As his Christmas present I took D to see Le Miserable at the Pantages Theater Wednesday night. I've been wanting to see this show for years, but always happened to miss it. Same goes for Rent. Anyways, after all these years of missing the show I have to say I wasn't all that impressed. Maybe I built it up too much? Regardless, it was nice to get dolled up and have a swanky night on the town in the middle of the work week with my pootie.

Last week I also had a chance to meet up with an old friend from college. We had lost touch after graduation and I missed her. She was one of the few people from my college days that I wanted to reconnect with. All google searches resulted in old news from her news article writing days, various writing awards won in the past, etc. Then one day I happened across someones blog with her photo. She was with graduate school friends and was wearing a dress I recall giving her when we lived together. It looked way better on her petite frame than on my not so petite frame. I frantically emailed the blog owner asking if he knew Aimee and if he could please forward my contact information to her. Imagine my surprise when I got a prompt response back saying that he was her neighbor and he ran over to get her and had her call me! Over the next couple years we tried to meet up in person, but schedules never seemed to work out and I missed her when she was in town, I missed her local SoCal readings of her new book (which I highly recommend!) (interview here!), and I felt like a bad friend. But we finally connected over amazing Indian food at Royal Khyber in Costa Mesa. It was so nice to catch up and find out about each others lives. We've both grown through work, love and life experiences, but it was refreshing to find neither of our characters have changed much. I hate reconnecting with old friends only to walk away wondering, who are you? Or did I ever know you? She'll be back in town with her man next month and we're hoping we can all go out and meet each others' significant others.

This morning I woke up to sheets of raining pounding the windows. My internal clock said it was too dark to be getting up for work. D is usually out the door before I even get up to get ready for work and this morning was no exception. I groggily got up wondering how I was going to get to my car in the pouring rain. Did D have an umbrella somewhere? My car was only parked about 4 houses down the street, but on a steep hill and in high heeled boots I wouldn't make the descent to my car before getting completely drenched. And the only jacket I had was my ivory down puffer with fur trim and I didn't want to get the fur wet. I considered sitting around and waiting for the rain to let up. I considered not going to work. I considered wearing a garbage bag. When I opened the bedroom door to leave I saw that D had pulled out an umbrella and layed it on the middle of the hall floor for me to find and my heart melted. How thoughtful! *sigh* It made my day.

And it other news, I'll be taking a break from blogging in the new year. One of my resolutions is to not spend so much time online and to get my act together. I want to put up my portfolio, I want to knit (inspired by these lovely girlies), I want to organize my house (and keep it that way), I want to keep in touch with friends on a one on one basis rather than through this blog, I want to finally get at least basic cable so I can watch the tellie, I want to save money, I want to sew and craft, I want to travel with my saved up money, I want to freelance more, I want to learn to cook fabulous Corean and Italian dishes, I want to work out and get in shape and... yeah, I think that's about it.

I wish you all a joyous New Year!