Coming Full Circle...Just Keeps Gettin Better

Somebody get this woman another Emmy.

Once again, hilarious and brilliant.  Just in case you missed it - or even if you already saw it, it just never gets old...

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/vp-debate-open-palin-biden/727421/

It's pure perfection that while Palin and her cronies keep trying to BLAME OTHERS for her making a fool of herself, she continues to provide great material for Obama/Biden supporters.  Very interesting how things seem to just naturally work out that way...

We just got back from a weekend away at the beach.  This time for a wedding.  I am such a sucker for weddings.  We were especially looking forward to this one because the groom is a very good friend of my husband's and part of his unusually tight circle of friends who've known one another since childhood.  It was an absolute blast hanging with them again - it's a seriously funny, intelligent, and talented group - but it also tickled me pink to witness our friend and his beautiful bride so very much in love and so wonderfully happy. 

Plus the stiff man of the cloth, who was rumored to have thrown back a few during the rehearsal the night before, gave one of the most ridiculous sermons I think I've ever heard, which included an incredibly long metaphor about geese.  And he actually got everyone to HONK at the happy couple.  "Honk, honk!" exclaimed the 100+ guests dressed their Sunday best.  I absolutely lost it and almost had to remove myself from the ceremony. I just about peed myself trying desperately not to laugh out-loud or let out a random "HONK!" during the rest of the service.  Our friends in the bridal party didn't realize that while they tried turning their faces away to stifle their laughs, we could still see their reflection in the glass standing in front of them.  Thank God we got it all on tape.

Today I passed on another audition.  It always pains me at least a little bit to do so - I guess old habits die hard.  But in the end, it ultimately feels good to opt for happiness, have the ability to opt for integrity, commit to making decisions that are in line with my goals, and just say no thanks.  I have found in the past that it's a sort of a 'drawing of a line' which I believe does something energetically - or some such sort of fruity tutty sixth level e-mail-sending-to-the-universe type mumbo jumbo.  At the moment all I've got lined up for this week is some ADR work for a film coming out next year.  Another actor from the film, who's since become a friend, said he also was called to go in last week.  Cannot wait to experience the retarded hilarity for myself.

Other fascinating and wonderfully ironic news....My baby cousin - who's no baby anymore, but I just can't help thinking of her that way since she's like a baby sis to me - informed me last Wednesday that she's leaving PR and going into casting.  She lives out in LA.  Has been there for a while since she went to school out there too.  But I've reached out to my peeps to ramp up her network as well.  I want to do anything I can to help her build her stable.  I am so proud of her to even consider making such a change in her career.  Personally, I think it's sort of nuts given the unusual instability of the economy at the moment, but she's one sharp cookie and has been pondering this for a long time.  So I trust her decision and fully support her 1,000 percent.  Aside from another distant cousin who's an actor too, and an aunt on my husband's side who was an opera star, we come from a line of doctors, lawyers, ministers, and race car drivers.  I just never thought someone so responsible and seemingly straight in my family would take the big plunge into show biz too.

VeHhhherrrry interesting...

--Ming Ming