Nerrrrrrrvous!

Today I meet with the Chief to show him the trailer. Personally, I think he's gonna love it. If he loves it then I can pitch to him my fundraising and publicity ideas and how I will need his approval and partnership. HOWEVER, there's always that chance that he'll be very critical of the trailer and have all kinds of inputs and demands and if that happens, well, it might be all over for me. Because I have a great vision and if I cannot see my vision through over this next year then what's the point?

So if he tells me he loves it and it's "kick-ass" just like he described this whole idea in the first place, then I can proceed to being a little nervous about talking to him about the budget, which is now up to almost $30K. It was bumped up due mostly to salaries to pay the some of the best filmmaking people in town to work on my film (final editing, sound, etc). I also put some salary in there for myself b/c my dad and his girlfriend advised me to. I had planned on doing this film as a labor of love but then they told me how much work this is going to be, and so I agreed to give myself some $ after all. Especially since working on the film is bound to interfere with Job #2 (as it has already) and I will definitely be losing money by working less hours there. Hopefully the Chief will not have a problem with the price tag, even though it is an extremely low pricetag to begin with! But if he wants this film done and done right, he'll support me. I'm not even going to ask him for any $, just a letter of support and for him to let me show the trailer at the June Reserves meeting and then ask everyone for donations--provided I get my fiscal sponsorship in place by then, and I am mailing off that proposal this week!

My TFPF app was received in Austin yesterday, whew. They get 200 applications every year and they only fund 20 of them, or 10%. I asked for $5K. When I attended their workshop it seemed that even those projects they funded they never gave the applicants as much $ as they requested, so I asked for $5K thinking that if I was awarded funds maybe they'd give me $1-2K. Oh lord--as always, the suspense is killing me.

Meanwhile, an awesomely fun weekend was had by all this past weekend. S managed to get Saturday off, a miracle in itself. We went to Space Center Houston which was great. We spent so much time there we got to the yuppie baby shower 2 hours into it, which was also great b/c then I didn't have to talk to too many yuppies and spent almost my whole time eating! And Sunday we took the baby and her Auntie R. to see Up, which was a great little film. We ended up after that at the "Chuck", Chuck E. Cheese and seeing my hated MIL there was not so bad. She brought the baby all kinds of gifts (though didn't let the baby open them herself, just pulled them out of gift bags to show the baby, saying repeatedly, "Isn't this cool? Isn't that cool?") and some of it was actually stuff we need, like the baby's own clothes hamper, little trash can, new sheets, comforter, etc. Fortunately the MIL left early though on her way out she actually came and gave me and Auntie R. HUGS!!! (ew!!!) but unfortunately, that meant I did not have a chance to sit her fat ass down as I had planned and have my serious discussion with her about how she needs to watch herself from now on and accept her boundaries if she knows what's good for her. I told her we will be talking soon though and she said that would be fine.