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It’s day 4 of some sore throat/cough nonsense that has left me feeling like the mom in one of our favorite Christmas books ‘ The night before the night before Christmas ’. In the book, the mom has the flu and is stuck in bed. Her well intentioned family has disaster after disaster befall them: cookies burn, line for Santa is too long, trees aren’t up, lights are not hung. I’ve done nothing for the past four days except lay around in bed in my PJs watching Gilmore Girls and keeping the kids in the other room and my voice as mum as possible. I had to postpone a party we were hosting and skip on one I wanted to go to. I miss my family. I miss being able to do anything but cough and take cold medication. Also...don’t take Robitussin in the daytime if you’re weak like me and have been on a steady diet of chicken soup and crackers and assume to be able to function for work. this will f you up (compliment) When a mom goes down around Christmas, oof. How does the magic happen without Mrs. Clau...

This feels like a let them eat cake post in the middle of the horrors of people not having enough money for food and a government shut down but as part of my efforts to embrace things that give me joy while scratching a creative itch here it be. I love me some fashun.  I've said it before that the only thing that takes the sting out of summer ending for me is looking forward to all the fall fashion. I made this board in my attempts to stop online browsing to tell myself that I have all the goodies that I need to bring it with the outfits. This past year and change I've really fine tuned my body type fit and general grown-up style: black but also a mix of neutral colors but definitely some color, L.A. reppin', tailored, professor, rock n roll, feminine, and fun/on trend accessories. I was a big girl and had pants hemmed by a tailor even! I am one for a trend yes, 100% but have decided if we're gonna go with a trend, it's gonna be in the accessories and jewelry depar...

We ruined baseball and cemented a dynasty. BACK TO BACK CHAMPS! Good heavens that series was a pressure cooker and stressful beyond belief. Thrilling no doubt but omg down to the minute we barely squeaked out a win. Yeah the Blue Jays were good, I mean... so good, but somehow we stopped them. Brought the championship trophy home for back to back world series championships. First back to back champs in 25 years. L.A. excellent baseball is here to stay.  There will be no living with me from now on. You thought I was insufferable about L.A. before, strap in.

I used to think baseball was boring. I always loved movies about baseball but at some point in college my brother and I started rooting for the Anaheim Angels since I went to school near Orange County. Around this time I also watched like so many baseball movies and the game got to me. Bull Durham came into my life and that was it for me and baseball. For-ev-er. I also finally understood all the rules and strategy but more importantly the romance. The history. The romance of baseball and the agony of defeat and the euphoria of a win.  We started attending any baseball game in person we could when we were out of town. In 2010 Man-D and I went to visit Ali in Boston and went to a Red Sox game and I got to see the green monster live. Fenway is a cathedral of baseball, the brick, the history... a real ballpark. Matt and I got to go to Wrigley AND US Cellular field on the same 4th of July trip in 2013 which was so special since his grandpa played minor league for the Cubs. We got to see...

  A lot of people want to live in Stars Hollow, but I actually do. A few years ago I finally watched Gilmore Girls up to Season 3 in preparation for my friend’s birthday party that was gonna be GG themed. I never got into the show because I was right in the middle of the two main characters’ age and their whole thing didn’t appeal to me. Their ‘whole thing’ was a mother daughter story and ugh: my relationship with my mother was/is not great so a story about them was not my idea of a good time. And these two were FRIENDS? Is that even possible? But my friend Laurie who watches it yearly pitched me a part of the show that I wasn’t aware of. I thought it was about a woman who was stuck in the small town she grew up in and hated it but no. No people, it’s about a woman who chooses to raise her daughter in an adorable small town full of kooky characters and many many civic events and festivals planned and held by the over-eager city council and put on by aforementioned kooks.  SOL...

I know that I got my first grey hair in college but somewhere after having babies the top of my head started being dusted with grey highlights. I look in the mirror every day and still see a brunette but the greys being noticeable was apparent when I emerged from the pandemic and get compliments on how great my hair and especially my greys looked. Suddenly the greys are a big feature. Suddenly my flat hair had heaps of volume on normal days! Suddenly my hair could pull off certain hair styles. Suddenly my son was worried about how old I was getting and that I was gonna die because well, “your hair is turning white”. Wally is obviously not chronically online to know that grey hair is cool now. Grey hair is hot. Every man with white hair that’s handsome and lets his hair go grey we call a ‘silver fox’ and it is a crime to us if he dyes it. My husband, when the sides of his hair are longer, has those silver Reed Richards / Dr. Strange temples. It does something to me… and not just ‘caus...