TeenDramaQueen’s blog

"When your life is on course with your purpose, you are your most powerful." - Oprah

"Have you ever watched someone do their job and thought, 'I can never do that. That's not me.' It's an important thing. To be able to determine what we can and can not do. What fits and what doesn't. Who you are and who you aren't." Being Erica

"Every woman in her late 20's goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore. But it is and I think the minute you stop looking is when it comes for you." - Actress Kristen Bell

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. - Ernest Hemingway

The story of our life in the end is not our life, it is our story. - Ernest Hemingway

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
            -- Alan Kay

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
            -- Paul Beatty

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
            -- John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
            -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
            -- Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
            -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

"If you don't know where you're going any road will get you there." - Alice in Wonderland

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
            -- Walter Winchell

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
            -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
            -- Bill Vaughan

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
            -- Evan Esar

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
            -- John Grogan, An Interview with John Grogan, 2008

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
            -- Orson Welles

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
            -- Barry LePatner

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
            -- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
            -- George Bernard Shaw

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
            -- John Atkinson

[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
            -- Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
            -- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
            -- Anais Nin
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
            -- Anonymous

The body says what words cannot.
            -- Martha Graham

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
            -- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Vote early and vote often.
            -- Al Capone

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
            -- Robert Morley

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
            -- William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
            -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
            -- Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain
            -- Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
            -- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
            -- Miles Davis

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
            -- Carl Sandburg, Incidentals (1907)

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
            -- Martin Myers

Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.
            -- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
            -- Garrison Keillor, in Salon.com

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
            -- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
            -- Lynn Johnston, Lynn on Ideas

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
            -- Democritus

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
            -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
            -- Jerry Chin

Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.
            -- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't.  , 08-22-04

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
            -- Dorothy Parker

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
            -- Douglas Adams

We go where our vision is.
            -- Joseph Murphy

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
            -- Albert Schweitzer

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
            -- Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
            -- Rick Pitino, Lead to Success

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
            -- Marquis de Vauvenargues

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
            -- Arthur Rubinstein

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
            -- Sydney Smith

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
            -- Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
            -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
            -- Doctor Who

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
            -- Elayne Boosler

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
            -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
            -- Henry Fielding

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
            -- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
            -- Mark Twain

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
            -- George Bernard Shaw

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
            -- Howard Thurman

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
            -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
            -- Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
            -- Peter McWilliams

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
            -- Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964

The choice is yours how you choose to live. To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield ~ Ulysses

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
            -- Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
            -- Gore Vidal

This is like deja vu all over again.
            -- Yogi Berra

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
            -- G. K. Chesterton

All that counts in life is intention.
            -- Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
            -- T. S. Eliot

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
            -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
            -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
            -- Daniel H. Burnham

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
            -- Steve Jobs

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
            -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

 

 
* I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

* More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

* Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

* I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?

* Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to
yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

* That's enough, Nickelback.

* I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

* Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know"
feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose
not to be friends with?

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't
work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically
fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all
know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards
or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

There is a great need for sarcasm font.

Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and
suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first
saw it.

I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually
becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting
90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's
laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little
bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the
only one who really, really gets it.

How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than
take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear
your computer history if you die.

The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to
finish a text.

A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of
mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

LOL has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron
test is absolutely petrifying.

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart",
all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up
to prevent a *** from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in'
examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete
idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and
said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"

What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and
instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I
know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

Bad decisions make good stories

Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their
profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got
the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if
I do!

Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring
would probably just be completely invisible.

Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go
around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly
nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be
a problem....

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work
when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything
productive for the rest of the day.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't
want to have to restart my collection.

There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are
going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me
if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I
swear I did not make any changes to.

"Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people
watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will
they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't
watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and
leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?
Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and
goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone
and run away?

I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not
seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle,
then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising
speed for pedophiles.

As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers,
but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still
not know what time it is.

It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to
answer when they call.

Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car
keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the
Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze
button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time
every time...

