Daily Life 2026

Marsha and I have gone to the movies a few times recently, and a lot of the Golden Globe nominations are already streaming. And I can’t even remember the name of the movie I saw this morning! You can see Marsha there in the middle of the middle of the theater.

Here’s a list of the Golden Globe nominations that I’ve seen:

Hamnet (losing their son to plague, with so much crying.)

Marty Supreme (Chalamet getting to the ping pong tournament, with so much screaming.)

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, DiCaprio, Penn, del Toro “When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.” I’ll watch it again since I didn’t quite get the charm.)

Train Dreams (slow moving quiet tragic life that many found touching)

Jay Kelly (Clooney, Sandler self-centered movie star and his devoted manager, and me not caring about either of them)

Rome and Juno came around for a visit and they got to meet the new tenant and it turned out they all had a lot in common. It was fun!

This is Lilly’s first outing behind the wheel (Angela took the picture) and Rome with their car that now has its own parking spot at the Co-op. Rome drove over to help me finish up in the studio doing the chores I can’t/don’t want to do for the new tenant who is settled in for a four month internship at the UCLA Medical Center.

I met up with Angela at 1 for a snack and a beverage and a walk to the ocean and since we had a little time left, we got our cars washed. Then I picked up Lilly at school and we went off in search of a snack and ended up at our favorite place, Yogurtland. Lilly always creates designer bowls of delights.

Black and white Converse are so photogenic and then add Oliver and it’s click click click.

I picked up some lunch for us to eat outside on Ben and Bonnie’s deck. It was a gorgeous day. Above is the mural on the side of the Canter’s building. There are many more panels than shown here, telling the history of the Jewish people in Los Angeles. Yummy bananas – I took one home!

The family came out on Sunday for yummy brunch with Rome and I got to go too. And then the Monday Ladies had a lovely lunch.

(At this rate fingers seem not Nearly enough.)

New Year’s morning at Tom and Marsha’s as I have done many times before – come NYEve afternoon, watch movies, eat a delicious dinner, catch the New York New Year’s Eve on TV and get ready for bed. In the morning we have coffee and an early breakfast snack, watch the Rose Parade a few times on rerun, and eat ham sandwiches for lunch. That’s what we do and I look forward to it!

The eagles came by in the worst of the rain but they were everyone’s favorite. This is the 11th time it’s rained on the parade since it started in 1890.

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BTW this year’s wine was SO GOOD. Goodness, I’m going to be wanting more of that!