Lately
Events I haven't written about yet:
Work Stuff:
Caveman, Revolver / The Return, Wednesday sucked
Fun Stuff (strangely enough all at FrankenMare's:
FrankenMare's Thanksgiving, Brian's birthday party, good news with Tristan, Tuesday night's Fundraiser Art Night
So first, work stuff. This week's been interesting. I could have worked every day and gotten a lot more moolah if I had stuck with Chainsaw, but I wanted to expand my work contact base and so accepted some work on different projects.
On Monday I worked on Caveman as an electrician. I had a really great time working with that crew, and was on set with some big names suck as Gary Busey, David Carradine, and the second major porn actor I've worked with now, Ron Jeremy. Who was the first? Annie Sprinkle, who I might add is a major sweetie :)
On set, Gary was a total prima donna. Producers following, kissing his ass while he threw little tantrums. Pfft, I didn't dig him at all...
David Caridean, on the other hand, was completely awesome. He had cue cards, which he would deviate from at any possible moment to make up his own ridiculous gems. Once, when he was making up a bundle of terrific rubbish, he caught my eyes and stopped for a moment and sort of cocked his head as if to ask, "so, how was that?", and I nodded in response to let him know, "fucking ballsy-fantastic"...he seemed satisfied with my response.
I didn't have any interaction with Ron Jeremy personally, but I noticed him watching me working a lot of the time, telling me that it's probably about as rare for a woman to be doing my job in L.A. as it is here...well...not as rare as it is here, but still something worth stopping to look at.
Yesterday was the freeze. Gah...
I was working on reshoots for Revolver, which I think might be called The Return now. It's the Sarah Michelle Gellar flick they were working on last spring...you know, in the good weather... Jeebus, it was ridiculously bad weather. In the morning it wasn't so bad, but by the afternoon there was freezing rain, coating everything we were working with. I couldn't use my gloves because they got soaking and freezing cold. The stands froze up and wouldn't work. Worst thing was, I got seriously congested in my chest and have since been coughing like mad. I was downing cough drops like they were a solid form of air or something.
Work and getting sick wasn't the worst part of the evening. Once work got out it was dark, and everything, my car, the roads, were covered in ice. We were out in Taylor. I had taken a coworker with me to work, which I'm so lucky for, because when I careened off the road because of ice, he was there to help me keep my head about things. I had another coworker whose car wouldn't even start after trying to give him a jump, so gave him a ride to Elgin on the way home. After dropping him off, my car fishtailed and I flew into the median of the road, which I was very thankful for. This happened twice, and I asked my coworker John to drive the rest of the way for me. While we were crossing a bridge on 290 coming into Austin, my truck, which was in 4wd, slid up on some black ice and blocked traffic, turning slowly in a circle. There was nothing we could do about it. In luck, some EMS guys were driving down there to pick up some other people who had been hurt, and saw us and came and pushed us off the ice.
Last night was just bloody insane.
So I went ahead and turned down a job for tonight, very suddenly and last minute. I feel very guilty for it, and know that I put the person who hired me in a hard position, haivng to find someone else on such short notice, but getting sick and knowing that my car couldn't take driving in this weather, I didn't want to take any more chances. Honestly, since the roads aren't wet or icey tonight, I could have done it, so I'm a little pissed that I didn't just grin and bear it.
I went to REI today and got some rain gear. I have a rain coat, but I got some goulashes and rain pants so I wouldn't soak down to the bone on my legs and feet again. I was frozen stiff last night.
So about the fun things!
For Thanksgiving I went to FrankenMare's.
As soon as I got there I got a beer and started molding my chupacabra in mashed potatos. Brian won the sculpting competition, but I got the dirtiest in the mashed potato flinging war, so I think I won a bit too.
The party was a nice break from the huge amounts of work and running errands that I'd been running, and I got a chance to make a huge batch of dolmas, which I looooove cooking.
Later in the night we had a ceremonial turkey burning. Mare had made a lovely paper mache turkey, and we gave it a last cigarette, basted it in lighter fluid, and set it blazing. The head with cigarette is a piece in their drawing room now :)
All in all it was the best Thanksgiving I've ever had. I'm making FrankenMare's my annual Thanksgiving place from now on.
