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My boys, Johnny Farns, Maxy, and Nick Heacock on BART

Howdy everybody, a lot has been going on so lets waste no time.

The biggest thing is now my maternal Grandma now lives with us here in Sacramento. She has been staying here since Christmas but now its official. We just moved all her stuff up here from Tustin. Obviously this changes my living situation quite a bit. I cant be as, well, for lack of better words, a ridiculous fabulous drunk. She is very old and can no longer live on her own, this is for the best.

Secondly there has been a lot of wonders about my moms job being outsourced, and yes we even toyed with the idea of moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Things are up in the air, but fret not.  It doesn’t look like we will move to GA and my mom will still have a job no matter what. I do not belong in Georgia, I know that, but the adventure might be fun.

Big news! I got cast as Sandy Lord in The Philadelphia Story at ARC!! A really great part and the only part I wanted. This is the first time this has happened for me and I’m an so fucking excited ^_^ we start rehearsals on Monday yay. The play opens April 22nd. I will definitely let you guys know.

Also I have been dating, weird right? haha, I almost feel like I needed to make up for the years where I dated no one. So I have dated a few people the past few months. Most importantly was my first real boyfriend Tim. This was all very new and odd for me. We dated for about a month and half or something. And now were on a break, or broken up, I cant really tell. It’s kinda confusing. Either way, this was kinda a big deal for me personally. I mean I’m 22, time to man up and just get a bf right? I dont even know whats going on with other people I have been casually seeing. Perhaps I just need to get back to being single Devin. I’m much better at that I feel.

Other than all this going on I have just been going to school, hanging out, an partying a lot . Dont worry, I’m being responsible enough. All though I do have a few scrapes and bruises from Reno lol. Long story.

I am now working out cause I started to get lazy and slightly thicker. That was no good.

I’m going to start more honest blogging like this. I just have to decide on where the line of censorship is…

I don’t know where I’m headed, but I am convinced that it’s in a good direction.

Peace.

The worst picture of me ever taken.

Oh my god, is that what I look like??? eeew, Devin. Not only is it just an unflattering picture, I am literally surrounded by cake and soda. Bad form. What happened to me? I was never super duper fit, but I was always very thin at least. I realize that I am getting older and am going to have to start thinking about my diet and health a bit more before it gets bad. I started thinking about it watching Celebrity Fit Club, and if Kevin Federline could get that fat, it could happen to me!

Heres the plan Sexy by Summer. I’m talking abs, tan, working out, the whole package. And it starts now. First things first, less drinking, and a lot less beer. It’s all empty calories. Starting this week I will start running the track before classes.

(just to be clear, I wasnt really myself when this was taken. I was feeling awfully out of it, hungry, lazy and giggly…)

SEXY BY SUMMER. Lets do this.

peace.

Me & Ruthie at Club 21

Sorry for the delay, I AM still working on the HUGE 2009 recap post. And believe me, it is huge. But meanwhile that shouldnt stop me from blogging like usual.

I have been doing super good recently. I am back in school. I am in a relationship now (more on that later…). I have been seeing a lot of my friends recently. I am drinking again, but I am generally responsible with it, so that’s good. Adie is trying to get me a job at Jamba Juice, I am not proud of this, I kinda hate t hate that I’m doing it. But it has reached the point of ridiculousness and I need $. The icing on the cake is I just auditioned for Philaldelphia Story at ARC, and I feel really good about it. I am at the point where I’m not nervous, and I know I audition well, and past that there is nothing else I can do. It’s oddly comforting. We shall see if I get a call back.

Also, my Grandma kinda lives here in Sacramento with me and my mom now. Long story. But it’s not so bad. Sorta changes my lifestyle though.

Thought I would just give you guys a heads up about everything.

Peace.

<<<My theme for 09.

Thought I would check in for one last update before 2009 is officially over. I am working on a very large all inclusive year in review post that isn’t quite ready yet, plus I want to include New Years Eve in it. Speaking of which, me and a big group of people Ruthie, Johnny Farns, Terri, etc. are heading to San Francisco for new years drunken shenanagins. Well were meeting at my sisters place in Pleasanton for drinks first then taking BART into the city. I will surely report on what kinda trouble we get into.

