Two Week Notice

Well I did it... I gave my two weeks notice. I wrote out a very long and detailed letter on why I felt this was the right choice. This will be the first time I have ever quit a job but man my sanity and stress level is more important to me then the job. I finally was able to put my wants infront of others needs. Now I have to wait and see how they will react. I already got a call from my boss, she left a message on my cell phone a few hours later. Saying that she is sorry and didn't know I was that unhappy.. she wanted me to call her back.. but I didn't feel like it. I did give them the option for me to work two more weeks.. I didn't want to leave them with no one but will see if they want me to continue or not.


I AM SO HAPPY... this is the happiest I have been in the past few months. It's like the elephant on my shoulder has been taken off. I'll keep you posted.

Meltdown at Work

Some of you may or may not know but I haven't been too happy with my current job. My executive producer is a very difficult person to work for. She can't seem to handle her stress so I become her whipping boy. She complains about the computer hard drives humming to loud and not being able to work, she blames me for every little thing that happens in post but at the same time she won't allow me to do my job in post. I have no idea what the editors are doing since she won't allow them to follow my schedule. The list goes on and on but the thing that led to my meltdown today was when she called me to her office to complain about lunch again. First let me say that she wants lunch by 12:30 everyday. So she picked Bossa Nova for lunch today, we called it in at Noon and planed on picking it up and back by 12:30pm. Well they were super busy and told us it would be an hour. We told my boss it would be an hour but she seemed okay with that... well like I said she called me to her office and gave me a talken too. Since she didn't get her lunch at 12:30pm she has low blood sugar and wasn't able to concentrate and lost valuable time in the edit bay.. and guess what.. it was my fault. I told her that we did tell her that food was going to be late.. she then went on to tell me that I as post super need to be able to foretell the future and know if a restaurant is going to take longer to do our order so we can call earlier. Well that did it.. that was the final stupid thing she was going to say to me.. I stood up told her that I needed to leave her office and exited. I stopped by the line producers office and told him that I'm going to take this weekend and really think about my job and weather I want to work here or not. I went down stairs back to my desk for about an hour until the line producer, who understands my issues with my boss.. told me I could go home.... so I did.

I have never been so angry before. I was near tears and shaking from head to toe. It took me hours to fall asleep that night.

Re-Building My Computer

Well slowly but surely I have been re-building my PC. It's taken a few weeks but it's all coming back together. If you read previous blogs you know I lost about 10% of my media.. but I did manage to find back up DVD's from 2005 that I had forgotten about with all our Home Videos that we had digitized. So some good news there. I'm still uploading programs and media that has disappeared off my computer. My big thing will be doing my Itunes again. I'm a huge Itunes person and lost everything, music, videos, podcasts... all this stuff will need to be re-uploaded which will take a while. So it will be about a month before my computer is back to where it will be... actually it will never be what it was since I'll never have everything back.. but I got my important stuff.. pictures and home videos.. everything else is extra.

Just When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse

Well today while I was at work Harry worked his magic and after hours and hours of trying figure out what was missing from my computer and got the internet to work. Of course when I got home one of the patches that he downloaded kept causing the computer to crash but he quickly resolved that issue.


So as you know I have been trying to transfer media from my old bad drive to the new one via a really old and slow Mac G3. I am almost done. I have one huge music file and all of our home video that we have digitized from tape to MPG for editing left to transfer. I figure tomorrow I would all be done and ready to re-organize and put back on my computer. Well I was getting out of my jeep and sure enough my computer bad split open and both old and new drives fell about a foot to the hard concrete ground. I quickly went inside the apartment and plugged in both drives and guess what.. the new drive seemed fine but the old one was making a weird kind of clicking inside the actually hard drive area and wouldn't mount to the desktop, just my luck.. being so close to finishing up the transfer and permanently destroying the drive. I swear the hard drives just don't like me. So I'm done with the transfer and I managed to save about 80% of my media. Computers are great when the work but man they are a pain in the ass when they don't. Let's hope this is the end of my computer woes for a while.