My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would
happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?

I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they
drive behind obeys the speed limit.

I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or
Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw
they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words,
someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think
about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people
eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by
myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard
before dinner

With the impeding wedding date of our beloved Kellie, I have been going through old papers trying to find 'fun stuff' to use for her wedding preparations. Well, I came across the infamous 'quiz' from 2002 that took place at Christi's apartment in Wisconsin before I even moved to LA. Needless to say...this is quite old but the answers themselves NEVER get old. Below are the individual quizzes for Kellie, Christi and myself in the order that Kellie transcribed them from her original post.

Good times were had by all...

- C

Finally I am posting the quizzes my friends Christine, Christi and I answered about each other while drunk last weekend. *g*

 

Christine, your handwriting sucks, be-atch. Lol. But I think I’m making sense of it.

 

Some of this stuff cracks me up, because it’s so obvious we were drunk. A lot of it, I do *not* remember coming up with, or being told. Lol. I’m glad we immortalized it on paper. *g*

 

You know Chris-es, after reading through these I realize how very well we know each other, and how how perfectly we all compliment one another. *hugs* to my girls! :-D

 

I’m having trouble getting the hang of this side-shunting thing, so I’m having to break each quiz up into separate posts…

 

CHRISTINE:

If Christine was a mascot, what would she be?

A little bird

 

If Christine died tomorrow, what would we wear to her funeral?

A very nice sweater with jeans, tennis shoes and a BSU cap. (side note - *that* cracks me up. Lol.)

 

What is Christine’s ideal place to live?

Aside from NY and LA – San Diego

 

What is Christine’s biggest flaw?

According to Christi, Christine doesn’t know when guys hit on her. Lol.

 

What is Christine’s greatest strength?

Christi’s exact words: ‘The things she does want, by damn, that girl’s gonna get those things!’

 

Who are 5 people that Christine could cheat on her future husband with and dammit, he’d just have to understand?

Dave Matthews - Chris O’Donnell – Chandler Bing – Shane West (laughing…)

 

What is Christine’s favorite TV show of all time?

Seinfeld

 

Who was Christine’s childhood hero?

Punky Brewster and Mary Poppins

 

If Christine was a flavor of ice cream, what flavor would she be?

Rainbow sherbert because she’s colorful and sweet. :-D

 

 

If Christine was a mode of transportation, what would she be?

A bicycle or roller skates (because roller skates are just one of those things our Christine is bound to still have lying around in her closet someplace.)

 

If Christine was a barnyard animal, what would she be?

Llama, because she stands out in a heard (lol-does a llama ever *count* as a barnyard animal???)

 

If Christine was a natural disaster, which one would she be?

Again, Christi’s exact words: ‘A hurricane, cause when she’s pissed, she’s gonna tear some shit up.” Lol.

 

Which TV family is the most like Christine’s?

The Bunkers because of the4 CONSTANT bickering and banter.

 

If there was going to be a movie about Christine’s life, which actress should play her?

Christi said there is no actress on earth that could pull Christine off. I said Sandra Bullock.

 

If Christine had a theme song, what would it be?

“Walking on Sunshine.”

 

Where do we see Christine in 10 years?

Fucking rich to support Kellie and Christi’s asses who are still off filing papers and teaching kids.

 

If Christine was a donut, which flavor would she be?

She’s be ‘Dunkin Donuts Munchkin donut hole treats’ *g*

 

If Christine were a cartoon character, who would she be?

Smurfette – guys are drooling, but she just goes off into the forest where Gargamel is. (Um girls…huh? Lol.)

 

What is Christine’s favorite Disney movie?

The Little Mermaid

 

If Christine was an article of clothing, what would she be?

TENNIS SHOES

 

What’s Christine’s most memorable Halloween costume?

