Daily Life 2015

April 4 and 5

I’m leaving for Kauai tomorrow but First Holiday Fun with the family.

I know, smack into the sun. There were probably another 10 kids roaming around too. It’s the neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt and the finding of treasures ensued.

Darryl and Angela went out for a date night while the girls and I…

…hosted a dinner party for Sandy, in town from San Francisco, and Nancy and her granddaughter Chloe.

Rome and Lilly were such amazingly perfect hosts I think someone should write an American Girl Doll book about how to have a dinner party and they should be the lead characters. Wow. And we did teeth and story and bedtime with smiles and good cheer.

I slept over to be ready for all the morning fun of The Easter Bunny hip hip hippy hopping down the lane to drop off a basket of goodies and hide some eggs.

On top of which it was…

…Happy Birthday DARRYL! Big D!! What a guy!!! I love Angela’s candle composition…46!

A wildflower, the California Poppy, blooming in the most unexpected places.

Walking Flower! HI! So nice to see you again.

April 3

It’s the Getty Center with Muriel to see the massive Turner exhibit. The works are only from the last 15 or so years of his life .. tons of them loaned from around the world, but mostly from the Tate in London.

My friends Frog Boy and Hip Girl welcome us this beautiful morning.

We got there before the museum opened so were able to stroll the gardens in relative peace.

The twisting paddles…

…here’s another view.

Outside the café. You’re right if you think I probably have a dozen of these over the years.

Here’s my big collection of pictures from the Getty Center.

April 1

Since I’m going to Kauai in a few days I’m going to add this bit of April along with March.

Here’s the view from Lona’s doctor’s office – the Pacific Design Center.

March 31

So many girls walking home today! I did some cut-and-past in an effort to get the best one of each.

March 30

I had dinner with Nancy and here’s a picture of her cutie-pie granddaughter Chloe. Hi Chloe!

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March 29

The Angeles Chorale, where Becky and Marsha sing, performed a huge work tonight – Dvoøák’s Stabat Mater along with the Azusa Pacific Oratorio Choir and Symphony.

It was huge, huge and great.

March 27

Windy invited me to join her for dinner and a play. How civilized!

I can’t confirm for absolutely sure but it looks like it’s a non-equity production in a theater with more than 99 seats – not a lot more, but more. So now I might not know how equity/non-equity works.

It was a lot of fun with a surprisingly large cast and they even had a five piece band as part of the production.

Windy, me, Geri’s friend, Geri

From a few weekends ago when Windy and Jeff were at a car show in Tucson, here’s Jeff with one of his treasures.

Boban and I had a good lunch last week and it seems at the end we are always in a rush because we linger over our conversation, and then I don’t get a picture, so I nag him until he sends me something. The new one is Jordan’s selfie.

Wow-eee how time flies! In a few short weeks the oldest girl will be driving that van. Yikes!

Boban, Jordan, Cheyenne

March 26

Susie and I met in Culver City and took the Expo Line into downtown. It was fun fun!

We do think we might have found the last two parking places in the lot though and we don’t know what people would do getting to work with no place to park. I guess they’d have to continue on by car.

Our destination was MOCA neither of us having been there in many months.

“It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it.”

There were selections from the permanent collection, an all star cast, that was fun to see.

This is part of the STURTEVANT: DOUBLE TROUBLE show. It’s an Elaine Sturtevant retrospective and it was interesting but loud.

There was also a video by Kahlil Joseph that was thumping and pounding and blaring through that whole side of the museum (the permanent collection side was left in peace). I didn’t bother the people at the front desk! Good for me!! Someone must have thought it was art.

More of the above.

March 24

We met Miles at the park and he too had lost his two front teeth.

Lilly, Miles

March 23

The 7 Minute Workout. I’ve been doing this recently except not #7, and not the last two either, but I replace them with something else…and then try to do just one of the ones I can’t do. It’s fun for 7 minutes.

And I’ve been going to the gym with Windy a few times. I gained 2 pounds in SE Asia and have once again as always lost not an ounce. But I (ineffectively, but full of hope) soldier on.

March 22

Another one of those days where I don’t leave the house. How do I hang around my 280 square feet all day long?

For one thing I watched TV on my computer. Here’s a nice chunk of a day.

TV Series: Indian Summers, Bloodline, House of Cards
Movies: Mr. Pip, Chimes at Midnight, Life Itself

The dad here told the little girl to ‘strike a pose!’.

…and awesome flowers.

March 21

Nancy and I went to Descanso Garden this morning to enjoy the Cherry Blossom Festival. It was lovely.

What a magnificent tree…

Turns out there are so many different kinds of cherry trees and all their blossoms are different.

March 20

Walking with Sharon, here’s a bluff at Palisades Park… watch out!

March 19

It took a good part of two days but it’s done – Lona’s big project for rent increases, updating security deposits, paying security interest, collecting fees, providing government forms ETC. that she has to do for all the tenants.

I call it March Madness because we always do it in March. Lona calls it That Miserable Mailing. Cindi, Lona’s ace assistant calls it March Miserable Mailing Madness.

March 17

We had a play date with Lilly’s current best boyfriend Deacon.

Lilly and Deacon. I didn’t tell them to do this. They were doing this and I took their picture.

We finished the 300 piece puzzle we started last week which was excellent fun.

March 16

Another fabulous and festive feast courtesy of dear Maxine who created a leprechaun’s dream garden and prepared and served her legendary corned beef and cabbage dinner.

And then we got to enjoy opening night of Dancing With the Stars!

Ann, Becky, Alicia, Marsha, Marija, Ljubica, Lourdes, Maxine

March 15

I went to the beach with Ben and Bonnie for a meal and a walk and the sunset, one of the most crowded March days ever as temperatures soared inland and because Santa Monica was the end point for the marathon bike ride and race this morning.

They are in the order I took them, which is interesting because…

There are five of these. Just warning you in advance.

…the sky changes so radically as the sun goes down.

Let’s play!

March 14

I guess the thousands of pictures I took in January and February have slowed my need for pictures in March.

This is last year’s picture of the house Sharon invites me to enjoy every April. Lucky dog me!

March 12

Happy Birthday dear LON-IEE, Happy Birthday to YOU!

First we all had a foot massage at the new place on Wilshire and 3rd, then a yummy lunch at Tony P’s and then…

…we did exercises! which was most welcome considering the aforementioned lunch at Tony P’s.

March 10-11

hmmm, What have I been doing? Watched some tv and checked in on the shows featuring the cast of Friends.

Matt LeBlanc is perfect on Episodes. Cortney Cox is finishing her sixth season of Cougar Town. Matthew Perry has been around the block and might have settled into The Odd Couple. Jennifer Aniston is your basic high-end celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is involved in a lot of projects with her longest running tv show being Web Therapy. David Schwimmer has a fairly long resume of things I haven’t seen.

I also saw My friends, relatives, and neighbors which has been great. But no pictures! Not even pictures of the girls from Tuesday.

Here are two internet pictures in a row. I better turn this around!

March 9

Pauli is going to Papua New Guinea! We had such a nice visit and lunch and talked about how much we enjoy going out to see what’s what.

These are just a small section of what Lill will have on sale this coming weekend.

Succulent Sale! Great deals too – for example this one will be $8.

Later I met Windy and Jeff for dinner at Guido’s. Thanks guys for the treat, it was Good.

March 7

Nancy and Sharon and I went out for breakfast at Venice Beach on a beautiful March summer day.

We did a stroll down to LA Louvre to see what was showing. I was nuts for these planes.