Well, dear readers, I had a lovely night of blessed rest, and Luckie and I have already had our morning constitutional, at which she did both the first and second amendment. Today I shall do nothing but write and relax and relax and write, and then tonight I shall watch one or two brand spanking new DVDs. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Last night I attended the 50th birthday party for my friend, Gary Stockdale. Gary is a composer and arranger, and I am happy to say that when I first met him in college (he wanted to be an actor) I made him the musical director of my version of The Comedy of Errors by Mr. William Shakespeare. Since that time, he has never looked back, and he’s quite successful now. The party was held at Maggio’s which is located in The Grove. This was the first time I’d seen what they’d done next to the Farmer’s Market. Everyone seems to love it, but I immediately missed all the quaint buildings and shops. Additionally, the parking is horrid, even using the valet took fifteen minutes. In any case, as soon as I walked into the private banquet room I knew I needed to leave as quickly as possible (I went with Cissy, David and Barbara Wechter) – there were just too too many people there and I just don’t love affairs of this nature at which there are too too many people. It was quite loud and I didn’t know most of the attendees. I did know a few and I did say “hey” to those people. They had “family” style platters of food at each table – as I am currently on the Eileen and Chet Atkins diet, I was able to eat salmon (on a bed of spinach), and Chicken Piccata. They were both okay, but one couldn’t have more than one helping on account of there were many other people at the table (two more than there should have been, because Cissy Wechter insisted on squeezing two extra people in). We stayed a little over two hours and then left. First of all, I had to get home to poor Luckie, who was in the bathroom (normally I will leave her in the yard, but someone is coming to make absolutely certain that there is no way for her to dig out or jump over anywhere or anything). I did that last week and while she was unhappy, she behaved well and just slept. This week I was not so lucky with Luckie. Even though I thought I’d removed everything she could get at, and put the lid down on the toilete, she apparently went a little insane. She overturned both bowls of food and water. She chewed up the towel I’d put down for her, and then, when she’d tired of that, she got hold of the hand towels (she hadn’t gotten far on those, though, thank goodness). When I let her out, she took one look at my face (reacting to the mess), knew she’d been bad, and promptly peed on the floor. I took her in the yard and we had some words about her behavior, and then I let her back in. She stood and watched as I cleaned up the mess, and she felt very contrite. I know you’re all wondering what words we had – I simply told her if she did that sort of thing again I would kick her in the eyeball and throw her from the highest turret. She seemed to understand.
Tonight is our Unseemly Live Chat, so if you’d like to partake, please send me your AIM names once again. I promise this will be the last time, as we will file them this time. Oh, what fun we shall have on our live chat, but prior to that you must post many posts so that our handy-dandy website doesn’t feel lonely. The live chat will begin promptly at six o’clock pacific mean time. If you have friends and neighbors that you think would have a good time, ask them to join us. And you never know who is going to drop in (last week, we had the delightful Leslie Kritzer). Don’t wait until the last minute to send me your AIM names, sooner is better.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because the Sunday notes are supposed to be short and they have turned long without me even noticing it.
Have I mentioned that Luckie and I had our morning constitutional and that she did both the first and second amendment? I feel it is important for you, dear readers, to know these things.
The wonderful Eddie Bracken has passed away, but what a full and lovely life he had. I saw him just a year ago at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Carousel. I also saw him as Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly, plus he starred in a couple of classic Preston Sturges films, Hail, the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must write words, words, and more words, I must take Luckie on more walks, I must eat foodstuffs, and I must relax. I do hope that I will see many of you at our live chat this evening. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, so they sky’s the limit. I want to see some interesting posts today, so that I can participate in your topics for a change. Post away, my pretties, and I’ll see you later at our live chat.