No, the title of this post has nothing to do with the lunar new year (Go Dragons!) but I do feel like this year is starting its engine.
Maybe it's because the snow has finally melted and we've all crawled out of our snow covered caves.
Maybe it's because we've been rehearsing for a flash mob (which always makes life better).
Maybe it's because Melissa's here and we're planners - so we keep talking about all the things that are coming up.
New York feels like it's right around the corner (it totally is)!!! The dance calendar will be filling up soon too, thank goodness. Glee rehearsals will start before I know it and so will Dare to Dance.
Glee will be our third annual Glee flash mob. For more info, check out my 2010 recap. Sadly, this year it will not be held on my birthday like it has been for the past two years - but that's a good thing, because my birthday is on a Tuesday and that would be silly. This year the mob is on April 21st, which is fantastic because it's after both Western and Orthodox Easter. I was very worried I'd have to figure out someway to jump back and forth between Seattle and Portland if it fell on Easter weekend.
(What's that? You'd like to dance with us this year!?! Please do! Check out http://mobtheworld.com/mobbers/)
Dare to Dance is a dance showcase that's organized by someone in the FMF (Flash Mob Family). He did last year in December for his birthday. The idea being that it would be an opportunity for his friends to choreograph and perform original dance numbers on stage in a theatre with a paying audience. It turned out to be quite a success, so he's doing it again. Last year it fell on the same night as my Christmas party, so I didn't participate - but this year it is a spring event, so I will be dancing in one or two numbers.
With D2D in mid March and Glee in mid April, it pretty much means that within a month I should [hopefully] be in constant rehearsals. I am very much looking forward to this time. Plus, it means that spring and longer days are on their way. :-)
Expect to hear a lot about dancing in the next few months.
....or maybe you won't. It's hard to tell. This is ALMOST the best I've ever done at journaling, but that could change at the drop of a hat. (Ew, I don't like hats.)
So let me put it this way. I'll be dancing a lot soon. You may or may not hear about it.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
2011 Kat Recap
I will remember 2011 as a year defined by Spring Awakening and travel. I traveled a LOT this year (for me) and while I like to pretend it was in honor of it being my 10 year anniversary of Semester at Sea - a lot of it happened...almost by accident.
In January I saw the 2nd National Tour of Spring Awakening in Tacoma, WA - sitting on stage for the first time. I watched the show twice in one day (hey, they were only in Tacoma for one day) - I LOVED IT! I already knew that I loved the show, but I fell in love with the cast and a couple of weeks later, I realized I needed to see them again, so I flew to Phoenix and then drove to Tucson to see them two more times.
I thought that was the end, I really did, but in March I found myself in Charleston, SC for two more shows. It was the farthest I had ever traveled completely by myself, and I had a blast. I adored Charleston and could've easily stayed longer than the 3 days I was there. After the second show I said my good byes to the cast (again - since I had already told some of them that Phoenix was my last show) and went home, content with my little mini tour of the US.
However...the day I got home I saw that Broadway in Chicago was holding a contest - the prize being 2 on stage tickets to the opening night of Spring Awakening, plus a meet & greet with the cast. My immediate reaction was that I was *not* going to enter - you had to make a 1 minute video about how you were the biggest fan of the show. Well, *obviously* that was me, but I was NOT going to make a video of myself pleading to be picked as a winner - plus, I had never made a video before. But....what if I didn't enter....and then other people won....people that weren't "good enough" fans?!? How could I live with that!?!? Over the next few days I came up with an idea that would allow me to create a video without actually filming myself and ran with it.
My Ultimate Guilty One Contest Entry: http://youtu.be/9PRKa3sI2qU
Thankfully, I was chosen as one of the winners and that's how I ended up going to Chicago for a week in May with Lindsay! Oh...My...Goodness - I LOVED Chicago! What an amazing trip! We saw everything we wanted to see and then some! Chicago was REALLY the end of my Spring Awakening Tour - but what a perfect ending it was. We actually extended our trip by a day to see the cast perform a benefit cabaret. It was totally worth it. It was great to see them all in a relaxed environment and gave us time to chat and say proper good byes.
Spring Awakening Cabaret: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4EC52A47C2CA0A4
Other trips this year included:
No year is free of trials, but I feel blessed to look back upon so many great experiences and memories of 2011!
In January I saw the 2nd National Tour of Spring Awakening in Tacoma, WA - sitting on stage for the first time. I watched the show twice in one day (hey, they were only in Tacoma for one day) - I LOVED IT! I already knew that I loved the show, but I fell in love with the cast and a couple of weeks later, I realized I needed to see them again, so I flew to Phoenix and then drove to Tucson to see them two more times.
I thought that was the end, I really did, but in March I found myself in Charleston, SC for two more shows. It was the farthest I had ever traveled completely by myself, and I had a blast. I adored Charleston and could've easily stayed longer than the 3 days I was there. After the second show I said my good byes to the cast (again - since I had already told some of them that Phoenix was my last show) and went home, content with my little mini tour of the US.
