Happy Halloween

I am in New Orleans and want to wish everyone lots of fun!!!

Nawlins

Off to New Orleans today - I hope it is as exciting as I think it will be - although I refuse to say Nawlins lol.

Love and Miss You

Monday Morning Wake Up Call

La Mano

While we are in New Orleans we are going to an Anne Rice Lestat costume ball. I am very excited but it means I will have to dress up. I am not normally into dressing up. Although I love Halloween, truth be told, dressing up and being around others in costume wigs me out a bit. I guess being unsettled is the point but it is also kinda a thing with me - maybe it is the whole clownish aspect, ick. So I have been search online for ages for a cool mask. Something wearable and distinctive but comfort was the main criteria. It is so hard to order one on line because you cannot touch it, a major reason I don't like shopping online in general. Also you can not really see the quality or try it on or anything. I finally broke down, made a decision and placed an order. I had no clue where the company was. Well they called me the next day with some questions and it turned out the store - which could have been anywhere in the 50 United States - was just over in La Jolla. Yay! I told them I would just come over Saturday and make the purchase. What a cool store right on the ocean in downtown La Jolla. The shop is called La Mano. The incredibly lovely and sweet owner is named Lydia and she is from Venice. All the masks are handmade in Venice and imported. Some were so elaborate and well over $300 but I decided, although I could work that many feathers there was really no need. I did get stuck and so ending up buying two masks because I still just could not decide. No pics yet of the masks I got - you will have to wait for the big reveal. However I was excited before and now I am super excited!

Mika

On last Friday night I went to LA to see Mika in concert. I went with a friend I used to work with and it turned out great, so much fun. The drive, which is normally horrendous, was not bad at all - the traffic gods were so smiling down upon us. Since we got there early we walked down sunset strip and found a yummy little burger bistro called the Bowery. As we walked to the restaurant there was already a huge line. I was a tad scared because it was all teenage girls. Seriously it looked like the same crowd that would attend American Idols Live. Once we got in I determined it was all teenage girls and gay men. Such and odd combo but somehow the two always go hand in hand - hmmm. The show was at the Palladium and I was so excited. The Palladium is this historic art deco theatre in Hollywood that sits on the site of the original Paramount Studio lot. Ah it was so beautiful - very grand indeed. The show itself was fun - no big surprises since it was the 4th time I have seen him live. He delivered over the top energy as normal and a fun time was had by all the tweens and queens! What a great night :)

Things That Made Me Chuckle In the Past Week

Texting with Rick:
From Scott to Rick -- omg did you hear about Hurricane Rick? ur a disaster!
From Rick to Scott -- you sound like my mom

Workplace Stories:
In the inevitable Christmas vs Holiday party debate, I was asked, "Do you celebrate Christmas?" to which my prompt reply before exiting the room was, "No I gave it up for Lent".

Ruby, the most crazy coworker ever, stated she does not go to the car wash because as soon as she does it always rains afterward. A confused me said, "Ruby, it only rains like twice a year here?" and even more confused Ruby replied, "Oh yeah?"

With my Spanish Tutor Miguel:
We had class at a Mexican restaurant. I know the basics such as if a noun ends in an O it is masculine and if it ends in an A then it is feminine and he was trying to teach me how to figure out if nouns ending in other letters were masculine or faminine. He would write a Spanish noun and then say does that look masculine or feminine? I told him that because I am a native English speaker it does not occur to me as masculine or feminine since I have no point of reference. I said take umbrella for instance it does not seem very masculine or feminine at all. As soon as I said that within a millisecond I followed it up with, in an exaggerated fey manner, "Although if you put the word parasol next to umbrella it does make the word umbrella seem downright butch!". Miguel spit out his drink because of his laughing. It was at that point I chuckled.