Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Elected
I was elected today as an Associate Board Member to the National Board of the Directors Guild of America. I am the 2nd Associate Board Member representing the AD/SM/PA members West Coast along with two other members from our West Coast Council. We were hoping to sneak in a 4th position on the Board but we knew that was a long shot. So I'm honored to have been selected as the 3rd person that the West Coast AD/SM/PA delegates wanted to help represent our West Coast members. So now my name will be on the DGA letterhead (isn't that hilarious?) and we'll see if my name makes it into Variety and the Hollywood Reporter when they announce the new Board. Holy Shit. Now what do I do??
Got this sent to me from a friend. If you know the book "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" or you're a mom, you'll get a kick out of this. It made me smile anyway.
IF YOU GIVE A MOM A MUFFIN
If you give a Mom a muffin,
She'll want a strong cup of coffee to go with it.
She'll make herself some.
Her three year old will spill the coffee.
She'll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she'll find dirty socks.
She'll remember she has to do laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer, she'll trip over boots and bump into the box of Goodwill items.
Bumping into the Goodwill items will remind her she has to get these boxes in the car and out of her basement.
When she puts the boxes in the car, she'll find a bag of groceries and this will remind her she has to cook dinner.
She will get out the chicken defrosting in the fridge.
She'll look for her cookbook (101 Things To Do With Chicken).
The cookbook will be sitting under a pile of mail.
She will see the Netflix movie she's meant to mail and the preschool bill, which is due tomorrow.
She will look for her checkbook.
The checkbook will be in her purse that is being dumped out by her one year old.
She'll smell something funny. She'll change the baby's diaper.
As she finishes up, she'll realize she brought the hand sanitizer down to the kitchen.
While she is throwing away the diaper and searching for the hand sanitizer, the phone will ring.
Her three year old will answer and hang up.
She'll remember she wants to phone a friend not for coffee but a very strong drink.
Thinking of drinking will remind her that she was going to have a cup of coffee in order to stay awake for the rest of the day.
And chances are...
If she finds her cup of coffee (which she has to reheat by now), Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.
Many of you know that I work on "Big Brother". This is my 3rd season and BB8 is going to be another summer of fun. Lots of good twists are in store and I walked through the house today. The decor theme is Alice in Wonderland and it's very colorful. I'll tell you more after the move in this weekend. I'm hoping to walk through the house again on Wednesday and hopefully take some photos. I did that for BB6 and that was way cool especially since once the houseguests move in, only certain people actually go into the house. The one thing I plan on doing this season is going up to MCR (master control) and watch the taping of the house cameras once everything is up and running. I just never wanted to bother them while they were working the past 2 years. Isn't that sad? Considering I've been on the show for 2 full seasons, it's so strange that there's a whole huge element of the show that happens and they don't even know who I am and vice-versa. But yet, it's so cool. G has worked on the sequester house/jury shoot the last two years and he knows more of that personnel than I do. LOL.
Another fun, weird thing about being at BB is that it's like summer camp. Once again, I show up today and say hi to all the wonderful people who work on the show and it's like I saw them yesterday. Literally. A few, very few, faces have changed. Many have been there longer than I have. Almost everyone is at their same desks as last year (including me and the director) so it's almost exactly the same, we pick up conversations about the show or competitions just like we did for "last week's show" and yet a year has passed. It's kind of freaky. But it's a great way to spend my summer. Oh, and for those who are BB junkies, Showtime will be broadcasting 3 hours of life in the BB house starting at midnight on ShooToo (one of their channels) uncensored. Could be interesting.
Speaking of reality shows. I'm quite the reality junkie. I love "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race". I admit to watching "The Bachelor" 'cause it's kind of like watching a traffic accident. "American Idol" is not reality, it's variety so that doesn't count. I did get hooked on "Project Runway" at the end of the last season. My friend D told me about "Top Chef" the other day so I watched the first two episodes, thanks to the g-dsend of Tivo. What a fun show. And thankfully, there's not much TV to watch over the summer so I'm hooked on this one. I wasn't sure how interesting watching people cook would be or what the tension would be if they "plate" on time, but it's great. I did bad television last year called "Celebrity Cooking Showdown" and the cooking part was fun to watch as was the plating of the dish. The rest of the show was completely ill-conceived but that's another post. Anyway, I'm in. "Top Chef" is fun.
