Texas Pride!!!

This morning I was in line at the Starbucks NEEDING a sensible bakon egg and cheese sandwich and old fasion donut... not wanting to deal with the very long line of degenerates in front of me! Well this guy is like 4 people ahead -- tall and very loud, he had quite the voice box on him - everyone could here his convo with the casheir.

Well I could only here was he was saying... Aperently he's from Texas and it's colder down there than it is in NY and they had 12 inches of snow the other day... he said and I quote "it's a world record" in my head I was like - really??? a world record??? maybe you've set a record for texas - but I can assure you that there is A LOT of other places in the world that have gotten 12 inches of snow in one day!

They exchange money and then he says to her ... your not ready for this!!! He says "Thanks A-Latte" and then - yes there's more!!! and then he says "Have a Grande-Day"

I died!!!

I just couldn't handle it! I wasn't shy about it eather! This was my face:

Is this normal? Am I overreacting?

Spills and Tumbles

Hello my darlings:)

Very funny story for you~

So one of my bestest friends ever - Nick - came to NY for the weekend. We were on our way to a friends going away party at a gay bar and needed some pizza before we went...

After a very akwerd confrontation with a straight drunk man at the pizza place, we were off to the party. We were walking down Time Square - Nick with pizza in hand - and me with phone in hand walking and texting at the same time -- something I always do!!!

Well we came across a huge pot hole in the middle of the street. Clearly we both noticed / jumped over it and went on no big deal! Well because I went back to texting I didn't see the little tini aftershock of the mother hole and totally biffed it!!! Like hard core!!! Like scidded on the dirty wet pavement rite in the middle of the road in the middle of Times Square with lots of tourist's waching!!!

What was going thru my head was: "Oh #@$&!!! didn't see that one!!! . . . Oh my god I'm still falling -- I can't catch myself" By this time my head was below my center of gravity and there was no saving it, I was going down!!! Then I hit the ground phone went flying I was like "Yep! That happend i'm lying on the grownd in the middle of time square and People are watching" Meanwhile Nick is just standing there dying with laughter pizza oil running down his arm!!!

It was terrible!!!

Moral of the day is freinds don't let freinds walk while texting!!!

Hi Friends:)

So I know it's been a very long time! How is everyone doing?

A lot has happened in the last 4 months, yet at the same time nothing has really happend...

Here are some of the highlights:

I just got new headshots! :) thank you mom! here's the retuched version of the smile pic:

Cute right? What do you think? I have a seriouse shot too but the guy did a little too much retouching so i'm going to have him cut it back a little bit and then i'll post it!

I have one more episode of the backyardigans to film. I'm quite sad about that! The people are so much fun, I love the paycheck, it's kind of a win-win situation for all!!! But stay tuned cause come 2010 i'll be on tv as...

I know right! $45,000 for school and I'm a 2 foot-fat-blue & yellow-penguin! I'll let ya'll know once i find out when they will be airing:)

Now because Backyardigans is done I had to get another job ... I'm back hosting at Lasagna Ristorante

It's a really cute place and the food is amazing! So come on by if you're in the area 9 Ave. Btw. 52nd and 53rd :)

Today I went to church with one of my really good friends Maura! It was really fun:) The church is called:

It stands for Christian City Church. They had a guest speeker for todays survice his name is J.John Philotrust. He was hilariouse and had an amazing message! He's kind of a really big deal! He's spoke all over the world, spend a week with mother teresa ... I can't beleive we got to see him! Here's a video that I found on Youtube:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD2vJIzzqvA

I couldn't post it so here's the link:) He's great! So I'm leaving the church and I turn up 7th and this was on the corner - hahaha

Yep! Only in New York! I love this city:)

I love and miss you all! I'm falling asleep so i'm going to go! Talk to you later:)

An Entertaining Start!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I hope that everyone's Year started amazingly! Jonny and I spent it with his family at a very fancy hotel... It was so much fun! The night ended with Jonny, myself, his brother Chris and his friends dancing to Madonna in some bar in DuPont Circle... I mean could it get any better than that?

I can't lie to you, I'm a little sad... Jonny left for tour today, he's going to be gone for 4 months! They drove to, some wear... he's told me like 45 times and I still can't remember! We dropped him off at the Kennedy Center this morning... Once we said goodbye, his dad took me to the bus so that I could come back to New York... Of course I have a story for you!

