Tuesday Twosome...

This is a very old meme but it keeps me motivated to post.

Tuesday Twosome Meme

What are the last two…

1. TV shows you watched? The Following & House of Lies

2. Household chores you finished? Vacuumed & cleaned cat box

3. Food items you ate? Potato Latkes & Sour Cream

4. Websites (before here) you visited? Facebook & IMDB

5. Things you do before you go to sleep? Prep my bed & watch TV 

 Last night was my bi-weekly nail appointment and when I got home I had Potato Latkes for dinner they were delicious! Even Layla liked them.

           

You Are a Cappuccino

       

  You're fun, outgoing, and you love to try anything new.

However, you tend to have strong opinions on what you like.

You are a total girly girly at heart - and prefer your coffee with good conversation.

You're the type that seems complex to outsiders, but in reality, you are easy to please   

    What Kind of Coffee Girl Are You?

     

       

      

       

     

   

   

 

I Am On A Roll!

Yay I am on a roll now! Thanks Annie for the meme.



A Day in Your Life...

1. What time of day do you usually get up? On week days 6:00 on weekends when I work 8:00

2. Do you greet the day with coffee or tea? Neither

3.Do you hit the deck running or does it take you a while to get going? Running really fast!!

4. Do you eat breakfast? Yes, Greek yogurt during the week and on the weekends an English Muffin, Waffle or an egg.

5. What is your typical breakfast food? Greek Yogurt

6. Sunny days or quiet rainy days? We have so many sunny days it is nice to have a rainy day but they are never quiet since I usually have to drive to work.

7. A Job or stay at home? 2 jobs

8. What's for lunch? At work I bring fresh salads, soups, fresh 1/2 sandwich and sometimes left overs.

9. Any daytime TV? What do you like to see? No not anymore in the olden days I use to watch All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live. Now I sometimes record Ellen or Katie Couric's shows if someone is good on them.

10. Do you sit outside to have tea or coffee sometime during the day if the weather is nice? I only drink one cup of coffee on Saturday's and Sunday's at the Hospital while I am working. They have the best coffee. No I never sit outside to drink either.

Tonight we have a Movie Interruption of the Tom Cruise movie Jack Reacher. I actually liked this movie. So we will see how funny the comedians will make out of it .The next installment of Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, where Doug and his friends (who, in the past, have included everyone from Paul F. Tompkins to Sarah Silverman, Ed Helms, Jon Hamm & Zach Galifianakis) chill on the front row couches, mics in hand, and say whatever hilarious thing pops into their heads while a movie of their choosing unfolds on the screen.

My plans for the weekend! I am working a doubleheader tomorrow. Even though they originally cut my hours back by eliminating Friday nights at the Hospital they now have had seconds thoughts, but I do not want to be scheduled them anymore I like having a Friday nights off a lot! So I let them know my availability for each 2 week schedule. So I have been averaging about one every other Friday if I don't have plans. So I work a very long day tomorrow 6AM when I get up until I get off at 12:00 AM. Saturday normally I work 3:30-12 but we have a show at the UCB theater so I will be working 10:30-7 and Sunday will be the same. 

I Am Sorry I Have Been MIA....

I tried so many times to post and then just got frustrated and didn't. Everything is fine with me just don't feel like blogging much for some reason and I have no idea why? Maybe because I am on Facebook and it seems to much to do both? Well everything is great on my end and  I will come by and visit all your blogs this evening after I get home tonight I promise!! Spring and Summer are almost upon us here. We of course have had temps in the 80's and 90's off and on for a month or so. This year I have no vacation plans, maybe next year a cruise to the Bahama's we are looking into. The kids have some fun vacation plans in June and July they are going to Sedona, AZ, Pismo Beach and Colorado they are jeeping with friends. Chris is taking Natasha to Ireland for 3 weeks in June, Natasha is very excited. She promised to take Justin somewhere next year. He is thinking Italy!! I am taking a a week off with my Birthday on 7/3 but I am only going to go on a mini vacation to Santa Barbara and Solvang and I am not sure what else I will do on the rest of the week I take off yet?  Mother's Day weekend we are going to Glen Ivy Spa in Corona I am taking a 3 days weekend we will go there on Monday after Mother's Day. Layla is now is 7 months old and she is getting so BIG!! Lily will be 4 years old next month. Of course I have to share a few pictures!

