The OC Will Be My Next-Door Neighboor!
Greetings,
So, some of you may know the following information..and some of you may not, to which this may sound a little ubrupt...but it's actually not.
I am moving to Los Angeles, California, by mid-December.
!!!
I am BEYOND excited to live in LA. AND I'm moving with such a good friend of mine, Jenny.
And....I'm writing about this now, because I JUST told my dad that we're moving. Tonight.
Yeah, it's been slightly a hard thing to tell him, based on past huge horrible phone conversations we've had about my future. I wanted to tell him in August, but then a little thing called Hurricane Katrina happenned and took my dad's house, and there was no way I could talk about moving...when my dad and everyone he used to live around were just trying to survive. And then there was Hurricane Katrina aftermath....and that's still going on. My dad still doesn't know what he'll be getting through insurance for his house. They've moved into a very small home in Covington, LA, about an hour from New Orleans for....well a year at least. ANd they don't have much furniture/material things...but they've been slowly trying to set things back up with their office (out of their house) and work. They just got back on the internet...so that's big for them.
So, anyways...I told him. AND.....I was PLEASENTLY surprised with his reaction. He basically said, "I should do something I've always wanted to do, now that I have the means to do it (the money basially)" and that "I should do my best, and try something that is my dream" (acting). Basically, he believes I should try acting for a few years..and if it doesn't "work out" then I should not "starve myself" my whole life and do something else with my life to make money. Which, I understand what he's saying....but again, it's like having a "back-up plan," which is something I don't want to have. My thing is this......I'm moving to LA, pursuing acting as my main priority....but I ALSO love learning/working with music promotion and I plan on trying to get a job out there working with that industry, as my means for money WHILE purusing acting. I won't be depending on acting to bring home the bills....but I will never "back up" on something else. I believe I'll always pursue it..and want it. SHIT, if I "gave it a few years..and then moved onto something else"....then that would be like proving that I shouldn't do acting. Not every actor makes or breaks their career in the first few years. I want to learn/work with music promotion while pursuing my dream to be a working/successful actor, so I'm doing something I love and not slaving away as a server while I pursuing actoring. I want to do something useful to myself, and something ambitious as my means of money, other than acting.
blah blah blah. anyways.
My dad seems okay with it. Plus, I'm not asking him for any means of financial support so that helps. Honestly, all I wanted was for his support in moving my life there. And I believe it's been granted.
Actually, I'm going out to my dad's on EARLY Wednesday-Saturday for Thanksgiving. He just bought the tix tonight. We're going to have Thanksgiving dinner in New Orleans at our friends' Julie & Carol's house, which they were able to move back into a few weeks ago, and hear some music in the French Quarter. It's going to be SO surreal to go back to New Orleans. I never thought I'd be going back there so soon. It's definetlly not the same New Orleans...and apparently only about 100,000 or so of people who lived in New Orleans have returned to live there again...out of about half a million. That's how bad the city still is. Ah....it's going to be really eerie.
OHMIGOD, I canNOT tell you how much has been lifted off my shoulders tonight, by telling my dad. I mean, I still have ALL KINDS OF SHIT to do to get ready...and god knows it won't be easy, but I think I may have gotten over the biggest hurdle tonight.
HELL YES.
*MEG*
PS. sorry I haven't written in so long, life's been busy....I'm an ashamed Live-Journal-er.
So, some of you may know the following information..and some of you may not, to which this may sound a little ubrupt...but it's actually not.
I am moving to Los Angeles, California, by mid-December.
!!!
I am BEYOND excited to live in LA. AND I'm moving with such a good friend of mine, Jenny.
And....I'm writing about this now, because I JUST told my dad that we're moving. Tonight.
Yeah, it's been slightly a hard thing to tell him, based on past huge horrible phone conversations we've had about my future. I wanted to tell him in August, but then a little thing called Hurricane Katrina happenned and took my dad's house, and there was no way I could talk about moving...when my dad and everyone he used to live around were just trying to survive. And then there was Hurricane Katrina aftermath....and that's still going on. My dad still doesn't know what he'll be getting through insurance for his house. They've moved into a very small home in Covington, LA, about an hour from New Orleans for....well a year at least. ANd they don't have much furniture/material things...but they've been slowly trying to set things back up with their office (out of their house) and work. They just got back on the internet...so that's big for them.
So, anyways...I told him. AND.....I was PLEASENTLY surprised with his reaction. He basically said, "I should do something I've always wanted to do, now that I have the means to do it (the money basially)" and that "I should do my best, and try something that is my dream" (acting). Basically, he believes I should try acting for a few years..and if it doesn't "work out" then I should not "starve myself" my whole life and do something else with my life to make money. Which, I understand what he's saying....but again, it's like having a "back-up plan," which is something I don't want to have. My thing is this......I'm moving to LA, pursuing acting as my main priority....but I ALSO love learning/working with music promotion and I plan on trying to get a job out there working with that industry, as my means for money WHILE purusing acting. I won't be depending on acting to bring home the bills....but I will never "back up" on something else. I believe I'll always pursue it..and want it. SHIT, if I "gave it a few years..and then moved onto something else"....then that would be like proving that I shouldn't do acting. Not every actor makes or breaks their career in the first few years. I want to learn/work with music promotion while pursuing my dream to be a working/successful actor, so I'm doing something I love and not slaving away as a server while I pursuing actoring. I want to do something useful to myself, and something ambitious as my means of money, other than acting.
blah blah blah. anyways.
My dad seems okay with it. Plus, I'm not asking him for any means of financial support so that helps. Honestly, all I wanted was for his support in moving my life there. And I believe it's been granted.
Actually, I'm going out to my dad's on EARLY Wednesday-Saturday for Thanksgiving. He just bought the tix tonight. We're going to have Thanksgiving dinner in New Orleans at our friends' Julie & Carol's house, which they were able to move back into a few weeks ago, and hear some music in the French Quarter. It's going to be SO surreal to go back to New Orleans. I never thought I'd be going back there so soon. It's definetlly not the same New Orleans...and apparently only about 100,000 or so of people who lived in New Orleans have returned to live there again...out of about half a million. That's how bad the city still is. Ah....it's going to be really eerie.
OHMIGOD, I canNOT tell you how much has been lifted off my shoulders tonight, by telling my dad. I mean, I still have ALL KINDS OF SHIT to do to get ready...and god knows it won't be easy, but I think I may have gotten over the biggest hurdle tonight.
HELL YES.
*MEG*
PS. sorry I haven't written in so long, life's been busy....I'm an ashamed Live-Journal-er.