I can't believe that October starts tomorrow. This month has flown by! I started my Christmas shopping this weekend. I found a deal on something that I could not pass up. Jason and I were discussing his flights tonight and I realized that we have 7 more weeks out here until we pack up and go home. We have been here seven weeks already. It feels like we just got here. He has three more trips out here before we return home.
In the spirit of trying to blog more, I'll try to share what is rolling around in my head. Church today was great. I watched our Houston church online this morning as I got ready to go to church here. I heard two totally different sermons, but was completely blessed by both of them. In the L.A. sermon, I was really challenged in my walk with God. The pastor in L.A. is usually pretty deep and it takes me a few days to formulate my thoughts. My statement above sounds simplistic, but what I am thinking about goes much deeper. I need to think about it more, maybe listen to the podcast...
In other news, my daughter was on set all day yesterday finishing a short film. I started thinking about what I have learned about being on set in the last year. We were filming on location yesterday as opposed to a sound stage. Locations are interesting because you have outside noises that disrupt filming such as an airplane flying overhead, a car driving past, the neighbor's dog barking, or the guy on a bike who rides past everyday at 5:00 pm blaring a trumpet. I am not kidding about the guy on a bike. When we filmed in San Pedro last January, he came by EVERYDAY at 5:00. It got to be a joke. Also, when you are in a house, you play musical chairs as they turn shots around. My daughter is usually in my eye line and always in earshot. Since I am so close, I usually am moving a lot as they finish one camera angle and move to the next. Sometimes, they set up a monitor where I can watch what the camera sees. That is pretty cool. The air conditioning is turned off while filming because it is too noisy. That is fine in January in San Pedro, but can get hot on a day like yesterday when the temperature was around 100. Yesterday, they ran the A/C until the last possible minute and then cut it off. Sound stages are cold and dusty, period. My daughter shot a commercial on a huge sound stage at one of the studios. It was warm outside and freezing inside unless you were under the lights, then you sweat. Since I am a parent and not an actor, I layer on the clothes. I have no idea where God is taking us with my daughter's acting, but it has been an interesting experience.
Goodbye September, Hello October.
"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for."
Hebrews 11:1-2
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