A lot of us are loath to admit that we might be addicted to something – especially when it’s something that is totally and completely legal, but seems to be interrupting every day life. Such is the way of the smart phone. About two weeks into dating, my boyfriend at the time decided my phone wasn’t good enough (I was, at that point, using a MyTouch as an experiment with my Dad. The MyTouch had a few issues but was an okay phone, and a complete upgrade from the phone that T-Mobile thought I had […]
Auditioning is Not That Bad
I am, by no means, new to the idea of being on a stage. In fact, a lot of the time, I’m quite comfortable up there. So why, in the spring of my Junior year of high school, did I feel the need to high tail it after getting within a foot of the door for auditions for Zorba? Because I had only ever done one audition in my life, and it was a last minute sort of thing where I had said, “Hey, director, I think I’d like to be in your play,” and […]
Dreams of Dancing
Being a dancer takes a lot of work. For those of us in the world of ballet – or who have been in the world of ballet until our later years, we have found that it can be difficult to keep up with training without knowing where to go. Up here in Vermont, those places get even fewer and further between. Why? I live in one of the only states that does not have a professional ballet company. Companies that aspire to train professionals, yes. Actual professional dancers – not quite so many. Now look at Boston […]
End of Year Review
2012 is over, and we’re now three days into 2013. Has anyone else noticed that we seem to have gone to saying twenty-twelve instead of two thousand and twelve all of a sudden. Back in 2001, that used to bug me that we went from saying nineteen something to saying two something. But anyway… The past year in review. 1) I got a boyfriend. I have had boyfriend for more than three months… 2) I have a functional working computer that can do all sorts of awesome stuff – except be portable. Which is fine. […]
Christmas
Every year we need a reminder that even the midst of the snowy cold of winter – or as this year seems to be predicting, the cold harsh climate that is cold without snow – we can find things to rejoice and be happy about. For me, winter has always been one of my favorite season, filled with laughter, family, and of course, presents. It isn’t always about receiving presents – though as a kid, that was definitely what I would focus on. It has recently been about shopping for presents for others. And in […]
Losing Dreams or Living Them
Stress has always been a rather big thing in my life – especially when I feel like I have to be super human to meet the expectations of people around me. It’s not that I am necessarily needing to be so. It’s more that I feel like so many things in life need to be done to take away time from just being me. If I want the place I live in to be up to the standards that I’ve grown up with, then I need to spend almost every single minute of every day […]
Blogging as Therapy?
Sometimes having a blog is just about posting what’s going on around you, what’s on your mind, and getting things off your chest. At least, that’s how Dr. Watson is supposed to treat his blog in the hit BBC series, Sherlock. I remember questioning the therapists sanity in Sherlock when I first watched it. Could she honestly be serious about going online and posting your daily life there for just anyone to read? But what I forgot to take into account is that people do that all the time. Middle school students are getting in trouble for going […]
Web Design: The Growing World of Online Interaction
Everything these days is instantaneous. Planning events with friends, you’ll get answers within minutes of deciding to do something. You’ll hear from people you haven’t heard from in eons. If you want to do something for business with the web, it’s in your best interest to keep up with all of these ideas. Part of needing that edge is to know what you need for your business or for your own general web presence. Do you have shows or exhibitions? A section of your page that you can log in to and edit that information […]
An Account of An Angry Neighbor
There are times in life where we really just have to step back and realize that something in someone else’s life must have really gone wrong because otherwise that someone has no good reason to be yelling at you. Traveling the speed limit on your own street should not, in reality, set off your neighbors. But in order to give ourselves that chance to step back, we usually need a calm atmosphere to do so in. And said neighbor being at least 24 times your size and walking over to you with their two mid-sized, […]
Get Up and Go
I can be a morning person. In fact, if I have something I want to do in the morning, I’m very much a morning person. But some days I just lack the necessary drive to be that morning person. These are usually the days that I don’t have work until noon. I should be doing laundry or making myself breakfast. Heck, I could be doing all sorts of personal projects. Working on my book, for example. Or making myself a new competition dress. Cleaning my room, maybe.