Holy Cow! It's Friday! ...the number 50 is on my mind

Oh how the weeks fly by. I guess being in rehearsal from 7-10 every tuesday-friday and saturday 9-12 helps time go by fast. Houseboat Honeymoon is coming along great! This picture is my water bottle representing "Nana" in am urn. I usually get strange looks from the cast as I take a drink from her periodically. Nana is my mother who is awaiting reincarnation and who I talk to as if she is a pet. Our memorized or off-book date is Oct. 3rd but that shouldn't be too bad. I'll tell you what is hard though! Learning to walk like a Hypochondriac 50 year old with "back problems." I think I am just going to picture my parents...wait....that came out wrong. Correction: I'll think of my parents ten years ago (HA!) and minus the hypochondria.

On the subject of middle aged women:

In my stage combat class we are learning our first fight. This fight includes everything from eye gouges to punches, from head locks to tackles that result in flipping me over! My partners age.....(insert drum roll here) approximately 50 yrs. old! Not only is she over 50 years old but has a slow body resulting in even slower reflexes. Example: A portion of our fight includes slaps...but today practice included me slapping her hand and then turning her head for her. (This was after she accidentally slapped my in the face doing a nap in our punch to the head). This sounds as if i am poking fun...this is not my intent. My intention is to merely add to the humor of this situation. And here is the kicker: She wins our choreographed fight! That's right! In the last phase of the fight Alice gets worked with a knee to the stomach, kick to the groin, captain kirk to the back, kick to the stomach and finally a kick to the head.

Isn't it funny how the HFAC world reflects real life? ...cause i usually start fights with middle ages women who cream my trash.

Anyways...mom you will be happy to know that I got a 100% on my first quiz of the semester. I bet you were scared i was going to go back to the whole #50 thing huh? ha! fooled you!

Plans for the weekend:

oh man. I have rehearsal from 9-12 and then 2 dates! That's right, still got it! One of them is to Tucanos. mmmm. I have heard good things. I will try hard to maintain lady like composure surrounded by all that food...and meat no less....excuse me while i salivate.

Sometimes Parents DO know best...weird.

Reason #1: Alice + football = Happy.

This semester I recieved an academic scholarship from BYU. As kind of a congrats my parents got me an All-Sports Pass. This shows how much they know me and my love for college football. I am writing this special blog to say THANK YOU SOOO MUCH. Yesterday's football game was a blast. We beat Wyoming 44-0. My roommate Natalie couldn't go so she gave me her football ticket to do with what I will. My parents couldn't come (silly melon days!) so i asked my old Roommate Rebecca to come! It was so fun. Highlights:

1. Reba! I got to spend all day with her and hear all about her life. Man! she is hot stuff...3 dates in one weekend.

2.The BYU Jokers! By far the craziest football fans ever. They borrowed my facepaint from the Aspen Grove days. As you can see they struck fear into many hearts...including mine!

Reason #2: Aspen Grove

I have my awesome parents to thank for talking me into doing Aspen Grove not only the first summer but also the second summer. How many awesome friends and experiences I have gained? Too many to count! Most especially my new beautiful roomie Natalie. I love to laugh and natalie makes me laugh all the time! I cannot replace any of the wonderful memories from Aspen Grove.

Hopeful for the Fall

This fall was something that I was intensely dreading. I would be going into it without my dear friends that I have been with since good ol' freshman year. They are both going on missions and of course I am so happy and proud of them...yet still it is ok to admit that I will miss them more than i have ever missed anything in my life.

The beginning of the semester is always hard to adjust to and with the previous subject on top of that I was beginning to burst!!! But really I am so excited for this semester for the following reasons:

1: New friends!! My new roommates Natalie and Suzanne are wonderful. I am always a big fan of people that can see the good outcome in everything and these two girlies exemplify that very well. I love them.

2:My independence. More so than at any other time in my life, I am independent. All of my roommates have very busy lives (as do I) so i am excited for this time develop my independence. I love people but sometimes I love them more than myself. Say it with me now....I love me....I am happy with me...I need to stop talking to...me.

3: Houseboat Honeymoon. I received a part in a BYU production this semester. It will take up a huge chunk of my semester! rehearsals Tuesday- Friday 7-10 and Saturday 9-12. I like being busy. It is going to be really fun. I play a girl called Jeanie who is obsessed with her "special chair" and her mother. Did i mention her mother is cremated and Jeanie likes to dress up the Urn? ya, that's right!

4: Weight Lifting. This is the most active semester that I have had thus far at BYU! I have stage combat (If anyone wants to learn how to kick someone in the face/groin, I am your woman) and modern dance MWF and Weight lifting and yoga TTH. Adding on top of the show, which is a farce. I love it! Granted I am sore...but this sore just feels sooooo goooood. MAN! if you thought alice had a rockin' awesome bod before...skadoosh. <---that's my way of saying that it's better now. ok...bad joke.

