Happy New Year

This post is gonna be celebratory life fluff.  The key point has already been covered in the title.  So feel free to stop reading when ever.

I am very excited about this new year.  I am directly pursuing my major life dream to be an A list actress.  And I actually have a pretty clear idea of the steps I am going to be taking to move forward on this.  I’ve started this blog and I’m excited about it.  I even have lots of ideas for posts.  I have a lot to learn, but I’m looking forward to the learning process and documenting it here.  It is already an exciting journey.

I have selected a short scene to break down from House (fans may recognize it from the first season).  I’ve been through it a few times and have the basic break down in my head.  It’s gonna be fun typing it all up for Tuesday’s post.  I’m getting excited just thinking about it!

The New Year has started off quite lovely for me.  Spent New Year’s Eve day at Universal with my roomie taking advantage of our yearly passes (living in soCal has it’s advantages – like Universal’s buy a day get 2010 for free deal).  Rode the tram tour which is always fun – we get to see the mule from Serenity!!! (fangirl squee).  Saw the Waterworld show again.  Yeah, the movie sucked, but the show at Universal is good fun.  We even got our picture taken with our favorite actor from the cast (I’ll post it when I get it from E).  We’re both sad that we still haven’t seen the “original” Deacon actor (the one we saw the first time, he was awesome).

After Waterworld we took in one of the last lightings of the Whoville Grinchmas tree.  It’s a lovely swooping thing – see above re pictures.  We had skipped the tree lighting when we had come for the Grinchmas thing two weeks ago due to massive lines.  But this time we were able to waltz in and find a very nice spot just before things got started.  We both appreciated that.

The only thing we didn’t get to do was ride the Mummy ride.  But when we were thinking about going, the sign said the wait would be 35 minutes and neither of us are fans of that kind of line.  Once done with the tree lighting it was time to meet up with B who was joining us for NYE celebrations.  On our way out we stopped in a shop and got donkey ears/tails for us and princess Fiona ear/tiara for B.  Which we all wore.

We found B immediately upon exiting the park , which was good cause I was hungry.  We had crepes at the lovely crepe place and discussed the options for the evening.  B revealed that she had actually been hoping for a Supernatural marathon.  We dallied in some of the shops for a bit and took in most of a talent contest.  The contest was funny, and a bit disturbing.  And the host guy sucked.  He was clearly not okay with how the crowd was voting and so basically ignoring them.  The crowd protested and the wrong was sort of righted.  But we had had enough.  Between the crowds and the lame hosting of the talent contest we decided that marathoning Supernatural was a fabulous alternative.  Now if we could just get out of this damn pen!

The second episode ended just before midnight.  It was perfect.  We stepped out on our balcony and listened to fireworks going off in the distance.  Occasionally we could even see flashes.  And we definitely caught a whiff of the acrid gunpowder smoke on the air.  All in all a lovely evening.

That morning I woke to good news and shortly thereafter won a blogging book through a contest I entered on twitter.  It’s an auspicious beginning to new year and a new decade.  Wishing you the best!