Last night the hubby and I headed down south to Seal Beach to celebrate our friend, Kristy's birthday. You might remember I already celebrated Kristy's Birthday a month ago at Club 33 at Disney aka her "Fake Caroline Birthday" but alas time has caught up and we have made it to her real birthday. 
Kristy and her husband, Charlie moved back to California recently from Seattle. She had been finishing up her doctorate, yes, she is a smarty, in Marine Biology, up in Seattle. They had been living up there for 3-4 years. After graduating this past spring they wanted to get back to LA since Charlie wants to produce movies, so they moved back to Southern California (they originally hail from Iowa in case you are wondering).
She was offered a swell job at UCLA doing research and was due to be our neighbor in Eagle Rock but the very week of the move, the professor at the lab at UCLA said she didn't have a job anymore. WTF right? She had a signed contract and everything, yet no job! Talk about a sucky situation to be in! Suffice to say, there was a a lot of scrambling that week and she ended up taking two part time jobs in labs that were far out east, as in Palm Springs East, as in Fontana. In fact, I can't even tell you where Fontana is that is how far away it is.
Despite the distance, hubby and I have seen a lot of Charlie and Kristy lately which is due in fact to Krueger. Kruger, is a mutual friend of ours, who's currently between jobs. Why is this important? It's important because that is the only time anyone sees her is when she is in between jobs. Anyways, we teasingly refer to Krueger as Charlie's second wife. See all those years that Kristy was in school she couldn't go to a lot of events so Charlie and Krueger went to a lot of events together hence the wife reference. But don't worry Charlie and Krueger are just friends and I so happened to put the 3 of those guys together when I told Charlie, who was working with me at AMC at the time, about some jobs Krueger was hiring for. You see she worked in TV Production and Charlie just so happened to want to get into production. To say, that Charlie, Kristy and Krueger hit it off is an understatement. Anyhow, Charlie and Kristy are now two more people enlisted in the "taking care of Krueger because she secretly needs it club."
So I digress...Anyhoo, Charlie and Kristy who seem to be stuck in FUNTUCKY, as that is what the residents of Fontana call themselves, are making the best of their situation and have been doing a lot of driving to LA to see us, their friends. However, when it's one birthday you are allowed to make people drive to you, so that is what we did last night....we drove to Kristy. However, seeing as it was Kristy's birthday and she didn't want to be in Funtucky but rather Seal Beach, we charted our course to the beach instead of out east instead. Our destination, the end of the pier and dinner at Ruby's, a 50's type dinner.
Since the hubby and I rarely go out of the 818 we set out with what we think are directions in hand. However, we get to talking (because we don't see each other all week) and we completely miss our exit. With no GPS and no blackberry and us driving south on the 5 we had no idea how to get over to Seal Beach. Luckily I had my iTouch which really wouldn't have been any help except that it had Charlie's phone number in it. Luckily hub brought his phone and I was able to call Charlie and cry for help. Now an amazing thing happened that night. Charlie was able to give me directions to get to Seal Beach and even more amazing they were correct, and even more amazing, me, who is directionally challenged was able to take those directions and communicate them to the driver and even more amazing, find our way to the Pier. This has never happened to me before in my life!
Now when Kristy said Ruby's was at the end of the pier we didn't know that pier was in Hawaii! Apparently the Seal Beach Pier is a super long walk! I hadn't brought a coat so it was a bit breezy. My gentleman hubby gave me his coat. We arrived late but we arrived before Krueger which is always a good thing.
Everyone had ordered their food and was just receiving it when we arrived. We were able to order our food and eat it before Krueger arrived at the very end. Oh Krueger! Anyhoo, we couldn't give her shit that night because of our lateness. At Ruby's was a small gathering of Kristy's friends and a small group of Charlie/Krueger/Kristy/our friends aka the group of people we all meet through Krueger. There that night were Jayne Jay and Ellen. Jayne Jay has been running half marathons and Ellen is preparing to go to Spain, ole! But she has no plans yet. Um better get to it Ellen you leave in three weeks!
