I am due for some much needed vacation time but where does one go when she traveling alone?
I have been searching and searching for things to do, and i have money enough to go somewhere..but where? I know if i stay in NYC i will end up doing some sort of work. Please God give me a sign!
29 May 2009
The Early Show Part 2: Kris Allen!!
So I went back to the Early Show early yesterday morning, soo early that ended up taking int train with a friend who had to be at work for a 6am shift. This time i toughed it out sola (alone)--well not completely because i was surround by tons of Kris Allen's fans!! Way more people showed up for him than Adam which i thought was pretty awesome :)
I was literally the first person there. I showed up before 6 ( insane), had a lovely conversation with one of the CBS guys who is also from the Bronx and chilled in the Apple store for 10 min. When i came back up there were about 15 more people. They seemed to come together. Then they came in crews, teams, caravans--the line to line up was around the block and me at the front of it, ha ha ha!
I eneded up talking to a few people. One kid who was from Queens who cut class to come see Kris, another girl from the website krisallenation.com (which is a pretty intense fansite--loves it!), and this woman from Louisiana who was part of the first caravan to show up after me. They rearrranged us a few times for cinematography purposes, etc. They made him perform facing the cameras and not us (booooo!)! I saw the performance on CBS today and it looked awesome and epic. My view not the best but i managed to get good shots and ::drum roll:: his autograph!!
I wanna thank the lady from Louisiana for passing my sketch book to him to sign, Thank you!
He is just as hot in person as he is on TV! Here are some pics to prove it:
I was literally the first person there. I showed up before 6 ( insane), had a lovely conversation with one of the CBS guys who is also from the Bronx and chilled in the Apple store for 10 min. When i came back up there were about 15 more people. They seemed to come together. Then they came in crews, teams, caravans--the line to line up was around the block and me at the front of it, ha ha ha!
I eneded up talking to a few people. One kid who was from Queens who cut class to come see Kris, another girl from the website krisallenation.com (which is a pretty intense fansite--loves it!), and this woman from Louisiana who was part of the first caravan to show up after me. They rearrranged us a few times for cinematography purposes, etc. They made him perform facing the cameras and not us (booooo!)! I saw the performance on CBS today and it looked awesome and epic. My view not the best but i managed to get good shots and ::drum roll:: his autograph!!
I wanna thank the lady from Louisiana for passing my sketch book to him to sign, Thank you!
He is just as hot in person as he is on TV! Here are some pics to prove it:
26 May 2009
Sonia Sotomayor and I walked the same Spellman halls :)
Sonia Sotomayor nominee for the Supreme Court is not only from my home town, but went to my high school, Cardinal Spellman!Don't know much about her? Educate yourself : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
The Early Show pt 1: Adam Lambert
So I have lived in NYC my whole life and have never gone downtown on the bright to see someone famous at any of the various news shows that have an audience screaming and yelling outside..holding signs. I always thought it was kinda dorky, and the prospect of waking up before the sun never appealed to me. But why should all the out of towners get to see people sing for free? "Hi! I'm Tracey from Minnesota!! Hi Mom!" Yeah im from Uptown (Bronx), Wuddup??!!
Ok so my bro and I decided to wake up early and see Adam Lambert on the CBS Early Show and ooo was it early and cold, but worth it. He sounded great, looked great, talked to me and gave me and autograph and high fived my lil' bro. f-ing sweet.
I was sandwiched between and large group of kids from Mississippi (soo adorable!) and this obsessive woman from Bethlehem, PA. She was a trip. We were all behind these gates, and at one point some people from the CBS crew stood in front of us. She started flipping out.
Crazy lady: (obnoxiously) Hey! that's not fair! why do you get to be up front?!
Random woman: (extremely nice) Oh, sorry they just put us here *smiles*
Crazy lady: (edge on her voice) Well you better crouch down! Ive been here since 6!
Random Woman: Ok ill do that when he comes out.
Crazy lady: (whining) Well do it nooow! So we can practice what we're doing!
F-ing nuts.
