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!

YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE!

Well,

Today, i hit a HUGE HUGE Mile stone! two days shy of my 6 month mark of starting my diet and my life change. I am so proud to announce, I HAVE NOW LOST MY ORIGINAL GOAL OF 18 Inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When i put those pants on this evening I was so excited i could barely contain myself. Not only that I went down a shirt size as well!!!!! I can not tell you how wonderful this is, so now to meet the weight goal and start the maintaining!!!!!!

As for the rest of day. I may have missed my first class this morning, but Joe was here that was nice. Went to class, worked on some props (which is a long story on which I am working on props to Company, but lets just say I am working on them, and its fine) After that SM solve the world class, helped tape out the floor with Erica, then...

Joe took me to dinner and shopping, it was wonderful, we ate at CPK it was a great salad, one of my favorites! but after we walked around the shops for a while, went to the Halloween Store, it was allright, went to Old Navy and I put on clothes smaller then I can imagine me wearing!!!! You do not know what that did to my self esteem, I mean really, I just wanted to curl up and scream!!!! But i didnt because Joe was there, but I can tell you he saw a lot of true me today!

Then I started rehearsal tonight for Pink Champagne I think its going to be great, My partner in the show is FANTASTIC!!!! and i do truly love working with Tylo, I can not wait to learn everything I can from him!

Im off to bed, more work tomorrow!

Great Stuff Happening

This week has been a really great week.

Tuesday I did a whole lot of nothing, I should have cleaned my house but i didnt. I did however go to dinner with Joe and his friends, and then we played cards for a while it was fun!

Wednesday, boring first class, but directing was fun, I performed my Monologue and Directed my other. IT went really well I felt like my acting was pretty good, and Tylo seemed to like it. and the one i directed was very well received! So anyway that was fun!

Today i found out that my LVBF (kitty) is going to be in my show that I am acting in with me! I CAN NOT WAIT!!!! i feel like a total geek but it is going be so much fun!

What else, what else, Nothing huge I guess, Just working on my Grad Sem homework, this class has a great concept but i dont know if the execution is there quite yet. But alas if its the only real struggle i have this semester I guess that is okay!

OH and for princess, because she is probably the only one that will get this.

A certain pageant director from Utah in October texted me and said "they really needed my help could I be there" mind you this is like three weeks away! You know what i said? Not yes for sure, how can i Help. I said, I will have to see if it fits in my schedule. I am pretty busy, and having not heard from you earlier I assumed you didnt need me this year. I'll get back to you. I just thought you would appreciate that!

Monday!

Today is German Day,

More on that later.

Mondays are just another day here in las Vegas, Much like Sunday where nothing stops and everything continues as normal. Stage Management class, fun as always. and Directing we have been watching the monologues so nothing huge to report. In our stage managers meeting we sit around and solve the worlds problems which sometimes works others no good.

I have a reading of the show I am in "pink champagne" in an hour and i am really excited about that!

Joe is at German day, Apparently every month him and his friends choose a country and make food and play cards some how associated to that country. So here I sit just wanting to be at German day, and Instead I am at school all day with nothing that great going on!

Anyway! More to come tomorrow I'm sure!