They are great days aren't they? This one for some reason hit me pretty good. I was thinking a lot about a lot of different things and I'm pretty sure that those things are still all jumbled up in a huge mess in my brain, but we are gonna try to get them out in a way that makes some sort of sense to me and those of you that read this.
The last couple weeks o so have been interesting ones to say the least. Ever since I got back from Spain they have been this way. Not sure why, but I have been in a more pensive mood then before and these last couple weeks have been good for that with some of the things that have gone down.
I got a text about 3 weeks ago from a friend of mine that directed me in a show almost 2 years ago now. The show that she had gotten cast in was looking for someone to fill in a role and she wanted to know if I wanted in to give it a shot. I can't really ever turn down a role that sounds somewhat interesting, so I went down to UVU where they practice and they had me run a scene with them, so I ran the scene and got the part. My guess is because they just really needed someone to fill in for the part so the show could get going. I know that I am somewhat talented, but I also know I tend to be the guy they just call when they need someone to fill in a spot. I got the script and headed home to look it over. The show was opening in about a week and a half and I need to see exactly what I had just gotten myself into. Well I opened the script and was kinda blown away by the amount of lines I had to memorize, along with a huge monologue that I had to get down pact as well. Needless to say rehearsals kinda went pretty slow and as we got to the moments where we moved to the new stage a lot of us were pretty worried about how the show was going to go. It also rained on us and was freezing cold the whole week, so that was gonna suck. We got to opening night and of course it rained and was butt cold. It was the same on Saturday and Monday nights as well. Surprisingly though the show went really well those days as it did the rest of the run. We had a lot of funny moments and it was a good time. We had some of the usual drama that shows have but all in all it was a pretty good time. Even the writer of the show showed up to a few performances and after one sat us all down and talked to each one of us. Told us what he liked about our performances as an actor and what he liked about how we portrayed his characters.
We had a stake football tournament during this run and it was a blast! Basically it consisted of one day and it was single loss elimination. The rules are kinda lame, no blocking with your hands, no running behind your teammates when you have the ball and lots of other dumb ones. You have to have at least 4 girls on the field at all times and they have to touch the ball at least once in a series of downs. Emails were sent out to all that wanted to play and we had a couple of practices before our games. Friday they played, I couldn't go cause of opening night, and we won. Sounds like that game didn't really matter cause all the teams that loss were there on Saturday as well. We had a really good turnout for the games, I think only one team had more then we did show up. I misses the first game because it was at like 8 in the morning and I wanted to sleep in some. We won that game and advanced on. After you played a game you would wait about an hour and then you would play the next game, so I showed up for the next game and was there the rest of the day. It was a blast! Our girls were amazing! They played so well. We ended up sweeping the whole tournament. We had one game that was pretty close, but other then that we blew everyone away. I guess it helps to have a bunch of players on our team that played football and rugby in high school and college lol. All in all it has been a pretty good last couple weeks.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Conference Weekend
Last time conference went around I was in a pretty bad place. Things just went south with someone really special to me(one sided here) and I kinda didn't really want to do much for conference or even watch it. It had brought a lot of bad memories back to me for some reason.
Well this time around I tried not to think about it too much. I woke up at the butt crack of dawn cause we had football practice and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Met some really cool people and even came away with a knock down and some gashes on my legs. Most of us then headed to our bishops house for breakfast and to watch the first session of conference that morning. I was sitting next to some new friends just talking about each other when I got a text message on my phone. It was from an old friend of mine that was right there with me through a lot of the downs of that last relationship(sorry for those times).... The message just plain and simple said will this conference be better for you then the last one? I was confused for a bit then remembered what she was talking about. So that was kinda my motto for this time around. I was going to make it a better one, as a matter of a fact the best one I have had in a long time.
The day was off to a great start. I didn't stay too long after a few people left cause I had some things to take care of before Priesthood session. So I listened to it in my car on the way home and sat and watched once I got there. I then headed up to Sandy to pic up a few of the things that I needed that day. Ended up picking up a few more things then I needed but it worked out. Went home and set those up as well. Watched the next session or as much of it as I could while I went over lines for my new show. Priesthood session is probably my favorite session out of all of them. The talks seem to always be directed at me. Or at least a few of them do. There was a couple through the whole 2 days that really impacted me. After we ate as a group for priesthood some of us met up and headed down to thanksgiving point for a turn on there haunted mazes and such. Those were way fun. Made some new friends that night too. Sunday was just a relaxing day of going over lines watching conference and learning a thing o two I didn't know before about our savior. Sure do love the guy.
I thought back to what my friend asked Saturday morning and I did have a better conference this time around. The person that took 9 months away from me for nothing was still on my mind but it's more of a why was I with them in the first place kinda thing. I her and her fiance a few weeks ago and they just seemed so awkward to me. She is getting married this week and it just seems like another day to them. Like they don't care. Not sure about you but I want my wedding to be a big event! Anyways, I'm glad things went the way they did this October. I look forward to the rest of the year.
Well this time around I tried not to think about it too much. I woke up at the butt crack of dawn cause we had football practice and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Met some really cool people and even came away with a knock down and some gashes on my legs. Most of us then headed to our bishops house for breakfast and to watch the first session of conference that morning. I was sitting next to some new friends just talking about each other when I got a text message on my phone. It was from an old friend of mine that was right there with me through a lot of the downs of that last relationship(sorry for those times).... The message just plain and simple said will this conference be better for you then the last one? I was confused for a bit then remembered what she was talking about. So that was kinda my motto for this time around. I was going to make it a better one, as a matter of a fact the best one I have had in a long time.
The day was off to a great start. I didn't stay too long after a few people left cause I had some things to take care of before Priesthood session. So I listened to it in my car on the way home and sat and watched once I got there. I then headed up to Sandy to pic up a few of the things that I needed that day. Ended up picking up a few more things then I needed but it worked out. Went home and set those up as well. Watched the next session or as much of it as I could while I went over lines for my new show. Priesthood session is probably my favorite session out of all of them. The talks seem to always be directed at me. Or at least a few of them do. There was a couple through the whole 2 days that really impacted me. After we ate as a group for priesthood some of us met up and headed down to thanksgiving point for a turn on there haunted mazes and such. Those were way fun. Made some new friends that night too. Sunday was just a relaxing day of going over lines watching conference and learning a thing o two I didn't know before about our savior. Sure do love the guy.
I thought back to what my friend asked Saturday morning and I did have a better conference this time around. The person that took 9 months away from me for nothing was still on my mind but it's more of a why was I with them in the first place kinda thing. I her and her fiance a few weeks ago and they just seemed so awkward to me. She is getting married this week and it just seems like another day to them. Like they don't care. Not sure about you but I want my wedding to be a big event! Anyways, I'm glad things went the way they did this October. I look forward to the rest of the year.
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