Picking up from last time –
November – Passed advanced improv at The Groundlings!!! [This was a big, exciting milestone for me – yay!] I’d wanted it so very long, taken a gajillion classes. I had a great show I was proud of. Woot-woot!
December – Began my next 52 in 52 project – 52 ‘interviews’ in 52 weeks! (This ultimately morphed into a different thing, but it was nice to begin another project and try to connect more, and meet my friend’s cuuuuuuuute baby!
So, yeah, I definitely thought 2019 was the year I ‘felt like me’ again [although, ironically(?), I think I lost a lot of that in 2020. So, it’s weird to be looking at a year in review a year late.
I did a lot of creative endeavors and was very happy about that – that sort of seemed like a through-line throughout the year – from festivals, to passing BMI, to the Groundlings, to a full-length musical, creative endeavors probably kind of ruled this year. And maybe that’s partially why I felt more like me – a loop of me feeling good makes me more creative, and being more creative makes me feel good. [Maybe… Sometimes creativity is a coping skill haha, so you really just never know if it’s good or bad. haha!]
Then outside of that, ‘living’ in Mexico (I don’t know if you can count a few months) was really dope.
I obviously don’t include everything in years-in-reviews, just some of the highlights… For instance, a thing I skipped over, is I was audited for a previous tax year this year! So, that was a lot of paperwork. But! They accepted all my receipts, and I didn’t have to pay anything else. So, that was cool. It was just time-consuming, not bad.
So, yeah, there were weird things, good things, bad things [like there probably are every year]. But overall, I’d say it was a good year with general forward movement/hope/happiness! And now we go on to another year!