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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Follow up blog
..So, yeah, I am ashamed to say the siren song of Facebook has called my lazy ass away from blogging like a good little writer...I think my confidence as a writer is a bit shaken...Although I do thank Mike Clark for inspiring me to write a 3 page 3 character script about 3 "characters planning a hit." I did 3 4th grade girls planning a hit on a dumb boy. I do way too much children's theatre!
Today I got to do a show at Alissa C's school. It was pretty cool to show them what I do :)
Then in the afternoon, performed at an old high school friend's school. Even ended up performing her son's story! Such luck!
In between, at lunch, a lady let me hold her puppy while she ordered her subway sandwich!
Sweet little puppy!
But here is my new favorite Brompton pic
And now, I guess I will cop out again and leave you with PLAYGROUND POLITICS:
EXT. A PLAYGROUND. THREE FOURTH GRADE GIRLS ARE GATHERED
AROUND A TEETER TOTTER.
ANNABETH: This is where it will go down.
ASHLEY:And the other side is where it goes up!
ALMYRIA:No stupid, we’re not talking about the teeter totter...Stupid!
ASHLEY: Oh. What else is going down then?
ANNABETH: Didn’t you read my note?
ASHLEY: Nuh-uh.
ALMYRIA: You didn’t read the note?! Then how did you know to meet here at recess?!
ASHLEY: I followed you from the coatroom.
ANNABETH: Did anybody else follow us?
ASHLEY: I don’t think so.
ALMYRIA: No stupid boys?
ASHLEY:No.
ANNABETH: Good. Because this is where Spencer is totally gonna get it.
ASHLEY: Get what?
ALMYRIA: Why is she here?
ASHLEY: I’m her best friend.
ALMYRIA: I thought I was your best friend, Annabeth!
ANNABETH: You’re both my best friends. Ashley was my best friend in kindergarten and then I met Almyria in second grade. I have room in my life for two best friends.
ASHLEY: Awesome.
ALMYRIA: What about on the nights I have Hebrew school? Do you guys talk about me?
ANNABETH: No! But that doesn’t matter! We’re here to talk about Spencer. Ashley, you’re to go to Spencer and tell him you have the cootie antidote and lead him here. Almyria, you’ll be--
ALMYRIA: Why don’t you talk about me?
ANNABETH: You just don’t come up, okay?
ALMYRIA: But if I’m you’re best friend--
ASHLEY: She does have that stuffed pig...'Member the stuffed pig, Annabeth? You named it Almyria and when we were playing Barbies that one time, Almyria the pig sat on the dream house and smooshed it!
ALMYRIA(quietly): What?
ASHLEY: And then Almyria the pig ate--
ANNABETH(through gritted teeth): Shut up, Ashley.
ALMYRIA: I’m the pig?
ANNABETH: YOU’RE not the pig...
ALMYRIA: How could you do this to me, Annabeth?
ANNABETH: I didn’t do anything, I swear! Ashley’s just--
ASHLEY: Ooh, look, there’s Spencer! Want I should go get him so you can smash his face into the mud like you wanted?
ALMYRIA: Don’t bother! I won’t be here to help sit on him anymore! You deal with your own boy troubles from now on!
She storms off.
ANNABETH: Thanks a lot, Ashley!
She storms off in the opposite direction. Ashley takes out a cell phone and speaks into it walkie talkie mode.
ASHLEY: Spencer? It’s done.
She smiles a wicked smile of satisfaction and sits on the teeter totter.
ASHLEY: Wanna come over and play with me now?
Today I got to do a show at Alissa C's school. It was pretty cool to show them what I do :)
Then in the afternoon, performed at an old high school friend's school. Even ended up performing her son's story! Such luck!
In between, at lunch, a lady let me hold her puppy while she ordered her subway sandwich!
Sweet little puppy!
But here is my new favorite Brompton pic
And now, I guess I will cop out again and leave you with PLAYGROUND POLITICS:
EXT. A PLAYGROUND. THREE FOURTH GRADE GIRLS ARE GATHERED
AROUND A TEETER TOTTER.
ANNABETH: This is where it will go down.