The Culver City Flute Choir performed our 20th anniversary concert on Thursday night. I've been with the group since 1995 and have enjoyed every moment of it. Okay, most moments except for the often sucky drive from Woodland Hills to Culver City at rush hour every Thursday. Anyway, we played 8 pieces that were selected by us as our favorites. We started off with wanting to play 20 pieces, once from each year, but that became impossible with the time frame we were dealing with. If we had planned this for two quarters, it might have been doable. Although the audience might've slit their wrists to hear that much flute playing. No amount of brownies could bribe them to sit that long so the 8 selected pieces worked out just perfectly.
I've been with the group for 12 years and since I joined, I've bought all new flutes. I have a beautiful professional C flute, a piccolo, alto and bass. Since I've gotten the alto and bass, my C flute playing has gone down a lot mostly because we need the bass sounds and only 3 of us have the bass flutes. That has made me cranky at times because my C flute is my most expensive instrument and it's really my first instrument and I love to play it. So when I get put on bass all the time, I get cranky. Forget playing piccolo. As it turned out, as the 20 pieces kept getting cut down and down, at the end of the day, I ended up playing C flute on 5 pieces, piccolo on 2 and bass on only 1. All the pieces that were cut were almost all my bass parts. It was nice to play and really practice my C flute.
The concert actually went well. There were some definite mistakes which I think can be blamed on being under rehearsed. But the audience didn't know, I know that for sure. If we had narrowed down the selections a week earlier, the rehearsals would've been more productive. But it was all good. C enjoyed us playing the "William Tell Overture". Thanks to Little Einsteins, my girl definitely has been exposed to classical music and loves it when I play things she knows on my flute.
The final piece we played was the "Air in D" by J.S. Bach. At the annual National Flute Association Convention, it's the final piece that's played at the closing ceremonies. They tape the parts to the back of the chairs and you play the part that's in front of you. When you play this famous piece with 1000+ flutists, it's really inspiring. For our concert, we invited past flute choir members to join us in playing and several showed up with their flutes. So there were 15 or 16 of us playing and it was really so pretty. Considering we hadn't all rehearsed as a group, it sounded quite spectacular if I say so myself (and that doesn't happen too often with our group) It was so pretty and tender and actually special. I hope when I listen to the DVD, I wasn't imagining it.
Here's me and Irene playing our piccolos on "Bluebird". (picture stolen from Irene's blog)
And here's the whole group of us playing the Bach finale. Those not dressed in black are our former members who played along with us. Next concert is our holiday fiesta in December. If anyone is interested in attending, let me know and if I get on the ball, I'll post ahead of time.
I won't talk about the past week with C out of school. I won't talk about my flute concert last night. I won't talk about my migraine from hell that I've had for 24 hours. I won't talk about C's 4 year checkup. I won't even mention the dance recital from a few weeks ago that I'm a bad Mom and haven't blogged about. That's for another post. I'm finally posting what the public has been demanding. Pictures from the opening performance of "Stop That Pickle!"
First of all, let me reiterate that I have the cutest PB&J sandwich known to man. G watched the videotape as did several others at work that day and thought it was just too darn cute. So without further ado, here, for your viewing pleasure, are photos of the original cast.
Here's M, the pickle coming out of his pickle jar. My precious PB&J sandwich starting to chase the above viewed escaped pickle. The PB&G, the pretzel and the 17 almonds giving chase to the pickle. All the foods chasing and yelling "Stop That Pickle!" (quite a workout for the performers) While the foods are still on the chase, the pickle takes a bit of a break to allow them to catch up. Then the pickle runs into a little boy (okay, the teacher) who decides he's hungry and eats all the foods, but saves the pickle for last.
The final curtain call! What a fabulous job they all did!
Me and my favorite sandwich backstage!
Love that costume. Please note that the clothes that C wore underneath were a purple shirt for the grape jelly, brown bike shorts for the peanut butter (which being a nut free school, you do the math) and white socks for thd bread. Someone got really into her character.
Approximately 2.5 hours of sleep last night, but who’s counting. Apparently, sleep IS an option. For the second night in a row, there was a 4 showing on my clock when I finally crawled into bed. The problem was with the 6 when the alarm went off. We’ve still got a lot of work to do today but I really have to be done at midnight, with tapes in hand, because of an overnight edit situation that’s supposed to start at 6AM tomorrow morning. If I were in Vegas... We’ll see how well we do. Just imagine what 5 whole hours of sleep in a row will do for me. Watch out world!