Fixing my Computer

Okay.. tried last night to rebuild my computer hard drive and couldn't get it to work.. we gave up. Started the day with cleaning the kitchen, dining and living room. After this Harry and I went back to trying to rebuild my RAID system. We tried and failed several times but finally figured out what the problem was and managed to build my new RAID hard drive system. Great.. finally they computer is up and running with two new hard drive for a total of 600 gigabyte of space. Now it's time to upload all the programs. A few of the programs needed to register online so I decided to hold off on uploading more info and opted to try and connect to the internet through the router. Again this be a PC from hell it wouldn't work... we tried and tried but still nothing. After hours of trying I got frustrated and gave up. So as it is now.. my computer has a new bigger hard drive and windows XP is not operating.. but that's as far as we have gone. Gotta work on it some more. Harry is really good with computers so I'm sure he'll figure out what the problem is. BTW.. still transferring media from the bad drive to the new drive... still have a few more days left.

Cleaning / Kyle XY

I spent today cleaning up the back patio, every few months it seems like a tornado goes through it and it requires a few hours to re-organize and clean up. But once done I have a feeling of accomplishment. The back patio looks great now. Not only did I clean the back patio I also replace all four of our kitchen lights that have been out for a few weeks. I had intended on cleaning more but we started to watch the second episode of Kyle XY and the next thing I knew we were watching episode eight and would have gone more but I didn't have the last disc, so we had to stop. So what started as a great full of energy and cleanaloic day ended with a seven hour marathon of Kyle XY... I'm loving this series.

Computers, Computers, Computers

Well if you read my blog earlier you know my computer hard drive crashed and I had just backed up my entire drive to an external drive, which also crashed. Well we tried hooking up the external hard drive to Harry's Mac to see if it was noticed it. The Mac did see it but you could not mount it. I borrowed Disk Warrior from our friend Bruce, if you don't know what that is it's a fantastic program that can rebuild hard drives and almost always works. Well come to find out that now that Mac's use Intel processors the Disk Warrior won't work with them unless you buy (50 bucks) upgrade. I wasn't going to do this just because I wasn't sure this Mac program would work on a PC created drive.


My next plan was to see if my older G3 Mac laptop would see the drive and sure enough it did. I couldn't believe it. So I tired the Disk Warrior on it and found out that it cannot fix non-Mac drives, glad I didn't buy the upgrade. So instead we hooked up Harry's 500 gig external drive and started to copy over the media. It will take about four or five days to bring everything over... I have over 175 gig of info to transfer on a very slow G3. So it seems like everything is okay.. well except OX 9 for some reason has a weird flaw of truncating the names of a file. So all my e-comics say Star Trek #CHGSI$#$%.cbr and all my music have titles like Bonnie Raitt - Let's $#tnm9#$S.mp3. So it's going to take me a while to go though everything and rename it all so it make sense.. but I shouldn't complain at least I have gotten back about 90% of what I lost.

Kyle XY

This is a TV series on ABC Family Channel. It started last year and I wanted to watch it then but missed a few episodes and I knew this was a serial drama and had to watch it from the beginning to make sense so I waited for it to come out on DVD. Well I got season one on DVD and for TV night tonight we watched the first episode. I really enjoyed it, it's sci fi/fantasy with a little teen drama mixed in. The first episode did a good job at establlishing the characters and the mystery of "Who is Kyle XY". I can't wait to see what happens.

More Birthdays

Happy Birthday to my Cousin Robert and my friend Nicola. I wish you both a very Happy Birthday Today.

Happy Birthday Leonhard

Today is Harry's nephew's birthday... the big 4... Happy Birthday Leonhard

Happy Father's Day/Fantastic Four 2

Today Harry and I visited my Dad for Father's Day. We burned him two CD's of his favorite songs and got him Season one of King of Queens. We also took him to lunch and a movie. We saw Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.


