Life Lessons from a Total Failure by Dougherty M.J.;

Author:Dougherty, M.J.; [Dougherty, M.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: THE HODGE PODGE HOUSE PUBLISHER, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

“Deal or No Deal”

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

I

n the weeks that followed my day on Dexter, I continued doing more background jobs and found that I was really starting to love every minute of it. I worked on The Middle, The Mentalist, Bones, House, and Glee, to name a few shows, as well as a bunch of movies. Every time I was booked for something, I would get the biggest wave of excitement, but that excitement was nothing compared to how I felt the first time I ever saw myself on TV.

When the episode of Dexter aired, I found out because people started calling and texting me about it. I was really overjoyed. Okay, overjoyed is an understatement. When I saw the clip of me on that TV show, I was flipping out like the kids in those commercials for Disney World when they find out they're going. There was definitely some screaming and jumping up and down! Seeing myself, fat as I was, still brought out an excitement in me I have rarely ever felt before.

The icing on the cake was when I got the letter in the mail that said I was eligible to join the Screen Actors Guild a few months later. I was almost in disbelief. In just a few months, I got my SAG card and was considered a professional actor. I really felt that this might be something more than a temporary thing for me. A little inkling of a career in Hollywood started to pop into my brain, but I thought it was not acceptable to focus my energy on that. For now, it was a way to make money and to make things smoother for Pete when he arrived. I also felt it was important to make sure that my past was all squared away before making any real steps toward my new future. I wanted to make sure I had a line in the sand separating my pre-California life and now.

Working in Hollywood gave me a feeling of accomplishment, or at least the feeling like I could do something exciting with my life again. The feeling that I might be able to make my mom proud once more definitely started to seem like a goal within reach. I was definitely ready to start moving on with my life, but I was still quite a long way off from that happening. As much as I wanted to just pretend everything was all over with, it was pretty much impossible to do that, because Pete still hadn't left Scranton.

It had been more than three months, and Pete was losing his mind being stuck there, staying at people's houses, and not having any answers as to when he was going to get to leave. While Meg was in the process of getting the liquor license turned over to her name, she still couldn't secure the financing needed to pay for it. She had been giving us a lot of false reassurance about where she was in the process, but now we were seeing the truth.

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