Mamma Mia! Here I go again...

Hokay, so... I have just been cast in a studio play at Hart! I'll be in the studio production of Ladyhouse Blues this coming January. This will be my first Hart studio show, and I am thrilled that I was approached to do this play!

I can slowly feel summer coming to an end. I guess this is a good thing, but I can't help but not want the summer months to close... even if it has been one of the most drama filled (and not in a good way) summers I've ever had to go through. I've had a great time. Kiss Me Kate is a blast, my job(s) have been fun(-ish), and I've loved being with some of the best people that warm my heart. Not that I haven't missed my freedom at school, or my amazing friends there, classes that keep me distracted, and my roommate that keeps me distracted from classes. I have. Lots. But, there's just something about summer that can't be beat.

I went to see Mamma Mia last night with my mom in Ashevegas. Hilarious. But, I don't know if they meant for it to be THAT funny. Or maybe they did. I can't tell. But it was so incredibly bad that it was fantastic! I mean, Pierce Brosnan - 007 - singing Abba. How can you not pee yourself laughing?

Save the drama for your mamma.

Warning: this is a rant.

This has been one of the most frustrating days of all time, and I need to type all this shit out to cleanse my system.

Please, please, please, for my sake, and your own, because if I have to hear much more of it you will be the persons I decapitate first... leave me out of your petty shit. That goes for everyone. I have done a wonderful job this summer staying the hell out of drama. Contrary to popular opinion, I do not love drama... it's actually my least favorite American pastime. I get the wrap of being titled a bitch because I am not afraid to come up to you and say something to you if I think what you're doing is whacked, especially if it's about me. This is not creating drama. This is ending it before it begins. If you don't like it, I'm sorry. Truly, hate me if you want, but that's completely your deal. I would love to be friends with everyone and I don't have a particular issue with anyone that I know of. But, if you happen to have issues with anyone I hang around - don't tell me. I don't care. I'm not choosing sides, and I'm not going to be your go-between.

Please don't think that this means you can't talk to me about things, and yes this sometimes means people, that are bothering you. I'm an excellent sounding board, and I will try to help in any way that I can. And sometimes you just have to bitch and complain and get it all out of your system and then you feel a lot better. I know this. I do this. I say shit to my closest friends about people that I love dearly and don't mean half the things I say, but I have to say it out loud to feel better.

I just don't have a lot of time left before I have to go back to school and then I'll probably not have any human interaction outside of WCU's Musical Theatre department. Not that I want this, just mostly because I'll be so stressed and busy and there are only 24 hours in a day, and I learned freshman year a few of those hours should be spent sleeping. I just don't want the last part of my summer VACATION wasted on crap that doesn't matter in the long run. Life's too short to worry about all this pettiness, so let's just enjoy each other's company in the last few weeks that we have and make wonderful memories together.

I love you all, really, I do. So let's all love each other and get along - even if it kills us.

All play and no work makes Emily a poor girl.

So... I'm broke. haha This past week we opened Kiss Me Kate - which is a bangin' show by the way - and since it was "hell week" I took lots of days off from work. However, I didn't take any days off from spending lots of money... erego, I'm totally broke, and back at work.

I'm typing this from the gorgeous and HUGE kitchen of the children I nanny. Children. The best birth control on the Earth. Today we have already been to swim lessons, the youngest pooped in his pants, bought food for the turtle that the middle child hasn't fed in two weeks... I'm pretty sure it's a miracle that Fred the turtle is still alive, and we've had lunch. Now, with two hours left before their mother returns, they're downstairs playing - and by playing I mean throwing things - and in a few minutes it'll be "reading time"... when does it get to be "Emily takes a nap" time?

.... and I just looked over and see that the middle child has wiped jelly all over the counter... and I'm going to be the one cleaning it up. I LOVE CHILDREN!!!

So... this past week has made me really love my life. I can't really explain why, and it hasn't been perfection, but I'm completely in love with life at this moment.

I have bangin' friends - Jon, Trevor, Corinne, Jenny, to name a few - who are fantastic people that seem to always make me smile.

I have bangin' new shoes... that still aren't exactly comfortable, but they're Rainbows and I'm trusting Jenny that it takes a few days to break them in.

I'm in a show that - knock on wood - is shaping up to be a great production.

I have three years of school left... and I have ONLY three years of school left!

I'm going to Ireland next summer to study abroad.

I'm getting married next summer in Ireland... just kidding... maybe.

I am learning to block out all the drama that is around me.

I have the best years ahead of me... and am having the time of my life right now.

I'm moving to NYC in three years... and I can already see the amazing time I'm going to have - I had a little premonition of how it's going to be whilst making dinner with Trevor in his apartment last night.

I've been reading a lot of great books lately.

I've had time to read a lot of great books lately.

I'm nannying 3 adorable children.

Well... 2 adorable ones, and 1 that is a pain in my neck.

I'm getting paid well.

I'm opening a show this week.

I need more sleep.

My family is pretty bangin' as well.

My brother got married and moved out.

I'm thinking about turning his old room into my own private office.

I don't know why I would even need my own private office.

A private office does sound good, though.

Breaking Dawn comes out August 2nd.

I need to pre-order my copy.

Did I mention that I love my friends?

I love Sweet Cream and Strawberries from the Marble Slab - thank you, Tony Lance.

I forgot how much I love Downtown Asheville.

YouTube is possibly one of the greatest inventions of all time.

I'm contemplating on getting the peeps together and making a hilariously outrageous music video.

But yeah, for these reasons and many more. Right now, life is good.