So I say goodbye to Jonny's Dad, everythings great, we're on time, there a couple people there so I send him off and go stand in line... As I'm standing there I realize that I'm about to get onto a bus for 4 hours and the Chipotle that I had for lunch yesterday was... well you get the picture. I run into this Potery Barn like store that was right behind me to relieve myself. Wait I need to go back a bit.

For Christmas I got Jonny / myself a record player. I found some vintage records of Madonna in St. Louis, had to get them, then had to get the player to play them on ... clearly! So anyway it turned out that Jonny's parents had two boxes of old vintage records that they told us we could have free rain on ... our best find was "LIZA WITH A Z!!!" My heart completely stopped when I saw it! (you're probably thinking what the $%#$ is that? It's Liza Minnelli's 1972 CBS special! It will change your life go watch it! they play it on Show Time all the time!) We found like a good 25-30 records that we liked! And they're heavy!!!

So I have 3 really heavy bags... my clothes and like 2 bags of records... I have this girl, wearing pink sweatpants, watch my stuff for me... ok now we're caught up. When I'm done I'm exiting the store when this homeless guy comes running up to me, he Say's "Hey man I'm spose to come and get you, the bus is leaving with out you! The girl left your stuff" I was like "WHAT!!!!" Just records and very expensive clothes left unattained on the streets of Washington DC... I start running!

When I get outside everything was still there - THANK THE LORD!!! Then this lady comes up to me and say's "Hey don't you know the bus Pick up was moved! they did it like a long time ago... you should know this!" Well this being my first time riding with this bus how was I suppose to know?! Out of the corner of my eye I see pink sweat pants girl turn the corner, so I just start to fallow her.

I'm sure I looked like Quasimodo trying to lug all this stuff down the street... the homeless guy starts to fallow me, he says "Hey man since I came and got you and made sure that your stuff was ok do you think you could give me some change or something, so that I can get a warm coffee? It's cold man!!!" I'm like, you've got to be kidding me do I look like I have a hand free to give you money right now? NO! So finally I see the very long line 3 blocks away, once I get there I give the guy 2 bux so that he'll get off my back.

I relax a bit. Pink pants girl and I start talking while waiting for bus to show up... it was late, of course! All that rushing for nothing! Apparently she's a drama major at NYU but loves musical theater and was really sorry for leaving my bags!

The bus finally show up... I go to get on, and the guy tells me I don't have the right conformation number... He says I need to get a hold of MegaBus and have them text it too me so that he can let me on. I call 411 - nothing! This person on the street looks up the website on her cellphone and can't find the number on line. I said to him "Dude the money has been withdrawn from my account! You got to admit this is a little ridiculous!" He was like hold on let me see how many people are suppose to be on the bus. He's gone for like 4 seconds then comes back and says "Whatever just get on"

So crises averted! The bus ride was very long but I made it home! It wouldn't be right if there wasn't a little bit of drama! And it wouldn't have been that bad if I hadn't of had Chipotle for lunch yesterday... hahaha

Well I love you all! Talk to you later:)

Backyardigans Wrap Up :)

Hello to all my lovely friends ... I don't even know if I still have readers but as long as I still have pictures / stories I'll keep writing!

While on tour I took a lot of pictures backstage / in our downtime. Some candids some not, some people are going to kill me after I put these up. But I've found some really good ones! I hope you enjoy:)

To start out, we go about 10 months back when we were all babies in the Backyardigans land learning the show for the 1st time.

We found all these hats in the lost & found... this was our first Kodak moment:) Awwww aint that just so ga darn sweet ... moving on!

When we first got to a new venue we would do sound check... during each sound check we did a little multitasking, we'd check lights:

The bubble machine:

Sound check was Christie and I's least part of the day... it was a lot of waiting around for us! I think this picture kind of sums it up...

Once everyone's individual mikes were good we'd sing a song from the the show to make sure everything was good and we could hear on stage... kind of important! After that we would check the flying rig... When ever I played Pablo this was my least favorite part!

