Distant From Irregular

Okay, okay, okay...it's been way too long. I was enjoying my break okay? My nephew was visiting, cut me some slack.

Christmas was fun, I got a cool leather jacket from my sister and played a lot of Settlers of Catan. My sister and my nephew are visting from Iowa and it's been really fun to have them here. ...Guys. I know everyone says their nephew is the cutest baby ever, but MY NEPHEW IS THE CUTEST BABY EVER. There's some pictures on my facebook from when he visited at Thanksgiving if you want to check them out...which you definately do because my nephew is the cutest baby ever.

Side note: I would definately reccomend the new Sara Bareilles CD to anyone who hasn't listened to it yet. "King of Anything" is just the beginning of its goodness; the whole CD's great.

Probably the highlight of my break was driving to LA with my friends to seen Next to Normal! Britt and Ash found us $20 tickets online so we HAD to go. Me, Brittney, Ashlyn, Thad, and Jake left Orem at 4:30am and drove 9 hours to Los Angeles where we frolicked on the beach for quite some time (in December. Yes it was amazing). Then we drove the the LA temple and took pictures with the help of a 12-year-old couple eating spaghetti on paper plates under the tree where Robert and Laurel's wedding picture was taken. (Too complicated to explain, don't ask.) Then we snuck into a Super 8 Motel and barricaded ourselves in the bathroom so we could get ready for the show. ...People knocked on the door a couple times but we just made barfing noises until they went away. After that we drove to a surprisingly distant pizza place where an extremely unflattering blackmail picture of me was taken and then we drove to...the theater!!!!

For those of you who don't know what Next to Normal is, it's a broadway show that won Best Musical in 2009. None of the members of the original cast are in the show in New York anymore, but we were lucky enough to get to see Alice Ripley (who plays the main character) from the original cast. She won a Tony for her performance in this show and I am here to witness that it was well-deserved. The entire cast was so so SO talented; the show was literally spectacular. One of Brittney's friends, Preston, is in the touring cast that we saw and he was nice enough to introduce us to some of the cast and give us a backstage tour after the show was over. He was a super super nice guy and VERY talented, it was really cool to get to meet him.

After the show, we drove to Laurel's house (my old director) and had brownies and ice cream! We sang a bunch of songs and got to catch up with her, it was really fun. (We left Laurel's at midnight and arrived in Provo at 10:30 in the morning...pretty tough drive but it was worth it!)

Quote of the day: "Remember George: No man is a failure who has friends."--Clarence, It's a Wonderful Life