#52Stories

In my stocking this year from my mother-in-law, Tina, I got this little ring with notecards on it with 52 questions. Tina got a couple of these from Pinner's Conference this year (so sad I couldn't go :() from the Family Search booth. These questions are supposed to be for your posterity's sake so they know more about you as a person and to help you complete your personal history. So I decided since I have a hard time coming up with things to blog about, I'd answer these questions (more for me and for my posterity, so if these posts get boring, I won't be offended at all if you don't read the answers to these questions). So. I'll answer one of these a week since there are 52 weeks in a year. I figured I'd do the first question today, and then some time later this week I'd answer the second question since we are already into the second week or the year.

Question #1: 

Wow.  The first question is hard haha.  The only thing I can think of is the one time I got scouted for a talent agency up in Salt Lake, and I went and auditioned.  I've always thought it would be fun to act in a television show or something like that, but a few of things have prevented me from chasing that dream:

1) Being a stay-at-home mother is the first thing I wanted to be, and I think it would be hard to work out of the home, or even run/work for a business within the home.  I don't know how working mothers balance their children and work at the same time.  Kudos to you.

2) The standards of the movie industry and mine don't align.  Let's be honest, how many active LDS actors/actresses are huge celebrities?  Sure, there are people like Kirby Heyborne, but they're mostly in LDS films.

3) As most of you know, I am on the shier side and don't like to be in the spotlight or do things when all eyes are on me.

So, as the story goes, I went up to SLC, did a cold read where my mother/father was dying in the hospital and the agent was really impressed, especially since they (the agent, my dad, and my sister) left the room to have me read through it and practice by myself and I was already in tears when they came back in the room.  Let's just say that I cry really easily (I am pretty good at holding in tears... I don't like to cry, especially in front of people).  The agent had me do a second cold read where I was angry, and that was a disaster.  I'm not good at being angry haha.  But the agent said he would love to have me enroll in their classes and began to list a bunch of people who went through their agency (such as "Napoleon Dynamite"... that was the only guy he listed off that I knew haha).  I ended up not enrolling in their classes, and I can't say that I regret letting that opportunity "get away".  I love the staying at home with my two little girls, and I wouldn't have it any other way.