A life's year in review.

Hey! I'm posting junk again!! Go me!!

Since my birthday has just come and gone, I thought I should start this up again.

I just celebrated my champagne birthday. Yup, 28 on the 28th. In good birthday fashion, I was stuck prepping for an event for school. As I was cutting tags for caramel apples, a class mate asked me what I had accomplished in my last year of life. It was an interesting question I had never been asked before. What have I done? Then I took a moment and realized, hell! I've done a lot this year!

This year I wrote something. Not just anything, I wrote an entire play. 60 whole minutes of my blog-like blabbering was put to paper and put out to the public. A whole lot farther than this blog has gone. I wrote a play. I directed this play. I financed this play. I produced it, supported it, and went through all the highs and lows, fun and sheer chaos of being responsible for a piece of art.

I also challenged myself further than I ever thought I had to. A mere 10 days before we were to hit the stage, I had an actor abandon the show with no explanation or discussion and I was forced to take her place. I had to perform scenes that were fun, but also heart-wrenching and personal, scenes that I had never intended to perform because of how hard they were to write alone. But I did it. I got on that stage (and memorized a script in 9 days! Bam!) and I poured out my heart and felt those emotions all over again, and every night for 7 shows in the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival. Certainly a learning curve of worst-case-scenario. I am proud I did it, and impressed I survived. Thankfully, I had the amazing support of my cast and crew pushing me to succeed and being the best help line a girl could ask for.

I not only wrote/directed/performed in my show, I also had a show that was successful! Well, we made about $80 each, but hey! It worked and I wasn't in the red, so I call that a success for a first timer!

This year also brought on more education. I am now back at school for event management. Being back to a school certainly isn't glamorous, or even fun at times, but I'm learning a lot and I'm surrounded by smart, funny, and exciting people every day, and I get to be challenged further than having to remember what's in a Burt Reynolds shot as I tend bar.

Finally, I've taken the step to live on my own for the first time. I have my own little space, my own bathroom, my own mess, and me and jerk cat are making it on our own. It's quiet at times, and sometimes lonely, but I like having the freedom of having a full space to call my own, my privacy, my world. Hell, my sanctuary free of pants!!

Writing it down makes it seem small, but l of these were huge. I've pushed myself and had pretty much everything thrown at me.

And I survived.

27 was a ride. Ok, 28, show me whatcha got!!

-janeovision


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