Feed on
Posts
Comments

Because I am Unemployed…

April 20th, 2006 by Wen

(psst! There’s some new stuff over at Yarnhoar if you swing that way)

I can’t stop buying things. (Sorry for the pixelation. It shouldn’t be pixelated, but it is…)

First there is this:

And then there is this:

And because nothing can EVER go as planned, there is this:

THAT is the old stove. If they could have fixed that stove for less than $500 I would have kept it. I love old Okeefe & Merrit stoves. But it couldn’t be fixed for less than that.

It also won’t fit through the door, so the maintenance guy has to come and take the swinging door off, get the stove out, and put the door back on. Hell yes I’m making him put the door back on. I love that door.

He also has to snake the drain so that the water draining from my washer doesn’t spray everywhere like it did when I ran the first load through it.

It’s like Mercury Retrograde. Only its NOT. I checked.

Posted in Squee! | 5 Comments »

This ain’t no vacation

April 16th, 2006 by Wen

Just when I think I’m going to wake up late, lay around, and generally do nothing?

Jury Duty.

Which means that I need to be at the LA Superior courthouse at 7.30am tomorrow.

I have no idea what I will do in the waiting room. I’m not allowed to bring firearms, knives, or knitting needles so my plan for shooting the place up after I give some primitive haircuts and work on my dad’s socks is completely out the window.

Speaking of knitting…. Lent is over, and the buying of yarn is so ON.

If you’re interested you can go over to Yarnhoar to check it out.

I took J* to the airport this morning so he can fly down to Costa Rica to go to work for the next two months. Yes, just as we predicted, he got a job somewhere very far away the minute I got off my long ass show. Sometimes this business is very cruel to relationships.

I’m taking my laptop to jury duty. Maybe I’ll post something about how my landlord was trying to kill all of us in the building.

Posted in Reasons why I hate LA | No Comments »

Done!

April 5th, 2006 by Wen

*maniacal laughing*

Stick a fork in me kids, because we are wrapped.*

Of course there were 5 bottles of champagne in the trailer by 10am, but we didn’t start drinking it until about midnight.

Official wrap time 12.30am (or 24.5 on your timecards) After all the goodbyes, the drinking, and the small wrapdown of the trailer (I’m wrapping that out today) I got my ass outta there about 1.30am. Soaking wet, I might add, as winter has decided to make a late appearance here in Los Angeles.

Of course the last day would not be complete if I didn’t get in a fight with someone.

My boss decided to throw me under a bus last night and told a producer on the phone that I wasn’t going to add my actor’s wigs to the inventory list . That pissy little ass clown called the producer and ratted me out while I was standing right there. Since it was the last day and I didn’t give a fuck if they fired me I went ballistic on my boss. While there were other people in the trailer, including actors (normally I save the drama for a less public time. Seriously, who needs to hear that kind of shit in a 40 x 8 ft trailer?)

Anyway there was a lot of yelling on both our parts with the liberal use of the words fucking, jackass, and bullshit thrown in at volume. It felt good. And then we made up about an hour later. Which was also good, because I didn’t really want to end the show like that.

But I would have.

So I am done. Onto sleeping, waxing, gambling, sleeping, and playing with the boy before he goes off to work in a week or so. Sigh. It’s always like that. Just when I think we’re going to have some downtime together, one of us gets a damn job.

*”wrap”- meaning the show is done for the day, or season, or forever. I can’t remember if I have ever actually heard an AD say “That’s a wrap” like you hear people say it on TV. The Ad’s and PA’s call “WRAP!” when we are done. The AD called wrap last night and then show wrapped our actors one by one, which was nice as we got to clap and cheer for each one.

I just added “fuck” to my blogger dictionary. How is it possible that fuck is not already in there?

Posted in Work | 4 Comments »

The end is near

April 2nd, 2006 by Wen

ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS…

Two more days of work… Then it’s summer vacation for me kids.

And it’s just about time, because I don’t think I could go another day without popping some jackass in the mouth.

