What has two thumbs and hasn't blogged in awhile??

THIS GIRL!!!

Seriously? What's the point of having this page if I don't go on and type out a sentence or two. Jeeze Val, let's get on the ball here. Ok let's recap my life since my last blog which was on Thanksgiving. Holy crap that's a lot to re-cap, ok so let's do the Cliff Notes version of a re-cap.

I took the plunge and quit my office job on Dec 21. Yea, I still remember the day. lol. It was the best, worst decision I have ever made. It was great because I had my free time to do as I please with my acting career, go on auditions, film during the week. You know the stuff you can't do with a normal 8-5, but then the reason why everyone has a job took it's toll on me. Money. Or in my case it was the lack there of. My bank account took a huge dip when the folks needed to borrow some money from me. Luckily I have recovered since, barely...

Anywho, I took a really part-time job at Betsey Johnson which turned out be a great blessing in disguise. I had the opportunity to meet some really cool people and work in a different retail market. As a co-worker just happened to point out today, you have to be a little off, and left of center to work there and I totally agree with that. With that said, I fit in great.

I had two deaths in my family within a week in May. Two of my uncles died, one of which had a heart attack on the way to the other's funeral. I buried an uncle, then lost another the same day. It was the longest week of my life, I wouldn't want my worst enemy to feel that amount of loss or to have to witness their family hurt like that. It's only been a month and it still hurts, I think about them all the time. That deserves a whole blog on it's own.

Lighter note time. I got to film two movies this year. Yay!! One of which I just filmed this past Sunday. It was actually the film I was casted in last November, and it was pushed back this far. But we did it. I don't know how I felt about it. I was a little (a lot) nervous and I did so much preparing at the beginning of the year that by this time I had put in the back burner that I didn't feel prepared. The Director said I did good, but I think he may have just been polite. The other movie I actually didn't have to audition for. He just saw my Myspace profile and casted me, I'M THAT GOOD!! Jk. It was like that, but not like that. I think visually I fit was he was looking for, for that character. It was very organized, and very well put together. I have some high hopes for both these films, none of which were pornos. I know, disappointed. As was I my friend, as was I.

This was past weekend was hella intense. If saying hella is not cool anymore, please go ahead and omit that from the post and replace it with totally. Yes, totally will never get old especially when it's said over 100 times on an episode of The Hills. Oh but I digress, so my weekend was insane. It started out on Friday. I worked all day at the store then went home to take my nephew out for the last time before he heads back home to Colorado. I do the awesome aunt stuff then I speed home and get ready to see Sleepercar in Helotes. Which is not far from my house at all.

Quick recap on Sleepercar. Jim Ward from At the Drive In and lead singer to Sparta formed another band called Sleepercar. Ok side recap to this recap. Another El Paso band Siva, which has since broken up, the bassist/singer Greg Sosa is now the bass player for Sleepercar. Now the drummer for Siva, which is still broken up since I've written the last sentence, is cousins with a good friend of mine. I met Greg through them back in 05', we kept in touch briefly after meeting and lost touch which I will forever blame him though he swears he told me he was bad at keeping in touch with people. Not a confusing back story right? Didn't think so either.

Ok let's fast forward back to Friday. So I meet up with my friend Nicole at the show and we chit chat and wait for the guys to play. Then Greg comes up to me and says hi, and did I mention I haven't seen this guy since 05'. It had been awhile and I kinda felt like a bundle of nerves. I swear I becoming more and more socially awkward these days. So I meet Matt the drummer for Sleepercar and then the guys go set up to play. The show was awesome and we meet up with the rest of the band afterwards. Ok one last rewind/fast forward moment for this story I swear. Greg called me the night before and asked if I could find a place for them to crash. No sweat, I knew Nicole was a huge Jim Ward fan and I thought it would be a real treat for her to have him and the rest of the band stay at her house. She obliged. Ok fast forward, so after the entire show ended we all head back to her place and I end up partying like a rockstar cause I don't think anyone else was as drunk as I was. 5am hits and it's time to put the drunk girl to bed. I wake up at 8:30am and Nicole is telling me the guys are leaving, I (still drunk) stumble to my friend Greg tell him bye and manage to go downstairs and outside but I wasn't wearing my contacts so I couldn't see anything so I had no idea who was in the van. I decided it would be in my best interest to just go back to bed. Wise choice Val, wise choice. Yes, I had to work a 9 hour shift that day. It was not my finest moment.

There's actually so much more I want to tell you, but It's like 3am and I want to sleep before 4 once this week. Yea I'm on that schedule these days. Ok have a goodnight and I'll tell you all about my iTunes shopping experience later.

till next time