Renny is here for a spend the night and later I return him and pick up Hal who is going to have a spend the night. In the meantime, I was uptown taking care of some business this morning and dropped over to see mom while she was getting her hair done. She was whining about getting new grey hairs – she’ll be 71 this December – good grief. L called and said he was…
I took my mom to get a colonoscopy yesterday after a couple of scares over the past two weeks. I’ve had the veiled threat of something being wrong with her hanging over me like a black cloud about to explode. The doctor gave her an excellent bill of health after the procedure and there was certainly a sigh of relief that was palpable.
Friday the 13th proved to be a push day at the LaLa. The master bathroom windows got sandblasted – I was told I could have gators or naked ladies etched in the glass, but I said, nah, why not just a clean etch. Then the mega truck pulled up to pump polyurethane foam into the roof rafters – $4400 later – I have the best insulation money can buy. My contractor D came by, usually…
So I was telling E the other day that I don’t know how it is that I have partnered with men who don’t dance for so long when I love to dance about as much as anything in the world. I grew up dancing on my dad’s toes and dancing with my brothers and sister all the time. My sister and I choreographed dance moves to Three Dog Night and the Monkeys, and to this…
My neighbor’s usual uncommunicativeness turned to defiance when she told the inspector that we were in a “private” driveway and we both told her “my property goes into her private driveway.” She said “talk to my husband” when I said my property goes into the private driveway.
I woke up yesterday cranky and stayed that way pretty much all day and then Wala! – this morning woke up not cranky – mysterious how that happens. Hmmm. It seems like everyone and their mother are showing up next week to work on the LaLa – I had an estimate for the glass showers and mirrors, I’ve got Sean in red shower grouting with that ruby color that makes the whole inside feel like…
Well, as much as he can actually – anyway we were in an elevator and he put his hand out to stop the door from closing for this woman and I told her, he would never do that for me, risk limb, and she said she was “fucking flattered” – so then we made our way up to see a client and the woman K, from Alabama, who was the receptionist fell in love with…
Again, this morning awoke feeling like I’m on the verge of getting sick – of getting what L, man of mystery has had for the last two weeks or so – want to go see Abby but don’t want to give it to her. Walked the Bean this morning around the bayou – she’s getting old, it’s disconcerting to see her snow bear face greet me when I wake, but it’s more disconcerting to think…
A dear friend in the Bay Area had a cousin who was musically gifted – he grew up in the projects by Fisherman’s Wharf and Leonard Bernstein took him under his wing at a tender age. He would fly back and forth from NY and when he was in SF, the cousin, stayed with my friend. And “Lenny” would call often. W grew accustomed to Lenny and was endeared to him because he had taken…