Good - Not so Good

This has been a tough week for me on many levels. Perhaps later I will blog about the things that made it so yucky but right now things are just too raw to write for the world to read just yet.

The one semi yucky thing that I will mention is that I found my car had a dead battery this morning as I was leaving for my class--and it's a 1 month old battery that is top of the line...I am going to buy one of those portable rechargers this week at Costco (recommendation from a guy--they know these things).

I did have a few good things though which I will write about because they are the best parts of my week and the parts I want to remember:

• Dinner with my friend Eric Jackson who never fails to bring wisdom and happiness to me when we share a meal
• A class with The Groundlings on Saturday
• Emotional support from my children and my friends along with some very good advice
  

I Love LA - Who Knew?

I grew up in Northern California and spent much of my time in San Francisco where LA was considered a joke. When I came here I came for my job not expecting to enjoy myself much but looking for something different. Today's when I really appreciated LA. I was sick (really, really sick) and from last night until mid day today I was miserable.

I called an Advice Nurse from my insurance this morning when the pain was intense beyond belief and she said that I should not drink anything and should get myself to the emergency room within the hour as I would probably have to have a MRI or something like that so I should go to a place like a hospital that would have that kind of equipment. Just as I was getting ready to go to Cedars-Sinai a wave of 'feeling better' came over me. I waited it out and voila I felt a LOT better. Not perfect, but better. (I'm getting to the lovin' LA part soon). I napped and read and napped some more to see if the intense (I mean INTENSE pain came back--it didn't) ...then I was hungry and I had no food in my house.

This is why I am lovin' LA: You can have anything delivered within 1/2 hour! For the first time I pulled out the delivery menus I had stashed away and my Yummy.com catalogue and found FOOD. Although I could have had Thai, Chinese, Italian, etc delivered I decided I just wanted some gourmet cheeses, an artisan bread, blueberries and some Mexican fruit frozen bars so I called Yummy and ordered great stuff at reasonable prices and within 20 minutes everything arrived at my front door. I LOVE THIS PLACE! BTW Yummy's is open 24 hours for delivery 364 days a year (they close Christmas day).

So...this is not all that I am loving about LA. As my son mentioned last weekend, there are so many great things to do here and so many invitations to fantastic events that one becomes very, very selective about what one decides to do. And--the weather aint' bad either. (I'll admit it is fun seeing the movie stars too).

BTW after all that my tummy started bothering me again tonight so I may end up at Cedars after all...hopefully not...

OMG It's July Already!

Just got back from seeing Brad Pitt in The Assasination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford and I absolutely recommend that you add it to your Netflix list if you haven't seen it yet...but I digress.

Wonderful sunny weekend and my tan is coming along nicely (thank you very much) as I finally got some quality pool time.

Finally made it to the Disney Theatre on Hollywood Blvd (El Capitan) went to see Wall-E, the new Disney Pixar movie. OK, so it's a Disney movie but it's way over the heads of most little kids--and first part of the movie had no dialogue. However, the theatre is a trip...there's a guy who plays Disney songs on a Pipe organ before the movie... next lot of Disney dancers and singers put on a show with characters like you'd see walking the streets of Disneyland dancing their little hearts out...then a Pixar cartoon followed by the main movie. The theatre is full of red velvet, gold rococo trim...very old fashioned and VERY Disney.

So, I know Disney is for kids but honestly why do parents insist on bringing crying (screaming) babies to movies (my gripe of the day) when the baby can't even understand (haven't they heard of babysitters?) --even a Disney movie (and the kid next to us pooped in his diaper without the parent changing him-phew!)...and while I'm on the subject of parenting....a pet peeve is parents who bring children to movies that are not age appropriate AND allow the children to talk throughout the movie (not whisper mind you) as if they are in their own livingroom. When I am paying $15+ for the movie +popcorn etc I want them to be quiet if they are allowed to go to a movie (or get a babysitter, see above).

AND babies in the swiming pool...please parents put rubber pants on the kids and try to keep their little voices down once in awhile...the pool this weekend had kids that could only scream at the top of their lungs without a let up and then today our pool had to be shut down as a baby pooped in the pool. The area was very quiet then as all the families left and the left over adults all remarked on how pleasant and serene things were... but.... we couldn't get back in the pool due to cleanliness problems that needed to be solved.

There...I'm off my soapbox. Of course, my grandchild will be perfect :-)

Movie star sighting today: Donald Faison (at The Grove) from the TV show Scrubs.