New Years Resolutions

Rather than making a list of elaborate resolutions that I know I will stop doing by the beginning of February, I made mine much easier to keep this year:

RESOLUTIONS:
1. Go to the gym every day (at least until January 12th)

2. Finish (a couple more pages of) the screenplay I'm writing

3. Don't start smoking

4. Learn something new this year

5. Save more money (don't you have to make a lot of money to save money?! This one may be a bit harder. Hopefully I will get my BIG BREAK this year!)

If anyone has resolutions they want to share, post 'em in my comments section!

My Grandparents

Move over cops, these senior citizen police academy
graduates are about to take your job!

This is an article featuring my grandparents from the "Beachwood Buzz". They are the two with the green arrows pointing to them.

Small World

My friend Allyson Morgan and I met in New York City while interning in a casting office. We had been on a television show together years before that was on CBS in Ohio and West Virginia called "The KidsNews Network" but we didn't become close until we were interning.

Turns out, she's back in Ohio to visit her family too right now and we met up for coffee. It was SOOOO nice to see her and yesterday was one of the first truly relaxing days I've had in a long time:)

Panic Ended!

Phone saga part 3:

I went with my mom to a Verizon kiosk in a mall in Ohio today to get a new phone, since my battery life after dropping my phone in water is about 30 minutes of talk time per day.

While I was in line waiting to speak with an employee, I noticed a woman was exchanging her phone, my exact model, for a razor phone. I asked her what was wrong with her old phone and she said that she was upgrading. I asked what she was doing with her old phone, and she said that she was getting rid of it and I was welcome to it!

I offered her money in exchange for the phone and she just said "Merry Christmas!"

Don't you just love the holiday spirit?!?!

Thank you, Becky Sullivan, for my new phone! :)

Flying to Ohio

A simple 5 hour flight turned into a 16 hour travel day from Los Angeles to Ohio. Why? Because of mechanical problems on the airplane we were supposed to board.

We were 4 hours delayed, and then they announced that our plane was in maintenance due to mechanical problems and as soon as it was fix we would take off.

RED FLAG! Mechanical problems? I decided to investigate. The flight crew got to the gate and so I casually strolled over to the pilot to find out what was "mechanically wrong" with the plane I was about to get on.

The pilot said, "Oh last night we were supposed to land at a different airport but one of the engines froze so we had to make an emergency landing here."

Wonderful! I thought. "So how fixed is fixed?" I asked, to which he replied, "I have a baby at home. If the plane isn't fixed, I'm not getting on it either!" That made me feel a lot better.

The pilot walked back over to the crew and I stood watching the two men behind the counter at the gate. A woman walked up and asked what time another flight going to the same destination was going to board.
"Oh," said the man behind the counter, "that flight has been moved to gate 50. It's just down the terminal to the left." To which this woman replied "what? I can't believe they switched the gates! Where is gate 50 again?" This simple question was followed up by a good 5 minutes of her questioning and being exasperated.

I just started laughing to myself. Clearly her flight switching gates was the worst possible thing that could happen on of the busiest travel days of the year when so many flights were being cancelled due to bad weather and plane malfunctions!

All in all it was a LONG interesting trip, but I'm safely in Ohio for a few days and I will keep posting from here!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Check back on December 26th for a new blog:)