Flying By the Seat of My Pants

The title of this post is how I feel I'm living my life lately. We're completely immersed in Relay right now so it seems we're having at least one fundraiser a week, and multiple meetings a month, and that's just my team. Throw in committee and team captains meetings and forget it!

Right now we're  I'm planning a benefit concert for the team. I guess it's my own fault that I'm doing this, it all started with an episode of Glee, you know the one where they put on a benefit concert that no one shows up to? Well, as I'm watching this I'm insanely thinking "Hey, we can do this! I know lots of singers and musicians, what a great idea!" Then I rushed off to Facebook to "jokingly" state: "Hey if I had a benefit concert for Relay would anyone come?" Sure enough, I had many friends that said they would come and so I figured, awesome, we can do this!

Then came the actual planning, thankfully my friends at TCT got us the restored, beautiful Beekay Theater to host this concert and at a fantastic price. So then I figured I would focus my attention to the upcoming Magic Show benefit and return to the benefit concert afterwards. Well in my foolish calculations, I ended up only have about two weeks to finish planning this thing. I thought about backing out, saying, "I bit off way more than I can chew and let's try this next year." Then I got the email from TCT, they. had posted our benefit and were selling tickets on the website. I'm screwed.

So now the scramble begins to find enough singers and musicians and build a set list, oh and start selling tickets, how could I forget that? It feels like I'm losing my mind right now, but thankfully I really do know a bunch of talented singers and musicians, and thankfully I have friends that are willing to come see a bunch of local musicians singing and playing their hearts out for a good cause. This might actually work out. I hope.

-Nicole

We're back? Maybe?

Okay for any people that are still reading this blog, I apologize for our lack of updates. Busy doesn't even begin to cover how our lives have been over the last few months. First we were doing a show in February, and that kept us pretty busy, and then a job hunt up in Washington kept us pretty preoccupied in March. Once it seemed that we were staying here in California we turned our attention to our neglected Relay For Life duties and I focused on my ambitious eighteen units of community college classes. Around this time I had the opportunity to audition for a horror film, not thinking I would actually get a part. Surprisingly I got the lead role of Storm, and we begin filming next week! 

Life was beginning to look up for us and things were going well, until April 22nd. A very close friend of ours had a heart attack and then a stroke and ended up in a coma. His personality was larger than life, and we couldn't believe that he'd ever leave us. We refused to believe it. As we visited him in the hospital, we refused to say good bye and told him that he'd come back to us soon. On April 25th, which happened to be TJ's 29th birthday, our friend Hop left this world. This led to a few weeks of us not wanting to do very much, and we had a hard time dealing with his loss. We're moving on, because Hop would want us to live and love life, he'd probably want us to do some crazy stuff, but we'll just stick to living and loving!

So now that it seems things may be calmer for a bit, we may have more time to post on here. Or maybe not.