Acting Class
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No Shave November
How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? I would assume if you have long hair it’ll take longer than if you have very short hair (get my drift). Who knows? All I know is that in our family Ben is the one that takes longer to primp every day. Part of the reason for this is that I probably don’t care as much as I should. In my defense, I know my hair will be grabbed with banana mushed hands and I will be gardening, cleaning, bathing children, and trying to throw some exercise into my day. I’m way less motivated to care about what…
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The Audition
Auditions always have made me nervous. Funny enough… I’m not even the one having the auditions and yet, I still feel butterflies in my stomach. Go figure. Ben applies for an average of twenty five or so jobs a day. Of those jobs, Ben gets to audition for about one a week. So to be clear, out of seven hundred job submissions in a month, Ben gets to audition for maybe four jobs. No wonder I’m so anxious about them. Getting an audition is difficult enough, but then add the hundreds (or thousands) of people auditioning for the same role and suddenly it seems impossible to land any role. On top…
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House Guests
Some people are gifted at entertaining guests. You’d think that as a performer that would come with the talent like a package deal. Entertaining, entertainer. Basically the same thing. I guess not. I struggle. There’s something about inviting people to my house that suddenly makes me very aware of anything that looks non-Pinterest worthy. Yes… it’s a problem. I know… Of my four girls, I have two children that are of the age where they can help with quite a few chores with very minimal direction (finally). I have one child that needs me to watch her and tell her exactly what to do step by step. And then… I…
