Baby's First Day Home

I'm an Aunt! (to-be!)

Meet Ava Rose! She is the daughter of my future brother-in-law Brian and his wife Shara (one of my bridesmaids.)

She was born late morning yesterday( 2/23/06) and weighed in at 5.78 lbs.

Mother and baby are doing well : )

Backyard Before and After

SOMEDAY MAYBE!! A very nice girl in one of my message boards created this for me, what do you think? Now: Her concept:

Happy Valentine's Day!

I made this for Jay! Don't mind the cracks!

Blizzard of '06

Well we had a big blizzard over the weekend. I think we had over 2 feet of snow. Jay and I (well mostly Jay) dug out my parents on Sunday and then we drove over to our own house. Oy vey - so much work, but once again Jay did most of it. I salted : ) The snow at our place was up to my knees. It was depressing walking up to it from the side street. The sidewalk, driveway, and paths were completely untouched. We had to tredge through it to get into our house and grab our shovel. I would've had better pictures but these were taken with my cellphone since my camera's batteries died. The bright white snow makes our house really look gray. When we were first looking at it, I thought it was white but it really is a very light gray. BY THE WAY!! Note the new front door and new windows! All the windows you see are new except the ones all the way to the left and the attic window. We actually are replacing all the windows on the house except one really cool one and the enlosed porch windows. We are also adding one that never existed before!

My Colors Are Blush and Bashful

Well, Shelby, aren't you something special! You're
adventurous and lively, but at the same time
fragile and somewhat naive. But who cares?
You love life and everyone loves you. You're
beautiful smile is your greatest asset. Oh,
now, sweety, please don't cry...

Which Steel Magnolias character are you?
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This day last year I wrote....

Last year on this day, I wrote about attending  a casting call. I never heard back and I haven't done anything acting-related since. <sigh>

 

HERE IS THE ENTRY---

I can't believe it's been over a week since I last wrote!

I attended my first open casting call this past Saturday. It was for a show called Forensic Files on Court TV. It was at Chelsea Studios on W. 26th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue. I'll bet they saw at least 2000 people that day. I was number 327. The call was from 11 -5pm and I got there at 10:45. We waited in line in the freezing cold for hours!

We finally got inside, in the lobby by about 12:50. We then went upstairs in groups of six and went into a rehearsal studio filled with people waiting in chairs. We were called up one by one to have our pictures taken and were put into groups of three. We were given scenes to work on. The sheet just gave a brief synopsis and three lines. The idea was for each of us to take on a character and after the three lines, improvise the scene. I was with an older woman named Sarah and a sweet girl about my age named Tina.

Here is the scene summary: Two roommates are involved in illegal activity. The third roommate finds out and threatens to go to the police. The two roommates tie her up and eventually kill her. The third roommate's family reports her as missing. In this scene, a detective interrogates the girls as to the third roomamtes whereabouts.

My line as roommate number two was, "Uh...I don't know, a couple of days? What is this all about anyway?"

Shortly after getting the "script" and coming up with a few ideas for the improv we got called into the room for the audition. It was another rehearsal studio but with long tables. There were about 6 women sitting behind them facing us. They said, "whenever you're ready." We got about thirty seconds into the improvisation and they yelled, "cut!" We were handed slips on our way out that said they'd let us know in the upcoming weeks, months if they needed us for any principle, background, or extra work.

All in all I think it went well and I'm glad that I did it. It  would be nice if I got something but, we'll just have to wait and see. The show films in Allentown, PA but they pay for transportation and the pay for a shooting day is $400-$500. They also pay for a hotel if the shoot carries over into the next day.

 

Fingers crossed!