I really enjoyed the first one. I know some folks didn't like it but it was entertaining to me. I like the effects and really enjoyed seeing how each person dealt with there new powers. I thought the first film also set up the relationships between the characters. So I knew part 2 was going to be action pack and it didn't disappoint. This one also had a more complete story, awesome effects and was very comical at times. The Silver Surfer was pretty cool, we didn't go in great details of his past but just enough to understand why he is doing what he is doing. It was good to see Doom back even though he was more of a minor role until the end. The final battle was great, the Fantatic Car was awesome and I like that Johnny got the spotlight. Both Harry and Dad enjoyed it and it was a fun Father's Day visit.

Computer Woes

My PC has been acting up for months now, but not enough to go through the hassle of re-formatting the hard drives. But today it started to do something worse and I started to get worried so I cleaned off one of my external hard drives and started to back up everything. Took me all day but I managed to back up my entire PC with exception of "My Video" folder which was pretty big. But I got most of it and I was happy. After I backed up everything I checked the external drive to make sure things were okay.. well there were issues. Even though the media was there the drive somehow lost it's format and was no longer a valid drive. I was disappointed but thought.. oh well I'll back it all up again tomorrow.

Well I get up Sunday morning and started my computer and guess what... yep it said that it didn't have a bootable drive and was unable to start. We tried booting from an external CD but it says I don't have any hard drives... then we you do a check on the hard drives and it says the drives are fine and working.

So it seems both my compuer and back up drive have crashed. Luckily I have about 70% of my stuff saved on DVD's but still I hate losing stuff, recent music, audio books, videos and e-comics. I'm still hopeful that I'll be able to retrieve some of my missing media. Here's hoping!!!!

Pirates of the Caribbean III

So after three weeks of it being in theaters Harry and I finally saw Pirates III. First let me say that we watched Pirates II a few nights before since Harry had not seen it so we were in a Pirates mood. The movie opens with some very beautifully haunting images then picks up where the last film left off. This was a fun roller coaster ride of a film. It was more violent then the other two but it was also a "bigger" movie. The special effects were great, the acting was good and the story was fun. My favorite scene was the crew getting back to the land of the living by flipping over their ship. It was a very cool plot point and some very fancy effects. Of course they leave this film open for a sequel and if they make it I'll be there to see it.. if not I'm happy with this great adventurous Trilogy.

Free Hugs

Have you guys seen these You Tube videos called "Free Hugs". It started with a man, Juan Mann down in Australia who was holding up a sign saying "Free Hugs". It was set to music and put on You Tube.. it was instantly a hit and shown all over the world. Then other "Free Hugs" Video started to popping up on You Tube, from China, Peru, Hollywood, New York, Warsaw, Italy and so on.


We live in a very damaged and corrupt world and watching these videos of strangers hugging for no reason other then to hug is inspirational. Whenever I'm feeling down all I have to do is watch one of these and it lifts my sprits and bring me to tears. If you haven't seen this great videos check them out at www.youtube.com and search for "Free Hugs".

No More "Little" Brother

Some of you might be wondering why I haven't posted much about my "little" brother in recent months... well there have been some complications. He has had some anxiety and seperation issues with his mother. We tried to make the visits shorter, three hours is manditory but we cut them down to a little over an hour and we thought it was working. But the past few visits have been cancelled with Nico saying he is sick or not feeling well so his mother and I talked along with the Big Brother sponser and decided that he might be a bit young to be in the program and will have to be taken out for the time being.

So this is two "littles" in one year. I think I'm going to take a break from being a Big Brother for a while. It's tough to get to know a "little" and start to enjoy the time spent together then something comes up and you "lose" them. Both of these happend about four months into the program, and at that point you really start to get emotional attached and then they are gone... it's tough. I think I might wait till this current job is over before starting the program again.

