Audrey Renee'

Oh Buzznet family!! Why have I so brutally lost touch with thee? I blame facebook. 

Paradise Valley...doesn't feel like paradise to me. Paradise Valley High School, Paradise Valley Community College. I'm attending both.

I'm thinking seriously of suggesting Green Day's "Welcome to Paradise" for my graduation song. It would be way too appropriate. 

So how is everyone??

It's been awhile since I've blogged here!

I have met the man of my dreams and I have fallen in love. Just when I least expected it. The story? We used to know each other. We used to have play dates when we were little kids. We met up again after 10 years at the Carriage House in Pueblo. I had gone to swing dance with a couple of buddies, and there he was. First chair saxophone in the jazz band. Tall, dark, masculine build. And the greenest and sweetest eyes I had ever seen in my life. I had to talk to him. I was drawn to him. 

It didn't take much for me to fall for Daniel. I was boycotting relationships at the time, but we went on one date and he took my breath away. 

And that was that =) He's my Romeo. 

AHHH! I MISS BUZZNET.

My photography suffers. I have been so ridiculously busy moving, packing, unpacking, getting ready for school, now doing homework and trying to get ready for college. It's such an ugly process. I would love to get out and start shooting again. But in this extreme heat? Nope. 

I'll keep it short. I'd hate to bore you. 

MUCH LOVE. 

xoxo

<3Audrey

Photography dry spell. I need to get my inspiration back.

My apologies, Buzznet, for not being on as much lately.

I'll be back.

xoxo

<3Audrey

Pueblo Community College really has its own charm. I'm gonna miss this place.

Everyone having a good St. Patrick's Day?? I know I am! I'm wearing my green Flogging Molly tshirt today. It makes me happy.

I have a photo to post! Still-life for my photography class. I'll do that tonight when I have my own computer.

Down time is terrible. I hate it when I'm not busy, it drives me insane! I'm really, really bored right now. I still have an hour before rehearsal.

I love all of the green floating around this place right now. Speaking of green, does anyone else here like Green Day?? I'm so excited for their new album to come out, and I really need someone to be excited with me!!

I've been thinking about Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy all day. I've always referred to him as my favorite leprechuan. For those of you that have not met him, he's only about 5'4". He's such a tiny little guy!

Do some meditation of some kind today. You will feel so great afterwards.

Don't drink too much green beer. Have fun though. And definately have a mug for me since I'm too young to get it.

Fall in love with the weather!!! It's so sunny and gorgeous where I'm at!

Aspire something new. Even if it's something small. For me it's a new handbag.

Pray for my friend Linda. She may have lukemia.

Don't get married today. It will anger my friend Amy.

Pinch everyone who isn't wearing green!! PINCH THEM REALLY HARD!

Just a note: I have new favorite Buzznet users! Five of 'em! In a band called Colin Healy and the Jetskis. Look up Colin Healy and the Jetskis on Buzznet. http://colinhealyandthejetskis.buzznet.com/user Check out their myspace too and listen to their music. They are awesome!!! And then add them and say hello. They're sweet!

Love you guys.

xoxo

<3Audrey

Hello world.

I tried to post a blog full of updates a couple of weeks ago but the whole thing got deleted when I tried to post it. So this is my second attempt.

It's one of those days, guys. I've had significant mood changes all day, and I really don't know what's going on right now. I'm a little bit sleep deprived, and I'm enduring one of my 12 hour days which is always a bust. Oh, about that:

I'm in PCC's musical entitled The Travelin' Show, dialogue and music by James Galloway. So here's how my days happen on Tuesday and Thursday:

8am-10:45am PHOTOGRAPHY
11:00am-12:15pm ACTING
Lunch with my buddies at the cafe on campus from 12:30-1:45.
2:00-3:15 INTERMEDIATE NEWSWRITING
Buzznet time in the library from 3:30-4:15.
4:30-6:00 MUSICAL REHEARSAL PART I, MUSIC
6:00-8:00 MUSICAL REHEARSAL PART II, ACTING.

12 hours on campus. I can pretty much feel more energy drain from my body every minute. Wow, it's amazing what we go through to squeeze in things we love.

