A major start...

Ten days into the new year, and we're off to a good start folks.

I'm shooting a pilot for a cable network (it's single cam and hilarious), and I just found out I booked a national commercial today.
If you need an excuse to drink tonight, let me be that excuse. Cheers!

Now, let me explain a couple things:

1. Booking pilots are awesome, but they're also a crapshoot...you have no idea if they'll get picked up or pan out at all. So as fun as they are, I've learned by now that you have to take them with a grain of salt. Sad, but true.

2. Commercials are not something that I consider a barometer of my acting abilities. Obviously. But they are a meal ticket like no other. Think of Christmas, or Hannukah (whichever -we don't discriminate around here). That feeling of waking up to an amazing gift that makes your heart go pitter pat. OK -- well commercials are like that. But every month. Every month, a big fat pitter pat inducing residual check that reminds you to swallow your acting school ego, and book some commercial that most people will fast forward through with their Tivos, but will give you enough money to feed a family of 4 for a year. Seriously.

So to say that this year has started out with a bang is an understatement. I am blessed. I am working, and at least for the time being I don't really care about the fact that my trailer on this pilot is about the size of two bathroom stalls put together.

It's the "working actress glow" in effect -- the minutia just doesn't matter, and the ball it is-a-rollin'.