Discovery

When you put your music on random, it's fun to stumble across a song or 2 that you really haven't heard in awhile and forgot that you even had. And when your collection on your computer alone contains almost 2900 choices to select from, random can spit out almost anything. Doing some Sodoku, chillin' on a friday night, and low and behold, Warren Barfield's "Love Is Not A Fight" comes up, followed by Janet Jackson's "If" and then a song later, MGMT's "Time To Pretend." 3 songs that are so different, so unique, and yet have so much behind them. Whether it's a song to make you think, a song to make you remember your younger years, or do both.

It's the beauty of music and the beauty of what I do for a living. Yeah, I catch myself getting a little annoyed by hearing the same Kelly Clarkson song play over our airwaves for the 2nd-3rd time that day, but than I look at the songs that use to be played on repeat when I was really young, and now I enjoy them all over again. And maybe that's what happens when someone tunes into our station for the first time--a song from the 80's or 90's that they use to listen to allllll the time, and than dropped it to the side, has once again resurfaced and is playing on their rental car radio, and I'm sending it their way.

So, you may have thought I dropped off the face of the earth. Let's just say I took a new journey to the foreign, yet extremely busy world of theatre. I loved doing "Company" and "Footloose" and realizing that I actually have some more skills that I didn't know I really had, yet I am going to take a little break because I need to settle my schedule some. Maybe after another month or 2 I'll think about trying out for another production. And you may have also wondered if I've killed the co-host or relocated. Well, I think after one incident where I showed my true latin-anger roots, the co-host has started to calm down more and listened to some of my ideas a little more. I have also been doing Saturday mornings from 9am-noon live so I may be able to get that caller interaction that I have been desperately needing (the whole him with the phone on his side thing doesn't help me any). And even though I haven't relocated yet, I have been looking at job openings around the U.S., even thinking about doing TV or other forms of media...but I love music so much, I don't know if I could ever really leave it. As I've said before, maybe I could be the female Ryan Seacrest on of these days.

The really nice thing with doing the plays/musicals is that I've established another group of friends--many reminding me of my band friends/family that I have back home. I guess it only makes sense that I would hit it off with a lot of them b/c I have realized over the years that band people and theatre people are very similar in their humor, their openness to new friends and experiences, and just at being ready for any situation that comes their way. Because I now have a "following" perse, I decided to refresh my Facebook page, and have to update it way more than I have done in the past. Plus, I've gotten to meet a lot more fans of the morning show and the station, many of them in High School and super excited when they meet me in person! I'm just a normal person...or at least that's what I thought, but I guess that whole radio person thing makes teenyboppers crazy astatic to meet you and add you as a friend on Facebook--it's too funny and very sweet.