Last Thursday was Brian's birthday. I was coping with unusual horrible news from Tristan at the time, and the distraction was a great endeavor. I had been freaking out that day, and got off work early, so had nothing to do but panic for the rest of the day...luckily, instead, I got the opportunity to make a huge batch of spring rolls and take them to this party all of a sudden, and when I got there I was dosed with a delicious smoothie and got to drink to the piratey goodness of my friend's birth. I had some panicy parts, but the overall mood of the party was very chill, and we mostly watched films including Lil Pimp, School House Rock, and The Polar Express.
Once I got home that night, Tristan and I talked, and he's decided not to move out to Corpus. The next day he came back home to Austin, and I had to leave for Dallas, but my coworker Brad waited until midnight to leave town just so I could see Tristan for a couple of hours. His work is giving him a raise, and he's becoming a manager and getting to switch to a day shift some time in January. I can't wait! He's also going to be buying his roommate's car soon, so he won't have to live on coworker's couches. Everything is finally coming together.
Now if we just weren't sick...
Tuesday night for Arts & Crafts Night at FrankenMare's house I came by and brought the dinner that I had made for myself to share. It was a quite impromptu, and not really something that I would normally put out at a party, but food none the less. Hey, people get hungry, might as well share.
I got to put in a donation for their friend who had been through some hard hard times lately and needed a lift, and my donation also got me a print of #4, a piece in ethedrone's Little Black Heart series. I Loooove it, and it's the first signed print!
I also got a big rub down by Brian, which made me limp as an eel, and quite giddy. Thanks Brian :)
I thought of the rub enviously when I was working the next day in the freezing rain, icicles hanging off of my raincoat.
Humph.
So tomorrow I leave for Dallas again ::groan::.
With the holidays coming up and many films ending this week including Caveman, Coyote, and Chainsaw, work will be slowing down tremendously. I heard that I might get some commercial work next week, but there's nothing set that I have been called for, so I hope that I will have some recovery time and maybe even some of that there holiday gifting time.
My version of gifting always revolves around making goodies, spontaneously getting something that I think is awesome for people I have no idea how to shop for, and hoping in fear and anguish that I can find something for each of my family members that I can afford that they will really like and use. I need to take up knitting or something so I can just opt out and make people gifts that are appreciable just because they've got time and effort put into them.
Hmm...well, at least I can make bourbon pecan cake.
Want a bourbon pecan cake?
Work Stuff:
Caveman, Revolver / The Return, Wednesday sucked
Fun Stuff (strangely enough all at FrankenMare's:
FrankenMare's Thanksgiving, Brian's birthday party, good news with Tristan, Tuesday night's Fundraiser Art Night
So first, work stuff. This week's been interesting. I could have worked every day and gotten a lot more moolah if I had stuck with Chainsaw, but I wanted to expand my work contact base and so accepted some work on different projects.
On Monday I worked on Caveman as an electrician. I had a really great time working with that crew, and was on set with some big names suck as Gary Busey, David Carradine, and the second major porn actor I've worked with now, Ron Jeremy. Who was the first? Annie Sprinkle, who I might add is a major sweetie :)
On set, Gary was a total prima donna. Producers following, kissing his ass while he threw little tantrums. Pfft, I didn't dig him at all...
David Caridean, on the other hand, was completely awesome. He had cue cards, which he would deviate from at any possible moment to make up his own ridiculous gems. Once, when he was making up a bundle of terrific rubbish, he caught my eyes and stopped for a moment and sort of cocked his head as if to ask, "so, how was that?", and I nodded in response to let him know, "fucking ballsy-fantastic"...he seemed satisfied with my response.
I didn't have any interaction with Ron Jeremy personally, but I noticed him watching me working a lot of the time, telling me that it's probably about as rare for a woman to be doing my job in L.A. as it is here...well...not as rare as it is here, but still something worth stopping to look at.
Yesterday was the freeze. Gah...
I was working on reshoots for Revolver, which I think might be called The Return now. It's the Sarah Michelle Gellar flick they were working on last spring...you know, in the good weather... Jeebus, it was ridiculously bad weather. In the morning it wasn't so bad, but by the afternoon there was freezing rain, coating everything we were working with. I couldn't use my gloves because they got soaking and freezing cold. The stands froze up and wouldn't work. Worst thing was, I got seriously congested in my chest and have since been coughing like mad. I was downing cough drops like they were a solid form of air or something.