We have a pretty gorgeous Paul DiGiovanni look-a-like here at PCC. He just walked past me. *swoon* He wears sunglasses indoors, which normally bothers me. But I can get over it. He's just so pretty!

I'm waiting for my good friend Amy to come and meet me here in the library before we go to rehearsal together. She's awesome! And she just joined buzznet. http://amysyrup.buzznet.com/user Add her if you don't have her. 

I'm going to see The Academy Is... next Monday on their wonderful little acoustic tour! Yay! [along with This Providence, who I love very dearly.]

Fall Out Boy. April 14th. The Fillmore Auditorium. Denver, Colorado. I will be there. Will you?

I've still been posting photos from my photography class on Buzznet. Three of them are going in the art show over at PCC! I'm stoked! You can see 'em, they're in my photography gallery in my photos.  

I have a giant paper to write for my psych class that's due tomorrow morning. Better get on that.

Smile. Even if your face doesn't feel like moving.

Talk to a random geek about world of warcraft sometime in the next few days.

Go to bed early tonight. It might pay off tomorrow.

Create an inside joke or two among friends. Or bring up an old one.

Call someone you haven't spoken to in awhile.

I'm getting my driver's license on Wednesday. About time, right????

I'll post pictures in a journal of my new car when I get it in two weeks.

I love you, people of Buzznet.

xoxo

<3Audrey

I'm sure many of you here on Buzznet know what it feels like to have music change your life. Or, act as the perfect soundtrack to your life.

For 17 years, Blink 182 has been that for me. I've grown up with them, between my older brother, my buddy Sam, and my abnormal flips to MTV as a little girl, Blink has been one of my favorite bands.

WELL HELL. THE HIATUS IS OVER. POINT SAID.

I cried for a week when they announced their hiatus.

I'll keep it short. Needless to say, and all that being said, I'M THE FIRST TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE SUMMER TOUR. THAT IS ALL.

Music saves. Never forget it.

xoxo

<3Audrey

BLINK IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vicky Christina Barcelona.

A realization is an interesting experience. A certain thought comes to mind and one begins to wonder why this particular moment was just right for such a thought to take over the mind. I've had a lot of realizations lately. Here are a few of them, in a nutshell.

-Good people still live in the world.
-One sweet person can turn someone's day around.
-Laughter is the best cure for boredom.
-Laughter is the ultimate cure-all.
-I should've taken film photography this semester.
-I really miss competitive acting.
-Little things that can bring smiles to our faces are the things that make our lives worthwhile.
-People who always insist that they're right are the people who are the most unsure of themselves.

I learned how to develop film in a darkroom today. My digital photography professor had to be somewhere and wasn't able to stay for class, so I ventured over to the art gallery where a film photography class was taking place. Considering that I am more interested in film and that I have one of the best film cameras and the best lenses for it that money can buy, I should have taken film photography rather than digital. Then it turned out the professor was a childhood friend of my mother's. He knows my whole family. Most of them don't like him.

My sister and I plan on taking my father to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Friday. He's very sensitive about things that he can relate to. Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, and The Notebook drove him to tears. This one will too.

I love the smell of tee tree oil. It's just strong enough to tickle the inside of your nose, but it's not overpowering.

I cannot wait to get back to Paris.

Have a terrific evening. Don't forget to enjoy yourself. :)

xoxo

<3Audrey

Everyone hates Mondays. People spend Tuesdays getting over Mondays. Wednesdays are usually spent getting plans together for the weekend. Then there's Thursday. Friday begins the weekend. Saturday is the ultimate goof-off 'cause we can day of the week. And Sundays are boring. Thursday just sits in the middle. Like the kid you see in the gas station when there's no one else there. He's buying M&Ms and Gatorade and you say hello, and he says it back. Then you just kind of look at each other. And look at the floor. But you have nothing at all to say to him. THURSDAY IS THE AWKWARD KID! I've finally figured out the meaning of Thursday. Oh, pride.

I have began posting my assignments from my photography class. The one of the furnace...yeah. There will be more assignments that I'll probably post next week. But I took some cool stuff along the way that I won't be graded on. I'll post that too.

I have these really annoying two hours between my acting class and my newswriting class. Buzznet, thanks for keeping me occupied.

