thankfully getting a break

it’s been just over a year since i started to go to Chicago every week... it’s taking some kind of toll on me though i’m not sure what. well, financially for sure - anyone who’s going to try to leave ‘reality’ and start a career in acting has to support themselves with something. of course, that ‘something’ has to leave you the ability to go to auditions in the middle of the day, or sometimes in evenings, with a day or two of notice.... then if you get that part, you have to be able to take the time off (which could be a few days) to do that work.

yeah... so basically, i’m penniless. the woman in my life helps a lot, she more often than not covers meals and so on, and aside from giving me a great chance to prove that money is truly the basis of a relationship when she brings it up in a fight, it gives us a chance to spend some time together out & about when i’m not wasting her life away. i shouldn’t complain, i really am lucky to have her, and lucky she puts up with me. i’d have to say she’s probably tops on the list of things i’m thankful for this year.

a couple weeks ago i made the decision that i would try to do more with my time - which, includes this blog to some extent. part of that was to make sure i went to thanksgiving with the family, go early, gorge myself with food, not leave as soon as the meal was over, and spend some time with my nieces. mission accomplished. over the course of the day i stuffed myself with 3 of the plateloads you see above, it will probably be a week of starvation and cardio before i burn it down. but it was good to hang with the family, relax in the recliner next to the fire, and do nothing for a day without feeling like i’m a loser for having nothing to do.