Life in the last few months.....

There is so much that has happened in my life since my first few blogs..... I have so much to say and I want to say it all. However, I have not made the time to sit down each day like I promised myself and write on this blog site. So much has happened since the beginning of the year. Since my first blog....


I started the New Year off, at my house in Southern California, with friends and the new cat, 'Bosco' that we acquired right after Christmas. At work I went through the stresses of dealing with inventory. A thorn in my side, but I made new friends over those weeks leading up to inventory. I even went to a Clippers Basketball game. They won! I don't remember much else about that night other than that.

I made more friends.... friends through friends. I was fortunate enough to make friends with many of the Transportation Guys that were working on a new pilot episode called "Legally Mad."

I am still enjoying the wonderful aspects of my job and all my coworkers. I am also enjoying the interesting people I get to meet.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but my New's Years Resolution was to actually speak to one of the many people that I happen to run into while wondering around on the Warner Bros. lot. And I succeeded. Not long after I made this promise to myself, so to speak (pun intended), I actually said words, instead of my usual head nod or weak smile. I said a word, one word, but I was so excited that I actually made words, that I didn't stop there. I spoke to the next person I ran into on the lot. I said "Hi." That's it..... Yes, it is ridiculous, but after spending so many of my years blushing and turning bright red, when I either ran into a crush or ran into a celebrity, this was a big step for me.

I have also become much more confident and definitely less shy since I've been living down here; since I got the job. I start up conversations with people I meet on the lot. I want to know what they do.

I "network" while on the lot. I've met many interesting people. Most recently, I met an Academy Award-winning Editor. How cool is that? He is such a nice man. He even invited me to come watch him edit. I would love to be an editor. The editing classes I took in college really fascinated me. I went so far as to buy Final Cut Pro (which, unfortunately I still have not really used because I don't have anything to play with).

President Obama

Today President Obama went to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno at NBC Studios, which is about a block away from where I work. The President of the United States was a block away from my work. And I didn't see him. I tried to get a glimpse after work, with a few of my fellow workers but alas, he had already left the building.

ER's final day of shooting

It was a sad day on the Warner Bros. lot on March 18. The end of an era. A medical drama era that in the beginning, no one was sure if a show called "ER" would survive past its first season.

Fifteen years later, it is over.

There seemed to be a somber presence throughout the lot, as many stars of the cast sat outside their trailers and appeared to be reminiscing about the show. Crew members walked outside the stage, extras in their hospital gowns paced outside, anticpating their call. And many WB workers made their ways over to Stage 11, in hopes of a glimpse of a Scrub-clad doctor or a white-coat actor.

A show that brought George Clooney into the spotlight, turned him into a leading man and into a movie star. A rough around the edges Emergency Room pediatrician with salt-n-pepper hair by the name of Dr. Doug Ross. A womanizer. The ladies man, whom eventually would settle down and have a couple of kids with Nurse Carol Hathaway.

A show that introduced us to a young Noah Wyle a.k.a Dr. John Carter, whom started as a surgical med student under Dr. Peter Benton and went onto become a fantastic TV doctor. One that went through many ups & downs including being stabbed by a psychotic patient, that lead to drug addiction. Noah Wyle left the show after 10 seasons, but he reappeared once or twice before coming back for ER's finale 15th season.

Audiences watched as many beloved doctors exited the show in many ways. From death by helicopter (Dr. Romano) to death by brain tumor (Dr. Greene), to quitting and moving to Washington (Dr. Ross & Nurse Hathaway), to trying something new. I was teary eyed by the end of the episode when Dr. Greene passed away. Though I wasn't to upset to see Dr. Romano bite the dust. What can I say, I didn't care for the doctor too much.

I was fortunate enough to get a job at Warner Bros. Studios before the end of ER's run. I began working in October and I was lucky enough to be able to see some of the shows' final episodes being filmed over at the famed "Ambulance Bay." On a sad note, not long after the show finished wrapping, the "Ambulance Bay" started to get torn down.

In the beginning...

Let me tell you... Life in Granada Hills, well, in Southern California has not been boring. From the "run-in" with the Highway Patrol, to the Fire Evacuations to the cool job I now occupy at Warner Bros. Studios; I have yet to be totally and completely bored. New & exciting things have happened pretty much every week. And the fact that for the past 4 months I have been the sole female in a house full of guys.... well, what can I say, I have been entertained (though its a rare occurrence that I see more than one of them a day).

Yes, there were some lonely days when I first moved down here, when I was unemployed and didn't want to do anything besides hang in my room & watch movies because I didn't have the funds to do ANYTHING!!!!