Again sorry I was MIA I will try to post a least once a week!

Finally I Am Posting!

I just have not been in mood to post in here. I guess Facebook just takes to much of my time. Well since I posted last there is not much new. I took Valentine's Day off and Joe and I had a great lunch at a wonderful Mexican restaurant in North Hollywood called Salsa & Beer. They grill their Taquitos like you do Fajitas and it is so delicious. The only place I know that makes them this way so when we go there that is what we usually get. After lunch I went to Costco & Target. I got all new rugs for my 3 bathrooms at Target and they were all on sale the colors I picked out. I also got a new George Forman grill I wanted it in stainless steel to match all my appliances and my old one had seen better days. It was a fun day!! Then back to work on the weekend.

Layla was 6 months old on the 12th and she is feisty and playful as ever and she is a talker like her Siamese Mom! Her new thing is to walk on top of my doors! 

I'm BACK!!

This is the longest that I have gone without posting. So many people aren't either so I had not much of an incentive to do so. TGIF!!!


Chris and I went to a great play last night at The Falcon Theater in Toluca Lake what a great play it was Bunny Bunny Gilda Radner: A sort of romantic comedy by Alan Zweibel. Beginning with the first time they met behind a potted tree in an early Saturday Night Live meeting, Bunny Bunny is a whirlwind personal journey through the fourteen-year friendship of writer Alan Zweibel and comedienne Gilda Radner. The play pulls us through a memory patchwork of Alan’s hilarious and heartbreaking adventures with his dear Gilda, as their insecurities and demons are eased by their shared talent for laughter. Gilda is so missed she passed away from Ovarian Cancer at only 42 years old in 1989. We loved the play it was funny and touching all in one.

Layla recovered just fine from her surgery (spayed) She is feisty as ever and still loves posing for the camera. And on the 12th she will be 6 months old. I can't believe I have had her now for over 4 1/2 months.

This is another working weekend for me. I am actually even working tonight so it will be back to back jobs until midnight tonight. I am happy to work Friday's every once in awhile. No more every Friday even though I miss the money they were not smart taking them away because now I am fine not working them. I was asked but said NO!! Just once in awhile. I am loosing $440 a month from just not working 4 Fridays 6-12. I have adjusted my budget and I am OK! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 

Day Dreaming...

Thanks Annie for the meme

This one is about "Day Dreaming"
1. Where would you live if you could live anywhere in the world? I would live right where I am living in So Cal, we have it all mountains for skiing, deserts for 4 wheeling and our beaches are beautiful. Our weather is perfect!
2. Do you have a favorite city? Yes    If so, what is it? New Orleans. It feels like a different country there. I love the people the culture and the food!
3. What car would you have if money was no object? The car I will have when I retire in two years a Ford Fusion
4.  What kind of house would you have if you could have any one you desired? Country cottage at the beach.
5.  Is there a special event/or sight you have always wanted to see? I would love to be invited to the White House for an event with President Obama.
6. What is your dream vacation destination? London for a whole Beatles tour and to stay in The Hard Days Night Hotel.


It is Friday again! Weeks are flying by. I did some fun things this week among them was the movie interruption of Thor The Dark World, thank goodness we had some funny people sitting in the front row interrupting this movie it was pretty bad. I love all the Marvel superheros especially Iron Man, Thor is my least favorite now I know why! Tonight Joe and I are going to see the movie that Matthew Mcconaughey and Jared Leto have been winning a lot of awards for Dallas Buyers Club. We are going to have a late dinner after the show at the Cheesecake Factory in the Sherman Oaks Galleria. It is a regular work weekend for me except Saturday I am working 10:30-7 so I can go to one of our favorite improv shows at the UCB theater. Normally I work 3:30-12. Layla is doing great. Her stitches look great I can barely see them anymore. It will be 2 weeks on Monday she was spayed. She is such a sweet kitty and loves to pose for pictures. Ans she loves my lamp on my end table by my bed! Have a great weekend!

My Layla!