The makeup chicks are on my last fucking nerve. The lead actress has PMS this week and has decided that she’s going to take it out on me. My boss has started working on another show. The problem with that is that he’s still on THIS show. So he’s checked out. I think he thinks I’m going to completely wrap the trailer down and put everything in storage for him.

Heh. Fat fucking chance of that. I’ll wrap the wigs for my one actor, pack my shit, and get the hell out. I wrap for no one but me.

APARTMENT TETRIS

I just moved my desk out into the living room. Which is going to take some getting used to, but I did it so that I could put a washer and dryer in my kitchen. The guy who is doing it was supposed to do it 6 weeks ago. Where was he? I don’t bloody know. I guess he was busy. Anyway, it’s just one more step towards my never leaving the house. I’m knitting a booga bag right now in anticipation of felting it in my own washer. For those of you who have no idea what I just said, it’s okay. It’s secret code for sarkasmo and mommylap. Move along, nothing to see here.

THIS CHICK NEEDS A VACATION

Boy, do I ever. Well, I am going to remedy that pronto. Next Sunday the boy and I are going to Vegas. Where I will gamble, sleep, get my groove on, eat, get massaged, and all other manner of relaxing yet naughty, naughty fun. Maybe after that I won’t be so bitter. And tired. (we worked ALL night friday. In the pouring rain. Which may explain my extreme bitterness this episode)

ok it’s 9pm and time for bed. I have a 5.42 call tomorrow. gah.

I just added fuck and PMS to my dictionary. Sweet.

Posted in Work | 4 Comments »

Oh, it’s Glamorous all right…

March 28th, 2006 by Wen

So today was a nice 15 and a half hour day. On location. In the pouring rain. Working in the rain sucks ass.

Here are the kinds of weather that totally suck for shooting outside:

Hot. So hot it makes you sick hot.
Rain. You’re tired and now you’re wet and you smell weird. And you’re sticky in the not good way.
Sandstorm.
If you’re a pale pale creature like me- Sunny.

I have so much more to say and yet my will to stay awake is nil. Later I will tell you all the stories, but right now momma’s got to get to bed.

5 more days on this show. My brain is done, my body is done. And yet I still show up.

Oh and for any of you who are interested there’s a new post over at Yarnhoar

Posted in Work | 2 Comments »

Fuck You Windows XP

March 27th, 2006 by Wen

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!

You know, it’s hard enough to make a post, but I just wrote a great entry and then XP got confused about what it was supposed to be doing and decided to eat my entry instead.

There were links and there were more links. And I even talked about my love of the trebuchet.

If you’re interested in my new knitting blog you can go here: http://yarnhoar.blogspot.com

Fuck it. I’m going to bed.

Posted in WP, XP, and other things that vex me | 1 Comment »

Keeping the faith

March 12th, 2006 by Wen

Go over to the right and sign up for my notify list! —————————>

So I am 12 days into the “No buying yarn for Lent” and I am proud to say that I have bought absolutely NO yarn.

I have however bought needles, suede mukluk bottoms, stitch holders, stitch markers, wool wash…

But seriously, no yarn.

I do go over to quite a few online yarn shops just so I can drool on my keyboard, though. (Buying yarn online is a dangerous thing. There’s nothing involved except sitting there with my credit card)

And now for something completely different…

Before I turned into a total bore by talking about yarn all the time, I used to bore the crap out of people by whining about work and how fucking tired I was.

That’s all coming to an end very very soon. 17 working days to be exact, unless I get fired first. (not that I’m planning on getting fired…) We don’t know if our show is coming back. CBS renewed everyone pretty much but us. Yet, we are consistently in the top 20, and the shows that the other big networks have put across from us have tanked. Anyway, CBS doesn’t love us. For those of you who know what show I’m working on and have been watching it there is a big story afoot… I can’t really talk about it, it’s a big secret… But *dun, dun DUNNN* someone dies.