Best part is that she told one of the CBS people to give him a package she had for him. it was a framed poem wrapped in silver wrapping paper. I got it in my picture of her (yeeees)
How adorable is he?!
Intense.
This is just part 1..
b/c my future husband Kris Allen will be there on Thursday..
And i will be there once again!!
Ok so my bro and I decided to wake up early and see Adam Lambert on the CBS Early Show and ooo was it early and cold, but worth it. He sounded great, looked great, talked to me and gave me and autograph and high fived my lil' bro. f-ing sweet.
I was sandwiched between and large group of kids from Mississippi (soo adorable!) and this obsessive woman from Bethlehem, PA. She was a trip. We were all behind these gates, and at one point some people from the CBS crew stood in front of us. She started flipping out.
Crazy lady: (obnoxiously) Hey! that's not fair! why do you get to be up front?!
Random woman: (extremely nice) Oh, sorry they just put us here *smiles*
Crazy lady: (edge on her voice) Well you better crouch down! Ive been here since 6!
Random Woman: Ok ill do that when he comes out.
Crazy lady: (whining) Well do it nooow! So we can practice what we're doing!
F-ing nuts.
Best part is that she told one of the CBS people to give him a package she had for him. it was a framed poem wrapped in silver wrapping paper. I got it in my picture of her (yeeees)
How adorable is he?!
Intense.
This is just part 1..
b/c my future husband Kris Allen will be there on Thursday..
And i will be there once again!!
24 May 2009
Ten good reasons
I just gave myself a challenge because I've just noticed that i am not smiling or feeling happy as i sit her and email my headshot out to casting people for auditions. the challenge: Name 10 reasons that I am not smiling.
1. Its f-ing sooo hot in my apt. I haven't put up the AC and breezes are scarce. I have a permanent dewy look as a result.
2. I don't wanna do work, like typing and thinking. I just wanna read my book!
3. I;m a little sleepy.
4. TBA?
5. ummmm...
6. ......
Ok so there are no good reasons for me to be unhappy about the fact that i have the time, resources and know how to submit myself for auditions. I am doing something to enhance my passion, my life.. and i shouldn't be all Captain Mopey-Pants about it!
Ten Reasons I should be happy and grateful for this moment and :) (smile):
1. I have a computer that works and I can do this from the comfort of my own room.
2. It doesnt take that long because I have been doing this for a while now.
3. I am pursuing my dreams :)
4. I am being proactive in my life.
5. this is my one task for the day. the rest of my day was spent hanging out with the family.
6. There are actually a lot of really cool roles to submit for this week.
7. I live in NYC which makes all of this incredibly accessible to me.
8. I can stay up and do it because I have my morning free.
9. The dewy air is keeping my skin moist. It also makes me appreciate when the wind does decide to flow.
10. The more I put myself out there, the more people will think of me for roles.
Ok, now that wasn't so bad after all!
1. Its f-ing sooo hot in my apt. I haven't put up the AC and breezes are scarce. I have a permanent dewy look as a result.
2. I don't wanna do work, like typing and thinking. I just wanna read my book!
3. I;m a little sleepy.
4. TBA?
5. ummmm...
6. ......
Ok so there are no good reasons for me to be unhappy about the fact that i have the time, resources and know how to submit myself for auditions. I am doing something to enhance my passion, my life.. and i shouldn't be all Captain Mopey-Pants about it!
Ten Reasons I should be happy and grateful for this moment and :) (smile):
1. I have a computer that works and I can do this from the comfort of my own room.
2. It doesnt take that long because I have been doing this for a while now.
3. I am pursuing my dreams :)
4. I am being proactive in my life.
5. this is my one task for the day. the rest of my day was spent hanging out with the family.
6. There are actually a lot of really cool roles to submit for this week.
7. I live in NYC which makes all of this incredibly accessible to me.
8. I can stay up and do it because I have my morning free.
9. The dewy air is keeping my skin moist. It also makes me appreciate when the wind does decide to flow.
10. The more I put myself out there, the more people will think of me for roles.
Ok, now that wasn't so bad after all!
