"GoOD NEWS" says Hurricane Andy!

I guess Andy might be right, this is good news! So what do you think guys, does it look like the Gemini award might be a good fit. How do you think the Gemini looks on me, too shinny maybe?

Its been an interesting week thats for sure. Its only been a few days now but it's already starting to sound and look like my Gemini nomination might actaully be one of those moments I can look back on in a few years as one of those times when something happened that sent me back in the right direction again.

It seems like every so often over the last six + years, always when I was finally half preparing myself to maybe just pack it in and give up on this crazy ass stupid dream of mine, something always has happened to get me fired up again and then kept me rolling along for another two years. It's amazing actaully!

For those of you who have been hangin in there with me for all these years and know all about what's happened in my life all this time or for those of you who have spent some time catching up by reading my show history page, you will know how absolutely true this is. For that matter, you just had to be reading a few of my more recent blogs to know that even lately I've kinda been stugling at sort of a cross roads a bit and then sure enough..... right out of the blue, I got the news on Tuesday. Wow! I recal reading a dudes post on my facebook wall just a week or so ago and thinking, this kid totally has me pegged! Well here we go again....

No worries though because it looks like I'm back on track and all geared up now for another couple of years! That's the way it works or at least it always has for me that way. It's crazy I tell ya!

I know alot of you seem to feel like maybe I should have for some reason been nominated for a Gemini way before this which is awesome by the way. Thanks again to all of you who have been sending me messages and posting on my facebook wall. The thing is though, I've never actually been eligible for such a nomination until now. Up until the new folks in charge there at Global hooked me up with Producer Tim Alp who hired me to host his series which we eventually called "BE REAL with JR DIGS", I was really just independently producing my dunb no-budget little latenight show which technically is and always was just paid programming. That's why I have never had any actual budget to make the show with and have always had to rely on volunteers and sponsors to somehow keep the show on the air.

Masking my half hour of air time to look as much like a real show as I could never in any way was considered to be a real television series. It still isn't! Be Real with JR DIGS on the other hand was a network television series. It wasn't my show but I got to host it which was cool. It was an amazing experience working with Tim Alp and the rest of the crew he had chosen to work with me. Go to www.berealtv.ca and check out on the show extra's page some of the behind the scenes footage that is there. You will see how much fun it was for me to be working on a series with a full crew and a budget. Making my latenight show all these years has been fun for sure but I would be lieing if I said it hasn't also been tough creating episodes week after week for literally a couple hundred dollars an episode.

Maybe that's part of what makes me feel good about this Gemini nomination. In the back of my brain, maybe I think that members of the acadamy have actually somehow noticed what I have been doing in latenight all these years and my gig as host for my very first network television series finally gave them an opportunity to recognize your pal Digs here. Who knows if thats true or not but it makes me feel good to think it is so why not feel good about something for a change. Who knows how long it will last.

This post has lasted way too long I'm afraid, so I should bail now, take Emma for a walk and figure out what my plans are for the weekend. Have a great one everybody. Watch the show on Saturday night if you are near a Tv set and I'll blog back here again next week.