Layla was spayed on Monday and I was lucky to have Emily and Zach drop her off at my house when they came into Burbank. I brought her inside and she starting flopping all over the floor with that cone on. So off it went and I never put it back on. She was pretty groggy and not herself for 2 days. I actually took Wednesday off to be home with her. Lily was being a brat and hissing and hitting her. By the third day all was well between the two of them and my Layla was back to herself again. I will never wait 5 months as the Vet had suggested. I read online it is perfectly fine to spay or neuter cats as young as 6 weeks. Every kitty I have ever adopted were already fixed and they were all between 6-8 weeks old. I was a nervous wreck over this!

This was at the Vet's right after she woke up. Emily text  me the picture.

This is her day 3 much better. 

My mini iPad came on Tuesday while I was home on vacation and I love it. It is so much easier relaxing in bed with an iPad than with a lap top let me tell you. Since I have an iPhone I was able to get all the apps I have on my cell and with iCloud all my contacts and picture were right on it when I connected it and set it up. So easy. 

It was so hard going back to work after being off for 4 days! Only 2 days back and it is Friday already. I am working the weekend at the Hospital my usual hours. Tonight I am going to dinner with the kids plus Justin's 21st Birthday is on the 25th and he will be in Las Vegas for a convention for their business the week prior to his Birthday so some of his friends will be heading to Vegas to celebrate it with him. I won't be and Paul will be back home. Lisa is going to stay and she has a friend coming up also. So I will not see him until they get back on the 30th. I will give him his gift tonight at dinner. They have Supercross tomorrow night and then they leave for Vegas on Sunday morning for 12 days. It is actually 2 shows back to back. Paul will go up on Sunday fly home Wednesday then go back for the second show on 28th. I can't believe my baby is going is going to be 21 and my other baby is going to be 43 in May! YIKES!! Have a wonderful weekend ALL!

Just Because

I changed my graphics yay! It is pretty easy in blogger to do so. It reminds me of when I had my old Geocities web page. It was all just drag and drop the only HTML I used was when I wanted to have a layered background. I hope the new year has started off as a good one for everybody? Mine has been pretty darn good so far. I was off on Tuesday "just because" but I am going to take this Sunday off and Monday & Tuesday. I have some fun things planned. On Sunday the Cinefamily  has a members pot luck and a Doug Benson TV Interruption of the Golden Globe Awards, Doug Benson, the King Of Interruption, will be alongside a selection of his hand-selected comedian guests chilling in the front row, mics in hand, saying whatever hilarious things that pop into their heads while the awards madness unfolds. We then have a show at UCB at 9:30. Busy day and night! I am off Monday and Tuesday. Monday Layla is getting fixed so I will drop her off in the early AM and pick her up after my nail appointment in the evening. What I love about this new vet is they are open 9-10 PM Monday-Saturday and Sunday 9-5. Emily who I adopted Layla from works there and will get to see her after 3 months. I had her there for her shots a few weeks after I brought her home. Emily is Justin's friends girlfriend. Tuesday I will be anxiously awaiting the delivery of my Mini iPad. I found a great deal online and took the plunge. I love my iPhone so this will feel like a much bigger iPhone. I got this cute case for it on Amazon.

Happy New Year!

Christmas was wonderful. We had temps in the 80's. Pool and Jacuzzi weather for sure. We ended up having more than 40 people. Lisa did make a comment a few days later that she is not sure if she wants to do this again next year. A lot of the people stayed until 1:00 AM drinking and Lisa was left cleaning. I went to work at 7:30 and when I left the party was in full swing. 

Oreo has gained a bit of weight! 

For New Year's Eve we are going to see The Wolf of Wall Street and then we will go to Canter's Deli which is becoming a tradition with us to have our first meal there to ring the New Year in with. Nothing better than Jewish Deli food!! Have a wonderful New Year's Eve and a Happy Healthy New Year! See you next year!

Happy Holiday's

I have been so busy I haven't had much time to blog. I didn't realize it had been almost a week already since I blogged last. We had our Christmas Party at work today and we got out early. I have been busy wrapping and organizing my presents to take to the kids house tomorrow. It is a quiet evening here in my home tonight. The family are spending Christmas Eve at their friends house who will then all be at their house tomorrow for Christmas. So I am enjoying the quiet with my kitties. I always go over there at about 7:00 AM to open presents and have a nice big breakfast. I hear Natasha will be making French Toast. I will head back home and then go back around 2:00. There will be about 40 people for dinner tomorrow. We are having Prime Rib, 2 Turkeys, Honey Baked Ham and all the fixings. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I will get around to your blog visits in the morning. I am beat.

