at his job at Urban Outfitters. Folding. It's so exciting because now he's got a marketable skill. He can travel anywhere in the world and get a job. Well, if they get a shipment of sarongs for the holidays that would really open up his possibilities.
Though sarongs seem easy to fold--hip t-shirts are tougher. Little sleeves.
We get to see Zach a lot and get updates because his 200 dollar a month apartment doesn't have a shower so he comes over here for showers and to eat foods that are prepared with an oven. Another thing he doesn't have. We like him to come over...but LEO LOSES HIS MIND. He gets so excited when his big brother is here. He just sort of struts around walking in circles patting his gigantic belly and laughing.
Speaking of big bellies and working until 3AM--I still have my job. And it's gotten better. I've realized how a lot of people on the staff don't do that much and so I'm feeling much much better. And the moments where I am completely confused and have no idea what is going on are getting fewer and fewer. Now I'm getting to that great place where I don't have as many self-absorbed panic moments of being new and not being able to keep up...because I'm spending most of my time completely entertained by the personalities and dramas going on around me. The creators of the show are a married couple and my lord, they are entertaining.
Yesterday C (i can't use her real name so I won't be sued), the female creator---yelled at her husband D after he asked her what page she was on the script we were working on. She screamed 'WHAT AM I--MAPQUEST!!? STOP ASKING ME WHERE WE ARE ALL THE TIME!!" She also does this thing--that I love--where whenever D interrupts her she screams 'OKAY!!! THAT'S IT!! THAT'S THE 11TH TIME YOU'VE INTERRUPTED ME!!! NUMBER 11!!!" and it's always the 11th time. always. and she screams at him for being so 'fucking crabby". "what's your problem?! what's so fucking hard in your life you're so fucking crabby!? Go home if you're in such a bad mood!!"
I love it. I love any drama that doesn't involve me. I've said that to my fellow writers on the show and they always say "oh...you say that now. Just wait. This is NOTHING. " which makes it exciting too because I never know what's going to happen when a fight starts---is this going to be THE ONE THAT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME?
not a boring job.
plus--just to really throw it in the Indy folks faces--the weather here has been in the lower 70's and so lovely. I walk around Paramount watching movies getting shot--TV shows rehearsing (Glee shoots there and I watch them practicing their dances) and see the guests for Dr. Phil outside the studio looking sick waiting to go on his show. It's made me not hate Hollywood. I guess since I've finally gotten a steady/temporary job it's all looking much more attractive. And fun.
the job is still week to week but I'm just going to assume it's going to go on. And I'll be able to take time off when I need to for jobs and travel.
Now to the important stuff. Leo. Leo is doing great. He spends his day with Jeff..which is pretty sweet. Jeff is deeply involved with the nanny's on the playground and knows all the kids and has been helping Leo play more with other kids. Leo walks really well and they go on long walks up and down the sidewalk in front of our place. Very sweet. Jeff does refer to Leo as being a 'bruiser' which I don't like and pretend he's wrong. Bruiser makes it sound like Leo is violent--which Jeff says is not what he means by calling him that. He says that he means that Leo is big and a big personality and sort of stomps his way into the middle of things. Which to me is more star quality than 'bruiser'.
I hope everyone is doing well...since having Leo I've noticed that Christmas songs have been giving me mini-emotional breakdowns. The dumbest lines "peace on earth..." and I'm like "yes...Leo...peace on earth...can it be?" i guess it's not a dumb line-I just mean the SIMPLE lines. I love all the songs that I'd gotten so sick of because of having to do bad medleys of them in my swing choir in high school. But "chestnuts roasting by an open fire..."? What a beautiful and sweet and peaceful image. And Leo has never even had a chestnut....I could just sob.
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