This week's project.

As some of you may or may not know, I'm a backstage member of The Blue Hill Troupe. This is a theatre group that does Gilbert and Sullivan shows and raises money for a different charity each year. Check us out, we're pretty cool!

As a backstage member, I get to help build the set for the upcoming shows, which means I get to use POWERTOOLS! haha and yesterday I learned how to use a jigsaw!

This is what I cut out!

I'm still learning and accidents happen...I cut off the donkey's tail! 

Ooops! 

But when the elephant and donkey come down at the end of the show, I can say, "I jigsawed that!" 

Today's Top Ten!

It's time to get serious and accomplish some great things! 

Here are my Top Ten Goals for 2012!

10. Have a stomach like this:

09. Learn more of these:

08. Become Level 2 in this:

07. Figure out which of these areas I want to focus on:

06. Have enough of this to be independent:

05. Expand this:

04. Meet a great one of these:

(preferably straight and independently wealthy).
(Oh, and also one who is over the age of 18).

03. Get on this:

02. Become more comfortable doing these 

(although they seem pretty relaxed. There usually aren't this many smiles):

01. Become closer to Him:

Tuesdays with Morrie

This is an amazing book! I just picked it up from the library the other day and devoured it. It's written by Mitch Albom, who's a sports writer. It's a true story of an older college professor who is dying from ALS and is teaching some of life's greatest lessons to one of his dearest students, who is now all grown up. I just want to share some of the words from these pages that left an impression on me.

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

We all need teachers in our lives.

But there still seemed to be no clear answers. Do you take care of others or take care of your "inner child"? Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity? Just Say No or Just Do It?

He ruled out law, because he didn't like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn't stand the sight of blood...It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams

"Every day have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, '...Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?' "

"Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."

"We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-and have it repeated to us- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."

"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. You notice...there's nothing in there about a salary."

"And love is how you stay alive, ever after you are gone."

"People are only mean when they're threatened...and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all a part of this culture."

"We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now,' you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."



Watch the series of interviews Morrie did with Ted Koppel:

http://youtu.be/dcnL2o385Gw

Today's Top Ten

My Top Ten Favorite TV Shows!

(to be amended at any time)

10. Sharon, Lois and Brams' Elephant Show

 9. Fraggle Rock

 8. NCIS

 7. Castle 

 6. The Profiler

 5. Murder, She Wrote

4.5. 30 Rock

 4. Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

 3. The Golden Girls

 2. Matlock

 1. Law and Order: SVU

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My website:

www.suzannemilton.com

It has all my acting/modeling stuff there! Check it out! You'll be glad you did :-)

This week's project...

Since moving to NYC means smaller living spaces and shipped boxes of stuff, I didn't move up here with any kind of furniture. Which means I didn't have anywhere to put my clothes except my tiny closet and the box they were shipped in! So finally I ordered a dresser from good ol' Wally World and had it shipped to my address for me to assemble since I have no car to go pick up any actual furniture!

Here's how it all went down...

First you have to smile at the camera!

Then you gotta open the box and see what ya got!

Next, start reading those instructions and feeling good about your ability to follow them!

After about an hour and a half, you've gotten pretty far but are starting to get hungry and wanting some $2 beers from your local pub!

So with your roommate's help, you nail the back on, put the drawers together and call it a night!

And the next day, Ta Da!! You have a completed dresser, that is unfortunately, not big enough to hold all your clothes, so you have to go to the Bargain store and get an annex to your dresser in the form of those plastic drawers. But at least I didn't have to assemble those!

Next on the agenda into making my NY apartment feel like home: getting a TV and DVD player for my room to go on top of my new dresser! But again, everything goes back to- how am I going to get it here without a car?