It’s just past midnight. In five hours, I wake up and prepare for my weekend in Los Angeles. A weekend that marks the end of one era of my life and begins a new one. It is a precursor to my move up there later this month and could very well define the next few years of my life.

It is a weekend packed full of job interviews (I have three in a four or five hour time frame), awards shows and beautiful women. I even bought a new, black dress shirt and two (black and red) ties to go with my recently tailored pinstripe suit (I lost 40 pounds since I bought it a year and a half ago).

Some of my friends are not surprised that I am moving to LA. They saw it coming and knew it was a matter of time since I stay overnight at least one weekend every month. Or, they heard me murmor about wanting to do so for a while. Others, well… they just knew it was eventual. I’m a producer and I need to be in the middle of the action to get my projects on television. And I think that’s the best answer, along with the reasoning that “it’s just time” to make the move.

This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about moving. I almost went up there in 2000 when I was working with a company that was going to relocate me (but they never had the funding that they claimed they did) and then I started talking about it about a year ago, but reality quickly set in that it wasn’t possible. Every time this past year when I would dream about moving, the feelings would fade after about 24 hours and I figured that was God telling me that it wasn’t time yet.

On April 14th, as I drove home in the middle of the night from another weekend in LA, the thoughts came back to me. I thought about how silly it was that I was arriving home at 4:30am and constantly asking friends if I could crash on their couch for a couple of nights. Instead of paying for rent in San Diego, I could pay for rent in Los Angeles and stay with my Grandma rent-free when I needed to be down here.

As the days passed on, the thoughts to move did not dissipate as they had previously. On Thursday, I called my Grandma and asked her about living with her, but I figured that it would still be a couple of months down the road, if not longer. I just wanted to get my ducks in a row. The next night, I was hanging out with and talking to Tim, my friend who was supposed to become my new roommate. Since my current roomie had taken so long to move out and the school here is closing down and Tim won’t be working here any longer, he no longer wants to move in.

“Okay, then.” I told Tim. “I guess that means I’m moving to LA when Troy moves out.”

Again, I thought it was still going to be a couple of months down the road and not immediate. The next day, I talked to Ed, my landlord, and told him the situation and explained that I was going to move out, but not until Troy did and that could be two or three months until it came to fruition.

The next Monday, Troy tells me that he is moving out the first weekend in May. That was less than two weeks away! This entire concept of moving to LA happened in less than a week and I was caught up in a whirlwind of planning my first FINAL FRIDAYS concert, shooting a demo television pilot for FX, and now planning for a move to Los Angeles! I went back to Ed and said, “Remember how we talked about stuff happening in two months? Well, it looks like it’s going to be more like two weeks.”

Over the past week, I’ve been sending off a few resumes and I have three interviews tomorrow. One is with a web design company and I would be contracting for them, but they claim that they would be sending me a lot of work. The next is with a video website company and they were looking for someone with production, web design, viral marketing and blogging experience. I think it’s safe to say that they were looking specifically for someone like me! I mean, that job description fits my resume to a “T” and they responded the same day that I emailed them my resume. And then the final job is for Universal Studios. It’s an open call for studio tour guides.

I could see myself excelling in all three jobs. They all have pros and cons and I think I have an equally good shot at getting an offer from any or all of them. I just really need to figure out which one will be the right balance with my existing freelance webdesign clients and my producing projects, such as Dr. von Kaiser and this new demo pilot we shot for FX.

So, pray for me as I spend the weekend in LA interviewing for jobs, scouting out potential crashing pads for the first couple of months, attending black tie awards shows and going to church.

I think this will be a good move for me. This entire ordeal is reminding me to trust God all over again. He is in control and He knows what he is doing. And I’ve felt for a while that I was going to need to move up to LA for God to introduce me to my future wife, so that prospect excites me as well. Perhaps I will finally meet someone who blows my mind and knocks my socks off, but not only that; someone whom I do the same to her. So far, it’s only been one-sided.

I’ll make sure to keep blogging about what God is doing during this period in my life. I can tell you now that he will continue to reveal himself in every little detail.

And now, as I finish this blog and it is nearly 12:30am, I anticipate the dawn before me. It is the start of a new day, the start of an exciting weekend, and the start of a new era in my life.