It was just up and down - up and down! Wedgie with a bigger wedgie op and then some more wedgie to go! ... it was aether that or fall in front of thousands of 5 year olds, scaring them for life... I choos the first! Oh by the way that's what we wore under our costumes. We called it our skins... yes it's a teenage girls leatard... with some breast support. Haha

While flight check was happening we'd go back stage and start getting ready... This meant different things for different people... some of it involved makeup:

Some people loaded on the makeup, others, like myself just did the bare minerals ... some mascara and blush, that's it! I was too busy! Just didn't have time! We did a warm up everyday witch was riveting!

Shawn is one of those people that could streatch all day long and still have to do it again before he went to bed... not because he's unflexible just because he liked it I guess...

Hahaha that one is my favorite! Sorry Shawn I couldn't resist! He was always stretching in whatever space he could find! If he wasn't stretching he was meditating...

... When you're around the same people for 9 months sometimes Meditation is a must have!

Once we were dressed and ready we'd wait for all the screaming children to sit down and then we'd start the show. While we were working our #*^'s off Jarvis would:

He wouldn't sleep all the time... well ...

The first act lasted about 40 mins and then we had a 20 minute intermission. Now 20 mins is kind of a long time when you think about it...

Most of the time Pandemonium would take over! I take no responsibilities for my actions!

Once the show's over we would hop back onto the bus and go to the next venue or back to the hotel. The bus was like our home! Our coffin beds were our only sanctuary from everyone... That sound so bad... no we had some really good times I can't count the amount of dance parties we've had in the front lounge!

That front Lounge was the definition of multifaceted! We did everything in it...

(sorry girls! I love you!)

All in all, I'm going to miss you bus! It was fun while it lasted!

After our last show I took a couple shots on my way out of the theater...

It was kind of crazy to know that after 9 solids months... I wouldn't be doing this show anymore.

Oh I almost forgot! guess what time it is?

Fun Facts!!!

* We've traveled approximately 28,774 miles...
So that means we've spent (this is very rough) about $300,000 on gas!
* We've had 52 two show days, 42 three show days...
So that means that we've had136 catered meals,
AKA millions and millions of pounds of macaroni!
* I can't remember the final count but I think we've done 271 shows.
AKA I've gotten in that damn dragon 265 times!
(I did Pablo 4 times and I missed 2 show's)
*We've stayed in 26 Holiday Inns, 15 Hiltons
and 1 Golf and country club resort!

Things that I will miss...

* A solid paycheck!!!!
*The people!
*Getting on stage everyday!

Things that I will not miss:

Yeah we look all nice, happy, cuddly in that pic...
I dreaded every moment in it!
I can't tell you how happy I was to see this...

Thank you everyone for making those last 9 months so much fun! I will never forget the adventures we've been on and the "Pandamoniousness" of it all:) I hope that you are blessed with an exuberantly fruitful career!

5-6-7-8 Curtain Go!!!

I love you all! My next adventure is NYC ... so stay tuned!

Never Blend In

Ok so I'm sorry that I've been MIA don't worry I haven't forgotten about all of you I still have a lot of Backyardigans rap up to do! and I'm going to try my best to keep this up while I'm here in the city... the hard part is time...

But a quick little catch up for you. When I got back to the city I was greeted with Bed Bugs, No Internet, Jury Duty and when I was walking through time square I got Pick Pocketed! Yep some little bitch stole my wallet, I'll explain in more detail later! But anyways... My intentions of this blog are not to tell you about my woe's! They are to tell you about an amazing Movie:

It's about the first openly gay, elected politician in California. The movie is incredible, Harvey Milk's legacy is incredible, I strongly strongly strongly encourage going to see this movie! It's so relevant to what's going on in today's fight for Gay Marriage. The only difference is that in 1978 it was called Proposition 6 which if passed would have banned all gay people and their supporters from their homes and their jobs, because they were considered sex offenders, and a threat to society!

For my friends and family at home I know that the movie is playing at the Alderwood Mall If you want more information on the movie go to www.milkthemovie.com and if you want more information on Harvey Milk, Wikipedia has some amazing stuff on his life!

The revolution is here, what part are you going to play?

Random Adventures...

