you can QUOTE me on that...

i like quotes. witty ones. inspiring ones. famous ones. crazy ones... i like words. 

my friend Veronica says "words create reality." 

the point of this particular blog post is that i am going to start collecting quotes. i would love it if you would post some of your favorites in the comment box also paaa-lease!!! :) they can be from ANYTHING. the Bible. music lyrics. something funny Krissy said. a movie. a favorite book. a book you hate. something a stranger said in the blip of a conversation you heard while walking past. anything... i'll post blogs here and there with these quotes.

so here are just a few to get started with...

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. 

-John Mayer

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. 

-Sir Ralph Richardson 

Forbidden to remember. Terrified to forget.

-Twilight Series: New Moon (i read this sentence so many times when i came across it... wow)

I will examine the psychological lint in my belly button.

-Mrs. Mac (one of my college theatre professors in reference to taking too long to "think" in a scene)

Life's a bitch, if it were a slut it'd be easy.

-I don't know who said it, but its funny. :)

Many a false step is made by standing still. 

-A Veronica quote from a Fortune Cookie

It's like candy, but with blood, which makes it so much better.

-Grey's Anatomy

Everything will be okay in the end. If its not, its not the end yet.

-A friend of mine, Chelsea

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

-Oscar Wilde

In the silence of the night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

-Judy Garland

Peeper: "Hinesight is always 57..."

Allison: "You mean... 20/20?"

Peeper: "Wait...HAHA I was thinking Heinz 57!"

-Peeper Fowler ladies and gentlemen :) I love her! 

To do a great right do a little wrong.

-William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak."

-William Shakespeare As You Like It

(i will try to limit myself to one Shakespeare per post eeep... maybe)

i hope that everyone had a relaxing weekend. today a group of friends and i went canoeing for a few hours and then to eat at my new favorite mexican food restaurant in Austin. Trudy's :) its great food at a cheap price! my sunburn from today is funny and splotchy in places from my lack of care whilst reapplying sunscreen mid-ride. it was a nice day. :)

Rock OUT, Loads of LOVE, God Bless, and Cheers!

m.

soap?

so i think i'll get on a random soap box of opinion. excuse me while i step onto this soap box...

and btw-why is it a soap box? was it like a make-shift platform to stand on? why soap boxes? why not a ketchup box? a microwave box? surely a fridge box would make you even taller than a soap box?

"Oh yeah!? You don't like people smacking their gum... Me neither, let me get on my MiscellaneousThingsStillNotUpackedSinceMovingOutOfMyCollegeDorm BOX!"

i mean how big is this "soap" box anyways!? and does that imply that i am not intimidating enough at 5'3" to speak my mind and let you know how much of an idiot you are by the furrowing of my (almost invisible) eyebrows!!! grrr!

alright. joke has died and i am still trying to squeeze a chuckle outta ya... moving on

okay okay okay i have a confession i really dont have anything i feel like ranting about but while you're here i will tell you a couple things that do actually get on my nerves in life....

people who sing at concerts or at musicals loud enough that i can't enjoy the people who get paid to do it. UNLESS you do what the person in the video below did.. then i will like you! :)

and thongs. i hate thongs. i am sorry. they are not sexy. unless you are perfectly shaped-and who really is? unless you are megan fox basically. (haha i am mildly obsessed with her and there may or may not be a poster of her in her skivvies hanging over my bed, but that is TOTALLY beside the point... she is just hot and not really a good actress). anyways thongs are gross. it would never be acceptable for a person walking down the street to stop in place and wipe their butt with the shirt on their back and put the shirt back ON...??? well thats sorta what is going on constantly when you wear a thong... ALSO i know they are very uncomfortable at first and if you say that you dont feel it you are not being fully honest. at some point the FIRST time you wore one it was odd feeling i KNOW... and its like playing guitar. i am reminding JoshyPants as he learns to play guitar that eventually his fingers will stop hurting because he will build up CALLUSES! CALLUSES LADIES! your crack doesn't feel the thong because...well you can make the correlation youself. EEEEEK ICKY ICKY ICKY!

