As excited as I am, I think today could only get better; Yesterday I knew I had 17% of my personal budget hit, and I was somewhat getting discouraged. I knew I had to hit 25% by the end of that day. Luckily I took an inbound froma guy who had an outstanding balance on his credit card, and thank goodness he wanted to pay it. Though not the full balance, he paid $1,171.16 . Taking that payment put me at 35% of my budget and that was an 18% jump from 17%. I was so excited, and we only just started receiving our good inbounds, so this week will/should be good. Wish me luck!?
When I am off my probation budget for month 2 my full personal budget will be $5459.90 (this is going to suck, I need luck for this, Lol). This will test me, because using my factor and my hourly wage, I think if I get paid more, I might not want the raise until I know I'm good, haha.
I'm glad I work at 2pm today, gives me time to get some things done with, and out of the way. I actually talked with the studio audio engineer and we've been talking about prices and some specials we would like to offer to bands/groups who record with us. so I think I may work up a price sheet sometime this week, and see what he thinks. So far we have some good ideas with it, so be ready!
Other stuff on my mind is mainly me being single, still. It's getting to be somewhat annoying, but I deal. I have my friends and people I talk to so yeah, I am good for now... Though I like sweet down to earth girls who can be mature about anythnig. So we will see what happens.
I figured I would post the current movie script up, and let you all take a look. (For those who haven't read it already). And for those who have, another look to maybe get a new idea from the movie.So here's the script :]
Tragic Unhollywood, based on zombies, the effect of a major unexplained disaster, and the hormonal boundaries that will be broken when death threatens a love and close bond between two young people. Tragic Unhollywood is full of blood, gore, and a fight scene that will make you feel as though you were involved in it yourself!
Intro:
Patrick wakes up, vision blurry from being un-conscious. Vision slowly fades to normal and he slightly sits up and grabs his camera, and begins rewind the video to play it back from attempting to make a new video diary from the night before. He notices his half-empty bottle of Captain Morgan sitting next to his keyboard on the desk. He grabs the cap and slowly screws it back on.
"Shit, what the fuck happened" Patrick says, confused about why he woke up flat on his back in his computer chair.
He hooks up his camera to his computer and watches the video he did, but doesn't remember.
[Video]
"Hello to anybody who watches these stupid things."
"Here's to another night of my parents fighting" *tips the bottle of C/M back and takes a big gulp.
"I really wish I could just go see Kayla, but I know for one she wouldn't like me coming over drunk, and two wouldn't like me getting her in trouble for waking anybody up in the house." Patrick says sadly.
Thinking he hears his parents fighting, he groans and puts on some music, and hums along for a second. Taking another sip of C/M he smiles and says "Yep, this shall be a long night, good thing I got this today" *holds up the bottle*
"I saw Kayla today at work. She came up with some subs she made us. I swear she is the best. I don't know what I would do without her." he says as his eyes water from how happy she makes him.
"In 2 weeks it will be our 2 year anniversary, isn't that great!" he says with excitement.
"I think it is amazing. I hope she likes what I have planned. She doesn't even know I have anything planned yet, so I am sure she will."
(Video gets fuzzy for a few seconds then fades back in)
"What the fuck, there's something serious going on... I am not sure what it is" he says worriedly.
"There's some kind of rustling noise outside the window, and I don't like it... I will be right back"
*Patrick walks away for a minute*
(Loud slam and some more rustling noises)*Patrick rushes back and says, "There's something outside... "
*camera catches Patrick taking one big guzzle of C/M and then falling back and passing out*
(Camera batteries die)
[/Video]
"What the hell, what was this about?" Patrick asks himself.
*Patrick turns around, to barely catch a glimpse of the shadow. Looking around the house, he is frightened with what he see's.*
(Clothes, Dust, books, trash, and blood everywhere. Quite honestly confused on what is going on.)
*He looks down, and picks up his camera.*
"Fuck" he says as a pin stabs him in the finger.
*Shakes it off, then continues to look through the camera.* (Rewinding, but finding nothing but static.)
*Fiercely turns his head, to hear the door knob being messed with. He creeps up to the window*
(Only to see his family in the yard going wild Covered in blood, throwing things like crazed maniacs; and quite frankly he is too scared to go and see what is going on. He hears his phone ring. Slowly reaches down to his pocket, grabs it.
"Oh god, baby I'm so scared, where....." the phone call ends.
"What the fuck is going on????" He screams.
The television isn't working, civilians are running crazy. There is blood on the streets.
Riiiiiiiiiingggg....riiing...riiiiiinnnnnnnng.
"Hi this is Kayla, sorry I’m obviously NOT answering my phone *snicker* so umm, yeah leave a message fer sure." Kayla's voicemail message said. Kayla didn't answer her phone.
Adam addition:
Fumbling with his phone, Patrick crawls back to his computer clicks save on the video import on his computer, then makes a side note that there's something weird going on and that he is going to investigate; He then notes the time, date, and that he cannot reach Kayla.