Tourist from first senior year of college. Jem from childhood. (Yeah Jem!)…(um, girls…anyone know why I wrote this answers “Apparently Kellie doesn’t understand Christine’s pain on this one.” ? I don’t remember writing this one at all. Lol.)

 

If Christine was an alcoholic beverage, what would she be?

Sand in your shorts

 

If Christine was a misdemeanor, what crime would she be?

Public Intoxication. (lol.)

 

If Christine was a state, which state would she be?

This question created quite a heated argument. I said California but Christi wishes to go on the record with New York.

 

If Christine’s life was a movie, what would the title be?

Spanish Part 5 (ROFL)

 

If Christine was a nonsense word, what would she be?

‘Huh?’

 

If Christine was a breakfast cereal, what would she be?

Lucky Charms, but just the marshmallows.

 

If Christine was a Friends character, who would she be?

Rachael

 

What’s Christine’s guilty pleasure?

Knowing every single episode of Saved By The Bell.

 

If Christine was a flower, what would she be?

Daisy

 

If Christine was a boy band member, who would she be?

Dan from O-Town because he’s just there by chance.

 

CHRISTI: 

 

If Christi were a mascot, what would she be?

A cheese head. Lol. Or a cowgirl

 

If Christi died tomorrow, what would we wear to her funeral?

Cowgirl costumes

 

What is Christi’s ideal place to live?

Eau Claire, WI :-D

 

What is Christi’s biggest flaw?

Just sometimes, her patience lacks. (For instance – ‘Turn off the f%*ing alarm clock!’ In Christi’s defense, she is now sorry she broke said clock.

 

What is Christi’s greatest strength?

When she ‘does’ have patience, she REALLY has patience. (Christi, I cold never keep track of kids bowel movements. Lol. More power to ya!) And she is a very strong person.

 

What is Christi’s favorite TV show of all time?

She doesn’t have one.

 

Who was Christi’s childhood hero?

Buzzy

 

If Christi was a flavor of ice cream, what would she be?

A big ass bus. Lol. Get out of her way.

 

If Christi was a barnyard animal, what would she be?

Sheep herder dog. (lol- this is one I have no recollection of either. Lol.)

 

If Christi was a natural disaster, what would she be?

A tsunami – according to Christine, ‘she comes in and wipes it all out.’

 

Which TV family is the most like Christi’s?

The Keatons

 

If there was going to be a movie about Christi’s life, which actress should play her?

Joan Cusack

 

If Christi had a theme song, what would it be?

The Gambler

 

Where do you see Christi in 10 years?

Head of Special Ed Innovative Strategies program, or some such thing

 

If Christi was a donut, what flavor would she be?

She’d be all nutty and coconutty

If Christi was a cartoon character, who would she be?

Tazmanian Devil

 

What is Christi’s favorite Disney Movie?

The Little Mermaid

 

If Christi was an article of clothing, what would she be?

Funky shoes

 

What’s Christi’s most memorable Halloween costume?

Annie

 

If Christi was an alcoholic beverage, what would she be?

Shotgun

 

If Christi was a misdemeanor, what would she be?

Indecent exposure

 

If Christi was a state, what state would she be?

Wyoming

 

If Christi’s life was a movie, what would the title be?

“Dazed and Confused”

 

If Christi’s major in college hadn’t existed, what would she have chosen instead?

Speech pathology

 

If Christi was a dog, what breed would she be?

Sheep dog

 

What is Christi’s favorite childhood book?

Fish Out Of Water

 

If Christi was a non-sense word, what would she be?

Yee-haw!

 

If Christi’s car had a vanity plate, what would it read?

Yee-haw!

 

If Christi was a breakfast cereal, what cereal would she be?

Kix

 

If Christi was a singer, who would she be?

Trisha Yearwood because she sings from the heart and she loves Garth. (lol)

 

If Christi was a Friends character, who would she be?

Ross

 

If Christi was a sport, what sport would she be?

