My sister noticed that I’ve been back-dating my entries, and she guessed that it was due to my recent illness. She guessed correctly, by the way; since my bout with flu, I’ve been too lazy to post on time and too stubborn to give up my original plan to paint a Christmas tree in the calendar. Why? Because I wanted to end this year posting entry #300, and the tree allows for that perfectly. See, I’ve been rethinking this whole…
A recent comment on this entry made me realize I never followed up with another one. So, here are some of the things I’ve actually done on a date: Go Christmas caroling Feed ducks, squirrels, and starving musicians asking for change at a Hollywood fast food joint(not all on one date, mind you, and that last is a true story—H.E. likes to buy lunch for down-on-their-luck artists) Window shop at antique shops, pet stores, and bookstores Dinner and a movie…
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve actually seen part of that Paris Hilton tape. H.E. and I watched a little bit of it on his computer when curiousity finally got the best of us after he had received his 100th Paris spam. There was nothing spectacular about it except that one of the two people featured on the tape was a famous-for-being-rich-and-famous trust fund blond silver-spoon-fed baby, whose eyes glowed demon red in the low light of the video. She…
When you don’t feel well enough to be out and about and the holidays have gotten you down, you tend to do silly and pointless things, like look through people’s Amazon Wish Lists and wish you had enough money to practice some seriously random acts of kindness. I don’t know half of these people, those whose lists I peruse. I’ve never met them, and here I am studying the lists of things they covet, things they hope other people will…
1. Holiday lunch with co-workers at a restaurant I’ve never tried before, the creative director’s treat. 2. Gingerbread house making party, which I’d been looking forward to all month. All those attending get to learn how to make their own gingerbread houses, and I was going to bring the one I made to the next thing I missed… 3. Christmas carolling at Steph’s in L.A. It’s become somewhat of a tradition, and I always look forward to it. She has…