Josh Announces "Straight to You" Tour

The Philosopher by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"And what are you that, wanting you,
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?

And what are you that, missing you,
As many days as crawl
I should be listening to the wind
And looking at the wall?

I know a man that's a braver man
And twenty men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man in my mind?

Yet women's ways are witless ways,
As any sage will tell,—
And what am I, that I should love
So wisely and so well?"

I performed this poem today for my Voice for the Stage class. It went very well! yay for adrenaline rush! And when I performed it I had someone very specific in mind, and I was very ANGRY performing this poem just like I was instructed during class. Though I wasn't angry at this person, I was angry at myself for being in this emotional state of mind.



Observations for the night:

-Just counted ten bracelets on my friend's wrist plus a watch. Don't know how he can take it, I can't bear a small watch on mine for a whole day.

-Just heard the most piercing scream come from my director, it was hilarious!

-How much the ballet troupe is flawless and they make it look so easy.

-I just had another person use my drawing I made of them as their profile picture.

-Someone ran into my car while backing up in the parking lot, even though I laid on my horn for the longest time.

-I love listening to Madame Giry and the Director practice their french accents.

-The severed head is now my boyfriend.

-Didn't know there were so many ways and arguments could be brought up about saying "ROME."

-I LOVE listening to Paingi and Carlotta argue with the director. Best quote from Carlotta, "Why?! Why do they pay attention to them? I am just as pretty as they!"

-This cast is super amazing and we could go straight to NYC and kick the current cast off stage.

-But the best observation I have made is....





JOSH GROBAN HAS ANNOUNCED HIS TOUR DATES FOR HIS "Straight to You" tour!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!

He will be coming to Charlotte North Carolina June the 6th.

Do you know what this means? Drastic measures! I already renewed my Friends of Josh Groban membership and that means that I can purchase my pre-sale tickets this Wednesday and I am so PUMPED!!! If is God's will, please oh please hopefully Josh can recongnize Mary Joan from the concert! How amazing and wonderful would that be!

But oh goodness, there is about to be an EXPLOSIVE video to coming up this Saturday about Josh's tour.

HaPpY BiRtHdAy JoShY GrObAn!

Today is my love's birthday. Josh Groban turned 30 today! Wh00t! Wh00t! But really he just turned 21. Today I had this whole scripted out episode and even made props for the best Mary Joan video ever! I was supposed to go snow tubing with my youth group in West Virginia and bring Jaylyn along with me to meet my adorable youth group. NOPE! Twenty minutes before I was about to wake up to get ready to leave, I got a text. Due to weather the trip was cancelled. I was so bummed! I had this whole vision! This whole thing for Josh planned out! but no.... :(

Neh, things always happen for a reason. And I heard that Josh is jealous over Justin Bieber right now, so I have an idea for an episode that I can film this Saturday with at least two of my youth kids. And still include something about it being Josh Groban's Birthday.

But I stayed at Liberty the whole weekend and basically spent all of it with Jaylyn. On Friday I went and saw the theatre department's The Civil War. Okay so this is the show I auditioned to be in. You know how some people have their own wars that just pick at their interests. My war was not the Civil War, for some reason every time we came to the civil war in history class in high school and middle school, I would literally doodle the entire time. World War II now that is my war, just because my family history was so involved with it, and not in a good way either. But when I auditioned for Civil War I auditioned because I know what it's like to have close friends and family away in the war, fighting for our freedom. Half of my youth group and church went into the army.

But I didn't know much about the play and how the director was approaching it. When I saw the set for the first time, it looked like a huge concert! I even went up to the director, Mr. Nelson, and asked him, "I didn't know Justin Beiber was in town." Hee Hee Hee.

But I saw it once with my friends Allie and KK and then the second time I saw it I was with Jaylyn. Who accomplished to abuse me and embarass me all in one night, multiple times. But we had seats in the one of the back rows and no one was around us, so everytime our favorite person came on we would just squeal quietly with excitment, or look to see if either one of us were crying at a certain scene and laugh at one another.

Then we went out in the woods because Jaylyn's boyfriend has an amazing camera, and he loves taking pictures. All the pictures that he took of Jay were beautiful. The ones he took of me, he is a marvelous photographer I'm just not photogenic. :( Oh well, it's going to suck when I have to get head shots, even my senior pics were a pain for me. Nehhhh..... whatevs.

Anyways!! Happy Birthday Josh! Have a wonderful day!

Mary Joan Revealed

There is a character inside me. A character so out of control, so unpleasant, it's to much to take in. This person is Mary Joan Ringwald, the person just dying to break through. When people see Mary Joan they can't believe that I could ever act like such an outrageous nut case. Well....she's there inside me.

Where did she come from?!

