Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of....

And the journey begins....

Yesterday I was approved for an apartment share in Washington Heights!!!!!!  I'll be moving to the city at the end of July.  This is what I've been saving up for for almost a year....and I'm excited and happy and nervous and terrified.  Time to go make my dreams come true.

Of course Patty will be coming out of retirement to document my first 3 months in the city.  (My apartment share is up in October, when I will decide if I'm staying in New York and will then find a new apartment share, or if I'm going to leave and move back to the Mid West...)

Last night I had a dream I gave birth, literally went through labor and delivery...Dream interpretation says this is about moving on to a new era in your life. I guess my subconscious is ready for this change.  :)

20 days til NYC!!!

Recaps?...

Ok, for those of you who read this blog (and I don't even know how many of you there are, if there are any at all...), have noticed I missed recaps for the past two weeks of AI.  I watched these episodes, but haven't had time to write since I was in NYC!!!! Yes, NYC!!!!

If you've read my little mini bio on this side, you may have noticed it's changed from Nashville to NYC to Chicago, and now back to NYC.  Obviously moving home has made me totally rethink my goals...and for the better, I believe.

I was a little nervous about even visiting New York.  I was afraid I'd be totally overwhelmed, and it had been a year since I'd seen my friends R and T....once I stepped out of that cab into Midtown (the Theatre District  at that), all those fears dissolved.  I was home.

I spent an amazing weekend seeing great stage...3 Off-Broadway shows (a play Gabriel at the Atlantic Theatre Company, a new musical The Burnt Part Boys at Playwrights Horizon, and one of the best musicals I've ever seen, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson at The Public Theatre.  It was smart, witty, bitingly honest political satire.  With the hottest male lead, ever.) and 1 Broadway musical...the show I've been dying to see since they announced it was opening at Berkely Rep in CA...American Idiot.  It was exhilerating, and everything I hoped it would be.  It also included the most beautiful aerial ballet I've witnessed.

So, I'm giving myself two months to get myself together and get moved.  Finally, I'm making my lifelong dream come true...NYC, here I come!

I'm a terrible blogger...

Yep, it's been awhile peeps. Things have been kinda slow around here. Patty's gone into hibernation for a while whilst I work my way outta Michigan. It seems all I do lately is work...

It's interesting returning to a town you haven't really lived in since high school. Yeah, I've been back and forth, staying here for a few months here, a few months there, but never really had to interact with that many people outside of subbing. Now I see all the people I didn't really want to see again (at least without a leading Broadway role, sell-out tour and platinum record in hand ;P). It's giving me some time to really figure out what I want. Do I go to Nashville, a place I can afford to live in, can figure out some way in the music business to make it work, but have to start completely over? It's a daunting thought to have to rebuild my support system again. I've done it so many times in the past 10 years. Or do I follow one of my lifelong dreams and chuck it all to move to NYC? A place that is scary, and expensive, and exciting. A place that is much easier for me to navigate my way through a performing career. Plus, I already have a support system in place, so many friends, including two of the best friends I've made in the past 12 months.

It's gonna be an interesting winter, that's for sure.

And oh, yeah, new music always makes me happy :)