I live with a gazelle like, Kiwi who is incredibly beautiful, kind, positive and energetic.  She is 6' with honey coloured legs up to her arm pits and a dazzling smile.  She could so easily be a bitch but she's not.  She is gorgeous and incredibly good for me.  Her motto is (kiwi twang) 'P.M.A babe, gets you everywhere!'

Now with my incredibly pessimistic outlook on everything, at first I was a little dubious, but now I have adopted it as my motto too!  P.M.A obviously stands for positive mental attitude and is now my new way of life (That is until the amazonian beauty moves out on Jan 13th....Oh  booooo!) and has been a lifesaver for the last couple of weeks.

So, the Myspace dilhema was a complete ball ache as The lovely Simon and The fabulous Colin and Fergus were filming on the day of our show and so weren't definates for the show and with a week to go said that I should probably find other acts as they weren't sure what time they'd finish.  Right, not a problem normally but with no myspace I don't know anyone to ask!!  Went through my very small list of comedians but they were all busy (all working which is obviously great!) and so I finally asked my friend Magwar.  I met Magwar about a year and a half at a comedy writing group we were both a part of.  We didn't stay in the group long but our friendship has gone from strength to strength.  She is a wonderful character actress who was going to be in the shows anyway in the new year when she had some new material written with a friend of hers - a bumped her up and she saved the day at the 11th hour by agreeing to do the December show - I knew it.  I had P.M.A'd all day.  Don't get me wrong, it was hard - I was moody for the morning at work, ignored the problem of no acts all day and on the bus home was quite close to tears but willed a little 'Something will turn up' into my head - then Magwar rang and said yes...Phew!  Everything was going to be ok.

Everything was great, I had three acts (Ideally I always want four but three is manageable) I had baked my cupcakes, (For those of you who haven't been, there are free cupcakes handed out by the cupcake girl in the interval...Oh NOW you want to come!!!) Everything was done and then on the day of the show, I came out of the shower and found a message on my phone from one of my acts:

'err...Oh my god, I am stoopid!  Hey there, that other gig that I wanted to go to after yours?  Well, I forgot to write down that it's in Bristol!'

My little 'now happy and healthy but still with a small hairline scar in it' heart sank.....P.M.A....P.M.A...P.M...fucking A....Oh Jesus, what do I do?, I can't do a show with two acts!!!!  Nooooooooo....ohhhhhhhh...P.M.A.....Help!...Shit!!...Help!!!....it's 1pm on the day of the show.....P.M.A......Ring Magwar...

Everything suddenly wasn't going to be ok....I phoned Magwar and told her she had to do another sketch...SHE HAD TO!!!  I didn't care that she didn't know her lines, my icing of the cupcakes was all lumpy, my interval music was all wrong, I was running out of time and My husband wasn't around to help me carry my stuff to the theatre (See fabuolous photo below)...Oh I was ruined!!!

'No' I thought to myself.  'This is the old you.  The new you, gets on with it and deals with what's in front of her'

And I did.  Magwar saved the day at the 12th hour and said yes to doing another sketch, I left a text on Tony's phone saying 'Hey, these things happen, don't worry about it', I beat the shit out of my icing until it was at an edible standard and I hailed my dirndl clad ass with all my props all the way to the theatre myself.

The show was wicked and I loved it....even if it was a little short.  I had so much fun and our acts were great and we ended the evening by all singing 'Do they know it's christmas time' together....What more could you ask for?  For those of you who came then and the month before, thank you so much!  I appreciate your support so much and I hope you all continue coming as there is so much ahead of us and sooooo much fun to be had.  Let me know if you enjoyed it and what you liked and want to see more off.

Next show is Jan 8th and I hope to see you all there...It's gonna be a cracker!
Merry Christmas Kids
Love
matt's little sister xxx