Another month has flown by! I'm at home on a Saturday night on my computer and writing Christmas Cards. *Gasp* I've been fighting off a cold for a few weeks and it finally caught up with my yesterday. I went to Duane Reade which is like a Walgreen's / Rite Aid to buy over the counter medicine. I've wanted to go to a Quick Care, but wasn't able to find any in my area. I was lucky to discover that Duane Reade had a walk in clinic and I was seen within 5 minutes!! The Dr prescribed antibiotics and ordered me to stay home yesterday and today. I've been in my own sleep marathon and I'm winning. I've slept more these past 2 days than I average in a week! I'm feeling so much better!! It was hard to fight off getting sick because a lot of people have been sick at school and the weather changes so much. Rains one day, warm the next, cold the next, etc. I'm getting used to it though.:)
This has been a much better month for me! My classes have been terrific and I've improved so much. I'm enjoying them and it feels incredible to see myself progress. I really needed that! Some of our acting exercises require improv and impulse. It's interesting, because my quirkiness and silliness usually comes out and gets a lot of laughs.:)
I did have a bit of a desperate moment last week. I've been rocking my boxed wine since I got here because I'm not ashamed to say I like it and the price is right. My favorite bottled wine is any Coppola wine. I bought a bottle on sale and was so excited to have a glass when I got home. The wine opener was dull and damaged the cork beyond repair. I made the executive decision to scrape out the cork with the dull wine opener. This caused more cork to land in the wine bottle and I know this had elements of danger. After I removed the large pieces of cork, I filtered the wine with a tea filter into a bowl. Then, I poured the wine back into the wine bottle and had my delicious glass of wine. This took 45 minutes and screams wino! However, I choose to think I showed determination and wine enthusiasm!
My cousin Michael works for an airline and is based in Newark, NJ. That's not too far from NYC. I met him and his friend last week. We had such a great time and it was so nice to be around family.:)
I'm off from classes for about 2 weeks. I'm going to get out perform some stand up comedy. I'm so looking forward to this!! I'm also going to continue looking for a new place to live. There are so many rooms to rent, but lots of weird people and low standards. Guess I'm a snob. I actually found a perfect rental situation regarding price, location, room size, laundry, etc. However, one of the roommates came home when I was there and had a fight with the roommate that showed me the room. Glad I saw that before deciding to rent the room! I have enough drama with the 180 employees at my work and the scenes I have to perform.:)
I'm going to get back to my Christmas cards, but I will post more soon. xoxo