I was able to attend the world premiere of “Stop That Pickle” at C’s school this morning. It was, without a doubt, the cutest thing ever. It’s a cute little story of a runaway pickle and the food’s that try to catch him. C was a PB&J sandwich. Also participating in the chase were a Pippin apple, 17 almonds, two chocolate donuts, a salty pretzel, a bottle of grape juice and an ice cream cone. I’m not sure how many are in the real book (or just adapted for this performance) but I do know the kids chose their own foods. They made their own costumes (decorated t-shirts) and they obviously rehearsed really hard. There was a lot of activity as the kids were running around chasing the aforementioned runaway vegetable and as each food joined in the run, they each yelled their goal which was (everyone now) “Stop That Pickle!” Oh, it was so stinking cute. And yes, there are photos and videos. I’ve been the class photographer/historian all year taking a jillion pictures whenever I’m around (especially at birthday parties). So, I’ll upload of a few tomorrow when I’m sitting around watching rehearsals. Assuming I’m awake. I’m just glad that it worked out that I could go. I would’ve been brokenhearted to just have watched the video. And all kids had multiple audience members. Parents and grandparents were well represented as well as some other parents who were at school preparing for the pre-school graduation tonight. It was definitely a SRO performance. Bravo Room 8!!
I've got about another hour to go before I'm on the road. Quick sleep. Get u and get moving to get C to a friend's house who's taking her to her last day of school. Oh, I'm so sad. I have to come to editing to pick up reels at hopefully 8:30A, then drop them at the Kodak Theater. Then, I'll turn right around and head all the way back home to see C's class perform the world premiere of "Stop That Pickle". It's the class's favorite book so they decided to turn it into a play. C had paint all over her the other day literally head to toe, and she said she was painting the "buildings" for her play. I was feeling horrible about missing it and yet feeling guilty about missing work. G was talking to the director today who said absolutely I should go see it since we're both working. So guilt be gone and off I will go to see the class play. I actually can't wait. I just hope I can stay awake. Something tells me that won't be a problem.
Can you tell I'm sitting around on my computer all day?
As you all know, G was in NY for 2+ weeks working "The 61st Annual Tony Awards". As you also may know, in the context of the awards show circuit, the Tony's don't attract much TV viewership. Knowing, understanding and appreciating Broadway theater doesn't really apply in the far reaches of, say, Alabama or Oklahoma. This was on Conan the other night. Enjoy!
I'm so tired that I got up, got dressed and left the house without putting in my contact lenses.
Yup, it's true. Good thing I A) know where I'm going and B) really only have problems seeing far distances. It took me halfway to work on the freeway to even notice. And for some weird karmic reason, I bought my travel contacts bag with me with extra lenses and cleaning solution. My eyes were really bothering me yesterday so I just randomly grabbed it. Hey, I had extra lenses and I can finally see.
I guess that's what happens when I get less than 3 hours of sleep. I'm not counting on a whole lot more tonight. I hope I'm wrong.
I got tagged from Lisa so here goes. More random information you may or may not need to know about me.
10 FAVORITES Favorite Color: don’t really have one so I guess I’ll lean towards pink Favorite Food: sushi Favorite Month: any month with warm weather Favorite Song: “What I Like About You” by The Romantics or “The River” by Garth Brooks Favorite Movie: Cinema Paradiso Favorite Sport: duh, ice hockey Favorite Season: Spring when it’s warm but not overly hot yet Favorite Day of the week: any one that I can sleep in Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Gold Medal Ribbon at Baskin Robbins Favorite Time of Day: noon
9 CURRENTS Current Mood: Tired Current Taste: York Peppermint Patty Current Clothes: camouflage Capri pants, pink top, mary jane crocs Current Desktop: Picture of C at 11 months holding her stuffed dog Blue. The most perfect photo ever. Current Toenail Color: purple with flowers Current Time: 1:57P Current Surroundings: edit bay Current Thoughts: I’ve got a million phone calls to make including lining up babysitters for the end of the week and the end of the month.
