An Interesting Day Part Two

3:57 PM-I lay down in agony as Sophie asked what was wrong. "I hit my head!" I said sickly. "GET MOM!" I sat for a while, in pain. Then I saw no help had come, and shifted my vision so I could see Sophie complaining to Rebecca that I had been rude to her. I didn't try to be rude! I was just in pain! But I needed to move and I needed help. As I slowly got up, I held my hand on the spot with my hat as I stumbled toward the car. Sometimes you just gotta take it upon yourself. I moved along, coming to the car as I saw Mom in the silver suburban, talking on the phone. She saw me and thought I was going to complain or tattle about Rebecca, and so looked kind of bored. As I opened the door, I dropped everything, laid down in the front seat, started bursting into tears and drank a waterbottle. She hung up on the person she was talking to and comforted me, asking me the situation and that she didn't know I was hurt, that she didn't even see me fall. I pressed a button leaning the chair back, and Mom got stuff on my right side of the head to ease the pain. I asked her if Sophie had told her anything. She said no. Sophie and Rebecca came over at last, asking what was wrong. Then they left and came back again, asking if I would be okay to play a game. Well I wasn't. At all. Mom eventually called Pop back, as to assure him everything was okay. (He was the person she was talking to). For a while I just relaxed and chilled down. Then, as I needed to go to the restroom, we all walked into the Bricks part of the building, seeing the metal texture all around and the paintings and such. Sophie kept asking me if I was faking or not. Well I can assure you it hurt SO much, and I was not faking at all. I went to the restroom and then sat flat down on a lounge couch, relaxing and resting my eyes. A custodian, and a basketball team both passed as Mom and the girls got snacks. I ate some goldfish. That was the worst experience of the day. Bonking my head and the stuff afterward, not the goldfish. The goldfish actually tasted good.

4:20 PM- As I felt better and better, we drove away to Uncle Jeff's business, his small brick building in a small uphill village of all kinds of doctors and dentists and such. As we parked in there, I walked in there with everyone else, seeing a kid waiting room with toys and books, a major lobby with a long desk, a regular little waiting room, and a big room facing the forest with the chairs and no walls. As Jeff met us and showed us around, I asked about the openess of the patients. He said in dentist's offices it's private because of the shot people give them, but in orthodontist stuff they get to see each other react. It was cool to see my Uncle's business, after seeing my mom's cousins in Ohio. He showed me a room where they brush their teeth, and a room where they show you xray's of your teeth, just a little room with a screen and table and chairs, and then saw an actual dark room where they put the Xray's on. I saw his cluttered and big office, with pictures awards and... a lot of papers. I took his briefcase as he took chocolate popcorn, us going out the back way down a ramp by the dumpsters to his red truck. We put it in and went back in, leaving Sophie there as we said goodbye. Jeff brought up the braces thing again. It's only a matter of time before I get those scary things.

4:49 PM- We drove back to Roswell, to go to Seth's Red Door Play House, a theater. I was going to video tape a sitcom, a bunch of kids my age acting in a little set before their parents, the "studio audience." It was going to be very interesting to be video taping one. We arrived, and I went in the bottom way as I saw a kid in a New York Yankee's outfit, a girl with a bonnet and sweater looking like a witch, a girl with a cool white suit and glasses, a girl in a scientist coat, a girl with what looked like reindeer antlers, and Seth with a script in his hand. The play/sitcom was called Bevin's World. There were sofas and such on the stage, and a table full of junk and a chair with crazy techie stuff on the side stage. Seth told the kids what I was doing there, and they thanked me, as their little kid counterparts did not. The girl with the white suit was a cop who's real name is Sarah, and was very nice. She was tall and brown haired. The guy in the baseball uniform was Braiden, and the bonnet one a girl I had met before. The tripod was placed in a new position where I could see the side stage, and I did a few shots of them answering phones which needed close ups, for the video going to be made. It was funny. I also did commercials that they did about cats that were laugh out loud closer to them, instead of in the chairs. They needed close ups as to show more variety and facial expressions as in faces close up. After setting up some people came in, and the actors went to their green room. I had no idea what it was about. A cop, baseball player, scientist, and an English accented girl with antlers who was supposed to be related in some way? And that was the best part. As a few people (not much) filed in and got seats, I sat by an annoying 8 year old who kept doing tricks on people. The clock turned 5:00.

5:05 PM- Seth joked over the microphone to welcome your favorite stars and welcome to Hollywood and stuff like that. Then he introduced himself, and went out in front and did some funny warm up exercises, like clapping and wooing, as they say. Then the lights dimmed, and we brought down a screen onto the stage, where a projector showed a funny good special effected opener, of the actors, their fake names and their real ones, and funny takes and positions, plus Seth singing Bevin's World, over and over again. After that was over he put the screen up again, and the show began. It was so funny! The baseball guy was stupid and funny, and it was funny to see Bevin, a kid scientist, help a reindeer alien named Sourcee get back to her planet. Sara is a cop in training who's been trying to find the cat Mr. Whiskers for his birthday, that Auntie, the evil looking old lady, has prepared for him. Somehow Braiden fits into all of it. It was exactly like a sitcom, even though it was only in a little theater. I moved left to one seat to do the side stage shots, and at one point I had to crank the tri-pod up to make it get their full bodies. It was interesting and different to shoot a sitcom, and I'm glad that was my first. Who's knows? Maybe if I become a big T.V. director you might see Bevin's World on Nickelodeon someday. The commericals, like I said, were funny, as they did Cat Rapping CD's, a kind of mitten for your cat, and actual cat grass for your pet to play with. They were all funny though. Hilarious. Laugh out loud. And I enjoyed it.

6:08-Contrary to the two prior times though, the actors actually thanked ME for my behind-the-scenes work, doing the videos. As I congratulated and complimented them, not expecting the same in return, I heard,"Thank you for video taping us." I really appreciate that. Thank you. As I stayed upstairs with all the actor's and families, Mom came over, talking to a lady and man. We talked to them about our trip, and found out the lady was Leah's mother. We pretty much left after that, and as I went home I told all about the play. I ate a sandwich and then enjoyed the night reading, tired out. Sure, I bonked my head that day, but I also saw my old teachers and experienced a great sitcom. When life gives you lemons, make cranberry juice, as I say. So when life throws you a problem or bad thing, don't look at it negatively and act upon that, but think positive and make your problem go away. I know everybody says make lemonade, which is pretty good, but my philosophy is don't just make lemonade, make something better, cranberry juice, in my opinion. So instead of going through with a day and looking at it positively even though you hurt your head, think back on it, laugh about it, and love every day, no matter what lemon life throws your way. Have a great day!

Your friend,

Andrew.