The idea of Mary Joan orginally started with Josh Groban. Of course I love Josh Groban he has been my role model and love since the 7th grade. Ever since I listened to "You Raise Me Up" I have been hooked to his voice. I saw Josh twice in concert. The first time I saw him it was because I threw a fit at my dad in the 10th grade that I didn't get flowers like all the other girls in school. My dad then whipped out tickets to center stage third row seats to Josh's concert in Raliegh. Yeah best moment of my life. My second time I saw Josh I saw him front row with my besties Allie and Chels and my fantabulous momma in the 11th grade it was amazing. Never been so close to my hero.

A character is born...

So then comes along my senior summer right before I head off to college. I got an amazing idea to make a video about Josh but it's about a crazy stalker fan and celebrity obsessions. It was the first video I made having myself play two characters at once. And after I put it up on youtube, the vide went nuts with hits!
Episode #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I07Q9LDXRgg

Mary Joan was not a character I made up from scratch. She is your stereotypical geek annoying figure, but Mary Joan is an actual person.

When I moved to North Carolina from South Carolina I was 8 years old. We moved next to these "neighbors." The neighbors daughter became my baby sitter due to the fact my parents traveled because of racing and I already missed enough school. Her character her attitude is everything that you see in Mary Joan. The invasion of personl space, the laugh, the voice, the facial expressions. THEY ARE ALL MY NEIGHBORS DAUGHTER. And yes she DOES HAVE A CELEBRITY OBSESSION and that celebrity happens to be Keith Urban.

Thinking the video was only a one hit wonder. I got inspiration when Josh told everyone he was about to release Illuminations, his newest album. So I made the returning sequel video and once again the character was unleashed out of me. And the video got a thousand hits!
Episode #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNR1C-jjWw4

The next video I do believe WAS SEEN BY JOSH. The only reason I believe this is because I think Josh's technical assistant Sarah attached it to his 30 second preview of "Hidden Away" video. Plus it's one of my favorites it deserves to have the most hits.
Episode #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vx9nFqGrk




This episode is when Josh finally told the world the release date for Illuminations. Plus I had a request from some fans to bring my adorable obese child (my dog) back into more videos, so Jazzy became a star.
Episode #4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rX2XJq2x6Q

Haha! Okay! It was Halloween at the time and Josh just released another single, "Voce Existe Em Mim." Yes I did go out and personally buy a V for Vendetta mask! HA! So much fun!
Episode #5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7AItjpVgU

"Hidden Away" turned into a music video, priceless. SO I brought my best friend from college home and I had her star in this episode. This is the breaking point in when I started to bring in other people into the episodes. And honestly Jaylyn says that she can't act, I disagree, she did wonderfully! She needs to get into the theatre department! The best part is when she "met" Mary Joan for the first time she was truly scared of me.
Epsidoe #6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxZudoJA7lE

My videos then began to sky rocket out and about all over the world literally. I started filming everywhere! EVERYWHERE!!!


Then the earth shattering event happened, Illuminations came out! I took this episode out of my bedroom setting and out all over Lynchburg,VA. I had my friend Allie film the beginning and Jaylyn helped me with the rest and starred in it once again(or more like Mary Joan tackled her). But this is overall the BEST video I have made because it was so important.
Lucky Episode #7
http://www.vimeo.com/16952077


The next video of course came way on into the future around Christmas time after I was done with A Christmas Carol. I went to Michigan for Christmas and my favorite person/cousin Paul who is also a theatre buff I had him make his first appearance as both a Justin Bieber and Mary Joan's brother Max. Max and Mary Joan are absolute opposites, that was Paul's idea. They look the same and have celebrity obsessions, but they are opposites in attitude. Max dosen't speak at all. In this episode we went to the nearest mall to see Santa to ask for Josh Groban and Justin Bieber. This episode had a lot of firsts, it was the first time I asked a complete stranger to be in the video, and the first time Paul and I actually waited without leaving the Santa line for 2 hours! But yeah it was great filming with him and I loved every moment of it! Plus the Santa actually believed Paul and I were "special" kids. Oh jeez....
Episode #8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B829_emVxr8


Every year my family and I go to Aruba, and I decided to an international video and ask people all over the beach of Aruba if they knew who Josh Groban was. The two ladies in this video I do know, the reason why they looked so shocked is because I walked off the beach, changed into costume, and came back as Mary Joan (had my mom record the whole thing) with little warning told them they were about to be filmed. And this was the result! Also had another random kid star in this episode. He was so happy when I asked him to kick sand on me!
Episode #9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRwSEIitZr4


It had been a while since the last episode so I decided to throw another video in, and I went back to my bedroom setting. This video is a personal favorite of mine just because it's so funny that Mary Joan can not draw and yet she tried to teach everyone how to draw Josh Groban. I did however lose my voice and get the flu right after this video....the consequences of being Mary Joan.
Epsiode #10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGJwj9ZecbE






Because of these videos people have met a side of me that will haunt them for ages. I have literally had complete strangers come up to me and ask if I am the girl from the Josh Groban videos. I have people around Liberty tell me they have seen my videos. I have had some individuals stare at me in shock that this side of me truly exists.

