Snow Day!!

So, while I am definitely getting tired of the snow, we have been following it for what feels like months now, it came in handy last night. Last night, here in Easton, PA, they cancelled our show, so all we had to do was a load in and then came back to the hotel. This is our first hotel in I think a week and a half, so I was very grateful for the night off. They even had Karaoke at the hotel bar last night and I sang Fishin in the Dark by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Since my last post I have been to: Lowell, MA (a place where the goal of my touring career is to get on a show that does not play here); Portland, ME; West Point, NY; Indiana, PA; University Park, PA; and am now here in Easton. Tonight we leave for Waterbury, CT.

A friend of mine posted a picture, both in their blog and on fb that really makes me want to get back in shape. They are a runner, as am I even though I haven't done it in forever, but I'm thinking after I write this post I may sneak on down to the hotel gym before my bus call. If nothing else I really need to do some push ups and crunches in my room. I've also thought about picking up yoga again (the again being I did it during one of my acting classes in college). One of our cast members told me about a yoga studio that has free podcasts that take you through the various salutations and such. We shall see if I actually do any of the above. Friends, you are more than welcome to text, fb, skype my butt to encourage/push me to work out, it would be much appreciated.

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I finally finished reading The Five Love Languages, and would like to revisit the issue of love. It has always been an issue that fascinates me, from finding out what my friends believe love is, to seeing how it is possible to deceive yourself into loving someone. But in this post, I want to look at the differences between love and hate, though I welcome comments from my friends on what you believe that love is, especially now that all of you are getting married and engaged, which you need to stop (JK I love you all and am very happy for all of you!!).

During my Christmas Break I was waking up really early for part of it, so I started watching a slew of daytime talk shows. I forget what the exact issue was that they were discussing on The View, but Whoopi Goldberg stated, "Hate is a learned behavior", and that got me thinking; if hate is a learned behavior, then what is love? If we have to learn how to hate, which I believe we do, then are we born knowing how to love? This also interests me because my mom introduced me to the five love languages years ago, and since first taking the love language test with her, mine have changed. So, how did I "learn" to have a new love language?

Personally, I do believe that we are born knowing how to love. If you have ever spent a lot of time around children, you will notice that they don't care how another child looks, speaks, or dresses, they just want to have fun with them and share their toys, usually. Now, can children be taught to hate at a very young age, sadly yes, but I do not believe that this is natural. One of the favorite parts of my life has been watching one of our foster children go from when he came to us, if he ran into a wall he would just stand and glare at us with arms folded, to if he just brushed the wall he would come running asking for us to kiss his arm. It took a while, but we were thankfully able to teach him how to love again, which I believe it is possible to forget how to love, but I think we begin life knowing how. I think

So mainly, I guess I am asking two questions. What do you believe love is? Do you believe that we are born knowing how to love? How do you think that we can learn new love languages?