DAY ONE: This is not going to be a long post because it is currently 9:42pm and I have been up since 4:15am and tomorrow I have to wake up early because I have to be at WORK at 9:30am!!!! So, you might be wondering, "How in the hell did Miki move to NYC on a Wednesday and have no job and then start work on Thursday with a job?" Well, my friends, with a little bit of over planning, stress, prayer, and some help from a really good friend you can do it too! Honestly, I am hugely blessed to be able to have the oppurtunites I have. Someone is looking out for me. I can feel it. =) Today has been such a wonderful busy lovely whirlwind of emotions. I haven't actually let myself really be "happy" or "excited" that I am here yet because I have had so much to do and not a moment to breath or think about anything. My only time not running around today was the 30 minute nap I took before my job interview. I will try and recap a few things from the day.
As I am typing this with the sound of Wes gruesomely murdering something on the screen next to me... my eyes are closing. I have to leave the rest of the days adventures to your imagination...or until tomorrow when I can recap further. Good night you lovely humans.
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I am still sick. But it isn't a stomach virus anymore...I just have a freaking frackin cold. It wont go away and my body hates me. I guess turning 25 didn't work out well for my body so it is rebelling. I spent all of Christmas coughing and sneezing and wheezing. My nose was running and I always had a headache...
BUT LETS TALK ABOUT GOOD THINGS Yesterday was Christmas and it was pretty darn wonderful. I got to surprise some of my family by coming into town when they weren't expecting me, I had a wonderful christmas dinner that included a delicious strawberry pie that was made just for me (thanks Leah!), opened presents around the Christmas Tree, and sang a few christmas carols along the way...that was all on Christmas Eve though! See, my moms family does things a bit differently. We have always, since I can remember, given presents and had our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, then in the morning we wake up and have breakfast and see what Santa brought. This works perfectly for me now since we try and split Christmas up between Wes's family and my family. So we spent Christmas Eve with mine and Christmas day/night with his (as we have for the past two years). My parents got to come to Cincinnati and eat breakfast and open a few presents with his family Christmas morning before taking my car =( (cause I am moving to the city and I can't have a car there and such...) and heading back to Paducah. It was pretty fantastic. List of things Wes and I got:
I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL christmas and you all are coming off of your famliy, food, and love highs delightfully. Today we see La La Land and Fences!!! THREE DAYS AGO I TURNED 25!!!
AND IT WAS REALLY MESSY... It really was wonderful. I woke up relatively early (much to my boyfriends demise) and we went to get breakfast at IHOP, went to Target to kill time (always a good date idea for me) and then went to see Office Christmas Party. First let me say this, that movie is INCREDIBLY underated. I hardly saw any publicity for it and it was freaking hilarious. After these festivities I then went to see my fella in his Christmas show Awaited at Crossroads. It was beautiful and spectacular as always and I am actually going back tonight for their closing with my parents. Yay! After the show was over we went out to our favorite bar and met up with some friends drank some drinks, laughed some laughs, and headed to the casino. There I won $260.00 (left with $180.00) and had my last drink of the night. This sounds like a pretty awesome birthday, eh? uh uh. It wasn't...just wait. Drink total: 3. The whole day. 3. I do not point out how many drinks I had to show that I am disappointed to have not gotten drunk. I say this because of what happened next.... I get in the car when we leave the casino and as we are driving home I am sitting in the passenger seat feeling very very VERY nauseos. I don't know what is going but of course I correlate it with the drinks I had (even though I know that three drinks is not going to make me throw up...I did go to college)I get home and immediately throw up. I don't want to get into too much detail but it was REALLY bad. I continued to throw up all night until like 7am and didn't fall asleep once. The next day I slept until 4pm and didn't get out of bed but one time. Yesterday I went to get a tattoo and immediately after I had to go home because I felt so weak. And today I feel like I have a cold... what. the. actual. hell. So needless to say my body doesn't like me being 25. I need to shake this by tomorrow. Please dear GOD let me shake this by tomorrow. Also, I suck at buying gifts for people on time so the fact that I lost 3 days actually means I have to get like three christmas presents today.. Merry Christmas Eve Eve everyone. So, it snowed last night and I didn't handle it very well. It started around 11am and didn't stop until like 8pm.
