Catch Up Time!

Hello, All!

WOW, there has been alot going on latley. Here's the VERY abbreviated run-down of everything that's been happening latley.

One of my good friends, Kirstie (the girl who played Dorothy in "CSI: Oz") came out to visit me in California with her friend, Jessica! We had a BLAST while they were here. Without question, we fit a TON of stuff into our short (too short...) schedule, but I think everything worked really well.

Some of the higlights:

-Disneyland
-According to Jim
-Santa Monica Beach
-Hard Rock Cafe

I'll be posting pictures soon that highlight their visit....most of them are from Disneyland.

On our way home from our exciting day of magic at Disneyland, we ran into 3 car accidents (major ones) on the freeways that had all sorts of roads shut down. The third crash that we approached had JUST happened as we were passing. It was a car that had flipped over on it's side, and one of the first responders on scene (a semi truck driver) was screaming for help...so I pulled over and gave as much help as I could. While everything seemed to be okay and the vicitim seemed to be in good condition, there must have been some hidden problems because she passed away early the next morning, despite our hard efforts to make sure she was alright.

Other than all the excitement listed above, I've been keeping busy by working tons of hours teaching at the Red Cross. Today I got all 5's on my class evaluation, which was really exciting.

Today was slightly disapointing. I was hoping to short a small (VERY short) comedy film that involved some inside jokes with my friends and co-workers at the Red Cross. I found 2 people on craigslist that seemed alot like me that were willing to volunteer a few hours to help with the production. Unfortunatley, as much as they SEEMED like me, and as much as they may have had some expensive equiptment, it wasn't quite what I was hoping. One of the two actually left after a very short period of time because he had 'other things to do', which was surprising. He swore it wasn't because of me, which I seriously hope it isn't...because we were having some fun, I thought. However, although we WERE having some fun, the end result was nowhere near what I was hoping, and thus, I wasted pretty much all night on a project that will likley not be used. I guess I'll have to find someone better to help me that I can trust....*sigh*, not alot of people like my film buddies (such as Sean) from back home.

SPEAKING OF! It was Sean's birthday this week, and I decided to make him a birthday video which you can check out on my personal YouTube account at Tinmansm. It's supposed to be a fun video that makes you go 'awww', and I think I nailed that :-).

Here's the video:



More pictures and excitement to come soon!