It has been officially decided that in June I'll pack up all my shiz and move to Scottsdale, Arizona. Rumor has it (heard from Mom, who overexaggerates everything) that my dad is going to start working for a company over there so that's where we'll be living. I told my mom that we need to go shopping for "booty shorts" to wear when it's 120 degrees outside. The heat is going to be an obstacle. But it will be really nice to get out of the cold, as much as I like Colorado. I've lived here all my life and now I'm leaving. I absolutely knew it would happen eventually, but I thought it would be on my own terms. Pueblo has a wonderful little flavor of its own. I'm going to miss the character. I'm worried about aquainting with people in Scottsdale. I'm worried that those kids will be all money and will have no substance. I will definately keep an open mind, don't get me wrong. I have been pretty postive about this whole thing overall. But it's just a worry lingering in the back of my mind.

The kids and I are going to the FOB show on April 14th. It's scary to think that it will probably be the last show I ever attend in Denver. I'm getting chills already.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is really good. I have a goal to make it to Tinseltown to see both new Kate Winslet films this weekend. She is my favorite actress.

Thanks for being there to listen to my life during the two hours I have between my acting class and my newswriting class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's an awkward day, but please enjoy it. I love you, Buzznet.

xoxo

<3Audrey

Well, this is my first journal since I've been officially governed by the Obama administration. I missed the inauguration. Had class.

I've learned that architectural photographs are not my strong point. In my photography class this morning we had to roam around campus and take architectural photographs. No one did very well, and when we showed our stuff to the professor she didn't seem impressed at all. This campus has got to be the absolute worst place to take architectural photographs. There are trees everywhere, and they aren't in places that allow you to use them to your advantage. They're just in the way. So it was tough.

Last night I started thinking about something. I've been a little salty all day from it. It has finally hit me that I'm getting older, and in a year I'll be on my own. As I've gotten older and less dependent on my parents, they have grown less dependent on me. You see a mother or father and their child, and they fit together. A baby belongs with its parents, and the parents have the need to be there for their children. But when the child grows up, he or she is more independent, and the real idea of parenthood and the constant need to be there every second for the child sort of withers. I thought about it, and I really realized that soon I'll have my own life, my parents and my siblings will have their own lives, and that's the way it will be. But somehow I feel that I will live my life alone, that once I leave my parents' house I will be all by myself. I'm not one of those people who makes friends. There are some kids (like my brother and my sister) that people are just automatically drawn to. I am not one of those people. I make somewhat of an effort, and I make a lot of acquaintances, but have never been able to get really close to anyone and keep it that way. I have had "best friends" here and there but they sort of seem to come and go. I'm not one of those people (again, like my sister) who has one best friend that she's close to, they'll always be really close, they talk every single day and share their lives and that's the way it is. I feel like the only person that really, truly knows me is myself. And I feel like that's the way it will always be. Some people (like my sister) have someone that they belong to, or belong with. I don't. Boyfriends? Well there are the ones that I've driven away and the ones that only talk to me in my pathetic little daydreams. I feel like that's the way it will always be for me. Soon I am going to live alone, and eventually I'm going to die alone. I never looked at my life from that angle before, and I've realized that I will only ever have myself. I'm trying to bring myself to be okay with that, and it's really really hard. I find it easy to pretend that nothing's bothering me and I can always act as if I'm comfortable with myself and that I'm okay with everything. People will always come and go for me, like they always have, and that's just the way it is.

Have a great day. Hope the sun is shining where you're at.

xoxo

<3Audrey

The biggest stack of vegan pancakes I've ever tried to eat in my life. (I didn't even get through half of them, but they looked good so I took a picture.) They had nuts in them.

My digital photography class starts tomorrow! I'm very excited. It is at 8am, which is a bummer, but I'll get over it. It's going to be a great class. I'll keep you guys updated and I'll post all of my assignments. I think I'll get some pretty ones. :) I swore to myself that I'd keep this short, so TTYL!

xoxo

<3Audrey

Before I begin with my personal nonsense, I would like to encourage everyone to follow this link http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html
and sign this petition to President-Elect Obama regarding a Secretary of the Arts. WE NEED ONE! The arts are so underrated in America, and it needs to change. They have gotten roughly 83,000 signatures so far. Please navigate over there and support the arts!! Thanks to Joe Trohman for letting me know about this. :) 

 I'm sitting in the library. I've had my acting class, and I have my newswriting class at 2:00. It is now 1:26. It's a super sunny beautiful day in Pueblo! And warm enough to lift the spirits of everyone like me who are waiting for winter to melt off!

