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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Well loyal friends, family & fans, another new year has
come and gone and for those of you who have been keeping up, it’s been an interesting one.
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted after reading
so many end-of-year recaps; Top Ten Films / Books /
Words / Good
things (OK, I don’t mind the good things so much),
encapsulating the year that has gone before us.
Since
pictures
speak at least 1000 words, in lieu of yet another lengthy diatribe,
this pictorial sum-up will give you a quick-n-dirty (figurative)
25,000.
Here' goes... January:
I went to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time.
Me & Sylvia Caminer at the ever-so-famous Egyptian Theatre
Makin' snow angels
February:
Held a “Thirty-Faux” Birthday party with good friends. Everyone
had
to show up with something “fake, faux, false, or otherwise, untrue.”
Colleen (fake tattoo & eyelashes) Terri (lashes & weave) and
me (faux tresses)
March:
Prepped to start production on A
PRETTY GIRL.
April:
Investors disappeared. I cried. A lot.
May:
A family emergency brought me to Florida for a month. My friend Guy
had his annual
kite party. What a blast!
Guy & his kite
on the glorious Clearwater Beach
June:
I directed a children's production of THE
MAGIC FLUTE for The Opera Company
of Brooklyn.
   
July:
My friend, Amy Axelson, and I decided to make a short documentary…
Me & Amy
… about bikini waxing. 
My dog Bailey
went to go live with my cousin Susan in Connecticut. I miss her something
fierce,
but I know she’s happier in the country with room to run, kids to entertain
her and another dog to keep her company.
Bailey & her new sister, Casey
August:
Amy, Suzanne (our Editor) and I
spent two months whittling down 24 hours of footage into a 20-minute film.
A view of the editing screen
September:
My brother and his wife celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary with
a big party in North Carolina.
Could be the cutest damn family ever...
October:
We finished the film and started submitting it to film festivals (no
word yet… stay
tuned.)
November:
I wrote a 50,000 word novel as part of an international writing challenge.
December:
I started a blog.
We had our first Friends-n-Family screening of WHY
WE WAX...
The Teeming Masses...
Amy & Suzanne, our brilliant Editor & Co-Producer
Janet, Lillian (my APG Producer) and me
Alex (our Sound Editor), Bob, Linda & Neeta (our Music Supervisor)
...and we launched the new
website for the film. As soon as we start
getting festival acceptances, screening dates, press, news, and
all kinds of other updates: we’ll
start posting them there. So check back from time to time for all the latest
and greatest in ’08… est. (Okay, that was terrible, I know!)
I spent Christmas back in Florida with the fam… 
My parents. 40 years together and still as
much in love as the day they first met!
…
and New Year’s with my posse.
Terri, Me, Mara & Colleen
And thus concludes my yearly sum-up!
According to my
horoscope, 2008
is supposed to be a year of foundation-building for 2009, which is
supposed to be my most incredible year, ever. OK. I'm
going to choose to believe that and use it as inspiration to
get things moving again for A
PRETTY GIRL: a new rewrite, the Indiewood 'shuck and jive'
and finger-crossing for loads of money-raising karma.
So, to stay on the pulse of all that exciting foundation-building
action, stay tuned to She
Shoots to Conquer: The Blog. You'll also get a hefty helping of rants,
ramblings, photos, personal and film updates, recipes, adventures and divertissements,
all to keep you amused for roughly 3 minutes a day.
So be sure to come back for seconds! And when you do stop by,
let me know you’re
lookin’ and say 'hi'! It increases your own comment-karma!
I hope you and yours are off to a splendid start to 2008!!!
Much love...
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Kimberly M. Wetherell
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