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Hey yall! Good news, Blithe Spirit had an awesome run, pretty full houses…. AND I got the Irene Ryan Scholarship Nomination from it! wooooowooo.

Basically I only get the real scholarship money if I actually win the whole national competition… So, probably not. But my school has had people in the regional finals the past couple years and its a great way for schools and theatres to see me.

Pretty much all my friends came to the show and assured me that it was good. Despite my vain attempts telling them not to see it, turns out I was mostly insecure.

I feel real good about it for the first time now that’s its over oddly enough. I guess its hard for to feel proud of something I have such a pivotal role in whist doing it. Oh! I get to design the Othello poster for ARC. AND a one man show coming thru the school. I was a consultant on a photo shoot last night. ^_^ hell yeah paid design work. And I did a comedy sportz remote show last week. Feels good to being doing improv and design again.

Oh and a big thanks to Team Devin for coming to the show in full force! With new members Audrey Singleton and Andrea Mochetti. And original members Kyle & Jenny Ritchie and Corinne Weeck! <3

I have spent the few days  detoxing myself and staying in redoing my moms bathroom. Needed a few days off drinking after the weekend, there was some celebratory shots…

But the bathroom! This is mostly my Grandma’s bathroom, and had been previously tacky, poorly painted white, ugly counter top and cracked sink. Oh and gross ugly floor. Nothing had been done to it since the 70s. Which my mom had decided to put my theatre posters in, which was cool until all my friends were on them, staring back at you while you were doing your business.

So I ripped up the floor(all 3 layers of it), sanded the walls, pulled out the cabinet, mirror, sink, and toilet. Painted the walls a light green color (chinese jade), put new floor in(peel and stick linoleum tiles) , new cabinet(dark oak), new sink, new toilet, new flooring, built my own cute little back splash with little blue kinda abalone tiles.

Check it out

Awesome right? I feel all handy!

It was totally old and gross before. Now its all fresh and so clean and modern. All in all it was a pretty easy couple day project. We really wanna get the resale value of this house up…. Next up… The Kitchen (Dun DUN DUNN)

The play is over, my dui class is almost up, and so are all of my obligations in Sacramento. It is time for me to do something not in Sacramento. Its time for change. It’s time for the Devin Ritchie Comeback Tour. Coming to a city near you. Dates and details coming soon. I have saved money and now I’m shaking shit up. I am visiting a lot of friends and family in a lot different places. Get excited. And prep your couch cause I’m gonna sleep on it.

Peace

My adorable cousin Mira

Howdy dear readers, another long week. Reno, parties, family visiting, LOST ending. [OMG]

I want to first discuss the response of my last blog. It was mostly positive and supportive. Thank you, it means a lot that many of can even sit through my long winded ramblings. But the main complaint with my blog is that writing or talking about something doesn’t fix anything. I’m basically just whiny. I disagree completely. This is step one. This is therapy this is diary. This is what helps me.

Last week my theatre celebrated its end of the year ball, I was awarded “Best Supporting Actor” (sort of a conciliation prize instead of winning one of the Irene Ryan nominations, oh well) and Best Drunk… On Stage” How appropriate. A lot of fun drinking and dancing with the masquerade theme. But then the rest of my night, with the help of Gerald (what we call the bag from boxed wine) and Matt Marr, was serious drunken shenanigans, which resulted in me missing the only work I have in a week. Haven’t done that in nearly a year. I did learn a lesson that night.

My friends who are legitimately moving on from school felt like clubbing, so of course I am there. Drinks, flirting, dancing, and smoking. I starting losing my voice very badly. A few days of partying, a lack of sleep, and breathing air in Reno turned my voice into something of a gutteral gravely lawnmower sound, which I assure you was not sexy. The Reno trip was a success, managed to only spend $20 on the whole trip. It was my friend Colton’s 21st birthday. Colton, Max, James, Colleen and I just walked around drank and danced wearing sunglasses everywhere looking like bad asses for  2 days. I did start to get pretty sick and my voice was completely gone for a time, but what was I suppose to do? I still had to be there for another day, and god save me from Reno whilst sober. Everyone had a great time, but it is decided… I am a Vegas guy.

When I look back on my week, the best part of was playing with my 18 month old cousin Mira (well, cousin’s daughter… second cousin?). We played with bubbles, drew with chalk, and mostly she just chased me and played “sleepy sleep” (thats when she says “sleepy sleep”, and we pretend to be asleep for like 5 seconds.) Out of all the “fun” I had drinking and clubbing this week, this was the most genuine fun. I love children and I am super good with them. But it’s fleeting, at this age they will hardly remember me and when she is 10 I will be 30. And we wont play together anymore. This happened to too many people for me, and its the burden of being younger in an older family.  What I’m saying is that I do long for having children in my life, lets hope for being the fun uncle Devin first. Not too soon…

I have a desperate need to find a job now. Having my own earned money in my pocket will help my perspective. That is this weeks goal. Haven’t even drank or smoked in a few days and I feel better. Crazy huh? Yay me. The past few days I have done nothing, just rehabd at home and played sleepy sleep by myself. and that what I needed. Hibernation.

I have been realizing more and more that anyone can read this. And I have stopped being discrete. Which is kind of empowering actually. I don’t mean to do this for shock value, but to be true to myself. But seeing my hits increase back to the hundreds gives me anxiety. But again I thank you all so much for coming and reading.

Now the reason you are all here I’m sure…

CUTE BABY PICTURES!!!!

(I didn’t edit them, so the Mira files are huge, might take a minute to load)

peace

I will blog about LOST real soon!!