Business Proposal

Today my Dad was cooking in a BBQ cookoff to support Wounded Warriors down at Carolina Beach, so Marshall and I went down there to eat some BBQ and support him. Susan, Stacey, Brian and their friends ended up coming down too and meeting us as did my cousin Jay and Uncle Norwood. There was a huge turnout down there and the BBQ was pretty good. My Dad's team and one other team that we tried had the best by far. While we were there we ran into Dawn and Eric who started talking to us about a business proposal they had for us. Apparently, Eric has been wanting to shoot a horror film for some time and has $50,000 to do so with. So, he has a concept and wants me to write the script and direct them film! It's a good concept, we just need to work through the logistics of the plot and killings. Dawn had their miniature husky Zodi with them and every two seconds it seemed like someone was coming up to her wanting to pet the husky. At one point, Dawn just handed me her beer so she could hold the husky to let these people pet her. Marshall found the juxtaposition of me holding a beer while 8 months pregnant rather comedic so he had to take a picture. What is sad is there are actually a lot of women out there who find nothing wrong with continuing to drink while pregnant and of course they have perfectly healthy babies. I, on the other hand, do everything by the book and my son is stillborn. Hopefully, my dedication to following all the dos and don'ts will pay off this time with a healthy baby boy. Since Dawn could hardly carry on a conversation with us due to being interrupted every five seconds, we decided to walk over to Hang Ten Grill and have a late lunch with them in order to better discuss some ideas about the film. We did manage to come up with some pretty good ideas. Now I just need to do some research as we are basing the film on some true events, or rather a real person/ghost. I'm one of those writers who does the research and fleshes out the characters before I ever sit down and try to write the story. I guess that's why people always comment on how great my characters are and how real the dialogue is. I find that if you know the characters really well then you know how they would react and speak in a given situation so you don't have to guess the entire time you are writing. I'm not sure how much of this I will actually get done before the baby comes, but it's definitely something to start working on and I'm really excited about the prospect.

When we finally got home, Marshall and I both just lounged around the house and I napped for a little bit. Then it was time for me to go meet Susan for the Zumba Glow in the Dark party! The party was from 8-10pm, but we both were only going to stay for the first hour of it. When we got there they had the room all decorated with black lights and balloons and glow sticks. Susan brought us some glow sticks to wear and we put on our Zumba jingle bracelets and got ready to Zumba down. For those drinkers there they also had a cash bar of wine and beer just to make the Zumba experience a little more interesting. It was so much fun! There were a lot of girls dressed up in crazy outfits, taking the Glow in the Dark aspect to a whole new level. I picked up some Thai food on the way home for dinner and then showered while Marshall put it out on plates for us. After dinner we turned on Argo, a screener I borrowed from Tina, and started watching it. I barely made it through 30 minutes of the movie before zonking out on the couch. Marshall too fell asleep. What I saw of the film was good so I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it. I have two more screeners to watch as well - Les Mis and Silver Lining Playbook. It's one of the perks of working in the film business and having friends in certain unions that actually receive screeners. These screeners were actually SAG nominees which is why Tina had them.