First of all - the title of my post. I just spent the last 3 months supervising costumes for Thoroughly Modern Millie as my readers (both of them) will know! I love it. My duties were taking the design of the show and making it happened. I supervised costume builders and bought lots of costumes. It was awesome!
Well, now I'm supervising wardrobe for a film! A very special top secret project for a NY Times best selling author. It just kinda fell in my lap and I'm loving it. And, it's not every day that you get to discuss a book with the AUTHOR! (On our first meeting, he signed a copy of the first book in his series and I read it. I really liked it! So, this time he gave me #2!) I'm able to hire people I know who are very good at what they do to handle stitching, hair, etc. It's AWESOME! Their goal is for this to be a very high profile thing.
Don't worry - I will certainly be able to tell you all about it in due time, but for now, it's staying on the downlow. This is a GREAT experience that may someday lead to so much more! I'm so blessed. My first dream job will always be performing - which I get to do in 2 weeks. But this is my #2 dream job - wardrobe supervisor/coordinator. :) :) :) :) :)
Ok, so next order of business - Steve and I have been planning a trip to LA/Disneyland for this weekend for quite sometime. Well, Steve gets a call on Monday that they might need him to go do another cruise last minute. He told them no initially, but that he'd see if he could work it out. He decided it was too late in the game and didn't want to cancel our trip, so he was ready to tell them no if they called back and said it was a go. Well, when they called him, they begged. They couldn't book the job without him and the offered more money. EEEK! He was still ready to tell them no, mostly because he knew that I would be really disappointed that I wouldn't be getting to go and I was really looking forward to it. We have been so busy lately that our 10th anniversary and my birthday both passed by with no celebration to speek of. (Steve did get me a massage for mothers day - he rocked it!)
Anyway, he called me to let me know that that they were being persistant. I was really sad! So, I was on my way home and told him we'd talk then. On my drive, I thought - well, maybe I can go anyway somehow. I mean, our hotel room was paid for, I didn't want to just forfeit that money.... I can take Chloe and Piper! I've been wanted to take them without the babies - so why not? I came home and told Steve to go. He started to tell me he was going to tell them no when I said - I'm still going to Disneyland. I'm just going to take the girls with me instead of him! He thought it was a brilliant idea. So, that's the plan.
So, Steve may get to go to BERMUDA! (I'm really jealous, I've always wanted to go there.) but I get a very special weekend with my very special babies. And my dear friend Alda is watching the babies. They are going to have a wonderful time and be spoiled rottin!!!
I'm so grateful for this time of joy and success in my life and am not taking a moment of it forgranted.
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