Harry Potter Deluxe Book Cover

Today they released the book cover for the Deluxe edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It shows are Trio on the back of Dragon. Only a little over a month left before the final Harry Potter book is released. I can't wait.. but also can't believe it's almost over.

4 Years!!!!

We started talking via Internet in March but today marks our four-year anniversary of the first time we actually meet in person, I can remember like it was yesterday. I can't believe it's been four great years. We have our hurdles to over come, but LOVE can make you forget all your problems. I loved him from the first moment was started talking and if it's possible I love him even more today. I can't imagine my life without him in it. Happy Anniversary!!!!

Star Wars Celebration IV

Star Wars Weekend!!!!



So I was lucky enough to attend Star Wars Celebration IV for two of they six days it was here in Los Angeles. I went Saturday and both Harry and I went Sunday. It was a great time. Lot's of people, costumes and things to do. Check out my website www.geocities.com/dathon1 and click on the convention tab and go to the bottom of the page and read my report on C4 and see tons of pictures.

Happy 30th Star Wars

Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of my all time favorite movies and series, I can't believe it's been 30 wonder years. I was six going on seven years old when I saw this space movie for the first time. As soon as the little ship being fired on came across the screen followed by the really, really big ship I was hooked. Seeing Darth Vader walk through the blasted door was amazing and it only got better from there. Star Wars started me on my path to Geekhood. Star Wars has shaped my life so much, that I couldn't imagine my life without it. It was Star Wars action figures that began my now very large toy collection. Star Wars let my imagination soar and started my love of sci fi and fantasy. Star Wars was and is simply the best, and will forever be a huge part of my life and I wouldn't want it any other way.


HAPPY ANNIVERSARY STAR WARS!!!!!!!!!!

Star Wars Movie Marathon

Well I wasn't lucky enough to attend this event but my brother did and he would call me after every movie. For the first time in the history of the world they screened Star Wars Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 back to back for seventeen hours. It was in celebration of Star Wars 30th anniversary. May 25 marks it official day and this weekend in Los Angeles is the big Celebration IV Star Wars Convention. I will be attending only Saturday and Sunday unlike my brother who took vacation time and is attending all six days. So for now I am living vicariously through him. Sounds like the movies were great.

Shrek The Third

Well we just got back from watching Shrek The Third. We really enjoyed it, the story was very simple. The Frog King dies and Shriek is next in line to be the king, of course he doesn't want it and finds out that there is one other person, Arthur so he goes to get him, while he is gone Prince Charming gathers all the villains and attacks Far Far Away taking over. There were alot of laughs and some very memorable moments.. my favorite being Snow White and her song of attack. Also the Ogre babies are the cutest thing. The movie just flies by it's about 90 minutes. If you liked the first two Shrek you'll enjoy this one. As with the other two Shreks this one has an underlying message of not be limited by how people think of you.

Daisy

Well it's been two years since we rescue Daisy from the pound... two years of not going to Vegas, two years of not taking a vacation, two years of being pretty much restricted on where we could go and for how long. But with that said we wouldn't want it any other way. Daisy has brought so much joy and love into our lives. She loves us unconditionally. She greets us with enthusiasm even if we are gone for just five minutes. Not that she can't be a pain in the butt sometimes.. we still love her and wouldn't change her for anything.

Happy Birthday

Just want to wish some people a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY...


Uncle Robert... I know we don't see each other very much but I think of you guys often.

Tim - Even though we are on different continents and never met in person you are still one of my favorite people to talk to... some day will meet face to face.

Christopher - My buddy, I know the past few years we haven't seen each other as much as I would like but always know you are in my thoughts.

Typical Week

Nothing too exciting going on. Work is moving along slowly and behind schedule, but this is typical and I'm not to stressed. Still looking for a house to rent but so far no luck. Harry and Daisy are both doing fine. Looking forward to seeing Shrek this weekend.

