Happy Birthday, Mary Louise Streep!

It's Meryl's Birthday!  She is 61 today.  I know she wouldn't mind me telling you that because she's very happy to be her age.  She's not a big believer in plastic surgery and she's all about growing old gracefully.  I think we might have that in common but we shall see where I stand when I'm 61. 

So if I could have a party today with Meryl, what would I talk about?  Well, I'd probably slip her my card and briefly mention A to Z.  I would try to ask her things about her life, her plans for the rest of the day and then I would sit her down and beg her to let me play her cousin, sister, daughter, niece in any film.  Actually, I hope I wouldn't be reduced to begging and I also hope that we'd have a great conversation filled with laughter enjoyed by both of us, not just me.  Hmm, will that day ever come?  Will I get to hang with Meryl?  Will her agent, press people, or anyone who knows her call me?

I spent some time yesterday talking with different people about spreading the word and the consensus is that I need to create a document that describes Meryl and Me, refers to my youtube channel, this blog and also has a Cleveland angle.  This angle should be about how I'm doing it all on a shoe string budget with all Cleveland talent and that the end result is pretty professional footage.  Here's the strange part.  I write all the time, as you know.  I blog daily, I write for friends, I proof read and edit and YET I still just don't want to write this.  I want the words to be someone else's.  I can go on and on about all of the help I've received and the way things are turning out better than I imagined but the words that I hear from everyone else are the one's that need to be written. 

I'm about to call my writer friends and see if they would help me.  I don't love asking for yet another favor but hey, wait a minute ... CASSIE.  She's an awesome writer. I'm going to ask her.  She's going to say no but I hope she doesn't because she would be perfect for this.  Here I go. Wish me luck. Oh, and Happy Birthday to you MERYL.  Love to you!