21 May 2009
Turn On's: A lil' song and dance
So i wanna share one of my my major turn ons with you all.
I guess like attracts like because I have a thing for performers. It dates back to high school. I mean i can notice someone and accept their attractiveness but not be too excited about them. Like this one kid, we'll call him Darren, in the school show with me my soph yr. We had been rehearsing forever at this point and one day I really paid attention to him during his solo or rather, he stole my attention. I could not stop thinking about him, staring at him, strategically placing myself in his view in the cafeteria, following him around in the halls. It was crazy. It was like my vision was locked.
I eventually got over him and in to someone else over time. Nothing ever happened, i was a lil shy and he was part of this religion in which he couldn't date so even though he was amazingly hot he was not getting any. weird. Sucks for him. But anyway, its happened a number of times over the past few years. I think someone is attractive, they sing in front of me and now i want there body on top, inside and around my body. It hits me like a train and its harder to get rid of than--IDK something really really difficult to get rid of, like an oil stain, or an STD--wait i should not have said that, because this feeling is good GREAt, even.
Its intensified when the person is playing an instrument. Like a guitar, or piano, or fucking anything. Harmonica, mandolin (yeah, Katie!) or drums. I abso-fucking-lutly get so turned on by all of this. Each note--you know and it maybe because I see colors when i hear sounds--its being created and OOOH! I cannot deal with it!!!!
Doing performing arts in college, i realized it can happen with acting too. Not as intense as music but yeah-- put on aluminium foil as a costume and do a monologue and i might wanna do you.
Maybe its the fearlessness that comes with being on stage. I didn't realise it til now but that is a huge factor. You have to be fearless and in order to be fearless you HAVE to be exuding love. So is it love vibes that I am responding to?
There is also the creation factor. Any moment created on stage (and life for that matter) cannot be reproduced to be what it was originally. You cannot copy it or truly plan it. Its exciting,to be creating somehting on the spot from your mind.
Anyway I bring this up because of my recent obsession with Kris Allen our new American Idol. I am obsessed because he can sing and not play just one but two instruments and he has a very boyish look to him (another turn on that never fails me). Also hes taken, usually things that seem impossible to me make me want them more..lol well i shouldn't say impossible because nothing is. Oh, and i like his hair.
OMG! Thank GAWD I just got sleepy, i gotta wake up DUMB early tomorrow..
I guess like attracts like because I have a thing for performers. It dates back to high school. I mean i can notice someone and accept their attractiveness but not be too excited about them. Like this one kid, we'll call him Darren, in the school show with me my soph yr. We had been rehearsing forever at this point and one day I really paid attention to him during his solo or rather, he stole my attention. I could not stop thinking about him, staring at him, strategically placing myself in his view in the cafeteria, following him around in the halls. It was crazy. It was like my vision was locked.
I eventually got over him and in to someone else over time. Nothing ever happened, i was a lil shy and he was part of this religion in which he couldn't date so even though he was amazingly hot he was not getting any. weird. Sucks for him. But anyway, its happened a number of times over the past few years. I think someone is attractive, they sing in front of me and now i want there body on top, inside and around my body. It hits me like a train and its harder to get rid of than--IDK something really really difficult to get rid of, like an oil stain, or an STD--wait i should not have said that, because this feeling is good GREAt, even.
Its intensified when the person is playing an instrument. Like a guitar, or piano, or fucking anything. Harmonica, mandolin (yeah, Katie!) or drums. I abso-fucking-lutly get so turned on by all of this. Each note--you know and it maybe because I see colors when i hear sounds--its being created and OOOH! I cannot deal with it!!!!
Doing performing arts in college, i realized it can happen with acting too. Not as intense as music but yeah-- put on aluminium foil as a costume and do a monologue and i might wanna do you.
Maybe its the fearlessness that comes with being on stage. I didn't realise it til now but that is a huge factor. You have to be fearless and in order to be fearless you HAVE to be exuding love. So is it love vibes that I am responding to?
