You've gotta learn to laugh. It's the only way to true love.

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 4

My my Vox, you've got some dust on you.  It's been ages since I've seen you!  How are you?  And the kids?  I hope everything's well.

My God... why am I so dramatic?

I am super nervous/excited for my audition Sunday so send me lots of broken leg wishes!  I need to start memorizing my monologues... eeep.  That would be helpful.  I should actually probably PICK my non-Shakespeare monologue. 

I bought Volume IV of the Neil Simon collection today and read Rumors.  I'M SO EXCITED TO AUDITION FOR THAT PLAY!  Okay, it's not until the beginning of July, but I'm excited nonetheless.  Right after we come back from England.  Siiiigh.  Mahhhvelous.

Speaking of merry old England, Em and I need to sit down and figure out the dates and what we want to do.  Daddy's going to help plan our stuff out.  My Auntie Judith comes to England from Jersey right around the beginning of June because her birthday is the 5th.  I'm hoping we can go back to Jersey with her OR she'll go to France with us or something.  I told Mom I feel kind of nervous asking if we can just go back with her or asking her to come to France with us, but Mom assured me I shouldn't.  I mean, I am her niece after all, she should WANT to take me out, yes?  Yes.

I definitely want to do the whole Shakespeare thing while we're there, though.  I've never been to Stratford-Upon-Avon, nor have I seen The Globe.  Actually... I think I might've seen The Globe... or at least ate at The Globe Restaurant.  Same thing, right?

PS. Why can't I add two books to one entry?  Or am I just being retarded and can't do it?

Mmkay.  So this workout thing must REALLY be working.  My abs are killing me today.

I worked a little late today and then came home and did my weight training, abs and legs.  Phew.  That ab exercise is something else.  It burns like no other.  After I worked out, Mom and I took all three dogs on a walk for about 15 minutes, so I had a nice cool down.

Man, as I'm typing, even my arms hurt.  EVERYTHING HURTS.  But, this is good right?

I'm already a little concerned about my eating habits.  Not terribly, but still.  Like yesterday, I told Em that I'd had Special K for breakfast, a chargrilled sandwich from Chick-Fil-A, a large fruit cup and a large sweet tea and then I had some pineapple, a chocolate soy milk and then I went and worked out.  She told me I definitely needed to eat more, so on my way home I got a baked potato and low-fat sour cream from Wendy's.

Today, I had Special K again and another soy milk.  At lunch, I had a grilled House salad from Zaxby's with lite ranch dressing.  I even asked for no cheese on my salad.  But, I made the mistake of checking online when I got home to see how many calories were in it and there was a lot more than I was expecting.  I'm still like 500 calories from what I need to eat today, but I feel terrible because that salad had so much.  Ugh.  I'm a little hungry, but I don't want another salad and Mom made BLTs which I definitely don't need.  Maybe another baked potato?  I don't know.  This is lame.  I definitely need to eat.

Die Hard

I HURT.  Gah.  And I'm watching Die Hard in Spanish on some random TV channel.  I'm curious as to how they say "Yippie-ky-yay, motherfucker".  Bruce Willis is the MAN.  Well, really John McClane is THE MAN.  But I digress.

PS.  I found my Austin Powers soundtrack AND my "Best of The Brady Bunch" CD!  Yes, I am this excited.  And yes I already know all of the words to both CDs... shut it.

I AM SO STOKED FOR INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.

The Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete DVD Movie Collection (Full Screen Edition)

After reading the new issue of Entertainment Weekly today, I got all excited again.  Ugh.  I'M READY FOR MAY 22ND.  I'm totally having a movie day and watching the first three and then going to a midnight showing, haha.

The articles in E this week were fantastic though!  They're doing articles on all the big summer hits due this year, so I got super stoked about The Dark Knight all over again.  And as much as I hate Angelina Jolie for being a husband stealer, her new movie, Wanted looks so bad ass, I can't stand it!  OH OH and Iron Man comes out May 2nd!  I'm so freaking excited for that.  Kudos to Robert Downey Jr. for making such an awesome comeback.  I'm supposed to see that at the Imax, so I hope that works out.  Because come on, how amazing would that be?

I feel like I should reiterate that I am in fact a girl.  I just get a little movie happy.

OH!  And Get Smart!  It's going to be hilarious.  I loved the TV show when they used to show re-runs on TVLand back when I was a wee one.  Plus, I love Anne Hathaway.  She's good in everything.  Like Woody Harrelson!  That man can play any role ever and make it convincing.  What a gift.  I hope I'm that versatile of an actress.  He's just so damn good.

