Trial and error PINTOPIA

So I heard the other day of a blogger who keeps track of everything that she pins on pinterest that she then tries out. She shows step by step how she followed the directions, and how it went. And I thought to myself "WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT!?!"So...we'll see how that goes. I will probably throw in individual projects that I didn't get off pinterest as well. I will probably just add those to pinterest for others.

So! Let the PINTOPIA begin!


http://pinterest.com/marlipaige/

Comedy Gold

So, i've been keeping a running tab on twitter for some time of great frogpants quotes. But I thought I'd just put them all in one lovely place.



Filmsack
Ep 88 9-15-11 "The Thing"
"Wheres black guy number 2?" @coverville @filmsack

Ep 51 11-4-10 "Waterworld"
"I can explain pastafarianism but that doesnt make it believable" @randydeluxe

Ep 24 "Labyrinth"
"Theres a guy behind him juggling david bowie's balls. and he keeps offering them to jennifer connoly" @extralife

The Morning Stream
Ep 135: 9-27-11
"It's a...brown drink...with sort of a...brownish flavor" @Coverville @morningstream

"It's kind of a cola drink. Further down the evolutionary line than mr. pibb or dr. pepper. It's the missing drink!" @Coverville

Ep 134: 9-26-11
"Dv? Denereal Visease." @extralife @morningstream Scott, it's actually daily value.
"Ya'll were fetuses!" @extralife @morningstream
"We had english, math, and bullshit. There's film-lit and videogame club and lesbians vice principles!" @extralife @morningstream

Ep 133: 9-22-11
"she canned about 12 bottles" - Scott
"Kindle me Baby" - Brian
"A lot of cartoonists go to cincinatti to die" @extralife @morningstream
"3.6 inches tall" - Scott [I dont think the gordon ramsey sex dwarf was 3.6 inches as @extralife reported. either he was 3 ft 6 in or you read his dick size not height]
"Over Jenky" - Scott
"I don't know if that's enough to twist your grandson's balls" @JustinRYoung @morningstream

Ep 131 9-19-11
"Is glee a comedy? I never laugh." @extralife

Ep 130 9-15-11
"Where is baltimore? maine? rhode island?" scott does geography! @extralife @morningstream
"We interrupt this news broadcast to bring you drinking orange soda!" @coverville @morningstream

Ep 127 9-12-11
"LET'S DO DARREL!" @extralife @bearbutt @morningstream
"I'm not a fly, I'm a flu!" @coverville @morningstream
"Chef Boyarde is like having a handful of raisins with pepper on it and calling it a hamburger" @extralife @morningstream

Ep 126 9-8-11
Not 50/50 @extralife ! @bearbutt was 2/3 because he was gone for labor day on @morningstream
No he was 1/2! @bearbutt wasnt there for monday @extralife ! scott does math... @morningstream

"Anecdotal evidence...is...story evidence" @extralife @morningstream

Ep 125 9-7-11
"We're gonna rob peter to pay paul and paul's a dick" @extralife @morningstream
Omg @morningstream "I do not like home..because my father tried to rape me, and he's a werewolf"
Thank you @morningstream for making me want to watch the room. That retarded man made my day. "I DID NOT HIT HER!"
Thanks @extralife for giving @bearbutt a free point. He went from 0/1 to 2/3 today!

Ep 124 9-6-11
"I lost 70 lbs! how? i cut off my leg" @morningstream - Fitness Geek
"Where do you place chaz bonos penis? it'd be really convenient if you put it on my knee. i'm a bono. thats where we have them" Brian
"Someone has finally brought weiners everywhere the beloved stageplay to the big screen based on w.e. By sapphire" @morningstream @coverville
Is "space junk" a technical term? @morningstream
Favorite @morningstream moment darrell pouts "I don't even have any birthdays" @bearbutt
Oh and @bearbutt said it was monday on @morningstream and it's tuesday. miss a day, get confused.

Ep 123 9-5-11
"Invent-ories" @extralife @morningstream "cyrus do the inventories when you're done in the ur-i-nul" @coverville
"Special effectitize...think it won for special effectitude" @extralife @filmsack

Ep 121 8-31-11
"Have you ever been out of Utah!?!" @Coverville to @extralife on @morningstream

Ep 116 8-23-11
"Kris christopherson has a face that smells like soup. And gene wilder has that meat smell" @extralife

Ep 111 8-11-11
"The food slot? that's what i have on my face!" @coverville @morningstream

Summer

Summer is finally here. I'm getting a week off from tomorrow night through Friday, and i'm taking that time to go home to the family and see them.





Final tallies on Spring Semester:

Performing Lit A
Intro to Theatre B
Spanish 2001 B
Film B
HPS B

So...I passed everything! Yay! Made it through the semester! Now i've got a year left at this.

I changed my concentration to Performance Studies because i'll be able to graduate faster.

I started my internship at Cumulus Atlanta, Q100.
I'll take stagecraft come June.
All in all it's shaping up to be a busy summer.


Excited to see what's ahead,
Marli

New Year, New Hair, New Me

So I started 2011 off with a bang. I dyed my hair. You say, well that's not that weird, but for about 98% of my life i've been blonde. I took a brief stint as a redhead before which turned out disastrous and turned me into a brunette (which I am not). This time I put my trust in my friend Aliya, and it turned out wonderful, though.

