SHORT OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I AM LEAVING LOS ANGELES FOR CHICAGO!!! TARGET DATE: SEPT 1 ( Read more... )

(NOTE for non-regular readers or readers outside of Livejournal: this week's topic for the writing contest I'm in is "kindling")how does a passion for something start? what is the spark to the kindling that makes that fire burn? also, what if you have more than one fire burning at the same time ( Read more... )

My 16-yr-old nephew got killed during my senior year of college (1995, so this wasn't recent) and it set me on quite the self-destructive path for the next 6-7 months of my life. (Side note: you know that belief that if your roommate dies, you get instant As on your finals? I don't know if that's myth/legend, but all but 1 of my professors scrapped ( Read more... )

I'll be honest, I'm prone to dumb blonde moments. It happens. At my thrival job, I'll minority screw someone's order up or forget to get them a napkin or a water...again, something minor, but I'll still defuse the situation with something like "by the way, I'm not so bright, I dropped myself on my own head as a child" and many times, they'll laugh ( Read more... )

So I was invited to a be a guest on the Pepper Allowed podcast to talk about Indians baseball, social media and my application for the 2014 MLB Fan Cave. I also shared some anecdotes about growing up in Ohio as an Indians fan with Reds fans as parents & my stint as an honorary bat girl for the Reds in 1990 when they won the World Series ( Read more... )

I always get so frustrated in the week before I leave town. I've booked out with my agent, I'm not self-submitting myself either for castings because mostly everything is either going to be auditioning or shooting while I'm gone (or both). I'm spinning my wheels because I want to be "go go go" and I can't. I try booking stuff for Ohio (and that ( Read more... )

My mom has a new cat....kinda. I don't know if it's a stray or just someone's cat that gets let out and roams into the yard, but my mom feeds it and built a shelter for it. Kitty is skittish, doesn't let you pet him and doesn't want to come into the house even if it's freezing (my mom tried during this recent cold spell ( Read more... )

The Cleveland Indians fired manager Manny Acta yesterday and for me, it's the final straw. I can't take it anymore. When I heard the news (a text message from my friend James), I was livid. Add the lies, bullshit and false promises from Indians GM Chris Antonetti and Indians president Mark Shapiro and my level of pissitivity went from like a 10 to ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, 3 guys wandered into my work acting like they were "too cool for Silver Lake". Yep….wannabe hipsters. They lean back in their chairs, act like they don't care about anything and spend like 10 minutes ordering their 3 IPAs ala beer snobs. So NOT the demographic of where I work. I say wannabe because in reality they are 100% ( Read more... )

In honor of the start of the annual battle for the Ohio Cup between the Indians and Reds, I bring to you the tale of time I was a bat girl for the Reds ( Read more... )