the doctor will see you now

My Heart is about to leave on a 2 to 3 week road trip with his dad so I'm gonna be home with the kids and some extra time on my hands. I'm thinking the decorating of our now one year old home has been on hold long enough and I'm looking forward to spending some time on it. I was looking for an old metal cabinet to put in the entry way and I found this:

via Neiman Marcus

It's way out of my price range and it's not old but I am in love with it anyway. I might have to start saving my pretty pennies for this!

I also want to check out a local place called Twenty Gauge - Vintage American Steel Furniture which features this lovely on it's order page:

Again, this place seems pretty pricey but it's all old so I at least wanna go have a look around. Wish I new more used furniture places in LA...

happy birthday to us

I love it when humans are nice to each other!



Thank you @MrBradStevens

the future has past

There was a time when I knew I wanted to be in LA. I think I needed to be in LA. And so one day, shortly after graduating from college, I gave my 2 weeks notice and told my friends and family I would be leaving for LA at the end of that 2 weeks. And I did.

I moved here without a plan or a place to stay. Luckily I had 2 amazing friends that helped me out. One I met because I went to college with the other. Friend KC and I hung out a couple times when he came up to visit us, staying at the dorms with Friend MCRT (aka California Matt). California Matt and I had film and production classes together and his sweet nature drew me to him. I graduated before he did and left him behind in Colorado.

When I arrived in sunny California I was alone. But Friend KC was a phone call away and he let me and my cat stay with him for a couple of weeks. After those 2 weeks when I still didn't have a place of my own, California Matt's mom, Disney Nancy, let me stay on her couch. There I quickly bonded with California Melissa (Matt's younger sister), feeling her fill the void of my own little sisters a thousand miles away.

Ten years later I find that I've left that life behind me, sometimes wondering what happened to them all. Of course with the use of FB I've found Friend KC and today being his birthday, posted a greeting on his wall. That's were I saw California Melissa's name and a mention of her brother. The kindness all came flooding back to me...

So here in this random and convoluted way I'm trying to say thank you to those I've met and lost along the way. Your help has enabled me to get where I am today and for that I will be eternally grateful.

my adopted kids

USPS Stamps to the Rescue

I just ordered 3 books and I encourage you to do the same. All of our "children" have been rescued from the streets or adopted from a shelter. There are so many in need out there, why not? And we all need a stamp now and again... do your part.