From now on I am going to blog almost every day until I move to NYC this year.

you don't believe me, do you? well I'm gonna!

So far this year has been absolute crap. My beautiful baby puppy died suddenly, one of my best friends moved to Chicago, my boyfriend's grandmother died, and my bank is randomly screwing me every chance they get. It's very confusing about the bank thing. OH and I've gotten absolutely nothing as far as community theatre goes after finally getting my singing voice back after surviving a vocal chord mucosal cyst and surgery to remove it last year. I already had to postpone my move because of the surgery or else I would already be in New York. Me and Kenneth and Sebastian (and who knows, maybe she wouldn't have died- Emma too?)

This vocal chord cyst really truly, honestly ruined everything I had going for me as far as my "dreams" were concerned. Before the cyst I was in shows and people were dying to hear me sing and wanted me in their plays. I had enough money leftover from college to move safely to New York without having to do anything. I had a super active social life and felt on top of the world.

It's been a huge setback trying to get back to where I was. Now I'm not getting in shows because people think I can't handle it, like I'm frail or something. If anything- my voice is stronger, better and smoother than ever. (there will be videos soon, I promise). We had to use most of my college money to get our current apartment and pay for bills/food/etc. while I couldn't work after my surgery and while Kenneth was trying to find a job post-camp last fall. So now we're starting from square one.

So here's the deal. Kenneth and I need to save at least $6,000 to get to New York. And we are afraid we aren't going to get there.

We are hoping (fingers crossed!) that Diana (bff) will be moving with us. Which will help with expenses, but we want to make sure we have enough on our own too.

So here are the things I need to do/plan to do before we move to New York City in September:

1.) Lose Weight (the other reason I'm not getting parts in shows)
2.) Save Money
3.) Strengthen My Voice
4.) Improve Dance Skills (the other other reason I'm not getting parts in shows)

As of last Wednesday I have lost 5.6lbs

Today we have $490 saved for NYC (it's a long story how we lost the other 500 bucks, so dont ask because I'm grumpy about it)

Had a voice lesson today, we're working on my higher register. I will post details of this in tomorrows post.

I have done nothing yet to improve my dance skills, but will discuss a plan to do this in the next coming posts.


OH and part of my new plan for saving money for moving to NYC is using this website called "Chip-In", where I basically cyberbeg for money.

If you have anything to contribute to help Kenneth and I raise the money we need to move to New York and follow my dreams, it would be greatly appreciated. If you know anyone who loves to help people and believes in me, shoot them a link to our chipin!!!