Juicing - Yes, I am still doing it!

Ok, so I haven't blogged about it lately, but I am still juicing. I love my juicer. Yes, I miss sushi and tacos and even just crackers and cheese, but I feel a lot better right now and I already know that I am going to be having some killer sushi next week in Vegas. I have to, so cleansing for the past two weeks means that i don't have to feel bad about it.

So here are some combos that I really love.

Pumpkin pie juice

1 medium pumpkin (remove all skin, seeds and center, just use the hunks of actual flesh)

3 red delicious apples

jar it overnight with a stick of cinnamon soaking in it

Drink in the morning...  YUM!

 

Purple Rain Juice

1 Purple Plum

1 basket of blackberries (watch the seeds and this stuff stains!)

2 bunches of concord grapes

 

Melon Chiller Juice

1 large bowl of chopped watermelon (this makes a ton of juice)

1/2 a honey dew melon

1/2 a cantaloupe

2 carrots

Of course remember that with Melon, its very refreshing but doesn't pack much long lasting nutrition, so they say... so have it as a pick me up after working out or an eye opener... not really the best thing for dinner.

Tonight I am having my own combo..

Super Hulk Juice

4 celery stalks

2 cups spinach

5 leaves of kale

1 cucumber

1 bunch of cilantro

2 green apples

 

it's veggie based, full of vitamins, but it has a hint of sweetness with the apples... it's super green too.. looks great!

 

 

 

 

 

Juicing - Day 2

So today went well. I had some yummy grape based juice for breakfast. I made it last night since I don't have time to juice in the morning. It was refreshing. For lunch I made mean green juice which i really liked. I made my dinner juice in the same session, as well as tomorrows morning juice. The dinner juice tonight...  i really didn't really care for, it has broccolli, cucumber and celery in it. I think its the broccoli, it has a very grassy flavor when juiced. Not going to make that one again.

I had to run back to the store for more ginger and apples tonight and I picked up a few more juicing containers to store juice in. It really goes very fast. I wish there was something to do with the pulp, seems like such a waste. 

FEELING: I feel clear headed and woke up with a lot of energy so that's good. So far my favorite juice recipe is the one with the sweet potato. It was yumtastic

 

 

Unhappy Screenwriter

 I have been too busy to write lately. I know, that is just an excuse. If you have time to post on posterous or check facebook, you have time to write. This is true. Which is probably why I feel so crappy about it. Two days and not a line of action has been put to paper. Tonight I will make up for it and do 10 pages. I'm serious! 

What do you do when you are in a writing funk?

 

Facebok Dating Ads - They Don't work on me!

I keep seeing these ads on facebook - would this really work on a woman? Doesn't this man look more like someone who might call me "Shorty" and "hit it and quit it" - no no no.... so NOT CLICKING.

So, what kind of a dating ad would i click on? Here you go. I made a sample!

Isn't that better?

 

 

 

 

Mars Curiosity Lands Soon - watch live!

 I hope you are excited. Mars Curiosity is going to be landing soon. :)

 

August 5th, 2012

10:31pm PST

Check it out!

 

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Mars Curiosity Lands Soon - watch live!

I hope you are excited. Mars Curiosity is going to be landing soon. :)

 

August 5th, 2012

10:31pm PST

Check it out!

 

 

Purple & Page 32

This isn't much of a blog for today. I'm sorry about that.

I am up to page 32 on the screenplay now.

I promised myself one page and it turned into 7. I love when that happens. Don't you?

I also colored my bangs purple which isn't screenplay related, but note worthy. 

All that AND I spent some time by the pool with my niece and nephew earlier. 

That is a day well spent! How is your writing coming along?

 

 

I'll get started, the muse can meet me later...

Today I sat down infront of a blank screen, feeling completely non-creative. The muse, once again aluded me. However, I made a choice to forge ahead in it's absence and just write anything. I pulled out the recently completed treatment I'd been brooding over, clicked the MovieMagic Screenwriter icon on my lap top screen and just started writing.

At first I started backing up and changing things as I went, then it hit me..

Just get this first draft out. Just keep going, don't second guess yourself right now... let it flow.

Within minutes I had completed several scenes and wasn't even thinking about it. The lines came to me one after the other in  natural progression. As I clicked away and page after page appeared, it hit me, the muse caught up to me.

I am a storyteller, an artist and a creative... so waiting for the mood isn't neccessary. If I sit down and start, it happens almost on auto-pilot. 

