.

Peace out!