Over the many years in high school, I learned a very powerful lesson my senior year. The powerful lesson of putting myself first. I had always been doing numerous things at the same time. I would go to school, then work, then rehearsal at least once a week my last two years. As the production of Little Shop of Horrors was coming to a wrap, I found myself mentally uncapable to handle things, physically and emotionial exhausted, stressed, over worked and lastly, underappreciated. Another thing that I had taken for granted was myself. I had forgetten who I was and to realize that at 18 is a huge deal because some people don't realize when they are 29.

As I look back, my fondest memories are not the running of the lighting or the sound boards of the stage. But the moments I spent setting them up with the people who truely care for me. People who appreciate me and make sure that I'm eating and sleeping and watching my health for me. I was under so much pressure I forgot to do all of those things.