Apple Pie

It's the first day of the last month of the year!! Time has flown!! I think I did well this year. I could have done better, but I did vastly more than I did in most past years. At the beginning of 2009, I joined AFTRA which was great... It's one of the things that kept me working all year. I also took three acting classes to build skills and my resume. I got head shots that I'm happy with, and I've been really disciplined about working out and getting viciously fit. I started this blog, which has helped me grow more than I thought it could. I haven't been that steady with it lately, but hopefully this month I can redeem myself.

A little over a week ago, I went to Vegas with friends for the weekend on a party bus. It was super fun, except for the part where I got sick and lost my voice on the way there. Despite my symptoms, I got some cold medicine and made the best of it. I had a great time drinking bomb mojitos at a hip downtown lounge and hitting up the strip later until 3am. My cold carried into the work week right before Thanksgiving, but even with a runny, gooey nose I took advantage of the abundance of work. Then, when I was wrapped on Wednesday afternoon, I joined the herd of procrastinators at the grocery store to get the ingredients I needed for Thanksgiving grub the next day. On Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, I spent the whole day cooking! I helped roast the turkey, prepared a Bolivian dish, made salad, and last but not least, baked an apple pie from scratch!! I pieced two recipes together I found on the Internet. I rolled the dough, peeled and sliced the apples, made the sauce, and baked it all into the most yummy apple pie I've ever had. I am not exaggerating. I was really nervous that it wasn't gonna turn out right, especially the dough, since I've never made dough before. But it was so delicious, and everyone who ate it confirmed it! In good tradition, we had leftovers of the huge meal for days after :D I LOVE Thanksgiving leftovers! Over the holiday, I had a lot of down time, and I purposely didn't go anywhere for three days, and definitely not on Black Friday! I tried as much as possible to relax and unwind, and it was wonderfully pleasant.

Today, I worked on the show "The Mentalist" all the way in San Pedro. It was a nice being back to work after the five days of chillin' at home. I still was coughing a little bit, but I finally have my singing voice back... So I was singing to my tracks in the car all the way back from San Pedro which is about an hour and a half away during rush hour traffic!! I hate loosing my voice when I get a cold.. It's so frustrating when I want to sing along to a song I like and can't!! For a couple days there I sounded like a old man with a raspy voice, LOL! Soooo... among all these recent adventures of the last week or so, I am most thankful for having my voice back :) I will be singing all week and exercising it back into shape!! My mouth watering apple pie follows at a close second ;)

Happy 1st of December everybody!