There is also the creation factor. Any moment created on stage (and life for that matter) cannot be reproduced to be what it was originally. You cannot copy it or truly plan it. Its exciting,to be creating somehting on the spot from your mind.
Anyway I bring this up because of my recent obsession with Kris Allen our new American Idol. I am obsessed because he can sing and not play just one but two instruments and he has a very boyish look to him (another turn on that never fails me). Also hes taken, usually things that seem impossible to me make me want them more..lol well i shouldn't say impossible because nothing is. Oh, and i like his hair.
OMG! Thank GAWD I just got sleepy, i gotta wake up DUMB early tomorrow..
19 May 2009
Kris Allen, please let me make sweet love to you!
Dear Kris,
You make me feel young again. Well I guess i shouldn't say that because we are the same age and 23 is pretty young. I will rephrase. You make me feel like i did when I was 13 and WORSHIPPED NSYNC! I wanna hang posters of you in my room, at my job, in my journal because you are just too f-ing cute and sexy. I don't even think you are trying hard, you know, to be sexy. It just comes naturally to you i guess. Have that hot boy-next-door thing going on that I go crazy over! I really hope that you win tomorrow because i think that you deserve it. I have massive respect/ attraction to those who can sing AND play an instrument and you play two hot ones. Either way, you will still be successful. I can so see you releasing an album, me and millions of others buying it. I can also picture you collaborating with a lot of people, like from all different types of genres and stuff. Great amazing things coming your way.
Well now that I am finished hitting on you I will be completely frank and say, you are very talented and you should win. Good luck, rest up and tell your wife the minute she turns around i will snatch you up so fast--j/k She's very lucky.
See you when you perform in NYC!!
Always,
Created2Create
P.S. Just kidding about kidding about snatching you away. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
17 May 2009
Do what you love.
No matter how ridiculous or crazy people think you are!
That tingly warm happy feeling is not lying to you.
You are exactly where you need to be when you are happy :)
That tingly warm happy feeling is not lying to you.
You are exactly where you need to be when you are happy :)
13 May 2009
OMG!! HE MADE IT TO THE FINALS!!!
Kris Allen made it to the final show! He's in the top two! I am so going to have my way with him its not even a joke. Like Manhattan, not a joke (see two posts earlier)!!
Mom just hugged the TV bc Danny Gocky was eliminated. Her boyf is somewhere crapping his pants because Danny was his fave. Mom and i had a lovely hysterical screaming joyful moment when Kris' name was called. LOL.com I was suppose to be boycotting this?
Did i mention that i bought mom and us tix to see the Idol tour? me = sellout
Mom just hugged the TV bc Danny Gocky was eliminated. Her boyf is somewhere crapping his pants because Danny was his fave. Mom and i had a lovely hysterical screaming joyful moment when Kris' name was called. LOL.com I was suppose to be boycotting this?
Did i mention that i bought mom and us tix to see the Idol tour? me = sellout
American Idol Cutie
Most of you know who Kris Allen is--finalist on American Idol
in danger of elimination in just a few min..:(
He is sooo damn cute i cannot contain my excitment!! Another cutie from Arkansas. Uh-mazing!
So hot, so married..so MAD!!
in danger of elimination in just a few min..:(
He is sooo damn cute i cannot contain my excitment!! Another cutie from Arkansas. Uh-mazing!
So hot, so married..so MAD!!
Quote of the Day
"Manhattan is no joke. You either come hard or you stay home!"
Quote from Sharon during this morning's meeting.
Ha,ha! make it here, you can make it anywhere :)
Quote from Sharon during this morning's meeting.
Ha,ha! make it here, you can make it anywhere :)
11 May 2009
The Waiting Game
AHHHH so i called the Copyright Office to check the status of my poems..and O to the M to the G, my friend--its going to be ready in August...AUGUST!! That is 6 Months since i sent it in February. Grrr. Why must it take soo long? I mean i think it is great that so many people want to get their creative works protected.. because that means there is a lot of creating going on but DAMN! I don't want to wait this looong!
It'll be fine. At least i know when it will be ready. Yes for the glass being half full!