And depressing news?  John Williams is 76!  WTF?  It breaks my heart.  He's such a legacy and legacies aren't supposed to get older!  Neither is Harrison Ford or Steven Spielberg or George Lucas or Meryl Streep or ANYBODY.  Ugh.

Speaking of Spielberg and Lucas (my babydaddies), there's a super awesome interview between them and E.  Part of it's in the magazine and the full interview's online.  Can I just say, once again, how fucking amazing Steven Spielberg is?  He's my absolute favorite director of all time.  Not that Lucas is any less, but Spielberg's just... incredible.  Especially when I was reading in the article how he refuses to go all digital until it's absolutely necessary.  He's going to make sure that he's the last person still cutting and editing films by hand before he has to turn to a computer.  I love that about him.  What a great guy.

I feel like I'm cheating on my livejournal with you, Vox.  You're so cool and tech-savvy and neat and orderly!  But, LJ's been with me through some tough, tough times.  And some good times.  But you... you're fresh.  You're new!  You're alive and you make me excited to post!  Really excited if you know what I mean.  Like, today at work... I was thinking about you.  And it made me all happy that I could come home to you.  And then I felt immense guilt that LJ was getting pushed to the side.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't want to share new memories with you that I don't share with LJ.  Does that make sense?  I don't want you to experience new posts that LJ doesn't.  I want both of you, but I'll have to do some compromise and make sure that I spend equal time with both of you.

I'll just think about you the most.

<3 Sam

In other news...

I WENT TO THE GYM TODAY!  I did my cardio, which included me walking around the track to warm-up, 30 minutes on the elliptical (which was 3.31 miles, thankyouverymuch) and then walking around the track to cool down.  Then, Em and I went to Subway.  She had a talk with me about my thoughts on food and calorie counting.  I've promised her that I won't count my calories because I don't want to get over-consumed by them.  I'm scared that I will, so I'm going to take her advice and just know that I can eat things that are good and not eat things that are bad.

Wow.  I iz smrt.

I have to go to court tomorrow and I'm TERRIFIED.  I didn't do anything, but I do have to testify against a shoplifter in our store.  Word to the wise:  There is not a single drop of ANYTHING worth going to jail over.  Or my time.  On my day off.  Please remember this.  Kthxdie.

PS.  I've been thinking about Charter today.  And no, I don't mean Charter like the cable company.  I mean when I was younger, there were commercials for this place called Charter.  And the tag line was "Get Help.  Get Charter." or something like that.  When we were in elementary school, we used to say "YOU NEED CHARTER" to the kids who acted stupid.  Did I make this up?  I should try Google.

The Body Sculpting Bible for Women

Yeah... I've definitely had this vox for a year and a half and still have no idea what I'm doing!  Um, I changed my layout!  And added a new picture!  And updated my interests!  Yeah!

See?  It's the little things that excite me.

I kinda forgot I even had this thing until Emily mentioned hers.  And then she forced me to add her as a friend, God.  Now I have to pretend like I enjoy her company on the INTERNET, too.  Sheesh.  (Kidding, Em)

Speaking of Emily, I totally just finished my workout for the day that she so lovingly created for me.  I'm going to be a lean, mean tough-cookie machine!  Mmm... cookie.  This "being healthy" stuff is harder than I thought.  I really haven't eaten too much today. Not really at all.  I wanted to workout before I ate because in The Body Sculpting Bible For Women (damn, Vox is pretty cool), it says you can burn like 3000x as many calories if you workout BEFORE you eat.  And I'm all about burning a week's worth of food in one workout.  I am hungry though.  I've had a bottle of water and some organic fruit-roll-up Strawberry thing that only had 60 calories.  Mom's making roast tonight and I'm going to make some veggies so I should be pretty good.  Man, after I workout, even if I only eat a salad the size of my palm with no dressing, I feel like I totally just ruined my whole day and that the workout was a waste.  I'm terrible.

It is, however, a glorious day outside.  I'm sitting on the back porch right now and it feels wonderful.  Breezy and sunny.  I usually abhor this kind of weather.  Torrential downpour and overcast skies make my heart sing (I AM SO POETIC... and odd), but I'll take the sun today.  I really need to unpack my car and put my room back together.  UGH.  I am not looking forward to it at all.  I kinda wanna take a walk, so maybe one of the dogs will go with me.  Hrm.