The long weekend in LA was Grrreat!
We arrive Friday night , picked up the rental car and headed to Saladang for Thai food--had their amazing smoked salmon/ginger/lime/toasted coconut/red onion/roasted peanuts appetizer wrapped in a curly lettuce leaf and served with a golden sweet sauce. Mmmmm. Caught up with mom & dad before retiring to the air mattress in my old bedroom turned storage unit.
Saturday, I visit the chiropractor (ahhhh), and Mike and I pick up some fresh raspberries & boysenberries and luscious tomatoes at the Pasadena Farmer's Market. Off then to visit David the Hair God. He's running late, so we make our first of several trips to Trader Joe's.
When David gets to the salon, he's sporting a flesh-colored bandage on the end of his nose. Has he ventured Beyond Botox? The story is this: David's been hanging out with a woman who wasn't quite divorced (he knew the husband and hung out with them both pre-divorce). David is over at her place on New Year's Eve. The not-quite-ex husband shows up, beats the shit out of David and BITES OFF THE END OF HIS NOSE. He wins for worst New Year's ever.
He's still got it with the scissors and gives me a much improved (if shorter) haircut. We pop by home to drop off produce and change clothes before going to Angela's 40th birthday tea.
All the usual living room furniture is gone. Five tables are set up with iced tea, lemonade, finger sandwiches, scones and Devonshire cream--a sumptuous repast. For mementos, we make charm bracelets with various teapot/teacup charms. So cute! We do a round of introductions, as several areas of Angela's life are represented and we don't all know each other. We contribute to the group gift--dental work for Angela's incarcerated pen pal. We linger and chat until it's time to leave for dinner.
Dinner at Yazmin, an amazing Malaysian restaurant in Alhambra. Meet h.s. pal Wendy there, with others straggling in later. We eat and dish and Angela reads palms. Afterward, we head home to finish reading through "As You Like It" in preparation for Sunday night's Shakespeare reading.
Sunday morning, we head to church in the beloved Pasadena Ward, where there are insightful lessons, dear friends, political allies and hymns played at the correct tempo. Sigh. We want to visit cousin Rowan after church, but he's not feeling up to having visitors. We pop into TJ's and head home to get ready for the potluck/reading. More friends there, excellent food and a reading that went quite well by all accounts. Mike and I had the leads, so it was a bit more pressure than in readings past. Kudos to Mark and Angela for putting it together!
Monday we slept in. Tried to see "Sicko," but it was sold out. Went shopping at Vroman's Bookstore, Coldwater Creek, Trader Joe's (yes, again) and Bed, Bath and Beyond where I scored a drapery panel to match the one I bought last year (note to self: buy in pairs next time).
Arrived home in time for dinner with mom, dad, brother John and GF Cristina. Noshed on potato salad, baked beans, Honeybaked ham and mail-order ribs. Was nice to hang out with them after almost a year!
Oh, yeah, we got accused of bringing the triple-digit heat wave with us to So Cal. Geez, you get married on a bloody hot day and no one ever lets you forget it. :)
Monday, we pop my finished editing job in the mail and head to the airport. Of course, it wouldn't be a trip to LA without a celebrity sighting, right? We had not one but two character actors sitting in first class to Dallas. One guy was middle aged, reddish blondish hair, glasses--the actor you know you've seen in something but you just can't place him.
The other guy is more of an on-the-rise dude. He was in that suspense/horror TV show on the WB where some kind of aliens landed in the town's lake and were taking over peoples' bodies? I believe he played the horsey-looking/high foreheaded sheriff with the blond wife-turned-alien. I think. I only saw the previews. If someone can name that show and put me out of the brain-wracking misery so I can look him up on IMDB, I'd appreciate it!
Coming back to Texas after the delights of family, friends and So Cal has, quite frankly, sucked. The End.
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Roswell?
Close--but more recent. I think it was only on the air one, maybe two seasons circa 2003 or 2004-ish.
Not a good sign when a show's name is this unmemorable.
It is NOT the end - I DEMAND to see a picture of the updated 'do.
Sounds like you had a swell time - glad you had a nice wee vacay. :-) You'll find things to love about Texas and someday you'll be all nostalgic about things there too...I believe.
So it IS you that brought that HEAT!! Thai weather to go with your Thai food (I love and miss Saladang dearly) - sounds like you had a wonderful time and caught up on all of the things you love about this area.
The only actor I can think of with the lake movie - was it called INVASION and happened after a hurricane? things living in the lake and snatching bodies? The actor in that was the actor that played Zed in Pulp Fiction ("Zed's dead baby") but I also don't know his real name....
not so long ago I saw actor Martin Donovan at The Shops At Mission Viejo (fancy name for the shi shi mall nearby) but celeb sightings in the OC are few and far between even though I think they are all around....
wait i'm wrong - the guy on Pulp Fiction was Peter Greene, but the guy on Invasions name is William Fichtner - that might be your man
OK, OK, I'll post pics of the hair shortly.
H--you nailed it. Invasion and William Fitchner. He and that other guy were on our flight of the character actors from Burbank to Dallas.
Thanks, it's been BUGGING me all week.
And Di, I look forward to the day I'm nostalgic for South Texas because that likely means I will be somewhere else.
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