Mother's Day

Today was spent with MOM. Harry and I went to mom's down in Newport Beach. They were having a BBQ. I got up early and went to Jons to pick up three dozen flowers. Also at the BBQ was my brother and his wife, my aunt Joyce, uncle Marty and their son's girlfriend Jade. My grandmother and my mom's youngest brother uncle Chuck. It was a good time. The weather was nice and the food was great. Got to spend some good time with my mother since we really don't see each other that often.

Happy Surprises

This is how I like to end my workweek. This week was busy at work. We are starting to get close to outputting our first show for the network. There was a lull in my workload and the day was dragging so when the opportunity came up to go junk food shopping for the office I took it. Normally the Post Super don't do things like this but I wanted to get out of the office and I enjoy bringing goodies back to the office and making everyone happy. So I went to Smart and Final and had $200.00 dollars to spend on junk food. I went walking up and down the aisle and got to the candy aisle and noticed slightly under one of the shelves on the floor were two, twenty dollars bills. Of course your instinct is to look around and see if anyone sees you or if the person who dropped them was near by but there was no one around so I picked them up and pocketed them. So not only did I bring happiness to the office with all the goodies I bought but also I got a few extra spending dollars in my pocket. It was a good Friday.

It Finally Happened!!!!

As many of you know I worked on Curl Girls last year and finished it up in Dec. 06. Well that was just the beginning. The Logo network has so many issues and problems with the show, tapes, deliveralbes and such. Some were our mistakes.. but most were the company's left hand not telling it's right hand what it was doing. It has taken me five months to sort all the issues with the network. Finally today I get an email telling me that everything has been accepted and payment for the how has been submitted. Now I can focus on my current job and delete the 5000 emails I have for Curl Girls.

Spiderman III

I really enjoy the Spiderman movies and was looking forward to the third part. Harry and I debated on seeing it opening night Friday. But since work was busy and we knew the crowds would be crazy. I knew with all the new movies coming out every weekend for the next three month we had to see this opening weekend, so we decided to see it on Sunday. We got to the theater for a 3:05 showing. We got there an hour early and there was no one in line so we decided to go check out a local furniture store. Got back to the line and there were about six people in front of us. We were seeing it in one of the smaller rooms but still a very large screen. We sat about three rows back from the middle. The movie was alot of fun. It was very entertaining. I can't say it's better then the other two but is wasn't worse. All three movies are entertaining. They all have there good parts and there slow parts and this episode wasn't any different. I loved the special effects in this one. At points in the fighting so much is happening on screen it's kind of like visual overload. The bad guys were cool Sandman, a misunderstood father. and then the alien black gooo which takes over Peter for a part of the movie but becomes Venom at the end. It was a fun movie and I look forward to seeing again with my Dad in a few weeks.

Brother's Birthday

Today is my brother's birthday. He is going to be 32, man that makes me feel old. His wife Lora put together a party at there place. It was alot of fun. Lots of good food. Mike's friends are pretty crazy, just like him. We stayed a bit longer then we expect but all in all a fun night.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL!!!!

Doggie Doctor & Magic Mountain

Today was a busy day.. first thing in the morning we took Daisy for her regular checkup. All is well with her. After that Harry and I went to our favorite amusement park "Magic Mountain" and spent five hour going on nine rollar coasters. We had a great time but really feel the effects of getting older... oh well such is life. We had a great time.

Just another week!!

Just another week... My job is quiet at the moment, which is nice. Still looking for a house to rent, but haven't had any luck so far. Harry is doing well. Daisy is fine.

Heroes is back!!!!

After a seven week haitus Heroes is back. I have been loving this series so I was very excited to finally see a new episode after seven weeks and it didn't disappoint. This series has something happening in every scene on screen. Unlike another favorite tv show that I really enjoy Lost, which leaves with you more questions then answers. Heroes has not fallen into that trap. Heroes has secrets but they tend to give more answers before asking more questions. I love this series.

