Brian Bentley

We got home Saturday night around 5:45.

All the pictures are up (in a jumble) over at the Twinfo site.

The big news this week is that our show, “Premarital Sextet” has been extended for 2 more shows on November 15 and 29. We are the only show out of the Level 5 shows to extend so it’s a good thing for us.This week’s show was another sell-out and my friends Steve and Kristin were in attendence. Next week is graduation night and I have mixed feelings about the impending close of this experience.

Miles traveled: 2,470….

What else? I feel like I missed something. Oh yeah, Mason and Morgan are here. :)

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Morgan spent the night in the NICU, she’s fine now and went to the nursery this morning. Mom, Mason and Morgan finally all got to meet around 11:00 this morning.

I promise I’m not going to flood everyone with pics. I’ll have a couple more for this week’s posting and will also have a new gallery up for the rest of them.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and outpouring of love and support. We are so appreciative for all of it.

On 10/23/07

Mason Aaron Bentley (Codename Dirk) 6 pounds 4 ounces 19.5 inches long at 8:53 pm	Morgan Grace Bentley (Codename LeBron) 5 pounds, 10 ounces 19 inches long at 8:54 pm

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This week was a quick trip as I would leave and return within 24 hors. On the flight out to Burbank, I watched the pilot for the NBC show “Journeyman” on advice from Melinda and slept. Upon arrival, I realized I forgot to book my rental car online, but luckily they had cars for Hertz Gold members so I got an Impala. From the airport, I picked Todd up and we went off to dinner and then to Old Navy because somebody forgot to take his dry cleaning in time this week.

We had an 8:30 call time this week to re-work the choreography for our final song, or so we thought we were. Our choreographer Kerri Ann’s new stuff was too much to learn for the show so we enhanced what we had. There was a very weird, negative energy in the room.

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The week started with Melinda going to the doctor Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to have her blood pressure checked. It’s been running high and the doctor wanted to monitor her, but since Melinda is on bedrest her blood pressure goes through the roof when she’s up and around (or called into the doctor’s office). The doctor seems to think the twins could be here next week. We’ll see. Knowing it could be sooner than later, we decided on names for the dynamic duo Wednesday night.

Thursday, I took my car to shop before heading to the airport. The ABS light kept coming on randomly so I wanted to get that fixed ASAP. On the flight out, I slept and after landing I went to a quick dinner with Todd and Catherine. From there, I had to get to the theatre for our tech rehearsal and notes from 10:30 pm to 12:30 am.

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Before I get started, I completely forgot to tell this story from 2 weeks ago. I got an email from my agent asking if I knew anybody that was 6-8 months pregnant that would be available for a quick shoot at their home. Funnily enough, I just happened to know someone that fit the bill. After talking to Melinda about it, I emailed my agent back and let her know Melinda was willing to do the shoot. So later that night a guy came over and we setup a makeshift green screen (or blue-sheet-on-the-fence-screen in this case) and he shot Melinda lying on a table, belly exposed, for the opening titles of a show he is pitching called “Labor of Love”. As you can see by the picture, it was very thrown together, but I think it’s going to be cool to have a copy of the show for Dirk and LeBron to see they were on tv before they got here. I thought it was a neat experience, but Melinda got mad because I snapped this crummy cameraphone pic. She’s since come around and understands I took it because this is my means of documenting it all.

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A light weekend as we start winding down the Sunday classes…

Saturday night I had dinner with Todd and we talked about the twins impending arrival amongst other topics. I love getting the time to talk with him because he’s extremely intelligent and it’s always a great conversation. Kudos to Todd for his choice of Ribs USA for dinner.

Sunday’s class was spent tightening and finalizing the 2 songs, rehearsing our dancing, and finalizing sketches. It also included me watching football scores and finally winning a fantasy football game.

We had the last Sunday night hour long preview show. We ran both of our songs and they were probably at 90%, but got a good review from Michael Pollack who has seen a lot of these things so his input is really inspiring.

Today was the standard flight home from Burbank, ho hum. I went over 100,000 miles with this trip and did it in just under a calendar year of traveling. No, I did not receive a medal or a cookie.

Next week is my last Sunday. I’m not sure how I feel about that yet.

Miles Traveled: 2,470
Total Miles: 100,950