*bracing himself with the edge of the desk he stands up and shakes off his amnesia.*
"Okay, here we go" he says as he reaches for the door knob.
*turns the lock, then turns the knob and opens the door cautious to not let it make a noise and not alert anything outside the door.*
Shocked, and appalled "What in the fuck happened?" He says as he looks at all the blood, and torn up furniture everywhere.
"Did I really not notice any of this?" He quietly asks himself
"Sarah...?" he yells.
(Silence)
"Mom....Dad?" he yells again.
Worried, he runs to his sisters room, to find nothing and then to his parents.
*Fondling for his phone in his pocket again he calls Kayla’s cell once more,
riiiiiing...riiiiiing...ri-"Baby, please you HAVE to help me.... I'm bleeding....Something has happened to everyone in the house and I cut myself while trying to get in the closet." Kayla says crying.
"What happened? I don't understand... nobody is at my house and I have been passed out and I wake up to all this..." Patrick says confused.
"I don't know either baby, there's blood all over in the house and I just wish I weren't here in this house. Please come get me?" Kayla says, trying to hold in her sniffles.
"I'm on my way; I have to get my keys really quick. But I will be there in no time; will you stay on the phone with me though?" Patrick says, trying to be calm.
"Of course, I was hoping you would stay on with me!" Kayla states.
*Patrick, frustrated, goes to get his keys and finds them all bloody along with his parents and a note saying that his parents love him and his sister so much and how they miss James... he reads the note to Kayla and then runs to the from door with it and his keys in hand. Takes a look out the window first, and sees bodies running everywhere. [His eyes begin to water when he notices his parents hanging from a tree half devoured and ripped to shreds.]*
"Baby, my parents are dead... I can see them... I don't know where Sarah is though." Patrick says sadly to Kayla.
"Oh my god, baby, I am so sorry... I love you; we have to go find your sister!" She says.
Patrick replies, "I'm on my way... " *Patrick turns his head as he pulls out the drive way and notices his sister under his dad's truck with her arms torn off...* "Oh My GOD! She's dead! Kayla my sister is gone too..."
"Come to me, I am really sorry... We will figure this all out when we're together" She says back.
*Kayla is then frightened by a noise of barking and faint moans from another room.*
"What's going on there Kayla?" He asks...
*driving franticly trying to swerve around all the demolition and bodies ... all the bodies walking around in a zombie-like state-of-mind. He begins looking around at all the cars wrecked, the fires burning.*
*Quickly, he locks the doors, hits the breaks, turns to his back seat & grabs a back-pack that has a CD case with CDs in it... He takes out a mix CD he has made then slides it into his CD player. Taking a second to breathe and think... He takes a deep breath, and begins driving again.*
"Calm down, calm down... I just need to get to Kayla" He says quietly to himself.
*Patrick continues to drive and notices that his phone when dead... he plugs it into his car phone charger, and turns it back on. He checks his gas, as he comes to a red light [he wonders why he even stopped...] so he drives off from the red light, and pulls onto the connecting road to go to Kayla's house. He starts to drive faster when he notices there are more corpses walking around, he then reaches for his phone and as he does it begins to ring.*
He answers the phone and says "Hello?"
"Baby, how far are you from my house?" She asks.
"Maybe 4 minutes, depending on traffic" he sort of laughs as he says this, hoping to make her feel a little better.
"What's that supposed to mean?" She asks him with a sniffle.
"Kayla, there's bodies and destruction everywhere... There's nobody driving, much less alive." He replies with a cold chill down his back.
*Patrick tells Kayla he is on her road and he will come in and get her, then he pulls into her drive way and asks her where she is at in the house*
"I'm hiding in my closet" She tells him.
*Patrick opens the front door, and is disgusted by the site.*
[blood everywhere. a hand hanging from the inside of the door handle, he then covers his nose and runs to Kayla's room and suddenly remembers how she mentioned something was banging around in her room... so he opens her door slowly and yells Kayla's name.*
"Patrick" she yells back in relief of him being there.
*Kayla then tries to push open the closet door and is unable to get it open*
"Patrick, I can't open the door"
*Patrick opens the bedroom door all the way and notices and body lying against the door... Not of anybody he knows though. He grabs the ankle and drags the corpse away from the door and grabs the closet door and opens it.*
*Kayla rushes out and gives him a huge hug.*
"I was so worried you weren't going to make it, or something happened to you" She cries.
*They hug for a little while longer then they kiss and they make their way back to his car through all the bloody mess. Patrick opens the passenger side door and locks it when Kayla gets in, he then tells her he is going to grab her some clothes and whatever else they may need, and she tells him to be careful.*
"I will baby, don't worry, there's a knife under your seat incase something happens." He tells her.