Work and getting sick wasn't the worst part of the evening. Once work got out it was dark, and everything, my car, the roads, were covered in ice. We were out in Taylor. I had taken a coworker with me to work, which I'm so lucky for, because when I careened off the road because of ice, he was there to help me keep my head about things. I had another coworker whose car wouldn't even start after trying to give him a jump, so gave him a ride to Elgin on the way home. After dropping him off, my car fishtailed and I flew into the median of the road, which I was very thankful for. This happened twice, and I asked my coworker John to drive the rest of the way for me. While we were crossing a bridge on 290 coming into Austin, my truck, which was in 4wd, slid up on some black ice and blocked traffic, turning slowly in a circle. There was nothing we could do about it. In luck, some EMS guys were driving down there to pick up some other people who had been hurt, and saw us and came and pushed us off the ice.
Last night was just bloody insane.
So I went ahead and turned down a job for tonight, very suddenly and last minute. I feel very guilty for it, and know that I put the person who hired me in a hard position, haivng to find someone else on such short notice, but getting sick and knowing that my car couldn't take driving in this weather, I didn't want to take any more chances. Honestly, since the roads aren't wet or icey tonight, I could have done it, so I'm a little pissed that I didn't just grin and bear it.
I went to REI today and got some rain gear. I have a rain coat, but I got some goulashes and rain pants so I wouldn't soak down to the bone on my legs and feet again. I was frozen stiff last night.
So about the fun things!
For Thanksgiving I went to FrankenMare's.
As soon as I got there I got a beer and started molding my chupacabra in mashed potatos. Brian won the sculpting competition, but I got the dirtiest in the mashed potato flinging war, so I think I won a bit too.
The party was a nice break from the huge amounts of work and running errands that I'd been running, and I got a chance to make a huge batch of dolmas, which I looooove cooking.
Later in the night we had a ceremonial turkey burning. Mare had made a lovely paper mache turkey, and we gave it a last cigarette, basted it in lighter fluid, and set it blazing. The head with cigarette is a piece in their drawing room now :)
All in all it was the best Thanksgiving I've ever had. I'm making FrankenMare's my annual Thanksgiving place from now on.
Last Thursday was Brian's birthday. I was coping with unusual horrible news from Tristan at the time, and the distraction was a great endeavor. I had been freaking out that day, and got off work early, so had nothing to do but panic for the rest of the day...luckily, instead, I got the opportunity to make a huge batch of spring rolls and take them to this party all of a sudden, and when I got there I was dosed with a delicious smoothie and got to drink to the piratey goodness of my friend's birth. I had some panicy parts, but the overall mood of the party was very chill, and we mostly watched films including Lil Pimp, School House Rock, and The Polar Express.
Once I got home that night, Tristan and I talked, and he's decided not to move out to Corpus. The next day he came back home to Austin, and I had to leave for Dallas, but my coworker Brad waited until midnight to leave town just so I could see Tristan for a couple of hours. His work is giving him a raise, and he's becoming a manager and getting to switch to a day shift some time in January. I can't wait! He's also going to be buying his roommate's car soon, so he won't have to live on coworker's couches. Everything is finally coming together.
Now if we just weren't sick...
Tuesday night for Arts & Crafts Night at FrankenMare's house I came by and brought the dinner that I had made for myself to share. It was a quite impromptu, and not really something that I would normally put out at a party, but food none the less. Hey, people get hungry, might as well share.
I got to put in a donation for their friend who had been through some hard hard times lately and needed a lift, and my donation also got me a print of #4, a piece in ethedrone's Little Black Heart series. I Loooove it, and it's the first signed print!
I also got a big rub down by Brian, which made me limp as an eel, and quite giddy. Thanks Brian :)
I thought of the rub enviously when I was working the next day in the freezing rain, icicles hanging off of my raincoat.
Humph.
So tomorrow I leave for Dallas again ::groan::.
With the holidays coming up and many films ending this week including Caveman, Coyote, and Chainsaw, work will be slowing down tremendously. I heard that I might get some commercial work next week, but there's nothing set that I have been called for, so I hope that I will have some recovery time and maybe even some of that there holiday gifting time.
My version of gifting always revolves around making goodies, spontaneously getting something that I think is awesome for people I have no idea how to shop for, and hoping in fear and anguish that I can find something for each of my family members that I can afford that they will really like and use. I need to take up knitting or something so I can just opt out and make people gifts that are appreciable just because they've got time and effort put into them.
Hmm...well, at least I can make bourbon pecan cake.
Want a bourbon pecan cake?