However...the day I got home I saw that Broadway in Chicago was holding a contest - the prize being 2 on stage tickets to the opening night of Spring Awakening, plus a meet & greet with the cast. My immediate reaction was that I was *not* going to enter - you had to make a 1 minute video about how you were the biggest fan of the show. Well, *obviously* that was me, but I was NOT going to make a video of myself pleading to be picked as a winner - plus, I had never made a video before. But....what if I didn't enter....and then other people won....people that weren't "good enough" fans?!? How could I live with that!?!? Over the next few days I came up with an idea that would allow me to create a video without actually filming myself and ran with it.
My Ultimate Guilty One Contest Entry: http://youtu.be/9PRKa3sI2qU
Thankfully, I was chosen as one of the winners and that's how I ended up going to Chicago for a week in May with Lindsay! Oh...My...Goodness - I LOVED Chicago! What an amazing trip! We saw everything we wanted to see and then some! Chicago was REALLY the end of my Spring Awakening Tour - but what a perfect ending it was. We actually extended our trip by a day to see the cast perform a benefit cabaret. It was totally worth it. It was great to see them all in a relaxed environment and gave us time to chat and say proper good byes.
Spring Awakening Cabaret: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4EC52A47C2CA0A4
Other trips this year included:
- Disneyland twice (once with my mom, my aunt Laurie and Jill and another with just my mom)
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa for work
- Las Vegas for Lily's bachelorette party
- Sitka, Alaska for my Goddaughter's high school graduation
- Maui with my parents
Here are some other stats for the year:
- Weddings Attended: 3
- Spring Awakening Performances Attended: 7
- Other Live Performances Attended (Dance, Concerts, Plays, Musicals): 21
- Flash Mob Performances: 15
- New [to me] books read: 18
- Number of weeks it took to watch all 6 seasons of Bones on Netflix/HuluPlus: 5
- New [to me] shows I started watching: 7 (Mostly Sara and Jared's fault!)
- Miles Flown: 26,936
No year is free of trials, but I feel blessed to look back upon so many great experiences and memories of 2011!
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| This is [almost] everyone who sat with me on stage at Spring Awakening in Tacoma! |
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| The gifts I delivered to the cast of Spring Awakening in Charleston "Fans From a Fan" :-) |
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| Saying good bye to cast members Devon and George at the Spring Awakening Cabaret in Chicago |
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| Chicago - The Bean |
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| Pondering things in Disneyland with Jill |
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| Angels in Sin City! |
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| Flash Mobbing at PrideFest |
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| On a boat celebrating Byron's birthday |
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AJP on Ice!
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| Christmas time at Disneyland. This may be my most favorite picture EVER of my mom and me. |
Monday, January 10, 2011
Up and Down the Mountain
This past weekend, flash mob friends Jen and Mike hosted almost 40 people for a day of tubing in the snow at The Summit at Snoqualmie and an evening of fun at their home. This was my first time tubing, and not being a skier, this was my first time being out in that area.
Tubing was a LOT of fun. I didn't know what to expect, but there were carved out chutes in a hill side - you would pick one, get in line, slide down when it was your turn and then either walk up the hill or be pulled by a lift (of sorts)
My first time going down the hill I sat on my tube, but after that I went down head first on my stomach. Not only did I find that way to be more fun, but when you are sitting it is awkward to get started unless you have someone there to push you. During my first run, I was surprised at how FAST you go! Once I started going on down on my stomach, you could really feel the wind and snow on your face. It actually snowed on and off while we were there!
After the tubing was over we took pictures in the snow. We are so lucky that Mike is a wonderful photographer and so generously documents many of the good times we have as a flash mob family. (See all of our tubing pictures on Mike's website HERE!) There was some snow ball fighting, which I did not really participate in, and then we all trekked back to Mike and Jen's where we spent the evening (and much of the morning) eating, visiting, dancing (of COURSE) watching performance videos and enjoying the company of each other. Some of the guys even performed a routine they had put together in response to the Burlesque routine that the girls had done in December.
I overheard one person say how impressed they are that the guys put that routine together on their own time, for no other reason other than to share it with us at this party! Their putting together that routine illustrates what I love about this group of people. I have no better way to describe it other than - People who meet because they're willing to rehearse and dance in the street with "strangers" are generally good, fun people that bring positive energy to those around them.
I'm so lucky to know this group of people, and I'm looking forward to the good times that I know we'll have together in the coming year!
In other New Years News:
Tubing was a LOT of fun. I didn't know what to expect, but there were carved out chutes in a hill side - you would pick one, get in line, slide down when it was your turn and then either walk up the hill or be pulled by a lift (of sorts)
My first time going down the hill I sat on my tube, but after that I went down head first on my stomach. Not only did I find that way to be more fun, but when you are sitting it is awkward to get started unless you have someone there to push you. During my first run, I was surprised at how FAST you go! Once I started going on down on my stomach, you could really feel the wind and snow on your face. It actually snowed on and off while we were there!
