It has been several days since I updated you on what was happening. As you can see from the quick and dirty post last week, I participated in my first fashion show on Sunday, July 5th. It was a lot of fun and I owe it all to my friend Divos who gave my name to the promoter as a possible model candidate. I was very nervous as I had not done anything like this before. That first and only photo shoot I had months ago was a disaster as the photographer never told me what to do with my eyes and most the pics were bad due to my eyes being in some weird position.

Luckily there were a couple of rehearsals with the guys and Baz made a duplicate of the catwalk and staging area so we could practice on our own for a couple days if we needed it. That helped me a lot! Vanyel also bought be a Huddle which is used to help with the walks and poses and Decker was able to walk me through the process of setting it up and made the config card for me. I would not have looked so polished in the show if it weren’t for their generous help and assistance.

The show consisted of three separate looks for each of the 10 models. So we each walked the runway three times. The first time during the show, I was so nervous, I barely saw the crowd in front of the runway. I was so focused on making sure I stopped at the right spot and used the Huddle to pose, I only saw shapes. The second time I felt a little more comfortable and was able to quickly scan the crowd during the 10 seconds or so I was at the end. I saw Divos in front but was trying to find Vanyel. Just as I turned to head back down the runway, I saw Vanyel at the side of the stage. Yay!

The third time I felt a lot more comfortable and was able to really enjoy the experience. I was able to see more of my friends in the audience and was getting the hang of the whole Huddle thing. During the final pass when we all walked on stage together, Van had positioned himself at the perfect spot. I was stopped right in front of him for my final pose.

I am not sure if I will do much more modeling as it is not something I am aggressively pursuing, but if the opportunity presents itself again, I know I will be much more confident.

Right after the show, Van and I had to head over to the pool at Club Thunder as the pool party was about to start. I was scheduled to fill in for DJ Kelly that evening. The first DJ set went well and I really needed a nap during the second DJ set. So I signed off for a couple hours and took a brief snooze. My set started at 9pm. I had about three hours of songs queued up in the playlist but the first hour sort of morphed into a request hour. I was having good luck finding the songs people asked for and was able to get them in the queue pretty quickly. I had a few challenges and could not find every single song, but it seemed at least to me the crowd was happy.

Monday’s Afterhours was also a lot of fun. We were at The Manor which we generally use for the Monday events. This week though it was going to pull double duty as the site for the Full Moon Party on Tuesday night.

Tuesday’s party was a blast. People really seemed to enjoy it and it was nice that the tip jars we set up for the dancers were actually working as planned.

Wednesday I spent some time putting together a playlist for Afterhours later that evening. I wanted to mix things up a bit so I was not known as a DJ that plays the same songs over and over. I came up with a pretty decent playlist at least I think so. Afterhours was scheduled to start at 10pm. At around 7:15pm I lost power at my house. The whole neighborhood went dark so I called Van immediately and told him why I had suddenly disappeared. Normally power outages only last an hour or so if that long, so I was not in any type of panic. As it started to get closer and closer to 9pm, I called Van and said he should look for a replacement or cancel the Afetrhours party. He was able to secure Jared as the DJ. Cool!

At around 9:40pm my power finally came back up. After getting things back to normal in my house and making sure the internet was back up I was able to get signed on by around 9:55. Jared and Van were already at the club so I was able to just enjoy the party. I guess I will use the playlist on Friday afternoon when I fill in for Mirah at The Lair.