Confessions of a Slightly Fat Sailor Girl

So excited for this.  Hopefully I get to watch it with Michele soon.  I hear that this is a really amazing film, and I have a lot to learn!

So this is me ( and my tattoo, and one of my necklaces… )

Right now I’m in the Navy, working on a warship.  I’ve been overseas, it won’t be long until I’m deployed again.  But in the meantime, I live in San Diego.  It’s where I’ve always lived, more or less.  And it’s where, on Dec 27th, 2010, my brother died.  So a part of me will always be here.

Working for the Navy is a great thing.  I think everyone should serve their country somehow, at least for a little while.  It’s an important job and it requires a great deal of fortitude and sacrifice.  I signed up for five years and I’m well into my third.

Trouble is, about two months ago I had one of those lightning-bolt realizations.  I suppose it should have been obvious: I love stories, and I love seeing stories.  I get more excited for movies and television shows than I do about most stuff, I follow an actor’s body of work very closely once I’ve discovered I like them.  I thought I enjoyed writing ( and I do ). but for me it’s always been the images that have been most powerful.

So, at 26 and with nearly two years of my life still contracted to the Navy, I decided I want to try getting behind the camera and filming some stories of my own.  There are some problems with that, the first being that I have absolutely no equipment or training.  But these are temporary problems.  And I have plenty of time and lots of rock and roll to help me through, even if I am starting out a little later.

So here I am.  Starting one of these and boring you with the reasons why.  Maybe you’ll stick around, maybe you won’t…either way, I hope you carry on in peace.  If you do stick around, there will be lots of pictures and maybe ( eventually ) some videos too, and plenty of commentary ( obviously ) from the peanut gallery ( that’s me ).