12 Guests of Xmas

Every year Doug Benson of the Doug Loves Movies & Doug Benson Movie Interruption shows has his 12 Guests of Xmas. This time there were actually 13 guests a surprise guest from the TV show Madmen,  Rich Sommer came along with Jon Hamm. It was a great show and it was over 2 hours long. Afterwards the 10 of us that all became friends 2 years ago from these shows went to a late dinner at 11:00 at Jerry's Deli in Studio City. Needless to say I am tired today. I didn't get home until 12:30 and had to be up at 6:00. Tonight is my nail appointment and then home to relax and get caught up in my recorded TV shows. At least there are not too many in my DVR since most shows will be off until Jan and Feb. It is really hard to believe it will be Christmas a week from today. Full steam ahead. It is going to be a very busy rest of the week. I am only working Saturday. Long story short I was given Sunday off in error at the Hospital. So I am going to make the hours up by working Christmas Day 8PM-!2AM and then 4 hours on the 26th since we have it off at my full time job. I will work 10:30-2:30. So my plan with my surprise day off Sunday is to do some deep cleaning, wrapping presents and go to lunch. Saturday before work I am getting together with the girls that I use to work with at BofA at Don Cuco's Mexican Restaurant. I will be there Friday night with dinner with the family also.

Jon Hamm & Rich Sommer 

Josh Malina, Samm Levine & Jon Hamm 

Josh Malina, Kevin Pollak, Samm Levine, Jon Hamm & Graham Elwood

Jon Hamm & Graham Elwood 

Housekeeping Meme

Housekeeping Meme
This week let's talk about housekeeping.

It is something we all have to do and it might be fun to see who does what and how!
Maybe you have tips to help us all out or special cleaners you can recommend.

1.Do you enjoy housework? I use to love it but since I have been working 2 jobs now for 12 years it has become a real chore for me to find the time.
2.What chores do you dislike most? Vacuuming and cleaning my mirrors. I have 2 sets of carpeted stairs and 3 bathrooms with very large mirrors in them to clean.
3.Which chores do you enjoy? Dusting and a moping my 3 bathrooms and kitchen floors.
4.Do you have a favorite cleaner? Ed Fred Shower Stall & Tile Cleaner it is a miracle how it works to to remove lime, rust, soap scum and oils.
5.Household appliance you can't live without? Toaster Oven
6.Powder, liquid or new drop in? Drop in for Dishwasher, Liquid for washing machine
7.Softener? favorite brand? I am not even sure?
8.Softener sheets or liquid? I use sheets
9.Dryer or clothes line? Oh a dryer of course!!
10.How often do you change bedroom linen and bathroom towels? Sheets and towels once a week. I live by myself.
11.What one thing would you just love to have to aid in your housekeeping. I am just too picky to let anyone else clean my house the only thing I would consider letting someone to do is my windows and steam clean my carpets.

I am working this weekend. Tonight Don Cuco's with Paul, Lisa went out of town for a Birthday party overnight. Sunday is the Survivor finale and Reunion show. Next week a very busy week for me. I have something to do every night through next weekend. Have a great weekend!

Traditions Meme

Traditions Meme 

1.Are traditions important in your family for holidays or do you just celebrate without them? It has changed since my parents are gone my sister and I follow the traditions of my son and daughter in law. We always celebrate July 4th with a BBQ as we do Memorial Day. Halloween we always go over to their house for dinner and to hand out candy. Of course we celebrate Thanksgiving & Christmas with dinner at their house. New Years Eve Joe and I always go out and we end up at Canter's Deli for our first meal of the year there.
2.Is there one particular tradition that is most important to your and yours? Thanksgiving and Christmas
3.Did you incorporate any new traditions with your family that are in addition to ones your parents held? No
4.What are they? Do you think tradition is important? n/a
5.Are there any traditions you do not include that you would like to try? What are they? Christmas in Maui.
6.Can you tell us why your traditions are special to you and how they benefit you? They are special because it quality time with my family.
8.Are there daily /weekly/monthly traditions you follow? I usually go over to their house on Wednesday for dinner and Survivor and since I don't work at the hospital on Friday nights anymore we go out to dinner usually at Don Cuco's Mexican Restaurant every Friday night which I love.

