Auditions! Avails! Booking!

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It’s been a pretty eventful December! I’ve had several auditions and all but one of those have resulted in both callbacks and avails.  Being on avail is awesome and stressful.  I know I’m close to booking the job but have to wait until the final decision comes down.  Such torture.  At that point, it’s out of my hands though, so I’m pretty much understand there really isn’t anything else I can do.  Fortunately for my ego, I heard back that I booked one of the jobs I auditioned for!  YAY!  My second job this year…or ever!

I had my fitting today so I’m all set to shoot on Monday.  I’m looking forward to being on set…and I have another audition, so there’s a chance I can have a job lined up for the new year.

Resolved?

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New Years Resolutions.  With the end of the year in sight, I’ve been reflecting on 2011 and considering what I’d like to accomplish by December 2012.  Something about making new years resolutions seems so clunky.  I’ve made them before but usually need do over by Chinese New Year in January and then completely forget them by Valentine’s Day. I think what I’ll do it make a list of short and long term goals.

It’s not a New Years Resolutions.  It’s long term goal.  I just decided to start it at the start of the new year.  Totally not the same.

Happy Days!

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Happy December!

Yeah, yeah…it’s December. The end of the year is here, the holiday season is surprisingly close and my back account isn’t planning to cooperate with my gift list. Despite all these stresses, I have so many things to celebrate right now. I had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I got my first commercial shoot under my belt, my wonderful boyfriend celebrated his birthday yesterday and today is my parent’s 50th Anniversary. Just so much to be happy about so I’m going to focus on the positive and let everything else take care of itself.

I What?

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So it finally happened. I got the call that I booked a commercial!!

Pretty unbelievable to me. Up until I was on set I was waiting for a second call telling me they wanted the other black girl with short hair and freckles.  I remembered the audition pretty well and honestly wasn’t expecting to hear back.  To my surprise, a few days later my agent called with the news that I booked it.

The ad was for University of Phoenix and I was in 3 short vignettes. Everyone on set was super friendly and I’m so happy my first commercial shoot was such a positive experience.

It’s been a little while since I’ve been on a set and I think I’ve forgotten how much of the process is ‘hurry up to wait’. Get to set….wait to be checked in.  Hurry up to get ready, wait for the call that it’s your scene. Rush to set, wait the shot to be set up. Do your job then go back to waiting.  It seems tedious…and it is…but there’s nothing more fun than being on set and doing something I love.

The funniest thing about this whole experience is that I didn’t really feel like my audition was exceptional.  I left the audition feeling like there were other things I could have or should have done but didn’t.  In the end what I thought was just mediocre was enough. It takes a little bit of the pressure off the audition process and reaffirms that I just have to do what I do and eventually it will sync up with what the casting director and ultimately the client want.

Now that my first commercial shoot is out of the way, I look forward to doing it again.

Week 1: Done

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It’s been a long week. Bootcamp started on Monday at 7:15am and my body has been sore since exact moment. As someone who is fairly foreign to regular exercise, I’m proud of myself for making it through the week. I almost had ‘screw you, I’m going home’ moment yesterday, but I sucked it up and completed the activity.

With a week of bootcamp under my belt and an exercise regiment in high gear, the next thing to tackle is my eating habits.  Of course, the day I decide to start my food overhaul I see this tweet:

@LATimesfood Are you taking the October Unprocessed challenge? lat.ms/pMeS4p

Serendipity!

Attempt to eat only unprocessed food for the month of October? This is a challenge I’m ready and willing to take on.  So I’ve signed the petition and I’m going to make a go of it.  I’ll read labels, put my Fooducate app to good use, and visit the news farmers market that opened today.

Of course, my first meal of the day was Cheerios, but I have to get rid of them! I can’t have them sitting around for a month!  At least they were Multigrain. I promise to do better at lunch and dinner.

Ow

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I wish I could say that I’ve spent the last few weeks somewhere exotic shooting something.

Unfortunately, that would be a lie.

I’ve had a few auditions and in between auditions I’ve been waiting for the call to say I have an audition. But I think I’ve found something to take my mind off auditioning and waiting. Being sore.

I’ve signed up a 5 week boot camp.  5 days a week. For 5 weeks. I’m not much of a ‘work out’ gal, I prefer taking walks or hikes, yoga or a fun dance class.  Truth be told, I don’t like any activity that is strenuous enough to cause me to possibly throw up. Unfortunately for me, I need a huge kick in the butt to get me back in shape and the boot camp opportunity presented itself and was the right price.

It starts this coming Monday so I decided that I should get used to muscle soreness and have been keeping super active this week. Work out Monday, detailing my car yesterday and 2 hour dance class today. It seems to be working since my back, arms and thighs are killing me.  Can’t wait until the boot camp guy brings the real pain.

yay.