Where to start...
Saturday, March 14, 2009.
I woke up this morning hating life because I had gone to bed the night before at about 1:00 a.m. but I knew if I didn't get up now, I'd kick myself for not going to this casting call that I had been waiting for. My first surprise is that I didn't wake up my brother to go with me. Megan wasn't able to go and I was scared to go alone, yet when I woke up that morning, God told me to go alone. He said I needed too. I was driving down Laning and I saw the conference center in sight. "That line doesn't look bad for (pause) 8:00 a.m." I parked and when I saw the real line which was hiding behind the shopping center, I was in awe. There were so many people there and all just wanting to lose weight just like me.
I saw a girl walking by herself with a camp chair in her arm and that made me feel better knowing I wasn't going to be the only one not in a "couple." I walked up and I called Megan to ease my nerves. After we chatted for a few minutes, I got off the phone and sucked it up. I started chatting with the people around me. 9:45 a.m. rolled around. Yay! We're moving... Apparently they just wanted to move us out of the shopping center and wrapped us around the building. It was almost time for them to start the open call. They passed out very short applications that had a number in the corner. 255 was mine. Not bad, I was just about the half way mark. The website said they promised only to see the first 500 applicants. I could deal with that. One of the staff had told us that there were only about 370 to 400 people so far. I guess California really isn't a "fat" place.
12:30 p.m. We had found out that other cities had about 1000-1200 applicants and here we were. Around 400. We thought this process would go quicker since we just cut the normal number to about a third...Yet 2 1/2 hours later...I'm still standing...my legs hurt. I could have complained, but if I want this bad enough, I'll shut up and stand...
2:18 p.m. Were we ever going to get seen? At least we had made it around the building and we were getting close. The girl I saw walking earlier, Chantrell actually walked into the nail shop in the shopping center and got a fill!! I thought that was hilarious. The sad part, we barely moved while she was in there for about 45 minutes. At this point, we had sort of formed a friendship standing next to strangers for about 6 hours. There was Chantrell. She was the girl who just wanted to look down (and I quote) and see her "privates." (She told that to the casting director too). Then there was Karen. She was a teacher at Miller Elementary. How funny was that! Some of my girl scouts go there. Agnes. What a sweet, sweet woman. She was a filipina, so naturally I took to her and the crazy thing is I would have never known her real age! Miss Utah, Sarah. She was very sweet and she had this poster board with a bunch of pictures of her. I thought it was just great, that was pretty clever of her and a good way to let them remember her. She actually came in from Utah for this casting call! Chrissy was next. I thought she was such an amazing person. We were talking about her marriage and her daughter, who was a girl scout. We started talking about booth sales for Girl Scout Cookies. Then there was Sony and Margarite. They were the only team there. They were so much fun to watch. They bounced humor off each other like me and my best friend, Sarah. Such great women...
3:44 p.m. We're finally in! We're in this foyer, seperated into three groups, 2 sets of 8 and one group of 6. I got seperated from the girls, but they still cheered me on as we walked right into the conference hall. My casting director was DJ. He seemed like a cool laid back guy. "Hi everyone, thank you for coming to our open casting call. Let's start with your name, age, hometown, and occupation." Okay, that's an easy way to start. Then he moved on to "Tell me why do you want to lose weight." One woman was talking about how she put it off, another mentioned wanting to join the military, one man seriously said he wanted to not cut himself while shaving in places the sun didn't shine and then it came to me. I had to be honest, "I just want to get married, and have kids. Even if I get married, I don't want trouble with pregnancy due to my weight. And if I have kids, I don't want to raise them with the same issues I had growing up. I was raised here in California and it's not kind to overweight people." "Thank you all for coming. We'll be doing call backs by 8:00 p.m. If you don't hear from you, don't be discouraged, you can still send in a tape, 2-3 minutes long letting us know more about you."
4:01 p.m. I was walking out. I wasn't sure if I caught his eye, but it was the truth and the truth is all I could give. They either like me or they don't. The other girls came out right after I did. We exchanged emails and wished each other luck. It really was a great time. Now...I was to wait.
6:30 p.m. I fell asleep when I got home because it was an early day and a long day. Plus I didn't have to be at my friend Billy's house until later. That's my lady, she will never let me down... That song started going off. My phone was ringing. It was a number I didn't know..was this it?!
"Hello?"
"Hi, Belle?"
"Yes?"
"This is DJ, a casting director with Biggest Loser."
"Oh my goodness. Are you kidding?! Is this real?!"
They wanted me for a call back!!! Is this God's plan? Is this what he has in store for me?! I had a call back set for March 15 at 4:30 p.m. and I was to expect an email with details to come. Wow...I just had to call my friends. God is blessing me and it's obvious. What is he going to bring to my life next...
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