It's been, One week today in LA...

So, here we are... One week into our move to Los Angeles, and I have accomplished so much, but somehow don't feel like I've done enough.  I tend to have pretty big aspirations, and when they don't tend to happen fast enough, I start to feel like I'm failing somehow.  I know, I'm not, but stress can mess your brain pretty well in situations like these...

 In the past week, I have had 2 interviews for the same restaurant and an audition for a commercial.   On top of this, we got all new living room furniture and went to a taping of the Tonight show with Jay Leno.

Sounds like a pretty busy week, right?  Then how come my brain keeps yelling at me that it's not quite enough?  Maybe it will never be enough.  Perhaps that's my driving force that keeps me going in life.

I just really hope this move isn't one of those situations that ends in failure and I'm supposed to take away some great lesson from the experience of it all. 

On the upside, I'm finally getting myself to a place where I have decided not to worry about it for the whole day.  I give myself about an hour in the mornings, (hence writing this blog now) then, no more for the day... As much as possible.  It's just really difficult when you have a limited supply of money with no new income coming in, but your bills still come on a regular basis.

There's not a lot I can do through the weekend, so I should just enjoy my weekend and try not to stress.  Because, if this doesn't work out somehow, I should at the very least have some fun while I was here.

First Interview/Audition down... Come on good Karma!

10/11/11

I went on my first Job interview today.  It was an Italian restaurant in Old Town Pasadena.  It was called Mi Pinochi or something close to that.  First, there was no parking, so I had to go into a paid parking garage.  The only spot I could find was one with an SUV over the line, so it was a really tight squeeze.  I got parked and couldn’t get out of the car.  SUV got door checked a few times though.  Maybe they’ll park in the lines next time.  I crawled over the passenger seat to get out. 

We went in and were taken to a room FULL of people applying for the same job.  Probably around 45 people in there… It was nuts!  It took us about 45 minutes just to be interviewed.  The interviewer was obviously a professional interviewer.  I have never had so many rapid fire server questions shot at me in such a short time.  He almost seemed to smirk when I got flustered at one point.  No matter, I don’t think that place was a good fit for me anyway.  Kristin’s interview went a lot better though.  She got a nice guy who worked there and he just chitchatted with her for about 15 minutes and she came out feeling good about her audition.  Go figure…

Got out to the parking lot, SUV is still there, so had to climb over the seat again to get out.  I had to pay $3.00 parking for the interview.   I don’t think I have ever had to pay to interview before.  I have had to feed a meter for auditions though, so maybe I should just look at it that way… 

I got home and I have an audition notice in my E-mail.  My first LA audition!  It’s a small commercial, but I’m still pretty happy about it. 

Tomorrow our new living room furniture is due to arrive.  I’m excited but also a little nervous.  We spent almost twice what I expected to for furniture, but we also got twice as much.  It was a great deal and Kristin had her heart set on this set, so I knew that there was no getting around it.  My only argument was “The floor isn’t that bad to sit on.”  I clearly wasn’t going to win this one. 

Hopefully good things are in the cards for us soon.  God knows I’ve seen my fair share of struggle.  I really hope this move is truly what my life needed right now. 

Summary of my moving day 10/4/11

Woke up at 8:40, went to get the U-haul at 9:00.  Brought it back home, ran around the house to put something in my car.  Hit a patch of mud, slid and fell HARD.  It road rashed my leg pretty well. 

I got something out of my trunk.  I forgot that the bike rack was on the trunk.  It kindly punched me in the eye as I closed the trunk back… 

We moved furniture into the 6’X12’ trailer most of the day.  That went about as well as it could.  I just happen to be good at finding a lot of void spaces to cram stuff.

Went to return the modem and cable box.  I swear, every single car got in front of me and slowed down.  I checked with Kristin to make sure It wasn’t just me. 

Went to eat at La Hacienda Ranch for the last time.  Kids at the table next to us were screaming and carrying on and their parents just seemed to think it was funny.  Kristin offered to pay and when the waitress saw her put the card in the binder she looked at me and said “So, the lady is picking up the check tonight?”  I felt like saying “Oh yeah… I’m a HUGE Douchebag.” And grin back at her.  Instead I just looked at Kristin having a laughing attack at my day.