i'm a horrible blogger

sincerest apologies to the 2's of 3's of you who look at this blog from time to time.

i haven't written since june. to catch up, a quick picture parade...

i voyeured. and cupcaked about it.

i made my feature film debut. "baby hungry" coming to small film festival near you. maybe.

was a real doll in a reading of a new musical by that happy chap on the left.

choreographed this very serious group of young actors in a production of oliver!

became executive assistant to this woman.

so my life is off the chains.

i also recently became the proud new owner of a 2008 subaru forester. she's black and her name is sue. and she's begging me to take up skiing. i'm considering it.

my new title of executive assistant at the salt lake acting company has me working a real, regular 9-5 complete with a desk (though a little make-shift at the moment), a salary, and a standing invitation to all board meetings. to take minutes. but still.

okay. so i'm back on the blogging wagon.

stay tuned for complaints about how knitting is hard, pictures from our halloween dinner party, and recipes that make your cupcakes too brownie-like.

mkay. ta for now.

my summer...

is spent....

in hot tubs...

seeing sarah at costco...

and sharing all the crazy utah news
with audiences seeing
SATURDAY'S VOYEUR


seriously, the best way to spend a summer.
(photos from Salt Lake Tribune)

cupcake lady

for my birthday this year i got this darling cupcake holder/carrier from nicki and a handy dandy frosting/decorating tool from my mama and now i'm a cupcake-makin' fool!

love

things i [love] right now:

warm weather
tomatoes
voyeur rehearsals
babies
'i'm a woman too' by ben lee

things i [opposite of love] right now:

people who mooch
cold weather
my tight right hamstring


the good news: there are more things in the first list. also, i love the things i love more than i don't love the things i don't love.

come and meet those dancing feet.

watch this:

video of 42ND STREET at pioneer

and get tickets here:

tickets for 42ND STREET at pioneer

if you've never seen 20 people tapping live onstage before, you must. it's thrilling.

see you there?

you are what you eat

okay, i'm just going to start out by saying that i realize this post may sound like i'm jumping on the bandwagon of the latest fad. it's super trendy to eat organic. everyone who's anyone shops at whole foods. FOOD INC. changed my life. blah blah blah.

but this is important.

FOOD INC. changed my life. (okay, that's a little dramatic.) actually, when i first heard of it, i was like, "pass. i've heard it all before. eating animals is cruel. noted." but then i saw this episode of oprah (i love her. please still respect me, and read on.) and she had michael pollan on - whose book IN DEFENSE OF FOOD i'm currently reading - and she showed clips from FOOD INC.

it piqued my interest.

cut to: tonight. i watched FOOD INC. and i encourage you to do the same. not because i necessarily believe the film presents 100% truth without bias or opinion (because what documentary does?) but because, even with some bias and opinion, it's a pretty eye-opening look at where our food comes from. it's so much more than an animal cruelty issue (which, by the way, it absolutely is - the way cows, pigs and chickens are treated in these huge mass production "farms" is appalling) but it's also what we are putting into our bodies. chickens that are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics to the point that they can't even walk aren't real food. cows that are fed corn instead of grass produce e. coli, so their meat is mixed with "filler" containing ammonia to kill the e. coli. that isn't food. but we're eating it. at alarming rates. and we're becoming fat and diabetic and diseased and it has to stop.

the great news is we absolutely have the choice to stop it. all we have to do is choose to eat fresh food. REAL food. buy locally. eat organically. it's easy. maybe not as easy as going to a drive-thru, but if you see what you're really eating at these fast-food places and where it comes from, i think you'll gladly forego the convenience.

also, whole foods is the most fun place to shop. go there.

and chipotle is a fast food restaurant that uses fresh, local ingredients and meat that is hormone and antibiotic-free. eat there.

i'm not a radicalist. i'm not a hippie. i'm just a person who eats and doesn't want to get sick.

at the risk of tooting my own horn (which is totally what i'm doing) this is what i made for dinner tonight and it was fun and easy and soooo tasty:

veggie pizza, spinach salad and green beans. all organic ingredients purchased at good earth and the organic produce section at target.

(not far)
past*

(no time like the)
present**

(not so distant)
future***

*hawaii was perfect.

we:

• snorkeled - saw a shark. i'm not kidding. also swam with sea turtles like we were old friends. oh yes, and an octopus wrapped itself around my right leg.
• rode mopeds around the island - i had to pull off to the side at one point because i got a hair in my eye. a four inch long hair. it was disgusting.
• drove the road to hana - we swung from vines like tarzan. my dad, dalton and i got some major height. lana got some major laughs. big kudos for at least giving it a go, though.
• got tan - like way, way tan.
• found oprah's house - behold the power of modern technology: step 1 - get your mytouch phone out and go to google. step 2 - search 'oprah's house on maui.' step 3 - click the link that says "she bought the old robinson ranch on thompson rd." step 4 - type 'thompson road' into your gps. step 5 - drive to oprah's house.
• split up: boys vs. girls - dad and dalton went golfing. mom and i went to the spa. we win.
• ate - AMAZING sea food.

**now i'm back to my life and work. and building our new season at SLAC. read: on the computer a lot, doing tedious things; taking little breaks now and then to check facebook and blog.
don't tell.


***up next: 42ND STREET at pioneer theatre company. rehearsals start the end of the month and i'm excited. and scared. (if you just sang "excited and scared" you're a geek.)