This weekend was both a bummer and quite fabulous. The bummer part, well, I was going to drive down on Thursday and hit downtown L.A. Friday – that didn’t happen. I was told I might have to come into work, so I stayed in town to see if I would get called. I ended up hanging out at home until about 11ish and then headed down.
I did manage to get CreepyKid to go clothes shopping, I don’t know what’s wrong with that girl; however, I must admit after three hours my patients wanes. Maybe we could do three, two-hour stints – but I can’t go for the three-hour plus marathons. BUT – she ended up with four pair of pants, a new set of under-things and a business casual outfit..she just needs shoes.
After that it was down to L.A. where I visited family and went out to dinner….Olive Garden, when you’re there you’re loud, well, at least we are.
Off to Sis’ place so I could get ready for class and be close to it. Sis had the morning off so we went to breakfast and she took me out to purchase some things for my costume. It wasn’t downtown L.A. but I DID find some things that were old-fashioned and so appropriate I was sure my teacher would lay the smack-down on them. However, at class she said it was her favorite brand. *SCORE*
Dance class was nerve wracking, but I managed to hit the points I wanted…get the OK for a slight costume color change and was told my dance skeleton was good. I did get pointers for a better order for the end of the routine…and then the command “get thee to youtube.”
I had a wonderful evening, went to the Cheesecake Factory ate dinner and read a book. Yes, I did have dinner alone…so what. I looked cute, read my book, ate whatever I wanted and stayed based on my desires…sounds fabulous, no?
I decided NOT to go to the reunion, it wasn’t worth the $$ for me to have a drink and hang out with folks I didn’t like 20 years ago. Oh, don’t get preachy…they didn’t like me first.
I did, however, sleep fitfully and miss the separate breakfast with people I did like, I was regretful for that, but brownies from Portos, a dozen birthday brownies to share, picked me up…as did the iced-coffee. I picked up CreepyKid and headed to the picnic that afternoon. Picnic was boring for me…there were too many classes meeting that day, I would’ve preferred a singular class…or the class on either side, but they went from the 70’s through the late 90’s…not what I wanted, really.
I did end up going to lunch with a couple I knew from HS…they’ve been together all this time – so cute. Their son was adorable, high energy for me, but I’m used to my low-key family.
Since lunch was late there was no family dinner, but I did get a brownie…and some lovely and thoughtful gifts. I took brownies to Sis’ place since she didn’t make it to the parents’ place, but she wasn’t home. Sad.
It was a long drive home and I fell asleep hard…it was a really long weekend. Luckily it's a short week this week.
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