Happy Christmas

I just got home from work... and it's 11:52 on Christmas Eve. I was going to go to St. Patrick's Cathedral for Midnight Mass... but turns out you have to have a ticket. Then I decided I would try and sneak in... turns out they're prepared for delinquents like me and have guards and fences set up around the perimeter of the church. I was going to then use my feminely wiles to sneak in but decided I would just go home. It wasn't that big a deal to me... so I'll let someone who wants it more use their feminely wiles...

I am going to go watch the "A Christmas Story" marathon pn TBS until I fall asleep. I hope there are others doing the same... (eh hem...Sean).... and I wish everyone a very merry Christmas! Except my family... I'll wish you a Merry Christmas when we actually celebrate it.

All my love,
Krystal

P.S. It will not be a white Christmas in New York... apparently it won't be white till about mid Jan or February - at which point I'll wish that I had appreciated this mild December that we are apparently having much more.... To that I say, I do appreciate it! I'm dreaming of a mild non-white christmas. Wish granted.

Confusion

Let me correct myself.

I am working Sunday night (christmas eve) then I am off Monday (christmas day the restaurant is closed), then I work a Tuesday double and a Wednesday double - and then I come home early Thursday morning.

I got a little over-eager with the schedule... but I'll still be home soon!

I miss everyone and thanks for all the nice comments on my blog - it's official - I have the best family and friends.

Can't wait to see you!

Love
Krystal

Ho Ho Ho

Ho Ho Ho

Hi all. Getting ready for my big weekend of work... i know you are excited for me. I am working tonight - double tomorrow and then Saturday night, Sunday night (that's christmas eve for those who aren't keeping tabs), off sunday (movie day), work monday night, Tuesday double, then Wednesday is the glorious day I get to board a plane and COME HOME!! Though wednesday is less than a week away, it's feeling like an eternity. I have never been so excited to get home - except after Harlaxton - but that was 4 months away from home and much more understandably excitable. It's been 2 months... i'm crazy.

Did I mention that my work plays Christmas music 24/7 and that I walk by the tree at Rockefellar center everday to get to work? I'm beginning to understand why people who are alone in the city at Christmas are often pretty depressed. It's hard to avoid the season in New York - or anywhere for that matter. I am lucky to have family and friends to go home to (albeit after Christmas... but still). I just feel bad for people who don't have a lot - or who hate their families. Scott's not too fond of his family - so he's not doing anything for Christmas. I'm glad I will be here - i'll be at work - but at least i'll be in the apartment. He can come have a nice juicy christmas eve t-bone dinner at Del Frisco's. "It's the hap, happiest season of all...."

I also think children are an essential part of christmas being fun. I am going to get into volunteering next year - it's one of my new years resolutions. I think Christmas is supposed to be for children, and until I have any of my own (yikes) I would like to at least be around them during some of the Christmas season - and year round.

I did get to go and see the Rockettes with Jana the other night. We got dressed up and it was pretty cute. Though, I must say, it was quite a let down. I don't want to ruin it for those who have never seen it and still hold it dear to their hearts...but it's not at all what I was expecting. I had never even been to Radio City and I was pretty excited about that. I really thought it was a classy affair - which is why Jana and I got dressed up. And Radio City is gorgeous- there's no denying that. But some of the magic is lost when in the lobby you can by a giant ball of cotton candy being sold in a gawdy santa tin and then get a frozen daquiri in a plastic souvenir radio city take home glass that comes with a glow in the dark radio city swizel stick. I swear, we were going to see a football game at Radio City. It was ludicrous. But don't think my disgust with the whole thing deterred me from partaking.

Here is a link to the photos of our Radio City Adventure... plus some more from random holiday things. I couldn't upload them all to this blog - so I thought I would just show you a bunch!

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1AcNnDVq5ZMXLA

I hope the link works - let me know if it doesn't.

But anyway - The Radio City Christmas Spectacular was just that.... a spectacular. It was all these lights and craziness and the rockettes did 3 or 4 big numbers - but the rest of it was this weird children's show - i just wasn't all that impressed. And there was a huge nativity scene at the end - and it was really beautiful - but it didn't mesh with the ridiculousness of the rest of the show, if that makes any sense.

I was just kind of disappointed. And perhaps I went in not respecting it since I was, in fact, slurping my giant strawberry daquiri out of a light-up souvenir cup. It is definitely a tourist spot, and I'm actually beginning to think that perhaps New York is better for me as a tourist spot then an actual place to live. We'll see.

I hope everyone is well, and I miss you all. Don't forget to check out the pics!

Hi

Hey there.

I was supposed to work tonight - but they scheduled too many people - so they let me go home. I was happy at first - but then I realized that I wouldn't be making money and I kinda need money... so I wish they hadn't done that to me. But, I will let them know next time that I was there to work and they shouldn't over schedule that way. I am learning.

