Sometimes our lives seem almost magical. . There is so much happening in our lives right now.. yet somehow it all seems pretty calm and still.   Calm and still is a funny way to describe 60 people showing up at your house at 7:30 to begin shooting a movie.. but that’s what happened this morning.     By 9 AM, the house was full of cast and crew hauling lights, hooking up generators, drinking coffee, putting on  makeup, rehearsing, setting up props, etc.. Our house is going to be the setting for scenes in the bedrooms of the characters Vita (Annaleise) , Sara(Sophia)  and Daria (Ruby) . Over the past 3 days Debra and crew have transformed three rooms in our house  into the quintessence of teenage girl chic. It’s amazing the attention to detail they have in setting the mood for these three different characters.

 

I did my best to stay out of the way as they set up and began shooting.  I Had decided to take a half work day because Diane and I are headed back to Omega to do another seminar ( Deepak Chopra  ) this weekend.. I had a morning full of conference calls… which I was on.. but kept having to go outside to talk.. it seemed every time I had something to say it was ‘QUIET ON THE SET !’ (they really say that !) .   Here are some pictures from the morning shoot..

 

Merideth getting coiffed

Max post coiffing.. looks pretty cool this way

Vita’s room

Ready for the shoot

Willow and Ruby

Controling the light in the room

Andrew getting dolled up…

The result

Abotu to shoot

Look at all the gear !

 

 

It would have been fun to  stay and see the rest of the day’s shooting .. but Diane and I had to scoot in order to make the 7:30 beginning  of the seminar here in Reinbeck.  As we were running out, Raye’s mom Mary , uncle Bill and her garndmother showed up. I think Bill and I have a certain similar look.. what do you all think ?

Seperated at birth ?

We made it just in time to see the beginning of the seminar. There were tons of people checking in at the same time as we did.. so we barely made dinner before it closed.. The food was absolutely wonderful and all vegetarian.. they have one of the finest hot sauce collections I’ve every seen.. We wolfed down a big plate of homemade Indian food and went to the opening talk. I can already tell that I’m going to enjoy it. Chopra is a very interesting man.. well read, very thoughtful, and very funny.   I’ll  pass on any nuggets I find really good.

 

 I apologize in advance for the shorts posts I may make for these next 2 days.. bandwidth is hard to come by here.. and I want to spend the time listening rather than typing.. I’ll do my best.   More tomorrow.. G’nite all.. Namaste  Sam !

 

-jc

 

ps.  Here are some of the bumperstickers I saw in the parkign lot of Omega.. Not many Republicans here  I’m afraid 🙂