Lydia's Journey BEYOND Hollywood

Sorry it's taken me so long to post. I have no great excuse. Just nothing really exciting to say. :( I'm getting ready to head out of town for the holidays. I thought I'd have my first choice agent already on board - and that didn't work out, obviously. Then, I've been waiting to hear back from agency #2, and they haven't made up their mind on me yet. Hmmm..... And so that leaves us with agency #3. I may have to try them on for size during pilot season to see how they work out. They weren't my fist choice - but they are decent and really want to work with me, so a hard working agent during pilot season is better than no agent - right? So I think that's what I will do. I leave for Texas on Tuesday and will return to the west coast on January 3rd, 2007. If I have anything to say during that time, I will post. But if not, see you in 2007, with a strong fresh start! :) HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

My beautiful Godson turns one today!! :) YAY!!!!

with Cher Ferreyra in Tropical America , a play I did back in 2002. Fun role! :) If I'm not the maid, I'm the gang banger, right??!! I had a pretty bad day yesterday. :( Ok, let me start by saying my meeting with House of Representatives yesterday went AWESOME! I was comfortable. I liked these women (Ginger and Pam), and we just chatted. It was nice. I felt like they meant business and I was excited about that. When I was leaving the office, they told me that had to discuss with each other to see if I'm in conflict with another actress they represent. They were afraid I was too close in age to her. This girl plays early to mid twenties and they were hoping I played well into my thirties. When they met me, I guess they could tell that I play around late twenties to early thirties. They wanted more like a 10 year gap between us - and there wasn't. So my day yesterday started off with a phone call from Ginger telling me they loved me - but UNFORTUNATELY, they couldn...

I met with The Beverly Hechy Agency today and I really liked them! I have one more meeting tomorrow with House of Representatives and then I will know exactly where I will end up. I'll keep you posted! :)

I'm not sure if I'm subbing yet tomorrow or not - but it's already pretty busy. If I am working - then I'll probably get off around 2:30pm. Then I have to head straight over to my meeting with Hervey/Grimes Talent Agency at 3:30pm. Then right after that, I head to Universal for my Desperate Housewives audition. I'm bummed that I'm going in for a tiny one line nurse role, after I told my management company I wanted to focus more on guest star roles. I guess they forgot about that conversation! Oh well.... My audition is at 6:15pm. Then I workout at 6:45pm - if I can make my class. I joined Krav Maga a couple of weeks ago, and surprisingly enough - I actually like it! It kicks my butt every workout - which is good. Very good. And I look forward to my classes - which I take about 5 - 7 classes a week - 5 days a week. Or at least I try to. So Tuesday will be very busy for me. And Wednesday will be exactly like that - minus the audition (unless I get anoth...

I play Maria the nanny in a small part on What About Brian , airing tomorrow night. And my part of Marta, Cameron Diaz housekeeper, in The Holiday was cut down so much I'm hardly even there! :( Oh well - it's a good movie anyway, so check it out! ;) Plus, I still get paid, so make this film a hit! :)

This week I had TWO auditions! One was a callback for a Wells Fargo c ommercial on Tuesday afternoon. It went well. It was a room full of people and I auditioned with a guy who had to do all the work. I just had to react off of him. I felt pretty good about it even though their reactions were pretty quiet. Then I had a straight to producers call for My Name is Earl . I was going in for a funny part of a masseuse named Tammy. Small but funny role. I felt like I did pretty great - but since it's Friday today and I haven't heard anything, I'm guessing I didn't get it. Oh well... Beverly Hecht Agency called to set up a meeting with me for next week. I'm meeting with them on Wednesday - the day before I meet with House of Representatives. Hopefully by this time next week I will have signed with a new agent - just in time for pilot season! :) This week has been pretty interesting. I received a "fan email" from someone in Germany requesting 2 autogra...