3 January
Up early again yesterday. Will this hell of early rising never end?
Yesterday was a day of running the last errands before I go back home. I got my new glasses, ordered them anyway, I won't get them for a couple of weeks. It looked really weird to have the smaller, oval shaped glasses, as the big black rims have been so much a part of my face for so long that it was like seeing myself with a new nose.
Or black hair!
Then we went out to the motor home to get my last Christmas present.
Mom had gotten a prize at the gift exchange at her motorhome club, and thought that it was perfect for me, but forgot to bring it home! It was a set of four giant teacups and four matching small plates in a fruit theme. I love them.
Then I had to go out and see John.
I really didn't have time, but he insisted, and he really wanted to see the hair, so I went out there for like an hour, then came home and we had our New Years dinner. We couldn't have it on New Years day itself, because I just had to go to Disneyland.
Will someone please explain to me why it didn't occur to me that it would be so busy on the first? Why everyone and his fourteen children would be there, having a fight in back of me in line?
Every single fight included the same words, too. "Fine, let's just go home." I must have heard that fifteen times.
That's one of the reasons that I love going to amusement parks alone--if I'm in a line for 2 hours and 15 minutes, that's bad enough, but at least I'm not also having to listen to somebody yell at me about it.
Driving back from John's, I decided to take a trip down Hollywood Blvd.
When I was a kid, I simply lived on Hollywood Blvd. All summer long, my folks would drop me off in the early afternoon, I'd see two movies for $2.50 each, half price before 5p, and I'd just hang out, go to the movie memorabilia shops.
I loved Hollywood Blvd. It was my home. Just like Times Square was my home in New York. And you know what? They're turning Hollywood into the horror that Times Square is today!
It know it's funny to say that they are making Hollywood Blvd. into a cheap copy of itself--that it's looking fake and plastic, when it was fake and plastic all along. But it's different. It's pretend, like Disneyland pretending that it's the turn of the century.
Now, some of the stuff is great, like they have restored the Egyptian and built the El Capitain, and the Galaxy looks pretty great, but one of the reasons that Hollywood has always been great was this air of seediness that couldn't be hidden, and they're trying to clean that away.
But Hollywood Book and Poster is still there, and Book City Collectibles, and the Hollywood Wax Museum, the worst wax museum on skates. As long as they are there, and the Chinese, of course, Hollywood will always be Hollywood.
Today's horoscope:
Today you can improve your coordination. Practice will pay off in any sports or leisure activities you would like to get better at.
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