It'll be fine. At least i know when it will be ready. Yes for the glass being half full!
Quote of the Day!
Richie and I while watching "A Land Before Time"
Richie(12:42:31 PM): i know when i would watch this part when i was little i wanted to eat leaves
Me(12:43:14 PM): i always wanted to eat things that cartoons ate.. it always looked so good
Richie(12:43:21 PM): i knooo
Me(12:43:27 PM): like even real food
Richie(12:43:40 PM): lol i used to want to eat and drink the tiny meals the pokemon people ate
Richie(12:43:46 PM): cause they looked so sweet and delicious
Richie (12:44:00 PM): and filling
Me (12:44:02 PM): OMG quote of the day
Me(12:44:16 PM): thats going on the blog
Richie(12:44:19 PM): LOL
Richie(12:42:31 PM): i know when i would watch this part when i was little i wanted to eat leaves
Me(12:43:14 PM): i always wanted to eat things that cartoons ate.. it always looked so good
Richie(12:43:21 PM): i knooo
Me(12:43:27 PM): like even real food
Richie(12:43:40 PM): lol i used to want to eat and drink the tiny meals the pokemon people ate
Richie(12:43:46 PM): cause they looked so sweet and delicious
Richie (12:44:00 PM): and filling
Me (12:44:02 PM): OMG quote of the day
Me(12:44:16 PM): thats going on the blog
Richie(12:44:19 PM): LOL
07 May 2009
Behold...LIFE!
Welcome baby Kayla!!
Today I had the blessing of holding new life in my arms.
I wonder what little babies dream about. Because you can dream of things that haven't happened yet..Is she dreaming about her whole life?
Congrats Janiece!
05 May 2009
All You Need is Love
I am blessed to have people in my life that teach me things by just simply existing. Like how to be peaceful, relax, let things come to you. How to take advantage of everyday and try to spend every moment of it doing something that makes you feel amazing. Little messages keep popping up on people, like the random man i saw walking on 34th st the other day with the tattoo that said "Don't Settle". Nothing is a coincidence. Everything is a sign.
So yesterday as usual, i was on the two train with a coworker on the way home. We were talking about a lot of random stuff and somehow landed on the subject of cartoons. We were talking about Avatar The Last Airbender (which i am not completely fluent in yet, but have watched a few eps with a little help from and avid fan). If you dont know it, basically, the characters can bend the elements. So of course because we are on the 2 train, a random man cuts in the conversation talking about how that is his sons favorite show and how amazed he is how cartoons have evolved expressively since the days of Elmer Fud. From dynamite to air-bending. He somehow linked that to Moses parting the sea and the next thing i know, we are being preached to.
He said many things. He wasn't pushy like most 2 train evangelists are. I really wanted to listen and did. You can learn a lot from listening. He said one thing that really stuck with me:
"God gives love and God IS love. Most people don't take the time to wrap their mind around that concept."
My coworker got off at her stop and the man stopped talking to us. The woman across from us started talking to him to. She was also very religious and they had a conversation that i listened in on. They shared their ideas about God and she said something that stuck out to me too:
"Love can get you higher than any drug. A type of euphoria that nothing else compares to."
They both eventually got off the train and said good night to me. I said thank you to them. A few moments later realized that my friend sent me this via a Facebook message:
"Love can make people do strange things, but it can do even stranger things to your brain. Lucy Brown, a professor in the department of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, found that people's brains were flooded with dopamine -- a neurotransmitter that affects pleasure and motivation -- when they were shown photographs of their lovers. As a result, love seems to trigger the same kind of euphoric effects achieved by certain drugs, including cocaine."
That is no coincidence that he sent that to me at that specific time. Everyone involved was meant to be involved, speak their mind, and share it with me. This year i have questioned love and, i hate to say it, doubted love. And here I am faced with so many signs, voices, faces, moments telling me love is something to believe in. Something to hold on to.
This year i have had the luxury of having one of my goals look me in the face and say, "You have to believe this is possible". I would be a fool not to take that advice.
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