I decided to help Carlos in a commercial for Jolly Ranchers new candy. We had to get equipment to film and so we did on Friday. On Saturday we had a group get together to get the filming started. We meet up at noon in North Hollywood. It was the house of Carlos cousin and the house was really close to me. I ended up taking my bike to the house because I didn't have my car to use. But since it was so close... I don't think I would have used it anyway. The whole group consisted of, Carlos, Marcelo (actor), Eric, Chris and me. We still had another person, a friend of Carlos coming in later in the day. She would be the actress in the commercial. We started setting up the living room and moving all the furniture around to make space for what we were going to film. We started we the outside scenes. We had everything ready and were about to start recording on the P2 cards until we hit the record did we find a problem with the camera. It didn't want to record and would say there was an error. I looked through the settings over and over again and could not find anything. To get around this problem, Carlos and Marcelo left to buy a DV tape to film. While they were gone, I still kept looking at the setting to see if there was something I could do to fix the problem. After a few minutes of doing this, I managed to changed some settings and finally made the camera to start recording. I called Carlos to tell him not to buy the tape anymore but he didn't answer his phone. Then I tried calling Marcelo but he also didn't pick up his phone. It was a few minutes afterward that Marcelo called back. I told them not to buy it but they ended up buying it in case we continued to have any other problems to the P2 cards. It didn't take too long to film our scenes outside of the house so we quickly moved in to film the shots inside of the house. These shots took a bit longer because we had to fix the lights and make sure everything was good. At about 3:30 pm Carlos ordered pizza for everyone. We kept working on filming until the pizza came so then we took a break. We took a nice long break and just talked and planned for what we were going to do next. At around 5pm we had Carlos friend finally get there. We were still in the process of getting done with all the scenes without her, but we were near. We didn't finish until about 7pm. David called me to see if we were still going to go to Ariel's and Joe's party. He was in orange county... a little far... but he managed to get to me within an hour. He came and got me and we went over to the party. We had some food, apple cider and watched xmas movies. I also got a few gifts from Ariel... which I wasn't expecting at all. After that we just came over to Dave's place to sleep.
On Sunday, Dave had to go into work for a few hours to work on something. He dropped me home and he would get me later to go eat. When he did finish at work, he got me and we went out to eat pupusas. After that we went to his place and just relaxed. We watched tv and I eventually fell asleep while watching fox 11 Sunday night shows. I did ended up waking up because Carlos called me asking about the footage from Saturday. We eventually went to sleep at about 11pm but I couldn't fall asleep. I stayed awake until about 1am. I don't remember falling sleep... but glad I did.
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