Cold Dose of Reality

Our trip to the grocery store ended up including talking with a casting director for a commercial and doing a brief on-camera interview.

I have no delusions that either I or my children will be chosen. As the casting director asked me questions, LittleMan and LittleBird tag-teamed it and started pulling Valentines Day cakes off of the nearby display.

The casting director's comment? I was going to ask you what you do all day, but I don't have to. I can see what you do.

There was no malice, only good-natured laughter as I agreed with his observation.

What really threw me was the question: How would you describe yourself?

I must have thrown him a blank stare because he followed up with: How would your friends describe you?

I hemmed and hawed because all I could think of was: You mean my online friends I blog with? Because I don't have any real life friends here in this town, and the only girl I do hang with is getting ready to move away.

Even I couldn't say it aloud because it just sounded so pathetic.

Instead, I said I had a sense of humor and somehow got onto a different topic.

I knew I should have been doing more of these damned memes that come my way.

It looks like I may have to write a mission statement a lá Crash Davis. Stay tuned.