Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong

Friday, March 09, 2007

Quiet week

After my "big" 200th post, I've run out of things to say. Okay, not really but it has been a quiet week. I spent most of the week enjoying some relaxation. I've been able to catch up on some TV on the Tivo. I finally watched "The Queen" which was fantastic. Still need to watch "Little Miss Sunshine" which hopefully I'll get to this weekend. Generally, I did as little as possible.

Wednesday was also my birthday was turned out to be nice for a change. I had lots of visitors. Elizabeth and Debby (moms from school) surprised me with a breakfast of bagels & cream cheese and assorted donuts. Plus balloons and Elizabeth gave me a dozen roses that have opened up absolutely perfectly. My friend Wendy sent me another dozen white and red roses which are also gorgeous. My sister, Lisa and Kari came over for lunch. Had a nice yummy tuna sushi salad and of course, great conversation. G sent me another bouquet of beautiful flowers and a dozen chocolate covered strawberries. Oh my! It doesn't get better than that. YUM! My MIL also brought me some stunning fushia flowers. I've never seen color like these and they're so pretty. My bedroom smells like a flower shop. It's fabulous. Lots of wonderful phone calls, people singing to me and emails. G even got out of work early so he was able to bring in dinner which is a little better than the whatever is in the freezer that I was originally planning. Hey, C also wrote on a paper towel the word "Happy". She wrote it all by herself. Very impressive and definitely something I'll treasure. So I had a terrific birthday which I don't always get to say. I know I'm very blessed to have such wonderful, special friends in my life and who took the time to make me feel special. I love you all more than you know.

After a few days of laying low, the craziness started up again. Had my flute concert last night. We played pretty well shockingly. We were a little shaky even with the rehearsal just prior. Still, we pulled it off which shocked most of us I think. There was one piece we had never really played all the way through without stopping so we got through that. I had a solo during one of our pieces and played the melody on "Danny Boy". After our conductor explaining how she was going to count it off, how come I'm the only one who understood what she was talking about?? It's not the first time we rehearsed the song and the other two people (on other parts) didn't come in at the beginning. Oy. No one but us knew the difference but still, at the end, Patty looked over to me and mouthed "Thanks". Now, I'll finally have time to go get my flutes adjusted. Maybe I'll get able to get some of the low notes. (I know, boring flute tech talk)

C and I went to see a fun little theater version of Cinderella at the Santa Monica Playhouse. It was a quick show, a little over an hour (including an intermission) and it was really cute. C watched intently the whole time and I think understood the whole thing. There were some good adult jokes and good singing. It was very fun. For all my years living in LA and Santa Monica, I had never been there before. It's a terrific little theater that does tons of theater for kids. I'll definitely be going back.

Okay, that's the update of the past few days. Boring, I know. Please accept my apologies. Just needed to post something that wasn't a list.

Labels: birthdays, Cinderella, flowers, Flute Choir

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Hey Julie...

You just finished the Oscars Pre-Show, what will you do now? I'm going to Disneyland! Actually, C and I went on Monday. Yes, I as a little tired but it was worth it. She was out of school (as were all the So Cal. Jewish schools for some teacher conference) and I hadn't really seen her in 4 days so it was time for a "girls day" and some mommy/daughter time.

We had a great time. We got to the Happiest Place on Earth and we went on the Rocket Ships, Buzz Lightyear, Dumbo, Teacups (twice),

Autopia (twice),

the Jungle Cruise (twice) and then stood in line to meet some of the princesses. Note to self (and others) if you want to see the Princesses, go straight there when you arrive at the park. The line is long and somewhat hellish (we waited about 40 minutes) but when you get in there, it's really one on one with whatever Princesses are in there which is very cool. We met Mulan, Pocahontas, and Sleeping Beauty. C was a little shy when we saw Mulan so I took the picture with her. Pocahontas she went up to

and when she saw Beauty, she got a huge smile on her face. When it was her turn, she walked right up to Beauty and gave her a hug.

It was so cute. Beauty (as C calls her) asked her her name and had a little chat with her. I was snapping away. Then when it was time to move on, she gave Beauty a kiss on the cheek. I missed that picture but it was so cute.

And luckily, C wasn't disappointed that we didn't see Belle or Cinderella. Give us something to shoot for next time.

C also saw the sign for the Nemo Submarine ride opening up over the summer. She can't wait for that. I can't either.

We also hooked up with Lisa and her family who was also there. They were there to celebrate CS's 5th birthday and it was her first trip to Disneyland. We met up with Lisa and her middle daughter J at the Autopia and then later with everyone. Think the girls were happy to see each other?

And then J took the younger girls on the teacups and spun them around pretty good. Look at those thrilled faces.

We all stayed and watched the parade which was really nice. They saw all the princesses. I won't bore you with all the photos but here are Cinderella

and Snow White.

Always popular princesses. And the girls waving at the parade passing them by.

It was a great day.

C feel asleep pretty much as we hit the freeway. She was very well behaved so it was a very successful day. I love Disneyland, that's all I have to say. Oh, and chocolate covered frozen bananas are one of the greatest things on the planet. So is this cute face...