After the tubing was over we took pictures in the snow. We are so lucky that Mike is a wonderful photographer and so generously documents many of the good times we have as a flash mob family. (See all of our tubing pictures on Mike's website HERE!) There was some snow ball fighting, which I did not really participate in, and then we all trekked back to Mike and Jen's where we spent the evening (and much of the morning) eating, visiting, dancing (of COURSE) watching performance videos and enjoying the company of each other. Some of the guys even performed a routine they had put together in response to the Burlesque routine that the girls had done in December.
I overheard one person say how impressed they are that the guys put that routine together on their own time, for no other reason other than to share it with us at this party! Their putting together that routine illustrates what I love about this group of people. I have no better way to describe it other than - People who meet because they're willing to rehearse and dance in the street with "strangers" are generally good, fun people that bring positive energy to those around them.
I'm so lucky to know this group of people, and I'm looking forward to the good times that I know we'll have together in the coming year!
In other New Years News:
- A palm reader at my work holiday party said that a big relationship is "right around the corner"!
- I don't do resolutions, but I accidentally set some "monthly focuses" (Monthly focuses are something that I purposely created in place of resolutions several years ago when I lived with Jill.) January is Cleaning & Organizing and February is Finances. Possible updates to follow ;-)
Top 5 of 2010!!
I wasn't very successful at blogging in 2010, but that's ok because as of right now, no one knows this blog exists!
Here is a 2010 Recap that I posted on Facebook on New Years Day shortly after midnight. I think it's important to re-post here:
About a week into 2010, I made the decision to move to Capitol Hill and I truly believe it was one of the best decisions I've EVER made. Here are my top 5 highlights of 2010 (in no particular order!)
1) Moving to Capitol Hill
2) Joining the best Flash Mob group in the WORLD! (Glee Flash Mob on my birthday? One of the best days EVER!)
3) Starting a new job with the company that I love
4) Meeting so many amazing people that have become dear friends
5) Going to Anchorage - my birthplace! (Hadn't been in 20 years!) and Hawaii (Hadn't been in 10 years!)
There were some not-so-great parts of 2010 as well, but I feel incredibly blessed for all of the wonderful things that *did* happen, and I have high hopes for 2011!
Happy New Year everyone!!
Here is a 2010 Recap that I posted on Facebook on New Years Day shortly after midnight. I think it's important to re-post here:
About a week into 2010, I made the decision to move to Capitol Hill and I truly believe it was one of the best decisions I've EVER made. Here are my top 5 highlights of 2010 (in no particular order!)
1) Moving to Capitol Hill
2) Joining the best Flash Mob group in the WORLD! (Glee Flash Mob on my birthday? One of the best days EVER!)
3) Starting a new job with the company that I love
4) Meeting so many amazing people that have become dear friends
5) Going to Anchorage - my birthplace! (Hadn't been in 20 years!) and Hawaii (Hadn't been in 10 years!)
There were some not-so-great parts of 2010 as well, but I feel incredibly blessed for all of the wonderful things that *did* happen, and I have high hopes for 2011!
Happy New Year everyone!!
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| It's not every year that King 5 wishes me a happy birthday!!! :-) |
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| *~*~*~*~*GLEE*~*~*~*~* (Westlake Park - 1st Location) |
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| This is a "close up" of our heart taken from the helicopter at our Gas Works Park Photo Shoot for Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. Photo Taken by Will Austin. |
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| Last minute photo op before it was time to Rock You/Beat It/Vogue/Jam/Etc! |
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| With my girls before our performance - I love you guys! |
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| Posing at the Paramount! Photo courtesy of Elliott - Thank you Elliott!! :-D |
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| My mom and me in Anchorage |
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| This is our old house!!! (Only it used to be brown...with no deck) |
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| Parasailing with my dad in Hawaii! |
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Breaking the Rules
Rules that I'm currently breaking:
1) I'm not blogging often enough, which the Pioneer Woman claims is very important ( "Ten Important Things I've Learned About Blogging")
2) I'm staying up WAY too late the night before a Flash Mob
3) Wearing white after Labor Day (ok - technically I'm not doing that right now, but I'm going to be wearing white later today.)
4) The white I'll be wearing is skin-tight-spray-painted-on polyester pants. This is breaking several rules of fashion.
5) There is a good chance I'll end up breaking the actual pants...because they are beyond tight. (I'm not sure if there's an actual rule about breaking pants...but it's not a good thing either way.)
I will try to start blogging more often.......but there's nothing I can do about the pants (except pray that they do not break).
1) I'm not blogging often enough, which the Pioneer Woman claims is very important ( "Ten Important Things I've Learned About Blogging")
2) I'm staying up WAY too late the night before a Flash Mob
3) Wearing white after Labor Day (ok - technically I'm not doing that right now, but I'm going to be wearing white later today.)
4) The white I'll be wearing is skin-tight-spray-painted-on polyester pants. This is breaking several rules of fashion.
5) There is a good chance I'll end up breaking the actual pants...because they are beyond tight. (I'm not sure if there's an actual rule about breaking pants...but it's not a good thing either way.)
I will try to start blogging more often.......but there's nothing I can do about the pants (except pray that they do not break).
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