Happy Twelfth Night, Ya'll!

A New Year.
Time for a new post.

Hey everyone.
Hope we all had a splendid holiday season.
Which continues into my favorite season...Carnival Season.
Which, happily, begins today!

Did all kinds of fun things over the holidays.
Ate lots of good food, drank lots of good wine, saw lots of good movies (Up in the Air, NINE..(yummy Daniel Day-Lewis), and Sherlock Holmes (yummy Robert Downey, JR).)
And, unfortunately, watched a lot of sad, depressing football games.
Ah, well.
13-3....not the worst thing that could happen to us, right?

New Year's Eve was quite lovely, as well.
Sam, Cliff, Kristin, Alex, Casie, AJ and myself started the evening off by heading over to Jamie Wax's lovely lady friend, Jaci's, house in the quarter for some pre-gaming activities.
Fast forward though lots of gumbo, fancy cheese and whiskey, and we all headed over to Le Petit to ring in the New Year.
Some more people joined us in the girl dressing room/balcony to watch the fireworks and drink waaaaaay too much champagne.
At one point though, Casie was just throwing blueberries into everyone's glasses and it made me laugh a lot.

As the fireworks were exploding all Kristin, Alex, AJ and I could do was yell/sing WISHES!!!! at the tops of our lungs....because that was indeed the theme song to the Disney World fireworks that we loved so much.
Jason Kirkpatrick heard us doing this, and immediately chimed in with his own WISHES!!!
It was pretty stellar.

We ended the night somewhat early, but when I woke up the next day...at about 1:30 in the afternoon, it felt as though someone was drilling railroad spikes through my skull.
Holy lord.
I love champagne so much, and before I start drinking it I know what a terrible hangover it will cause, but once it starts flowing, that care slips right out of my head.
Truly.
One of the worst feelings ever.
Poor Shauna had to come over at like 4 in the evening and pick me up so we could go get food to hopefully make me feel a little better.
It kind of worked...but I think, really, the marathon of You've Got Mail and Ghostbusters was probably far more effective.

So, yeah...2010. Started off pretty painful...can only go up from there.

Moving on....
After a lovely, almost two months, of nothing really to do...the craziness is about to ensue.
I start school on Monday (yay!), I'm doing one of the 10 Minute Plays for the Southern Rep. Bacchanal (super yay!), Night of the Iguana will start sometime at the end of the month, then a week after Mardi Gras the KCACTF in Texas where I have to do a scene from Eurydice for the Directing Competition for Beau.
Way too many things for Natalie's little brain to try and memorize.
Because we all know the pathetic memorization skills I seem to have acquired this past year.
Ah well.
I'm uber excited about everything.
I actually can't wait to be busy.

Give it two weeks.
I'll hate everyone, and everything.

And, finally...
Award Season in New Orleans has officially begun.

The Ambie Nominations came out today and so many of my lovely friends were nominated.
I mean...I wasn't....but many of them were! :-)
The Uprising was nominated for Best Unique Theatrical Experience.
Mr. Marmalade was nominated for Best Comedy, and Allegra was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. So, huzzah for that!

And the Project's Taste was nominated, too....speaking of...it's also being revived at Le Petit, January 14-24. Get tickets now!
A show AND food!
What could be better!

The best thing about the Ambies...besides the fact that last year I got to befriend a Broadway superstar...is that they love to recognize theatre that normally is overlooked the rest of the season.
Especially, the high school/kid shows in the area.
And I think it is pretty stellar that they do that.
Because I'm sure it absolutely makes those kids' day to have their shows be nominated for stuff.
And the adults who work on them deserve credit too...for dealing with all those children.

The sad thing about this season, is that it looks as though my arch nemesis and I will not have any chances of being nominated against each other...seeing as though she didn't dare step into the world of Comedy this year...smart move.

So, you can sleep well at night, Ms. Beck....
I won't be "stealing" anything from you this go 'round.