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storytimewithjoe“Gee Joe,” a good friend says to me. “I haven’t seen you in AGES. Where you been hidin’?”
Seriously, I just have to laugh! Questions like this just make me chuckle – not because the question is funny, but because formulating an answer is anything but easy. To put it mildly, our lives are anything but boring, and certainly don’t fit into the norm – at least not when chatting with many of our friends.
Let’s look at a snapshot of a typical week for us at the Claycomb. Towards the tail end of last week, we had a bit of chaos in the house, as about 20 film students from Chapman College were filming some sort of period flick at the house. One might think this involves a bunch of kids with a hand-held video camera in one of the rooms running through a scene. Oh… but no. These are the future filmmakers of Hollywood. And they have the equipment. A typical shoot involves a moving van showing up sometimes at 6:00am, a crew to move furniture around, props, massive lights set up outside the windows, tracks to roll equipment, computers, sound systems, network set-ups, etc., etc., etc. When I say chaos, it is just that!
While that is happening at home, I am usually most often either at the gym, or have one of those rare at-home moments where I get to work on some sort of domestic project – sausage-making, calligraphy/illumination, embroidery, sewing, cheese-making, etc. This all comes into play for weekends such as this past one where I don 15th century clothing to spend a day as a Renaissance nobleman with other medievalists enjoying the collision of past and present.
This week, hubby and I are in negotiations with a different film crew, and will meet with them briefly to discuss another shoot. And then on Friday we head off to a hot-jock event at one of the semi-local bars before leaving that to head off to an overnight stay aboard the Queen Mary for a little mini-getaway. Then on Sunday, I get a break while my hubby goes off to be filmed as an extra in “Where the Bears Are”.
I can’t say this is usual – I can’t say this is unusual. This is just a snapshot in our lives. And ya know… I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I heart my life almost as much as I heart my hubby! And I wouldn’t trade it for anything!
Seriously, I just have to laugh! Questions like this just make me chuckle – not because the question is funny, but because formulating an answer is anything but easy. To put it mildly, our lives are anything but boring, and certainly don’t fit into the norm – at least not when chatting with many of our friends.
Let’s look at a snapshot of a typical week for us at the Claycomb. Towards the tail end of last week, we had a bit of chaos in the house, as about 20 film students from Chapman College were filming some sort of period flick at the house. One might think this involves a bunch of kids with a hand-held video camera in one of the rooms running through a scene. Oh… but no. These are the future filmmakers of Hollywood. And they have the equipment. A typical shoot involves a moving van showing up sometimes at 6:00am, a crew to move furniture around, props, massive lights set up outside the windows, tracks to roll equipment, computers, sound systems, network set-ups, etc., etc., etc. When I say chaos, it is just that!
While that is happening at home, I am usually most often either at the gym, or have one of those rare at-home moments where I get to work on some sort of domestic project – sausage-making, calligraphy/illumination, embroidery, sewing, cheese-making, etc. This all comes into play for weekends such as this past one where I don 15th century clothing to spend a day as a Renaissance nobleman with other medievalists enjoying the collision of past and present.
This week, hubby and I are in negotiations with a different film crew, and will meet with them briefly to discuss another shoot. And then on Friday we head off to a hot-jock event at one of the semi-local bars before leaving that to head off to an overnight stay aboard the Queen Mary for a little mini-getaway. Then on Sunday, I get a break while my hubby goes off to be filmed as an extra in “Where the Bears Are”.
I can’t say this is usual – I can’t say this is unusual. This is just a snapshot in our lives. And ya know… I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I heart my life almost as much as I heart my hubby! And I wouldn’t trade it for anything!
