The Days Soldier On

Well...I am almost there. 6 Days left till this brace is finally shed. The scar is healing quite nicely. I have come up with a sexy scar cover story or two to give to the ladies..when I can finally meet some. ERIC HAS AN ICE BREAKER! Not really a great one though...ANYWAY!! I am doing a lot of sitting around the house. But you guys already know that. I rented Transformers for PS2 and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for GameCube. Transformers is a good game. Lots of cool extra features if you take the time to get them..stuff like getting to watch old "Knowing Is Half The Battle" commercials from Transformers in the 80's. GREAT STUFF. The Final Fantasy game sucked...like if someone gives it to you as a gift...you could prolly trade it for a stick of gum or something and get more enjoyment. I am stranded at home with my parent's and it wasn't even interesting enough to keep me entertained long enough to avoid contact with them for a few hours. I am doing quite well as far as surviving the madness. My parent's are working hard at driving me completely bonkers..but I will survive. They want me and a couple of my friends to live here after they move out and pay them rent and stuff. They can't understand that that is the last thing any of my friends want to do...live in a beat up trailer out in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO LIVE HERE. But I am going to make it. My ex-roommate/ex-best friend finally payed me the money he owed me and we had a uncomfortable yet civil conversation that lasted about 15 minutes. My birthday is a week away. Next Friday August 6th. My brother has already bought my present and is lording it over me like there is no tomorrow. I really do feel that life is reverting. I am trying not to be jealous of the completely mobile people I talk to occasionally...but it seeps in when you least expect it. My friend Melissa is getting married on August the 14th. She came and visited me yesterday and we talked for like 3 hours. I am happy she is happy. My laptop has yet to return to me from the clutches of the evil that is dell computer corporation. And..that's my posting.

Rough Week(modified)

  So I was talking to my parent's on the way to my Uncle Jimmy's Mother's viewing and some things got clarified.  This week we lost 3 people to cancer, one from old age, and one from undetermined causes.  And I actually don't remember meeting any of them.  It turns out that my Uncle Bob's father didn't come when we went to Disney.  It was his brother and his sister who he had lost contact with.  I just forgot.  I really did think his father came.  I just remember it being a big deal for Bob cause it was family he had lost contact with for a really long time.  So it's just been a really rough week....not really on me..but on everyone around me...which affects me greatly.  Then there is the whole stress of the not getting the money from my butt-hole of an ex-bestfriend/roommate.  He obviously went out of town the week that I found out about the check bouncing.  So he supposedly got back today...but still doesn't answer his cell phone.  I will continue to harrass him until I get my money.  Even if I have to show up opening night of his show and wait by his car until I can talk to him.  What can I say...that's almost my entire rent...can't let that go by.  My knee is fine, healing nicely.  Got some vitamin E today to put on it and help it heal faster and the scar look less scary.  Other than that things are good...really.  But could you guys do me a favor...no one else die.  Just this once...for me.  Later

Rough Week

Well it has been a really rough week.  This week alone 5 people that my family kn0ws in one way or another died.  We lost 2 to cancer, 1 to old age, and I am really not sure how the other two died to tell you the truth.  I only knew one of them...a little.  It was my dad's best friend Bob's father.  I think of Bob as an Uncle.  I once took him, his father, his sister, and his son Josh to Disney. (When I worked there)  We had a great time.  Bob had just caught up with his father...he didn't know him when he was growing up...I don't know the whole story..but I think he grew up in an orphanage.  So that's the only person that has died this week that I knew at all.  It's just a wierd feeling to watch my parent's have that many people die in a week that they knew.  To have to watch them try to decide whose funeral they will go to cause there are so many scheduled at practically the same time.  Everything will work out soon..I am just hoping we don't get anymore phone calls with bad news for a few weeks.  My knee is feeling pretty good.  Brace comes off in 11 days.

