NEW YEAR, NEW BLOG

Let me start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year, 2010!!!  I cannot believe that a decade ago I was in one of my favorite countries, Australia, in the middle of the crystal, cyan blue waters of the Great Barrier Reef, ringing in the Millennium with my fabulous family, marking some of my best memories to date.  Ten years later, we found ourselves all together, yet again, but this time in our Nation’s capital with a slightly bigger family consisting of two adorable nephews and a another brother-in-law.

With that said, I realize I have been away from FIB and all of my loyal and supportive blog readers for some time, far too much time in fact, and for that, I sincerely apologize!  Please know that I thought about you often and have truly missed my days blogging with you.  So, along with my new year’s resolution to drink more water, I also plan to pick up where I left off and continue my weekly Wednesday blogs, so get ready!

In addition, I want to thank each of you for your continued support while on my journey as an actor and through life, as well as all of your sweet comments and thoughtful messages, even when I was nowhere to be found in blog land!  I continue to be amazed and touched by those of you who have shown interest in me, my blogs and/or acting career.  Recently, I was at an event and approached by someone who asked if I was the Liesl who blogged with Film Industry Bloggers.  After confirming that I was, he graciously proceeded to tell me that he really enjoyed reading my blogs, especially the one written on Carla Laemmle, and even recalled part of what I had written, which meant more to me than he could possibly know.

What have I been up to exactly, you might be asking.  Well, this quick 6-month wrap up, since my last blog, should help catch you up to speed…

Love entered my life unexpectedly and the adventure has been wonderful, I went on a wine tasting weekend in Paso Robles, I attended an Angels vs. Yankee game, toured the Getty Villa in Malibu, my younger sister got married in beautiful Santa Barbara, in what was a lovely fall wedding, I gained a brother-in-law who fits in with our family perfectly, I attended Carla Laemmle’s 100th birthday and got to meet the gracious Sara Karloff, daughter of Boris Karloff, who paid me a lovely compliment about my acting in “Kreating Karloff” and said she was excited to meet me, yes, little me, I dressed up for Halloween for the first time in years, picnicked on the beach in Laguna, continued work on “Rock of Ages” with Telsey Casting and the fabulous Rachel Hoffman, where I also reunited with talented actor David Tom, with whom I acted in my first TV role, “Holy Joe” on CBS, I threw my 6th annual holiday par-tay, visited Disneyland while it was decorated for Christmas, good friends got engaged while others had babies, I celebrated the holiday in NJ with my entire family, traveled back to my beloved New York City, a place I miss more as each year passes, rang in the 2010 in the Nation’s capital, and just as the year came to a close, I booked the voice and face of a video game character, which is something different for me, but that I am excited about and which presents a new, fun experience.

Other than that, I’m still looking forward to fully enjoying my 30’s, which I had just entered when I last updated you in August, and, so far, I am simply loving it!  I still plan to concentrate on the commercial avenue of my career and hosting/personality type jobs, which will hopefully lead to a platform for my own children’s charity foundation, my ultimate goal!  ‘Till next time, which will be sooner this time, I hope you all enjoy the start of 2010 and the pictures below that capture some of what I was up to while away from you the past 6 months in descending order starting in September 2009 and ending in January 2010.

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” - Hal Borland

Photo Credit: Meghan Aileen Photography (wedding pictures below)