Wow I guess it has been a while.  I was actually needing a pic for something and my old xanga post was the quickest place to find it.  (3 years back lol)  Anyway it was so fun looking over all my old post.  It made me miss a lot of places that I have lived and brought back some really good memories.  Things I had not thought of in a long time.  Of course my life is no where near as exciting as it use to be.

I'm sure most of you reading this know my new location by now, but I am now a resident of Nashville, TN!!  I left Mary Poppins and New York a few months ago.  I was in need of a break.  8 show/60+ hours/6 days a week/52 weeks a year for a couple of years can get to you.  890 actual shows in a 2 year period not including the hundreds of rehearsals. 

Now I am enjoying my much needed break. I am working part time at the Sommet Center in the box office.  Working fun things like the Nashville Preds Games and lots of fun concerts like NKOTB which is tonight. 

I also made a great friend since being here who runs her own Music Publishing Company.  She has taken me in and is showing me a lot.  My favorite thing is going to pitch meetings with her.  We actually had one this past week with Crystal Gales husband for her new album.  It was so much fun.  Basically her job is to take songs from song writers and pitch them to the labels and artist.  So you sit in a room and listen to a lot of really awesome music which might not ever be heard in the real world.

Maybe if I remember I will keep updating!

After two years of planning...lol.  Nicole and I finally walked across the Brooklyn Bridge.  We could not have asked for a better night.  The weather was great!  Perfect timing with the Sunset.  We took way to many pics.  Here are a few.

In Brooklyn before walking across.

In Manhattan

My best friend from college is oversees in Afghanistan.  He left a few weeks ago.  I got to talk to him unexpectedly today for over an hour and it was so great.  I honestly do not know how he does it.  At least for me him being over there really puts everything in your life into perspective.  Even talking to him makes my life seem so silly.  I'm stressed that the sound board caused a ten minute delay tonight and he doesn't know when he will be back in the US.  So my complaining that the subway is messed up this weekend seems a bit petty now or hoping my tivo tivoed Project Runway.   

I just pray that he will be ok and come home safely. 

I am taking a road trip to Tennessee in a little over two weeks and I can not wait!!!

I am constantly reminded how blessed I am especially living in New York.  I could be having the worst day ever and think my life is awful and simply walk into the subway station and realize that even though my day sucks I am blessed.  It's usually because you pass a homeless person asleep on the floor or a family on the train with several kids and you wonder "how on earth can they live here and support this family"  However tonight I was reminded this but with the complete opposite.

I have been blessed with an amazing job.  Although there are days I may hate it and hate what it's about or what the company itself actually stands for.  (Someday soon I will blog about my office in the theatre being broken into last week and being robbed) I'm one lucky girl.  I constantly think to myself 5 years ago I never in a million years would think I would be here doing what I do.  I was just in the right place at the right time. 

With that said tonight I met Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise.  On an average week I deal with celebs etc.   but tonight was different.  Most attempt to be like everyone else, coming in the front, going to their seats etc. and generally most people are so caught up in their families world that they don't realize they are sitting beside Robert De Niro..  I met Maggie Gyllenhaal a few weeks ago with her fam and she was there in a tank top and shorts and no makeup.  No one knew. 

Katie and Suri were different.  My guess is they are probably in the top 5 most sought after celebs by the paparazzi.  I was witness to it tonight.  They were originally going to come on Thursday.  We got an email saying their plans changed due to Suri being upset by the paparazzi the night before at Mermaid.  We all got a laugh until we saw the actual pics of her and then after tonight my heart goes out to her.  Their Limo had been followed the entire way there.  As soon as they got out of the car flashes started from every where.  It was unreal.  Because they are so high profile they had to come in and sit down stairs alone until show time.  Once the lights began to dim Katie and Suri made their way to their seats.  Suri got a little cranky so they were ready to leave at Intermission.  The instant they left 4 men with cameras appeared out of nowhere taking pics again, Suri started crying she was scared. Then they hopped on their Bikes and followed the Limo away.

As they left I thought to myself what a sad life she leads.  I could be wrong.  To always be followed no matter what you do.  I just looked online now and there is a pic taken of Katie every day this week walking into her rehearsals.  How silly?  To have such a small child exposed to all of that.  She has no idea what is going on and it scares her.  She also spends much of her time alone.  There was nothing healthy about any of it.

I honestly do not keep up with the Cruises but after tonight I left thinking I am so thankful that I just get to go home to my apartment alone and sit on my couch and watch tv.  I would never in a million years trade what I have to be in her position.  To never be left alone.  To always have to have someone watching you. 

With all that said she was a very nice person and very appreciative of everything.  She and Suri both are very beautiful. 

Sorry for the randomness that I feel I wrote.  I'm just happy to be right here in the middle eating my ice cream, watching the Olympics just trying to get by.