Interesting day yesterday

It began as any normal day - with a phone call at 7:30 am. Ew. It was Jericho's agent letting me know that he needed to be on set at 8:42 pm (Why didn't they just say 8:45... who knows). I guess she figured I needed the 13 hour notice. She called back 15 minutes later and said they had moved it to 5:00 pm due to the child labour laws. A newborn baby HAS to leave the set by 10:00 pm. She called again 5 minutes later and said nevermind - make it 3:00 pm. Argh. So we proceeded to get up and do all our normal morning activities. Nate hasn't been feeling well these past couple days and yesterday at 2:00 pm he was just getting up. He was up more in the night than Jericho and I! He had wanted to come with us and see Jericho's second job, but I told him he should stay home as he still looked green. So we left at 2:40 pm, without Daddy. Twenty minutes later I was wishing he was there. We had to park at a church about 2 minutes from the set and get shuttled to the hospital which was where they were filming. If any of you recall, yesterday it was POURING out. I got out of the car and was drenched a second later. I got the baby out and found Nate's rain jacket in the back of the car - score! No, I didn't plan well for myself. To make a long story short, I was frustrated with lots of things. For one, I have never put the car seat base in or out of the car. If I had stopped to look at it I would have figured it out eventually... but I was flustered and stressed. Many people would be shocked and horrified that I just held tight to my baby's carseat in the shuttle. I'm ashamed, yes. But I just didn't know what else to do. And the assistant director was not expecting me until 8:40. Argh. But there were other people who knew I was coming earlier. I ended up in a cold room with just the baby, three folding chairs and a plastic table. People would ask me what I wanted, but I was fairly overwhelmed. All I could think of was how much I wanted Nate. So I borrowed a cell phone. When I called him he was still a little groggy and I told him I needed him. The problem was I had our car. He couldn't get a hold of my mom so he taxied on down. I have never been so happy to see him.

There were some really sweet people on set. This lady was a nurse and would watch Jericho while I went to get some dinner with the rest of the crew and she would burp him and bring me stuff to snack on a drink. This other girl who was also an extra demanded one of the crew guys to bring heaters into my room and insisted I stay in their room until mine was warm. That's where I learned of 696-1033. It's a rude phone number to give to people who are hitting on you who you don't like. It's mean. Anyhow. I keep making this story longer and longer, but it was a long day. We didn't end up going on set until 9:15 pm. Count 'em - 6 long hours! But he'll get paid for 8. The kicker is that if we had gone at 8:42 pm, he still would have gotten paid for 8. Argh. But - he did do a FABULOUS job. He basically played a brand new baby. This guy hands him to this actress and says, "Congratulations, it's a beautiful baby boy!" and she says "oh... Mitch should be here." Then he does these other shots with three different guys who may or may not be his father. And one was in full scary makeup. Like a monster of some kind. The first part he just STARED at his new mom. The director kept saying, "Close in on the baby, close in on the baby!" He didn't cry at all.

It was cool because this show will be running in the States starting in March and most likely will get picked up by CityTV sometime after that. It's called Blood Ties and Christina Cox is in it. She came into our room with Dylan Neal. She kept asking Jericho how old he was and what his middle name was. Lady, he can't quite talk yet...duh. And Mr. Dylan asked me if he was latching on alright. Not many men have asked me that. I thought it was a little weird.