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Kelonzi
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Name: Kay
State: New Jersey
Metro: Jersey City
Birthday: 10/2/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Since my diploma says I now hold a degree in musical theater, I suppose I have to say that acting, singing and assorted performance art is a major "interest." :-)
I'm also a rather big fan of JUST music, minus the theater bits. Favorite bands? The Beatles, The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Peter Paul and Mary, The Four Seasons, KISS, STYX and a whole lot more.
Expertise: Still Insane. Still damn proud of it. :-)
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
8/5/2002
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| Okay. I swear that I didn't *forget* I have this journal... I just... you know what happens when life gets in the way, right?
Life... gets in the way.
The holidays were wonderful. The remaining run of "Nuncrackers" went well. I've been auditioning for things and am currently once again working with nuns, (production of "Doubt" not far from the apartment here in Jersey)
And I... pretty much plateaued with my weightloss up until two weeks ago...
Which is, I guess, what got me blogging again. I'm weird, (wow... newsflash, right?). I like to make all these grand plans, "It's the start of a new month! Time to get back on the wagon!"... but it just doesn't happen. Finally along comes one random day and I get back in the game.
How seriously have I gotten back in it?
Here's the data:
Week One (3/19 - 3/25)
starting weight: 170.0
ending weight: 166.4
Week Two (3/26 - 4/1)
starting weight: 166.0
ending weight: 163.0
And today... starts week three. Whew. I'm kinda nervous because I'm down to the last 20 or so pounds to my ultimate goal of 145... but the results so far are AMAZING. I swear I'm eating, I've just really upped the activity level and am trying a whole bunch of different workouts. Variety and I seem to agree with each other, so... HOORAY!
... I'll check back in again soon. 
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| kelonzi: Someone needs to teach dad to use his English. kelonzi: Because he just spoke perhaps one of the most unfortunate sentences I've heard out of him in a while. Packy: What did he say? kelonzi: Okay, so our neighbor Mark works as a bouncer. kelonzi: On some nights of the week. Evidently, his club is still open tonight, so he has to get to work. kelonzi: But dad walks in and proclaims, "I'm helping Mark shovel his car out. He has to be to his bouncing job at 8 o'clock." Packy: ... Packy: ... Packy: Accurate... yet leaving so much room for misinterpretation. kelonzi: My reaction involved lots of laughing. | | |
| So glad you asked. 
Well, kiddos... I'm thrilled to report that, this holiday season I'll be appearing as Sister Robert Anne in...
NUNCRACKERSCohoes Music HallDecember 5th - 21stperformances are 8pm Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 3pm Saturdays & Sundays and 2pm Fridays (12/5, 12/12)
see http://www.cohoesmusichall.com for more info! | | |
| Whew. Okay, sooo... always nice to yet again go a month between entries. Sorry about that.
Once again I just want to assure you that I am still alive and well and living... well, somewhere between New York and New Jersey, lately. Between the haunt and my new project, I have spent a LOT of time up in the Albany area with mom and dad. Not that they mind- they call me just about every night I'm not up at home anyway. 
Before I get in to the NEW show... let's flash back to the OLD one...
You know, as a kid, Halloween was always my favorite holiday. For one thing, it was a chance to play dress up and pretend to be someone else (heh... and people wonder why I became an actor?  ), secondly it gave me a chance to get creative with decorating mom and dad's porch, and third... who DOESN'T like a holiday with that much candy attached to it? Sure, since I'm still working on losing this last ten pounds (or so) of weight, I couldn't quite gorge myself on candy like I might have wanted to... but I still indulged. Oh boy did I! But... riding around on haywagons and chasing people with a length of whipping chain was great exercise! Sooo... that should make up the difference. Right?... right??
I played Jeanette Rawls, the county tax assessor. Most of the time I narrated the rides around the orchard, fought with Granny Smyth and narrowly avoided being taken out by Claygate the grave digger. The last night, however, I was allowed to go "play" in the fields. We only ran two wagons, so us extra narrators (there were six of us total) were reassigned. Knowing the route inside and out by then, I was able to position myself along the wagon trail and threaten people with my heavy metal surveyor's (*cough*whipping*cough*) chain. Oh. And I may have sworn at a wagonload or two in German. Y'know. Being in the moment. Heehee... 
Seriously, though... talk about a way to spend yer October! It was the kind of thing that I always knew I wanted to do on Halloween as a kid. For that reason, I think I'll always be performing with SOME sort of Halloween haunt in future years. October just ain't October without it.
Update on the weight loss, while I'm thinking about it:
Current Weight: 162.4 lbs
Weight loss to date: 62.6 lbs
Goal weight (for now): 155 lbs
Weight to go: 7.4 lbs (!!!!!!!!)
The loss has slowed down with the holidays upon me, but after taking an updated picture for my weightloss album this morning, I can see that I've done a LOT of toning since last month. Plus, I know my body doesn't have that much left to drop, so it's fighting me on losing the "comfort pounds". Oh, and to explain the "for now"... I'm planning on getting myself down to around 145 or so ultimately. THAT will be a goal for 2009, though. For now, if I can get to 155 by the end of the year, I'll be happy. It's been a very physically demanding year to get myself where I am now and I know that my body needs some time to recover before being taken all the way to the dream goal.
I've been having some weird thoughts lately in regards to my future. I find that, since I've been able to see the light at the end of the tunnel with my weight loss, I've been overwhelmed by two different feelings: 1) Joy! SO much joy and such a sense of accomplishment. 2) A little sadness. It's been a real journey of self-discovery and having these goals to shoot for gave me more focus than I can ever remember having before in my life. I'm afraid to lose that, I guess, even though it IS time to move on and live my new-and-improved life.
I think a private blog is in order, but after a couple conversations I've had lately... I think I may be making another BIG decision in the new year...
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| Way to disappear for nearly a month. Heh. Go me. 
Sooo... what's first? Oh. I'm 24 years old now, for one thing. It was a good, (albeit quiet) birthday.
Had a great time seeing my old friends upstate to work on "Cereal" for a weekend. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the show gets picked up by festival. It would be a scream to get to perform that thing again!
And now... well, I'm back in the Halloween Haunt groove!
Here's the info for
ALTAMONT'S HAUNTED ORCHARD!four weekends!
Oct. 10-12 (7pm - 10pm every night)
Oct. 17 & 18 (7pm - 10pm each night)
Oct. 24 & 25 (7pm - 10pm each night)
Oct. 30, 31 & Nov. 1st (7pm - 10pm each night)
There's also a special costume party ON Halloween night... more
information on ALL of this can be found at the Altamont Orchards
website - http://www.altamontorchards.com/
Aaaand that's all the news that's fit to... fit right now. I have some private journal work to do, but I'll say this much publicly-
I will now and FOREVER defend the Beatles against ANY other rock band in HISTORY. Make no mistake about that.
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