It's Been a While; Also, 21!!!

Guys... It's been 8 days since I blogged last.

EIGHT WHOLE DAYS.

That doesn't seem like a thing. 

I'm not totally back to having full motivation though because of break and school and working and everything's a mess. But I think to help out I'm going to do weekend recaps to give me something to write about on Mondays since that's one of the worst possible days to blog because I'm so friggen tired. Also, a new Friday Favorites will be up this Friday after I design a new header for it since my usual one doesn't match my current design. 

In other news:

I TURNED 21 TODAY!!

Yay for being able to go to the bar with my upperclassman friends and being able to bring my own alcohol to theatre shindigs. It's actually a very freeing experience. I also moved up in the world because I got my drivers license renewed and I got to move up to the big girl (senior) license because I could get my "Under 21" bar removed from my license.

I HAVE A NEW LOOK!!

Don't be alarmed! I'm still the same old All The World's a Stage, just with a cuter, more girly look. I've never been totally happy with my look and as I was browsing the blogger templates on Etsy, I came across the cutest templates from the cutest shop. 

The shop is called Minty Fox Designs (run by Crissy), and what I liked about her shop is that I feel like she appropriately priced her layouts. She has the cutest minimalistic templates for very reasonable prices (I got mine for only $20). I notice a lot of other shops do the same templates and charge a lot more for it. Plus all the funds that she makes to straight to surgery for her dog, so naturally being a crazy dog lady, I had to support her cause.

She even helped me figure out why I can never get social media icons to work and I thought that it was so sweet of her to do it via email for me. 

Thank you so much, Crissy!



Time For an Upgrade

So a few weeks ago, my trusty iPhone 4s that has kept my life in order for the past two years randomly stopped working. I woke up around 8:30 am, checked my phone, went back to sleep, and when I woke up an hour later, it had turned itself off and didn't turn back on no matter how many times I tried to reset it. So I waited it out for a day (thank God for my iPad so I could still get ahold of people) but still no luck. So I called Verizon to see what I could do, and she told me to do everything that I had already tried. But here was the kicker-

I only had 11 days until my upgrade.

So she told me that I could upgrade early over the phone and add it to my bill, or activate an old phone and wait it out. So since it wasn't my bill to add too (I share the account with my mom), I activated a phone that made me feel like I was in season one of Gossip Girl (which wouldn't be a bad thing, except for the fact that I don't live in Manhattan). The only problem was I wasn't receiving texts from any of my friends/coworkers that have iPhones and even if I turned texting off on my iPad, they wouldn't come to me. So Saturday morning I called Verizon and did the early upgrade (with my parents approval) and ordered my new Space Grey iPhone 5s which I've been drooling over since it came out.

Then on Thurdsday, this beauty finally came to my front door (I missed the first delivery Wednesday and they didn't expedite shipping). I had a total Geek out moment and practically had a nerd-gasm when I opened the box and peeled off the protective plastic. I even got a Belkin View case (rubber edges and a clear plastic back to show off the back of the phone) in purple (duh, my power color). I'm literally obsessed.

Now ends the totally unnecessary story of my beautiful new child.

Friday Favorites! (A Few Days Late)

I know this is a little bit late, but I wanted to eventually get a few Friday Faves post out since I haven't for a couple of weeks. So let's get to it!

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Iced Cinnamon Dolce Latte from Starbucks

Now that it's FINALLY starting to get warmer as spring approaches, I can comfortably enjoy my favorite latte iced. And with as many shows as I'm doing this semester, an extra shot of espresso or two is a must!

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B&BW PocketBac Hand Sanitizer

With cold and flu season in full swing, I use my PocketBacs more than ever. Performers really can't afford to get sick, which is unfortunate because we're always the people that are sick the most.

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B&BW Hand Lotion

Cold weather means dry skin, so I always make sure to keep a tube of hand lotion in my bag at all times! Plus with our new Summer Scents, my hands smell fun and fruity all the time.

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Pandora

I sprung for the $3.99 a month Pandora One so I don't have to deal with pesky commercials. But I love pandora because I can listen to some of my favorite music while I'm sitting in the Theatre Lab at school so I don't have to run my phone battery down.

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Poppin Notebooks

I may or may not have talked about these before, but I'm gonna do it again.

I have two of these little gems (I get the small soft cover notebooks because they don't take up a lot of room in my bag), one for all my blog ideas and another for to-do lists and other things to remember. I honestly don't even use the elastic closure (I usually rip it out of the glue in the back) but I personalize them myself by decorating them with washi tape!

What have you guys enjoyed lately?

Excuse Me While I Rant About My Feelings

Tonight/this morning/today (it's 2 AM right now) I've been thinking about stuff and I wanted to use my "sappy emotional blogger rant" post for the month. I try to never post things like these, but I needed somewhere to collect my thoughts.

I'm done.

Emotionally and mentally done.

All this semester/since the new year started I've been trying extremely hard to not let things get me down and keep a positive look on things. And I've been doing a great job if I do say so myself. Until now.

Lately things have been snowballing, and I don't think my brain can hold anymore emotional damage right now. It's literally been one thing after the other, and after a talk I had with a friend tonight I had finally had the final straw and broke down. Complete emotional and mental breakdown. I just felt like I couldn't hold it in any longer. I know it's not good to hold all your feelings in like that, and I really haven't been. I've let out a few good cries lately but mostly just stress crying, nothing with real meaning. Until tonight that is.

I've been trying to be so happy for so long that I think my brain was a little too over-capacity. I'm just so done trying to act happy and put on a brave face and it eventually got to me. So here I am ranting about my feelings for you guys because hey, this is what blogging is for. Plus it was nice to get away from the fun, girly stuff for a day. 

Dear Readers,

I know I've been a bit MIA lately. I apologize. Things have been hectic with school and the current show I'm in, and I haven't had the energy or motivation. On the bright side, we only have two shows left, and then I'm on spring break for a week which means that I'll have plenty of time to catch up on blogging. I have an entire list of posts I've been wanting/meaning to write, and I'll finally have the chance to write (and/or draft so I can post later on). 

Here's what I've been up too for the last few weeks:

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Our show! It's a blue-grass/country musical that's basically a country version of the Princess Bride. But with more rape (yay college theatre)

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Another show! I've been cast in the second of the two MainStage productions this semester, and I'm super thrilled. Laundry & Bourbon/Lonestar are both one act plays, and the characters are all married (Elizabeth & Roy, Hattie and Ray, Amy Lee and Cletis). It follows the same country theme as Robber, but it's a lot more modern.

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If any of you are familiar with classical/sacred music, you may be familiar with Faure's Requiem. This was our headlining piece together as the University Concert Choir, but we also had a separate set just as the Chamber Singers. 

That's really about it. Besides school, all I've been doing is performing and auditioning. 

But it's all okay because this is what I want to do with my life. Performing is truly my passion. It's literally like a drug, without all the harmful effects like death.

Be back in the swing of writing soon,