We were in my fathers place of birth... El Paso Texas we had a day off, no internet, and nothing to do ... After some amazingly cheep breakfast at a Mexican Diner, some Dance Captain paper work and Rachael Ray, Christie and I were getting really restless! On the city sheet it said that there was a Starbucks .3 miles away. We were like yeah! let's go! We could always use an afternoon pick me up! So we asked the front desk to point us in the right durection and they were like:

Front desk person - "Hahaha! you want to walk to were? that's really far away!"

Us - "Well it says on the city sheet... I'm sure Nelly is right!"

Front desk person - "Well I guess you could walk it if you really wanted to... go to messa and take a Left...

Us - "Then we'll see it?"

Front desk person - "No... it's a ways!"

We disided to do it anyways! So off we went ... we took a left on Messa went to the block that it said on the city sheet... no starbucks ... they were right. We thought well do we go back to the hotel and watch some spanish soap opera? Or should we get our excersize for the day and go on an edventure? We chose the adventure :)

With a fix of the wardrobe we were off. We walked and walked and walked and let me tell you we were seeing no mermaid! We asked a guy on the street if he knew were the Starbucks was... he said "Ummm... yeah it's about 10 - 15 blocks up..." and by up he really ment it... 10 - 15 blocks up hill!!!! Having gone too far to turn around and by this time we've worked up an appatite! So it was crusial that we get there!

By the time we go to the top of the hill we were famished ... I mean we are in the desert without anywater, dehydration was starting to set in this was seriouse! We were grabbing on to everything that could hold out weight!

I mean we both had those big bags to cary ... This was life or death! I look behind us...

Yeah so the street ends when you get to El Paso st. ...witch is the one that we turned left on ... so far right! This is what was in front of us...

Yeah nothing right! While I was taking these pics, Christie went down!

I look back and she's out for the count the walk had really gotten too her! I slapped her across the face a couple of times and gave her to most inspirational pep talk ... I mean it was really good... I couldn't think of a metaphor. Anyways, we stumble to the end of the hill and we we see it! It was magical I have never been so elated to see the white and green circle in my life!

We ran!!! You know like when a hours sees it's stable it just starts galloping, you may not have gotten it to go more than a sluggish trot, but as soon as you round that corner the stupid thing takes off! Well that was us ... a sudden burst of energy came over us! it was amazing!

We ran inside! ordered our favorites and enjoyed the amazingness of Starbucks:

Yeah you can call me a heffer if you want! I earned it! Practically walked back to New York... We were so satisfied and so sad when it was gone!

It wouldn't be right if something didn't go wrong... when we got up to leave, Christie thru away our garbage... well here, I'll show you this pic let know if you notice anything:

The garbage cover was not on the can... lol but she still with confidence dropped everything in it... she wasn't the frist to do it too! The worker that lifts that is going to not like the way her day is going... but it was just what we needed for our hike back! You know having walked around the town for so long, we got a good feel of it...

Once we finally got home we were pooped so we took a nap! hahaha I have to say it's not that cute! Very very very run down! What was it like when you were born dad ... do you remeber? ;)


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Hey I forgot I took these... I woke up really early on the bus! So I took these pics from the front lounge:)

Notice there's only one car in all those pics! ... Welcome to Texas!

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So that night we had our end of tour party. We wanted to do it when everyone was available and Wednesday was the only time. So Michele organized everything at the Hotel bar... we got free hors d'oeurves and 2 drinks for free, and they had a special on some very sensible Margareta's:) Mom you would have loved it!

It was so random in the dumps of the downtown area ... we had this amazing hotel! The bar was georges!

It had a Tiffanie's dome!! Yes from Tiffanie's like "Breakfast at!" here is it:

Just stunning! It's just so out of place it makes me think that El Paso used to be a booming matropilis! But anyway the party! The food was meteroker at best... but the companie was great! And because it was our last time to really do it up with everyone we got dressed! You know it's a party when the red pants come out!!!

Or... the green mullet:) It was really fun we ate, drank, sociazed and then twards the end of the night we did what every sivilezed adult does... smash a pinyata!

Yep ... we broke Dora! ... some people think that she's the reason for our show closing... I think it's the economy ... but anyway it was kind of nice to get out some pent up aggression:) hahaha I was a great closing night party!

Hey love you all! Talk to you later:)