Now, don't get me wrong. I have been around snow before. My last contract was in Auburn, NY and let me tell ya, the winter there was pretty trecherous. I learned what a snow squall was from experiencing it sooo (A snowsquall (or snow squall) is a sudden moderately heavy snow fall with blowing snow and strong, gusty surface winds. It is often referred to as a whiteout and is similar to a blizzard but is localized in time or in space and snow accumulations may or may not be significant.) ..I am pretty much a badass eskimo fully equipped to deal with blizzards. BIG HOWEVER HERE I had a different car then. I was by no means driving a snow plow, but it was higher off the ground and had gears for me to drive in the snow. My new car? Not so much. Miranda (my car) failed me last night and I don't know if we are speaking at the moment. Last night I made the mistake of staying at the theatre a little bit late becuase I was working on something. Everyone else left before the snow got REALLY bad but I stayed...When I left it was coming down hard and it took me and Miranda probably about 8 minutes or so to get out of the parking lot becuase I kept getting stuck. Once I got out of the parking lot I thought, ' Hey, this will be better because the roads will be plowed...' and I was right until it came time for me to park my Miranda in front of my house. There wasn't room directly in front so I had to turn around, I did so in a snow covered parking lot...why? Becuase I forgot was with Miranda. I went through and got stuck. I drove forward a little...stuck. Reveresed a little. Stuck. I basically moved about 5 inches per minute forwards and backwards for a good long time until I looked next to me, saw another car parked (it was a parking lot after all) and turned my Miranda off. I walked across the street and into my home to eat cookied and watch The Santa Clause. =) 4 hours later... There is a pounding at the door. It is the police. They are here to arrest the stupid idiot who parked their car in the drive way of a parking lot blocking the plow trucks from cleanig the street... just kidding. They just wanted me to move Miranda. So I went out in shorts and combat boots to move my her. In the snow. With a police car behind me and an audience. I was offered the words of encouragment, "Just don't hit my car!" and I was on my way. I got out. It took a really long time but I did. So my Miranda is now parked in front of my house crooked and sad looking surround by snow. Miranda got defeated last night and I don't think she feels very good about herself. But we will get through this together and it will only make us stronger. take a breath. look around. hug someone. you're so lucky. be the change. For the first time since graduation I am about to be unemployed. Now, I promise that isn't as bad as it sounds. I graduated with a degree in Acting and I have been sucessfully working for almost two years with no breaks inbetween. But for the first time since I walked across that stage, in 4 days I will not have a job...and I couldn't be more excited about it!!!
My Christmas contract is about to end and when that happens I will have 10 days to spend with my family and my wonderful boyfriend before moving to NYC! I actually can't believe I just typed that. So, I have been wanting to move to NYC since I can remember. When I started theatre I was 7 years old and all I could talk about was going to the city. I wanted my parents to vacation there SOOO badly...but I didn't get to go until I was 19 years old. And I didn't see my first Broadway show until I was 22. As soon as I stepped out of the plan I knew that it was where I was supposed to be. It's always been the dream and now after working professionally as a full time actress year round for two years I finally get to say that I am making the move!!! I have struggled quite a bit since graduation with not really knowing who I was. I mean, yes, I am Miki Abraham and I have been performing for 18 years (Woah...weird to see that). But I didn't really know who Miki was and if I am being honest I still dont really know... and I think that's why I am so excited to do be unemployed for a bit. I have spent so much time being onstage and being someone else that I haven't really been getting to know myself. I just want to eat good food, work as a waitress, take a yoga class, and go on vocal rest. Tis the season for auditioning, of course, but for the most part I just want to be me. This upcoming year is going to be really really exciting and I can't wait to see what's in store. take a breath. look around. hug someone. you're so lucky. be the change. |
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