Toy Room Clean Up

Well I spent this weekend cleaning/organizing my toy room. The past few months I have gotten a ton of new toys and have let my toy room fall apart. I just have too many toys to display. At the moment there are a ton of action figures on the floor, which I hate but unless I box the figures up they will have to sit on the floor for the time being. It took me two days but my toy room looks AWESOME again. I took video of it and when I'm done editing it I'll post it online for all to see.

Happy Birthday Aunt Joyce

I want to wish my Aunt Joyce a very Happy Birthday. Love you.

Unexpected Work... and New Tires

Well this was going to be the first weekend that I didn't have to go into work. I was looking forward to getting some stuff done around the apartment, my toy room is a mess. Well at 10am I got a call from one of the producers saying that our EP wanted some footage that was shot on Friday uploaded to our FTP site so she can see it. Currently our EP is in Europe shooting in Paris. I was not a happy camper. I had plans that day and being the nice boss that I am, didn't want to ruin my AE's weekend so I decided I would do this myself.

But before I went into work I really needed to get new tires for my jeep. The front left one was going bald and I was afraid it would blow while driving. I've been wanting to do this for about a month but never seemed to have the time. So I decided that I would get new tires then go into work and get this footage uploaded for her. The tire thing took a bit longer then expected. I knew I only wanted to spend about $100.00 per tire and I did pretty good. Got some really good tires for $96 and after the install and taxes it was going to cost about $600.00. Five minutes after I left the tire place and started to walk home, since it was going to take several hours I got a call from the tire place telling me that my shocks are bad. This wasn't the first time I heard that so I figure I would get that done and they were running a deal if you buy three you get the fourth free.. So I did that and my final bill came too $998.96. I look at it this way... I have never replaced my tires or shocks so it was all for a good thing and boy do my new tires look great.

So now it's 6pm, Harry and I have dinner and we both go into work to get this thing done. Four hours latter it's done and we are at home relaxing on the couch watching the news. Not how I planned my Saturday but I did manage to get one thing marked off my list. Sometimes it's tough being the boss.

Life Updated

Nothing really going. Work has been busy but not crazy like the past few weeks. I'm actually still dealing with my previous job Curl Girls, even thought I finished that show back in Dec.

I bought Harry his I Mac for his birthday but since we upgraded the video card it had to be shipped and we couldn't get it from the Apple store. We were disappointed but Harry is very excited about his new Mac and I'm very happy that I can make my Harry happy.

Daisy is doing well, still hates dogs but she's getting better.

Still looking for a house to rent, still trying to figure out if my Dad will be living with us or not.

Harry's jeep is still dead, even though it's been taken to the Jeep dealer and they nothing is wrong. We just don't have the time to try and figure why it's not working. Will work on that problem this weekend.

Very excited about some upcoming movies, Spiderman III, Transformers and of course this July will be Harry Potter month with a new movie #5 and the final book #7 coming out within a week of each other, also for the month of July I'll be going to Comic Con.

All in all LIFE is moving along.

Birthday Wishes

I wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to several friends.

First, April 1st is Kevin's birthday. He is one of the funnist people I have ever met and both Harry and I miss him and Dave, who last year moved to Florida.

Second, April 2nd is John M's birthday. He is one of my oldest and dearest friends. We haven't been able to hook up in years but he is always in my heart.

Third, April 5th is Renee's birthday. She is the first person I every came out to which will always make her very special to me.

Three very special people who I wish a Very Happy Birthday too.

Long Lost Friend

Today I had lunch with my friend Brad. Brad and I haven't seen each other in eight years. It was a great lunch and we caught up on each other lives. I really missed Brad over the years and I'm so happy to have him back in my life.