ASHLEY:And the other side is where it goes up!
ALMYRIA:No stupid, we’re not talking about the teeter totter...Stupid!
ASHLEY: Oh. What else is going down then?
ANNABETH: Didn’t you read my note?
ASHLEY: Nuh-uh.
ALMYRIA: You didn’t read the note?! Then how did you know to meet here at recess?!
ASHLEY: I followed you from the coatroom.
ANNABETH: Did anybody else follow us?
ASHLEY: I don’t think so.
ALMYRIA: No stupid boys?
ASHLEY:No.
ANNABETH: Good. Because this is where Spencer is totally gonna get it.
ASHLEY: Get what?
ALMYRIA: Why is she here?
ASHLEY: I’m her best friend.
ALMYRIA: I thought I was your best friend, Annabeth!
ANNABETH: You’re both my best friends. Ashley was my best friend in kindergarten and then I met Almyria in second grade. I have room in my life for two best friends.
ASHLEY: Awesome.
ALMYRIA: What about on the nights I have Hebrew school? Do you guys talk about me?
ANNABETH: No! But that doesn’t matter! We’re here to talk about Spencer. Ashley, you’re to go to Spencer and tell him you have the cootie antidote and lead him here. Almyria, you’ll be--
ALMYRIA: Why don’t you talk about me?
ANNABETH: You just don’t come up, okay?
ALMYRIA: But if I’m you’re best friend--
ASHLEY: She does have that stuffed pig...'Member the stuffed pig, Annabeth? You named it Almyria and when we were playing Barbies that one time, Almyria the pig sat on the dream house and smooshed it!
ALMYRIA(quietly): What?
ASHLEY: And then Almyria the pig ate--
ANNABETH(through gritted teeth): Shut up, Ashley.
ALMYRIA: I’m the pig?
ANNABETH: YOU’RE not the pig...
ALMYRIA: How could you do this to me, Annabeth?
ANNABETH: I didn’t do anything, I swear! Ashley’s just--
ASHLEY: Ooh, look, there’s Spencer! Want I should go get him so you can smash his face into the mud like you wanted?
ALMYRIA: Don’t bother! I won’t be here to help sit on him anymore! You deal with your own boy troubles from now on!
She storms off.
ANNABETH: Thanks a lot, Ashley!
She storms off in the opposite direction. Ashley takes out a cell phone and speaks into it walkie talkie mode.
ASHLEY: Spencer? It’s done.
She smiles a wicked smile of satisfaction and sits on the teeter totter.
ASHLEY: Wanna come over and play with me now?
Facebook, the lazy way to blog
.Yes, facebook has sucked me in. The status update doesn't even require a complete sentence to be understood. It's sad. I've become a lazy writer...Facebook has probably killed my creativity...I feel bad for having not blogged in so long...
To catch those who don't use facebook up, here is an example of a few weeks of my status updates...again, I apologize...:
March 16, 11:21am
Yesterday at 12:56am
Yesterday at 5:38pm
That's facebook for you! Again sorry :(
To catch those who don't use facebook up, here is an example of a few weeks of my status updates...again, I apologize...:
March 16, 11:21am
some people are afraid to go to the dentist...I am afraid to go to the eye doctor...
March 16, 2:43pmJacquie Floyd HATES insurance companies! humiliated at the eye dr bc I was arguing with an already combative receptionist that I DO have insurance only to find out they never DID include me on Jeff's insurance plan on the "important" end of the paperwork...only on the end of the paperwork in our posession. left humiliated and cryin...g WITHOUT my much needed lenses, while my husband and his perfect eyes remained in the exam room...
March 17 at 10:10amJacquie Floyd is cuter than a leprachaun cuddling a baby unicorn! Let's make some use of this abundance of adorableness, people! :)
March 17 at 1:51pmlucky charms and a shamrock shake...that's as irish as i am gettin' 2day
March 17 at 5:02pmJacquie Floyd just jumped rope in the privacy of my garage cuz I don't like the neighbors judging me...
March 17 at 6:36pmit's not that no one would ask me to the prom, it's just that no one would tell me where it was...
