so true...

A winter statistic:
98% OF AMERICANS SCREAM BEFORE GOING IN THE DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD. THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM COLORADO AND THEY SAY, 'HOLD MY SODA AND WATCH THIS.


YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM COLORADO IF----

You're from Colorado if You'll eat ice cream in the winter.

No matter what the summer weather report says, you still have your winter coat in the car.

It snows 5 inches and you don't expect school to be cancelled.

You'll wear flip flops every day of the year, regardless of temperature.

You have no accent at all, but can hear other people's. And then you make fun of them.

'Humid' is over 20%.

Your sense of direction is: Toward the mountains and Away from the mountains.

You say 'the interstate' and everybody knows which one.

You think that May is a totally normal month for a blizzard.

You buy your flowers to set out on Mother's day, but try and hold off planting them until just before Father's day.

You grew up planning your Halloween costumes around your coat.

You know what the Continental Divide is.

You don't think Coors beer is that big a deal.

You went to Casa Bonita as a kid, and as an adult.

You've gone off-roading in a vehicle that was never intended for such activities.

You always know the elevation of where you are.

You wake up to a beautiful, 80 degree day and you wonder if it's going to snow tomorrow.

You don't care what some company renamed it. ** The Broncos still play at Mile High Stadium**

Every movie theater has military and student discounts.

Everybody wears jeans to church.

You actually know that ** South Park ** is a real place not just a show on TV.

You know what a 'trust fund hippie' is, and you know its natural habitat is Boulder .

You know you're talking to a fellow Coloradoan when they call it Elitches, not Six Flags.

A bear on your front porch doesn't bother you.

Your two favorite teams are the Broncos and whoever is beating up the Raiders.

When people out East tell you they have mountains in their state too, you just laugh.

You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels 'sticky' and you notice the sky is no longer blue.

You see a highway sign for "CO SPGS" and you know what it means.

the rockette blog.

Last night, as my cab drove me by Radio City Music Hall, I started to well up with tears...

You know I have been dancing for my entire life. I ate, slept and breathed dance nearly every day for the past 15 years. Most of my childhood memories include dance: recitals, class, dancing in the backyard. I moved out here to New York City expecting to continue, to dance almost every day. Well unexpected things happened: crazy class schedules, work, the dance schedules not being perfect for my schedule, but still I managed to take class at least once a week (including the dance class for school). There were times I wished I was a dance major and thought about auditioning, just so I could dance every day. Then in January and early February I took class 2 or 3 times a week.

Then I stopped dancing altogether. My class schedule took me until the early afternoon and then I had time for homework, then work at my new job at Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. I didn't want to quit. I knew I wasn't quitting forever, either. I just hadn't had a break in about 15 years, and I think it was much needed. I wished that I had my mom here so she could make me make the trek across the park and take class. But she wasn't here. No one was. I had to figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I signed up for the Rockette Summer Intensive for the 5th time, knowing that it would get me back into the swing of things. I planned to take classes before it started, but hardly got the chance.

So I began this week, at the Summer Intensive. On Sunday I felt completely comfortable and at home seeing the face of Eileen, the Rockette who has been there for me all 5 years. Also Stevi, who was our favorite Rockette last year. They are so supportive and really want us to succeed. Sunday night after class I felt wonderful. I knew I was going to be sore, but I felt alive again.

Last night Stevi gave the same speech she did last year, but this year had a much different effect on me. She started by saying that we have already beaten out hundreds if not thousands of people to get into this class, and more and more try every year. She said that we have come so far and we are closer than most people will ever get to being a Rockette. She said we can all make it if we want to. She said how you can be in 50 different Broadway shows and people say "Oh really...Which ones?" But you can say you are a Radio City Rockette and their expression is more recognition and awe. It is so much more impressive...

I'm sure I wasn't the only one tearing up, I think my friend Lezlie did too. But after yesterday being frustrated in class because we weren't picking up the steps, this speech hit me harder.

The next audition is August 5th. I am going. So many people have told me I'll get in and blah blah blah, but I'm not going to do it so people can see me on that stage. I am going to do it for me. Because the emotions that rush over me when I am standing on the stage at Radio City, or even just driving by the brilliant blue and red lights at eleven o'clock at night, are like no Broadway show has ever made me feel...

.jmm.

visiting friends are dangerous...

So my favorite twins, Jenn and Stacy, came to visit me this weekend. We had a great time together and it was really good to see them since I don't get to too often. But I learned one thing that is bad...

Even though they paid for a couple drinks for me and then bought me breakfast Sunday morning, my bank account that had about $150-200 in it had transformed to a big $7. Yeah. I know. (Mom please don't yell)

It's just so hard because I haven't been paid at work for 2 weeks now, since we are being paid by check every 2 weeks. The check idea is a good thing for me, because then I will drop it straight in the bank and won't spend as much. But I am really screwed for the next 3 days...As soon as I get the word that my check is done I will run straight to that office and pick it up! (It should be about $700 if commissions are included!)

In other news, my phone is becoming the bane of my existence. It likes to drain the battery occasionally (and unexpectedly), likes to randomly not let me text people, most recently has not let me call people...ugh. I'm done. Once I have money again I will be getting a New York number with AT&T and get an iphone. But if I have learned one thing from the SATC movie, I won't be able to be a 917 girl...I'll have to be a 347...which makes me sad. (Partly because 917 is backwards of 719 which is Colorado Springs' area code...and that would have been cool) But hey, maybe I'll get lucky...

Oh and probably the biggest (and actually good) news is I will be doing the Rockette Summer Intensive next week!!! Yay!!! My buddy Rogelio from ITH may be coming to watch if he doesn't have rehearsal, though I probably won't have any other friends coming since it's $35 and my family won't be able to make it :(

.jmm.

far too long..

It has been far too long since I last updated this blog, and a lot has changed. Some good, some bad, everything happens for a reason. That's really what I've started to live by. I have decided that things will come and go and in the end everything will work out and you can't hold on to things too hard that aren't meant to be.

In other news, I'm now working 8 shows a week at ITH, and loving it. Though my problem now is that whenever anyone in the real world says something, a word or phrase triggers my heights button and I burst out in song or with a line from the show. I am taking medication and seeing someone about this problem.

:)
.jmm.