Cynthia's death inspired me to get my social back on. I took her early passing as a warning...You never know when your time is up so you better live life to the fullest. What does this mean for me? See more friends, do more things and get the heck out of the house! I think I did a pretty good job of doing that this past weekend.
My social for 2010 started on Friday after the memorial. I had lunch with my old friends: Fred, Francis and Charlie and I also made a new friend, Ryan. We had fun chit chatting over lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. You know what is fun about having lunch with old friends? Talking about old times. Remembering back to the time when life was perfect. Of course it really wasn't but don't memories always make things perfect? Anyhow, it was good to have a few good hearty laughs remembering our beloved friend, Cynthia.
After lunch, I decided to do something that Cynthia loved...shopping for shoes. Luckily I happened to be right buy the most amazing shoe department a.k.a. Nordstrom's at The Grove. I took one of my Christmas gift certificates and let it point me in the direction of some pink Hunter boots. Now aren't you saying didn't she get a pair for x-mas? It's true I did but as all girls know when you find something comfortable buy a second pair. So I did. I bought myself the girlies pink boots ever. Now my feet were killing me after wearing heels all morning and afternoon so I had to buy a pair of new grey flip flops so that I could take off my shoes and shop some more. Cynthia would be so proud. Then I decided to look at the purses and the jewelry cuz when you have free money aka gift cards you can let your eyes do the walking. I didn't find anything I needed to have so I went back to the shoe department and bought some boot socks to go with pairs one and two of my Hunter boots. They are super sweet. Since I was already shopping I remembered I needed some black stretchy leggings and a white shirt, so I went to another store. And then I went to the mother of all stores, the best store of all....Anthropology and found the cutest pair of shorts. Don't worry people, I didn't spend a dime. And that is why I love gift cards. Makes a shopping spree way more fun.
Anyhow, after doing Cynthia proud I had to rush home to meet a friend who was coming to my house. I put on my new clothes and the boots and headed to the pub with my pal Lisa whom I haven't seen in ages. After a depressing week I needed a big ole beer in honor of Cynthia. The hub joined us and we proceeded to question poor Lisa until she had no more answers to our questions. I even asked when she was getting engaged. Then I realized I was becoming one of "those" people.
On Saturday, the hub and I checked out Invictus which is an "inspiring" movie about Nelson Mandela and how he inspires a rugby team to win the world cup and therefore winning the war against apartheid in South Africa. It was a super heart warming and made me remember Cynthia and how she, like Nelson Mandela, inspired a ton of people with her actions. So far in the Oscar race I want this movie to win.
After the movie we meet up with my pal Charlie and my girlfriend Krueger for some BW3's which meant beer and wings. It was Charlie's first time. We popped his wing cherry he said. We laughed and laughed for 3 hours. It felt so incredibly good to laugh again after such a sad week. Then we walked around burbank for a while before we all split ways.
I went home and did some digital scrap booking my new favorite past time. I am trying to make a couple of books using all my photos from 2003 and on. I worked on a Halloween book until 2 AM. The book has 6 different Halloween's in it.
Sunday we boxed up Christmas and throughly cleaned the house. I know how fun is that? But the house needed it. we rearranged some furniture so we have a that new layout feel to our living room.
We had Laker tickets for the evening so before the game we headed to LA Live this brand new complex downtown and grabbed some dinner at Trader Vics. We had never been there before and were surprised to find it all tiki and hawaii like inside. Hubby and I had a blast getting drunk at the bar and eating appetizers. Then we went to the game and found ourselves with the best seats ever! 4 rows from the court! They were super sweet seats!! We saw Denzel Washington and Dr Carter aka Noah Wylie at the game.
Overall it was a good weekend and a good start to getting my social back on!!
Thanks for inspiring me Cynthia. Thanks for being such a good friend for 13 years on earth! And thank you for being you my sweet wonderful friend!!
My social for 2010 started on Friday after the memorial. I had lunch with my old friends: Fred, Francis and Charlie and I also made a new friend, Ryan. We had fun chit chatting over lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. You know what is fun about having lunch with old friends? Talking about old times. Remembering back to the time when life was perfect. Of course it really wasn't but don't memories always make things perfect? Anyhow, it was good to have a few good hearty laughs remembering our beloved friend, Cynthia.
After lunch, I decided to do something that Cynthia loved...shopping for shoes. Luckily I happened to be right buy the most amazing shoe department a.k.a. Nordstrom's at The Grove. I took one of my Christmas gift certificates and let it point me in the direction of some pink Hunter boots. Now aren't you saying didn't she get a pair for x-mas? It's true I did but as all girls know when you find something comfortable buy a second pair. So I did. I bought myself the girlies pink boots ever. Now my feet were killing me after wearing heels all morning and afternoon so I had to buy a pair of new grey flip flops so that I could take off my shoes and shop some more. Cynthia would be so proud. Then I decided to look at the purses and the jewelry cuz when you have free money aka gift cards you can let your eyes do the walking. I didn't find anything I needed to have so I went back to the shoe department and bought some boot socks to go with pairs one and two of my Hunter boots. They are super sweet. Since I was already shopping I remembered I needed some black stretchy leggings and a white shirt, so I went to another store. And then I went to the mother of all stores, the best store of all....Anthropology and found the cutest pair of shorts. Don't worry people, I didn't spend a dime. And that is why I love gift cards. Makes a shopping spree way more fun.
Anyhow, after doing Cynthia proud I had to rush home to meet a friend who was coming to my house. I put on my new clothes and the boots and headed to the pub with my pal Lisa whom I haven't seen in ages. After a depressing week I needed a big ole beer in honor of Cynthia. The hub joined us and we proceeded to question poor Lisa until she had no more answers to our questions. I even asked when she was getting engaged. Then I realized I was becoming one of "those" people.
On Saturday, the hub and I checked out Invictus which is an "inspiring" movie about Nelson Mandela and how he inspires a rugby team to win the world cup and therefore winning the war against apartheid in South Africa. It was a super heart warming and made me remember Cynthia and how she, like Nelson Mandela, inspired a ton of people with her actions. So far in the Oscar race I want this movie to win.
After the movie we meet up with my pal Charlie and my girlfriend Krueger for some BW3's which meant beer and wings. It was Charlie's first time. We popped his wing cherry he said. We laughed and laughed for 3 hours. It felt so incredibly good to laugh again after such a sad week. Then we walked around burbank for a while before we all split ways.
I went home and did some digital scrap booking my new favorite past time. I am trying to make a couple of books using all my photos from 2003 and on. I worked on a Halloween book until 2 AM. The book has 6 different Halloween's in it.
Sunday we boxed up Christmas and throughly cleaned the house. I know how fun is that? But the house needed it. we rearranged some furniture so we have a that new layout feel to our living room.
We had Laker tickets for the evening so before the game we headed to LA Live this brand new complex downtown and grabbed some dinner at Trader Vics. We had never been there before and were surprised to find it all tiki and hawaii like inside. Hubby and I had a blast getting drunk at the bar and eating appetizers. Then we went to the game and found ourselves with the best seats ever! 4 rows from the court! They were super sweet seats!! We saw Denzel Washington and Dr Carter aka Noah Wylie at the game.
Overall it was a good weekend and a good start to getting my social back on!!
Thanks for inspiring me Cynthia. Thanks for being such a good friend for 13 years on earth! And thank you for being you my sweet wonderful friend!!
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