My Great Ideas

Life has been interesting lately. Jesus Christ Superstar is opening on Friday. Rehearsals are going well and I can't wait for everyone to see it.

I find that the closer I get to a peacefully place, the more my anxiety problems try to take over. It will be an ongoing dance for the rest of my life. I can't even say that I wish for anxiety to go away totally because I wouldn't be human, but it would be nice.

Today as I wast telling my longtime friend Tom about my newest idea...something dawned on me. Well, the idea is to open a Doggy Daycare in Hoboken, NJ because EVERYONE has a dog in Hoboken, but there really aren't any places to leave them. Tom immediately said "But, you have never owned a dog!" As we laughed I came up with the idea that I would handle the business end of everything and then he reminded me "But, you don't know anything about running a business." And as we laughed harder, I realized that I have SO many ideas and SO many plans for the future, but I really need to set some goals and make plans for fulfilling them. Of course, we don't know anything about the future since we are only promised this present moment, but setting some sort of general direction and route are the things I like to do.

It is amazing to look back at life and realize that every single thing we have done has led up to this very moment. Even all of those awful things we have had to go through. Just this past month a whole new world of yoga was opened up to me and I thought "Wow, two years ago I never would have imagined that I would be entering a yoga teacher certification." How did I get here? I joined the program because I loved the Immersion. I joined the immersion because I just love the community of Devotion Yoga. I joined Devotion because I was looking for a new studio. Looking for a new studio because of new things I was learning at school. Etc.....

So....some ideas I have for the upcoming year:
Start and finish my 200 hr. YA certification at Devotion Yoga
Graduate from The Actors Studio Drama School with an MFA
Find a way to sell my art
Find a job that I can make my own schedule and have health insurance.
Find a place to live
Get an agent

So there it is universe. The realistic things I plan to work on. No dogs involved (although I do want to own one eventually). If any of you feel like sending some information my way that might help me out with these tasks, please feel free to contact me.

Namaste.

Hello

I have never blogged before, so I want to see what this is all about. My purpose of this blog is to record certain things that go on in my life as I enter my last year of study at The Actor's Studio Drama School from where I will be receiving my MFA in Acting.

People always look at my funny when I tell them I'm getting a degree in acting. Some of the common responses I get....."Yeah, but what do you really want to do with your life? Like what kind of real job do you want?" or my other favorite: "Oh how cute. We have a little actress on our hands. School must be so hard for you. Do you get tired from all the acting you do all day?" But, every once in awhile you come across a person who really respects what you do and how much of an honor it is to be at my school.

I love what I do. And yes, I am scared to death that I will not have enough money to eat, but I know that one day everything is going to be alright and that I will succeed. And success doesn't mean that I am a famous actor on Broadway or in Hollywood. But it does mean that I am happy with what I am doing, whether it is as a yoga instructor/actor/painter/mother/wife/clown/peace keeper/hippie/love maker.

I hope that whoever reads this gets an understanding of what I do and that I know the path ahead of me is a hard one, but I am willing to take it.

Peace and Love!