After all, No Drink December ends today! woot, it was really good for me. Made me really realize some of my drinking habits and the fact that alcohol really isn’t my problem, my problem is excess. I learned that when I defected to other drugs while I wasn’t drinking. But I have always had a problem with excess even if its just hanging out with people; I drown in a sea of acquaintances, social activities,  and parties. But I digress, I at least know this better about myself now. And will change my habits. I was actually surprised how easy it was to not drink for a month, I feel like I should maybe take a year off. Or ya know, I could just drink responsibly.

Tomorrow (Jan. 1st) is Johnny Farns’ 21st birthday. So we will be also celebrating that at midnight tonight. Tonight will be good.

look for my 2009 year in review post in a couple days.

So long 2009, you were pretty good to me. Way better than fuckin 2008.

peace.

Merry Christmas everybody!

Went to SoCal last week to go pick up my Grandma and take her home with us to stay for a couple weeks and have Christmas and new years with us. It has been very chill, lots of food, watching elf, watching Christmas movies, and just hanging out.

I got some sweet presents too. I got an Itouch(I have gone wayyyy too long with out an ipod), a nice coach wallet, some movies, some CDs, some money. Oh and my sister got me a ridiculous huge canvas mounted print of myself from the body paint shoot I did with Terri. lol.

Here’s pictures of our tree and decorations and such. The white tree is my sisters tree. She has always wanted a flocked tree, but we never let her get one and then her boyfriend of 5 years never let her get one. Now she lives on her own and can get whatever tacky decorations she wants. I’m actually pretty proud. Not only does it have fake snow on it. Its is sparkling and glittery and covered in pink lights. Perfect.

Happy Christmas you guys!

**this marks one year exactly since I redid the website completely yay!!

peace

The Ritchie Kids

Yay, my sister finally emailed me the pictures from my 22nd birthday. My family and I went to San Francisco for lovefest. We got a hotel. Partied.  The usual. Sean Kinsey, Max Miller, Paul Telford, Terri Brindisi, and Chris Carlson all partied with us. It was ten shades of amazing. We went to lovefest during the day, got some good seafood in the wharf, partied in our hotel, and then walked around the city being drunken fools and ending up at nok nok in the Haight. Dancing my face off. Then the next day we all went to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate park.

Enjoy ^_^

peace

This picture was from back in like April at second Saturday with my brother and Mom. (look how beardy I was!)

Just an update to say what’s up. It’s December, and it’s getting to be Christmas time. Which means a my mom bakes and watches trashy hallmark holiday movies nonstop. I wear layers, long coats, and finally get to show off my scarf collection. I love this time of year. So much. My mom makes soup and scones and I light a fire and hang lights. Brilliant. And it actually snowed in Sacramento!

It’s week two of No Drink December. I have substituted coffee, tea, and hot chocolate for the alcohol this month. So far so good. I have definitely had to rethink my ways of getting to know people. Gone are the ways of bonding over taking shots and letting our guards down. I actually have to try to engage sober conversations with new people. Which is really great though. I have been getting to know a couple new people. We’ll see where this goes. Dating is fun, and without alcohol, is mostly genuine.

I have been doing a lot of improv. Which is really the only substantial money I have to make right now. I also performed in Winnie the pooh again this year, except instead of narrator this year I was Tigger and Owl. That was fun.Anything for a few bucks right now.

I have also been fucking up auditions again. Last week I auditioned for a murder mystery at ARC and I got a callback for the lead, great. Then I auditioned for Metamorphoses at Sac State. I had never auditioned there, fucked it up royally, and then got a callback (wtf?). Problem was they were both on the same night. So I went to Sac State first and left after about an hour and a half. STUPID. And then I went to AR and read all night for the lead. Of course, as it goes with ARC everytime, they call me back and “consider me”, tell me how great I’m doing. String me along to the very end and then give it to someone else.  I am super happy for my friends who get cast, truly. But I am done. I am so mad at myself for leaving such a sweet play for the chance to be in a murder mystery. I had this romantic dream about finally doing a lead at ARC, but yet again, I had to touch the stove to know that it’s hot. Anyways…. that was a rant.

Here’s cute pictures of me being domestic! I made a trifle for thankgiving! It’s layers of gingerbread, vanilla pudding, pumpkin pie filling, whip cream. crushed up ginger snaps, and caramel. It was sorta amazing.

mmmm yummy.

I leave you with what gets me into the Christmas mood. Sufjan Stevens.

peace out.

Just found this picture from my birthday with my mom and sister. We were riding the cable car. Cute.