American Idol premieres tonight, OMG.

So, I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and I loved it. It's a long movie, but it really didn't feel long for me because I was so into the story. They needed that extra hour to tell this story, had it been done any other way it would not have been as good. Note particularly the scene in Paris after Benjamin pays his visit to Daisy. He describes her getting hit by a car, but he did it in a very cool and unique way. He mentions what happened with everyone who had any kind of connection to the accident. He then uses a lot of "If only..." statements to make his point and let us know that Daisy had been hit by the taxi. Incredible scene. Very, very, very well done. And OMG! Props to Cate Blanchett for that thick Louisiana accent she used in the film! The gal is English, and she got that southern accent down PERFECTLY! It was so believable and sounded so authentic. It's a hard accent to do, and she did it so well. Brad Pitt was also unbelievable in this film. (and, being myself I must mention how gorgeous he is! He's about the hottest blonde hunk of mancake I have ever seen! And I'm normally not into blondes.) So now that I'm done being degrading, perverted and disgusting, go see this movie! I think you'll be glad you did.

More coming tonight. Including a picture of a huge stack of vegan pancakes I made the other day. With maple syrup all over them. MMM.....

On Christmas my cousin Stacy made what are called Italian Wedding Cake Martinis. I would probably give both my big toes for one right now. Vanilla Vodka and Amaretto Disarronno. With sugar on the rim. Have one for me!

I should go before I'm late to class. I'll catch up with you all later!!

xoxo

<3Audrey

Happy New Year. This took forever.

This past year had a lot in store for us. Good things happened, bad things happened, but I'd say it all made up a pretty kick-ass year. These are my lists for the best and worst of '08. In no particular order.

BEST OF '08

1. Folie A Deux. Fall Out Boy has always released excellent albums, but this one is the best yet. Brilliant. Perfect.

2. My trip to Europe. This is one of my favorites of the photos I took. :)

3. I discovered my favorite food!

4. My brother introduced me to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

5. Obama in. Bush out.

6. The green trend! People deciding it was cool to take better care of the Earth? Awesome!

7. Spaghetti cat. Like Joel McHale said, what would 2008 have been without this guy?

8. The dawn of the fifth season of Desperate Housewives. I got into this show,
and I could not believe how good it was. Seriously, the dialogue is smart, the
stories are insane, and these women are amazing. They aren't as perfect as they
look. They have issues, the problems never end on Wysteria Lane, and I can
relate to them. BIG TIME. These girls have made me crazy! I never miss this
show. If you haven't seen it, Fancast it. Now!

9. 3OH!3. WANT. Best ever. Immorality at its finest.

10. The Really Really Ridiculously Good-Looking Tour. Best tour all year by a long shot.

WORST OF '08

  
1. Reality dating shows that featured a worthless celebrity that no one had any reason to care about.

2. The Hills. Fake people with fake jobs who have a show dedicated to their complaints about how their
perfect, effortless lives aren't perfect or effortless enough.

3. Twilight. This was one of the most pathetic trends I have ever seen.

4. The economy crash. Who knew that something that I have pretty much nothing to do with
could single-handedly destroy my life and some of the most important people in it?

5. The teen pregnancy craze. I loved Juno. I thought it was a great movie and Diablo Cody
deserved the awards and everything she won for it. However, I cannot even count how many
thickheaded thirteenish year old girls I knew that were influenced to get pregnant after they saw this. They
started screwing around left and right and getting pregnant suddenly became cool in high school.
Call me old fashioned, but I think that it was ridiculous, and perhaps the worst way a very young
girl can be influenced. It's crazy to me that these little girls can be swayed so easily. Frankly, it scares me.

6. The radical McCain supporters that are STILL complaining about the outcome of the 2008
election, claiming that Barack Obama is the anti-christ. What's worse? People who won't stop
saying that they think our president-elect should be shot. Insanity! Okay, it's totally fine for
everyone to have their own opinions, and it's perfectly alright for people to disagree with Obama's
political views. But no one should ever wish that upon anyone, let alone our president-elect and our
country!! Crazies! Uh, they get me so heated!

