{"id":38,"date":"2012-04-30T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/making-it-big\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:22","slug":"making-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/making-it-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it Big."},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, Facebook. You really like to make things tough sometimes, don\u2019t you??  I love Facebook for so many reasons \u2013 one being the way it keeps me connected to all the different people in my life \u2013 but it can also be the fastest route to a downward spiral for me.  I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m not alone on this one.  It\u2019s a wonderful thing to hear about the professional successes of my talented friends\u2026and I do want to give credit where credit is due.  If you\u2019re thriving in the theatre world after all these years you really do deserve all the accolades and applause your success is giving you.  I really do mean that.  It\u2019s a tough, tough business, and definitely not for the faint of heart.  But for the other 98% of us, I wonder if my former beloved professors and acting coaches would drop the same praise on my wall for my job as a Mom.  You know, the one I\u2019ve been working at for 4.5 years?  I wonder if it would look something like this: \u201cYour children are beautiful!  Congrats on keeping them from killing each other, the cat, and yourself!\u201d \u201cSo proud of you!  You are the master at answering 20 questions in the span of 5 minutes!\u201d \u201cWay to go!  You really make tea parties and playing \u201cmovie theatre\u201d look so easy!\u201d Maybe it\u2019s watching too much \u201cSmash\u201d or the fact that my girls pull my monologue collections and Shakespeare Folio books off the shelves to \u201cplay library\u201d \u2013 but I\u2019ve never felt further away from my old \u201ccareer\u201d.  It really does feel like a past life and when people ask me if \u201cI\u2019d go back to acting after my kids are in school\u201d\u2026I just don\u2019t know.  What was once a bright star has faded a bit with the diapers, chicken nuggets and Minnie Mouse jammies.  I\u2019d like to think that that fearless performer is still in me somewhere \u2013 being kept alive by my love for language and reading and classical theatre \u2013 and that I can grab that star when my time during the day becomes my own again, a few years down the road.  But I really don\u2019t know.  I don\u2019t know if I can face the rejection of being told \u201cno\u201d again.  And it pains me in my deepest being to think that maybe, I just didn\u2019t have the stomach for it and that 2% of my theatre buds did \u2013 and still do.  And so, good for them.  Honestly.  I guess I just wish that there would be something said for those of us who are working our asses off at a different career.  I guess sometimes I\u2019d <\/em>like a little praise heaped on me for making it through each day as the co-leader of my home, Mom extraordinaire, woman with 200 hats at any given time. I\u2019ve decided to walk away from my work-from-home writing gig \u2013 it was an awesome experience but as it turns out \u2013 well, for me it was just too hard to balance deadlines with a very active 4 year old and a loving handful of a 2 year old.  And it also made me realize what I want to be writing about the most\u2026 My life, my family, my heart. Note to self: Figure out how to do that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, Facebook. You really like to make things tough sometimes, don\u2019t you??  I love Facebook for so many reasons \u2013 one being the way it keeps me connected to all the different people in my life \u2013 but it can also be the fastest route to a downward spiral for me.  I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}