8 FIRSTS First Best Friend: I don’t know. I guess Rachel L in kindergarten. We met up again about 4 years ago. First Kiss: recently answered in another post. 15 years old, Thom at summer camp First Screen Name: random number combination from CompuServe. First Pet: dog names Frosty (I’m not counting fishtanks) First Piercing: ears around 12 years old First Crush: I’m going with celebrity crush - Mark Hamil at the peak of Star Wars. First CD: It was either Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA” or Hall & Oates “Greatest Hits Part 1” Last Cigarette: One hit on a cigarette in college. Smoking is my #1 pet peeve. Last Drink: 2 Corona beers yesterday (yup, drinking at work) Last Car Ride: drove from the audio mixing facility back to editing Last Kiss: Got a kiss from C at school drop off. Last Movie Seen: Um, thinking, oh, “The Queen” on DVD in March. Last Phone Call: calling my friend Debbie Last CD Played: Wicked
6 HAVE YOU EVERS Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Guy/Girl Friends: yup and then married him Have You Ever Broken the Law: a couple of speeding tickets is as rebel as I get Have You Ever Been Arrested: Nope Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Yes Have You Ever Been on TV: Yes Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: No
5 THINGS Thing You're Wearing: my wedding rings Thing You've Done Today: voted for the Primetime Emmy Awards Thing You Can Hear Right Now: hum of the editing hard drives and the producer I’m working with banging on his computer keyboard Thing You Can't Live Without: my family Thing You Do When You're Bored: The Internet
4 PLACES YOU'VE BEEN TODAY preschool my parents house editing and later the DGA
3 PEOPLE YOU CAN TELL ANYTHING TO G - DH C - BF in Australia M - BF here
2 CHOICES 1. Black or White: Black 2. Hot or Cold: weather - hot, drinks - cold
1 THING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE: Only one? See my daughter get married
Who’s next? I’m tagging Irene, Sonia and Alli. Anyone else, go for it and let me know.
Hi all. Remember me? Do you see that large mound of dirt? Those are my feet sticking out from under. It's been a crazy week with another one to go. I survived the "Guys Choice Awards" which were taped last night. For those who are just dying to tune in, they air on Spike TV Wednesday night at 9PM. It's full of low brow, male humor. Lots of penis jokes, a live beer keg on stage, Carmen Electra and pole dancers. The highlight of the evening, truly, is the end of the show where Styx performs. They seriously rocked the house with "Renegade" which is my favorite song of theirs. This was the first time I AD'd for this director who has a reputation for being quite the lunatic screamer. He was too busy wearing his producer hat to deal with anything related to his director hat until day of show. So it fell on the Stage Manager and I to put a lot of things in order. Even though we didn't rehearse much, they certainly have everything they need to put the show together. Honestly, once it's all put together, it might not be too bad. I mean, it's male humor to take it with that grain of salt. But within the context of what it is, it should be ok. It was a hard show though and everyone said I did a great job keeping it all under control and moving forward. The director didn't yell at me which apparently is a *huge* accomplishment. So I'll take it as a victory. I've heard all the horror stories about this guy and I pretty much expected the worse and it wasn't horrible. I guess low expectations can pay off on occasion. I'm exhausted today and trying to function.
Now, it's on to the Daytime Emmy's which air on Friday. Just sitting in editing today pretty much watching the paint dry. Not too much for me to do so I'm actually enjoying a semi-quiet day, catching up on the computer, watching clips from some of my favorite soaps and not having to deal with the words "hot chicks". It's been a long week.
Still dealing with more DGA junk. I was elected to serve for the next two years on the AD/SM/PA Council. I was a council member for 8 or 10 years before I was termed out and it was around the time I got pregnant so it was a good time for a break. I got back involved last summer when some work shit went down and some producers were trying to take stuff away from us in our little live/variety TV world. We all came out of the woodwork and I've been entrenched ever since. Tomorrow is the start of the new terms and officers will be elected. We'll see how it goes and who's the new council chair. We need it to be my friend A. We need a strong person in there right now and I know it'll work out fine.
After the ongoing stress regarding C's school, we've officially decided to send her to private school. Ugh. Very scary prospect, although for the last year of pre-school, it's not a big deal financially. Now for kindergarten, it's a whole different thing. I did go check out the Tarzana campus and it's really terrific. If I didn't have the new school as an option, I would have had no problems sending her to Tarzana. But, if we're going to continue with H school for kindergarten, then I only want to move C once. Yes, she's a resiliant kid and not a social misfit and would be fine, but let's just get settled. If we love the school, then we're golden. If we don't, then I can send her someplace else for kindy where she'll start new like everyone else, no harm, no foul. Still haven't had 5 minutes to tell Tarzana of our decision. That's on tomorrow's list of things to do but I have to say, once we made the decision, I finally felt some sense of peace and resolution. This went on for WAY too long and caused way too much stress.
But honestly, I'm a little sad. I love this temple. I love the rabbis and all the people that I've met. I truly feel like I've made some amazing friends for us and for C. I really truly hope that I can maintain these friendships. It means a lot to me. We're definitely staying member through next year but don't know after that. If we're doing Jewish school 5 days a week, I certainly don't need access to Sunday religious school. So we might take a break on that financial expense. We can still enjoy services and events even as non-members and keep in the loop with the wonderful families we've met. I finally feel like I found a temple where I felt completely comfortable so it's a little sad to walk away from that. But thank goodness for friends and it'll just take a little more effort then just knowing I'll see someone tomorrow at drop off. So that's been yet another stress in this process. But it's time to move forward and look towards the next chapter in our big girl's life. I can't believe she's 4 and will be in kindergarten in a year.