7. The death of Heath Ledger. Young, gorgeous, talented, loved by all.

8. Family Force Five at Warped Tour in Denver. Perhaps the worst live band I have EVER seen.

9. This house used to be mine. Used to be. :'(

10. My entire itunes library got deleted by a computer repair man! This sounds ridiculous, but anyone who has accumulated 4,000 songs on itunes may understand how frustrating this was!!

That's a wrap. :) There were so many more great things about 2008, but these were some of my favorite. And there were a lot of crappy things that went on in 2008, and these in my mind were some of the worst.

Holy hell, this took a long time. *sighs of relief now that it's finished*

xoxo

<3Audrey

My Christmas was pretty much everything I wanted it to be. Typical Italian Christmas. The only difference was that it wasn't at my own house. :( I miss my house.

But I got some pretty cool stuff.

I actually bought this with a Barnes & Noble gift card that I got for Christmas. I have read a couple of Wilde's plays, and I really love them (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray) so I decided to read more. :) This book is HUGE. It's really heavy too.

This is my favorite. It is a huge, framed, original oil painting of Frank Sinatra, it now hangs above my bed.

Clothes!! I got a bunch. This is just four shirts, most of my stuff is in the laundry. I also got a pair of black skinny jeans. This doesn't include lingerie, which I figured I'd keep to myself.

These heels are BEAUTIFUL! They're Candies, and they have about a four-inch heel on them.

Music! Stocking stuffers. The Quilt, Direction, Mamma Mia! Original Soundtrack, Frank Sinatra's "Nothing But the Best." It's all very good.

Of course I got the movie as well as the soundtrack!!

This cute polka-dotted wallet! And money. $25 from each of my uncles, $50 from Grandma. YAY!

And sushi. Fresh, delicious, wonderful sushi. Served up by the cute Japanese guy at the restaurant down the street. <3

And that's a wrap! I'm happy with what I got. Tell me what you got!!!! And tell me about your holiday. Include pictures if you have them. :)

xoxo

<3Audrey

Hello, guys. Whether it's Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Boxing Day, or just New Year's that you'll be celebrating this year, have yourselves a great time. My <3 goes out to all y'all!!

So I uploaded a new profile pic earlier. I had to pick one of three that I really liked. These were the other two.

I almost went with the second one because I liked the smile. But I'm happy with my choice.

So once again, have a good time and enjoy your time off! (If you have it. I'm sorry to those of you who have to work the holiday, I know how much it sucks!)

xoxo

<3Audrey

You know what I think? I think the state of Colorado should get rid of the John Denver BS and make 3OH!3's "Colorado Sunrise" our state song. Not as heartfelt, but definately more fun.

So yeah, I'm seventeen. In a year I'll be eighteen. A year after that I'll be nineteen. But whatever.

How was my birthday? Well I took exams all day, which was kind of sucky but I had a few highlights to my day.
-I have aced all of my finals thus far.
-I ate at Olive Garden with my family, while my dad made fun of stuff.

But the best thing:
I spent an hour and a half with the perfect man who serendaded me with Broadway love songs. :)

So overall, I had a pretty good day.

For those of you who don't know, my parents are pretty gung ho on moving to Arizona this summer. It does sound pretty nice when I walk out the door into the snow, and I was pretty cool with it until last night. I had a sort of revelation, and you won't believe how ridiculous it is.

I bought 3OH!3's album WANT last night (as well as Hey Monday and the new Pink Spiders), and it hasn't left my disk drive since. They talk about Colorado a lot in their music:
"You's a punk bitch if you don't know 'bout Boulder!"
"Hold you through the night and watch the Colorado sunrise."
"Is it hot in here or is 3OH!3!"
Naturally, they named themselves after the Boulder area code, 303. (I'm 719 which definately isn't as cool, but whatever.) Anyway, listening to them made me realize that Colorado is my home. It may be a kind of crappy place, but it's where I'm from. I'm gonna miss those Colorado sunrises! And I had planned on going to CU Boulder for my last two years of my BS degree, and now that's out of the question. So that kinda sucks.

