Oh Canada.

Toronto, it is always a pleasure. After 11 wonderful days in my favorite little town I'm now on canadish ground. I just like flying Air Canada, probably because immigration is suddenly soooooo nice. I like canadian people. And now i feel ready. I'm ready to go backto LA, i really am. I can't wait to see Kali, pick up bunny and just be in the staates again. Mustang, car drives, sea, sand, sunshine, it is pretty there, even though i like to complain from time to time. Switerland it was wonderful, canada as always a pleasure and LA, you don't know me yet.
In a month Mica is comming to visit and them Mery and Yasmin. This is going to be good. Really good.

Working with professionals.

Bird is out of the nest. My first attempts to fly. Holly freaking fuck. Working with your friends is one thing, you know each other and you kind of plan by ear - uh-huh, not anymore:

Production: Ernest Briggs
Production Assistant: Kelsey Leonard
Director: Nadine Nonn
Director of Photography: Daniel Leary
Lead: Trent Walker

Sure, some of my friends are still part of it, but I need some people around me that I know and then the people who are moving me forward. Baby steps, but steps, and it feels like I'm working with professionals and I'm loving it. Going back and forth with Ernest talking about SAG-AFTRA paperwork (who is currently in Minnesota - yea, that makes the whole thing easier haha), talking with Trent about character history, setting up shooting schedules, having a DP who talks about storyboards, and shot diversity - because they all actually know what the fuck they're talking about! Holly shit! I feel like these are my first attempts to fly. Wow, fuck. I don't know how I feel, but at the same time I feel amazing. So much to do. Thank god Kels is there - there's a reason I made her poduction assistant. If I'm about to drown that woman will pick me back up again. This is actually happening. What the -. Now breath. One step after the other. This will work out. It will.

Something else I found - remember when I wrote a play and we did a stage production of it haha, these are some screen captures of the interview we had for Fringe TV:

Heat!

Holly freaking fuck it's hot! My first year spending August in Los Angeles - how do people stand it? It has been in the upper 80° lower 90° for what feels like forever and I'm melting! It's not the same kind of heat we know in switzerland, it's different, plus it gets really sticky here, since this has been going on for a while. Thank fucking god for the A/C! Today I've literally been doing nothing, which if partly because of the heat but also due to the fact that our freaking door is still not working and I can't get out of my apartment for the life of me. Shit. Nah, let's see what happens. WHERE IS A POOL WHEN YOU NEED ONE?!

Just don't bend

You can slam, punch, curse it - our front door. Within the last couple of days it has become more and more cricked, to the point that opening it becomes our mission of the day. The day before yesterday, the attempt with the balcony, and yesterday a good 15 minutes battle with Kali inside and me outside where we just kept banging and hitting it, but nothing happened. Now all that banging, lifting handles, pushing handles down, has left a mark on my wrist. If I wouldn't be so amused by it, I would probably cry. This is comedy stuff...

Lost to a Chicken Nugget.

Oh summer.
Yesterday was a wonderful person's birthday: Marina Ma. 20 years of Marina Ma. I'm so thankful she is in my life, not really sure she knows how much I love her. But yesterday was a wonderful day, with wonderful people, where we went down to the beach and I actually swam in the Ocean for the first time here. Yes you heard right after 2 years (which anniversary will be coming up VERY soon) I finally swam in the ocean. It was beautiful. We were all running around in the waves, running around in the sand, walking on the pier eating corn- and hot dogs. It's the family you're going back to, and that's all we need.

Something somewhat beside the point, but still: THE ROOMMATES is out. The web series created by my dear lovely friends Hunter, Ernest and Barlow. Show your support and take a look, if you like them, like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroommatesseasonone - thank you very much and have a wonderful day.

Iiiiiinternet

We have internet. Voilà, this is wonderful. I don't know what else to say. My top works too and I look stunning. Good life, good life.
<3

Cars and work and surprises.

So, my car is now my car, I still don't have internet, my bunny's not a bitch anymore, I'm doing Yoga twice a week, my top is getting fixed tomorrow, I still love my apartment, it's ridiculousely hot in LA, I hate the gas prices, I might go up to San Francisco this weekend, if I manage to unpack and pack everything beforehand, Leonies birthday is coming up, I'm out of coke, don't ever trust a salesman, I'm writing a lot of e-mails, I just got my two letters of employment, I'm now officially a DP for a podcast, I know too much about comicbooks, we're working on a web series, 'The Roommates' is out, Working a lot for Vance, having a producer is awesome, not knowing if you have your lead is not, I'm reading a lot, my apartment is still a disaster, my insurance still needs to pay me my car, my deposit things like that, I'm driving a lot (it takes me 1 hour to get to where I now work), I'm not writing enough, it's really sad, and I think that's it. My nails are still blue and I have pretty feet, because I finally got a manicure for the first time in my life.
Pan and Claudia should be in San Francisco by now, they're leaving tomorrow.
Yea, that's it. Thursday, Friday I'll be busy watching examplays (only the ones of the promising students - it's mean). Friday's also Marina's birthday.
Okay, enough enough, I need to go do groceries and have the promised movie night with Kali (but we're definitely NOT watching Drive (never ever again)).

 

Uhhh, we also had a photoshoot with vance and them, and there's a picture I adore. Anthony was wonderful to work with, so natural, and, believe it or not: I met my match when it comes to sarcasm. Try to top that:

Life without internet.

So, for the last couple of days there was no internet. Generally, not a bad thing, but suddenly checking your e-mail makes you sweat and getting in contact with someone seems nearly impossible haha - that's why I'm at the AADA library at the moment, sitting next to Annie (YEY) doing her Prompt script. I kinda miss that.
Other then that, good things happened. I am feeling really content in my new apartment, and bunny seems to like it too. I have blue nails, my life is turning blue. This morning I went to Yoga class, it was freaking amazing, only that doing the warrior, suddenly in the back row I spot Charles, Bianca and Ryan, that was slightly funny.
My clothes are all over the floor, and I need to get the freaking re-writes into the new script. I really like living with Kali, I really like living in this apartment. I get up in the morning, turn the radio on, make breakfast and start my day, something that I never really did at my old place. Luigi still hates me, but not that much anymore, plus he's terrified of bunny haha.
I think those were the basic updates.
Pan is in town, gonna show them around this afternoon. Life is good, LA is not to hot today, so perfect weather for everything.
Love what you do and you can do it.

August.

I moved out and in and all around, gonna pick up my car today and hand in my keys.
Thank god it is August. July is gone, history. No more bad news (at least not in that capacity), no more brothers missing trains, planes and any other kind of transportations, no more missing Blue Balls, no more Fruit flies, no more broken convertible roofs, no more, no more, no more, but more of writing, new beginnings and things like that, signing things to start working and make this count. It's August. Happy Birthday Switzerland.
For the next two weeks I'll probably not have internet, and then there's a surprise.
At the moment I'm spending my last 50 minutes in my old apartment, it's so empty, and suddenly it seems so small. Weird how I think It was bigger with all the furniture in it. Well, that is it.

Enjoy August, it should be rather good.