The son has been positive for Covid for 12 consecutive days now. Is that a record or what? God DAMN. He is starting to feel like he’s gonna pull it out of the ditch though so that’s the right direction.
It’s like second Christmas around here because on Christmas night I went online and hit all the “ after Christmas“ sales and Mama did a good job! First, I will never ever need another candle and that’s pretty hard for me to do. Makeup? Yes, Ma’am. I’m set for the year. The Baby girl, YM, got sent a ton of everything SOFT. If it’s cozy, she loves it. She’s good to go. That makes me feel joy.
I think I filled that empty spot in my heart for awhile :-)
So, here’s a story…
I had a close group of friends in my middle teens. They were all boys and they’d been friends since grade school. We had a foster kid who was friends with them which is how I met Rob, if you think back, Rob came to ask me to marry him, everyone always thought that we’d be married someday and so did we. However, when he showed up I was married and about 5-6(?) months pregnant with OM.
All the guys were theatre and band kids. I transferred from where I was going to school into their high school when I was 15. I was way too shy to be a theater kid. But I sure did go to a ton of their plays.
One of the boys ( who happens to live a few minutes from me currently, small world!) called me one day at the last of summer to tell me that he was going to audition for a movie. He asked if I wanted to go with him ( for the record, this is the boy who drove out to pick my up when I’d ran away from home, in two feet of snow, and called him from a pay phone in the restaurant/bar I’d end up working at just a few years later) so I said I’d go. I was there for moral support. There’s no way that I’d audition for a movie.
We get to what was then, I have no idea if it’s even there now, Cavanaugh’s (sp?) Inn at the park… Also ironically, two life chapters away from then, everyone I was friends with and roommates with worked at that hotel. I was always a plus one to their work parties….
So he gets a sheet of paper to fill out and a woman hands me one too. I declined it but she insisted and as someone who was too shy to function, I took it and filled it out and turned it in.
Friend goes in to audition and says that it went well, I figure if we hurry out I’ll be gone when they call my name. Then they call me. I wanted to just walk out but my friend literally pushed me forward and I was taken into the conference room. There were several people sitting behind tables. They asked if I had anything prepared. I said I did not. They asked me why not and I told them what I’ve just told you. That’s it. Just me telling them that this was all a mistake but there I was.
They took notes, or doodled, I really had no idea. Then they took my picture and thanked me.
I left the room and my friend asked how it went. I told him that I was pretty sure they thought that o was an idiot. Thanks for the heads up that I was supposed to “Have something prepared”I totally would have run away if I’d known.
Two weeks later I get a call and I’m asked if I’m “still interested” in being in the movie. The people behind the tables, whoever they were, had noted that I was “cute, small town and funny.”
So I’m in Vision Quest. It was an amazing experience. Conveniently part of it was filmed at my high school, North Central. I was given all the days off school. There was a lot of waiting around. A lot of catered food and I got to have costume changes. I was paid a flat $100 bucks per day.
But what about my friend? He didn’t get it. I wasn’t anything special. Just an extra. But he was big mad about it for a minute.
It is a special memory though. My brush with fame. When Stranger Things came out I told my kids that, Hey! I was in that movie with that guy! “ Papa” Matthew Modine. I got some cool points for that.
Night,
Me
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