Hope you all have a wonderful New Year!

2012 was a great year for me both personally and professionally
but
it was hard for the positive to not be overshadowed when something horrible happened at the end of October:

my aunt died tragically/suddenly after being hit by a car, then being in a coma, then being taken off life support...

I had never dealt with something like that before.
Yes, I've had family pass away in the past but not in such an out of nowhere fashion. I had never been in a situation where I went to a hospital and talked to someone in a coma and wondered if they could actually hear me...

It's given me a different perspective on a lot of things and reminded me what is really important. Which is what I guess happens to all of us when we lose someone.

Life is short. Live it. Don't wait to do things. Make them happen. Let the people in your life know how much they mean to you. What other cliche line can I throw in here?

You get the point! :-)

Anyway,I hope you all had a fab 2012 and that 2013 is even better!

Tonight I headlined at Southern New Hampshire University.

I loved these interesting/random statues that were in front of the building I performed at:

There ended being a good turn out of lovely laughing/attentive students:

Thanks to all of the brave souls who attended! :-)

I donate blood for the 1st time today

and

didn't pass out!

Yay!

Over the last year or so the union(AFTRA) I was a member of due to past appearances on tv combined with the other union(SAG). Because of this, I am now a member of both.

I always associated SAG to be more of a union for hardcore thespian types. So I love that I am in it now.

Every once in a blue moon I get asked to audition for a part in a movie but it's VERY rare. For some reason I was asked to audition for 2 movies over the last month. Which clearly must be a sign that the world is ending! ;-)

In all honestly I think I ALWAYS display my acting ability at these auditions I've been too but not when I read the lines from the script. I think it's more from when I show up and "act" like I'm not surprised that I was invited to the audition. :-)

Have a nice Labor Day weekend, everyone!
I'm going to be doing a 25k(15 mile) race on Labor Day in Gloucester. I'm really excited to do it because I don't get out to Gloucester often and part of the course goes through Rockport(which I've never been to). I'm a little worried about it too because there are a bunch of hills in it. I'm pretty sure I've trained properly to handle all of it but hoping the hills factor doesn't slow me down too much. 
We'll see...I imagine I won't embarrass myself TOO much! ;-)