Audition

Happy Thanksgiving Week, Family and Friends,

Well, I can hardly believe that it is already the week of Thanksgiving. It feels like we blinked at Halloween and then arrived here. 

Work

Work has been tedious and slow this week. Both Amber and I are tired and things just become sort of a drag. I've also had a head cold all week (mostly sinus headaches but no sore throat or cough thankfully) and it has really worn me down. I did manage to release a game for Thanksgiving. It is part of the new VHS horror series. Games inspired by older horror movies. This week was about killer Turkeys. 


Garden

I finally got around to picking the carrots from the garden I planted back in late spring/early fall. I got a lot more than I expected. We have different colors and types. We look forward to eating them. Not sure what to do with all those carrot tops, tho. 


Tea Party

Amber and I have been having little tea parties in the middle of our day to break up the monotony of being stuck at home during this pandemic. I got Amber a new little Japanese-style tea set for our Anniversary which she loves and we try to use. Sometimes we just brew our own individual teas, tho. This week I picked up some Danish Christmas Cookies from Wal-Mart when I was getting cat supplies. We had the cookies and they were very good. I do like Walker's Butter Cookies a little more. 


Quarantine

My WWII book group was supposed to be this week, but one of the members caught Covid. I was having a really bad sinus headache from my head cold that day anyway, so I was glad to stay home. I watched Fargo with Amber instead. It is a Cohen Brother's movie from the 90s that I really like. It is a snowy film, so feels fitting for this time of year. It is a dark comedy, so funny but also sad. Amber and I laughed at the cop and her husband. They reminded us of our own marriage. 

We also watched The Ghost and Mrs. Muir this past week and I really loved it. I have only seen bits of it, but it really is one of those movies that is just perfectly made. 


Audition

So, this week I auditioned for Disney's Descendants that the local Rose Theater is going to be putting on next year. It was a video audition (since in-person auditions aren't safe). I had to sing a few bars of one of the songs from the show and then recite a monologue from The Incredibles. It was so strange how natural it felt to slip right back into acting and singing like that after not doing it for 10 years. (I mean, I sing with my guitar pretty frequently, but it doesn't feel the same as "musical" singing). 

Anyway, when I got the e-mail about auditions I was like, "meh, maybe I'll do that." Then last week I told Amber I was going to maybe audition (thinking in the back of my mind that I probably wasn't going to actually do it). Then, I just happened to be sitting in front of my computer one day when Amber had to run into the office to do something at work she couldn't do at home. The next thing I knew I was recording different takes of the audition.

Each of these steps has been so odd. It never felt like I made a direct and conscious decision to audition. It was almost like it happened involuntarily--like breathing. Like I was just going along and the next thing I knew I was acting and singing--and man, was it fun. It was the strangest feeling, like realizing I'd forgotten who I was or at least some huge part of me that mattered so deeply. I mean, In high school and early college I swore up and down and right and left and every which way that I was going to go into acting professionally. But my depression after my mission, my lose of confidence in myself, a bad theater experience in college with Arsenic and Old Lace, and worrying about not being able to actually cut it made me decide to quit.

Then I started dating Amber and I switched major to writing. While I don't necessarily regret any part of this story of my life, it just felt like something pushed me to say, "It's time again." I look at all these famous actors and so many of them didn't get started until later in life. Many didn't start until their 40s, 50s, or even their 60s. And I'm only in my early thirties, so why can't I also jump in again? 

Anyway, I mostly did the audition for the fun of it--and it was fun. Also, it will be good practice to get back into auditioning more regularly. Even if nothing comes of it, I'll be happy with it. I didn't audition for any specific part. It was just a general audition. The auditions end on Dec 2. Callbacks, if I get one, will be mid-December. I wonder if they'll do a digital audition room or something for those. It is a paid acting role for the adult actors, so that would be weird for me if I got a spot on the cast. 

Anyway, since it was a video audition, you can watch the audition videos I made. They are not perfect. After all, I'm a bit rusty. Also, if I tried to record myself over and over again until it was perfect it would never get done. Also, people who worry about stuff like that never get out there. 




Wind Down

This weekend I've just been trying to relax after working so hard all week and having a headache the entire time from this cold. So, I've been playing Star Wars Imperial Assault that mom and dad got me for my last birthday. It is a very neat story-driven game. It has a bunch of cool-looking expansions, but most or going out of stock as the game isn't being printed any longer. I've been playing the game as a female Jedi character and also a large Wookie. 


Amber and I also watched The Invisible Man since it is a snowy movie (we're waiting on Christmas movies until after Thanksgiving). They mostly did the snow in the movie to show the Invisible Man's footprints. Anyway, I really like that movie and Claude Reins is always good--even if you only see his face for a few seconds at the end of the movie.

Today, I'll probably play a warm game. Maybe nap. We'll most likely watch our annual Thanksgiving movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. 

Finally, here is a funny cat picture that looks like it could be out of a movie:




Anyway, love you all

Noah 














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