From House Wife To Film Maker

Had a four hour meeting with the two Johns today: John my partner and John my son. I really have to find a way to distinguish them easier than this. I’m going to go with John1: for my partner, and John2: for my son since John1 came up with that for the two of them a few years back. Discussed a good many things including the layout for the web site for John1′s book: “Red Book and Cotton” (which is a super, terrific, fantabulous read, check it out at Amazon). We decided that we’re going to get that site up first before our Free The Mind Site.

I can’t wait till the sites are up, I’m turning albino from artificial light. However one of us had to learn all this computer lingo while the other keep moving with the filming and I was the best choice. The downside has been: I’ve only touched our new camera once. The closest I’ve gotten to it since is through the updates John gives me about how wonderful it is as he re-films the video trailer for “Red Book and Cotton” . . . without me: GASP. So that’s why I’ve put myself on such a rapid and rigid drop “live” date (I like the sound of that so much better than drop “dead” date, I mean I don’t intend to die after I complete the web sites.) to get the learning done so the sites get built and I can return to learning filming and editing. So far, even with the problems, I’m holding to my planned schedule to launch a site.

John2 took off around 3:30 and within minutes John1 passed into sleep on my couch right where he sat, he’s even more intense than I am about the hours he keeps to get our business launched, and how he does it I’ll never know. I confined all movements to quietly clicking and typing on my computer to let him sleep. He slept almost 2 hours, thank God. Remarkably he woke five minutes before I had to leave for work. Perfect

This evening, while at work, I got the most unique text I’ve ever received. Grace was texting me pictures of her homework so I could help her. LOL. Very creative, but then she does take after me Unfortunately I was useless to her because she was diagramming sentences and we weren’t taught that in school. Since I have always found dissecting things to make my stomach flip I was further determined to never learn how to cut apart sentences and foist such a distasteful task onto my children; so during home schooling I swerved very far north from it. I figured what’s the point? I had made it that far in my life without taking a scalpel to a single sentence so could they. But then as I’m typing this a small shiver crawled up my spine. Hopefully my H.S.ed children don’t hate me one day because I totally messed up their lives by not teaching them how to slice open sentences!

Missed the Scholastic Book fair family shop night at Dan’s and Cal’s school, due to work, very disappointing we always enjoy going together. They went with their dad instead.

That’s it for now,
Theresa
-watch for my name in the film credits

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