It's Humpday!!!

Oh my gosh! It's Wednesday, and I haven't posted this week? Whassup with that? Well, honestly, I forgot =P {{I'm so embarrassed}} But, look on the bright side of life. I'm posting now! Aren't you happy that you get some Ana today? ...If this is inconvienient, I'm so sorry. I know you set apart time specifically to read my posts every Monday ;) Get over it.

Last week, I asked you guys to ask me some questions about life so I could have something to write about. I got two really difficult questions to answer....

#1: "If you could meet any celebrity...other than you-know-who...who would it be and why and what questions would you ask them?"

Okay, the answer to this questions really depends on who you mean by "you-know-who". I'm assuming it's either Joseph Gordon-Levitt or David Tennant.  I'm not entirely sure I would really like to meet either of those guys. They are grand actors, to be sure, but I don't agree with some of the things they stand for. So, now that we've got that out of the way, who would I want to meet? Hmmm.... I have been thinking about this all week, really. I even made a list of my favorite actors. And I am aware that "celebrity" doesn't just pertain to actors, but that's my thinking process. For a long time, I couldn't decide between a compilation of 42 actors who I adore. That number turned into 41 when I remembered that Heath Ledger had died (a very, very sad fact I might add). I began to narrow the list down by asking myself, "would I want to spend the whole day with this person?" --this ruled out three people (Matt Bomer [because it would be odd to spend the day with a gorgeous gay man :/], Nicole Kidman [she's just too perfect. I think I would die.], and Cate Blanchett [I would feel like I was with the Queen, really. I would just not be able to speak.].)

As you can tell, it took me a very long time to narrow my list to just one person. In the end, it was a contest between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone (you can't break those two up. It would be wrong.), Arthur Darvill, Aaron Tviet, and Samantha Barks. I then decided that I wouldn't want to be an awkward third wheel with Emma and Andrew, so I crossed them out. I then noticed that my last three were all amazing Broadway singers. Arthur Darvill now starring in my favorite musical, Once, Samantha Barks as Eponine in both the stage and film version of Les Miserables, and Aaron Tveit, well, Aaron was in a lot of musicals (Next to Normal, Wicked, Catch Me if You Can) as well as playing Enjolras in Les Miserables (plus he's not bad looking ;]).

Dumbfounded, I stared at my dwindling list...then I decided. Aaron. Haha! There is logic behind this, I promise! Looking at Aaron's acting history, he started really small. He grew up around theatre, like me, and took it from there. He went to college for voice performance, but then decided to go back into musical theatre. He just took it step by step, without flaunting his talents like other actors might have done, until he was pretty well known in gerneral showbiz.

 I would like to meet Aaron Tveit because he's a really genuine and humble guy. Once he said, "Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate, and I've gotten to do such terrific things, that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments."

I would probably ask him how much patience it took to get 'to the top', so to speak. I've been wanting to get into television for a while, but I just see an overwhelming mass of things I would have to go through to get there. It seems like he got there without trying too hard. :)

{{I'm going to answer the other question I got next week. If you have anything else you want me to write about, let me know!}}

So, now you know who I'd like to meet someday =) And, I've decided to throw out my list of 42 actors (and what they've been in, in case you don't know their names) so you know what a hard process this was--

Guys:
Allen Leech (Tom Branson in Downton Abbey)
John Krasinski (Jim Halpert in The Office)
Matthew Goode (Declan O'Callahan in Leap Year)
Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye in The Avengers)
Matthew McNulty (Fisher Bloom in BBC's Larkrise to Candleford)
Zachary Levi (Flynn Rider in Tangled)
Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games)
Matt Bomer (Neal Caffrey in White Collar)
David Tennant (The 10th Doctor in BBC's Doctor Who)
Jonny Lee Miller (Sherlock Holmes in Elementary)
Harrison Ford (Han Solo in Star Wars)
Heath Ledger (William/Ulrich in A Knight's Tale)
Andrew Garfield (Peter Parker in The Amazing Spiderman)
Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams in BBC's Doctor Who)
Simon Woods (Charles Bingley in Pride and Prejudice)
Bradley James (Arthur Pendragon in BBC's Merlin)
JJ Fields (Henry Tilney in Masterpiece Theatre's Northanger Abbey)
Colin Morgan (Merlin in BBC's Merlin)
Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes in BBC's Sherlock)
Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Arthur in Inception)
Lee Pace (Ned in ABC's Pushing Daisies)
Chris Pine (James T. Kirk in Star Trek)
Aaron Tveit (Enjolras in Les Miserables)
Matt Smith (The 11th Doctor in BBC's Doctor Who)
Hugh Jackman (The Wolverine/Logan in X-Men)
Simon Baker (Patrick Jane in The Mentalist)

Girls:
Emma Stone (Gwen Stacey in The Amazing Spiderman)
Emma Watson (Hermione Granger in Harry Potter)
Sandra Bullock (if you don't know who she is, you're not my friend ;])
Karen Gillian (Amy Pond in BBC's Doctor Who)
Amy Adams (Giselle in Disney's Enchanted)
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings)
Romola Garai (Emma Woodhouse in BBC's Emma)
Katie McGrath (Morgana Pendragon in BBC's Merlin)
Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter)
Jennifer Larwence (Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games)
Samantha Barks (Eponine in Les Miserables)
Judy Dench (Once again, if you don't know who this is, go read something else)
Idina Menzel (Elphaba in Broadway's Original cast of Wicked)
Emily Blunt (Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria)
Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever)

Be Bold. Be Blessed. Be Bodacious.
~Ana

Just, You Know, Things.