Harry's 36th Birthday Dinner

It's become a tradition now to celebrate Harry's birthday at Outback Steakhouse. It's one of his favorite restaurants. So again this year friends and family gathered for this annual event. The service was good and the food was excellent. Last year Harry had the huge 20 oz Steak but this year he did Prime Rib. Friends Bruce, John, Moises, Mark and Tom along with my Dad joined in the party. Fun was had by all.. just keep John away from those Bloomin' Onions.

Harry's 36th Birthday

It's my favorite Austrian's 36th Birthday today. He's 36 years young and still as cute as ever. This morning I got up early and went to buy him some flowers, a dozen roses mixed with some summer flowers. I left them all arranged in a pretty vase on the dining table for him to see as soon as he came down stairs. I had to work but thought it would be nice to take him out of dinner after I got off. We were planning a trip to Outback Steak the following weekend for his Birthday Dinner with friends and family so we didn't want to do that again so he said how about Sizzler, we both really like Sizzler. So we ended up eating a late dinner at Sizzler, which was quite nice. All in all a quiet day for Harry's 36th Birthday. Oh BTW I am going to by Harry a new I Mac computer since he is tired of having his PC laptop.

The First Week of My New Job

Well after being out of work for the past two and a half months I was very excited to get back to work.. not for the work but for the money. This new job had some for the same people that I worked with on my previous job so I thought it would be a lot of fun. Well the people are great but things are starting off on shaky ground. I don't office and for that matter I don't even have a desk. We are in a very small building sharing it with another show done by the same production company and they have been there for a few weeks already so they have staked out all the good spots and I'm given the leftovers. So my job of setting up the office has been an hassle. Rooms that are mine still have stuff in them so I really can't do anything. I'm working on a system that is unfamiliar to me so that makes things hard. And I have the EP telling me that all these things need to get done ASAP but I don't have the resources. Anyways I'm glad it's the weekend even though I have to go in on Sunday for a bit. I'm hoping next week will come together a bit better. I get the rest of my rooms and systems and a few more people will start. Oh well it's work.

The Holiday on DVD

I love romantic comedies so when I saw previews to this movie I wanted to see it but I never got a round to, so I rented it first thing when it came out on DVD last week. I finally got to watch it and I was not disappointed. It was a very cute and fun romantic comedy. It was like two romantic comedies in one. Both stories were fun and entertaining. If you're looking for a fun romantic comedy then this movie is for you. Here's a synopsis.

Iris is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women, who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find themselves in the exact same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by Iris' handsome brother Graham and Iris, with inspiration provided by legendary screenwriter Arthur, mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles.

The Dog Walking Dance

Sometimes you have the rouge dogs where the owner defy LA laws and allow their dogs to run leash-less. If we every run into one of those we take immediate action and look for the quickest escape route. Luckily in the few years that we have had Daisy I have only had to kick away one dog that was leash-less and came running at her as the owner screamed for her dog to come back. "They make leash laws for a reason. " I said to the owner but she just said her dog wouldn't hurt a fly and that she can control it. I laughed and told what a good job she is doing as I kicked at her dog a second time. The next time I saw this woman her dog was leash-less but as she saw me he quickly leashed her dog. All in all we have a pretty good group of people with dogs who know the rules of the Dog Walking Dance.


Every morning of everyday I walk the dog first thing after getting up. We live in a neighborhood with quite a few dogs and Daisy being the way she is we try and avoid those dogs. Many of the people do they same so everytime we go out it's like a dance. You start down the sidewalk and if you see another dog walking in the opposite direction one of you will cross the street to avoid the conflict. Then another dog will come towards you so you cross the street again. It's a back and forth kind of thing. Sometimes you run into trouble when you see dogs coming from both directions and there really is no where to go. But for the most part people are well verse in this dance and will stop to allow you to get by them with incident.

