moved

wow this still exists. i moved: www.evyathome.blogspot.com. come see me there, i post daily.

40

It was 40 years ago man set foot on the moon. Makes one feel so small, so glad to be a creation of God.

another particular

you have not been in production until you have hired a male stripper to play a practical joke on someone on set.

particulars of production life

I dunno if it's the particulars of my job that woke me up this morning at 5am, or if it's the death of Michael Jackson. Probably not the latter, yet here I am 6am when I'm supposed to be on set by 11am and I've already showered and started my oatmeal.

I don't really like talking about my job because when I do it feels like I'm bragging or name dropping. I work on commercials and sometimes yes, there is a celebrity spokesperson and yes, sometimes we get all access to cool places like The LA Coliseum or The Edison or an entire abandoned building. But there are nuances of my job that interest even me.

If you have a 4am calltime and you work a 17 hour day, it is a bad idea to wear a thong.

Every single morning you wake up before you're supposed to, you will have a stomach ache. It feels moderately like nausea but it's just this pain in your stomach that will go away once you've had some food. I've gotten these stomach aches years before I was married so I know it ain't THAT.

There is such a thing as a stupid question. Whoever says otherwise is a big fat liar.

Even though you emphasis the importance of having a PA call you from a location where they're out on a run, they will forget to call and you'll have to call them.

No matter how prepared you are, at a crucial moment, the one thing they need, you will not have in any of your kits.

When picking up coffee, never put the coffee on the seats, always on the floor of the car with the openings all facing into the middle of the drink holder.

After a long shoot day your nose will be full of so much snot that you will have to blow your nose twice.

It is inevitable that on a sunny day you will get pink even if you're sitting inside of a motorhome and are wearing sunblock.

My job is basically 60 people all having a personal mission and job and needing things from me and believing they are my most important priority.

When extremely exhausted, I have a two question in a row limit, after that I start tuning the person out.

Catering will never have cooked tofu.

And Michael Jackson... I can't believe he's dead. I know that later in life he's been seen as that "wacko jacko" and all those accusations are not to be ignored. But I think we're sadded party because of the sudden shock of his death and partly because a part of our youth, or more particularly, memories our youth were wrapped around that man and now he's gone. We remain, his music remains.

san francisco

Welp, I haven't posted for weeks and now that I am posting it's about something that happened months ago. So relevant, I know. (images are from restaurants we visited via the web)

I finally uploaded my 10 pictures from Matt & my trip to San Francisco in April. Here's the link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/emailevy/SanFrancisco09?pli=1#

It was a really great trip. It makes all the difference in the world to stay in the city you want to sight see for an extended period, in our case, four days. We've been to the city before but never at our own pace and never with the amount of time we had. 

Bad part of trip: The hotel itself was fine, but the location was terrible. It was in the city up the street from the ballet and opera houses and city hall but the surrounding areas were shady crap. Parking the car every night was expensive so next time, I'm making sure the hotel has free parking included and you know, HAS parking. 

Great part of trip: We slept in EVERY morning and still had time to do everything we'd wanted to each day. Why? Because we picked things we wanted to do and then did them according to location. And also because we had the greatest tool known to traveler: my iPhone. That baby's GPS never got us lost, we got from point to point quick and with the restaurant apps I had of Yelp and iWant we always ate at places that were highly rated and didn't disappoint. FOOD was the most important thing on any trip now for me. I'm all about the local food and these were places I'd recommend any day and would visit if I went to San Fran again:

La Boulange de Hayes (got there just in time for brunch and a veggie frittata, oh my lord, YUM)

Jeanty at Jack's (french and expensive but historical)

Yank Sing (someone from work recommended it and their dim sum, out of control good)

Crown & Crumpet (a tea salon with the greatest tea you may ever have, warning: very girly)

So if you go to San Francisco, be sure to grab some yummy grub. 

slumdog

It was a movie that after winning so many awards and having everyone I know tell me it was great and I'd love it and all that, I just couldn't bring myself to go see it. Now that it's on DVD, it's been sitting on our TV stand waiting for us to watch it. Fine, let's watch it. 

As we were watching the movie a 4.7 earthquake hit southern california. No, I'm not kidding. We were interrupted a few times for phone calls from concerned parents and siblings. Yes, we felt it, yes, it was lengthy, yes, I am going to work tomorrow. And now back to the movie....It was good. Real good. I won't explain anything about it because no one explained it to me, just watch it, you'll like it. And if you don't finish the movie and thank Jesus that you are not an orphan living in Mumbai and that you live in Southern California, earthquakes included, then you missed a little bit of the point of the movie. Be thankful. I know I am. 

Now to find the cats... 

Julie & Julia!!

YES! I read maybe five books a year and this was one of my favorite reads from last year. Its about a girl who cooks and blogs her way through Julia Child's "Mastering the art of French Cooking" for a year and gets a book published and now it's a movie!
It's a triumphant story for women and bloggers everywhere but the movie actually looks terrific and has my two favorite actresses: Meryl Streep & Amy Adams. Its like Devil Wears Prada if the Devil was nice, funny, never met her apprentice, and was 6' tall and cooked amazingly.
I am particularly excited for this movie because it's about cooking with the aide of a cookbook and that's how I've made every family meal contribution for the past year and some change since the Barefoot Contessa came into my life.

And without Julia, there would have been no Ina so eat up.