Rugby or Volleyball, because according to Christine, Christi would ‘spike it down on ya!’ lol

 

If Christi was a flower, what would she be?

Wildflower

 

What is Christi’s astrological sign?

Pisces

 

If Christi was a boy band member, who would she be?

Joey Fatone from N’Sync

 

If Christi could change one thing about herself, what would it be?

(Am quoting directly from the paper here) “She’d be a salt and vinegar chip” (Cracks up laughing…Even while drunk, I put a question mark after that one.)

 

 

KELLIE:

This is where it gets rough, folks. Have to read Christine’s writing to type this one up…

 

These answers are all according to Christine and Christi. I take no responsibility for their views on my personality. J

 

If Kellie was a mascot, what would she be?

An owl because they don’t move their eyes and only focus on one thing at a time. (huh?)

 

If Kellie died tomorrow, what would we wear to her funeral?

Something classy, like a black suit…or a purple hat. ;)

 

What would be Kellie’s ideal place to live?

Washington, D.C.

 

What is Kellie’s biggest flaw?

That she doesn’t’ believe in herself.

 

What is Kellie’s greatest strength?

When she does something, she does it 100% and doesn’t settle for less.

 

Who are 5 people that Kellie could cheat on her future husband with and dammit, he’s just have to understand?

(How sad is it that they could only come up with two?) The adorable waiter from Pestos and Chad Allen.

 

What is Kellie’s favorite TV show of all time?

The Cosby Show and Friends

 

Who was Kellie’s childhood hero?

She Ra, Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.

 

If Kellie was a flavor of ice cream, what flavor would she be?

Strawberry or Orange Sherbet because she’s a little bit different, but still very enjoyable. (Um…thanks?)

 

If Kellie was a color, what color would she be?

Purple

 

If Kellie was a mode of transportation, what would she be?

A fast car. (Christine, I can’t make out what you wrote after that…how drunk were you? LOL!)

 

If Kellie was a barnyard animal, what would she be?

The rooster because she always gets everyone going?

 

If Kellie were a natural disaster, which one would she be?

A flood because you never know when it’s gonna hit.

 

Which TV family is the most like Kellie’s family?

The Gilmore Girls

 

If there was going to be a movie about Kellie’s life, which actress should play her?

Susan Sarandon (Yeah, she’s a little old isn’t she?)

 

If Kellie had a theme song, what would it be?

“I’ll Be There For You” from Friends or “I’m Moving On” (Rascall Flatts)

 

Where do you see Kellie in 10 years?

In a high executive position at some big headquarters for something or other.

 

If Kellie were a donut, which flavor would she be?

Powdered Sugar/Cinnamon (Christine, after that you wrote ‘aficionado.’ LOL! What? Am I a powdered donut aficionado?’ LOL!)

 

If Kellie were a cartoon character, what would she be?

Something that I can’t read or a Gummy Bear. (lol – Why a gummy bear?)

 

What is Kellie’s favorite Disney Movie?

Aladdin

 

If Kellie was an article of clothing, what would she be?

A suit jacket “because when you take it off, SHAZAAM!” (ROTF…what????)

 

What’s Kellie’s most memorable Halloween costume?

Bride

 

If Kellie were an alcoholic beverage, what would she be?

A martini or a nice wine

 

If Kellie was a misdemeanor, what would she be?

An unpaid parking meter

 

If Kellie was a state, which state would she be?

Washington state, because it’ something new. (lol- huh?)

 

If Kellie’s life was a movie, what would the title be?

“My So-Called Life.”

 

If Kellie’s major in college hadn’t existed, what would she have chosen instead?

Business Management (Yeah, girls, I don’t think so…)

 

If Kellie was a dog, which breed would she be?

A hairless Chihuahua…but with hair (lol-I’m too scared to even ask…)

 

What was Kellies’ favorite childhood book?

Lengthy, the Very Long Dog” (Yah for Lengthy!)