"Little" Brother Outing

After canceling last weekend because of my bad back I picked up my "little" and we went to Griffith Park to go hiking. We started on this really cool trail but about 1/3rd of the way on it he started to get freaked out. The trail is covered in trees and you could hear all kinds of things in the bushes. So instead I decided to take him on one of the fire trails.. this is an open trail but kind of windy. We barely got started when he got bored and tired and wanted to head back. So we got a little hiking in. After that we went to Jack in the Box and ate some lunch. It was a fun but short hike.

AFV Taping

Today Harry and I went to a taping of America's Funniest Home Videos. They film out in Manhattan Beach and we had to be there at 10:30am for a 12:00pm taping. We got there and found where to park. Next we stood in line for about an hour or so. They finally tell us if we need to go to the bathroom we need to go now because they don't take breaks while shooting. So I go then Harry goes and we wait some more. Harry has to go again and while he is gone they come and take us to outside the stage. Now I began to panic because Harry is still in the bathroom. After what felt like hours, but actually only a few minutes one of the pages comes escorting Harry back to the line. We now stood in front of the stage for a while then they took us through a metal detector where Harry was stopped and it kept going off so he kept taking stuff out of his pockets but he was still beeping. Finally they let him go even though he still beeped. By this time we fell four people back from where we were in line. Then go back outside and stand in another line waiting to go in. We finally get in and they start to seat you. It doesn't matter where you are in line they place people where they want them. So if you are pretty or cute or dressed real nice you get place in front or on an aisle. We sat on the third row back over on the left side of the stage. We had pretty good seats but I noticed that the people who took our spots when Harry got stuck at the metal detector were sitting in the second row next to the aisle and in a prefect spot to be on TV. Oh well.. nothing you can really do. We enjoyed the show. It was fun to see how they put it all together. Both Harry and I voted for the same video but it came in third. All in all a fun day.. a lot of waiting and standing but in the end it was fun.

Doctor's Visit

Today I had my first doctor’s visit in four years. Since losing my health benefits many years ago I have been without insurance. Now that I'm getting up there in age I figure it was time to bite the bullet and buy health insurance. I found a fairly good plan and made my first appointment. I wanted a gay doctor so I asked around and my friend Bruce gave me the name of his doctor, Dr. Anthony Mills. I went in for my physical and he checked me from head to toe, inside and out and all is well. Other then my weight, which I know I'm a little to heavy he says I'm in good shape. So all in all a good visit.

4 Year Anniversary

Well it was four years today that I got an email response to my personal ad on Yahoo that started with, Hello Kelly. And now four years later we are as happy as can be. Of course we have had our ups and downs but most of them dealt with immagration issues, but personally Harry and I are having a great time together. Here's to a long and happy life together. I LOVE YOU

Got a Job... Finally

Finally after two and a half months of being off... I just got a new job. I'll be Post Production Supervisor on a new TV series called "First Class all the Way" it's for the Bravo network. Don't have a clue what it's about.. i'm just glad for the work. Yay me!!!!!!! I start March 19th and it runs till the end of July..

Getting Married.. Well Sort Of.

Well this March 11th marks the anniversary of when Harry answered my personal ad on Yahoo. Harry and I have been together for four years. We know we will be together for the rest of our lives so we decided that we want to make it official.. at least in our hearts. Next year will be our five year anniversary and we thought it would be a perfect time to have a Commitment Ceremony. We are still in the early planning stages, but right now it looks like it will happen in July or August 08. More details to come.

Paramount Ranch

Today Harry, Daisy and I went to Paramount Ranch. For those who don't know what this is. It is an old studio lot where they filmed quite a few westerns, as well as Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. They still film here and there but its more of a area that you can go hiking, have a picnic, walk around the remaining Western Town. It's a lot of fun. The other good thing about this place is that it allows dogs. Most State Parks won't allow dogs so it's great to have this place were we could go hiking with Daisy. Today we hiked for about an hour and a half. It was alot of fun, but of course I took a tumble down a hill and scraped up my arm and leg but all in all a fun time.