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I'm a Scorpio, so sometimes I fear change, but it's finally time to start a "real" blog instead of having a Friendster blog where only Friendster members can leave comments. I think I imported all my previous post to the new blog, but I can't figure out how to publish it yet. We'll see...
So, I have a new location where you can read about my bullshit:
It's Saturday December 30th, and I just wanna mention real quick that I really appreciate the emails, voice mails, cards and comments from friends around the world wishing me a speedy recovery after my ACL Replacement knee surgery last week. I've been either to drugged up on Vicodin, or already back at work to make up for time missed of work. My recovery is going very well so far, and hopefully by summer I'll be able to be back at playing sports.
It's been a strange year. Shoah Foundation ended, went on unemployment, many auditions, but no bookings, not even a call back, hurt knee in May, months of Physical Therapy to get ready for a month in Europe where Fishering met friends & family, back in August started Extra work on TV shows which was boring, interesting, exhausting and fun at the same time, a horrible month and a half working as a host at a restaurant, and since late October steady employment
, mid December moved in with Fishering, and knee surgery over the Holidays.
For 2007? Recovery from surgery! Getting my health back to where it was, which means lots of physical therapy, and exercises. Around summer trying to get back in shape after a year not being able to work out because of the knee. Starting February I'll get Health Insurance through work, which will save me $270 a month! So hopefully I can recover in 2007 financially from a very bad 2006 fiscal year. Lets support our troops, but not the war, and lets hope soldiers can stop fighting and go home. Work on raising awareness on Darfur, and please, hope for an impeachment or some kind of miracle that can end the horrible leadership in this country!
Acting? I will always be an actor. It's though with a full time job, and no savings. It will be a while before I can start classes again due to having no money, and my knee recovery. I know I will get there. Hopefully I will be back auditioning in a couple of weeks, and I'll try to stay positive, but it's getting really hard to stay focused.
I wish everyone all the best for 2007! Party on the 31st, but also on the 1st. Another year, another chance for lots of love, good health, wonderful friends, and like my friend Corri always tells me when its a financial hard time: "I have plenty of money, and more is coming"!
Live your dream! Live your life every day like its the last day, and be nice to people, cause what goes around comes around! Just live your life!
Love to all!
One of my favorite 2006 pics: Amsterdam Central Station. Copyright by Fishering
Natalie Portman REALLY is one of my favorite actors out there!
Might not wanna watch this at work, or at least not too loud!
It was Coca Cola who invented Santa Claus, right? Or was it Hallmark?
Surround yourself with beautiful music!
Everything went well yesterday, and I have a new ACL, and my Meniscus has been fixed. I felt remarkable well, and normal yesterday, and besides the fact that I have a huge brace on my right leg, and I move on crutches, everything seems normal. I'm not really loopy or out of it by the Vicodin, and I'm taking it on schedule, so the pain has not been that bad yet. Today a machine was brought over where my leg is now in, and slowly being bent. Everyday it has to go up for about 5%, and this will speed up the recovery.
I guess the only negative thing so far is that my anesthesiologist called this morning to see how I was doing, and to inform me that everything went well except that half way through the surgery there either was a glitch in the heart monitor machine or my heart stopped for about 5 seconds. He and my surgeon were not really sure what happened. How does that make me feel? Yeah, a little worried!
To be continued...
Leaving for the hospital now. First step to get my knee back to where I can run, play tennis and work out again...in a couple of months or so. Now first the surgery!
Today I had to start taking my pain medication, which you need to start 2 days before surgery. Thursday morning at 7 AM I have to check in at Cedar Sinai for the ACL Replacement Surgery on my right knee.
This is what will be done on Thursday
I'm glad the move is over, and now I'm walking as much as I can to enjoy my pre-op condition. Yesterday I did some shopping with Gift Cards I received (it's the best quilt free shopping: H&M was happy to see me). Tonight I have a Networking/Holiday Party at the home of the Dutch Consul General for Arts and Culture, tomorrow I'm planning on going to work really early to be able to leave early and go hiking one more time with Sierra at Runyon Canyon. I'm now not going to look at the estimated times of recovery, because I'm going to set my mind to a speedy but responsible recovery. Of course I will follow my surgeon's and Physical Therapist instructions, but I will do everything in my power to get back to being active again asap!
It was nice living in Beverly Hills. I had the most famous zip code, 90210, the best neighbors (and the worst), lots of space for Sierra, many play mates for Sierra, always plenty street parking, beautiful apartment, and just a very nice neighborhood.
