Every Night is a Late Night
My schedule back in Seattle was a simple one, get up at 6am, shower, etc., head to work around 7:30am, be at work by 8am, nanny till 4pm, hit the gym/run (if I wasn’t too busy, the last few months I was super busy and stressed I rarely hit the gym), chat with my dad for a bit, then head to bed by 11pm. Here my schedule is completely off, but not on purpose, it just so happens that everyone in LA does EVERYTHING at 11pm or midnight…
If I really got to choose, since I’m a morning person, I would love to get up by 7am and go on a morning jog - the weather in LA is so nice, even when it’s cloudy and raining, I can run outside and it not be freezing, like Seattle. Then I would come back to my tiny, but cute little studio, do a few workouts/exercises, shower, eat breakfast, then start work. Go on a few auditions, whenever during the day that they might happen, hang out with a few friends around 7pm, hit the sack by 11pm. But, life in LA is not like that… at all. I could still get up early to go jog, but I’m so exhausted from going to bed at 2:30 and 3am every morning that not even 8am sounds good (what happened to me?!).
Last night, my good old friend Chris had called me to meet up with him and a few Fangoria people (to whom I wanted to meet, since The Taken (www.whoarethetaken.com), a film I was in was all over Fangoria). We met up for the midnight release and screening of the new Blue Ray DVD of Ghost Busters. I do not believe I have seen Ghost Busters since I was maybe 8 or 9? I cannot believe what a genius Bill Murray is and how freakin’ hilarious he and the movie was, if you haven’t seen it recently, watch it! I was laughing my ass off throughout the whole movie, and I never remembered that as a kid, I remember it being slightly scary.
My mom decided to go with me to the screening last minute. She couldn’t understand why the Fangoria people were going to be there because she thought it was a comedy, but again, I was like – Mom, there are ghosts, it’s a scary movie. I did not realize until I watched it that she was right, it was a comedy. While watching Ghostbusters I kept thinking to myself, wow, this movie was written before its time, but then I realized, no, I was just a little girl (actually a baby when it came out) and it went over my head because I was a kid watching this adult movie.
Ghostbusters did not end till around 2:15am, and when it was over we all went into the lobby of the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills (beautiful theatre, which I hear is closing down, NOOOOOO!) where my mom chatted with the Fangoria lady (I didn’t catch her name, oops) about how Ghostbusters was playing on TV all day today. While she was busy chatting, Chris and I were chatting as well. It was nice to catch up with him and to see him again. He quickly introduced me to Scott from Fangoria, and they had to take off. The poor Fangoria people had been up and out all day promoting this film coming out on Blue Ray as well as the E3 convention.
My mom and I took off back to my apartment and as we drove through Hollywood I realized how much I missed it there. We drove a new way back to my apartment and I was FINALLY getting it. I now remember how to get to the 101, 170, 134, 5, Ikea, Target, Costco, Mall, Ralphs (which is just right down the street), my bank, laundry mat (across the street), etc. It’s nice to know where I’m going and to feel home! I love living in LA…