Okay guys, I've tried three times to try to write something deep and godly today, but it's not working. Sooo, time to tell you three things that have been swimming around in my head. Enjoy.

1.) How crazy was Ezekiel?? I'm reading Ezekiel for the first time in forever, and really paying attention to the things the Holy Spirit told Ezekiel to do to symbolize the sins of Jerusalem and Judah. These were crazy things! If you go and read Ezekiel 4 and 5 you'll get what I'm talking about. I won't go into detail here, but realizing that Ezekiel did exactly what God was telling him to do is so mind boggling. Laying on his left side for more than a year bearing the sins of Jerusalem, and shaving his head and beard with a sharp sword? This guy was intense. Seriously, guys, go read Ezekiel. It will change you.

2.) I have 1000+ views on my blog! It's only been like three months, and every time I post, I know at least 200 people look at my blog. It might be the same person looking at it over and over, but at least I know at least some people are enjoying my writing. ....or they just think my writing is so bad, they get a kick out of reading it. Haha! Nah, that's not it. Is it?

I have a mission for those of you who are reading this. You see that comment section on the bottom of this post? Yeah, that one. Leave a question there for me to answer this week. It can be simple or challenging. I need some new things to write about, and I'd love to hear from you! (FYI, I felt like a youtuber when I wrote that. But I really need some inspiration! Ask some questions!)

3.) I have to be off book for my play on Thursday. Gah! I only have 10 lines, but I'm still freaking! I'll be okay. Don't worry about me. That's all.

I love you guys.
Be Bold. Be Blessed. Be Bodacious.
~Ana

P.S. I start my job on Sunday!!!

A Bucket of Blessings

I had a really good week. I don't know if you've ever felt like God just splashed a big bucket of blessing on top of your head, but it's a pretty good feeling. If you read my post from last week, you'll notice that last Monday was really good. Tuesday, I did homework (because I'm a good girl and don't procrastinate). It was a rather uneventful day. Wednesday, I saw some of my favorite people at school (you know who you are). Thursday, again, did homework, and prepared for my job interview which was to take place on Friday. Friday, now Friday was a long, exciting day.

I woke up earlier than I had been all week =P Took my Mum to work, my brother to school, then went home to get ready for my interview. I.was.so.nervous. This was my first interview ever, so I think I had good cause to be nervous. Answers to questions that weren't even asked at the interview were wracking through my brain, like this: "What is your greatest weakness?" Do I have a weakness? Or, are weaknesses uniquenesses? Should I be proud of my weakness?, "What can you bring, that is new, to our store? Well, I'm a pretty perky person. No, no, Ana! They do not want to hear that! Think of something more professional! Ummm.... Thinking of something was more difficult than I thought it would be. I've decided that my mind really doesn't have a professional thinking process. I mean, really, I can't even say statistics. That's a word that people use in the professional realm every day, right? But, moving on with my story, I was really nervous for this interview. Even listening to Relient K didn't help me feel better! And, that's saying something.

I ended up having to park about a mile away from the store that I needed to be at. Not really a mile, but when you're wearing high-heels, walking as far as I did is practically like going up the incline. I got there about 10 minutes early (Not a bad time ;]). I actually made friends with one of the people that I was interviewing with! I figured, it's a group interview. Better to make friends than to make it a competition, right? So, we talked for a long while until the manager was ready to speak to us.

The interview wasn't really harmful. Not so much an interview as an orientation. She basically told us what the job included, what she expected of us, and asked if we had questions. Basically, she said all she had to do was make sure our references were up to par, and she would get back to us by the 3rd, which is tomorrow!! Turns out I was stressing out for no big reason. Haha! My fun week didn't end there.

I went to frozen yogurt with my clan because Bri was home from college for a few days. It was super duper funn.

Buuut, Sunday, Tabitha, Brooke and I took a road trip up to Lakewood to see Bri at college, and also see this wonderful music artist who goes by the name Colton Dixon. His concert was phenomenal. Everything was so God focused and worshipful, it didn't even feel like a concert. I think we all came away happier than when we went in. Sunday was a good day. I only got lost once! Score!

Seriously though, God dumped a bucket of blessings on me. I'm so happy that He's in my life :)

Be Bold. Be Blessed. Be Bodacious.

~Ana

P.S. I got that job. Win. :D