Kristy and her husband, Charlie moved back to California recently from Seattle. She had been finishing up her doctorate, yes, she is a smarty, in Marine Biology, up in Seattle. They had been living up there for 3-4 years. After graduating this past spring they wanted to get back to LA since Charlie wants to produce movies, so they moved back to Southern California (they originally hail from Iowa in case you are wondering). She was offered a swell job at UCLA doing research and was due to be our neighbor in Eagle Rock but the very week of the move, the professor at the lab at UCLA said she didn't have a job anymore. WTF right? She had a signed contract and everything, yet no job! Talk about a sucky situation to be in! Suffice to say, there was a a lot of scrambling that week and she ended up taking two part time jobs in labs that were far out east, as in Palm Springs East, as in Fontana. In fact, I can't even tell you where Fontana is that is how far away it is.
Despite the distance, hubby and I have seen a lot of Charlie and Kristy lately which is due in fact to Krueger. Kruger, is a mutual friend of ours, who's currently between jobs. Why is this important? It's important because that is the only time anyone sees her is when she is in between jobs. Anyways, we teasingly refer to Krueger as Charlie's second wife. See all those years that Kristy was in school she couldn't go to a lot of events so Charlie and Krueger went to a lot of events together hence the wife reference. But don't worry Charlie and Krueger are just friends and I so happened to put the 3 of those guys together when I told Charlie, who was working with me at AMC at the time, about some jobs Krueger was hiring for. You see she worked in TV Production and Charlie just so happened to want to get into production. To say, that Charlie, Kristy and Krueger hit it off is an understatement. Anyhow, Charlie and Kristy are now two more people enlisted in the "taking care of Krueger because she secretly needs it club."
So I digress...Anyhoo, Charlie and Kristy who seem to be stuck in FUNTUCKY, as that is what the residents of Fontana call themselves, are making the best of their situation and have been doing a lot of driving to LA to see us, their friends. However, when it's one birthday you are allowed to make people drive to you, so that is what we did last night....we drove to Kristy. However, seeing as it was Kristy's birthday and she didn't want to be in Funtucky but rather Seal Beach, we charted our course to the beach instead of out east instead. Our destination, the end of the pier and dinner at Ruby's, a 50's type dinner.
Since the hubby and I rarely go out of the 818 we set out with what we think are directions in hand. However, we get to talking (because we don't see each other all week) and we completely miss our exit. With no GPS and no blackberry and us driving south on the 5 we had no idea how to get over to Seal Beach. Luckily I had my iTouch which really wouldn't have been any help except that it had Charlie's phone number in it. Luckily hub brought his phone and I was able to call Charlie and cry for help. Now an amazing thing happened that night. Charlie was able to give me directions to get to Seal Beach and even more amazing they were correct, and even more amazing, me, who is directionally challenged was able to take those directions and communicate them to the driver and even more amazing, find our way to the Pier. This has never happened to me before in my life!
Now when Kristy said Ruby's was at the end of the pier we didn't know that pier was in Hawaii! Apparently the Seal Beach Pier is a super long walk! I hadn't brought a coat so it was a bit breezy. My gentleman hubby gave me his coat. We arrived late but we arrived before Krueger which is always a good thing.
Everyone had ordered their food and was just receiving it when we arrived. We were able to order our food and eat it before Krueger arrived at the very end. Oh Krueger! Anyhoo, we couldn't give her shit that night because of our lateness. At Ruby's was a small gathering of Kristy's friends and a small group of Charlie/Krueger/Kristy/our friends aka the group of people we all meet through Krueger. There that night were Jayne Jay and Ellen. Jayne Jay has been running half marathons and Ellen is preparing to go to Spain, ole! But she has no plans yet. Um better get to it Ellen you leave in three weeks!
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