*So all in all, this semester is going to fun...hard...lonley but I won't let that get me down! Always look on the bright side of life ...do do do dodo do.

One Wild and Crazy Weekend.

This was by far one of the craziest and funnest weekends I have had in quite a while. Only 0ne thing could have added to it's attraction : my best friends ...aka Sarah, Enge, and Rebecca. Alas these are things i couldn't have. BUT! I did have my awesome new roommate Suzanne. It all began on a friday night....Friday

Rockin' Awesome Dance: This stake dance (i was not a member of said stake) consisted of Noel, Suzanne and I being trend setters and rocking out to the live band. I think this band only had one person under the age of 45 in it. Never the less we danced our hearts out! I love how dances just end up being 2 hours of cardio. I had not been to a dance in a long time and for sure it was high time.

Saturday
Callback
And here was where the weekend began! Unfortunatley Friday night had to be cut short in order for me to aquire an ample amount of sleep for a callback I had the next morning. So I woke up at 7:30 (an hour to sleep in! woot!) and was at the callback by 9. It went really well, but by the end of the THREE hour callback I was wondering if i indeed would recieve a part. This had been my third call back in less than 1 1/2 weeks. The great thing about these was that i knew my audition rocked and i knew i had done my best. So overall i knew for sure if i didn't get into these plays that it was for a reason. The big guy upstairs knows more that me!
so the callback ended around 12 and from there i had to book it up to work.......

Work at good ol' Aspen Grove
Oh how can i describe how much i have loved working at Aspen Grove. My times at aspen grove have been one of the biggest influences to some many aspects in my life. I can't even begin to describe how much of myself and my growth as a person is due to my times at AG.
so once again i had the opportunity to hang out with awesome kids all day and call it work. We played marshmello wars, mafia, Castle camo and had an overall good time. The best part (which is kinda prideful) was that this age group was a lot older than the kids i had this summer...hence...they understood more intelligent wit and humor that i so naturally have ;)

After completing work, i got in my car only to discover that i had a voicemail. The voicemail was from the director of the show i auditioned for and he offered me a part. Man guys...oh just wait it gets even better.

Concert
Luckily for me a nice girl at the callback told me about a Rooney Concert going down at Spoon Me (local yogurt place...kind gross...but kinky name!) Rooney has been one of my favorites ever since a dear friend aka SARAH introduced me. Ever since then we have basked in cruel and womanizing lyrics that Robert Carmine (Lead Singer) so attractivly belts out. For example : "I'm a terrible person. I read her diary. I'm not to be trusted. I told all of her secret to the guys in town. They all laugh and give me high fives. oh ya!"
I know what you're thinking mom, oh wow! what a good influence. No! Great example!!!! of boys not to date or trust or let see my diary!
Anyways! This blog is getting legnthy so i'll sum it up. I saw them, i swooned. The highlight: I reached my hand out to Robert as he as walking offstage maybe for some of his sweaty talent to rub off but instead i recieve and handshake....plus a pull in....plus his other hand on my shoulder...PLUS INCHES AWAY FROM HIS FACE he said to me....and get ready now..."Thank you very much." whew! i could have kissed him. I think it would have ruined the moment going from, "hey! her's a girl that would like to shake my hand because she enjoys my music," to ,"Hey! here's a girl that just wants me for my bod." .....both which are true.
Sunday
And this is where the wonderful weekend comes to an end...kinda. (I am going to include FHE)
I drove up to Sandy to see my bestest friend Enge give her Farewell talk before leaving on her mission to Taiwan. I think i cried more that her during the talk. Sarah and Enge's friendship has been priceless to me and i will miss it dearly whilst they serve the lord. Enge talk was incredibly eloquent and poised. Her talent never ceases to amaze me.

Monday
Anyone who knows me, knows of my love for the institution also known as Family Home Evening. My ward is also very entertaining. Combine the two and you have winning combination. For FHE we played "Lovers Leap." This is a very brutal game to get to know someone. Luckily the lucky guy who chose me as his partner was just as competitive as i was. AFter FHE we then had a stage combat fight. We are planning to do this on campus, staged as a lovers quarrel. The Highlight was that i had the privledge of participating a group movie project involving a confidencial Gorrilla suit. Let's just say that who ever gave me a ride home didn't want to take the monkey suit off just to put it back on again ....did i mention that he drives a scooter? Oh what a night. A scooter ride with boy in a monkey suit with the wind whipping my hair and the gorrilla's hair into my face. I could not stop laughing. At one point we talked about how his monkey suit was keeping me warm...a conversation i hope to have once again someday.


THUS CONCLUDES the wild and crazy weekend. Please respond. build me up.

And so it starts...

I have only one person to blame for my strange desire to create a blog: Karen. My dearest sister began her blog shortly before my 21st birthday and since I too have wanted to join the strange world of telling everyone who cares about the going-ons of my life. Hey! Who wouldn't want to read someone's journal? Welcome to alice's mind. Be gentle.