8/20/08

Well, I've been back from the family reunion for a week. What a time!

I got to the family reunion at about 2:30/3:00pm Michigan time, and absolutley enjoyed the chance I got to sleep on the ferry. Not a whole lot happened during the reunion on Friday.

Saturday-
Tubing and other various water sports. A grand total of seven of the cousins (including my brother and I) sat on the boat for an hour saturday morning writing a poem/ode that later would read during our grandma's 80th birthday party. After that hour we were stummed, so went tubing and super mabling for an hour or two, or however long that was. We would then go on to eat lunch up on the deck and finish the ode/poem in about 5 minutes. Its crazy to see how much a little tubing can help when you have writers block. Saturday night was the party. About half an hour before leaving to go to the party, the seven of us that had written the ode/poem had our one and only "official" rehersal out of sight and hearing range of Nanna. Throughout the party, we all enjoyed mingling with the friends of Nanna, and with our family. Most everyone 20 and older was drinking at least a little. I had 2 beers, and a glass of wine interupted with a can of Coke and some food. I was no where near drunk! We had one segmented rehersal in about 25 seconds to make our final preps for the ode/poem reading before we actually went in and did it (all by memory...every single one of the seven of us involved with it!). I later recieved an e-mail saying that even proffesional actors/actresses couldnt have had more stage precence than we did!

Sunday-
Some tubing, but not much, a lot of badmitton. Most every left that evening except my family and my moms older sisters family, making Nanna and buppa, my parents, my aunt Julie, and my three cousins, myself, and my brother the last ones at the lake. This prompted some games and other stuff.

Ill write monday later.

8/7/08

Well it's the seventh...and if you didnt already know I will be leaving early tomarow morning (aka by 4:30 am) to get to a ferry in Ludington so I can get to the family reunion! I am so excited for the reunion, and for the summer olympics. How much better can it get???

In other news:
Last nights Loons game was rained out, so tonight we have a double header (two seven inning games). Oh the joys of showing up for work at 4PM, and staying until they close the food service stand you work down. On a normal night (with only one game) Im at work from 5:20 pm until about 10 pm. But when theres a double header (like tonight) I arrive at 4pm, and will probobly get home around 11. Its a good amount of time to work, but when you have to be up at 3:30 the next day, its no fun being up that late. Tonight is Instant Vacation night, so we (the staff) can dress up like we're going on vacation. For me this means a hat that reminds my mom of giligans island, some sunscreen on the nose, a t-shirt from tahquamenon falls, a pair of jeans, and my normal shoes. Now if I only had sunglasses!!! That would make it even more vacation like...

I'm gonna get out of here now, and start making my way out of the library towards work...just what I would really like to be doing right now (NOT!).

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Babysitting for some friends

Ive been at a friends house babysitting for the past hour and a half. Im babysitting their two kids and a friend of theirs. I dont know what time the friends parents (who I know) will turn up, or when their parents will return. The three kids have to go to bed at about 9 tonight.
Thankfully all three kids play together very well, which makes my job easy. Im sitting in the living room with them while they play mario cart on the wii writing this. It makes my life easy when I can write and watcha and talk to the kids all at once.

Screenplay update

So as many of you know I've been writing a screenplay. Well back in March I finished the first one. Recently I started writing a second one.

Heres an overview of the first screenplay:
Jennifer is your average Joe Smoe from Mid-Michigan, until she discovers her freak singing voice. She grows and learns so much as she learns more and more about where her freak singing voice comes from.

Here is an overview of the second screenplay:
(I'm currently working on writing this one.)
Sarah always knew she was different than most people her age. She grew up singing and acting, so the job she pursues in musical theater. When Sarah and Jennifer meet, they strike up a close relationship that turns out to be more than it seems.

• So thats where things stand with the overviews for now. You may have noticed that in both overviews I mentioned a character named Jennifer. The Jennifer from the first screenplay ("That Girl I knew") and from the second screenplay (which is still untitled) is the same Jennifer. I have several screenplays I would love to write about the same characters. Each screenplay will focus on a different character, as to show the full picture of what was happening in everyone's lives during the same 50 years or so. It'll be a challenge, but I havent given up yet.

I've already filled up one notebook with scenes I want to use in the screenplay Im currently working on, and have started a second one. I'll try to keep you updated with the happenings with these screenplays...although I dont know how productive Ill be.

Thats what Ill be

"Look at what Im given,
this beautiful creation,
this sweet intoxication,
somthing pure in my life
look at all these changes
and the light shines within me
and youll be mine completley
therell be no darkness left to view
I never knew this form of love existed,
and deep inside of me is where it all begins
so hold me in your heart
...
I'll protect you for always,
never feel alone
ill always be with you
home is where the heart is ment to be
youll always have a home inside of me,
and we
will walk this road together,
ill shelter you from burdens
just lean your weight on me
...
I never knew this form of love existed,
...
so hold me in your heart
...
Ill protect you for always
never feel alone
Ill always be with you
for home is where the heart is ment to be
youll always have a home inside of me
no matter where the journey leads you
if your path leads you somewhere new
youll always have a home in this heart of mine
so hold me in your heart
...
Ill protect you for always
never feel alone
Ill always be with you
the home is where the heart is ment to be
youll always have a home inside of me"
from "Home" by Scott Alan

I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it, mostly because of the beautiful lyrics. In the first little bit of the song the lyrics go "and you'll be mine completley, and there will be no darkness left to view". It's been over a year since I realized that I a story to tell. That story I have been telling for the past year is the one Ive been turning into a fictional screenplay. The characters in the story have always been "mine completley", and whenever I escape to their world, I am so happy and feel like the world is so bright. The lyrics "You'll always be with me" also ring true for these characters...they havent disapeared from my life YET! Once they entered my life, I knew that they would change my life for the better, and would always be with me in some form. I relate to every single character one way or anouther. In a sense I put a little peice of me in each character knowing that someone would relate to that trait in that character and be moved by what the character had to say. It's been a year since I started writing these characters stories, and Im no where near done. Best of all I know I can count on anouther year of writing about them and their stories. Even after Im done writing their stories, I know that they will still be with me, for each character has changed the way I look at things.

I really would love to write more right now, but I have to leave for work...love ya all...
Erin