bring on the boxes

happily resigned and ready......

my first round of purchasing boxes has started....the beginning of packing the books...a tiresome and cumbersome job that should not take long, but will inevitably take up my entire living room.

my goal in life to have more books than any designer i know. it is a lofty goal and as i start to move i now know that it is a heavy one too.....

well no one ever said that reaching goals was easy.

soon the shelves will be empty and on their way out the door. with each step i make toward this move the more encouraged i actually feel....so ready to do this right now.

lost

two girls walking the aisles of the metro north-

"how can you be lost on a train, you either going toward the front or the back of it?"

another girl sits in her seat and thinks-

"being lost doesn't always have to refer to the direction you are headed, but can be all about the journey that you are trying to find!"

driving north

today i left the beautiful beach life of lavallette and headed home to the great cold north...not that far really...just a few hours drive, but in that time i got to see the world outside my windows change from a flat, sand beach island with sparse clouds and a gentle breeze to a grey cloud ladden sky with a sharp bright horizon that made the fire colored trees look ablaze on the mountain terrain....

so little miles and yet so much change.....two completely different worlds

i am back at home sitting here wondering which one i prefer...sandy beach vs. seasonal change
and what the future may hold I am still not sure......

uggghhhhh.....indecision and contemplation

flying south

today as we were prepping for an outdoor shoot I was standing at the gazebo in town surrounded by geese...

somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-100 geese were milling around the lawn. needless to say they make a hell of mess all over the boardwalk that we needed to clean, but i was happy to have a little bit of nature surrounding me after being on the soundstage for so many weeks.

i continued to watch them huddle together and then spread out, feed on the lawn and make all sorts of noise...until the caterers dog came charging along for her afternoon walk and then i had the pleasure of experience something that i had never seen or heard at so close of a distance.

as the little dog came charging in there was a sudden whoosh, followed by the flutter and beating of these 200 wings...the sound was amazing and something that i could not completely describe correctly with just words...it is something that makes you stop and look at this mass of animals so effortlessly floating off the earth.....a sound that is so powerful, but something that you would miss if you were not paying attention.

i stood in awe for that brief moment as the geese all simultaneously lifted their wings to make their way to a warmer climate or maybe just get away from the busybody dog for a little while. wherever their travels may take them, i am glad that i got a chance to be a witness to flight of the geese....

maybe next time i see them flying by i will stop to hear what i can hear.....

bulls-eyes

i have a new addiction or maybe just one that has resurfaced since visiting the local drug store here at the jersey shore...in this store i found a little candy that i used to only get at halloween when i was a kid.

i thought it only came in those cheap variety packs that your parents used to buy and i had never seen them packaged by themselves...but there they were...a caramel nugget that surrounded a center of what can best be described as chewy powdered sugar in the a cylophane wrapper with red and white stripes at the ends and the name goetze's stamped on the front and back.

never having known that these candies actually had a name, i was curious and did a little internet exploring. and there i found the entire history of this little candy, its makers and a not so great revelation that there are more varieties of this candy goodness....

never fear, i quickly jumped off the website before i was temped to look at the store locator. i have no need to stock up on these things and will be happy with the small bag from my local drug store....but if you are a fan of caramel or chewy candy or want to support a family grown candy baltimore, maryland company that started back in 1895 you should try this candy or check out the website.

www.goetzecandy.com

or for a really funny look at the companies timeline through the past 100 years check out this part of their website:

www.goerzecandy.com/hist_timeline.cfm

a not so fond farewell

my fellow blogger is leaving the scene....
so long juneau journal pal......
i wish you wouldn't go as i will miss all the updates and the fun alaskan adventures....

hope you keep in touch!

is anyone building an ark?

not that i am counting, but i think that is has rained for 8 days straight here in the lovely new jersey beach town.

there are roadways that are flooded, there are intersections that you have to remember to avoid and the wind pitches some great random road barricades into the obstacle course that is our road to work. the other day i think i counted about 6 garbage cans (plastic ones), a few lids, a recycling box or two and a large sea shell planters...like small dog large not tea cup large.

not to mention that the building we are using as a soundstage has sprung a small leak and a boat that we borrowed had to be bailed out to avoid sinking into the bay.

all in all it has put a slight damper on our project, but it just extends the time that we get to stay here...which might actually be a blessing in diguise. more time on the beach and more time with the crew..can't beat that.

so as we have started to strike the sets, i am taking stock in our lumber to make sure that if we have start gathering the crew two by two, that there is actually something that we can float of this island with......so i am hoping that there is dove out there gathering the olive branch!

30

happy birthday to you was never sung so sweet as it was this past week!

for my big 30...yes i am 30 and damn proud of it...

birthday fun started with a day at work, but hey atleast at dinner i had 50 people sing happy birthday on the deck of the local yacht club and was delivered a delicious key lime pie as my birthday cake...thankfully not with the 30 candles.

then i arrived home to a beautiful bouquet of flowers from the art department and a handmade piece of birthday jewelry made out of salvage set pieces.....tie line, some wood blocks painted with set paint and etched with the most appropriate words

"dirty thirty" on one side and "buy me booze" on the other

with this, the evening began....
a trip to a local jersey shore bar that was having karaoke and the yankees game on at the same time...(made for interesting bar patrons)

a good number of crew came to the festivities, most of us sang and i made my first appearance on a karaoke stage with the rest of the art department...definitely better to sing with a group then on my own

my necklace worked wonders and about 2 1/2 hours and 5 free drinks later we all headed back to the ranch so we could report to work early the next morning.

all in all, i would say a great birthday and i hope my wish for the upcoming year comes true.....i didn't blow out all those candles for nothing.

end of week 3

at this point, i have lost track of what day or date it is and thanks to my el cheapo watch that broke after getting wet in the sink, i am not even sure what time it is...

all i know is that i am 3 weeks into this film project, only have about 10-14 more days to go and i all i can think about is getting home to pack my stuff and the next project that is coming my way.

to date i think i have spent the last 16 of the past 21 days inside on the soundstage, building one thing or another. my island adventures have been limited to days off only- not that that has limited the FUN of my days off.....just makes them short and sweet and something that i look forward to at the beginning of each week.....my next day off is the day after tomorrow, or as people who can recall days and dates- monday!

look out movie theatre here i come.....i want to sit and watch movies all day!

sunset and phone lines

atlantic sunrise

after working a hard week and finishing our first day of filming on the soundstage at 3am we all had dinner at the crew hotel and sat poolside and drank for a few hours...until we decided it would be a great idea to go to the beach to see the sunrise...

we all trekked the one block to the beach and a perfect view of the sunrise on the atlantic ocean.

a total of about 14 or 15 of us invaded the quiet of the morning beach crowd...the fishermen in their hip wadder and chest high wadders were casting their lines into the surf as all of us crazy, slightly drunken loud people rolled up our jeans and got our feet wet on the outskirts of the crashing waves.

there were 3 brave (or stupid) boys that actually stripped to their boxers and jumped head first into the 65 degree waves......great idea until they realized they would have to get out of the water and walk that block back to the hotel in the cool morning breeze.

we all waited for the sun to make its morning appearance and the view was not disappointing..there was not a cloud in the sky. just a few little cloud streaks that were left from a passing plane. the light pink sky went to orange and the water turn an almost turquoise color as the white foam on top of the crashing waves had a slight lavendar hue. the colors were simply amazing.

the moment came and went fairly quickly but the memory will last....as i think to myself... i think that was the first time that i have ever seen the sunrise at the ocean......and it might be my last time to see the sunrise at the ocean for a long time...cause when i move to LA-i will only be able to see the sunset at the ocean.