Nothing much going on
I'm a bad blogger. I wish I were better, had more things to say so I could post nearly daily like
Wendy or
Sonia, but I'm just not that good. I've got nothing fun or interesting to say.
I'm working this week on Big Brother, of course. It's gotten good early this season. The moron Jen has stirred up the house and she's such a loose cannon that who knows what she'll do or say at any given moment. Tomorrow is the first live vote eviction and hopefully Joe will be the one heading home. It's all just a place holder in anticipation of Jen's demise next week. I'm also working on the Celebrity Roast honoring
Flavor Flav for
Comedy Central which tapes on Sunday. So far, I've done nothing. I did more stuff for BB at the Roast office today than I did for that show. But it'll get busy on Friday. It's going to take raunchy to a whole new level. I watched last year's show roasting William Shatner and it was really over the top. I can only imagine what will be said for Flav. BTW, he's not a tall man.
Since I'm leading a semi-boring life, here are some of the LO's I completed when I was in Carlsbad 10 days ago. I'm happy with how they came out.
This is the second LO I've done with this photo. Thanks to Araxi. Didn't even remember using it the first time. LOL. Still, I love how this one came out too.
I love this photo of G. It was nice to scrap DH and I used my
Scrapologie kit.
This LO made me cry, and not in a good way. I was so upset that the ink on the stamp smeared. I tried to come up with another way to fix it but I couldn't get it to look right. So I left it alone. I still love it and I love that this paper is perfect for the photo.
Passover Seder from 2006 at school.
I've been wanting to scrap these photos from the BB7 wrap party. Finally got the inspiration to make it work. I like how it came out. My token BB LO for the year. Got to figure out photos for my BB8 LO. There's still time for this year.
I'm really happy how this one came out too. It's simple but it worked. This is from an article in the LA Times before Superbowl XL (2006) on Don Mischer who directs the Halftime show. G works with him and he's quoted, indicated by the arrow on the left side. And he's in the photo indicated by the bling and arrow on the right side. I'm happy that I could preserve the entire article and I love those newspaper flowers.
Labels: Big Brother 8, Flavor Flav, Superbowl XL, William Shatner
A little me time
I went down to Carlsbad over the weekend for a girls scrapping weekend with
Lisa. She was going down to her BF's house and they do a scrapping weekend 2 or 3 times a year and was kind enough to include me. There were 5 of us there for the whole weekend and they had all started before I even got there. Lisa went down on Thursday but I couldn't so I took the train on Friday. I hadn't been on a train like that in about 12 years. After the last 7 weeks of work, G being out of town, etc. I was most excited to have 3 whole hours of quiet time. I listened to my ipod, caught up on my
Heidi Swapp (who just gave birth to her 5th kid, 2nd within a year)
BPS reading (I'm only about 3 months behind) and started the latest book for my book club. It was nice, quiet time. And riding the train was fun. Very comfortable, smooth, perfectly on time. Can't get that with the any airline I know.
Anyway, got to the house around 10PM. Unloaded my considerable amount of crap from Lisa's car and got right to scrapping. It had been more than 2 months since I had scrapped anything more than a card so I did two kits that I had bought at
Paper Source. I needed something mindless and something that chewed my food for me. One was an
accordian album and the other was a
paper flower wreath. They both turned out nice. Need to put photos in the accordian album but that shouldn't be hard. Saturday and Sunday I ended up doing 15 pages. I would've liked to have done more but when I got home and looked at them again, I was pleased with how they all turned out. I have to scan a few of them and I'll post them in the next day or two. I now have a HUGE pile of LO's to put away in albums. I should be doing that while I watch TV but that would be too easy. I'm still a little behind on my LO goal totals so I've got to figure out how to catch up a little bit. I've also finished up all but two of my pre-planned pages so I need to start working on pulling more. I've got some scrap time coming up in the next few months so hopefully I'll catch up a little bit.
I'm doing a moonlighter on Friday and I'll start to work on an album for a friend. I would like to make a dent in creating that and it would also keep the schlepping of supplies somewhat under control.
Oh good grief. On the Big Brother internet feeds, Carol is teaching Kail a cheer from the University of Kansas. Boy, they're bored already.
Labels: Big Brother 8, BPS, Heidi Swapp, ipod, Paper Source
Move in Day
The houseguests are in the Big Brother 8 house. All moved in and getting to know each other, enemies and all. Interesting group this year. Many of them cast based on their looks. Hopefully one or two of them will have a brain in their head to make it fun and interesting. The rivalries could be fun although I think initially it'll be the 11 houseguests versus the 3 who were watching up in the HOH until they were revealed. I've placed my bets on who I think will win in one office pool and I need to get my vote into another one. These are the silly things that keep us entertained for the summer.
We wrapped our studio taping around 10:45P tonight and that was good. There was still a big reveal that needed to happen and I waned to see the houseguests reactions. I went up to Master Control (MCR) to see what was going on. This is my third season on Big Brother and this was the first time I went into the MCR while the show was going on. They're working and I didn't want to bother them. I did get the grand tour when I first started but never went up again, like I said, because they're all working in there. MCR is the absolute hub of the BB industrial complex. That's where ALL the cameras can be seen, where the two teams of switchers/audio/story editors/loggers etc live, breathe and direct what gets recorded in the Big Brother house. It's a ginormous monitor wall, two complete teams of people working on the two feeds, plus 7 camera operators. I'll go back again and take a picture. It's amazing in there.
I also went into the "Big Brother" booth where one of the producers was interviewing the houseguests for their first Diary Room interviews. Funny to see them, hear them talking to the producer, learning who makes for good sound bites and who sounds like an idiot when they speak.
Tony, one of the house directors, also took me into the camera cross. This is the outer ring around the perimeter of the entire house. This is where the cameras roam around, look through those one way windows and shoot the goings on in the house. It's completely black, anyone in there must wear black and except for some neon tape with arrows, it's like a maze. I know they all know their way around in there but I'm not quite as familiar. I've been in the cross before but never when the houseguests were in the house. It's so weird to see them just doing their thing and I'm about 10 feet away looking at them through a window and they have no idea I'm in there.
Anyway, it was a fun night. VERY crazy to get all those elements correct getting the houseguests into the house, having them play their first HOH game and we had never really had a fully operational rehearsal of that game and them spending 2 hours watching in the MCR. I definitely won't be so shy. There are SO many people that work on this show that I have no idea who they are. Remember, it's a 24/7 show. When G directed some of the jury house stuff two years ago and then went to the wrap party with me, he knew people that I had never met and he was only working for 3 days but they're part of the house camera crew and I do the live show. It's just a fun place to work and technically, the most amazing set up I've ever seen so to see it up and running, perfectly, is just beyond words.
It's going to be another fun summer in the BB house!
Labels: Big Brother 8
Reality TV Junkie
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.
Labels: Big Brother 8, Survivor, The Amazing Race, Top Chef
Passover Seder from 2006 at school.