So WHY is it so hard to make myself sit down and get over those thoughts that seem to defeat my progress:

• Do I really have time for this? 
• I have so many other things I need to be doing.
• I am not in the mood.
• I'll do it later today. 
• It won't hurt to skip today. 
• This can wait.

Do you find that once you sit down and get to work on your script, it's like your creativity just kicks in and takes it from there?

Do you find it difficult to make time for your screenwriting work with all your other obligations?

 

Save the Cat! Drink the Wine!

As an aspiring screenwriter and one of the many people who reads countless books on the topic of screenwriting and the "industry".

I read Save The Cat and then I read it again and then again. Even though there are several bibles out there for format, structure, writing in a certain time-frame or a certain genre, i found Blake Snyder's book the most valuable overall for quickly giving me the BOTTOM LINE on what it's really all about.

I was lucky enought to talk to Blake a few times before he passed away and he was the sweetest person, very encouraging. He took the time to answer my questions and offer some great feedback. He will be missed.

Screenwriting is like wine, people can convolute the enjoyment, creation, process of it, and at the end of the day, wine either tastes good or it doesn't. It sounds funny, but this book brought me back to the core of what I love about screenwriting and made me stop fearing the deux machina and concentrate simply on Saving The Cat!

I recommend the book to anyone looking to write screenplays and to those who just love movies.

What is on your essential reading list?

 

Index Card Explosion - Screenwriting is dangerous!

I was in the middle of organizing some scenes and needed a bit more light. So naturally I flipped the switch to turn on my desk lamp...  forgetting that it also controls the fan I have in that room.

WOOSH! 

I went from thinking somberly about the motivation on my character to frantically trying to catch his story as it spun around the room in a flurry.I turned off the fan and the little squares of white paper floated to the floor and settled, some face up, some face down... some on the desk, some on the chair, some stuck in the blinds...

I just stood there for a minute and looked at them, in the middle was a card that had landed standing up on it's edge in the carpet... it read "CRASH!" 

For a minute I thought about the crash scene and began to back track from that point as I picked up the cards and re-organized them.

THE LIGHT WENT ON! (NOT LITERALLY THIS TIME).

A great idea for that scene just HIT ME...  I think this happy accident was the catalyst for an idea that will totally upgrade the entire story.

I have now TACKED the index cards to the wall, they won't get away from me again, but is that really a good thing?

I will never finish this screenplay!

Do you ever feel like you will just never finish the script you are working on? I have been writing my current action sci-fi script for over a year. If I could devote an uninterupted week to it, I could just knock it out, but then there is the re-write and the re-write of the re-write, right?

I did finish the detailed treatment on a flight back from Japan instead of sleeping, but how often am I going to be trapped on an 8 hour flight with no internet access?

INTERNET IS THE DEVIL!

Although the internet has been a great help to my process; seeking facts, downloading screenplays, interacting with other writers, following scriptchat on twitter... it has also been my worst enemy.

Every time I get in the zone (you know that magical place, right?), an email pops up or my phone buzzes that someone commented on my facebook status and I am off to check it. One hour later, I realize I have been playing on the interwebs and haven't written a single line... YET AGAIN!!!

HELP ME!

How do I get out of this cycle? 

How do you do it?

What are some good tips on staying in the zone?

So mad at myself!!!

 

 

 

Approaching 40

Okay... so I have been ignoring the whole "40" thing because it's a couple of years away... but a lot of my friends are hitting that mark this year and I am starting to wonder if it means anything...  I should explain that I am not on a normal path of any kind.. so age markers tend to throw me for a loop.


1)  I am not really interested in getting married.. i  love men.. i mean, they are great.. and i like dating and mostly i like getting dressed up and going out.. but the thought of having to worry about someone else, care what they think, consult them about spending money or going somewhere, worrying about their health and the fear of losing them or just having to get their buy-in on some crazy choice like moving across the country on a whim...  stresses me out!  I have tried to become interested in it as a "goal" because I know I am supposed to... in some way, the world seems to promote it as validation... and when i was reaallllly young i was very interested in it and came pretty close.. but i viewed it as some sort of glamorous life upgrade. Looking back, i now see that a husband was an accessory in my young mind...  like the right handbag..  so i am glad that whole thing didn't work out... because a handbag can be put on a shelf when you don't need it.


