starting...NOW

So I'm trying out this blogging thing- I think it's a great way to keep people updated (besides facebook and twitter) and a good way for me to remember and reminisce later.
Today? Emotional roller-coaster... bittersweet doesn't even begin to describe hahah. I think it was the whole my "REAL BIG life" is beginning today and the "BIG move" and the "BIG CHANGE" just a lot of BIG stuff that is well kinda BIG and kinda scary. It's all mainly pressure that I put on myself which is unnecessary but what we do, right? Change is a part of life- time to just go with the flow. Moving to NYC while rehearsing for a tour is something I've honestly DREAMT about and worked so hard for, for, well.. a while. I guess I'm still in shock with it all hahah- I hear myself deep down inside screaming "OMG THIS IS HAPPENING!!!" while kinda sorta shaking in my flats. haha i'm a cheese-ball. God is so good though and in everything. He has me...

So I pull out of Wilkes-Barre, PA... saying bye to my parents was okay until my mother kept walking away then running back and hugging me before I got on the bus. THEN she continued (along with my father) to send me wonderful- supportive- loving -I'm going to miss you text messages. I miss my family and hate that I miss out on so much but at the same time love where I am and where I'm going I couldn't be more blessed. Seriously.
So the bus trip w/out the stops could really only take 1hr and 1/2 but because of the stops takes up to 3 hours... with traffic it took 5! Crazy but I didn't mind the alone time and ipod listening.

Michael Enright (who I'm staying w/along w/my good friend Katie Mott) was there to meet me and help me wheel my crazy huge (but very useful) luggage around Port Authority to the subway train towards Queens.

It was so refreshing to see him and then get to the apartment and see Katie. Katie and Michael were people when at SU always had me laughing and reminded me that life's too short to NOT laugh. I've missed them so much. SO happy to see they haven't changed in that way...I've been laughing all night :) Their apartment is so spacious and homey and I'm so happy they're letting me stay here for this time.

Honestly, having this SU family here makes such a difference...I don't feel like I'm far from home.
So SO thankful. I love the area they're living in too- Astoria is so neighborhood-like while still being  a part of the city. They're not too far from the train and it's a quick and easy trip to where my rehearsals are which is good.

I start tomorrow- 10am - Ripley Grier Studios....ehfuhldjlasfhlajhals this is HAPPENING! hahaha.. ahhh
:)
I'm pumped... nervous but more pumped!