Falling in Love with Love

My Funny Valentine

Embrace me, my sweet Embraceable You. I've Got You under My Skin, not a Blue Moon. All I need are Simple Little Things, because My Romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky. All I want is Someone to Watch over Me! There's a saying old, says that love is blind; is your figure less than Greek?.. well Anything Goes (although it's a shame you didn't get fit for Summertime)! And if I Were a Bell, I'd go ding dong ding dong ding. 

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This week, I have had the enormous pleasure of getting an audition in which I'd have to prepare two songs from "The Great American Songbook". With a variety of composers featured from Gershwin to Rodgers to Bernstein to Kern, I'm sold on this audition. 

S'wonderful. 

Now this audition happens to be on Tuesday. My favorite day of the week. Moreover, there are a couple of significant things happening on that day (for people of great importance: +auzzieizm, +Veronika Stare, and +Nick Horton). I think it's quite a good sign that we're all doing something significant on that day. There's a buzz in the air, and I'm going to swear that it's going to be a good day. Surely if we pray for each other, all will be swell? Definitely if you pray for us too, the world will alight in good fortune. Let's try it, shall we?

Green is My Favorite Colour

I mean, there have been some really great things that've happened this week. I went on my first tinder date, cycled just under 2hrs in near-freezing weather and progressed to find a pizza place around the corner that does a two topping 7" pizza for £2. I even made my best batch of hummus yet! and don't get me started about melting brie in the oven over dried fruit. 

But the biggest thing that I'm happy about is the fact that I made a delicious spinach, banana and walnut smoothie with my new blender. Listen ladies and gents, if there's anything I'm a fan of, it's ingesting spinach. Now I've got a new tasty way to do it!

Glad You Read

I just want to thank you all for reading. It's been an incredible journey for me, one filled with despair, hope, trauma, goodwill and fortune. It's been filled with friends and compassion. And I'm so glad you're coming along for the ride.

It grows increasingly more difficult to write as the years go by (years, yes, really), but when I think about Tita Nellie in Taiwan, Ninang Cindy in Delaware (she lapped up the heartbreak months), even Auntie Moira in heaven, it seems to give life to the words I write, it gives meaning to the thoughts I fabricate. If there's one thing I have to share, it is a sincere, voracious happiness, and I'll gladly pass along whatever I can.

Some people live their lives in doubt and frustration. I am one of those people. But for the most part, I'll be frolicking around, tap dancing in the kitchen because of an audition and scaring my flatmates with my enthusiastic greetings. It's just who I am! It's time to embrace it and live it, rather than subdue it and moderate it.

I did not decide to pursue my dreams as an actress in order to deaden my passion in other parts of my life. I want to live as wholesomely as I possibly can, and I think it's finally cottoning on.