Holy crap it’s been busy this past week. Let’s see, what all did I do since last Monday? Wednesday I played tour guide for some lady missionaries from my church who wanted to go see the sights in Washington; Thursday, I don’t remember, I’ll get back to you on that one later; Friday, all day was wiled away as an extra in some random television commercial; Saturday, slept in until 1:00pm (on accident – I slept through my alarm) and was out all day and night until 1:30am; Sunday, church, activities, and family stuff.

See? I’ve had good reason not to blog, it’s been non-stop all week.

I’ve just gotten back from another appointment with the Gap-Model Acupuncturist, who was in a very amiable mood today. When he saw the bruise on my belly from last week’s visit, he started to laugh and said, “I’m going to put two more needles on your tummy, see if I can make a triangle bruise!” The two other needles did have some medicinal purpose (I hope), so I wasn’t too bothered by his glee at the idea of “acupuncture tummy art”.

Now that I finally have a few minutes to write a blog, I guess I should give you the highlights of the past week. I wish I could remember what I did on Thursday… OH! I went to the doctor, but let’s not talk about that. There’s a reason why I forgot, tee hee. Anyway. Wednesday was nice, but nothing too much to report from that, except that I’m a good driver – I got there in 35 minutes! If you know the area, you should be impressed by that.


Friday was nice, albeit boring. I signed up with this casting agency thing just to be an extra in some Disney TV pilot next week, but on Thursday they called me to see if I wanted to get paid $75 to sit around on Friday, listen to a string quartet, and be in some commercial. I thought that’d be an easy way to earn $75, so I did as I was told and got all dressed up in a nice suit and showed up at the Belmont Mansion in DC at around 9:30am. Let me tell you, extra work is really boring. Really, really boring. I met a few nice people, though, and I did get to listen to that string quartet. The highlight of the day, though, was when they asked me to stand in for the star of the commercial so they could test lighting. I went back to the set, sat in some lady’s chair, and immediately the cameraman got all googly-eyed at me. I was wondering why the heck he was staring at me (other than to test the lights), and that’s when he started in about my skin. He said, “I have to say, you have the most amazing skin I have ever seen. You look just like that… what’shername… that elf lady in Lord of the Rings.” The woman sitting next to me chimed in, “Yeah, you mean, Liv Tyler?” “Yeah,” he said, “That’s the one! Lady Arwen! You look just like her, your skin’s the exact same tone and it’s so… so… perfect.”


As if that didn’t make me glow more already, that’s when the assistant director came over and went, “Look at that glow under the lights, and how it goes with the hair. Very Liv Tyler.”

That made the whole day almost worthwhile. Almost. That’s the third time in the past few months that I’ve been compared to an elf in Lord of the Rings. Honestly, I think it’s very flattering. After all, those elves are pretty, and their style has always been my favorite out of all the various cultures represented in the films. So, even though I don’t think I look like Liv Tyler, it’s still a lovely thought.

Saturday was exceptionally nice; much better than Friday. Like I said, I overslept, but I think I needed it. I lazed around for a while, then had to get ready to go to the wedding reception at 5:00pm. It was the wedding of Translating Drew’s sister-in-law, who also happened to go to church with me. The wedding reception was lovely and very creatively decorated – there were goldfish in pretty square glass vases on each table, surrounded by orange rose petals and periwinkle blue beads. Seriously cute. Although, the highlight of the evening was catching the bouquet. 🙂 I guess that means I’ll be married in a year. Ha, yeah, that’ll happen… I don’t even have a boyfriend, for goodness sake.

After the reception I went to this church activity; my ward’s Bishop is moving, so it was a farewell event for him. That was all well and good, went for a while, was pretty emotional, and came to a close around 10:00pm. But, having woken up at 1:00pm, I wasn’t ready to end the day yet. I ended up walking out to the parking lot with a new friend of mine that I met at church a couple weeks before. We were talking then somehow we decided to go see a movie, despite the late hour. That was peachy with me, because I wasn’t ready to go back home yet. We saw ‘Hidalgo’ at 10:35pm and it was loads of fun. That movie was absolutely gorgeous! Almost every shot was a work of art. The story was well-written, beautifully directed, and the performances were fantastic. The only downside: I really want to go horseback riding now. 🙂

Not much to report about Sunday, except that it was another Sunday. And now I have to run, my writing time has expired and I have things to do. I’ll try to write more this week – I doubt I’ll be as busy this week.