The End Cap

Happy New Year to all!...So the first full week has passed in 2009, and so far I still have a job, and my car is still getting me where I gotta go. Heeeyyy! Pop the bubbly - I guess I'm batting .400 so far. Surprisingly, things have been slow all week in SoCal with traffic and all, which was a good thing. I guess it's because kids don't back to school until this Monday. I hate to think how traffic will probably be back to its normal shitty state out here, but it's been nice, and we know that all good things must come to an end eventually. I guess the trade off is bad traffic for 70 degree winter weather - which is about what is was all week...A couple of my goals for this year are to find a new job, getting a gig in the industry, and to expand my creative interests into acting. As far as trying to land a job, it appears to be more difficult with the whole recession thing going on now. I've been trying to find other work since about the end of last summer. Now that it's a new year, I'm hoping that I will start hearing something back from some places that I've applied, hoping that some of these people were just holding off hiring until the new year began. I've already put one new year goal into action, as I auditioned for a play and won myself a role. This play is hardly one to make a career, but I can definitely use it to slingshot me to other acting opportunities with which to cut my teeth- especially since I seem to have a major character role in this play that I'm about to do.

It seems as if this will be a busy year for me. The year has just started and I already have a million things to do. Now that I have been cast in this play, I have to remember lines for when the show goes up in February; I must prepare my things for business tax filings; I have to figure out what inauguration event(s) to plan for when I go home, before it's too late and I'm screwed, and I can't go to anything because everywhere is sold out; I have to try to figure out how to field businesses to Hoopla's this year; and I need to step up the comedy career where I can either do the legwork to get myself out there more, or do the work to find a manager/management company in which their job would be to do that work for me - all this, and this doesn't even include the regular 9-5. It's safe to say, that I always have something that I should be doing, even when I'm just relaxing around the house...and I don't think tomorrow will see much getting done in the aforementioned. Tomorrow when I wake up, I plan to go to the 8 a.m. church service, watch the Eagles/Giants game after I get home from church, and then go to the movies after the game to see the Eastwood in Gran Torino. By the time the movie is over and I get home, I'll be wanting to prepare myself for the bull on Monday by going to bed early...lol...Don't be fooled by my words, however. I embrace all this excitement of the things that are going on, and the things that have yet to come for me. I have to say, with the exception of that thing that flew off the roadway today and hit my windshield and made nasty cracks in it (Replace windshield! Damn it! That's another thing I gotta do!), it's starting off for me fairly well....and how was your week?