But I have no problem now of having left that place. I spend many weeks sorting through my stuff, the last week living in a empty place, cause the furniture of my room mate was taken out last Monday, and I spend a couple of hours cleaning yesterday to secure the entire deposit back. It is the end of some great time at that place, excellent parties, was able to get Sierra, met P. two months after moving in, and always had lots of laughs with Kyle.
I started a new chapter and I'm very excited and happy. P. and I settled in our place together. Its the first time for both of us, living with your partner. Of course moving is stressful, and there was some bickering, because we were both exhausted and wanted the move to be over. Friday night was the first place we slept at our place! On the ground cause the furniture was to be moved on Saturday. Saturday morning we rented a truck and had some friends help us move. I was pretty much useless with the big heavy stuff because of my knee. Vanguard, A & C+better half M. from P.'s old house, Almost Married J., were amazing and we are so thankful that they helped us, and then they are truly such good friends! Just as CTo is, cause she gave us a beautiful kitchen table and chairs which look very nice in our kitchen!
Sierra was very sad and upset the last week or so with my packing, and all the furniture leaving last week. She would cry a lot, loud, and weeping very softly...very sad. She is now the sweetest and happiest do ever! She is doing so good so far! She had no problem adapting to the new place. We both her a nice new bed (a huge dog pillow), and she is probable just emotionally drained by the move. Hey, moving is one of the most stressful things, right up there with weddings, funerals, and new jobs, and I'm sure it was a big ordeal for Sierra too.
We are now pretty much settled in. The place looks so nice! We still have to put our clothes in closets, pictures and art on the walls, putting food in the cabinets, and actually still buying groceries, and arrange our closets so boxes are on the tops shelfs, out of sight.
The apartment feels already very homie: nice light fixtures, Christmas tree, candles, and each other. The beautiful views are just spectacular: this morning we woke up with the most amazing sunrise! We are facing the east, and are up pretty high, so its just right! Out of our kitchen window we have a big tree to look at. the living room has a big palm tree to look at, and the bedroom have two palm trees, and a nice view of downtown LA.
Just to recap: we are very happy with the apartment and moving in together!
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| Brad Pitt in "Babel" |
'Babel' Leads Golden Globes With 7 Nods
Nominees for the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.:
Picture, Drama: "Babel," "Bobby," "The Departed," "Little Children," "The Queen"
Actress, Drama: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"; Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"; Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Sherrybaby"; Helen Mirren, "The Queen"; Kate Winslet, "Little Children"
Actor, Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"; Peter O'Toole, "Venus"; Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"; Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"
Picture, Musical or Comedy: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," "The Devil Wears Prada," "Dreamgirls," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Thank You for Smoking"
Actress, Musical or Comedy: Annette Bening, "Running With Scissors"; Toni Collette, "Little Miss Sunshine"; Beyonce Knowles, "Dreamgirls"; Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"; Renee Zellweger, "Miss Potter"
Actor, Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"; Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"; Aaron Eckhart, "Thank You for Smoking"; Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Kinky Boots"; Will Ferrell, "Stranger than Fiction"
Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, "Babel"; Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"; Emily Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada"; Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"; Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"
Supporting Actor: Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland"; Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"; Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"; Brad Pitt, "Babel"; Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"
Director: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers"; Clint Eastwood, "Letters from Iwo Jima"; Steven Frears, "The Queen"; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"; Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"
Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"; Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"; Patrick Marber, "Notes on a Scandal"; William Monahan, "The Departed"; Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Foreign Language: "Apocalypto," USA; "Letters from Iwo Jima," USA/Japan; "The Lives of Others," Germany; "Pan's Labyrinth," Mexico; "Volver" Spain
Animated Film: "Cars," "Happy Feet," "Monster House"
Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil"; Clint Mansell, "The Fountain"; Gustavo Santaolalla, "Babel"; Carlo Siliotto, "Nomad"; Hans Zimmer, "The Da Vinci Code"
Original Song: "A Father's Way" from "The Pursuit of Happyness"; "Listen" from "Dreamgirls"; "Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby"; "The Song of the Heart" from "Happy Feet"; "Try Not to Remember" from "Home of the Brave"
This morning I got an email from a friend who was surfing for porn (hey, everybody does it!), and found a Brazilian site with, uhm, aroused naked guys, and a picture of me, fully dressed, but just my face. This picture was taken just before summer by my good friend Chasing Mercury, and no permission was granted to post this picture which my friend has a copyright on.
I guess is should see it as a compliment, but to appear on a porn site is not something I ever had an ambition for! Well, not without being paid for it:)...
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