alright thats enough rambling for me tonight! just trying to change the world one thong lover at a time... ;)

Much Love, God Bless, ROCK OUT, and Cheers!

m.

do re me fa so la......

confession time...

i am so envious of people who can sing. i love listening to extremely talented singers. this is definitely the easiest way to wrap me around your little finger because if you were to sing (and broadway belt it baby) "megan i really hate you. hate you hate you. and your breath smells like a diaper on fire!" i would probably want to kiss you on the lips if it sounded like you belong on stage accepting a Tony Award... SO, tomorrow morning i'm driving to san antonio for an entire day worth of vocal, acting, and dance auditions for a musical that i probably have no chance of being cast in... dang! why can't i exchange my amazing toe pinching skills, combined with my superior knowledge of the psychological habits of the flea in reference to existentialism, my dashingly good looking elbows and ears, and my secret super powers that involve controlling the minds of the innocent people reading this blog....i mean.. uhmm.. could i please please please exchange these incredible qualities for the ability to friggin' sing!? ...sigh... if you can sing, sing your little heart out today where ever you go. do it for the lesser ones like me who make up the groundlings in the performance of life next to your awesomeness and increDELICOUS voices! grrrrr i bite my thumb in your general direction! :) 

(Dec 2007 About to watch SPRING AWAKENING)

ROCK OUT, Much Love, God Bless and Cheers!

m.  

back when...

i like katie's "friday flashbacks," so i thought i would give it a try. i was thinking about all the things i was doing in the past few years during this time of may/summer... 

2008:

celebrating Addie's BDAY :) he made us all dress up for PF CHANGS we looked pretty snazzy :) that was a very fun night we even took fake prom like pics whilst waiting forev's for the table because there were probably 15 of us 

my last ever themed theatre party in college! this was the Disney Party. Mike as Smee from Hook hehehe :) this was at the "Spring '08 Tragic B*tch Awards Party" haha. this was a tradition in the Theatre department that started a year ago or so that every semester there would be this chance to give people "Tragic B*tch Awards" for really stupid, funny, crazy or "tragic" things they did during the semester. we nominated the weeks before on facebook in a private group then during the party you vote and sometime after midnight they count and give them out. :) a very very funny event that i am so glad i didn't graduate before it got started!

the theatre banquet... I love Mrs. Mac. totally my college mentor and the best professor ever "From your VISCERA honey!" She really has huge hair too and some people believe its full of SECRETS! hahaha she taught me everything acting, directing, dialects, film acting, how to flirt... all of it! i hope to be that crazy one day!

Graduating College with a bunch of awesomely talented Theatre and Musical Theatre people! Ahhh time for the "real world" a few people are missing from this pic though like nathan, blythe, henry... cody...and on and on... i bet at least 5 people in this picture make it big one day! seriously. first dibs are on... hmm Scott McCarrey. 

Moving in with Ali, Bryan, and Brenna to work at the Redd School. That was a really fun summer full of tons and tons of laughs! I never earned the "line of the day" which is a contest with Ali and Bryan but i definitely enjoyed working out at LA Fitness and then eating at the Cheesecake Factory a bunch :) 

Working at the Redd School trying to teach 1st-8th graders how to act, sing, and dance eeep not fun I will never forget some of these little kiddos. Its funny how i am soooo thankful I am not doing that this summer, but honestly a tiny tiny part of me will miss it. I will miss the people and the excitement those tiny sonofab...i mean those darling little rascals had about things.. certainly will miss being called Mister Megan. and the smoothie king runs with Jennifer where we wished someone would spike the caribbean way with rum to make it through the rest of the day haha

thankfully Saralynn was interning at FOX News in Houston so we hung out bunches and watched tons of "So You Think You Can Dance" We made a bunch of really funny improv videos and i currently miss her like crazy! i am so sad i didn't get to see her get married :( in april... lame... 

