Planes, trains and automobiles.....

I traveled to Minneapolis yesterday and I have to admit it was an experience. I had to take a cab to 34th st. and take a train to the Air Train and then took a plane to Minnesota. It was cool to meet up with a bunch of folks that I've worked with in the past or people that I've heard about that are really hard workers and talented. So let me give the run down of what was going on. We got here and then we went out to lunch, got pretty tipsy, bought some alcohol and then went to the pool. We also went out and bought some groceries and I spent $85 on food and such so being a "Fat Gurl" is a must with old Roommate. Today we had our first day of rehearsals, and Honey! Let me tell you that the show that I left over a year ago is different. I'm having to bite my lip and not say anything, seeing as how this is not my show anymore. I wanted to say so many things but I couldn't, I was a very good boy and just nodded and did the choreography. But let me tell you that my body has not been throught his before, the studio we were in was hotter than hell and there are only six people in the cast as of right now and we just rushed through the show. So now Tour Roommate and I had a great dinner and we popped open two bottles of wine and I'm feeling real good. We are just sitting around talking to each other and I'm feeling real good. I'll write more manana...love ya'll DF

Workaholic...

Telling you guys that I've been busy is an understatement. By tommorow I'm going to have worked 8 days in a row. I'm leaving for Minneapolis on Thursday morning and I'm not getting a day off until possibly after the 4th of July, which I have to work to make up the time that I'm losing for going to this rehearsal. I went and saw my friend Leeto in Broadway Bares on Sunday night and it was fantastic. I really want to write more right now, but I'm a tad exhausted and I know that I'll have a grip of time on in Minneapolis when I'm nursing my weary bones after a year from muppetry....night..df

CHANCLAS.....

Shit, thank the heavens that I've lost weight this summer, I don't think that I could stand another season with my legs rubbing together and me being slow and out of breath from all the stairs that one has to climb in this jungle gym we call NYC. I've been busy with work and going to the gym, I'm seeing some great results and I can't wait to get to Minneapolis for rehearsals so I can start to shed more pounds from a week of hardcore dancing. I'm being brave this week and I'm wearing more things with cut off sleeves and flip flops around town. Once the intial gross factor wore off about wearing chanclas, I fell in love with the way that they cool you down. I still haven't mastered running or climbing up stairs with them without losing one or having it fall off and land a few steps below in front of many strangers. I've learned to ask for my Prince Charming and call myself "Cinderella", much the dismay of my fellow strap hangers who probably just roll their eyes at the trendy gay man with dirty feet. A lot has happened and here are some thoughts and bullet points to get everyone caught up.

• Roommate and I have been working our butts of with this apartment. We've been painting and doing some home improvements all by ourselves. It's funny how we grew up with the most handy of fathers'. Roommates' Dad is a mechanic while mine has worked in everything having to do with manual labor or tools. Between the both of them they can fix anything. So it comes to no surprise to no one but ourselves that we ended up being handy as well. I guess I did learn something those times my father was screaming at me to hold the flashlight, or to hand him a certain tool. Fixing up this place with our own hands makes it that much better, I love walking into a clean bathroom that I helped paint and clean, as well as to practically gut, and feel accomplished.
• I'm nervous about going to back the "Street" and my old way of life. Especially since the guy who broke my heart when we toured together is going to be in charge of wardrobe, and his current partner which will end up being being his ex-partner after this current tour with be there as well. It's gonna be an interesting ride, I hope I remember to bring the Dramamine.
• I'm actually happy right now, I'm in a very good place and I can't wait to see what life has in store for me around the corner. I'm doing really well at work. I was nominated to go to an advanced skincare class and I passed my pre-test with flying colors. Watch out now!!
• I'm afraid to go to auditions. I never used to be and here I am in the theatre capital of the world and I can't get to the audition. I'm going to have to work on that one. I think I've put a lot of emphasis on my weight, and now with it almost gone I'm scared that my crutch is not going to be there. ^shrugs^

Well that's about it for now, I've got to be at work at 6am. I love ya'll! DF.

Umhmmmm.....

