And another one

Ok, well, I once again had another experience of spontenaity. I'm don't think you are surprised :) I designed this tattoo back when I got my arm one but wasn't sure where I wanted it and when I would do it. I guess a couple nights ago was the night. Sari and I were out for the evening celebrating our show and business with dinner at a cute little French restaurant. On the way home we decided to stop by the tattoo parlor spontaneously. We had done this before both wanting tattoos and didn't get them only for me to go back later and now this time guess who was the only one that left with one. You guessed it! The heart is larger than the other two on purpose. The meaning of my newest permanent expression is: "Faith, Hope and Love and the Greatest of these is Love." Yes it hurt and still does :)

Pondering....

So the last few weeks I have been noticing things in my life starting to repeat themselves because I have been living here now for over a year! You know..remembering moving in, remembering someones birthday happening who I didn't well last year but now is a good friend of mine, hearing about the river being dyed green for St Patty's Day, etc.....Weird! I was wondering why these things seemed SO noticeable to me and just realized yesterday that it's because this is the first time in almost 5 years that I lived in the same city for at least a year and have even had the chance to see things repeat themselves! WHOA! Sorta strange....didn't think it would be Chicago and not sure how I feel about that but while the filming is still happening, I won't be goin anywhere except hopefully traveling around the world!

Big Shoot Weekend!

Gettin ready to start on Sunday

Filming grandpa stir fryin

Preppin, plannin, directing, and workin ;)

Behind the scenes

The Crew...I'm tryin to hold myself up...this was during the last half hour of our 6 1/2 hour shoot on Sunday

All the food

Cast and crew :)

Me and Dave, my camera man

Producers, Editors, Talent, Creators, Camera man...CREW......Thyme 2 Travel Productions and TMK Productions

Me and Sari....Chinese style!

Saturday and Sunday were our biggest film shoots for the pilot we are creating. It was a very long, draining, but super fun weekend! We shot on Saturday from 9:30 to 2:30 and Sunday from 2 til 8:30......Sunday was definitely the hardest by far. Lots of food stuff, timing, energy required, and just alot going on over all. Funny cause I only remember about half of it...Guess i was "in the zone". Everything went great though and I think we got some really good stuff to work with. Kinda crazy how you will only see about 15 minutes of that 11 hours of film...........it's all a part of the biz ;) Forgot to take out the camera and take some pics outside and in the market on Saturday...I guess we were all a little busy :) Someone was kind enough to take pics around the set on Sunday though so we could share a little bit of the experience. So surreal....super fun....very excited...and lots of hopes for a great show that some network will be interested in one day soon. Probably won't have it all put together until early summer but you will be sure to hear from me! Stay tuned :)

Catching up....Austin, sickness, but ready to film!

Rapping for the talent show......our group wrote a song called "Green Poo" (all about eating lots of greens and all the movements that were happening for everyone that week ) It was definitly the hit of the show ;)

My girls......Steph from Naperville store and Vanessa from St Louis store

Me and my Tess!!!

I'm getting really bad OR shall I say I have been having a hard time finding time to write on here as much as I REALLY want to! Went to Austin, TX for work right after I wrote the last post and was there for a week. It was GREAT! Went to a nutrition retreat where, for 6 days, I got up every morning to workout, was feed three delicious PLANTSTRONG meals everyday, got to sit and listen to nutrition lectures by some of THEE top nutrition and health experts in America dealing with REAL food (Caldwell Esselstyn and Colin Campbell) and some fun activities. Was very busy and exhausting but pretty cool. Then after the retreat my friend Tess came up from Kingsville to see me for a night. Haven't seen here for over a year and we had a great time visiting, had a couple drinks, got our car towed and walking along the river trails. It was so strange cause Austin definitely doesn't feel like Texas. It is definitely more like Santa Cruz without the ocean :) No wonder I thought it was great! Upon my return, I unfortunately got sick for a week and a half with a sinus infection and bronchitis. Damn plane rides! Plus it probably didn't help that I ate EXTREMELY clean and healthy for 6 days and then went out and had a few margaritas and minimal sleep. Always have to be on the run too! Finally got some meds because I HAD to be ready for this last weekend when we did the filming for the largest portion of the pilot Sari and I are creating. Yikes!