I have been super busy at work. Shipped over 200 boxes of See's Candies and I had to pack and put the postage on each one. It took me days. Tonight Chris and I have a fun play to go to at Garry Marshal's Falcon Theater in Toluca Lake. Falcon Theatre. Troubadour Theater Company's presents, Walkin' in a Winter One-Hit-Wonderland. It is a holiday cabaret "clip show" as one of the Troubadour Theater Company's most beloved characters, Winter Warlock, takes a walk down memory lane while crooning some chart-topping "one-hit-wonders" with his holiday friends. 'Tis the season for fun and reflection, so break out your tape decks and Walkmans and head on down to the Falcon to hear the incredible story of the tallest Troubie this side of town! They always put on a great show.

Blogadays - Day 8 - A Christmas Meme

Thank you, Kim, for this meme!

1 Eggnog or hot chocolate? Don't like chocolate, but I do have a small glass of Eggnog around the holidays!

2.Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? He use to wrap most presents but big items like bikes he hid in the closet.

3. Colored lights on the tree/house or white? I like white lights

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No

5. When do you put your Christmas decorations up? When I got real trees just 2 weeks before Christmas but since I got a fake one usually Thanksgiving weekend.

6. Favorite holiday dish? Candied Yams

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? So many to choose from. When we were young we would celebrate Christmas Day in San Diego, La Jolla with my Mom's family.

8. When did you learn the truth about Santa? At 4 or 5

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? We open just one on Christmas Eve. I have friends that only celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve.

10. How do you decorate a tree? Country ornaments

11. Snow! Love it or dread it? I love looking at it from a distance. Right now I can see snow in our mountains out my window here at work in Arcadia.

12. Can you ice skate? I use to love to ice skate. I would be too afraid now to try it.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Barbie Doll

14. What is the most important thing about the holidays to you? Spending time with my family and friends.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Pumpkin Cheesecake and Pecan Pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Opening presents at the break of dawn and then dinner on Christmas Day.

17. What tops your tree? Lady with a beautiful dress.

18. Which do you prefer-Giving or Receiving? Giving

19. Favorite Christmas song? Mel Torme's The Christmas Song

20. Candy Canes-Yuck or Yum? Yum

21. Favorite Christmas show? Saturday Night Live Christmas

22. Saddest Christmas song? I am not a Christmas music person at all so I am not sure?

I was always so fascinated that a Mel Torme a Jew wrote a Christmas song! As I said in my meme answers I am not into Christmas music but this song I just love. He was dubbed "Velvet Fog" Blessed with impeccable timing and a smooth, mellow timbre, Mel Tormé was known during his heyday as "The Velvet Fog." Tormé was the consummate entertainer: as a drummer, singer, composer, arranger, lyricist, writer and actor, his career spanned nearly the entire 20th century of American pop culture. Of course, underlying it all was an intuition for jazz composition and vocal phrasing.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Mine is a working weekend. Tonight we will go out to dinner at Don Cuco's Mexican Restaurant and on Sunday Joe and I have a improv show at the Upright Citizens Brigade after I get off work.

Heading into Christmas Now!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Mine was wonderful even though I worked 4 hours on Thanksgiving and since I had Friday off at my full time job I opted to work at the Hospital and on Saturday also. But I took Sunday off!! Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving. We had 2 turkey's one stuffed and roasted and one Paul deep fried. We had all the fixings plus of course pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, Oreo pie and a cute Baskin Robbins Ice Cream cake with Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream. The kids all went ice skating later that evening. The parking lot in Burbank where we usually park to eat dinner at Don Cuco's Mexican Restaurant was turned into an ice skating rink until January. It was just too late for me and I was tired and had to be up early to drop my car off at the mechanic and then get to work at the Hospital at 8:00 AM. So I did not go but they all had fun.

Have a great week ahead. We are heading into Christmas now. I am pretty much all done with my shopping. Just a few odds and ends to get. This week I will send all my Christmas cards out.