King High School.: 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Jessica Alba is hot. Did she secretly attend King High School?

I want to start this post off by thanking iVillage for the opportunity to guest blog on your site for my "Diary of a Spy Mom" blog series. I am writing a few entries about the film and the parallels to my own life as a working (and very pregnant!) mother. Hope you enjoy these.

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (which opens on Aug. 19) is my first foray into a true family film. I wanted to do something my 3-year-old daughter Honor could watch. On top of that, the opportunity came to me at a perfect time in my life from a thematic point of view, something I think many moms reading iVillage can relate to: the idea that we're stretched so thin in our daily lives as mothers and how to achieve balance -- if there is such a thing, LOL.

While shooting Machete, our second film together, director Robert Rodriguez came up with the idea of a new Spy Kids film. We discussed, among other things, the challenges of going back to work after having a child, which is very much a theme for my retired Spy Kids mom character. But Robert will credit Honor's exploding diaper on the set of Machete as having really sparked the lightbulb for the return of the Spy Kids series, LOL. After that incident, he began to write my role for a new film and a new set of spy kids, played amazingly by newcomers Mason Cook and Rowan Blanchard.

Trying to work, be a mom and wife and do it all perfectly with a smile is tough as heck. In fact, it feels nearly impossible sometimes. As much as I try to prepare and have everything planned out, there are moments where I haven't packed enough outfits, toys, snacks, pacifiers, burp cloths or some other necessity to avoid baby meltdown. And Honor will vomit, poop, pee or some combination, and I'll only have one diaper left. I'll make do with a diaper and a blanket, but I feel like I look like a bad mom. No matter how prepared you are as a mom I've found that you're always going to make mistakes. And most crushingly, I always feel like I should be doing more.

We had a lot of fun incorporating some of these themes into Spy Kids. (My character) Marissa is a first-time mother with two stepkids who are very critical of her and a husband she barely gets to see because he's always working. She tries desperately to please them all. I think she's relatable to moms who are trying to do it all and want it to seem like everything is going according to plan. ;)

One of my favorite scenes was shooting the action sequence where I'm on my last mission before retiring to be a full-time mom. I'm full term and going into labor in the midst of a chase sequence where I have to save the world -- ONE LAST TIME -- before throwing in the towel. It's obviously silly and light and not showing the "real" side of active labor, but I got a kick out of waddling around with a big (fake) belly, kicking butt.

credit ivillage for article: through the desk of eward e. cambas.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The best high school in the nation.

We love all of the people whom are associate with King High School. Thanks for your loyalty.

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From the Lion's Den of Edward E. Cambas.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers were close to a last-gasp $3 trillion deal on Sunday to raise the borrowing limit and assure financial markets that the United States will avoid a potentially catastrophic default.

"We're very close," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican who is playing a key role in the debt ceiling negotiations.

White House senior adviser David Plouffe said there was general agreement on a deal that would cut the deficit in two stages. It was first time the White House had acknowledged that both sides were close to a deal.

The first $1 trillion in cuts have been largely agreed on by lawmakers. Under the emerging deal described by congressional aides, a further $1.8 trillion would be recommended by a special committee appointed by Congress and automatic measures would implement the planned cuts if Congress failed to vote on them.

"It is clear that in the first stage we're going to get ... an extension of the debt ceiling, a first set of spending cuts over $1 trillion, and then you're going to get this committee that will be charged with reporting out hopefully a balanced deficit reduction," Plouffe told NBC's "Meet the Press."

An agreement would end weeks of political gridlock that brought the world's largest economy teetering on the brink of an unprecedented default and close to losing its triple-A credit rating.

Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat, told CNN: "Default is far less of a possibility now than it was even a day ago because the leaders are talking, and talking in a constructive way."

Politicians were scrambling for a deal to avoid the possibility of market shock on Monday, before Tuesday's deadline when the United States loses its borrowing authority.