Thrift Store Find - held Captive

So I finally found the perfect coat! Beautiful color, perfect cut, vintage, not made anymore, however the lining was torn. My mom went to 3 different store, drove up to mpls to find lining, paid someone to reline it... then my dad shipped it back to me with lots of TJ's Christmas gifts and new clothes etc...

and it never came and it never came, and we chalked up the delay to it being busy Christmas season. When the brown truck guys finally tracked it down it had been delivered to the wrong address (more than a week prior!) But the people who got the box said nothing nor tried to return it.

What kind of people open a box that clearly has someone elses name and address on it... even especially when you see a child's new clothes and Christmas toys. When the brown truck guys went there to pick it up, they were belligerent, and wouldn't give my box of things (that my mom paid 20 bucks to ship) back to me, they in fact argued with the brown uniformed man and said "too bad it's your mistake" and slammed the door.

The hunt is on again for the perfect coat, it only took me 11 years to find this one!!!

Don't it turn my brown EYE blue

I just got a text today from the producer of my next film and they want both of my eyes to be blue for the film... so I need to go shopping for contacts... I have contacts to make 'em both look hazel, it's easy to cover a light eye and make it darker. It's another challenge to make a dark eye lighter.

I had 2 different colored contacts before to make both eyes look green. Gotta go shopping for lenses now.

Gang Reduction and Youth Development

This is Duane Shepard and me. He hired me to play a judge for the GRYD program, he was putting together to help youth. GRYD stands for Gang Reduction and Youth Development. The project name is called "Snitch". Duane himself is a fantastic actor and teacher, anyone would be lucky to get him in their film.

He had the middle school kids doing the production work, training them to use the monitors and camera, etc... a great program, shoot movies, not people.

BABES and GHOSTS

I just got cast in a new film... the working title is "Babes and Ghosts" it's a horror film... I think it's too premature to tell you if I'm a babe or a ghost... but it's a pretty cool premise. We get to shoot in a haunted mansion. The writer, producer, and director are all very cool. And I even get to wear a vintage fedora in the film :) I'll keep ya posted.

Memory Lane music video with Petree

If you go to youtube, check out the video MEMORY LANE shot by Francis De La Torre, of the great band PETREE, I had the honor of being in the video!

Hello Cheekbones!

I found this pix of me from 2003, see how full my face is... the pix next to it is from a couple of years later... I've only lost maybe 15 pounds, but the difference is really noticeable, I have cheekbones now! I remember one time Joy Behar on "The Veiw" said something to the effect of when you reach a certain age you have to choose between your face and your butt... in order for one to look good, the other suffers. Sometimes when I think of losing weight I'm afraid my face will look like a skeleton?

I've been thinking of joining a gym... I tried the whole work out at home thing but there are too many distractions, and honestly my "workout" was just going for walks which was not doing much to make my tight clothes any looser. 2004 is the year I became vegetarian, and eventually vegan. I don't like to say I'm vegan because then everyone scrutinizes every bite you eat... but I'm cautious to say I'm vegetarian because then everyone wants to serve you cream and cheese laden fare... So I say I'm 95% vegan... (the other 5% is usually dessert :) )

Work outs must be fun or I won't do it, I know it determines whether I get certain parts or not... but gosh, I always feel like I have so many more important things to do... like writing poetry. Of course everything is subject to change... if I'm getting paid millions a picture, I guess I'd have a few less qualms about it.

My "day job" revealed

This is totally random... I used to work at Valet Girls... (my day job if you will) we were an all female valet parking company and my supervisor got us a gig to do a little valet stunt on the TV show "Wanna Bet" so they buried this little Brit Mini in a sea of 50 black cars and we had I think 2 or 3 minutes to get the car out, meanwhile celebs were betting on whether we could do it or not, and the money they won went to their favorite charity. That's me Katherine Norland on the left and Jade on the right.

Still Photo from the show "Wanna Bet"