Musical Mushy-ness:)

Today was a busy day and it's so nice to be at home not running around doing something.

I mentioend before that I'm Dorothy in our school's musical and with that came a lot of hard work to put on a good production. TODAY was our school matinee and we had a performance tonight. I nailed all 327 lines, 10 songs, 3 dances, acting stuff, remembring to set my broomstick down, remembering to give Toto to the Tinman & Lion before I went to dump a bucket on the Witch, the right shorts to wear under my dress, fighting with the directors about my hair (which I totally admit I was major diva about..Beth knows.) and so on and so forth. There are SO many little things that go along with the BIG things in a musical, and when it comes together it's a beautiful thing.

It didn't feel like work at all though. When I was out there today during the matinee and tonight during the performance, I had so much fun. My friends and family were there. I was acting with my closest friends. When I was shaking hands with all those people tonight after the performance, I felt so good about myself. A little girl named Lucy came up to me and had to show me her sparkly shoes. She was so in awe and had to get a picture. And I'm pretty sure the musical made my little cousin Kylee's day.

The expression on people's faces and the happiness we brought everybody tonight by our hard work is something to be remembered forever. I was thinking as I was driving home of how much stuff I had to do tomorrow and how I need to get to bed early, but I knew I had to write this down before I forgot.

I'm a runner and an actress/singer, I don't know how those things work for me, they are so opposite. God has blessed me with so much, a great family, amazing friends, my talents, and a warm bed to sleep in. Everyday when I'm feeling down on myself from friend problems, boy problems, homework troubles, a BAD RUN, I'm going to think of what God has blessed me with and he obviously believes in me and wants me to live it up. I'm sorry I'm getting a little mushy here. A teenager is writing this?! Yes. I'm sitting here at 11:30 at night writing this. Got a prob?!

I love making people happy and that was the brightest point of my day- not being the star of the musical or nailing whatever it was. It was how happy I made little Lucy or maybe perhaps it was how proud I made my grandparents. It's an amazing feeling.

Okay, I'll stop being mushy now. Time to get some rest for cheerleading try-outs, work, and another performance tomorrow night. LAST performance. I WILL cry. It's definite. I'll post some pictures sometime too-- I don't have enough energy for that, yet I have enough energy to type you a book about how I feel. I guess it is a blog... :)


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