March 18 at 6:02pmbrompton and i were jumping rope in the garage when suddenly the garage door opened and scared the bejezus out of us! Daddy came home from work early!
Fri at 9:08amJacquie Floyd keeps forgetting she has TWO Tony & Tina shows at the Greektown casino tomorrow...I must be blocking it out...I barely have the energy to get through one...any advice on how to get through two?!
Fri at 10:29ama squirrel was just sitting on my windowsill, peeking into my office, but Brompton wouldn't let me pick him up to see the critter eye to eye! It was soooo cool!
Jacquie Floyd suddenly craves rice a roni, even tho i have eaten two dinners and two desserts this evening...
Yesterday at 9:50amJacquie Floyd loves when jeff comes back in to kiss me goodbye a second time...i will miss him this week!
Yesterday at 5:37pmi agree with beth, butt shouldn't count as a swear! :) I talk about my butt way too much!
How many times have you used a swear word in your Status Updates? This app will scan the history of your Status Updates to determine how much of a potty-mouth you are!
My Swearings:Here are some of my swearings
1. (Jun 1, 2009 ):...amble, there is a special place in Hell for you...
2. (Jul 23, 2009 ):just had to give the Brompton a butt trim...no one's a winner in that
3. (Jan 17, 2010 ):...Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think,...Yesterday at 5:38pm
going on tour again..
Yesterday at 9:29pmstupid useless computer!
Yesterday at 11:51pmthis could get interesting...
10 hours agoone doesn't sleep so well when one is constantly dreaming of the alarm going off and one waking up...dream meet reality...guh...
About an hour agoJacquie Floyd was a little distracted by the asst. wrestling coach that looked like billy joel
So, yeah this is just FIVE days worth of status updates...Fascinating drivel, right?That's facebook for you! Again sorry :(
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Living a very surreal life!
So, I headed out the door this morning to shoot my Lafontaine commercial...as i pull out of the driveway, the radio tells me m59 is going to be closed. so i reprogram the gps to take me down back streets. I made sure the producer knew i might be a little later than 930am and then i enjoyed the lovely lakeside winding roads to highland.
got on set with my several suitcases. Got into hair and makeup and then waited til about noon before the director decided i just needed to change my socks...isnt it always the way? you bring your entire wardrobe and end up just wearing what you came in.
So at around noon i finally get mic'ed up. even tho i had no lines...i put my feet up on a desk over and over again and my scene partner played with my toes...for like an hour or so...very weird...
sat chatting with my fellow actors for 2 more hours before they released me.
while trying to manuever my way out of the dealership lot, i finally got the call that i was cast in the Michigan Lottery commercial! It shoots wed. Luckily Jen is an angel and will drive up to muskegon from chicago to cover my wed for me. But I have a fitting on tuesday that hopefully colin can still help me make it to. Its a SAG commercial and my first union job...very excited.
The wardrobe lady called me a few times and was hoping i could make it before 630pm on tues. My last show is over at 2pm in muskegon, i might just squeak in depending on traffic and weather, but if colin can do my afternoon show, i'll make it for sure.
I get home and unpack and repack, kiss my adorable and supportive and amazingly talented husband goodbye and head out to follow the BSers van to Grand Haven. On my way down John R road, I see an elderly man walking at an angle (while I am trying to work details out with colin). the man does a face plant right on the ground, so i immediately pull over and dial 911. But I forget my bluetooth is hooked up and can't understand why i can't hear them while i try to help the old man up. His face is covered in drool and he is asking me to take him to the mall. Luckily my vehicle is packed with clothes and there isn't an inch of room for him. Finally 911 calls me back so I can hear them. They say the man has been missing and they have been looking for him. An officer pulls up just as he tells me an officer will be right there. I tell the officer what i saw and ask if its okay if i leave. he says sure and i take off.
I follow mark and mike down the freeways for a few hours. We pull over in brighton for gas. There are no free pumps, but i eventually get one and miss a call from the wardrobe lady while i pump gas.
i end up having to call her back when i am in the gas station, shouting into the phone onto her voice mail things like, "My bra size is 36B!" I am quite a vision i am sure.