That album is like a drug. A really bad drug that you know you should quit, but deep down you really don't want to. Singing those lyrics is something St. Peter is gonna slap me in the face for when I get to the gates of heaven, but deep down he likes 'em too, so we're cool. :)

If you don't listen to 3OH!3...Baptist church Audrey says "Don't start!" But since I'm making a deal with St. Peter I'm gonna tell you to go out to the record store and buy WANT before you explode from lack of awesomeness!!

I'll stop now. This is what that album does to people.

I'm gonna go listen to 3OH!3 now.

That is all.

xoxo

<3Audrey

Hey!!!

So I got back today from Mississippi. It was really fun but we spent a lot of time in the car. AND SO MUCH TIME IN TEXAS! OMG! That frickin' state never ends! But I took pictures and stuff.
Trains. Trains go through Texas. And just like the state, they never end either. Except in this picture, as I got a picture of the caboose.

Boredom calls for crappy little drawings. I drew this cow. I think he's cute.

The Mighty Mississippi!! (It's not so mighty in the winter. There's not much water in it this time of year.)

PHOTOS OF MY FAMILY AND STUFF.

Uncle Randy. (Blonde Poof.) We stay at his house in Brandon, a suburb of Jackson.

Uncle Randy and Dad. The pink walls are fabulous!

Aunt Renee'!!! I was named after this woman!! Isn't she beautiful?!

Photos! Lots of them!

My cousins Lindsey and Chase. On Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was my Grandmother's 80th birthday. My Aunt Beki had this cake made for her. It was really nice!

Marlowe and my cousin Elizabeth.

My Dad, his sister Beki, and my Grandmother.

My cousin Chase. He's a handsome young lad, but he can never resist a chance to be goofy.

TWINS!! My Dad and his twin sister, Aunt Janis.

Aunt Shiela making dinner.

My cousin Emily lives in Spain, so she joined us via webcam. :)

Aunt Renee', Aunt Beki, and Jacob-My cousin Brandy's little boy.

Lindsey, Marlowe, and Laurel-My cousin Brandy's little girl.

Lindsey, Brandy, and Brandy's daughter Laurel.

Aunt Renee', Aunt Janis, Grandmother, Aunt Beki.

Everyone sitting in Uncle Randy's backyard. Aunt Janis, Aunt Renee', Grandmother, Elizabeth.

Family Reunions: Aren't they grand?

My Dad (who looks kind of strange in this picture) and his new grandson!

Marlowe and our new nephew- My brother's baby Aiden!! He looks a little strange here too, but he's a real cutie. He's a very happy little boy.

MY GORGEOUS SISTERS!!! Marlowe and Jessica!! I hardly ever see my sister Jessica, and it was so nice to catch up!

My cousin Kyle and my brother J-Paul. My brother is the tall, dark, handsome one. ;)

And that's a wrap! I love my fam, and I don't get to see them very often because they all live in Mississippi and I live in Colorado. I'm so glad we went on this trip. I was really anxious to see everybody! We had a lot of fun. And that was my Thanksgiving. Southern style!

xoxo

<3Audrey

Better keep you informed.

So, on Friday my little dachshund, Rufio, was sitting beneath the coffee table eager for my mother to give him a piece of food. When he reached for it, he suddenly started crying and yelping and we saw his back legs totally give out, paralyzing him. He couldn't use his legs. So we rushed him to the animal emergency room and that's where he's been since. We have a great vet who really knows what she's doing, regulating Rufio's meds and giving him physical therapy. He's doing a lot better. We are pretty positive that with time and practice, Rufio will walk again.

Meanwhile, my family was in debate about whether or not we should drop everything, jump in the car, and drive to Mississippi for Thanksgiving. When the dog got hurt, we weren't sure if we wanted to leave him, but the vet has agreed to board Rufio (still watching and nursing him) and Oscar. So we're going!

This will be quite an adventure. I'm definately bringing camera and I will take lots of pictures so you guys can see my wonderful family. And you can bet I will take pictures of the pies, the trees, and just everything in sight.

I miss my family. I haven't seen that side in 2 years! My grandmother Louise is turning 80, so everyone is going to Jackson to be with her and celebrate a delightful Thanksgiving.

