The Class... My New Favorite Show

As some of you may know I love the TV show Friends and can pretty much quote a show verbatim every time I'm watching it and even when I'm not. I told my self at the beginning of the Fall TV season that I was not going to take on anymore new TV shows (which did not happen). I accidentally set my DVR to set a show entitled The Class. I was meaning to record How I Met Your Mother (funny, funny show) and they had switched the times on me, so long story short I began to watch The Class. It is from the creator of Friends and is somewhat like the show except it follows 8 people and not all of the people hang out as 8, but their lives intertwine after one of the characters decides to get his third grade class together to propose to his girlfriend (also from the third grade class). Unfortunately for the guy she dumps him at the party and it show begins following these 8 characters. The reason I blog about this is because Mike, my brother, Eric, and myself were able to go and see a taping of this show. It was one of the funnest things I have ever done. First of all they sat us in the front row off to the side, which was awesome. Second I have decided that I could very well work in the TV show environment (I always said I would only do stage stuff). Third that coolest thing about the whole taping was when at one point about 4 of the characters the two creators, the director (who also directed and produced all of Cheers and many, many others) were standing right in front of us, about 10 feet away. I could care less about getting free stuff and dancing around to the music with the warm up guy, I just loved being able to hear conversation that the writers were having and the actors. The actors were all great some even would wave and smile and make eye contact with us. At least I like to think it was me, it was probably someone behind me. :-) I just think that everyone should watch this show. It's hilarious and the entire cast seems like they have a lot of fun working on the set. Watch it Monday nights at 8:30pm on CBS. If you haven't seen the show you can watch all the episodes for free at their website. The Class... My new favorite show!!

What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

I have decided to venture back into the blogging world! I know that many of you have missed the absence of my blog, but now you can once again be enlightened by my thoughts.

I recently turned 26 which was sort of hard, but not as difficult as turning 25 last year. Anyway, our church puts on this big Christmas production each year called the Living Christmas Tree. As some of you know I majored in theater when I was in college and haven't really done anything since then (production-wise that is), so I decided to contact the person in charge of the dancers and other groups to see if there might be a spot for me in the big production. Well, it turns out that there was a part in the opening number where I get to do some choreography and dance with fake hand bells. I was very content with this although I thought it would have been pretty fun to be one of the main dancers. Well, yesterday I got my "wish" I not only get to be in the opener, but I also get to be in the other Stomp type number. If you are unfamiliar with Stomp, it's a musical play that incorporates banging on trashcans as drums and other things. I have a part where I get to hold a fake tambourine, in this Stomp-type number, which to the average eye would not seem to difficult. Not until halfway through do you see my true exhaustion and the fact that I am not a hip hop dancer, nor will I ever be. I have to participate in a dance that is so fast I look absolutely ridiculous at this point every time we do it. I am so tired after this dance I actually could barely control the shaking of my body when the entire dance number was over. I figured out that every other person doing this dance is the average age of 21 years. 5 years ago I could have done this and been energetic about it, not so much now. If you don't hear from me in the next few weeks it will be due to the fact that I fell down dead on stage during the dance number from hell! I'm gonna go soak my feet now.