No auditions so far this week...BUT I did just get into my first ever, faith based short play - After Death/After Life going up in October at the Panorama High School Auditorium! I am performing this Thursday for the first time in the alternate cast for "When Stars Align" at the Odyssey Theatre with only 3 rehearsals on my feet on stage and 1 of the three with costumes, props & lights...YIKERS. I am in Mark Twain's "Adam & Eve" at the Fremont Theatre in the beginning of November so...no auditions, doesn't mean I can't work! 3 scripts to juggle has been a fantastical process to sort out in my mind. Can I do it??? I better!!! I can't get better training push than doing 3 theater pieces at one time...thank goodness my instructor, Allen Levin at Lifebook, is always about doing as many scene rehearsals as possible, you learn to compartmentalize and it's nuts how my mind seems to jump from one to the next. I'm in awe of brains man...what a wonderful instrument to hone into. While this was all coming about, I was just a mess thinking about it, but as the days have cleared and the time approaching, it's all coming together - for that I am thankful! Even went to see "When Stars Align" one last time with 1 "angel alternate" up with the original cast, love seeing a show done with different perspectives. That's what makes us all unique and needed for this business. We can't be like each other, so why even try...it's unnecessary when explaining art from your point of view with your own brand of uniqueness. We live differently and that's what makes each one of us special in our own right...there is NO ONE like you, there can be similarities but there is NO ONE like you, so go out there and keep expressing that and do not let this business take that part of your soul. You will never be truly happy loosing who you really are to fit in...work may come easier but you'll never express your art the way it was meant to be which will wear on you...even with all the money and fame. So, do yourself a favor and fight it now, struggle it out now to express your art, your work the way you see and stay true. This business will bend to you, they will see you, they will respect you and you will take this "crazy show" for a ride with your truth!!! Love watching beautiful artists at work, Congrats Jahmaul & Kaitlin (angel alternates) & Sarah in "When Stars Align" - happy to be a part of it!

For my last, strict vegan meal of 7 days of 1 vegan meal & juicing ( did Kale, carrots, beets, watermelon, cantaloupe, apples and lemons) all day, I ate my leftover buffalo cauliflower and watermelon salad with red onions and a drizzle of pomegranate balsamic. I am ready for my 4 days of the master cleanse ( I now use raw cane, green liquid sugar instead of maple syrup because it is available now) and 3 days of Geo's Organic juice cleanse! Many people ask why and I always say, "Do you not change the oil out of your car??? View your body as a machine, a very hard working machine that has put in time, since your birth...don't you think it would get clogged up with junk eventually from all the foods you eat? Not everything passes and I don't want that in my system for life causing a disease I could have prevented somewhat. I enjoy food too much to have to give something up because I was forced too. I'll take the precautionary steps now to keep my body functioning at optimal level and believe me when I say it does and it will." Of course, the first time you flush toxins out, you may get through a 1/2 day...if that...maybe 3 days the first time like I did. Then I kept at it and realized it was mind over matter, I was getting my nutrients, I didn't feel exhausted all the time (at first, now I rarely feel exhausted) and the only thing missing was the full feeling I have grown accustomed to. You usually go into a very deep sleep and require less sometimes, especially after doing it for years which is always interesting to me. The fact that you still need to go to the bathroom after 7 days of not a solid bite of food is always enough for me to keep doing my flush cleanses 2x's a year! I don't do this for weight loss guys, that's ridiculous unless you come off it to only then keep doing mostly a liquid diet which isn't gonna happen for me. Do you lose weight, yes but it's mostly water and you gain it back pending on how you eat after; I've even noticed that I would start gaining weight back towards the end of my cleanse, hence the reason I pay no attention to the scale, muscle does weigh more...if you only knew how much I weighed, HA! I have noticed that I do want to put better food in my body each and every time, more so and have started to pay closer attention to what I eat but that took some years to do while doing the flush, your body will tell you and you will start listening.

My body feels great...I still work out every day while on the cleanse, I even biked around Glendale while my car was getting fixed with a pit stop inbetween my 1 hour ride in the heat each way. I just hit up a Vinyasa Flow class (for 1:15), then a 20 minute sauna session, along with stretching for 1 hour at home during the day and then 30 minutes of stretching before bed. Today it is water zumba with 1 hour stretching at home and 30 minutes of stretching before bed because I still have that challenge to accomplish for the show I'm in on Thursday...it's only 2 days away now, ARGH! Yes, it has been a challenge, I definitely took 2 steps back this week so we'll see what my body does this Thursday for the show...I'm looking forward to it!

"Love Handles" is officially a part of TVOne - let's get a Season 2! Check it out, all 7 episodes up with some extra deleted pieces at:  http://tvone.tv/tag/love-handles/