Sad: Dropped Brandon off at the airport this morning. Poor thing. Glad: Had lunch with Nora in Irvine since I was already in the area. It’s good to return the favor. Splurge: While waiting to go have lunch with Nora in Irvine, I ended up at the Container Store. Those of you who have been there know that when you go in for one thing, you come out with much more. I went in for two bottles of Mrs. Myers dish soaps. I came out with kitchen wrapper organizer (badly needed), closet organizers to replace my giant plastic tub that...
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We’re once again on death watch as Brandon’s grandfather who has Alzheimer is hospitalized. We don’t really know how many hours, days, weeks he has because, apparently, the doctor has been giving different information to different family members. With Grandpa’s death watch, we didn’t get to be with Justin and Olaina on his graduation this morning. Nor will we be at Brandon’s niece high school graduation on Thursday. Brandon is going to be out to Pennsylvania tomorrow to be with his mom and grandmother. If the funeral happens then, it happens then. If it doesn’t, at least he was there...
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It’s funny to see absolutely zero reactions from the teenagers in front of us in the theater when Indiana Jones said, “I like Ike,” to Irina Spalko’s little speech about him joining the Russian’s quest. I don’t think they got it. Nor did they get the whole Russian bad guys thing. Ah. Life imitates art imitates life. Indiana Jones is dealing with aging and so were the elders in the audience who remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time in theater. Or, in my case, being so traumatized by Temple of Doom (The monkey brains! The...
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Sunday was all of about the boys. Starting with this heartbreaker. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-yeGbGC6DM] J.C. and Joshua are in town for the week. I stole a few hours of their time to hang out with mom and kid. I also provided my photography service by helping J.C. take some pictures of the little speedster and capture some videos for his dad. Erick is a medical student with the military. Instead of going through different departments in the same hospital for rotation, he is currently on rotation in different military medical centers all over the country. He hasn’t seen Josh in a while,...
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In “Day After Tomorrow”, a massive tornado ripped through Los Angeles. Yesterday, a baby one touched down in Riverside. Miraculously, nobody got hurt. If you look at my Twitter history there, you’ll see my weather report from atop the 34th floor of Downtown Los Angeles. After the week of heat, we were cooling down again. And then suddenly, yesterday, rain clouds came out of nowhere and the rain poured for a good 10-15 minutes. As in, sheets and sheets of it. Looking out the north side of the building, it looked like snow. Then it was sunny again. Then it...
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