On the grind.

Just a little over 15 days into the New Year, and my new management company is pushing me hard. They got me an audition on Friday that went well. So well that I am the casting directors pick on avail, I just have to be cleared by network. It would shoot Friday and Monday day. I had headshots scheduled on Friday, but that's up in the air depending if I book the show or not. And if the day couldn't get better, Helen came home early from work and cooked a great meal(as always). Shortly after she came home, I got a call for another audition tomorrow for a commercial from my managers office for tommorrow at 11. Color me impressed.
I have also changed a lot about my auditioning technique, after some pretty big personal A-Ha! moments in the last couple of months just before the New Year. I was anxious to see if changing techniques and altering myinitial approach would work. Getting that call from my Agency today and being put on avail was a huge triumph for me and completely invigorating as well. It was also a confirmation that I had more up my sleeve than even I thought. Its incredibly hard not to be hugely optimistic about the year when things seem to be clicking. Not just professionally, but personally. Herc is getting older, and so much fun and way less intense. Its like the fog of fatigue has lifted to reveal my beautiful family.
It was my birthday on Sunday, and what a perfect day it was. We went to Malibu and I flew my big delta kite. I took something back to the car, and was walking back when I looked up and saw my wife and boy playing. That moment is one I used to see in every cliche "Life-flashing-before-my-eyes" movie sequence I have seen. I used to dismiss it, I never will again. California dreaming, Californication, In to the great wide open, or whatever it may be can seem like a dream.