Tuesday, February 22, 2011

And so, the trip from Hell begins....

Ok, well, it didn't start out quite that bad, but it was close. I didn't get as booked up on this trip as I had hoped, and I already had 2 cancellations before I even packed, so you can see that I'm a little concerned about the financial aspect of this trip. I'm trying to be positive, though, as anything can happen on these trips, and often times bookings come through while you're on the road. I'm spending every minute that I'm not in the car or shooting, scouring the web for work.

I was originally supposed to leave Pittsburgh on Sunday, 2/20, and to Detroit to pick up Eric, but he called me that afternoon and told me to wait until Monday, because they had a blizzard. Great. Thanks, weather. So now, that meant that I had to drive 4.5 hours to Detroit on Monday, get Eric, pack up all of his shit in my car, and then drive 8.5 hours from Detroit to Knoxville. *sigh* I wasn't too pleased, but what are you gonna do? It wasn't anyone's fault. Weather happens.

I arrive in Detroit around 5pm (barf) and head to J.J. Plush's house to meet Eric. Eric, of course, isn't there. However, Tony Gotcuffs is there, so the 3 of us hang out while I wait for Eric to arrive. An hour and a half later, he finally does. Even though he is running late, he does pack up the car a lot quicker than I expected, and we left almost immediately. We do ok driving through Michigan, but once we hit Ohio, it was all downhill. There's a blizzard, the roads suck, and everyone is going 20mph. The ENTIRE way down through Ohio. We lost an hour and a half of travel time, and I wasn't too happy. I'm sure the raging pms that I was experiencing wasn't helping, but still......

Fast forward to 4am, and we FINALLY arrive at our hotel. We check in with no problem, get the gear out of the car, and get ready for bed. Let me just start by saying that the bathroom door doesn't close. I mean, not doesn't close like it just doesn't catch, and you have to hold it shut. No. It doesn't close because the width of the door is about 1 inch smaller than the door frame. Ok. Awk. Ward. I go in the bathroom to take a shower, and at some point when I was in there, Eric broke his bed. Don't ask me how, J.J. & I have our own theories, but I didn't really care. He was sleeping over there, broken bed or not.

Today when I woke up, I felt much, much better. I was rested, I drank a bunch of coffee, and slowly started to feel less cranky. I started checking emails, and unfortunately, it looks like my Black Dahlia shoot in New Orleans isn't going to happen. That sucks, because I really wanted to do it (I'm obsessed with the Black Dahlia), but now I had to rethink our route. Which I did, and when Eric woke up, we talked about it, and now have a different game plan. I did, however, FINALLY book a date with Tolstoy Tony in Tucson. We are going to shoot after the Vegas portion of our trip. Yay! We have been trying to hook it up for soooo long.

I had a 2 hour glamour shoot at 5pm, and Eric had a model coming to our room at 6pm for a shoot with him, so I had to hurry and get ready since I slept in and then dicked around most of the day. I started doing my make-up, and I guess I got really involved because whenever I truned around from the mirror, Eric had completey disassembled his bed and was starting to assemble the bondage chair that he made. The room looked a wreck, lol. *sigh* No worries, I knew that I would have to deal with it, so I will just delight in the clean up portion whenever that happens ;) I should have taken a picture. I will next time.

My shoot was really, really cool and a lot of fun! It actually went by pretty quickly. I saw some of the photos, and I really like them! I can't wait until they are emailed to me. I got back to the room and Eric was still shooting. He finished up quickly, and then we went to get food. We were starved! Ruby Tuesday's was right down the road, so that's where we went. I ordered a big bowl of pasta and the salad bar. I also ordered a lavander pear martini (I'm obsessed with lavander, too). It was dee-licious!

Now, it's time for bed. We head to Atlanta tomorrow, and I'm shooting with both Jacquelyn Velvets & Sleeperkid on Thursday.

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