My new obsession with cooking continues as I made up my own recipee for teriyaki chicken, and it actually turned out really freaking awesome. Tonight boyfriend and I are gonna make a stab at tempura and sushi. Pray for us that we don't burn ourselves or end up with food poisoning.

School starts on Monday. I don't want to go, not even a little bit. I know it'll be good for me. I know I should. It doesn't matter, I don't want to do it. I've enjoyed my break so much, and I dread going back. I'm so terrified that I'll do poorly this semester (as that seems to be the trend since coming to ksu that I can't do well) and lose hope. And i'm not losing hope. If I lose hope that means I have to take out loans or go home, neither of which I really want to do, but one or the other will have to be done.

Still debating unifides. I need to debate quicker as the deadline is fast approaching. Still need to figure out what i'm doing for my birthday...but it's really difficult to decide when A. I have no idea how many people will feel like showing up that day B. I want to have a good time. C. I need it to be somewhere people under 21 can get in so that Tina and Katie can come. D. most people won't show up if they can't drink. E. I don't want various groups from my life to come and me not be able to talk to them. F. I want it to be enjoyable for everyone, but mostly me because hey, it's my damn birthday.

Still debating making my own cake as well. I'd love to have it made, but I don't have the money...so....probably making my own. Debating the idea of cupcakes. Again, problem with not knowing how many people will be there. Aliya showed me a good, cheap fondant recipee so I may go with that and attempt my own cake. If I knew it wouldn't turn out horribly ugly then i'd be gung ho to do it myself. Oh well, guess we'll see.

Thanks to anyone who reads my ramblings.
Marli

The Other Side?

So, maybe i'm on the other side of hate and anger. Maybe i'm finally making actual strides toward something positive. I feel almost caught up on homework for the first time...this semester. I'm in runs of Into the Woods, but not rehearsals! I am supposed to be working as an extra on Vampire Diaries, and some of the main cast may actually come see the show. Good thing about VD is that once you work once if you're pretty good they generally call you back. I'm already set up to work for Chris as his SM for the school edition of Rent. That should be interesting. And yes, I cheated today on Medifast, but I'll go back to being a slave to it today. I think everyone needs an off day. Also, i've lost 6 lbs! So there. Spit on that!

Anyway, it's 7 am and I have yet to go to bed working on homework etc. so I should probably do that. According to Matt I have to go get my rat tomorrow. I mean today. Then I have a show tonight. I'm not really tired. Why aren't I tired? Probably because i'm a freak of nature....

Yeah oh well, you love me anyway. Because i'm me.

Night / Morning!

Dragon*Con

Backtracking to fit in what else i've been up to: DRAGON*CON!

So, it was tiring, frustrating, but a lot of fun. My friend Jennifer Teeter was a real on the books performer for the con, which was really exciting. I manned her booth a bit and got a free Teeter button and cd out of the deal. She was amazing.

I tried to do the dress up thing: Rainbow Bright and Steam Punk Lady (such as they were). Next year I will be far more prepared and have as cool of a costume as everyone else did. My favorite I saw this year was Queen Frostine from Candy Land.

There were hundreds of panels I wanted to go to, and I didn't make it to a single one. The lines were atrocious, and I got so lost trying to figure out where I was that I missed most everything I wanted to go to. I managed to make it to the Time Traveler's Ball and both of Teeter's shows. I also made it to the AIE Guild Meetup and TwitTV meetup. I got turned on to my new favorite podcast, Ladies of Leet (which are actually my guildies!). I just wasn't prepared enough to market myself. I really needed a website and new headshots and business cards. I'm just not where I need to be physically, emotionally, or technologically for the amount of marketing I should have been doing.

So goals for next year:
have a hotel room
plan my costumes months not days or weeks in advance
have a fully functioning website, up to date headshots, business cards, and a smile on me
actually map out and follow my daily planner
order my ticket in enough time that it gets mailed and i don't have to wait in lines
be in the parade

Into the Woods

So, I really need to actually keep my blog for a change. Into the Woods opened tonight. It's been a hectic week of me doubting it would come together, but it did! I should have trusted Andy when he said it would, but I'll know better now! It's really rewarding to finally be back in a show. Yes, my part is rather small, but it's a part. It feels so wonderful to be back on stage.

I actually sat up on the ladder last night waiting on my lines for the giant and began to cry. I realized how much i'd missed the beauty of theatre. It's just a part of who I am and what I am. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life, and when I forget that, it's really hard to have a focus anymore. It's moments like last night when I watched Gretchen sing No One is Alone and silently cried when I remember why I do this.

I am so blessed to get to work with this cast. They are amazing professionals and theatre enthusiasts who all bring so much to the table. I've gotten to know so much about good performance through them. I am always amazed to learn from the experiences of others in theatre. I admire each of them more than i'll ever be able to express. I hope to work with them all in the future.

I also developed friends through this. Tina and Sue have been my lifeline. It's really hard to feel alone and ostracized so much of the time. Since moving here I haven't really found many solid connections, but I feel at home with them. I feel like I could ask anything of them and they'd gladly agree, and I would do the same in a heartbeat.

My parents and Nanan came to the opening tonight, and it wasn't a perfect show; but it was a very good show. They brought me flowers. It felt nice to finally feel like I accomplished something worth them being proud of for the first time in a long time.