So So Sorry, its been a while I know!

The last few weeks have been very very busy! I have been rehearsing and stage managing and doing school and trying to sleep!

But things are going good here in Las Vegas it has finally started to cool down and you can really enjoy the weather now a days.

We have been finding lots of fun ways to entertain ourselves. Katy and I have started a Video blog in class and while doing SM stuff its very funny and sometimes makes no sense but its funny!

I started growing a beard, it actually is looking pretty good.

This is after one week of growing

This is after two weeks of growing

Not bad Eh?

Lets see, Katy and I also started a new class, its a special events management class its long (3 hours) on mondays and wednesdays but life goes on. I really like the professor but sometimes the class is long and makes you a smidge tired (see picture below)

So tired....

Lets see, what else. Nothing hugely exciting really, just school and rehearsal but it will be slower in a few weeks as the shows come to a close. I think im making a huge 16 foot puppet for our version of Christmas Carol which i am very excited about! My parents and Grandparents are coming to visit in four weeks. Im still loosing weight! I need to go shopping but im to cheap! (i think Katy and I should start getting sponsors for our blog so that we can afford these things) (thats a great Idea we could add little commercials to our video blog) (funny) (love it)

Okay well!

I will do my best to give you more regular updates!

:-)

So accomplished

yet didnt do much!

I spent the day getting things done, looking ahead.

Got a lot of stuff done for school, breakfast with joe, and even some line memorizing!

How fun is that! ITs been a great day! I feel really grounded here. I love Las Vegas!

really?

a quote...

"you should get your MFA in acting"

Hmmm

Interesting right?

Very nice compliment but really?

that sums up today.

B

Great things, very great things!

I can not even begin to tell you the things that are going on in my life! It really is amazing. I hope the bottom doesn't fall out!

I have been really enjoying my time at UNLV, I am with great people for the most part very talented, and very fun. We opened our first musical Company, and I got to help with the props it was a lot of fun, and I made a fake cake and a fake cup cake and other fun stuff, but it has been a blast! The show is good, the acting is great! I do love a musical so you know that helps!

As for classes, more of the same nothing huge and exciting very soon i start my "special events Management" class which is only for 5 weeks or something like that! Can you believe that is mid terms! Almost the middle of October!

i have been rehearsing for "Pink Champagne" which is the show I am in and it has been going great. It really is a fun process and the people in rehearsal are so much fun!

I start Stage Managing for Whales Save Us next week and that is going to be great as well!

Personal Life, is great! I have wonderful friends down here, its funny how worried I was when i moved here that i wasnt going to fit in and i guess just the typical worries you have when you move but It has gone really well. Joe and I are still hanging out all the time, and that is very fun! And on sunday I played games with Joe and his brother for a few hours and it was a blast! I EVEN TAUGHT THEM HOW TO PLAY NERTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! very exciting day for me!

Last week i got to go sit in the Stage Management booth at the Cirque Show "O" and watch Joe call the show it was so fun! It was amazing. I love watching shows from the audience but I generally Always end up wondering what is going on in tech land and watching it and HEARING him call the show was so cool!!! i could do it every night!

My nights are extremely busy for a month and I am happy about that but I am also sad that my free time is less, but it will be okay, it will all work out as its suppose to.

I had to start growing facial hair for the show i am in, so I haven't shaved for almost a week, very soon its going down to a Goa-tee (spelling?) then for the show just a mustache i believe which will be interesting.

I have no idea where my life is going to go next but i have to tell you I can not wait to find out. I truly believe that you hold your own destiny, You have to take the leap, no one is going to take it for you and once you do, the sky is the limit! I go to bed excited for tomorrow and i am so excited to see whats going on and what i can get do every day! It is almost a complete 180 from 6 months ago, Dreading going to bed because it meant the next day was not far behind, and loathing what my life had become. I hope that i will never have to live that way again. I just can't imagine going back to that (and no i don't mean Utah, because I love Utah and all my Utah Peeps, I just mean my life there).

I know something is coming, and when its gets here i'll be ready, eyes open ready to leap!! (i hope)

Lisa Stratton!

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6 months of Weight Loss!!!!!

So, Here it is my Weight Journey!

Below you will find a picture from various times in my life.. below each is when it is in my life

This Pictures is from 04/05 Not at my heaviest yet.

With the Lovely Sarah Pettit in hoopeston, 2005/06 (i think)

ThIS is a few days before I started my weight lost journey, at the biggest I have ever been in my whole life. I can barely even look at this picture.

This is 23 days into my diet,

This is about two months in I believe I had lost 70 lbs in this shot.

Three Months into the journey 85 lbs down

about the same

Same time period

5 months into the journey Over 100 lbs

almost 6 months 115 down

and this is today, Six Months after I started, I am down 122 lbs, 18 inches on my waist. I wear clothes you can buy in any store, not worrying if they will have a big and tall store.

I can not begin to tell you what this weight loss / Life change has done for me. I know that in the last 6 months i have taken steps to change not only the outside me but the inside me. I am doing things I never thought i was capable of doing, and I am sure that i am changing more than my appearance. I see people i walk by and are overweight make me want to cry, I know that losing the weight is hard, but it is worth every tear, and pound you shed. I know that I had to make a huge change, but some people only need to loose a few pounds, and All i can say is be happy with who you are find where that spot is and stay there! Don't be afraid to do it. Every day and every meal is a chance to make the right choices. Its okay to have a cupcake, its not the end of the day or the diet, it is not a chance to start the diet "tomorrow" just move on, your next meal will be better. ITS NOT WORTH PUTTING IT OFF ONE MORE MINUTE!

I am by no means where i hope to be in the end, but I can tell you I have never had more confidence or more love of myself in my whole life and I know that its not all about weight but changing my body has allowed me to change my mind/soul. Well in 6 months we will see where a year of body and mind focus gets me! I am sure it can only get better!