Goodness gracious, it has been quite a few days! Busy, but happily so, as usual. I’ve learned that my body likes three hours of sleep for every ten hours awake, if possible. When that doesn’t happen, I sleep for about six hours and then am up for 20. That means there’s no telling when I’ll be sleeping. That’s proved interesting, to say the least, when trying to conduct a little business with normal people.
Who am I kidding? I know very few normal people.
Okay, so Hollywood Happy Hour is up and running. We had a meeting Monday night at the site for our first event (March 6th) and it went just great. We are really gearing up!! In preparation for our live event, we’re doing a discussion forum and mailing list thing. Feel free to come join us! It’s a blast, thus far.
Atkins eating is doing well for me, it seems. Finally broke down and bought a scale, so that I’m not always counting on showing up at some person’s apartment and sneaking into their bathroom to use theirs in order to check my progress. So, according to the scale, I’m down 15 pounds (and as many inches) since starting Atkins just over seven weeks ago. That’s pretty dang cool. Keith and I started really sticking to an exercise pledge this month and we really are supporting one another really well. Also, it’s like the only time we get to spend together, since my sleep cycles are so out of whack. Oh, and Keith (damn those boys) has lost 30 pounds so far!! Sheesh! He only has about ten more to go. I, however, cannot say the same.
Okay, time to catch up on some blogs and such. Bear with me.
Chip said: Susan and I are writing a pilot for a TV series. I doubt this will go past the story treatment stage but we might actually write the script. Still too many details to work on before I write more here. Susan says she can’t work with me because she gives ideas and then I boil them down to “It’s Deadline meets Freakylinks with some Boston Public and My So-Called Life thrown in. I just do it to annoy her.
Chip, you do realize that that is EXACTLY how concepts are pitched to studios and networks here, right? You are totally on the path to Hollywood. Let Susan keep feeding you ideas, you keep boiling them down to hybrid concepts and loglines (25-word descriptions) and you will be ready to pitch next season!
Oh… and make sure you write everything down.
Courtney, I love the concept of the curtains you’re making. The whole idea of beading and fringing and ribboning those plain sheets on hoops with clips… wow. You’re right. Pure genius. Please do share photos. As for the other stuff in your blog… please know you can always count on your friends and family to help you out. Take care of you and the rest will fall into place. We love you.
Big Mike, Shelley is right. I don’t know you, so that’s why I haven’t commented on the Armida situation either. I have no business advising you, as I don’t know anything more than what *I* would do in such a situation. And you’re not me, nor would you want to be. Just please be careful. Shelley, good goin’, girl.
Happy Belated Birthday, Trevor!! You’re still my favorite BLUE!
Oh, dear God, how much do I love that article you found on the cult of the Franklin Planner. I am SO there! One of the hardest things I ever had to do was trade in my planner for my Handspring Visor. Well, technically, I traded it in for a reconditioned Palm Pilot, then upgraded to a Visor the next year. Point is, I still miss my planners. Desperately. They were such a source of happiness for me. I wrote in different color inks, I used them as journals, I put stickers inside them, taped in motivational quotes and photographs of every celeb I spied. I miss that. Truly. If it weren’t for the 2243 contacts in my Visor (organized, categorized, sorted, and backed up on my iBook), I’d probably go back. Ah… simpler times.
Trevor, how did you have the patience to scan all of those photos? I brought home boxes of photographs from Mom’s house on our trip in May and my goal was to get all of the photos scanned, named (in some organized fashion), and burned to CDs by around December 2008. I still think that’s an attainable goal, but I’m beginning to think that I’ll have to employ someone else to do the actual scanning. It’s just too monumental a task for me to undertake with any passion. What do you recommend, seeing as you’ve been down that path with some success?
And may I just say, Trevor, this quote of yours is top-notch. It isn’t that the planner puts me in control of my world, but rather that I can dynamically react to the chaos that is my life. Brilliant.
Jocelyn, my dear, this is the saddest thing I’ve read lately. Head coach of high school told my cheerleaders they needed to have three priorities in life. 1. Get married (my stomach turns even writing it), 2. Have babies (oh my god they’re in 7th grade!!!), 3. Win state championships (I think I might puke).
Good lord. God bless the south.
Also, Jocelyn, you mentioned wanting a summer job in California. Lemmeknow what industry you want to work in and I’ll see if I can hook you up. I know some people, and beyond that, I know some places to contact with your resumé, based on what you want to do while you’re here. I think one of my former Athens Academy students is coming out here this summer to do some journalist type job. I’m so proud. *sniff* My little girl’s grown up!
And with that, I’ll sign off for now. Must get back to paying work. Be well, everyone! And XXOO to you all.