We finally get to grand haven by quarter after 9. Looooong drive....my limbs are asleep and it was very lonely...i had to put my ipod headphones on for the last leg of the drive.
my room is adjoining to the boys'. I am able to park right in front of my outside entrance door. No deadbolt, but the chainlock still works. For some reason, i have a sliding door on the other side of the room to the outside...but i am too tired now not to feel safe!
I am so excited that i got two commercials in a row...i haven't shot anything since my comcast chicago spot 2 years ago!
Looking forward to wed and praying colin will be able to be my hero tues afternoon...
God is helping me earn my stripes this week!
got on set with my several suitcases. Got into hair and makeup and then waited til about noon before the director decided i just needed to change my socks...isnt it always the way? you bring your entire wardrobe and end up just wearing what you came in.
So at around noon i finally get mic'ed up. even tho i had no lines...i put my feet up on a desk over and over again and my scene partner played with my toes...for like an hour or so...very weird...
sat chatting with my fellow actors for 2 more hours before they released me.
while trying to manuever my way out of the dealership lot, i finally got the call that i was cast in the Michigan Lottery commercial! It shoots wed. Luckily Jen is an angel and will drive up to muskegon from chicago to cover my wed for me. But I have a fitting on tuesday that hopefully colin can still help me make it to. Its a SAG commercial and my first union job...very excited.
The wardrobe lady called me a few times and was hoping i could make it before 630pm on tues. My last show is over at 2pm in muskegon, i might just squeak in depending on traffic and weather, but if colin can do my afternoon show, i'll make it for sure.
I get home and unpack and repack, kiss my adorable and supportive and amazingly talented husband goodbye and head out to follow the BSers van to Grand Haven. On my way down John R road, I see an elderly man walking at an angle (while I am trying to work details out with colin). the man does a face plant right on the ground, so i immediately pull over and dial 911. But I forget my bluetooth is hooked up and can't understand why i can't hear them while i try to help the old man up. His face is covered in drool and he is asking me to take him to the mall. Luckily my vehicle is packed with clothes and there isn't an inch of room for him. Finally 911 calls me back so I can hear them. They say the man has been missing and they have been looking for him. An officer pulls up just as he tells me an officer will be right there. I tell the officer what i saw and ask if its okay if i leave. he says sure and i take off.
I follow mark and mike down the freeways for a few hours. We pull over in brighton for gas. There are no free pumps, but i eventually get one and miss a call from the wardrobe lady while i pump gas.
i end up having to call her back when i am in the gas station, shouting into the phone onto her voice mail things like, "My bra size is 36B!" I am quite a vision i am sure.
We finally get to grand haven by quarter after 9. Looooong drive....my limbs are asleep and it was very lonely...i had to put my ipod headphones on for the last leg of the drive.
my room is adjoining to the boys'. I am able to park right in front of my outside entrance door. No deadbolt, but the chainlock still works. For some reason, i have a sliding door on the other side of the room to the outside...but i am too tired now not to feel safe!
I am so excited that i got two commercials in a row...i haven't shot anything since my comcast chicago spot 2 years ago!
Looking forward to wed and praying colin will be able to be my hero tues afternoon...
God is helping me earn my stripes this week!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Good News I Can't Enjoy
Current mood:
stressed So, I was at Carrie Ray casting three days in a row this past week! I hadn't even been there in over a year! So, that was crazy in itself...
I got cast in a Lafontaine auto dealer commercial. It shoots sunday.
I also leave on tour to the west side of the state...grand haven/holland/muskegon shows.
I had a callback for a Mich lotto commercial. Its SAG. It pays more in one day (even if i was just an extra) than I would make in 3 days on tour...But for some reason, the producers need to see some talent from LA before they make their final decision...for a non speaking MICHGThey are 90% sure they want to use me. Which would require a fitting on tues and a shoot on wed. But they won't give me an answer til monday when I will already be on tour.
I suggested to the boss I train someone to take over for me this week, because there is also a waterworks rehearsal I am missing on thurs and a show i will barely make it back for on friday. Plus Brompton needs to be groomed and Jeff is too swamped to take care of that for me. Brompton is in such bad shape he is losing whole toenails in our carpet! I am a horrible mommy.