2) I am not interested in having kids... I have a niece and a nephew... and I feel like i have kids..  they are part of my soul... and i love them like they are my own.. yet, i recognize the selfishness that is part of my whole "solo act" when i see how much my sister gives of herself to raise little ones. -And me... i need to be able to go away and write or go away and sit and stare at the ocean.. or go away and just be alone... it's selfish.. it's not MoMish... and I don't want to give that up...  so.. no kids...


3) I love working... but i am not a careerist..  In fact where i am as a Marketing Director for an awesome company has nothing to do with where I started out or what I wanted to do or planned or even what I was or wasn't educated for. It is the result of moving on instincts, whims.. talking to lots of people and always being like "YEA OK.. LETS DO IT!"  and of course providence, which i believe in..  If you looked at my life as an infographic I think it would look a lot like a splatter... with very few connecting paths or dots..  I write screenplays, I studied film-making gorilla style, i educated myself in many ways through simply being open to any opportunity, i have a natural eye for style and design.. and i like people... and it has all lead me here.. but where am I and where does this go? I have no idea and i don't want to know... i don't have a plan and 40 says.. you are supposed to have a plan!


4) I don't have stuff...  I get rid of stuff....  So this is a weird thing, but I don't really have STUFF...  every time I move, i sort of re-build and take very little with me..  the stuff i have, i can easily get rid of and have no attachment to..  when it comes to stuff i am very non-sentimental..  When I left Charlotte and moved back home to Los Angeles, I traded all my furniture to a guy who painted and did repairs on my house there..  so basically anything that didn't fit in my car along side my pets,my screenplays, computers... shoes and clothes.. got left behind, or given away...  I took a ton of clothes to Dress For Success (a charity that gives women interview clothes when they cannot afford them) and some stuff still had tags on it, but it didn't fit... so I gave it away... I am always fascinated by people who have knick-knacks.. they seem so arbitrary and yet they sort of make a person's home.. a home.. i dont have any knick-knacks.. there is a scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's when Paul asks Holly if she just moved in (because her apartment is bare and sparse) and she says that she has been there about a year that reminds me of myself..  I honestly tried in Charlotte to become a "stuff" person and it just didn't work... i even bought a house.. which was probably not for me.. the way i move around.. but i wanted to give it a go (i mean, people do that sort of thing and it's normally a great thing to do).


So anyway... ramble ramble... when i see other friends hitting the 40 and they are in the expected position for that life marker.. I wonder why i am not and if it matters.


I've visited almost every state in the US.. traveled to many countries... eaten the finest food the world has to offer... met every kind of person, from royalty to starving actor... and at this point i wonder if i should start trying to live in the pattern... or just keep being me and see what happens..  


My life anthem has always been "Non Regrette Rien" as sung by Edith Piaf... but as 40 approaches, i wonder... will i regret living on the fringe?  

No, nothing at all, I regret nothing at all


Not the good, nor the bad. It is all the same.


No, nothing at all, I have no regrets about anything.


It is paid, wiped away, forgotten.


I am not concerned with the past, with my memories.


I set fire to my pains and pleasures,


I don't need them anymore.


I have wiped away my loves, and my troubles.


Swept them all away.


I am starting again from zero.


No, nothing at all, I have no regrets


Because from today, my life, my happiness, everything,


Starts with you! 

Siren Call

I was inspired by the Siren's of TRON. I wanted to capture that pure sexual power along with the style of the 60's bombshell. I love it!

Model: Gisele Cabrera

Photog: Francis Specker (http://francisspecker.com/)
Hair: Steffani Tavanlar(http://www.thehairstudio108.us/)
Make-Up: Veronica Garcia (http://www.barebeautymakeup.com/)
Wardrobe/Styling: Corey Tess (http://www.tesslove.com/)

 

Day of the Dead Costumes - Bride & Groom

Thinking about doing a Day of the Dead costume for Halloween? Take a peek at these amazing looks.

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Photog: www.milkandhoneystudios.co m  (Some Dancer Shots by www.Kevanphoto.com)
Make Up: Veronica Garcia of http://www.barebeautymakeu p.com/
Hair by: Candise and Kathleen, Steffani at www.thehairstudio108.us
Veil/Tiara/Bouquet by www.welovefaith.com
Modesl: Haciby Gil, Angel Partida

Dancers: http://www.danzasdeaztlan. com/l

Styling: Corey Tess Trujillo www.tesslove.com

Managed by:Steffani at www.thehairstudio108.us

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