 

If Kellie was a nonsense word, what would she be?

Kellie would not be a nonsense word. (LOL!)

 

If Kellie’s car had a vanity plate, what would it read?

‘Cha Ching! $’ (Yeah, don’t I wish…)

 

If Kellie was a breakfast cereal, what would she be?

Cheerios

 

If Kellie were a singer, who would she be?

Barbara Streisand or Martina McBride

 

If Kellie was a Friends character, who would she be?

Monica

 

What is Kellie’s biggest guilty pleasure?

Being goofy. I.E. The Pony Dance. (Oh god…hangs head…)

 

What is Kellie’s favorite restaurant?

Super China Buffet

 

If Kellie was a flower, what flower would she be?

Tulip

 

What is Kellie’s astrological sign?

Gemini

 

If Kellie were a boy band member, who would she be?

Kevin Richardson from Backstreet Boys

 

If Kellie could change one thing about herself, what would it be?

To be able to lead her own destiny.  

"Linda needs to shunpike Sarah." - CD

"Project: Breezy call." - LH

"My motto in 09 is smooth as a baby's culito." MF

"Excuse me? How dare you dump a woman and then four months later eat one of her finely crafted cupcakes without any issue?" - MF

"I need something more cosmopolitan and a little less midwest." - CD

"Listen honey, I love Jesus but I drink a little." - You Tube lady

"Maria, do you really want to live with a roommate who lives in the days of yore?" - AT

"We'll be like the good version of Lipstick Jungle." CD

"I'll pay you back in gratitude. And a drink at the party."  - MF

"Well my outfit consists of a bun and bangs. Nothing else but a bun and bangs." - MF

A CD reference as part of a college class? Oh wow...ladies and gentlemen...she has made it. Do you know what that's called? Notoriety!" - MF

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
            -- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
            -- Mitch Albom

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
            -- Fran Lebowitz

Conceit is God's gift to little men.
            -- Bruce Barton

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
            -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hope is only the love of life.
            -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
            -- Bono, Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
            -- Comte de Buffon

He who would travel happily must travel light.
            -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The things you own end up owning you.
            -- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
            -- Horace Walpole

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
            -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
            -- Ellen Metcalf

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
            -- John Witherspoon

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
            -- John Atkinson

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.
            -- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

- Maya Angelou

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
            -- Andre Gide

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
            -- Grace Murray Hopper

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
            -- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

The best mirror is an old friend.
            -- George Herbert, 1651

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
            -- Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
            -- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
            -- Henry David Thoreau

Follow the grain in your own wood.
            -- Howard Thurman
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
            -- Hubert H. Humphrey

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
            -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
            -- William Gibson

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
            -- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
            -- Margaret Fuller

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
            -- Thomas H. Huxley

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
            -- Lillian Carter

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
            -- Og Mandino

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
            -- Harry S Truman

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
            -- Unknown

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
            -- Thomas Mann

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
            -- Marcus Valerius Martialis

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
            -- Louis I Kahn

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
            -- Charles Darwin

The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.
            -- Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City, A Woman's Right To Shoes, 2003

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
            -- Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
            -- Kahlil Gibran

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
            -- Oscar Wilde

There must be more to life than having everything.
            -- Maurice Sendak

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
            -- Theodore Roosevelt

"What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?' - Jack Kerouac

Facing what might ostensibly be viewed as the end of my youth, I longed for someone to offer me a glimpse of what I might expect to transpire in the decade to come. Now at thirty-three, I see that my twenty-nine-year-old self thought the time had come to say her farewells - farewell to my younger, invincible, devil-may-care self, farewell to that endless sense of possibility. After all, it was all supposed to come together in your thirties - the relationship, the career, the family, all of it. In the end, however, I learned that while there simply wouldn't be room for all of my dreams, all was not lost, and richer and greener pastures lay ahead for me than I might ever have imagined.

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Phil McLaughlin can attest to that. After graduating from Indiana University in August 2007, he attached a U-Haul trailer to his car and started across the country.