G comes home tomorrow. Finally! It's been two weeks and it's been a really long 2 weeks. C is definitely feeling it especially with me being MIA with work as well. He's got another few weeks of crazy work and a few trips and then it'll calm down a little bit. I hope. I start up on "Big Brother" at the end of the month. I'm really looking forward to that. I stopped by the offices the other day when I was on the lot to say hi. It's like summer camp for me now. A lot of the same nice, wonderful people and we just play for the summer. Looking forward to another summer of fun at BB8.
Okay, almost time to go home, thank goodness. Hopefully a good night's sleep will get me back on track to get through the week. And then I can work out my babysitting chaos for the week since my girl bailed on me. UGH. Anyone wanna hang with a cute and precocious 4 year old on Thursday and Friday??
Well, as predicted the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup on Wednesday night. While I’m a true Kings fan, I have to give props to the Ducks. They played well the entire playoffs and were nothing but steady in the Finals. They made it look easy. And, as expected, Ottawa imploded. You never knew which team would show up and it shouldn’t be that unpredictable in the Finals. It’s the first Stanley Cup for a team from California. It only took the Ducks 14 years to become champions. The Kings, well, it’s been 40 years and we pretty much have nothing to show for it except for one playoff run in 1993. It’s going to be a long time before the Kings are contenders and hopefully, the Ducks success will embarrass the Kings organization into doing *something* to make the Kings worthwhile. Then again, maybe not. This is not an ownership that’s even interested, much less committed, to winning. It’s too bad since the Kings really do have a really loyal fan base. Way better than the ownership deserves. But I digress…
So congrats to the Anaheim Ducks. Well deserved. Nice to see a few players like Teemu Selanne, Jean-Sebastian Giguere, Sean O’Donnell (former King) and Rob Niedermeyer get their chance to lift the Cup. I won’t become a Ducks fan but I have great respect for the great job they’ve done all year.
The team photo. I always like this shot. Teemu Selanne. He might retire and it certainly would be a perfect finish to a HOF career.
A really cool photo I found of Rob Niedermeyer from the Detroit series.
Bad, bad me once again. I'll update in the next day or two but it's been insane to say the least. See the post two posts ago and it's been more of the same.
In the meantime, saw this on one of the MB's I frequent. I liked it so I thought I'd post it here. It's an ABC's - getting to know you (well me since you're reading MY blog).
A- age first kiss ? I honestly don't remember. First real kiss - 14, summer camp, Thom
B- band your listening to right now ? Kelly Clarkson on my itunes.
C- crush : Marc Feuerstein is dreamy to me
D- dessert : Chocolate cake with good sugar-filled icing.
E- easiest person to talk to ? DH
F- favorite ice cream : Gold Medal Ribbon at Baskin Robbins
G- gummy worms or gummy bears : Gummy Bears
H- happiest moment : Wedding day and the day my daughter was born and finally finding out the baby was a girl.
I- instuments : Flute (C, piccolo, alto, bass) and piano.
J- junior high : Paul Rever Junior High.
K- kids : 1 daughter who's 4.
L- longest car ride ever : 2 day drive from Sydney to just outside Brisbane with my BF and her 3 kids.
M- messiest place in your house : Scrap room
N- nicknames : Juls, Hools, Mom, Hun
O- one wish : to get pregnant again.
P- phobia(s) : Mice/Rats. Hate them completely
Q- quote : "Life is A Music cue"
R- reason to smile : My daughter everyday.
S- song you sang last : "Popular" from "Wicked"
T- time you woke up today : 8:45A
U- where are you : sitting on the bed, in my bedroom
V-victorious moment : working on two work projects that were extremely difficult and hearing that the shows never would've happened without me.
W-worst habit : staying up too late
X- x-rays you've had : teeth, broken leg when I was 2, ovaries, ultrasounds when I was pregnant
Y- yoga or yoda : yoga
Z- zodiac : Pisces
Let's see who else can come up with their own ABC list.
I'm a mom to 3 beautiful girls. I work in TV Production when I have to, I prefer to stay at home. In my spare time, I scrapbook, play the flute, am a crazy LA Kings fan, and I play on the computer when I should really be sleeping.
