For years now, I’ve heard about the wonderfully fabulous facials given by my esthetician friend, Melissa Samuels. As a busy mom of 3, she works limited hours & days, so it’s been difficult to find a time to see her. That is, until last night. And oh boy, was it worth it! It was relaxing,...
Monthly Archives: June 2007
A week from today
I’ll be tasting these. Thanks be to my friends & family who want to see me properly celebrated. Looking forward to it!
"Here we go, a Portland-ing, amongst the leaves so green!"
That’s right folks, Portland here I come! And I do expect that Portland will be very green, what with all the precipitation they get. BAM were interested in exploring the Portland area, so we coordinated our visits for the end of August. While there, I will meet with an admissions rep and visit Pacific U/School...
When the going gets tough…
(Or, say, you get “released” from your job)…You make a martini, of course! Although any alcohol may do at that point.Make sure to have good friends around too. That helps.Ab-I think I’m still in denial about your leaving…Maybe it will hit me only when your moving van is driving away. Can’t say I’m looking forward...
Holding Out
So…I’ve been holding out on sharing some really fun stuff. Namely a blog I stumbled across several months ago while blog hopping (it’s AMAZING what you’ll find if you visit a blog and then links on those blogs and then links on those blogs, and so on…Try it.). You see, I wanted to hoard all...
Nobody walks in LA
Which means that everyone drives. And I think that without exaggeration, every single Angelean was out driving on Saturday. The goal: a mini-shopping expedition with Denise down to what we believe is likely a very cool store with Danish furniture, housewares and such on Melrose The reality: nearly 5 hours on LA freeways without ever...
Coconut Cake
I don’t actually like coconut cake, but I think it’s pretty, all the flaky coconut pieces sticking to the frosting.
Two weeks!
Does anyone remember that line from the Tom Hanks movie, Money Pit? It brings back all sorts of childhood memories and every time a contractor promises that something will only take 2-weeks to complete, I shake my head and chuckle. Thanks Tom, for that valuable lesson. So anyway…it’s been 2 weeks since I last posted...