The past couple of days have been fun and interesting. Spent time with friends and hung out and had fun. I had a weird experience yesterday that I have to tell you about. I was at the train stop with Roommate after spending the afternoon with him, we had brunch and walked around and got to know our neighborhood. Anyhow, we were waiting for the train and I noticed this HOT guy out of the corner of my eye. Now let me tell you a little something about my type, have you ever seen the ads for A&F or American Eagle? Well yeah those boys are my fantasy type, the kind of guys that can make me write bad checks, the kind of guy that would make me learn how to cook and sew for him. So yeah, this guy had it all, blonde hair, tan, blue eyes ( I'm a sucker for BLUE EYES) and a cute skater boy style. So I'm standing there and I feel him looking at me, and I'm thinking that finally I'm getting my powers back with men. I form this hypothesis that maybe this guy is into me! I look over my shades at my roommate and we start to have a telepathic conversation over this guy, he looks at me and motions over with his eyes at him and I raise my eyebrow to let him know that I already saw him and am on the hunt. Basically telling him to back off. So I'm sending out all my Cheetah powers out there, casting spells left and right, trying to ensnare him with my charm and aloofness. I see him shuffling about and looking sort of shy and afraid to ask me something, I stand there striking a pose, so he comes over and asks me what my tattoo means. So I tell him the funny story and he introduces himself to me and tells me that it's nice. I'm flirting, being really funny and interesting and looking over at my roommate who seems impressed that my powers had returned. When all of sudden out of left field he hits me with this ginormous mallet!! He starts to talk about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I fight the urge to tell him that the only Jesus I know is my Tia Chuy and my cousin Jesus who lives in Los Angeles and my Tia who lives IN Guadalajara. He asks me about my views on life, etc. I start to zone out, there are trains whizzing past and I can't really hear what he's telling me. Something about Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains, and all I'm thinking about is how do I get him home and make my roommate leave us alone for a while. But of course a cute guy has to got to have some hang-ups, his just happened to be the King of Kings, and it wasn't Budweiser. The train finally came and he got on with us to keep on preaching the word, luckily we were only two stops away and we said our goodbyes and promised him to keep his words in our minds, and as we stepped off the train my roommate and I with our psychic link still intact reached for each others hands and held on like lovers full well knowing that he was watching from the train as we walked away hand and hand. Just like God intended us too, I'm sure that his mouth was on the floor and he might have shook his head in disbelief or disgust, who knows or who cares for that matter. He might have shrugged his shoulders and then started speaking to the scary black man standing next to him, telling him how he liked his hat and tricking him into a conversation about his savior. I still would've gave him head though, I mean I am going to hell, at least he thinks so, he told me. So why not go for a REAl good reason.
Goodnight all...love DF

I'm cool....I'm COOL...

Been busy, as usual, all week. We have cable and internet again, so life is getting even better in this apartment. We put up the A/C and took out the radiator to give us more space in the living room. I'm already tapped out with money, even after my Dad sent me some cash. I was able to get things that I needed, and honestly not having a decent grocery store in our area is really putting a strain on us for food and what not. I can't wait to get the rest of our items out of the boxes and set up. I swear that I had all this great inspirational shit that I had planned to write out, but right now I'm really just enjoying NYC, it's an experience walking around my new 'hood checking out the people and the styles that come with this territory. I had my roommate cut my hair to be like the cool kids, and I must say with all the weight that I've been losing I am now getting looks and glances at the gym and on the street. I had forgotten what that was like, funny. When I was in my prime I took my body and looks for granted, I knew that men looked at me and that I could basically walk into bar and hook up or get approached for my phone number. So when I gained all the weight I realized that I didn't have those powers anymore and I basically went into hibernation with my sexuality. I became that chubby, quick-witted, loud friend that makes the everyone laugh and drinks entirely too much. Now I am older and I hope that I've learned my lesson and start to open up and stop being the aloof one who just stands there and sips his drink with an arched eyebrow. Cheetah is awake and she's ready to roar and pounce, it's been YEARS since I've even dated anyone and I think that it's time I get myself back on the market. I'm tired and I have no idea what I'm talking about, I work late manana and I can't wait to sleep in...love DF

I am a GOLDEN GOD!!

DUDE!! The past two days have been crazy and HOT!! I had to work on Sunday, but it wasn't a regular work day. I had to come in at 8pm and work until 5am. We had inventory and it sucked!! I was so tired by the time I go there, I had went to brunch with #3 and got pretty hammered and then went Cd shopping and got to take a small nap and off to work I went. AND the night before I had gone out with Tam and #3 and Colorado to their place and watched Finding Neverland, it was a good movie and I can see why it was nominate. I was walking to the F train and I ran into Andrew Goetz of Malin+Goetz and to got to chat with him for a bit before heading down in the bowels of a steaming NYC. So back to today. I get home around 5 and it's hotter than all those years I spent in costume, because we haven't been able to set up our A/C do to these ghetto bars that cover our 6th floor windows! Who the hell is gonna break in our place anyhow? So I put on a small bathing suit and called it a night! So this man starts ringing my bell at 10am to let him in, he's here to remove the bars, what! I'm practically naked and sleep deprieved and all I can think is this place is a mess so clean up. I let him in and he proceeds to saw some bars off to make way for our A/C. I call up Roommate knowing that if he doesn't come home to make this guy do it his way, then I'll never hear the end of it. Roommate argues and gets his way, I don't get to sleep anymore and I take off to have lunch with Friend. Lunch was good, since it was hot as twat and we decided to go catch a movie. We watched Lord of Dogtown and it took us back to California and the boys we used to crush over in Junior High. I rushed home cuz the sky was black as tar and it was about to fall rain on our heads. It's scary to watch New Yorkers brace themselves for a downpour. It's like farm animals before a twister. As I'm getting off the train it falls agua and people are scared by it, I don't care and I start to walk home and my Dad calls to tell me that he wired some money and that I had to go pick it up. Yeah to grocery and spending cash. I get home and take a small nap and then Roommate and Boyfriend came home and we set up the A/C and the TV cuz manana we gets cable! This week is gonna be good I can feel it!! I'm currently watching Almost Famous and talking to my Tour Husband and catching up on old times. I also watched The Incredibles and I can't help to think about my life and dusting off my old costume and meeting up with old co-workers and fighting our own type of crime Which is why I'm watching Almost Famous, the scene on the tour bus when they are singing "Tiny Dancer" by Sir Elton, is by far my most favorite. Tour Husband and I had this experience on the bus with some 40 ounces and me telling her " I want to go home." And my amazing tour partner in crime, ala Pennylane told me " Fuck you bitch, your are home." And then she took a swig and I knew that I was and that we would always be friends. Miss you gurl, you'll always be MY elmo. Night everyone, I let the rain and the A/C sing me to sleep. DF