The only downside to this whole plan is that my brother Spencer can't go. He has to work. :`(

But this will be fun!!

Have a great holiday, and I'll be on from time to time.

What are your Thanksgiving plans?

xoxo

<3Audrey

My sister took some photos during the play, and I also took some behind the scenes (there will be videos as well, check them out!) This is your chance to meet my buds at PCC!

The Play.

Everybody. From left: Lisa (Tybalt, Nurse), Yours Truly (Friar Lawrence), Samantha (Balthazar), Josh (Romeo), Heather (Juliet, Benvolio), Alex (Mercutio), Chris (Friar John, Lord Capulet) and on the floor is Cayla (Lady Capulet).







Again from left: Lisa, Samantha, Me, Josh, Chris, Cayla.

Now for the fun stuff! (We call it 'off the cutting room floor') Backstage pics.

Girls dressing room.

Boys dressing room. Josh and Alex.

Alex making the rest of us laugh!

Alex wears good deodorant. Samantha is proof.

Josh, being his utterly adorable self.

Cayla and Alex.

Smoking kills, kiddos!

These are some of the greatest people in the world. I love them all dearly, and if you guys could meet them you would too.

Check out my videos!! There are two of them. They're really funny, mostly of all of us hanging out, joking around, and Lisa making fun of me for being from Alamosa. :)

xoxo

<3Audrey

TOTAL SUCCESS. :)

Every actor had a perfect evening. Every line was perfect, every emotion was right on key, the audience laughed and cried in all the right places, (we actually had tears at the very end) with the exception of some giggles when Juliet took the poison. Morbid little fuckers.

And then after the play we all went out. It was so much fun!! We had a blast, and here's the best part: WE GET TO DO IT AGAIN TONIGHT!!! As well as next Thursday and Friday. So if you're in Pueblo, come see us! At PCC, tonight we're in the Hoag Theatre and next week we'll be in the Black Box in the San Juan Building atop the hill.

ONCE  MORE, ON PAIN OF DEATH, ALL MEN DEPART!

Just thought I'd drop in and let everyone know how it went. And now I have to get off my lazy ass and get ready to be great again tonight!

LET ROMEO HENCE IN HASTE. ELSE, WHEN HE IS FOUND, THAT HOUR IS HIS LAST!

Okay, I'm done. Promise.

xoxo

<3Audrey (aka, for now, Friar Lawrence.) :)

Here's that pic!

xoxo

<3Audrey

First of all, I'm sure everyone is purely sick of hearing about the election by now, but I've got just a few words about the outcome. Although my support in the end was for McCain, I have always liked Obama. And his speech last night reminded me why. A lot needs to be done and he's going to have a lot on his hands, but if he comes through with what he promises, I think he will be the most brilliant, groundbreaking, and impacting president our country has seen. And I have faith in him. He's the kind of person that is easy to trust, easy to love, and I think he knows how to stand his ground. He's also really smart. He will hopefully do many great things.

As for my non-political life, which for the last few months has been the theatre, is in complete turmoil!! Our Mercutio (for those of you that don't know, he's a really important character.) got sick with the flu over the weekend. How convienient! So Jean (director) put in his understudy to perform this weekend. Yeah, THIS WEEKEND. She was doing great until last night she randomly decided to back out of the production altogether. WTF?! I'm sorry, but that is just not right. Our director is so pissed, and she's thinking that Tanya (understudy) purposely sabotaged the play. All of this drama took place at rehearsal last night. It was such a mess. I overheard Jean talking about cancelling, which would suck, and it's just awful right now. A good option would be to put in a brilliant actor who is great, knows all of the lines, and would commit to this play. But she doesn't like him and I think she'll be too proud to put him in.

House sold. Blah. I packed my whole bedroom up. Blah. The room is totally empty and it's freaky!

I'm hungry. I want Chipolte. It just opened down the street from my apartment.

Pueblo is a bit rainy and chilly today. God knows it will be disgustingly hot and very sunny tomorrow. That's how our weather works. Scortures in the winter. It's what sets us apart from the rest of Colorado. :)

Just had to touch base with you. Love you all, take care!!

xoxo

<3Audrey