Working hard as usual. This weekend, I’m getting ready for our last scheduled shoot—not our last shoot, just the last one that has been scheduled—at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore. I’m on superdrive these days. I have so much to do, I’m not really being very pensive, just doing, doing, doing. It’s good, because I’ve been doing a lot, but when it comes time to think about blogging, the only thing that comes up in my head is my To Do list! LOL
So, this is what’s been going on.
Last Wednesday, I drove down to Baltimore to record audio of the choir at St. Alphonsus Church for our episode on that location. St. John Nepomucene Neumann was pastor there before he became Philadelphia’s fourth bishop, so it’s a special place. Plus, it’s architecturally AMAZING, and the choir ROCKS! I was a little worried that I wouldn’t be able to capture a quality recording of the choir. Afterall, we’re not musicians, we’re videographers. So we don’t really have the equipment to record that kind of sound. In the end, I took the Canon Vixia HFS10 we got not too long ago, a Zoom H4 sound recorder, and a couple of tripods and was off. Naturally, I prayed the way down, and most of the time I was recording, and sure enough, it sounds awesome. I’ll see if I can put a little clip up on the site.
I was supposed to be there at 6:30 for the 7 pm choir practice, but i wanted to miss traffic, so I drove down early (I hit traffic anyway). I spent most of the day at the Cathedral of mary Our Queen, shooting more pictures. The is so much to see there, it just blows my mind. I’m so excited to shoot there and so excited for the show to come out. i hope everyone likes it.
This weekend, I really wanted to pull some weeds in our backyard. It’s been raining so much lately, the weeds have started to build little houses for themselves, they think they own the place. So, i did that this morning, even though it was sprinkling. The only things I left were the prickly weeds and the poison ivy. We have a LOT of that, and will have to have someone take it out soon. It’s looking so happy and healthy, I can’t take it. And since our dog, Nemo, is constantly brushing up against it, I can just see myself waking up one morning—surely it would be on the day of a shoot—with poison ivy all over my face. Can you imagine? Ugh!
Our freelance camerasuperwoman, Sonja, will be going to Baltimore with me on Monday, so she’ll be here Sunday night. Naturally, I feel that I have to make something spectacular for dinner, so I’m thinking of making some of my favorite recipes from a cookbook I edited, called Blue Eggs, Yellow Tomatoes. (I can’t speak more highly about this book, its recipes, or the author, so if you can, GET ONE!) If I can find the tamarind paste, I’ll be making the Tamarind Pork Ribs, the Couscous, and the Rose-Scented Honey Nut Tart, all of which are just scrumptious! I can’t wait to have them!
By the way, Sonja wrote a blog entry about us. I have to put it up on our press page, but check it out here in the meantime.
After I post this blog, I have to:
- Figure out what I’m wearing for the shoot
- Change the sheets in the guest room
- Clean my office
- Go grocery shopping
- Work out
- Fix my script to include edits from network
- Call mom and dad to translate the script to Spanish
Wow. That’s a lot. Gotta get going!!