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Hey guys. Sorry I didnt get a chance to write on here last night, I was pretty busy. Came to my moms house in Cedar Rapids and then decided to go to "24 hours in a play" which was amazing. 24 hours in a play is where a bunch of people come together, whoever wants to be a part of it, and they put all the names in a hat, and draw out groups of people. Within the groups that they draw, someone in the group has to write a play, someone has to be the director, and the rest have to be the actors in the play. From the time they draw the names, they have 24 hours to write a script, direct a play, block it, memorize lines, and perform the final production. Its quite fun :) I wasnt in it this year, I just watched but it was a lot of fun :) I met up with a bunch of people from my Rocky Horror cast which was amazing to see everyone again :)! We had fun, it was extremely funny, and we ended up eating at Xaviors afterwards which was great to catch up with everyone. I finally got home at about 1:00 this morning though and I had to wake up early so I didnt really feel like blogging!

Today I had the chance of a lifetime though :) It was quite amazing I must say. Might not seem like that big of a deal to some people but I got to sing the National Anthem at the University Of Iowa's mens basketball game :) AMAZING!!! As you guys probably already know, I sang at a swim meet a couple weeks ago at the university of Iowa, and I was so stoked to find out that they wanted me to sing at a basketball game :) Let alone a MENS basketball game! Thats like the top of the top!! It was so amazing I cant even begin to explain it :)! It was only an exhibition game though so it wasnt a full house which was a little sucky but still, ive never sang in that big of a place and Ive never sang in front of that many people. And to my surprise I think I did half way decent :)

Here's the video if anyone cares to watch it. But before you watch it, I appologize for the mic cutting out, and I appologize on Iowa's behalf because im NOT from Hopkinton, Indiana....Indiana was the opposing team, I am from Hopkinton, IOWA haha! No harm done, it happens =)

Also..... I thought this was pretty cool...I was on the big screen, name and all :) Kinda made my day to be in the middle of freakin CARVER HAWKEYE ARENA, singing to that many people in that big bowl, and then look up and see my face on the screen =) Its the little things in life.... =)

Something else I kinda wanna do, and yes, Ashley, Im stealing this idea for you, so credit to my cousin, but I was reading her blog the other day and I seen she had a bucket list going, and Ive always wanted to actually sit here and write one, but never really did it, so Im gunna start it now....Ill probably be adding more to this from time to time but for now, here ya go. And no, the 1st one im not just randomly adding, its always been a dream of mine to sing there.

1) Sing at an Iowa Mens Basketball game in Carver Hawkeye Arena - DONE (November 8th, 2009)
2) Perform on a stage in NYC
3) Sing the National Anthem at a NASCAR race
4) Be a performer at Disney World
5) Go on a cruise to Alaska (or wherever!)
6) Snorkle in the Great Barrier Reef
7) Get married
8) Skydive/bungee jump
9) Take a train to Alaska/through the mountains
10) Kayak with the whales in Alaska
11) Audition for WICKED the musical
12) Stay with an Indian Tribe for a summer
13) Work in the Peace Corps for a year
14) Own my own palm tree!
15) Own a condo on the beach
16) Live in Florida
17) Spend a year in New York City
18) Go to New Years Eve in New York City to see the ball drop
19) Go to France to see my Great Grandpas grave from WWII
20) Bring my Grandma to France to see her dads grave
21) Bring my Grandma to Washington DC to see the WWII memorial
22) Stay at the Atlantis hotel in the bahamas
23) Find something no ones ever discovered before (I have this thing that I want to actually find Atlantis haha. Crazy, I know)
24) Go to the moon
25) Take a submarine and see the actual Titanic
26) Own a tiger...and a monkey ;)
27) Stop living paycheck to paycheck
28) Do voice over work for animation films
29) Be a photographer for a wedding
30) Learn how to play guitar
31) Have my own perfume
32) Buy a professional camera so I can start up photography
33) Audition for Disney - DONE (Chicago 2006 roughly)
34) Get a callback for a broadway musical or tour
35) Perform with Alisabeth Caraway - DONE (After our Rocky Horror production directed by her, closing night she did Thriller with us)
36) Sleep along the beach
37) Edit a "real" music video or come up with the concept at least
38) Make my own music video
39) Be in a famous parade
40) Walk a redcarpet
41) Be a model in Fashion Week - DONE (Though Id perfer New York Fashion Week, I was a runway model for Fashion Week Iowa in 2007 I think it was)
42) Be in a magazine
43) Meet Oprah & Tyra Banks
44) Sing with Rascal Flatts
45) Build and design my own house
46) Have a child
47) Be a godparent - DONE (My sister, McKenna Grace. 2008)
48) Have an amazingly cute proposal to where I cry ;)
49) Kiss in front of Cinderella's Castle at Disney
50) Swim with the dolphins
51) Be a marine life trainer
52) Feed a whale
53) Go deep sea fishing
54) Own a jetski
55) Go rock climbing up a mountain
56) Be a makeup artist on a movie set or real theatre profuction
57) Get my dad in a tux lol!
58) Shoot a gun - DONE (I live on a farm in small town Iowa, enough said)
59) Go hunting with my dad - DONE (Again, small town Iowa, when doesnt this happen)
60) Start my own charity
61) Dig for dino bones
62) Go on a REAL treasure hunt
63) Be on a talk show
64) Host Saturday Night Live-Or at least be in a skit on SNL
65) Ride in a cab
66) Ride the subway
67) Sing on the radio - DONE (Not an original song or anything which would be ideal, but when I sang the National Anthem at the Iowa Mens Basketball game on 11/08/09 I was featured on the radio before the game!!)
68) Sing somewhere famous
69) Sing on LIVE tv
70) Sing in a talent convention - DONE (Orlando, FL 2003)
71) Act in a talent convention
72) Be a promotional model - DONE (I work for Action! out of California)
73) Be a spokesmodel for a great cause
74) Write my own song and record it
75) Record a demo CD