Thanksgiving was so much fun this year. I once again traveled to Santa Monica to spend Thanksgiving with Anik, Melissa and the gang. Thanks to Eric we actually had a turkey this year. There was so much food. I made my signature red velvet cake and Nikki brought a green bean casserole. I was actually a little late, since I stayed the previous ( Read more... )

Well, my time at the Groundlings has come to an end, at least for a while. Tonight was the end of my Intermediate class with David Jahn. I must say it was a much different class than my Beginner class. I feel it took us a lot longer to get fully comfortable with each other in this class, so we really didn't start doing great work until the last ( Read more... )

My birthday was pretty uneventful really. Nikki was awesome! She was going to make me lasagna for dinner. Unfortunately, I had to work at Woodranch at 5pm, so we had it for lunch instead. It was delicious! Afterward, she gave me a card which informed me that her birthday present to me was a CASIO KEYBOARD! I was totally blown away. I have to ( Read more... )

I've been terribly lax in updating this journal and there have recently been many changes in my life. After I got back from Missouri, I decided that it was time for me to have a "regular" job again. I was fully prepared to pound the pavement and go through the agonizing tedium of filling out tons of those stupid job application sheets. The first ( Read more... )

My high school reunion was a freaking blast! Oh my goodness, I had so much fun! I talked to people I hadn't seen for 10 years and I stayed out till 4:30 in the morning partying ( Read more... )

Well, I've been back in Missouri for about a week now and I'm truly amazed at how small my hometown seems this time. Richmond is located about 50 miles NE of Kansas City with a population of 5,638... give or take. Needless to say, growing up in a town this size everybody knows your business. I've already gotten to see a handful of friends.

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On Friday, I went to the Hollywood Park Horse Racing Track. I should have known how the evening was going to go when I picked the horse that came in dead last in the first race. I lost a good chunk of change that day, but I still had a good time. It was yet another event organized by my friend Pennylane, and it was the first time I had ever seen ( Read more... )

Most of my day was devoted to working on a staged reading of a play called Death. Sounds like a big ball of sunshine, huh? I got hooked into it by my good friend Samantha Hale. She recommended me to the director Suzanne whom I was already acquainted. Anyway, considering we only had three days to work on it, I thought the performance this ( Read more... )

I was so exhausted Saturday that there was no way I was going to be able to write about it that night. Ok, let's preface this, by saying that I kept thinking to myself, "I'm going to rest today" the entire day. 1) Somewhere in the morning, my very good friend Lalena Nash calls and asks if I would like to go hiking. Well I'm always up for a hike ( Read more... )

Well, 4th of July was pretty low-key this year. I was out on the front walk of the apartment building, barbecuing with my neighbors Nick and Morgan. Nick and I built the grill from scratch while nursing bottles of root beer. It was very manly. You'd think we had 20 people coming with all the food we had laid out. After a nap, I met my friend ( Read more... )