Take the shot but don't forget to take the cannoli.

Most of the first week filming had the wife involved in every shot. The original premise was that we were going to dress three girls an episode and fit in other little stuff here and there. What we didn't want to do was to just be a plus sized "What Not to Wear." But that is what is shaped up to be in the first week.

But everything evolves over time and they are already changing it up. They had the big executives here for the first week and they all gave their notes. Everybody wanted to put their oar in the water. What they found was that there was a wealth of material to use and they didn't necessarily want to squeeze so many people into an episode. So they might change it up.

It was pretty boring for me because I was sitting in the back while they were filming in the back. They only filmed me a couple of times. Once when I went to get the trunk for the trunk show and did that little bit of business with the huge steamer trunk and the hand truck and the pizza and the paper plate. Then we filmed a trunk show and they filmed a little with me in the back room with my friend Chuck and the fiance of one of the girls who they dressed in the show. So they shot some footage in my back room that they called 'The Man Cave." I bought a bunch of booze and we had a few pops while they were filming in front. But by and large I wasn't in a lot of footage.

Not that I care. If it is meant to be it will happen. I don't need to push it. The wife is the sympathetic figure here dealing with all the emotional stuff with the customers. I am just the comic relief. But today they wanted to film with me and my granddaughter as we walked around the neighborhood.

They wanted to make a big deal out of it and calling and setting everything up and shit like that but I just bullied the producer. I said look, don't sweat it. I don't want to get them thinking about it because they will freeze up and over think it. I just want to bust in with the cameras and start filming and do my nonsense and let them react without too much thought.

First we went to "Good Food" to order a bunch of stuff. The opening scene I piled up about twenty cans of coffee on my granddaughter as they were on sale! Then we got proscuitto balls and ham and roast beef and bread and the rest of the stuff we needed for dinner. It was funny how the sanitation guys ran out of the store like their balls were on fire. I think they were supposed to be working or something.

Then we jumped into the liquor store. I had just popped in five minutes earlier to tell them. We picked out a bottle of wine and joked around and stuff. It was fun and easy.

The we walked about five blocks to the fancy card store. I wanted my Granddaughter to buy some cards she could leave under her Grandma's pillow to say she loved her and to make her cry.

The guy in store is a great friend of Lisa and all of those type guys are and not that there's anything wrong with that. So he shits when I walked in with the camera. He goes "OH NO!!! You were supposed to tell me in advance. What am I gonna do?" I said "Dude take it easy. It is only a little scene. Don't sweat it." We filmed it and is was fine. He was natural and not nervous because he didn't know what hit him.

Now while we were doing this the wife and my daughter were shoe shopping on Montague Street in a store down the stairs. There was a dude on the pavement singing about the government but that had nothing to do with us. After we finished at the card store we waited around to hear if we had to be back at the shop. While we were waiting I went next door to Court Pastry and I bought a dozen cannoli's and kept them in an open box. I brought them outside and gave one to everyone. The camera guy. The sound girl. The assistant producer. The Producer. My granddaughter. And me. You see I take care of my crew. They chowed down on the cannoli and we all had a nice sugar rush. I told them "Everybody is gonna fight to be on these walks with me. Next one we are getting pizza and beer."

You have to get the fun where you can get it.