I called my friend Rachel Landon and we are gonna go out - she's one of the few single girls that I know in the city. I wish I didn't have to get up early and go to work... but oh well.

I don't have too much to say - New york is crazy these days - everything is just moving 10x slower than usual - sooo many tourists. And what's funny is that everyone who lives here all the time says how annoying the tourists are and how they hate christmas in the city because it's just overloaded with tourists... but I kinda like it. I was walking past radio city and rockefellar center today like I do everyday that i walk to work... and i saw all of these people taking pictures of the tree in rockefellar center. And i walk by it everyday so i don't even think about it. But the tourists actually made me pause and appreciate the city that i am living in.

Christmas is soon... i can't wait for christmas because that means that i will get to go home soon after.

xoxoxo

Hey

Days just fly by don't they? I have lost all track of time. It feels like Thursday, but I am pretty certain it is Monday.... right? I had a long, long day. Productive... but long.

I had to be at work at 9:30 am this morning after not getting home until around 2:30am last night. I worked until 12:30 last night and then the company Christmas party was going on at a bar nearby, so I felt it would be a nice move to go and mingle with my co-workers since I don't even know half of their names. It was fun - it was just a very silly time to have a party as some of us had to turn around and be up the following morning early... but that's ok.

So I only got about 5 hours sleep... but after the intitial shock of waking up it wasn't too bad. I made decent money for a Monday lunch shift - then I had to go straight from work uptown to Columbia University to perform in the directing scene that I have been working on. It went really well, by the by. I hope that some of the people in the class that saw me perform will, in turn, use me in their scenes and short films next semester.

I then had to go all the way from 116th street to 22nd street to pick up my headshot cd (finally) so that I can get my headshots printed. I picked that up - then decided to get some frozen yogurt. I then left the frozen yogurt shop and realized I had left my boots at my director's apartment on 116th st. I call her... she doesn't answer. I head all the way back up to 116th street via subway - get off - and get a message from her saying she is headed to times square so that i wouldn't have to go all the way back up to 116th..... a day late and a dollar short. So I turn around and head back down - eventually meeting up with her on 42nd. I get on the bus to head home when I realize I do not have my headshot cd. >!>*$&>!?@ So I ponder where I may have left it - when I realize the only place I could have left it was in the frozen yogurt shop. I decide to take a cab back to the 22nd street yogurt shop because by this time my feet are blistered and nearly bleeding from hiking around in my pumps (i hadn't had an opportunity to change back into the boots....). As i'm sitting in the cab, i'm thinking.... "if there was ever a sign that I should give up ice cream... this has to be it." Luckily I did in fact leave my cd in the yogurt shop and it was still open - hooray!

I head home.

Sidenote: On my way to work the other day - I'm strolling down 6th avenue (or avenue of the america's, if you will) and I see a couple of people with cell phones and cameras out taking a picture of a family getting out of a car. I look over and it's none other than Hugh Jackman and family! I was the only person not taking a photo, Hugh appreciated it, and smiled at me! Ok - maybe it wasn't because I wasn't taking a photo.... but he did smile at me! It was awesome.

But back to my day.
I was gone from 8:30am till 11:00pm. Hooray for me.

I miss everyone and hope all is well in your various worlds. Oh - and the job is getting better. It is still extremely hard and taxing on the mind and body - but the money makes up for it. I hate money. I would like it to go away.

But it does make things seem less painful...

This one is dedicated to birthday boy Cameron Shields... the awesomest 2 yr old in Texas. Make that the world.

Long time no talk

Hi everyone -

Sorry for the extrememely long delay in posting. It has been craziness the past week and a half... training literally knocked me out. But, I am pleased to inform you, that I am now officially a server at PDK. Hooray! The name of the restaurant will remain PDK, however, because it just may kill me yet. I am working almost every day straight through Christmas (which I am a little sad about...) and then I finally get to go home for a holiday vacation on Dec. 27 or 28. And then I should be able to stay home for a week or so - which will be wonderful.

My friend Erin was here this past weekend and we had a really great time. She is so sweet. I'm so glad we got a chance to bond because we never really had the chance to when we were both at Evansville. She's still at Evansville - she's a junior there. But anyway - the play reading that we were both involved in went really really well. I think the playwright was really pleased and hopefully word of mouth will spread and he can someday get it produced somewhere.

Here's my new headshot - I finally got my headshot photographer to retouch it for me:

Let me know what you think. Or don't. If you don't like it, you can go ahead and keep that to yourself. (just kidding!)

Back to PDK. I am enjoying the people I am meeting there. They are really nice. And so many of them are also actors - which was to be expected in New York, but still. A lot of them are actually working actors, though, which is great. Once you have been at PDK for a little while, they become much more flexible with your schedule. So, I just gotta pay my dues.... right through Christmas.

I will hopefully be a little less crazy and can be in touch more... I hope the holidays are going well for everyone. Drink some egg nog for me...



XOXO
Krystal