Tails of a 17th Street Geisha

Here are some highlights from Christmas in Los Angeles 2007:

• Seeing an old friend from Junior High days (circa 1991) and sneaking into our old school for shits and giggles.
• Improving my DDR skills so that I’m ALMOST at Standard
• Playing guitar hero and discovering that one of my fave electro bands, FreezePop, does a great rockin’ guitar hero song!
• Spending 2 solid days with my sister Jennifer who I rarely see at x-mas because I stay @ sister Elodia and kids house
• Getting a tan within 2 days of visit
• Watching the new Hairspray for the first time–"imagine MOY drinking roym and cohkes with the hoi peloi?!" LOVE JOHN TRAVOLTA doing a B’more accent!
• lounging around all day with my nieces
• walking around in a tank top and short skirt, laughing at the SoCalifornians wearing scarves, gloves, hats like it was 20 degrees!
• finding a great winter coat during after x-mas holiday sales
• Playing Risk all night long during a family Christmas eve party
• In-n-out!
• Randomly connecting with my first college boyfriend and catching up over email.
• Watching Lampoon’s x-mas vacation movie on a screen outdoors, under the stars, drinking hot cocoa, with my family!

I have two more full days with family and tonight we see the Rockettes!

I must admit that I miss my own bed, my gym, my shoes, my dog, my friends, my Creme Brulee coffee @ MOcha Hut (I’m back on the caffeine!) and don’t miss the weather!!!

I did this last year and looked at the list and everything is the same but one or two may have changed (carpel tunnel is new to this list!) Here goes my letter to Satan, er Santa. um. Santie Clause. um. Santie Claws.

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Dear Santa,
I have been mostly good. I would like one or more of the following:

1) world peace
2) whirled peas
3) get rid of my credit card debt
4) lower my interest on my mortgages
5) the latest, most expensive Ipod in pink
6) a pink glow worm
7) perfume
end world hunger
9) an Iphone or crackberry…
10) a fancy coffee maker, I missed a good woot.com special that was 3/4 price off a cuisenart, but it was refurb, so who knows
11) a digital camera, I guess
12) happiness and good health for my sister Alex, my mom, her family, and her dogs. and maybe for the rest of my family too! hehehe
13) ambition to achieve more in life
14) a million bucks
15) a swift end and resolution to the chaos in Iraq
16) a raise at work
17) to be rid of my carpel tunnel
18) some nice jewelry, maybe just a gift certificate to somewhere
19) massage… all body. in some fancy place. or just my place ;0)
20) mani/pedi, facial, spa day
21) okay this list has just turned into my to-do’s for 2007…

I shall end here!
But what I really want is:  1, 8, 12,  14,  15, and 17

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m in Los Angeles (the OC to be precise) for the holidays and i’m exhausted.  I had to get up at 4am to catch my 6am flight, but I really shouldn’t be this wiped out. Am I going through my winter blues phase where all I want to do is rest and recoooop and start January fresh?

My nieces are in school, my sister with one of them (throwing a holiday party) and her husband at work. So I’m home alone with Kyra, their dog, a Westie. It is so hard to go from fast, busy, fast, superbusy, next thing, fast, packing to NOTHING… SCREECHING HALT.

It’s so debilitating being in the suburbs. I can’t walk any where. I’m stuck in their house. Maybe I’ll take the dog for a walk. Of course, even if it were a 2 hour long walk, I would barely make it out of their housing track. How sad is that? A 2 hour walk in DC would mean going through many many neighborhoods, running into friends, passing at least 30 starbucks and strolling through at least 2-3 good parks.

LONG LIVE THE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LONG LIVE HECTIC FAST PACED LIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot sit here in front of a computer, in front of a tv set… doing NOTHING!

Oh wait a second. It’s sunny, it’s warm, there’s a pool, I have a book…

Long live suburban living!