Edens Lost

  Yesterday was a great day.  Even though the title of this entry and some of the information in it may sound sad...really it's not at all.  Billy came and picked me up and we went to Universal.  He cleaned out his car so we could get my immobile but into to it...even set up a little bed complete with magazines in the back for me to chill on the ride.  It was cool.  We got to Universal and went over to Jaws where I got to meet a few of the four thousand new hires and say hi to everyone that I already knew.  There was much poking fun at the Eric...but it was great...I miss those guys.  Then we went over to the Entertainment Trailer(T-65) and on the way we bumped into Chad, from casting, he walked up to me and asked how I was, what happened to my knee, and made sure I knew when Bill & Ted auditions were. Then when I told him I should be well enough to atleast audition by then, he seemed genuinely happy about it and we chatted for a minute about my knee and his wife, ending with him telling me to get better soon and he looks forward to seeing me at auditions. I feel as if I may have made an impact at my previous auditions...atleast enough to warrent him wanting me to make auditions. Can happiness boil?  Then we went on to T-65 and I tried to get in touch with Julie, Stage Manager for Halloween and stuff like that usually and an all around good friend of mine, but she wasn't there.  Then we came home.  I got on the phone with Dell to discuss my laptop issues only to find out, after about an hour and taking my entire laptop apart on my kitchen table, that the motherboard is fried.  They are going to fix it free of charge and I should have it back in about a week.  Now onto to this morning...I get a phone call.  "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO YOUR KNEE?!?!?"  It was Julie.  I explained everything and we talked for like half an hour.  Catching up.  In the end we had come to the conclusion that I will be involved with Halloween in some way, shape, or form and for me not to worry about it.  Now onto the Edens Lost part of the conversation.  Billy and I went to lunch and had a conversation with a girl that I have known since High School.  She was asking me about Moonlight stuff and I told her that I truthfully didn't know what she wanted to know because I am not doing anymore shows there.  I was talking to Billy about the whole situation and what lead me to that decision and I said something that Billy said was very poetic.   The reason why I am leaving Moonlight is because it isn't what it used to be for me.  When I used to get in a fight with my mom I would go there and I woudl feel better.  No matter what was bothering me in this world..when I went there everything was great.  It's not that way anymore.  If I feel miserable outside of that theater...I feel just as miserable, if not more-so, in that theater.  When I got so upset after Midsummer Casting, it had very little to do with that specific casting.  It was just a combination of everything hitting at once.  Not knowing why I wasted money on my college, things weren't good with my parent's, my friendship with Nathan was deteriorating, I was loosing faith in myself as an actor, my knees were acting up, just everything.  I went to auditions because I was trying to get away from everything..but all it did was makeme hurt more.  And it just hurts when you lose your Eden.  I no longer had my safe haven...and my second family.  I have made several friends there that I hope will stay with me for a lifetime...but the feeling of family with everyone involved is gone.  Especially after the surgery.  No one from what I thought of as my Moonlight family called to check on me, no one from there asked how I was, no one except for Jennifer...and she is one of my closest friends.  But the family I thought I had...it's gone.  I am very happy for the time I spent with them, and it allowed me to meet Billy, and brought Lu Lu, Cindi, and the whole gang together, but I am moving on.  I know how melodramatic the whole thing sounds, but that is really how I feel.  Auditioning at other theaters this year...cause lets face it...No one is ever gonna get "discovered" at moonlight.  It may not happen in Orlando theaters either...but I think there is a much better chance.  That's pretty much the end of the post for me.  Things are going great though.  17 days until I get rid of this acursed brace and am yet again among the mobile.

Worst Journal Ever

Ok...sorry everyone, (if any of you still exist), I will really try to do better.  My laptop is broken and getting on this fossil of my parent's for any purpose is annoying so I avoid it...I avoid it like I avoid... well... um.... currently... bending my left knee.  So, my life, Let's see.....I sleep, I get up, I eat, I watch some T.V., I eat some more, I talk on the phone, I watch some more T.V., I might play a video game, watch some more T.V., eat some more, I shower, and then I sleep and find myself doing this over and over again.  Such is life.  Who would have thought that a brace with "immobility" in the title would make me so....Immobile?  Billy visited me Saturday of last week making my week a lot brighter.  I really do appreciate everyone who has called, wrote, emailed, chatted, came by, ANYTHING.  REALLY you guys are keping me sane.  I went out today for pretty much the first timesince surgery.  It was nice.  I can actually get around ok...it's just getting me to places that is tricky. I never realized how often I acually NEED to bend my knee...wierd.  OH, and I figured out my financial situation too.  I won't get to into it...but someone that I was not at all happy with who I shall not name but if you know me or read my blog at all you can probably guess....wrote me a bad check.  When I got home from the hospital the were threatening to repo my car and all kinds of stuff because my car payment had bounced and my account was about 50 dollars overdrafted...all because this 200 dollar check bounced.  NOW...here is why I am upset.  I know everyone makes financial mistakes...understandable.  The check was rejected on June 11th...it is now...July 17th or so.  I didn't get my mail cause I was in the hospital and my former roommate was supposed to be telling me if anything from my bank or work came in...well he didn't.   I am mad because I AM SURE that person was notified that the check bounced...I should have recieved a call telling me that they are very sorry and they will get the money to me a.s.a.p.  I am out of  work...I just had surgery...they know that.  Act like a compassionate human being.  That's pretty much that.  My life is going pretty good...gotta get out more...the rents are driving me a little bonkers...but it's all good.  I get my brace off on August 5th, 3 weeks.  That means that the immobilation of my knee will be lessened by the removal of the immobilation brace!  YAY!  Eric can drive again!  YAY!  And that is my life...in an enormous coconut shell.  I will try to post more frequently.  Don't hate me.

Wierd

Ok boys and girls. The reason the blogs have become much more infrequent is because my laptop is broken. Lu Lu swears it is because it is a Dell...I don't think so. ANYWAY. I am doing much better. They took the staples out yesterday lessening the pain a great deal. I don't have the dress it anymore which is nice. AND I CAN TAKE SHOWERS! Which I am sure EVERYONE who has come within 50 feet of me in the past week is thankful for. That's pretty much it. I will try to get on this fossil that my parent's call a computer occasionally and blog but I am not making any promises. Blog soon. COME VISIT ME!