Gosh, I hadn't realized I haven't updated in almost a month! It goes without saying that hubby and I have been pretty busy. First and foremost, work for the both of us, has been quite exhausting. Hubby with "HouseWives" and me, with 6 summer blockbusters. This is the most and the highest caliber of movies I have worked on in my entire 20 year movie career.
The other day I was meeting with some interns and they were asking me how long I had been working in the movie business. After going over everything I came to the conclusion that I have been working 20 years! I couldn't believe it! I worked 10 years at AM, starting when I was 16 and this June I will have worked at the studios for 10 years. Sometimes I can't believe I am almost approaching 40. Where does time go? Answer: It goes quickly.
Last night, hubby and I went to Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. Bob's is a great place to go for a laid back experience. Both hubby and I used to go there frequently when we lived in Burbank in our 20's. Our reason for going last night was pretty much our dog. We were hungry and it was hot, so we jumped in the car and two seconds later I remembered good ole Bob's and soon our car was pointing towards the 134.
After getting settled on the patio, hubby and I got to talking about our careers and where we were at in life and we pretty came to the conclusion that the reason we are somewhat restless or shall I say it, a little bored and not sure where we go next, is because we have accomplished our goals that we both set out when we were younger. He became an editor and I became a movie studio marketer. So what do we do now?
I have always felt having goals is a good thing in life. It makes a person look forward to something but what happens when you get there and you don't have anything left? I guess the natural answer is get some new goals. The problem is we both reached our goals and now we don't have anything ready to cling to.
I used to want to be in charge of a movie studio but now that I sit in a meeting with the man who runs ours, each Monday, I have decided that's probably not what I ultimately want to do. I quite enjoy my personal life and having weekends free and I am not sure that running a studio and dealing with unhappy creative people who feel like they are selling out by working with a big studio, would make me happy. The movies are a business like any other and nowadays they have to be profitable and being profitable means testing and research and testing and research makes being creative very hard which for me doesn't equal fun or rather that every elusive word "happiness."
I am always amazed when I run into people about their quest to be happy. My quest is not so much to find "the big happiness" but to live in it day to day. But lately, sometimes that is hard when you are waiting around trying to figure out "what is next?" Don't get me wrong I am not depressed or anything but rather a person seeking out the next quest.
In the meantime, hubby and I both have Disney Vinylmation collecting to keep us busy. For some reason, out the blue, hubby and I have become collectors. We were thinking back at what the last thing we collected a lot of was and our thoughts took us back to childhood with mentions of toys and baseball cards. There really wasn't anything we collected in our adult life the way that we have taken to collecting Vinylmation.
I told hubby it probably came along at a time when we needed some mental distraction from life's problems and also, during a time that we felt we really didn't see much of our friends on a regular basis. Our new Vinyl craze has not only introduced us to brand new people but we have now become part of this "group" aka the San Fernando Valley Vinyl Collectors. Okay this isn't an official group but since we have attended so many events with the same group of people we have now found ourselves belonging to a tight nit group of collectors. Suffice to say, we have meet some good people who we enjoy spending time with.
Spending time with people who have the same interests as you can be really fun. Have I mentioned that our hobby takes us to Disneyland a lot? With the infusion of happiness from the Happiest Place on Earth how could one not accumulate happiness in their personal life? It's just not possible to go to Disney that much and not be happy.
Overall, I guess you could say hubby and i are happy people who are just looking for that "next thing" in life. We can't have accomplished everything in our 30's and that is it. Nope, time to find some new interests and time to set some new goals. And time to check out that next phase in life whatever that is. For now I am patting us on the back for a job well done for the first 35 years and hopefully at the end of the next 35 years I can pat us on the back again and be amazed once again.
The other day I was meeting with some interns and they were asking me how long I had been working in the movie business. After going over everything I came to the conclusion that I have been working 20 years! I couldn't believe it! I worked 10 years at AM, starting when I was 16 and this June I will have worked at the studios for 10 years. Sometimes I can't believe I am almost approaching 40. Where does time go? Answer: It goes quickly.
Last night, hubby and I went to Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. Bob's is a great place to go for a laid back experience. Both hubby and I used to go there frequently when we lived in Burbank in our 20's. Our reason for going last night was pretty much our dog. We were hungry and it was hot, so we jumped in the car and two seconds later I remembered good ole Bob's and soon our car was pointing towards the 134.
After getting settled on the patio, hubby and I got to talking about our careers and where we were at in life and we pretty came to the conclusion that the reason we are somewhat restless or shall I say it, a little bored and not sure where we go next, is because we have accomplished our goals that we both set out when we were younger. He became an editor and I became a movie studio marketer. So what do we do now?
I have always felt having goals is a good thing in life. It makes a person look forward to something but what happens when you get there and you don't have anything left? I guess the natural answer is get some new goals. The problem is we both reached our goals and now we don't have anything ready to cling to.
I used to want to be in charge of a movie studio but now that I sit in a meeting with the man who runs ours, each Monday, I have decided that's probably not what I ultimately want to do. I quite enjoy my personal life and having weekends free and I am not sure that running a studio and dealing with unhappy creative people who feel like they are selling out by working with a big studio, would make me happy. The movies are a business like any other and nowadays they have to be profitable and being profitable means testing and research and testing and research makes being creative very hard which for me doesn't equal fun or rather that every elusive word "happiness."
I am always amazed when I run into people about their quest to be happy. My quest is not so much to find "the big happiness" but to live in it day to day. But lately, sometimes that is hard when you are waiting around trying to figure out "what is next?" Don't get me wrong I am not depressed or anything but rather a person seeking out the next quest.
In the meantime, hubby and I both have Disney Vinylmation collecting to keep us busy. For some reason, out the blue, hubby and I have become collectors. We were thinking back at what the last thing we collected a lot of was and our thoughts took us back to childhood with mentions of toys and baseball cards. There really wasn't anything we collected in our adult life the way that we have taken to collecting Vinylmation.
I told hubby it probably came along at a time when we needed some mental distraction from life's problems and also, during a time that we felt we really didn't see much of our friends on a regular basis. Our new Vinyl craze has not only introduced us to brand new people but we have now become part of this "group" aka the San Fernando Valley Vinyl Collectors. Okay this isn't an official group but since we have attended so many events with the same group of people we have now found ourselves belonging to a tight nit group of collectors. Suffice to say, we have meet some good people who we enjoy spending time with.
Spending time with people who have the same interests as you can be really fun. Have I mentioned that our hobby takes us to Disneyland a lot? With the infusion of happiness from the Happiest Place on Earth how could one not accumulate happiness in their personal life? It's just not possible to go to Disney that much and not be happy.
Overall, I guess you could say hubby and i are happy people who are just looking for that "next thing" in life. We can't have accomplished everything in our 30's and that is it. Nope, time to find some new interests and time to set some new goals. And time to check out that next phase in life whatever that is. For now I am patting us on the back for a job well done for the first 35 years and hopefully at the end of the next 35 years I can pat us on the back again and be amazed once again.
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