and but OF COURSE this summer i spent reading the Twilight series so in August I stood in line with Redd School counselors and got Breaking Dawn that i read in 3 days... (katie finished it like that first night i think right?) then it was my goal to make Ali then Brandee read it! bwa ha ha ha haaa

2007:

Yay rehearsals in Birmingham ("Bham") for a summer with Student Life Camp on the Aqua Team. haha i had no idea what to expect but i was thrilled and sooo thankful to get to do it

lunch at our first camp :) haha we are all wearing our name tags. eventually most of us quit even though we were supposed to wear it. i wore mine backwards most of the time. i remember this exact lunch because kids kept coming up to us and getting kat and i mixed up and for some reason so did Ireland OUR CAMP DIRECTOR! ha Irish!? they would tell me that i sang so great i should do it professionally... hahaha you got it backwards peeps!

The night before we did our very first "Celebration" performance. I was creating my jeans for "Hairmetal Hannah" this was when i was still spending the last hour of my nights reading that sappy love story Christian book... redeeming love? hehe i very quickly after the first couple nights of camp got wayyy too busy for leisure reading!

spoken word performance of "This Is My Reality" there actually is a video on the student life website of another acting team doing this, its really cool if you are bored check it out http://www.studentlife.com/events/videos.php?&cNav=1450 

during "Celebration" every day we would perform a song that was based on the mail students wrote in about funny random things happening to them at camp. we had a handful of real songs that were popular on the radio that we learned, and we would just write new words from the new letters and such... i wish i had some of these on video because they were pretty hilarious and rockin' too 

South Padre Island, Tx Sand Castle Contest Day yay! my group should have gotten last place because ours totally stank! the one that won was of a giant IPOD :)

this is what the life of AT2AP looks like. LATE LATE LATE night song writing and rehearsal for the next morning's song and lots of pizza... (that explains the 15 lbs. i gained from may-aug '07) eep

and of course the bridge i jumped off of at the end of the summer in pennsylvania :) i posted this one just cause i know my mom loves it! hehe NOT 

2006:

APO officer retreat. the last time i went camping. middle of the night we were attacked by a raccoon! eeep

breakfast time in the woods! what are jen and i doing?

the very first time i had sushi! May 28, 2006 with my great friend Rick! a caterpillar roll and a california roll yummmyyyy! i am forever changed and i love love love sushi now

baaahaha same day in the statue garden of houston with rick! this pic always makes me laugh because its just so awkward and funny

got my nose pierced that same day! and now i miss it bunches :(

God Bless, Rock Out, and A Whole Lotta Love! 

Cheers,

m.

eww don't make me take back my "Bless You!"

i'm currently writing on a saturday night whilst sitting in a coffee shop.. my internet isn't working so until i get it fixed i shall visit my fave coffee shop in ATX. today was jam packed... had a funny audition for a tv show that i am sure i am not suited for but it was fun at least.

 

God's blessings sometimes look rather odd. 

the other night after my workout with Greg, i ate a sandwich from Jimmy Johns. a tasty treat actually! i head home to shower and watch the season finale of Grey's... WELL... all of a sudden IT hits me. my tummy is hurtin'... but i'm home so... OMG... WOW! i went from complete health to exercising the demons from my... *COUGH*... so.. in the midst of this disaster, my cell is ringing constantly in the other room... low and behold i was supposed to be at the first rehearsal for a film i was recently cast in... errrrr i totally forgot because i was obsessed with watching greys... so here's the moral of the story. yeah maybe it sucks to miss rehearsal. and maybe it sucks to have "explosive" moments. but hey God totally blessed me in that he allowed me and my ...issue... to be safe and at home! ha! :) 

so i keep having to go to the library and this coffee shop to check my email for auditions and junk because of my internet issue... sucks... except early this morning i am chillin at the coffee shop replying to business emails and junk and realize that the people behind me are talking with someone they are interviewing to do special effects makeup for their film in which part will be shot in south america and yada yada yada... sooo i took this as a networking opportunity and before i left i grabbed a headshot and resume from my car and gave it to them. they were pretty cool and who knows maybe they will call me one day. we'll see. so crummy internet problem could be a blessing in disguise. hopefully they fix it tomorrow or monday though...

