My Turkey Day epiphany

Is that even how you spell epiphany? Eee-piff-ugh-knee. Whatever you get it.

There's this thing about Thanksgiving that I love and cherish so much. It's all about being thankful and such, and family is great too but honestly, if you want the honest truth here, what I look forward to the most is the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Come on, this is the most cheesy parade known to man, they really coated it on think with that cheese but seeing Santa Clause at the end makes me feel like a 4 year old girl again. This has gone back many and many of years and I really never knew why until yesterday. So of course I wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed knowing that I was about to watch the parade. I make the green bean casserole as I'm watching it, I get my breakfast and I got to my room for the last hour. Finally that Jolly man with the rosey cheeks and tummy like bowl full of jelly comes out. I start to clap, and my eyes well up with tears. I love it, I feel so childlike all over again and for those 5 mins he's on I don't worry about paying bills, wondering how I'm going to survive in Cali, if that hot guy at the office really likes me, none of that matters because in these 5 mins I'm allowed to be naive and carefree.

So me and my dad talk about going to New York to see the parade live next year and I can see the excitement in his face as he talk about it. I realize that I get all these emotions from him, oh how I am my father's daughter. I mention how it's always been wishful thinking to go to New York during Christmas time to see the big tree, go ice skating and shop till I drop. Then my dad says "maybe next year you'll be filming a movie there during Christmas and you can fly us all there." Not a bad goal at all.

If you don't know yet I was just casted in an indie film that's hopefully going to SXSW and to Sundance. oh la la. Acting is a huge part of my life and probably the only thing that i've ever been really good at. No matter how much I try to break free from acting it just always comes back to me so I decided to give in completely and pursue it professionally. Since I've made that decision everything has been falling into place. It's so weird how it worked out. So I'll be filming this movie in January then I'll be flying to Cali to pursue it even more.

Hearing my dad say something about my acting I guess just confirmed how this is my true destiny. My usually non supportive family has also given in to my dreams as well, which was something that I've always struggled with. But now I'm over that hump and moving on to my other challenges. But now I know that this is what I was put on the world to do, and I'm not going to be satisfied until I do it. Happy Turkey day!