So you may ask WHY!?!?! Well I am going for the ultimate episode.....I bet you can guess what it is.

Mary Joan meets Josh Groban.

It's 2011

I thought that I would go ahead and just post a little blog. Plus its kind of like a diary and I always go back to read how horrible of a drama queen I am.

Yeah I kind of deleted a BUNCH of dramatic blogs that had to much information in it! Plus it was a long time ago and no matter what I could never change what happened back then. And honestly what happened in the past has only made me stronger.

Where to even begin. Well I came back to Liberty this fall semester, so many amazing things happened. I did not go to UNCC, although it is a wonderful back up plan in case I ever had to go there due to financial reasons. Or other reasons. But overall my parents BEGGED me to give Liberty one more chance. So yeah, I'm back!

But before school, this summer was amazing so many things happened that I can not even wrap my mind around still.
-The kids sadly moved out, and I miss them terribly because I never get to see them anymore.
-I went to camp as a dorm leader for my church. Camp was awesome so many memories. I performed at the talent show, that was an adrenaline rush, and countless amount of kids kept telling me how amazing I was. And God just threw a huge connection through out my whole youth group. It was probably the best moment of my life, all we could do as a group was stand there cry, pray, and hug.
-Also I went to two weddings this summer. One was at my church and one was my cousin Lindsay. They were equally FUN! I went to my church's wedding with one of my best friends from school, Chase, and it was marvelous!
-Then I directed my church's VBS.



But I grew so close to my youth group over this summer, I wasnt sure how I was going to recover to going back to reality and school. Jodi, Josh, Ashlea, JP, Harrison, Dillon, Dylan, Christian, Tori, Kayla, Jazzy, and everyone else I love you all so much.

But when I came back to Liberty I had no idea what was going to happen. I was totally open to everything that was going to happen, but what? I had no idea. But my main goal was to get into the theatre department this year. And believe it or not I got into a production. I got into the show A Christmas Carol as running crew. I was totally thankful it was the best feeling ever!

As the semester progressed I started hanging out with a different group and frankly I was having the best time of my college life.


There was a huge rough patch in October where I was angry.... Angry at everything. I even hated the fact when my Birthday came around. It was bad, I had not been that angry since my senior year. And I did ruin many relationships because I was so angry. But I came out of it pretty well if you ask me, I did not turn from God. But tests like these come. And thankfully I do believe I passed with a C. HA!

Then an earth shattering thing happened for the first time in my life. I got a boyfriend. The one thing that I thought would never happen! I had no idea that this boy liked me, I always thought he liked one of my friends at the time. So I stayed away from that "situation." Then on halloween night I had asked him to help me with my math because I had a test the next day. He agreed and we spent the whole night studying math. Then we went out to eat, and when I dropped him off he asked me out. I was shocked but happy all at the same time.

God had totally blessed me beyond all belief. It was great and I had so much fun! It was a good 6 weeks.This relationship had it's consequences though. I lost a lot of friends because of it, but even though I lost friends I gained new ones within the theatre department. It still hurt though dont get me wrong to lose such amazing people in my life. And the communication didnt work out at all either. And I was constantly busy. Within time I realized the relationship wasnt going to work out so I ended it two weeks before Christmas break.

But the best thing that has happened to me this year is that I have gotten involved with the theatre department. People I have admired and viewed as STARS have become my friends. I never imagined myself being friends with any of these people. I never thought I would get to know any of the directors and I have, and I love it! I LOVE ALL OF THEM!!

Christmas Carol was awesome! I stayed under a stage on the stage the whole play, and I operated an elevator, some props, and window. The set was mind blowing, I wish I could describe it. You just have no idea!






Then another miracle happened. The auditions for the Spring shows came around the corner. I auditioned and interviewed. And I got into production as Assistant Prop Master for the show that originally made me fall in love with theatre. The Phantom of the Opera. I LOVE PROPS!!! I think because I play with so many little figurines in my life I'm just drawn to them like they are toys! But being in this department I am beyond blessed! And I have made friends that I know I will be friends with for years into the future. And I have been intorduced to some life changing plans, and I have been growing with my acting in some amazing classes. I only hope that I can continue to grow and be a part of this amazing department!

Life is pretty good right now. I am content. Sure I am still BOY CRAZY and I have already found someone else I have my eye on. Which I must admit I have done a lot of embarrasing things around, ha! But I dont know, every time I tell someone that I like this guy, especially my best friends, they cant believe it. Because this guy is nothing like I would like, but I dont know, I am just drawn to him, and I just cant help myself. I am crazy with classes this semester, I am in a bunch of theatre classes and art classes because I am now an official double major. I couldnt let art go, so I know I want it always in my life, and I would love to get a degree in it. It will be hard but I love theatre and art both so much and I need to have them in my life always.