But BS boss refuses to have "weak shows" with a new person and would rather have "weak shows" with me having a nervous breakdown.
So, instead, I have to drive my gas guzzling jeep out to grand haven (and i have broken turn signals and need an oil change, too) and plan to cut and run on my two partners should this opportunity arrive.
Jen is kind enough to come up from chicago on wed for me, but tues is still going to be a point of contention for me...
I may have to bow out of the waterworks show on friday just because I am sooooo completely stressed about this week.
I should be happy that after all these years, I am not only getting auditions, but getting jobs! I was even "second choice" for the Toyota audition I went for. Things are looking up. Except the BSers albatross is hanging around my neck and destroying my hope for the future. Better go cry myself to sleep again...I have an early call for an awesome job tomorrow...wish i could enjoy it...
Monday, February 15, 2010
Dear THE SOUP
THANK YOU for pointing out that CELEBRITY FIT CLUB is full of crap!
Also, thank you to FRANK THE ENTERTAINER A BASEMENT AFFAIR for having "real looking" ladies on the show...they are all really skinny, but they don't look like they're straight out of a magazine or anything.
Dear Jacquie, stop using television to validate yourself!
HA! Like that's gonna happen. When I am home alone, I talk to the Brompton and the tv. The Tv is the only thing that talks back...It makes a quiet home less spooky.
Yesterday was Valentine's Day and Jeff and I spent it in the best way possible. Shopping!
We bought a new area rug for the front entryway, new barstools for the basement (still didn't spend enough to get the free Tv and Wii from Gardner White...wah wah). We even found ourselves intimidating our young salesguy a little. I didn't mean to, but how many people really ARE intimidated by me anyway? I just wanted to make sure we didn't get stiffed on the deals posted all over the store. He thought we were "big time actors". Ha! Not yet.
Then we went to Target to get Jeff costume pieces for his break out role in SIDE EFFECTS. I got a new hat. I love hats now for some reason...
Then he took me to a fancy schmancy jewelry store that is going out of business. 80% off most everything! It took some of my favorite pieces down to as low as $35,000!!!! Ye Gods!
We almost walked out with a diamond and citrine necklace, but I told him I would rather have a new computer. So we left with nothing. It was romantic and fun to dream, but in the end, Jeff and I are way to practical to buy stuff like that. I would rather wear fake jewels and laugh at the mugger when he runs off with my CZs instead of a 4 karat necklace! Just saying.
We got our valentine's liquor to make manhattan's and eat our Valentine's Qdoba. Good stuff, but I've been sick all morning today...perhaps someone has been slipping me Alli pills...cause tasty bad for me food keeps making me sick now!
We watched our Valentine's A TEAM and Sunday night Fox shows...it was just a fun day.
Today I have an audition that could cause a lot of problems for the BSers if I get it, but we would NEED to work it out, because this is SAG, baby! :)
I just want to audition cause I haven't been on a Carrie Ray audition in a loooooong time...maybe over a year! Gotta get back on the horse, so to speak...
So, yeah...
Oh and I dreamed I was a writer for KIDS IN THE HALL and didn't even know it until I saw their dvd box set years later...Someone owes me some Canadian money!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Dear Celebrity Fit Club
Current mood: hungry
Screw you for making me feel fatter than I ever have in my life.
You have one girl on the show one inch shorter than me and 14lbs lighter than me. She was even told she has a normal BMI. But you're encouraging her to drop 20 more pounds!?
The other girl is one inch TALLER than me and only 2lbs heavier. She was in tears because you were telling her how overweight she was. And you know what? She looked a lot heavier than I am...Or am I just fooling myself? Now I am freaking paranoid!
Thanks celebrity fit club for even ruining birthday cake for me. They did a terrible gauntlet of military exercise and then were told they only burnt 500 calories, which was barely a sliver or the cake they had there.
Thanks.
I worked my quads out so hard after that, I cry when I sit down and get up off the toilet. And I am still fat.
You're all bastards and I am hungry
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