Audtioning is like dating

As a single woman there was nothing I hated more than that question "So. . . are you seeing anyone?".  Because if you are seeing anyone you will more than likely talk about it and if you are NOT then the last thing you want to do is talk about how you are NOT seeing someone.  Its the same for auditioning.  I know that people mean well when they ask "So .  . . have you had any auditions lately" but I'm taking this moment to let you know that that is not an ok thing to ask.  If somebody has auditions going on, they will talk about it, if they don't they need not your salt in the wound.  Its the same for after an audition, if you know someone who has auditioned there is no need to ask "Have you heard about your audition?" or "Did you get that job you went out for?" Chances are if they did they would have told you.  I am not meaning to be snarky or hurtful, just taking this moment to educate friends and family of actors on the proper protocol for audition questions.  I guess I should  say, "struggling actors" if your friends with Brad Pitt or whatever, I am sure you can ask him how his audition went, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't even have to audition anymore.

Informerical Testimonials and Commerical Auditions - Oh my!

Tuesday was the best day in a long time! It reminded me why I came out to LA! Sure it was just a small informerical shoot but I still had a call time, call sheet, hair and makeup, wardrobe and lots of camera time, so YAY ME!!!  I dropped off lion paw at 7AM in Eagle Rock then jetted over to Studio City, got lost on a canyon road and just barely made my 7:45 Hair and Makeup call.  I felt so pretty getting all done up and I felt fab in front of the camera with the lights beating down, the boom looming over my face, and people looking at me in the monitor. . . if only I could have been anybody but myself! But I played me and raved about the project I had REALLY tried for a WHOLE WEEK!  Then I did some B-Roll demo of the product and was ready to go pick up lion paw and get back to my humdrum life! But no sooner had I gotten in the car to head back to Eagle Rock when my longtime agent called me with a national commerical audition that I was the PERFECT fit for!  I needed to be in WeHo by 5, it was 1:30, I had to pick up baby, go home, get audition attire, do hair and makeup - wait, I just had that done professionally - ok so BONUS, get resume, find an evening babysitter, probably should eat something, ok, I. Can. Do. This.  Luckily I found a friend who would watch him during audition but I had to pick her up in NoHo at 4, I did, she was about 6 minutes late coming to the car, which in adult time is nothing but in baby time its EVERYTHING!!! So the lion paw lost it and screamed all down Laurel Canyon road from Noho to Weho, but I pressed on, pumping him full of rice rusks and plum baby food packets.  Got to the audition location, Hail Mary Full of Grace I found an AWESOME parking space, got lion paw and sitter set up with a stroller and then jetted across the street and up the stairs to my audition.  I stopped, gathered myself, then went in, it was one of those less than 5 minute auditions, the type where you are like, wow I have been prepping for this for 3.5 hours and driving for .75 hr just to walk in for 5 minutes and hope that I have what you want!  But I did it! I did great but I didn't have what they want, but whatever.  Went out grabbed my baby, drove home and collapsed into bed, remembering the days of when juggling a full time job and auditioning was hard thinking about how juggling a babyand auditioning is WAY HARDER! But I keep on keeping on hoping for my next callsheet.

I am the people of wal-mart

Last Saturday I went on a four mile hike with my lil lion paw. Yes, I toted all 27 L-Bs of that boy down a hill and to a waterfall and then back up. It was a beautiful hike down, the rain had fallen earlier in the week making the air smell fresh and the usual California dust non-existent. At the end of the hike down there was a beautiful waterfall! I couldn't wait to get my water baby in that fresh spring, he even came dressed in his swim diaper. That was my mistake. As I prepared to put him in the water I noticed a stench from him and then all over me. As my mommy friend says "Those swim diapers don't hold shit" and they certainly don't as it was all over him and all over me. Luckily I had packed some extra clothes in my fanny pack with his diapers, I changed him and he was fine but I certainly didn't bring any other clothes for me, so I took off my t-shirt and worked my sports bra and my post baby soft belly all the way back up the hill. I was lucky because my Ergo Baby carrier covered me while I huffed and puffed up the hill. However, the hike was out in Santa Anita, just two exits from a Wal-Mart. This midwestern gal cannot be that close to a Wal-mart without going in, even if I don't have a shirt, so I did. And it was embarassing. I figured maybe I'd be lucky enough to get an entry in the people of wal-mart blog. Fingers crossed.