*Patrick goes back in gathers her clothes, tooth brush, deodorant; then brings it out to her, and goes back in for some food. Patrick here's a slam in the garage, but ignores it. He grabs another back from Kayla's room, puts canned food, bread and other food into the bag, He goes into Kayla's foster-parents room, and searches for a gun or baseball bats, luckily he sees an open drawer and looks in it and finds a small box that he opens and finds a gun. He takes it and also takes the 3 extra boxes of bullets. Wraps it in a hoodie he has on, then runs out the his car, puts it all in the back seat, gets in the driver seat and locks all the doors.*
"I got your dad's gun, ok?" He says to her.
"My dad had a gun?" She asks.
"Yeah, but I got it, and now we have to go get gas..." He says back.
*Kayla gets a worried gleam in her eye and then brushes it off, then says ok let's hurry. She then asks where they are going to go.*
"We'll go to my work, hide out there, and find out what we're going to do." He replies.
"Okay, but are you sure we will be able to get in? I mean, what if others decided to go there also?" She asks.
"Well then we will just hide out with them, but I doubt that anybody else would have thought to go hide out there." Patrick says back, “I mean it's not the first place the other workers would have thought to go to. At least I hope not."
*Patrick and Kayla stop for gas on their way to Patrick's work and they fill up the tank, and luckily the store had extra gas cans so they filled up for of those as well. They get back on the road after not encountering anybody at the gas station, as they get back on the road they realize they are very close to his work after about 10 minutes. They only stop at red lights to check down other roads to see if there is anybody running around that isn't just a lifeless corpse, but as for that, they find nothing empty streets, cars with headlights on that have been abandoned. They pull into Patrick’s work and see nobody in the parking lot.*
"No bodies here, that's a good and bad thing, but we will manage, you get your clothes, I will get everything else." Patrick tells Kayla.
"Okay baby, but can you please go check inside to make sure nobody is here, for sure?" Kayla asks Patrick.
"Of course, I was going to anyways..." Patrick says with a worried tone.
*Patrick grabs the gun and a flashlight, kisses Kayla and tells her he loves her, then gets out of the car, locks all the doors and then goes in and checks every where. Patrick's nerves are racked and he is nervous but comes to find nothing. No blood, no corpses, no massacre. Patrick begins to wonder if Kayla is ok, so he rushes back outside and sees a few bodies barely walking, more like stumbling around, so he shoots one and runs to his car and hands Kayla his keys, tells her to run inside and hold the door for him as he grabs all the bags and locks his car.*
"Hurry up Patrick, their not normal, something is seriously going on here." She says with a sad look on her face.
"We'll stay here for a little while and try to figure out what is going on, hopefully we can get out of here and go down the road and get a hold of someone at the lab to figure out what is going on." He says in a reassuring tone.
"Okay, that sounds good to me, until then will you just hold me, and talk to me?" She asks.
"Yeah, duh" He says to cheer her up, "Why wouldn't I?"
*Kayla ignores his reassurance and cuddles close to Patrick and kisses his shoulder then covers up with a small blanket they had brought with them in Kayla's bag. Patrick ends up not wanting any blanket but he keeps the flash light and gun next to him, since they didn't want to turn on the lights.*
"Kayla" Patrick says
"Yes?" Kayla asks
"Do you remember when we met? The times we spent just holding each other and laughing about the stupidest shit?" He asks her, trying to take her mind away from everything that is going on.
"How could I forget? Those days were amazing, and each day since has gotten even better. I will never forget those days." She says back to him.
"Chocolate puffs cereal" Patrick says, holding in a laugh.
*Kayla smirks and begins to laugh because she remembered the time Patrick ate breakfast with her at her house and he had to cough and sneeze at the same time he had a mouth full of Chocolate Puff Cereal and chocolate milk squirted out of his nose, flinging small chunks of cereal onto his shirt.*
"You're such a goof, even in the worst of times, but I really love you baby!" Kayla says back to Patrick.
"I have to be, that way I can make you feel better no matter what." Patrick says as he turns his head, "Right?"
"Right and I love that you can always make me better!" She says with a smile on her face.
"I will be right back, I have to use the bathroom, and I am also going to go check outside really fast to see what's going on" He says.
"Would you mind if I come with you?" She asks.
"You can come if you would like, I know you're just worried... C'mon." He says back, "You will have to hold the flash light though."
"I'll hold it, don't worry."
"Okay, good" Patrick says with a grin.
*They walk out of the office into the pool side entrance to the men’s locker room and as they walked in Kayla pointed the flashlight into the small room just before you go into the locker room and aimed it at the door. Patrick grabbed the other door handle and got a cold, wet chill down his neck and opened it only a crack as they heard a small bang against one of the walls, Patrick tells Kayla to wait there but to aim the flash light inside the locker rooms. Patrick then walks in and searches for where the noise came from but found nothing, so he says it is ok for Kayla to come in. Kayla walks in and finds him then holds the flashlight for him to see to use the bathroom.*
"I love you Patrick" Kayla says.
"I love you too, although saying this to you while I'm peeing will make for a funny story..." Patrick says with a grin.
