California

(Boy I have been so bad about keeping this up...not sure why except I just haven't bee much in the mood to write.)

Anyway. My California trip pretty much sucked really. My birthday really sucked big time; none of my friends came over or anything, I actually spent most of the day with a friend of my mom's and our former neighbor on Tyler, Mirna, who had invited me over for lunch and I ended up staying until the evening. It was very nice of her to invite me and otherwise I would have been all by myself, something I hadn't invisioned for my 60th birthday. Huh.

Then I ended up with leaks in the bathroom and underneath the house, and had to leave them like that, though of course I turned off all the water before I left.

My last night there I was up all night, sick as all get-out, puking, and running a fever, and went home like that.  The good thing is I did sleep all the way home on both planes, so at least I wasn't awake and feeling miserable for 8 hours. Once I got home I slept until 11:30 the next morning, only to get up and go sit in my chair and sleep until 4.  I pretty much slept the next few days until Sunday, where I finally started to feel somewhat like myself.  Coming back from Cali takes longer for me to recuperate each time from the jetlag as I get older it seems.

The high point of my trip was my last weekend there, when Janie and Teresa came in  and then we all went to see Baby Boss on Friday night and then on Saturday night we went to Roger Rocka's to see a play and have dinner, and then we all went to church the next morning. So it was a nice weekend anyway. 

And I do have to say I love my mom's church; I went there both Sundays and the first one they were all so welcoming and even the pastor said he had just been thinking about me. After the service they had their Lunch Bunch lunch and invited me to stay for it and it was a nice way to spend part of the afternoon. I am really looking forward to going to the church when I finally get to move out there.

So a couple of pictures:


While I was there, I decided to try a new drink at Starbucks, the Pink Drink:

It was pretty darn tasty too. (I also have to say I love that Starbucks; even after months of not being around they always remember my name and even asked about CaliGirl. It's like being "Norm" of Cheers. lol)

This was at Roger Rocka's:

Teresa and Janie. I was trying to post a picture of the four of us (Vanessa was there too) but for some reason it keeps showing up as an "x", so I don't know why it won't let me. Grrr.

So that was my trip. Definitely not one of my better ones, and I won't be going back for quite some time.