happy playoffs. happy golden globes. happy sunday funday.

Talk about a busy Sunday.
Happy Playoffs! If ya wanna read about football, this is the wrong blog. Only thing I will say...I cried for RG3 last week.  Now, moving on.

Happy Golden Globes! Lets talk last year vs. this year. Last year PK and I watched it with our good guy friends from JMU. We drank champagne and watched it on our, what feels like, 7 inch TV. We had to sit in certain areas of the room to keep the signal on our antenna box(cause they have those now). We had been living in LA for 2 months. I was working my day job and just finished my first short film. Wanna hear that great story?

My first short film experience...I was cast without an audition. Red flag numero uno. The table read was at a bar. Red flag dos. They said they would make edits to the script so I wouldn't have to kiss another girl. Edits not made until I refused to do it on set. I ran to the grocery story to get props(isn't that the PA's job?). So you get the feel. But I learned from it and I met some great people!

This year. I am still watching the Golden Globes on our 7 inch TV..and I'm still sitting on the floor. But we mounted that box to the wall now, so I can sit anywhere I freaking want! I am not drinking champagne, so that's a let down from last year. BUT... good news is, is that I've been in LA for over one year! And I'm loving it. I have done one student film, which premiered at the Writers Guild of America, done my 2nd independent short(much better experience!), filmed a pilot presentation, modeled for "Home and Family" on the Hallmark Channel, and just wrapped an episode of "Unusual Suspects" for Investigation Discovery. Two more exciting bits...I got a commercial agent! AND I have my own website!  http://kaitlynbenetz.com/

When I was 14, I told myself I'd be on the Red Carpet at age 21. So I'm a couple years late but at least I'm going for it, right?

Happy Sunday Funday! While people use Sunday Funday for drinking that commences early a.m. with overflowing mimosas and Bloody Mary's, I use Sunday Funday to move my career forward(and then I have a mimosa). I woke up and headed to San Fernando Valley for an American Apparel themed photo shoot. Then went to Culver City for an audition to model a home good product! 

To me the best days are the ones that you get to do what you wish you could do every single day..but you can't yet. So when you do get those days, enjoy the hell out of them. And the more Sunday Funday's I have like today...the closer I get to not watching the Golden Globes on my floor and the closer I'll be to walking the Golden Globes floor. 

BOOM!

Photo Shoot with Ajay Jhaveri last week

I'd love to hear about your Sunday Fundays, so comment!

new and revamped blog...new and revamped me.

That being said...since we're all fresh here, I figured I'd re-introduce myself.

I am Kaitlyn Benetz. An actress. A sister. A daughter. A best friend. A writer. A jokester. A vodka soda drinker. A laugher.

I'm 24 years old and have been in Los Angeles, California for over a year. Talk about a big move, adios Virginia. I won't lie. It sucked in the beginning. But now...I really do love it.

That's just a taste of who I am and where I am. As far as content goes for this blog...it's going to be a wild ride. I want this to be a place where I can write about how great my coffee was today. How much I hate LA traffic. How I bombed an audition and more commonly, how I rocked an audition(sarcasm?). How much I miss my family. How much I love doing yoga super early in the a.m. Anything and everything goes. My blog, my rules.

While writing about such a wide range of things may not be good, it doesn't have to be bad. I was complaining to a good friend about how stressed I am when it comes to narrowing in on what I want to do, how to market myself, how to get to where I want to be. There is so much information out there, so many articles to read and blogs to peruse, that it is an information overload. Where do I begin?

So he said...'there are two people in this world, followers and leaders. It's not necessarily bad to be a follower, but you are a leader.' (I let out a sigh).
That was the first time anyone said that to me. And it may be a little hard for me to believe it, but this is going to be the start of my new mindset.

I'm going to be the leader of my own life. I can't really ask you to follow me after that last story... so just join me on my blog trip:-)

p.s. Wondering about the blog title? I'm a daisy. LA is a desert. Get it?