okay. so i am about to go home and watch Across the Universe because its raining outside and i am sooo freaking tired of being out and about. i just wanna rest and be chillaxing the rest of the weekend. um yeah the guy across the room in the top hat (i mean are you kiddin' me? are you the mad hater from alice's tea party?) just sneezed really big and totally did the whole arm nose wipe. yep from inside elbow ALLLLLL the way to wrist. GAG ME WITH A CHAINSAW! i totally said "God bless you!" and a quiet "ewww" leaked out too OOPS! alright i better go. hope your weekend is good. 

ps. if you get bored watch this video inspired by another tragic dinner gone wrong in my life several months back... why me? 

and i swear one day i'll write another song appropriate for the internet and less..well less gross... i just write about the things that inspire me.

LOVE, God Bless, ROCK ON, and Cheers,

m.

i mean.. pirates are cool!!!

a good sunday. slept in and skipped sunday school (oops). went to "big church" (which btw, i love calling it that). lunch with my parents which included boudain OF COURSE (i can't stop eating it because i miss it so much when i am in austin). read a little of the book Let the Right One In (which i can't believe i haven't finished yet). longest nap in the history of sundays. family time and watched some behind the scenes stuff on one of the Twilight DVDs. fishing in the pond with Krissy, Brandee, and Jrod! Daddy made me a grilled cheese, yummy! went to the movies with Bran, Jrod and Krissy to see the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. (Brandee dated Daniel Sunjata in college who played the role of Brad). 

currently thinking about a few different things. Troy. do pray for him if you read this. i can't imagine how they are all holding up through this situation except to say that the Lord God is giving them all strength they have. and also on my mind is thinking about how i have a beautiful little niece in China that i cannot wait to meet one day. Laila. ;) its like 13 hours ahead there... i think? hmm 

so this week Joshua and i are going on a trip to South Padre to board the BLACK DRAGON PIRATE SHIP! he planned this surprise for me a while back and i'm thrilled to be able to dress like a pirate and just have a blast!! Gyarrr Mateys!! Therr be many a picturre on the wayyyy! Can you believe he actually encourages my obsession with pirates?? haha what is he thinking?! 

The Black Dragon

so maybe I have dressed like a pirate on a lot of occasions from a kid to now... ;) 

well i must go practice my pirate cursing!

God Bless, Rock Out, and Cheers!

m.

auction

so let me set the scene for you guys... spent the day hanging out with the BF. went to beaumont. had lunch with Megan & Matt from college who were in town. visited Troy, who under the circumstances looked really good today. got a dressy git-up to wear to Hillary's (Josh's sister) wedding. (Josh picked it out! and its soooo "presh" btw so i am quite impressed with this boy). hung out around home. Daddy got his tractor stuck IN the pond in the back yard. Josh and Jarrod helped him pull it out...i took pics...

so then... Josh, Mom, and I are all sitting in the kitchen/dinning area... Josh is rocking in the comfy window area chairs and we are all just chatting... he says "I just LOVE these chairs! They are awesome!" and my MOM responds with this:

"Well, if you marry Megan I will give you both chairs!"

WHAT? You mean to tell me that I am worth TWO comfy chairs that we have owned for 8 years?? she didn't even throw in an ottoman or area rugs or even a dog-gone LAMP! I mean... crap... Megan=Chairs??? are you kidding me? we got an RV outside... clearly Miss Megan isn't quite the RV status.... grrrr... so my dowry has been set... but nobody really asked my opinion... hrmmmm.

anyone want some comfy rockin' chairs? it will only cost you a lifetime of marital bliss with ME! 

God Bless, ROCK ON, and Cheers!

m.