Ha ha. Considering that someone dies in every show that’s not such big news. Anyway. Watch and you’ll see. I think it’s the last episode of the season. And if CBS doesn’t pick us up then it’ll be the last episode ever. In which case, everyone should die. But we won’t know if we’re coming back until late May. And we’ll be done shooting in April so we can’t kill anyone off…

I’m still kind of reeling from the loss of my diary. I could blame myself (and have) but that asshole over at Diary-X needs a beating too. I feel like I’ve lost my funny mojo. Of course I think I lost that when I started working 70 hours a week, but this is my diary and I can lie to myself however I see fit. You all are just along for the ride.

I have some very snarky things to say about one of the people I work with, but since this is so public (can you make blogger non-searchable? update: yes. I put the META tags in) I’ll have to wait and see how I can post it. Blogger and I are still dating as far as I am concerned, so I’ll let you know after I get some time off if I’m staying here…

One thing I do like though, is the spell check right on the entry page. I just added fucking, asshole, and snarky.

Sweet.

Posted in Drawer of mystery | 2 Comments »

Knittervention

March 2nd, 2006 by Wen

The first step in the 12 step program is admitting you are powerless over your addiction…

So for the next 40 days (ok, 39 days) of lent I am not buying any yarn.

For those of you who know me from my other diaries this may come as a head-scratcher for you. I never really talk about my knitting or the fact that I am a total yarn whore. But I am, and I really do have a problem managing my stash. I buy more yarn than clothes or shoes. Seriously. If given a choice to buy $100 worth of yarn or $100 worth of shoes I’ll be beating a path to my local yarn store (known as LYS in knit-blog land) in a hot second. Add to the mix that there are several LYS’s that carry amazing wool…

This probably wouldn’t be such a big problem if I wasn’t working on the most boring show in the world. The first two hours of my day are chaos, then after that it’s all maintenance. And working on set really is like watching paint dry.

So I knit. As do five or six other girls. The cool thing is that my knitting skills have improved dramatically (I am currently working on my first pair of socks)

The bad thing is that I also have the means and the ability to purchase way more yarn than I’ll ever need.

So for the next 39 days, no more yarn purchases.

This is going to be harder than it sounds.

Posted in Drawer of mystery | 4 Comments »

And now for my next trick…

February 24th, 2006 by Wen

The drive failure over at Diary-X?

Totally unsalvageable.

My blog?

Gone.

Still trying to decide if I’m going to stay here or go back to diaryland.

I got my first computer in 1982 when my dad brought one home from work (thanks IBM!).

I took my first computer class in 1984. What was the one thing they drilled into our heads?

Save your data. Save your data. Save your data.

I guess that was a lesson I learned 22 years too late. I’m a moron.

Anyway, I’m not going to kid myself and completely mourn the loss of all my entries. Most of them were me whining about how tired I was. But there were some cool stories in there. And there was some pretty funny shit that’s lost to the ether. I still have all the photos on a different host, but without the words what’s the point?

I do want to continue to write. So now I have to make the decision to stay here or go back to Dland. I left diaryland because of the bi-monthly server crashes (which now seem really small in comparison to losing everything) and a complete lack of tech support. Blogger seems nicer, I like the template and the multiple entries on one page blah blah blah.

Please don’t suggest Moveable type. I’ve thought about it, and right now I don’t have the time or the energy to learn it. Gah.

Ok, I’m off now to go and flog my lazy ass with a blank CD-R.

Posted in WP, XP, and other things that vex me | 4 Comments »

This may be temporary

February 14th, 2006 by Wen

Well, Diary-X has taken a massive dump. This was one of the main reasons why I left Diaryland. I’ve been squatting on this site for over a year now, so maybe it’s time I came over here all the way.

We’ll see.

The bad news about the D-X crash is that if they can’t recover the hard drive then I am completely screwed.

Why?

Because I am an asshole and I didn’t save my archive to disk when I moved over.

Gah.

Posted in WP, XP, and other things that vex me | No Comments »

« Prev -