Good Morning

I've been up since 7am and I don't know why. I had wanted to go the gym, just didn't feel like making a treck to uptown then back down to Soho for work, so I'm just sitting here playing with the computer and gonna take down my laundry to this fluff and fold on Clinton that Hollywood told me about. Yesterday was not a good day, I couldn't sleep the night before I had this nightmare that a big Tsunami hit Japan while I was there and it woke me the hell up and I couldn't get back to bed. I called my aunt in California and we sat up talking until 2am my time. It was cool to catch up on all the family gossip. I had to be at work at 6am and I barely made it here and had me a Redbull and tried to be an effective employee but alas I was just there going through the motions. I also had to go to this Jonathan hair training from the star of Bravo's Blowout, a show which my roommate and I both loved to hate last year and I was very excited to possibly meet and pick his brain on some industry crap. AND of course I being who I am could not have a trying day get any better, I went to the wrong store and I sat at the training room for over 40 minutes for training that was happening up 15 blocks up and one block over! Anyhow a co-worker and I jumped in a cab and just made it in time hear him wrap up his presentation which honest to God I'm glad that I made it just for that, he isn't a good hawker but man can he be charming. I took a picture with him and I will upload it when I get it sent to me. What else? Oh yeah! My roommate from tour will be joining me in Japan, he will be playing a different part this time, but he will room with me again. I knew that casting just one more spell would work on my behalf. Oh right , back to yesterday, sorry for the digresstion. I went back to work and just couldn't function I wasn't all the there, I felt like I had partied all night and cracky was a good word for it. I had made plans to go to they gym after work but I had this horrible stomach cramp and I was getting really irate so I had to leave asap and get to bed. I came home and fell right to sleep but kept getting woken up by people or the lack of any real curtains in our new place, and me using blue painters tape to make my old blanket cover the window does not count. #3s' husband came over and he looked fetching in his diesel jeans and cute shirt, you would never know that he was from Colorado. So Colorado and I chatted a bit until #3 came by to just hang and we all agreed that this place is coming around, they also said that it was giving them inspiration to move to much larger space than where they are currently dwelling. Roommate bailed on us for dinner so it was just the three of us, as usual, for the evening. We went to this bad Mexican place on Rivington and they had bad margaritas and worse food and a mouse to boot that flew out at us at the end of our meal, probably to tell us that we had spent enough time there. We left that place and am NEVER eating there again! We we're walking down the block and I called up my friend Hollywood to come out and have a drink with me and so we stopped at the Rivington bar and sat a spell and it was a good mix of hipsters, straights and freaks. I will be going there again, one #3 and Colorado left Hollywood and Xtine and I went up the block, to this dive bar to shoot pool and drink a beer. We were horrible at pool! The cue sticks were all banged up and the people sitting along the edge of the table were mad when I would ask them to move so I could set up my shot. It was all in good fun and there was a juke box that reminded me of going to the Fun Factory in Jr. High with friends in the summer to spend the whole night there and listen to Bob Marley. After that I came home and was amazed that I had spent the whole evening on just one block, and I knew then that I love this area! I'm off to work now and we still have a lot more home improvements to do, so we hope to get those done tomorrow or Monday. Have a good day ya'll...df

Stealing the Web....

I can't write much, there is the possibility that I may get disconnected! I don't have my own cable hook up yet so I have to steal it, I feel very Anne Frank right now. I'm doing GREAT!! This place is really coming around and the neighborhood is totally chill. Work is work, I don't have a penny to my name and my phone got cut off, but Dad came to rescue. He was mad that I wasn't connected so he went and paid my cell phone bill for two months!! I LOVE my DAD! Anyhow I don't know how long I got, so I'll say night! I gotta be at work at 6am..love fina