Friday... again?

For those of you who don't know, Fridays are my least favorite day of the week.  It means that I've failed to book an acting job over the weekend and I am going to have to go to my waiting tables job.  After 10 years in the service industry I'm really ready for a change, but what?  

Kristin and I have a few ideas of how to make extra money when we get to LA, maybe we should start trying to do those things here.  She does princess birthday parties as Cinderella and I take pictures. 
We broke down and bought the camera we wanted yesterday, headshots for actors and may be a realistic option.  We figured that if we do 9 headshot sessions then the camera has paid for itself.  Totally worth it. 

Kinda feeling down today that auditions have not picked up more this week.  I only had the one print go-see.  Always frustrating when you know there's probably other stuff out there, you just didn't find it this week.  uggh. 

Anyway, I'm off to work out.  Got to get my actors body set to maximum sexy.  It's what we do.  haha. 

The Waiting is the Hardest Part.

I had a print cast audition today.  For those of you not in the biz, it's an audition for advertisements or packaging that just shows your picture.  They were looking for small business owner looking people between the ages of 30-60.  It pays well, but I've never booked a print ad my entire life and not expecting to hear anything from this one.  Print casting is like winning a small lottery.

This has been a bad week for auditions.  The print casting was the only thing I've done.  Frustrating.  I know I had a car commercial last week, but my goal is to always be trying to get that next job.  So ideally, I'd like to work at some acting job every week or at the least, every other week.

California is really on my mind lately.  It's in my every thought.  I wish I could just drop everything and just go next week. However, between Kristin and I, we only have about 1/4 of the money we need saved to go out there.  It's going to be damn expensive!

I would really like to get a new camera capable of taking some professional headshots and HD video. 
  On one hand, the camera will save me a fortune in headshots and I could possibly charge others for taking their headshots once I got better at using the thing.  On the other hand, I need to save money.  I don't know...

Everyday I am doing research on California things too.  Like - what are some survival jobs I could possibly do while trying to get established out there?  How much are apartments going for in the area I want to live?  etc.  It's really kinda scary.  I'm also slowly trying to figure out what I can sell so that I don't have to take so much with me out to LA when I go.
On one hand I want to be able to have some furniture and still live somewhat comfortably.  On the other hand, I don't want to lug all this stuff halfway across country.  

Preparing to prepare takes a lot of preparation!

Okay... We've set a date and are starting to do the research.  Los Angeles may be able to happen in this life after all.  I had resigned myself to thinking that sooner or later, the acting work would pick up in Dallas enough for me to live off of nothing but acting.  I am beginning to really think this is more wishful thinking rather than an actual reality.   More work has come to Dallas.  We have 3 major TV shows film out here right now. "The Good Guys, CHASE, And Lonestar."  Unfortunately, the main characters for these shows are still cast out of LA and the minor roles are cast here.  It's kinda BS.  So... It's time to make the move before it's too late.