"To be honest, I'm surprised my car made it," McLaughlin said. "By the time we hit the desert I had the heat on high with the windows down, watching the engine temp kiss the red the entire way."

McLaughlin's move coincided with the front end of the writers' strike, so he remained in unpaid internships and a tiny apartment for a while, sleeping on a mattress when he couldn't afford a bed frame.

"I don't know the square footage, but figuring it out would just be depressing," he said. "For a while it definitely was a stretch to pay bills. Finding work was not the easiest thing for me. We lived off of summer savings and my girlfriend's job at a department store."

Perhaps the biggest challenge for those trying to break into the industry is the seasonal nature of the work, Misiewicz said. Most end up freelancing or working on television shows that don't tape during the holidays or the summer.

"We try to tell [our graduates], you know what, you do what you have to do. Work at Target, at [the supermarket chain] Meijers, etc.," he said. "And just enjoy the weather."

The department encourages its students to dream big while equipping them with the knowledge of what they're getting in to. Indiana University did the same for McLaughlin. A seminar his senior year taught him that 90 percent of the entertainment industry is in Hollywood -- and to make it, you just have to take that chance.

Bobby Milly, program director for computer animation at the Los Angeles Film School, said more students come out each year from the East Coast because Hollywood is, quite literally, in the school's backyard.

"Especially with films and video games, the market is here. There are 30 video game companies out here alone," Milly said. "The benefit is that finding another job if you lose one without relocating is a much better possibility. "

More than 30 percent of the school's students are from out of state, public relations spokesman Antoine Ibrahim said. And based on the volume of calls the housing department gets, a lot are moving to the area and becoming full-time residents, he said.

"I decided to move out to LA because it was obvious this is where the opportunity is," McLaughlin said. "There's easily 30 of us from my graduating class in my program that moved out here at the same time."

Having a support system helps, McLaughlin said. He and his friends use their production backgrounds to distribute online videos of their sketch comedy group Moon Country. Many in the group have day jobs, but they each use their skills -- either as actors, writers or in production -- in hopes of getting noticed and padding their resume reels.

"I'm drawn to this line of work because of the inherent collaborative and creative energy, so ultimately I'd love to be in a position where I'm making a living working with friends, creating stuff we love," McLaughlin said.

"The money aspect hasn't necessarily come through yet, but I'm confident it will."

Kurpanek also posts his short films online because he knows the way to find a job in this industry has changed.

"It's definitely easier to get your stuff shown on platforms like YouTube, and having your own Web site makes things easier to show reels," he said.

Still there are ups and downs, especially in this economy. Marita Gomsrud and her twin sister, Mariel, understand the obstacles. They moved to Los Angeles from New York more than a year ago in hopes of becoming actresses on the big screen. They've found odd jobs here and there, from modeling to catering, but have yet to land a break.

"It can get really discouraging and frustrating, " Marita said about going on audition after audition. "You know LA is going to be hard, but you never know how hard until you get here."

The sisters barely make it from month to month. They put a lot of what they make back into their careers through workshops and acting classes. Marita said it's hard to hold a steady job because actors have to be able to run out to auditions.

"It's exciting because your life could change from one Monday to the next; you could land that job and get that part," she said. "But it's also scary because your never know if you're going to work."

Of course, no one would come to Los Angeles if they didn't know the success stories. Kurpanek was let go from a job in November because a film he was working on was shut down. But he fought his way back and is now an assistant editor for Richard Halsey, who won an Oscar for film editing for "Rocky." Kurpanek also is looking forward to editing the short film "CarJack," which has a $75,000 budget.

He's on his way. But he has some advice for those hoping to find fame and fortune. "The biggest thing is networking. Be nice. Be friendly to everybody and remember people's names," Kurpanek said. "And you have to work for free."

My Flashback: Leaving Indiana for Hollywood