It's Hairspray!

So I made friends with the owner of Sticky Fingers Gourmet Apples, Donna. She's a really nice lady and it's actually been really great going in and talking to her for the last couple days, just about things like how she started the business and me telling her about the theatre and stuff. I love supporting local businesses and I love how small town it feels, to walk into a store and know and talk to the owner. I don't know what it is but it makes me so happy to be able to walk into a place and know the people there. I also really admire her ambition and how well her business has been doing. She started it kind of as a whim and online-based and it just totally took off and it's doing really well. She's completely booked for October and November doing weddings, what a cool idea, to have chocolate apples as favors for a wedding. I'm definitely going to keep that in mind.

I think part of what was so nice is that she's just a normal, down-to-earth person, supporting local businesses and working in the community. There are just so many characters in the theatre business and while they can be a lot of fun, it's nice to talk to a "normal" person haha. I think it made me realize kind of what I want and what makes me happy, being in a small community and giving back and doing something that benefits my friends and neighbors. Again I feel like this goes back to starting my own theatre company, as something that provides business and entertainment for the community and gives back to it. Something not muddled by large corporations and greed and politics, but has that local "mom-and-pop" feel while still being high quality. Just like her apples are from local farms, using the best ingredients, all homemade by her personally, and at a much lower price than her competitors because they don't have to be as high as they charge. I guess just something to keep in mind.

Last night Kenney and his friend Brenden and I went out to karaoke downtown and we had a lot of fun. I had my first cosmo haha and it was delicious. I realized that while I like going out, it's not a great place to meet people since most people just want to hook up and that's not what I want. I'm actually not really a sexual person at all and it's not that important to me. I just want to find a nice, down-to-earth person to go out and do things with and have fun. Like to go out on some dates and get to know each other, maybe go see a movie or something. I feel like I need to look outside of the theatre community to find that haha.

On a side note I downloaded Disney on the Record and I actually really like it a lot haha. It's a fun listen for the car :)

P.S. Here is the link to the Sticky Fingers website http://www.stickyfingersapples.com/shop/. It is definitely worth checking out. Here is a sample of their almond joy apple, yum!