As you might have noticed through my blogs, tweets, or by knowing me, I drink and party a fuck ton. Recent occurrences of getting too shwasty, be it puking, blacking out, or just generally making mistakes has brought this to light for me.

When addiction becomes a problem is when your addiction affects your life in adverse ways. Social life, work life, or personal. This hasn’t been a problem until recently. I slept through work this morning at 9am because I stayed up drinking until 6am. Wow, that’s a problem. I work one day a week. Effectively I am a fuck up. I have just been using partying and drinking as a distraction from being an adult.

So I decided I needed a break. NO DRINK DECEMBER. It’s happening.

I didn’t mean to get super serious here and bring down the mood, but I feel I need to write about this. I am an alcoholic, and need to take a break before it gets bad. I don’t want you to think that I am raging alcoholic who has to drink everyday and before I do anything. That is really not the case. I just go to a lot of parties and have lost sight of my limits.

When I told my friends about this most of them were like “oh no! devin its the holidays, how could you not drink?”. But guys, I’m serious. I’m just taking a month off, I promise I’m still fun.

So who else wants to do no drink December? Ruth and John are doing it with me.

First real photo shoot with short hair! My friend Patti does face painting and wanted some body painting pictures for her portfolio, so me and a few of my friends got painted and Terri Brindisi shot us. Check em out, I got a bunch more coming soon.

I got a little sloppy on the photo shop, I’ll go back and touch em up.

this next one gets nearly risque…. my pants are just awfully low, just warning you.

I look like a god damn suicide boy… haha, more coming soon!

peace.

Hey guys, it is well past due for another update.

Here’s whats up.

First of all, there was Halloween. A bunch of friends from Comedy Sportz all dressed up in steam punk costumes. It was pretty sick.

Yeah, it was amazeballs. We had a show, then I went to a huge blowout party in Elk Grove. I remeber drinking, _____________, and then I remember waking up in the living room. Apparently my friends couldnt find me for hours, they checked everywhere, and those are the hours that I dont remember at all. Kinda troubling that I lost 3 hours from my life. Halloween was fun though.

I also blacked out from boozahol a week before that. Something I had been making a habit out of I guess, I’m not sure why. So I decided to cool it on the booze for a little bit.

And then on Tuesday Nov. 3rd Bryce Marck Called me and asked if I wanted to come down and go to Disneyland for free the next day on his birthday. I agreed and picked up my shit took Matt Marr and on we went. It was a terrible plan for me to go. I didn’t have any money, I had classes that I missed, and it probably wasn’t a great idea to put that many miles on my car. But regardless, we went. Disneyland was awesome, I hadnt been in over 2 years, and I am a total disney geek. Sad thing is we didn’t take any pictures…. Sorry. It was super awesome though, and not busy at all. That night we went out and drank with some of my long lost SoCal friends, Dustin York, Bethany Deal, and Brandon Boone. Needless to say, we got shwastey. This was apparent when I ended up drinking beer out of coffee cups wearing a girls tight black tanktop, huge sunglasses, and a leopard snuggie. Good times.

When I got back to Sacramento I realized the jig wa sup and the time for me to get a real person job is finally here. I had once told myself that I am never going to have a regular job ever again, just jobs I actually like or want to do. But that dream is no longer realistic at this time. I went and applied to several places in Arden. I interviewed and had a second interview at Juicy Couture. So hopefully that will work out and I will have money. I cant imagine a world in which I am not paying for gas one gallon at a time and buying 40’s of mickeys with change.

I am all around not sure what I am doing with my life, hence the lack of updates. I don’t know what I am doing, why would I blog about it? My mood has been sort of erratic, I’m up and down. Generally chemically imbalanced. I have lost quite a bit of patience for people, and feel fine spending time by myself recently, this is both good and bad. I previously had been dating a few people casually, but they have all faded away for one reason or another and now I am very single.

I have been doing a lot of work designing on the American River Review Literary Magazine. Graphic design just might be something I could realy get into. I also am still plugging along with my screenwriting class, writing has been very easy for me lately, which is odd. Still taking a break from theatre, but I see a lot of theatre. There are some shows I may audition for soon. I’m continuing to do improv at Comedy Sportz which has been going pretty well recently.

I feel something big should change soon. Should being the key word.

Fall is always my favorite time of year. It’s also the hardest though.

I have missed  you guys.

I’ll post more later, just thought I would catch you up lately.

oh and I made this!

peace